ITIL Contract Job Trends in Buckinghamshire

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
South East > Buckinghamshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire requiring ITIL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 11 13 16
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 -4
Contract jobs citing ITIL 94 33 33
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 11.39% 10.34% 9.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 14.51% 11.30% 10.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 22 25
10th Percentile £437 £187 £194
25th Percentile £477 £210 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £388 £421
Median % change year-on-year +35.48% -8.00% -12.36%
75th Percentile £598 £498 £500
90th Percentile £620 £558 £543
South East median daily rate £548 £483 £500
% change year-on-year +13.47% -3.50% +12.97%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Buckinghamshire

ITIL falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Buckinghamshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 648 292 301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 78.55% 91.54% 82.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 452 168 215
10th Percentile £350 £213 £235
25th Percentile £456 £355 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £441 £450
Median % change year-on-year +18.98% -1.94% -11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £538 £540
90th Percentile £638 £637 £645
South East median daily rate £525 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +5.00% -2.44% -1.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 45 6
10th Percentile - - £18.24
25th Percentile £12.84 £14.20 £23.44
Median hourly rate £14.75 £15.91 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.29% -50.28% +95.12%
75th Percentile £17.50 £25.15 £36.56
90th Percentile £43.75 - £37.37
South East median hourly rate £52.43 £21.82 £57.35
% change year-on-year +140.23% -61.95% +9.24%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in Buckinghamshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ITIL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire.

ITIL job vacancy trend in Buckinghamshire

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing ITIL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing ITIL

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in Buckinghamshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in Buckinghamshire over the 6 months to 11 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in Buckinghamshire

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend in Buckinghamshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing ITIL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Buckinghamshire citing ITIL

ITIL
Contract Job Locations in Buckinghamshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the Buckinghamshire region over the 6 months to 11 September 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Milton Keynes -1 88 £525 +31.25% 12
ITIL
South East

ITIL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Buckinghamshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (1.06%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 32 (34.04%) Azure
2 12 (12.77%) AWS
3 9 (9.57%) Azure Monitor
4 8 (8.51%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (5.32%) Entra ID
5 5 (5.32%) GCP
6 4 (4.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 3 (3.19%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (3.19%) Azure ExpressRoute
7 3 (3.19%) Google App Engine
7 3 (3.19%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.06%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.06%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.06%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 15 (15.96%) Cisco ASA
1 15 (15.96%) Cisco Firepower
1 15 (15.96%) Firewall
2 14 (14.89%) VPN
3 13 (13.83%) DNS
4 11 (11.70%) IPsec
4 11 (11.70%) Network Security
5 10 (10.64%) LAN
5 10 (10.64%) TCP/IP
5 10 (10.64%) WAN
6 9 (9.57%) DHCP
7 8 (8.51%) Cisco Nexus
8 6 (6.38%) BGP
8 6 (6.38%) BIG-IP
8 6 (6.38%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
8 6 (6.38%) NGFW
8 6 (6.38%) OSPF
9 5 (5.32%) SSL
10 4 (4.26%) ICMP
10 4 (4.26%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.32%) Azure SQL Database
1 5 (5.32%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (3.19%) Git
1 3 (3.19%) GitLab
2 2 (2.13%) Sonatype Nexus
3 1 (1.06%) JIRA
General
1 19 (20.21%) Public Sector
2 17 (18.09%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (17.02%) Social Skills
4 12 (12.77%) Finance
5 11 (11.70%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (5.32%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (5.32%) Retail
7 4 (4.26%) Manufacturing
8 3 (3.19%) Military
8 3 (3.19%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.13%) Legal
10 1 (1.06%) Automotive
10 1 (1.06%) German Language
Job Titles
1 27 (28.72%) Senior
2 11 (11.70%) Architect
2 11 (11.70%) Network Engineer
3 10 (10.64%) Service Manager
3 10 (10.64%) Technical Architect
4 9 (9.57%) Head of IT
4 9 (9.57%) Head of Service Management
4 9 (9.57%) Lead
4 9 (9.57%) Product Manager
5 8 (8.51%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 8 (8.51%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 7 (7.45%) Senior Network Engineer
7 6 (6.38%) Analyst
7 6 (6.38%) Senior Manager
8 5 (5.32%) DV Cleared Network Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) ITIL Manager
8 5 (5.32%) Monitoring Engineer
8 5 (5.32%) Service Transition Manager
8 5 (5.32%) Transition Manager
9 4 (4.26%) Service Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.45%) .NET
1 7 (7.45%) Terraform
2 4 (4.26%) ARM Templates
2 4 (4.26%) REST
2 4 (4.26%) SOAP
3 3 (3.19%) 802.1X
4 2 (2.13%) OAuth
5 1 (1.06%) .NET Framework
5 1 (1.06%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 14 (14.89%) Onboarding
2 13 (13.83%) Hybrid Cloud
2 13 (13.83%) Product Ownership
3 8 (8.51%) Data Centre
4 5 (5.32%) Cloud Native
4 5 (5.32%) PKI
5 4 (4.26%) ARM Cortex
5 4 (4.26%) Management Information System
5 4 (4.26%) Private Cloud
6 3 (3.19%) Distributed Denial-of-Service
6 3 (3.19%) Virtual Team
7 2 (2.13%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.13%) Fibre Optics
7 2 (2.13%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.06%) Security Operations Centre
Operating Systems
1 17 (18.09%) Windows
2 16 (17.02%) Linux
3 9 (9.57%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (39.36%) Service Management
2 36 (38.30%) Service Delivery
3 30 (31.91%) ITSM
4 29 (30.85%) Agile
4 29 (30.85%) Stakeholder Management
5 28 (29.79%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (19.15%) Service Design
7 17 (18.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 16 (17.02%) PRINCE2
8 16 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (15.96%) Change Management
10 13 (13.83%) DevOps
10 13 (13.83%) Project Delivery
10 13 (13.83%) Scrum
11 12 (12.77%) Decision-Making
11 12 (12.77%) Roadmaps
12 11 (11.70%) CI/CD
12 11 (11.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 11 (11.70%) Network Monitoring
12 11 (11.70%) Network Virtualisation
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.64%) PowerShell
2 8 (8.51%) SQL
3 5 (5.32%) Bicep
4 4 (4.26%) Bash
4 4 (4.26%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.13%) Python
Qualifications
1 69 (73.40%) Security Cleared
2 54 (57.45%) SC Cleared
3 29 (30.85%) DV Cleared
4 10 (10.64%) Degree
5 9 (9.57%) CCNP
5 9 (9.57%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (5.32%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (5.32%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 4 (4.26%) CCSE
7 4 (4.26%) CCSM
8 3 (3.19%) CBAP
8 3 (3.19%) ISEB
8 3 (3.19%) ISEB Practitioner
8 3 (3.19%) Microsoft Certification
8 3 (3.19%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (3.19%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
9 2 (2.13%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.13%) CCIE
9 2 (2.13%) MCSE
10 1 (1.06%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (12.77%) SLA
2 11 (11.70%) ISO 9001
3 10 (10.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 9 (9.57%) NCSC
5 8 (8.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 7 (7.45%) NIST
7 3 (3.19%) Accessibility
7 3 (3.19%) ISO 22301
8 2 (2.13%) Government Security Classifications
9 1 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials
9 1 (1.06%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (1.06%) Data Quality
9 1 (1.06%) PMO
System Software
1 19 (20.21%) VMware Infrastructure
2 15 (15.96%) Active Directory
3 11 (11.70%) VMware NSX
4 6 (6.38%) VMware ESXi
5 5 (5.32%) Virtual Desktop
6 1 (1.06%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 6 (6.38%) Ansible
2 5 (5.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 5 (5.32%) SCOM
3 4 (4.26%) SCCM
4 2 (2.13%) Cisco CUCM
5 1 (1.06%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 29 (30.85%) ServiceNow
2 24 (25.53%) Microsoft
2 24 (25.53%) VMware
3 15 (15.96%) Cisco
3 15 (15.96%) Palo Alto
4 9 (9.57%) SolarWinds
5 6 (6.38%) F5
6 4 (4.26%) Becrypt
6 4 (4.26%) CheckPoint
6 4 (4.26%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (4.26%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.13%) Google
8 1 (1.06%) Citrix
8 1 (1.06%) Oracle
8 1 (1.06%) SAP