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 16 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 20 13 12
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 -5
Contract jobs citing ITIL 60 23 46
As % of all contract jobs in Buckinghamshire 7.08% 10.60% 9.77%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.12% 11.22% 11.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 16 40
10th Percentile £364 £192 £213
25th Percentile £457 £312 £280
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £415 £465
Median % change year-on-year +26.51% -10.75% -0.96%
75th Percentile £592 £576 £517
90th Percentile £640 £676 £550
South East median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +4.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £24.26
25th Percentile - - £25.22
Median hourly rate - - £26.88
75th Percentile - - £28.47
90th Percentile - - £29.39
South East median hourly rate £81.50 £28.00 £21.50
% change year-on-year +191.07% +30.23% -41.42%

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 658 205 389
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Buckinghamshire 77.59% 94.47% 82.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 144 266
10th Percentile £313 £231 £250
25th Percentile £417 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £488 £469
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +3.86% -1.18%
75th Percentile £593 £588 £575
90th Percentile £638 £641 £663
South East median daily rate £513 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +2.50% - -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 24 29
10th Percentile £15.05 - £15.85
25th Percentile £16.02 - £18.00
Median hourly rate £16.35 £14.20 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.14% -43.20% +81.82%
75th Percentile £19.09 £31.81 £28.75
90th Percentile £36.00 £62.50 £48.75
South East median hourly rate £55.00 £27.76 £47.50
% change year-on-year +98.13% -41.56% -4.04%

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 16 May 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 16 May 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 -8 55 £531 +24.96% 24
High Wycombe - 1 £450 - 1
Marlow - 1 £450 - 3
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 2 (3.33%) Apache
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 23 (38.33%) Azure
2 14 (23.33%) AWS
3 5 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (8.33%) GCP
3 5 (8.33%) Google App Engine
4 4 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
5 3 (5.00%) Microsoft 365
6 2 (3.33%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.33%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.67%) Amazon EKS
7 1 (1.67%) Azure AKS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (13.33%) Cisco ASA
1 8 (13.33%) Cisco Firepower
2 6 (10.00%) TCP/IP
3 5 (8.33%) Firewall
3 5 (8.33%) SAN
4 4 (6.67%) Cisco Nexus
4 4 (6.67%) IPsec
4 4 (6.67%) Network Security
4 4 (6.67%) VSAN
5 3 (5.00%) BGP
5 3 (5.00%) BIG-IP
5 3 (5.00%) Cisco ISE
5 3 (5.00%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
5 3 (5.00%) ICMP
5 3 (5.00%) LAN
5 3 (5.00%) NGFW
5 3 (5.00%) OSPF
5 3 (5.00%) WAN
5 3 (5.00%) Wireless
6 2 (3.33%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (1.67%) MySQL
3 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Git
1 5 (8.33%) GitLab
General
1 8 (13.33%) Finance
2 7 (11.67%) Public Sector
2 7 (11.67%) Social Skills
3 5 (8.33%) Legal
3 5 (8.33%) Retail
4 4 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (6.67%) Manufacturing
5 3 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.67%) Automotive
7 1 (1.67%) Billing
7 1 (1.67%) German Language
7 1 (1.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (30.00%) Senior
2 14 (23.33%) Designer
2 14 (23.33%) Service Designer
3 8 (13.33%) Architect
3 8 (13.33%) Developer
3 8 (13.33%) Network Engineer
4 7 (11.67%) Senior Designer
4 7 (11.67%) Senior Service Designer
4 7 (11.67%) ServiceNow Developer
4 7 (11.67%) Technical Architect
5 4 (6.67%) Lead
5 4 (6.67%) Lead Designer
5 4 (6.67%) Lead Service Designer
5 4 (6.67%) NOC Engineer
5 4 (6.67%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.67%) Senior Network Engineer
6 3 (5.00%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) Hardware Engineer
7 2 (3.33%) ITIL Manager
7 2 (3.33%) Senior Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (11.67%) REST
1 7 (11.67%) SOAP
2 5 (8.33%) .NET
3 4 (6.67%) OAuth
4 1 (1.67%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 12 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (6.67%) Data Centre
3 3 (5.00%) Public Cloud
3 3 (5.00%) Virtual Team
4 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.33%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.67%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.67%) PKI
5 1 (1.67%) Replication
5 1 (1.67%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.67%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.33%) Linux
2 8 (13.33%) Windows
3 3 (5.00%) Debian
3 3 (5.00%) Ubuntu
4 2 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.33%) Windows Server
5 1 (1.67%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (45.00%) Agile
1 27 (45.00%) Service Management
2 23 (38.33%) ITSM
3 15 (25.00%) Service Design
4 14 (23.33%) Service Delivery
5 11 (18.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (18.33%) TOGAF
6 10 (16.67%) DevOps
6 10 (16.67%) Enterprise Architecture
7 8 (13.33%) AI
7 8 (13.33%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (11.67%) Cloud Security
8 7 (11.67%) Data Modelling
8 7 (11.67%) Lean Six Sigma
8 7 (11.67%) Network Monitoring
8 7 (11.67%) Scrum
8 7 (11.67%) SIAM
8 7 (11.67%) Six Sigma
8 7 (11.67%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
9 6 (10.00%) Coaching
Programming Languages
1 8 (13.33%) JavaScript
2 4 (6.67%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.67%) SQL
3 2 (3.33%) Python
3 2 (3.33%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.67%) Bash
4 1 (1.67%) Bicep
4 1 (1.67%) Korn
4 1 (1.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 42 (70.00%) Security Cleared
2 33 (55.00%) SC Cleared
3 25 (41.67%) DV Cleared
4 8 (13.33%) Degree
5 7 (11.67%) CCNP
5 7 (11.67%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (6.67%) CCSE
6 4 (6.67%) CCSM
6 4 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
7 3 (5.00%) MCSE
7 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
8 1 (1.67%) CBAP
8 1 (1.67%) ISEB
8 1 (1.67%) ISEB Practitioner
8 1 (1.67%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (18.33%) NCSC
2 8 (13.33%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 7 (11.67%) Government Security Classifications
4 5 (8.33%) Accessibility
4 5 (8.33%) SLA
5 4 (6.67%) NIST
6 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 12 (20.00%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (11.67%) Active Directory
3 6 (10.00%) VMware ESXi
4 4 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
5 3 (5.00%) VMware NSX
6 1 (1.67%) Citrix Hypervisor
6 1 (1.67%) Docker
6 1 (1.67%) NFS
Systems Management
1 2 (3.33%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.33%) SCOM
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.67%) SnapMirror
2 1 (1.67%) SnapVault
2 1 (1.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 18 (30.00%) VMware
2 14 (23.33%) Microsoft
3 13 (21.67%) ServiceNow
4 8 (13.33%) Cisco
4 8 (13.33%) Palo Alto
5 4 (6.67%) CheckPoint
5 4 (6.67%) Fortinet
5 4 (6.67%) Red Hat
6 3 (5.00%) F5
7 1 (1.67%) Becrypt
7 1 (1.67%) Citrix
7 1 (1.67%) Dell
7 1 (1.67%) NetApp
7 1 (1.67%) SAP
7 1 (1.67%) SolarWinds