ITIL Contract Job Trends in Cambridgeshire

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
East of England > Cambridgeshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire requiring ITIL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 20 19
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 -12
Contract jobs citing ITIL 12 26 35
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 3.53% 7.72% 8.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.01% 8.67% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 6 1
10th Percentile £456 £402 -
25th Percentile £483 £450 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £425
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +29.41% +45.30%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £463
90th Percentile £634 £606 -
East of England median daily rate £450 £425 £425
% change year-on-year +5.88% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 13 34
10th Percentile - - £14.16
25th Percentile - £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate - £15.14 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year - -7.12% +19.33%
75th Percentile - £16.30 £21.37
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate £18.74 £16.30 £16.30
% change year-on-year +14.94% - +19.33%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Cambridgeshire

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 Cambridgeshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 299 300 351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 87.94% 89.02% 82.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 144 128 107
10th Percentile £168 £209 £215
25th Percentile £363 £354 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year - +11.76% -5.56%
75th Percentile £573 £600 £550
90th Percentile £638 £691 £638
East of England median daily rate £500 £500 £425
% change year-on-year - +17.65% -15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 69 153
10th Percentile £13.45 £14.38 £14.16
25th Percentile - £14.84 £15.00
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.30 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -12.76% +0.43% +11.93%
75th Percentile £17.75 £25.15 £21.37
90th Percentile £35.91 £60.00 £48.60
East of England median hourly rate £40.00 £37.50 £42.16
% change year-on-year +6.67% -11.04% +112.80%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

ITIL job vacancy trend in Cambridgeshire

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing ITIL

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in Cambridgeshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in Cambridgeshire over the 6 months to 9 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in Cambridgeshire

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend in Cambridgeshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Cambridgeshire citing ITIL

ITIL
Contract Job Locations in Cambridgeshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the Cambridgeshire region over the 6 months to 9 August 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
Cambridge +2 10 £563 - 8
Ely - 1 £500 -
ITIL
East of England

ITIL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridgeshire 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 3 (25.00%) OpenStack
2 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (16.67%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 7 (58.33%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) GCP
3 2 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (16.67%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (16.67%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (16.67%) Power Automate
3 2 (16.67%) Power Platform
3 2 (16.67%) PowerApps
4 1 (8.33%) Entra ID
4 1 (8.33%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) VLAN
1 1 (8.33%) VPN
1 1 (8.33%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (8.33%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (16.67%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (8.33%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Git
2 2 (16.67%) Visual Studio
3 1 (8.33%) JIRA
3 1 (8.33%) MSI
General
1 4 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (25.00%) Finance
3 2 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (25.00%) Storage Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Architect
2 1 (8.33%) Cutover Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) IT Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Senior
2 1 (8.33%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
2 1 (8.33%) Service Delivery Manager
2 1 (8.33%) Service Manager
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (16.67%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) AI Agents
1 2 (16.67%) BYOD
1 2 (16.67%) Low-Code
2 1 (8.33%) CMDB
2 1 (8.33%) NHS
2 1 (8.33%) Onboarding
2 1 (8.33%) PKI
2 1 (8.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Taxonomies
2 1 (8.33%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (25.00%) Linux
2 1 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (58.33%) Continuous Improvement
1 7 (58.33%) Service Management
2 6 (50.00%) AI
3 5 (41.67%) ITSM
4 4 (33.33%) Incident Response
4 4 (33.33%) Mentoring
4 4 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (33.33%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (25.00%) Anomaly Detection
5 3 (25.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (25.00%) Data Migration
5 3 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (25.00%) Incident Management
5 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (25.00%) Machine Learning
5 3 (25.00%) Migration
5 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 3 (25.00%) Service Delivery
5 3 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (25.00%) Python
2 2 (16.67%) C#
2 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 2 (16.67%) SQL
2 2 (16.67%) X++
3 1 (8.33%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 2 (16.67%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Azure Certification
2 1 (8.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (8.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (16.67%) SLA
2 1 (8.33%) Accessibility
2 1 (8.33%) Cyber Essentials
2 1 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (8.33%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (25.00%) Ansible
1 3 (25.00%) Terraform
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) ServiceNow
2 3 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (25.00%) NetApp
3 1 (8.33%) Juniper