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 16 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 32 9
Rank change year-on-year +4 -23 +1
Contract jobs citing ITIL 18 13 52
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 4.89% 3.16% 10.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.42% 3.83% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 9
10th Percentile £258 £458 £180
25th Percentile £325 £525 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £588 £350
Median % change year-on-year -34.89% +67.86% +52.17%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £438
90th Percentile £643 - £680
East of England median daily rate £366 £375 £500
% change year-on-year -2.33% -25.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 38
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.30 £13.66
Median % change year-on-year -1.84% +19.33% -
75th Percentile £16.30 £18.84 £14.16
90th Percentile - £21.37 £14.75
East of England median hourly rate £17.13 £16.30 £13.66
% change year-on-year +5.09% +19.33% -

All Process and 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 332 339 464
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 90.22% 82.48% 90.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 122 117 177
10th Percentile £263 £256 £220
25th Percentile £400 £340 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.84% - -
75th Percentile £625 £569 £553
90th Percentile £700 £630 £613
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +11.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 99 108 196
10th Percentile £13.80 £14.95 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.44 £15.62 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -6.45%
75th Percentile £21.50 £18.06 £20.33
90th Percentile £43.75 £49.88 £25.38
East of England median hourly rate £22.27 £28.42 £20.00
% change year-on-year -21.66% +42.10% -4.76%

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 16 October 2025.

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 16 October 2025. 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
Peterborough +7 11 £288 - 6
Cambridge -1 5 £625 +4.17% 9
Huntingdon - 1 £383 - 4
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 1 (5.56%) Apache
1 1 (5.56%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (27.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.56%) GCP
2 1 (5.56%) Mimecast
2 1 (5.56%) Nutanix
2 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (5.56%) DHCP
2 1 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (5.56%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (5.56%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.56%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.56%) Power BI
1 1 (5.56%) SAP HANA
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (5.56%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (22.22%) Retail
1 4 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (11.11%) Polish Language
3 1 (5.56%) Games
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Analyst
2 9 (50.00%) Service Analyst
2 9 (50.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 5 (27.78%) Technical Analyst
3 5 (27.78%) Technical Services Analyst
4 4 (22.22%) Call Centre Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management Specialist
5 2 (11.11%) Configuration Specialist
5 2 (11.11%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (11.11%) IT Analyst
5 2 (11.11%) ITSM Specialist
6 1 (5.56%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Network Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.56%) Security Analyst
6 1 (5.56%) Service Assurance Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Service Manager
6 1 (5.56%) Switch Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.11%) CMDB
2 1 (5.56%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.56%) Private Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Public Cloud
2 1 (5.56%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Windows
2 4 (22.22%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (55.56%) Customer Service
1 10 (55.56%) Incident Management
2 7 (38.89%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (27.78%) Mathematics
3 5 (27.78%) Service Delivery
4 4 (22.22%) ITSM
5 3 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 3 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 3 (16.67%) Project Management
6 2 (11.11%) Agile
6 2 (11.11%) Configuration Management
6 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (11.11%) Mentoring
6 2 (11.11%) Patch Management
6 2 (11.11%) Roadmaps
6 2 (11.11%) SDLC
6 2 (11.11%) Service Management
6 2 (11.11%) Vulnerability Management
7 1 (5.56%) Penetration Testing
7 1 (5.56%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.56%) SQL
2 1 (5.56%) T-SQL
2 1 (5.56%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 10 (55.56%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (50.00%) A+ Certification
2 9 (50.00%) MCSA
3 4 (22.22%) SC Cleared
3 4 (22.22%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.56%) CEH
4 1 (5.56%) CISSP
4 1 (5.56%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (5.56%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.56%) Degree
4 1 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (5.56%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) SLA
2 1 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.56%) NIST
2 1 (5.56%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (38.89%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.56%) BitLocker
2 1 (5.56%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (5.56%) Ansible
1 1 (5.56%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (5.56%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (61.11%) ServiceNow
2 10 (55.56%) Citrix
3 6 (33.33%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.56%) Cisco
4 1 (5.56%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (5.56%) Kaspersky
4 1 (5.56%) Oracle
4 1 (5.56%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.56%) SAP
4 1 (5.56%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.56%) Sophos
4 1 (5.56%) Tenable
4 1 (5.56%) VMware