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 19 March 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 7 8
Rank change year-on-year -25 +1 0
Contract jobs citing ITIL 10 40 67
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.69% 15.15% 13.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.34% 16.46% 16.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 16 5
10th Percentile - £415 -
25th Percentile £356 £451 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £550 £240
Median % change year-on-year -34.09% +129.17% +5.49%
75th Percentile £369 £600 £463
90th Percentile £484 £638 £575
East of England median daily rate £363 £430 £500
% change year-on-year -15.70% -14.00% +25.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 13 59
10th Percentile - - £14.00
25th Percentile - £14.99 -
Median hourly rate £16.00 £17.80 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +25.71% -2.34%
75th Percentile - £21.46 £16.30
90th Percentile - - £21.37
East of England median hourly rate £18.50 £21.46 £14.16
% change year-on-year -13.79% +51.55% -2.34%

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 299 243 408
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 80.38% 92.05% 84.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 136 155
10th Percentile £210 £291 £235
25th Percentile £335 £400 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £471 £478
Median % change year-on-year +1.43% -1.41% +6.22%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £563
90th Percentile £675 £644 £683
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -5.00% +5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 36 183
10th Percentile £13.33 £14.99 -
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.00 £14.16
Median hourly rate £17.39 £16.74 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.85% +11.60% -3.23%
75th Percentile £25.15 £21.53 £21.46
90th Percentile £37.35 £34.63 £48.00
East of England median hourly rate £22.00 £52.75 £38.12
% change year-on-year -58.29% +38.38% +18.55%

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 19 March 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 19 March 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
Huntingdon +1 5 £363 - 2
Peterborough 0 3 - - 2
Cambridge -20 2 £600 +6.67% 2
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 5 (50.00%) Apache
1 5 (50.00%) IIS
2 1 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 3 (30.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (30.00%) Mimecast
2 3 (30.00%) Nutanix
Communications & Networking
1 6 (60.00%) Firewall
2 4 (40.00%) DNS
3 3 (30.00%) DHCP
3 3 (30.00%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (10.00%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (10.00%) Network Security
4 1 (10.00%) TCP/IP
4 1 (10.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (30.00%) Polish Language
1 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (60.00%) Analyst
2 5 (50.00%) Network Engineer
2 5 (50.00%) Switch Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Firewall Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) IT Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Network Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (30.00%) Service Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Service Desk Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Analyst
3 3 (30.00%) Technical Services Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Network Support
4 2 (20.00%) Network Support Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Network Support Engineer
4 2 (20.00%) Support Analyst
4 2 (20.00%) Support Engineer
5 1 (10.00%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (10.00%) Security Analyst
5 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery Manager
Miscellaneous
1 5 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (30.00%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (10.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (50.00%) Windows
1 5 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Agile
1 5 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 5 (50.00%) PRINCE2
1 5 (50.00%) Server Building
2 4 (40.00%) Service Delivery
3 3 (30.00%) Customer Service
3 3 (30.00%) Incident Management
3 3 (30.00%) Mathematics
3 3 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (10.00%) AI
5 1 (10.00%) AIOps
5 1 (10.00%) Analytics
5 1 (10.00%) Business Enablement
5 1 (10.00%) Change Management
5 1 (10.00%) Customer Experience
5 1 (10.00%) Security Management
5 1 (10.00%) Security Operations
5 1 (10.00%) Validation
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) A+ Certification
1 3 (30.00%) MCSA
1 3 (30.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CCNP
2 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (10.00%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 6 (60.00%) Active Directory
2 3 (30.00%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 5 (50.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Cisco
1 6 (60.00%) Palo Alto
2 5 (50.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (50.00%) SolarWinds
3 3 (30.00%) Citrix
3 3 (30.00%) Microsoft