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 29 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 24 15 8
Rank change year-on-year -9 -7 0
Contract jobs citing ITIL 16 29 54
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 4.46% 9.35% 12.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.44% 10.74% 14.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 5
10th Percentile £303 £413 £215
25th Percentile £356 £415 £235
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £508 £240
Median % change year-on-year -28.68% +111.77% +7.74%
75th Percentile £375 £600 £245
90th Percentile £598 £634 £488
East of England median daily rate £363 £413 £500
% change year-on-year -12.12% -17.50% +42.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 45
10th Percentile - £14.99 -
25th Percentile - £19.84 £13.41
Median hourly rate £16.00 £21.46 £14.16
Median % change year-on-year -25.44% +51.55% -2.34%
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
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 294 270 377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 81.89% 87.10% 86.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 125 124 143
10th Percentile £211 £316 £225
25th Percentile £335 £411 £316
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £475
75th Percentile £600 £557 £575
90th Percentile £675 £646 £675
East of England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 55 169
10th Percentile £13.33 - £14.00
25th Percentile £14.38 £15.62 £14.16
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £15.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +8.20% -3.23%
75th Percentile £23.50 £21.46 £16.09
90th Percentile £34.09 £28.93 £30.00
East of England median hourly rate £20.09 £40.00 £30.48
% change year-on-year -49.78% +31.26% +38.52%

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 29 January 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 29 January 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 -11 6 £625 +11.11% 4
Huntingdon +2 5 £363 - 1
Peterborough -3 5 £288 - 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 (31.25%) Apache
1 5 (31.25%) IIS
Applications
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (18.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) Entra ID
2 3 (18.75%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (18.75%) Mimecast
2 3 (18.75%) Nutanix
3 1 (6.25%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) GCP
3 1 (6.25%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (37.50%) Firewall
2 4 (25.00%) DNS
3 3 (18.75%) DHCP
3 3 (18.75%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco ASA
4 1 (6.25%) Network Security
4 1 (6.25%) TCP/IP
4 1 (6.25%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (6.25%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (6.25%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (6.25%) Power BI
1 1 (6.25%) SAP HANA
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Polish Language
3 1 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.25%) Games
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Network Engineer
2 5 (31.25%) Switch Engineer
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Firewall Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) IT Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Network Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) Service Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Service Desk Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Technical Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Technical Services Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management Specialist
5 2 (12.50%) Configuration Specialist
5 2 (12.50%) ITSM Specialist
5 2 (12.50%) Network Support
5 2 (12.50%) Network Support Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Network Support Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Support Analyst
5 2 (12.50%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (18.75%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (12.50%) CMDB
4 1 (6.25%) Data Centre
4 1 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 1 (6.25%) Private Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Public Cloud
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (50.00%) Windows
2 7 (43.75%) Windows Server
3 1 (6.25%) Mac OS
3 1 (6.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (43.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
2 6 (37.50%) Agile
3 5 (31.25%) PRINCE2
3 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (31.25%) Server Building
4 4 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 4 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 4 (25.00%) ITSM
5 3 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (18.75%) Mathematics
5 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
5 3 (18.75%) Project Management
5 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery
6 2 (12.50%) Change Management
6 2 (12.50%) Configuration Management
6 2 (12.50%) Mentoring
6 2 (12.50%) Patch Management
6 2 (12.50%) Roadmaps
6 2 (12.50%) SDLC
6 2 (12.50%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 1 (6.25%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) T-SQL
2 1 (6.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 3 (18.75%) A+ Certification
2 3 (18.75%) MCSA
3 1 (6.25%) CCNP
3 1 (6.25%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (6.25%) CompTIA Security+
3 1 (6.25%) Degree
3 1 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (6.25%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (37.50%) Active Directory
2 3 (18.75%) Hyper-V
3 1 (6.25%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 5 (31.25%) Ansible
2 1 (6.25%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (37.50%) Cisco
1 6 (37.50%) Palo Alto
1 6 (37.50%) ServiceNow
2 5 (31.25%) SolarWinds
3 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
4 3 (18.75%) Citrix
5 1 (6.25%) Kaspersky
5 1 (6.25%) Oracle
5 1 (6.25%) SAP
5 1 (6.25%) Sophos