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 4 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 31 23 27
Rank change year-on-year -8 +4 -18
Contract jobs citing ITIL 11 20 18
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridgeshire 2.96% 5.39% 4.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.51% 6.01% 5.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 4
10th Percentile £379 £258 £458
25th Percentile £472 £325 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £383 £588
Median % change year-on-year +35.29% -34.89% +112.86%
75th Percentile £625 £575 £600
90th Percentile £652 £643 -
East of England median daily rate £450 £400 £360
% change year-on-year +12.50% +11.11% -28.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 10 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £14.99 £14.16
Median hourly rate - £15.57 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year - -4.48% +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 313 333 349
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 84.14% 89.76% 82.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 129 118 122
10th Percentile £183 £258 £228
25th Percentile £400 £400 £340
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £454
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +15.64% -4.42%
75th Percentile £586 £625 £559
90th Percentile £638 £700 £636
East of England median daily rate £500 £512 £450
% change year-on-year -2.34% +13.78% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 102 121
10th Percentile £13.45 £13.80 £14.84
25th Percentile - £14.84 £15.62
Median hourly rate £14.22 £16.00 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year -11.13% -1.42% +11.93%
75th Percentile £28.33 £21.50 £18.00
90th Percentile £47.55 £43.75 £48.75
East of England median hourly rate £47.50 £22.53 £40.00
% change year-on-year +110.83% -43.68% +101.92%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 8 £518 -17.20% 16
Peterborough -5 1 - - 6
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 (27.27%) OpenStack
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 7 (63.64%) Azure
2 4 (36.36%) AWS
2 4 (36.36%) GCP
3 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Logic Apps
3 2 (18.18%) Azure Service Bus
3 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Copilot
3 2 (18.18%) Power Automate
3 2 (18.18%) Power Platform
3 2 (18.18%) PowerApps
4 1 (9.09%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) DHCP
1 1 (9.09%) DNS
1 1 (9.09%) VPN
1 1 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Git
2 2 (18.18%) Visual Studio
General
1 3 (27.27%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineer
1 3 (27.27%) Storage Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) IT Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) IT Support
2 2 (18.18%) IT Support Engineer
2 2 (18.18%) Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Architect
3 1 (9.09%) Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) IT Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Senior
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Cloud Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior IT Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) Senior IT Support
3 1 (9.09%) Senior Support Engineer
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (27.27%) Terraform
2 2 (18.18%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) AI Agents
1 2 (18.18%) BYOD
1 2 (18.18%) CMDB
1 2 (18.18%) Low-Code
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Taxonomies
2 1 (9.09%) Video\Live Streaming
Operating Systems
1 3 (27.27%) Linux
2 2 (18.18%) Windows
3 1 (9.09%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Service Management
2 6 (54.55%) AI
3 5 (45.45%) Continuous Improvement
3 5 (45.45%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (36.36%) ITSM
4 4 (36.36%) Mentoring
4 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (27.27%) Anomaly Detection
5 3 (27.27%) CI/CD
5 3 (27.27%) Incident Response
5 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
5 3 (27.27%) Machine Learning
5 3 (27.27%) Migration
5 3 (27.27%) Platform Engineering
6 2 (18.18%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (18.18%) Data Migration
6 2 (18.18%) Event-Driven Architecture
6 2 (18.18%) Incident Management
6 2 (18.18%) Service Delivery
6 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) C#
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
2 2 (18.18%) X++
3 1 (9.09%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (27.27%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (18.18%) SLA
2 1 (9.09%) Data Quality
System Software
1 1 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (27.27%) Ansible
2 2 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (9.09%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 3 (27.27%) NetApp
2 3 (27.27%) ServiceNow