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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 22 9
Rank change year-on-year -2 -13 0
Contract jobs citing ITIL 19 24 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 5.51% 5.57% 9.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.27% 6.90% 10.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 11
10th Percentile £258 - £180
25th Percentile £325 £413 £190
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £383 £425 £228
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +86.81% -1.09%
75th Percentile £475 £438 £350
90th Percentile £535 - £438
East of England median daily rate £383 £350 £450
% change year-on-year +9.29% -22.22% +20.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 22 37
10th Percentile - - £13.25
25th Percentile £14.99 £14.16 £13.41
Median hourly rate £15.14 £16.30 £13.66
Median % change year-on-year -7.12% +19.33% -
75th Percentile £16.30 £21.37 £13.91
90th Percentile - - £14.75
East of England median hourly rate £16.30 £16.30 £13.66
% change year-on-year - +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 303 348 491
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire 87.83% 80.74% 91.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 108 115 204
10th Percentile £250 £225 £226
25th Percentile £395 £340 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.78% - -5.26%
75th Percentile £625 £558 £550
90th Percentile £700 £638 £599
East of England median daily rate £500 £442 £500
% change year-on-year +13.12% -11.60% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 140 194
10th Percentile £14.26 £14.16 £13.41
25th Percentile £14.84 £15.00 £14.25
Median hourly rate £16.00 £16.23 £14.50
Median % change year-on-year -1.42% +11.93% -
75th Percentile £19.63 £16.85 £20.56
90th Percentile £43.75 £38.18 £26.73
East of England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £19.81
% change year-on-year -34.02% +92.43% -3.37%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridgeshire

Job postings citing ITIL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Cambridgeshire.

Job vacancy trend for ITIL 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +1 13 £288 - 6
Cambridge +2 4 £513 - 9
Huntingdon - 1 £383 - 3
ITIL
East of England

ITIL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cambridgeshire by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.26%) Apache
1 1 (5.26%) IIS
Applications
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (31.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 11 (57.89%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.26%) AWS
2 1 (5.26%) Azure
2 1 (5.26%) Entra ID
2 1 (5.26%) GCP
2 1 (5.26%) Mimecast
2 1 (5.26%) Nutanix
2 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 11 (57.89%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (5.26%) DHCP
2 1 (5.26%) DNS
2 1 (5.26%) Firewall
2 1 (5.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (5.26%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (5.26%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.26%) Power BI
1 1 (5.26%) SAP HANA
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 1 (5.26%) SQL Server Reporting Services
General
1 5 (26.32%) Retail
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (63.16%) Analyst
2 11 (57.89%) Service Analyst
2 11 (57.89%) Service Desk Analyst
3 6 (31.58%) Technical Analyst
3 6 (31.58%) Technical Services Analyst
4 5 (26.32%) Call Centre Analyst
5 2 (10.53%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Firewall Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Network Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Project Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Security Analyst
6 1 (5.26%) Service Assurance Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Service Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Switch Engineer
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Manager
6 1 (5.26%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (5.26%) Data Centre
1 1 (5.26%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (5.26%) Private Cloud
1 1 (5.26%) Public Cloud
1 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
1 1 (5.26%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (26.32%) Windows
2 4 (21.05%) Windows Server
3 1 (5.26%) Mac OS
3 1 (5.26%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (63.16%) Customer Service
1 12 (63.16%) Incident Management
2 8 (42.11%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (31.58%) Mathematics
3 6 (31.58%) Service Delivery
4 3 (15.79%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (15.79%) Project Delivery
5 2 (10.53%) Agile
5 2 (10.53%) Change Management
5 2 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (10.53%) ITSM
5 2 (10.53%) Mentoring
5 2 (10.53%) Patch Management
5 2 (10.53%) Project Management
5 2 (10.53%) Vulnerability Management
6 1 (5.26%) Migration
6 1 (5.26%) Penetration Testing
6 1 (5.26%) Service Management
6 1 (5.26%) Validation
6 1 (5.26%) Vulnerability Assessment
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) PowerShell
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
2 1 (5.26%) T-SQL
2 1 (5.26%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (63.16%) Microsoft Certification
2 11 (57.89%) A+ Certification
2 11 (57.89%) MCSA
3 7 (36.84%) SC Cleared
3 7 (36.84%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.26%) CEH
4 1 (5.26%) CISSP
4 1 (5.26%) CompTIA CySA+
4 1 (5.26%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.26%) Degree
4 1 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (5.26%) MCTS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.53%) SLA
2 1 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (5.26%) NIST
2 1 (5.26%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 8 (42.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.26%) BitLocker
2 1 (5.26%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 1 (5.26%) Ansible
1 1 (5.26%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (5.26%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (63.16%) Citrix
2 11 (57.89%) ServiceNow
3 7 (36.84%) Microsoft
4 1 (5.26%) Cisco
4 1 (5.26%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (5.26%) Kaspersky
4 1 (5.26%) Oracle
4 1 (5.26%) Palo Alto
4 1 (5.26%) SAP
4 1 (5.26%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.26%) Sophos
4 1 (5.26%) Tenable
4 1 (5.26%) VMware