ITIL Contracts in Cheshire

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire requiring ITIL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ITIL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 49 36
Rank change year-on-year +25 -13 -28
Contract jobs citing ITIL 35 9 27
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 7.80% 1.79% 5.09%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.03% 2.12% 5.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 5 16
10th Percentile £177 £391 £266
25th Percentile £230 £400 £324
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £444 £388
Median % change year-on-year -43.69% +14.58% -4.32%
75th Percentile £325 £450 £450
90th Percentile £350 £503 £475
North West median daily rate £350 £487 £484
% change year-on-year -28.06% +0.52% +11.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 1
Median hourly rate £12.82 £14.00 £22.41
Median % change year-on-year -8.43% -37.53% -35.97%
North West median hourly rate £35.50 £29.72 £42.50
% change year-on-year +19.45% -30.08% +136.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 436 425 483
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.10% 84.33% 91.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 294 285 328
10th Percentile £317 £276 £275
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -9.05% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £638 £635 £660
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 30 23
10th Percentile £19.00 £13.70 £19.06
25th Percentile £25.94 £16.61 £23.15
Median hourly rate £35.20 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +32.03% -12.70% +29.96%
75th Percentile £85.44 £42.31 £35.00
90th Percentile £86.00 £44.13 £39.20
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for ITIL in Cheshire

ITIL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITIL in Cheshire.

Daily rate trend for ITIL in Cheshire

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in Cheshire

ITIL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Cheshire

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITIL in Cheshire.

Hourly rate trend for ITIL in Cheshire

ITIL
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
Warrington +14 23 £230 -41.03% 6
Chester +3 10 £325 - 3
Knutsford -5 1 £465 +4.03% 1
ITIL
North West

ITIL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 9 (25.71%) SharePoint
1 9 (25.71%) Skype for Business
2 8 (22.86%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (14.29%) Mattermost
4 3 (8.57%) IIS
5 1 (2.86%) CICS
Applications
1 7 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (8.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.86%) assyst
2 1 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.71%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (22.86%) Azure
2 8 (22.86%) Entra ID
3 7 (20.00%) SaaS
4 2 (5.71%) OneDrive
5 1 (2.86%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 9 (25.71%) Skype
2 8 (22.86%) WAN
3 6 (17.14%) DNS
4 5 (14.29%) LAN
4 5 (14.29%) Softphone
4 5 (14.29%) Unified Communications
4 5 (14.29%) WebEx
4 5 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
4 5 (14.29%) Wireless
4 5 (14.29%) WLAN
5 4 (11.43%) DHCP
6 3 (8.57%) BGP
6 3 (8.57%) EIGRP
6 3 (8.57%) IPv4
6 3 (8.57%) MPLS
6 3 (8.57%) OSPF
6 3 (8.57%) SD-WAN
6 3 (8.57%) TCP/IP
6 3 (8.57%) VPN
7 1 (2.86%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) DB2
Development Applications
1 1 (2.86%) JIRA
General
1 17 (48.57%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 3 (8.57%) Telecoms
5 2 (5.71%) Finance
6 1 (2.86%) Banking
6 1 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (2.86%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.86%) Military
Job Titles
1 11 (31.43%) Analyst
2 10 (28.57%) Support Engineer
3 7 (20.00%) Service Analyst
3 7 (20.00%) Service Desk Analyst
4 6 (17.14%) Network Engineer
4 6 (17.14%) Operations Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) Messaging Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) Messaging Support
5 5 (14.29%) Messaging Support Engineer
5 5 (14.29%) Operations Support Engineer
6 4 (11.43%) Messaging Analyst
6 4 (11.43%) Messaging Support Analyst
6 4 (11.43%) Operational Support Analyst
6 4 (11.43%) Operations Analyst
6 4 (11.43%) Operations Support Analyst
6 4 (11.43%) Support Analyst
7 3 (8.57%) Administrator
7 3 (8.57%) IP Engineer
7 3 (8.57%) VMWare Administrator
7 3 (8.57%) Wintel Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (14.29%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 11 (31.43%) Management Information System
2 6 (17.14%) CMDB
3 5 (14.29%) Video Conferencing
4 4 (11.43%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (5.71%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (2.86%) Mainframe
6 1 (2.86%) Smartphone
6 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.00%) Windows
2 6 (17.14%) Linux
3 4 (11.43%) Windows Server
4 3 (8.57%) Windows Server 2012
4 3 (8.57%) Windows Server 2016
4 3 (8.57%) Windows Server 2019
5 1 (2.86%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (62.86%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (42.86%) ITSM
2 15 (42.86%) Problem Management
3 8 (22.86%) Agile
4 6 (17.14%) Root Cause Analysis
5 5 (14.29%) Asset Management
5 5 (14.29%) B2B
5 5 (14.29%) Performance Metrics
5 5 (14.29%) Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (14.29%) Service Delivery
6 4 (11.43%) Collaborative Working
6 4 (11.43%) Decision-Making
6 4 (11.43%) Process Improvement
7 3 (8.57%) Change Management
7 3 (8.57%) Configuration Management
7 3 (8.57%) High Availability
7 3 (8.57%) Network Planning
7 3 (8.57%) Patch Management
7 3 (8.57%) Performance Tuning
7 3 (8.57%) Resource Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (28.57%) PowerShell
2 5 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (48.57%) Security Cleared
2 15 (42.86%) SC Cleared
3 11 (31.43%) Degree
4 10 (28.57%) ITIL Certification
5 8 (22.86%) Cisco Certification
6 5 (14.29%) CCNA
7 3 (8.57%) CCNP
8 1 (2.86%) A+ Certification
8 1 (2.86%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (25.71%) SLA
System Software
1 16 (45.71%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.57%) Hyper-V
2 3 (8.57%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (8.57%) VMware ESXi
2 3 (8.57%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (20.00%) Single Sign-On
2 6 (17.14%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (14.29%) SCOM
4 4 (11.43%) WSUS
5 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Clustering
5 3 (8.57%) NetApp OnCommand
5 3 (8.57%) vCenter Server
5 3 (8.57%) vMotion
6 2 (5.71%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 20 (57.14%) Microsoft
2 13 (37.14%) Cisco
3 5 (14.29%) Red Hat
3 5 (14.29%) Splunk
4 4 (11.43%) Remedy
4 4 (11.43%) VMware
5 3 (8.57%) BMC
5 3 (8.57%) Huawei
5 3 (8.57%) ServiceNow