ITIL Contract Job Trends in the City of London

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring ITIL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 82 51 46
Rank change year-on-year -31 -5 +10
Contract jobs citing ITIL 60 82 89
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.52% 4.39% 4.29%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.88% 4.66% 4.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 57 59
10th Percentile £163 £248 £336
25th Percentile £288 £406 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.94% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £678 £625 £639
90th Percentile £775 £726 £780
Central London median daily rate £460 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -8.00% -4.76% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 4
10th Percentile £21.20 - £19.10
25th Percentile £24.13 £26.75 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% +18.75% -
75th Percentile £53.88 £30.25 £27.00
90th Percentile £67.60 - -
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £27.48 £24.00
% change year-on-year +9.19% +14.48% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,083 1,761 1,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.48% 94.17% 91.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,422 1,154 1,282
10th Percentile £375 £326 £375
25th Percentile £456 £425 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £764 £792
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 21 17
10th Percentile £17.60 £17.08 £15.20
25th Percentile £18.18 £24.66 £20.22
Median hourly rate £19.50 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -31.58% +5.56% -13.60%
75th Percentile £32.05 £56.75 £78.75
90th Percentile £57.49 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.16 £30.04 £27.00
% change year-on-year -22.89% +11.24% -22.86%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ITIL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

ITIL job vacancy trend in the City of London

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ITIL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ITIL

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in the City of London

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ITIL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ITIL

ITIL
Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITIL in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ITIL in the City of London

ITIL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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 (5.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.67%) IIS
2 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (5.00%) MS Visio
4 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.67%) Exchequer
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 18 (30.00%) Azure
2 9 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (11.67%) Power Platform
4 6 (10.00%) AWS
5 5 (8.33%) GitHub
6 4 (6.67%) GCP
6 4 (6.67%) GitHub Actions
7 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.00%) Entra ID
7 3 (5.00%) OneDrive
7 3 (5.00%) Power Automate
7 3 (5.00%) PowerApps
7 3 (5.00%) SaaS
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon EC2
8 1 (1.67%) Amazon SageMaker
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.67%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.67%) Cloudflare
8 1 (1.67%) Datadog
8 1 (1.67%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 9 (15.00%) DNS
1 9 (15.00%) Firewall
2 8 (13.33%) VPN
3 4 (6.67%) DHCP
4 3 (5.00%) TCP/IP
5 2 (3.33%) BGP
5 2 (3.33%) IPsec
5 2 (3.33%) LAN
5 2 (3.33%) Network Security
5 2 (3.33%) OSPF
5 2 (3.33%) SD-WAN
5 2 (3.33%) SSL
5 2 (3.33%) WAN
6 1 (1.67%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.67%) HTTP
6 1 (1.67%) iSCSI
6 1 (1.67%) Value-Added Service
6 1 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.67%) WinSCP
6 1 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.67%) Power BI
2 3 (5.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.67%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.67%) KDB
3 1 (1.67%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.67%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.67%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 29 (48.33%) Social Skills
2 22 (36.67%) Finance
3 13 (21.67%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (15.00%) Banking
4 9 (15.00%) Public Sector
5 6 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (6.67%) Financial Institution
6 4 (6.67%) Telecoms
7 3 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.33%) Front Office
8 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.33%) Military
9 1 (1.67%) Automotive
9 1 (1.67%) Law
9 1 (1.67%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (16.67%) Analyst
2 5 (8.33%) Architect
3 4 (6.67%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (6.67%) Lead
3 4 (6.67%) Support Analyst
4 3 (5.00%) Applications Support
4 3 (5.00%) IT Analyst
4 3 (5.00%) IT Support
4 3 (5.00%) Network Engineer
4 3 (5.00%) Senior
4 3 (5.00%) Support Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) Applications Support Analyst
5 2 (3.33%) Business Process Analyst
5 2 (3.33%) Change Manager
5 2 (3.33%) Designer
5 2 (3.33%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) Incident Manager
5 2 (3.33%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (3.33%) Junior
5 2 (3.33%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.33%) REST
1 2 (3.33%) SOAP
1 2 (3.33%) XML
2 1 (1.67%) .NET
2 1 (1.67%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.67%) Ajax
2 1 (1.67%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (1.67%) Blazor
2 1 (1.67%) CSS
2 1 (1.67%) HTML
2 1 (1.67%) JSON
2 1 (1.67%) Kafka
2 1 (1.67%) Middleware
2 1 (1.67%) OAuth
2 1 (1.67%) OAuth2
2 1 (1.67%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (1.67%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (1.67%) RESTful
2 1 (1.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 9 (15.00%) CMDB
2 7 (11.67%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.67%) Cloud Native
3 4 (6.67%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.00%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.33%) Taxonomies
5 2 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.67%) Anti-Spyware
6 1 (1.67%) AS400
6 1 (1.67%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.67%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.67%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.67%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.67%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (5.00%) Windows 10
2 3 (5.00%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.33%) Linux
3 2 (3.33%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.67%) Android
4 1 (1.67%) Unix
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.67%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (35.00%) Problem-Solving
2 17 (28.33%) Agile
2 17 (28.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 14 (23.33%) ITSM
3 14 (23.33%) Service Management
4 12 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 11 (18.33%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (16.67%) Change Management
7 9 (15.00%) Asset Management
7 9 (15.00%) Problem Management
7 9 (15.00%) Service Delivery
8 8 (13.33%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (13.33%) Enterprise Architecture
9 7 (11.67%) AI
9 7 (11.67%) DevOps
9 7 (11.67%) Project Management
10 6 (10.00%) Incident Management
10 6 (10.00%) Infrastructure as Code
10 6 (10.00%) Migration
11 5 (8.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.67%) SQL
3 3 (5.00%) Python
4 2 (3.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.67%) Bicep
5 1 (1.67%) COBOL
5 1 (1.67%) RPG
Qualifications
1 17 (28.33%) Security Cleared
2 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 6 (10.00%) Degree
4 4 (6.67%) CCNP
4 4 (6.67%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (5.00%) DV Cleared
5 3 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (3.33%) CCNA
6 2 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (3.33%) PMI Certification
6 2 (3.33%) PMP
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.67%) CCSE
7 1 (1.67%) CISSP
7 1 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.33%) COBIT
1 5 (8.33%) SLA
2 3 (5.00%) NIST
3 2 (3.33%) GDPR
3 2 (3.33%) GRC
3 2 (3.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.33%) PMO
4 1 (1.67%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.67%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.67%) QA
4 1 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (16.67%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.33%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.67%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.67%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.67%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (10.00%) Terraform
2 5 (8.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (6.67%) SCCM
4 3 (5.00%) Grafana
4 3 (5.00%) Kubernetes
4 3 (5.00%) Prometheus
5 2 (3.33%) Ansible
6 1 (1.67%) Data Guard
6 1 (1.67%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (1.67%) QRadar
Vendors
1 21 (35.00%) Microsoft
1 21 (35.00%) ServiceNow
2 7 (11.67%) Splunk
3 6 (10.00%) Cisco
3 6 (10.00%) Remedy
4 5 (8.33%) VMware
5 4 (6.67%) Dynatrace
5 4 (6.67%) Oracle
6 3 (5.00%) AppDynamics
6 3 (5.00%) Nexthink
6 3 (5.00%) Palo Alto
7 2 (3.33%) Bloomberg
7 2 (3.33%) BMC
7 2 (3.33%) Citrix
7 2 (3.33%) Forcepoint
7 2 (3.33%) ForeScout
7 2 (3.33%) Juniper
8 1 (1.67%) Adobe
8 1 (1.67%) HP
8 1 (1.67%) IBM