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 25 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 49 46
Rank change year-on-year -25 -3 +10
Contract jobs citing ITIL 64 83 88
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.76% 4.58% 4.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.15% 4.85% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 56 58
10th Percentile £163 £278 £336
25th Percentile £313 £406 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.74% -4.05% -
75th Percentile £700 £623 £640
90th Percentile £775 £726 £775
Central London median daily rate £488 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -2.50% -4.76% +1.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 2 4
10th Percentile £21.20 £26.59 £19.10
25th Percentile £24.13 £26.62 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.54 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.95% +14.73% -
75th Percentile £53.88 £29.33 £27.00
90th Percentile £67.60 £29.88 -
Central London median hourly rate £30.00 £26.57 £24.00
% change year-on-year +12.91% +10.71% -

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 2,033 1,710 1,903
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 87.74% 94.32% 91.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,397 1,123 1,253
10th Percentile £381 £325 £375
25th Percentile £460 £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 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 22 16
10th Percentile - £17.35 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.98 £19.79
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -25.86% +6.38% -3.18%
75th Percentile £33.10 £53.50 £82.19
90th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £26.78
% change year-on-year -17.44% +8.55% -23.49%

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 25 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 25 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 (4.69%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.56%) IIS
2 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.69%) MS Visio
3 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 5 (7.81%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.56%) Exchequer
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 20 (31.25%) Azure
2 10 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (10.94%) AWS
3 7 (10.94%) Power Platform
4 5 (7.81%) GitHub
5 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (6.25%) GCP
5 4 (6.25%) GitHub Actions
5 4 (6.25%) OneDrive
6 3 (4.69%) Entra ID
6 3 (4.69%) Power Automate
6 3 (4.69%) PowerApps
6 3 (4.69%) SaaS
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon SageMaker
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.56%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.56%) Datadog
7 1 (1.56%) Rubrik
7 1 (1.56%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.50%) DNS
1 8 (12.50%) Firewall
2 7 (10.94%) VPN
3 4 (6.25%) DHCP
4 2 (3.13%) LAN
4 2 (3.13%) SD-WAN
4 2 (3.13%) TCP/IP
4 2 (3.13%) Value-Added Service
4 2 (3.13%) WAN
5 1 (1.56%) BGP
5 1 (1.56%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.56%) HTTP
5 1 (1.56%) Internet
5 1 (1.56%) IPsec
5 1 (1.56%) MPLS
5 1 (1.56%) OSPF
5 1 (1.56%) SSL
5 1 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.56%) WinSCP
5 1 (1.56%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (10.94%) Power BI
2 3 (4.69%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.56%) KDB
3 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.56%) Oracle BI EE
3 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 6 (9.38%) JIRA
General
1 29 (45.31%) Social Skills
2 21 (32.81%) Finance
3 11 (17.19%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (15.63%) Public Sector
5 8 (12.50%) Banking
6 5 (7.81%) Telecoms
7 4 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (4.69%) Financial Institution
8 3 (4.69%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (3.13%) Front Office
10 1 (1.56%) Automotive
10 1 (1.56%) Law
10 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.56%) Military
10 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (14.06%) Analyst
2 8 (12.50%) Architect
3 4 (6.25%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (6.25%) Lead
3 4 (6.25%) Support Analyst
3 4 (6.25%) Support Engineer
4 3 (4.69%) Applications Support
4 3 (4.69%) IT Analyst
4 3 (4.69%) IT Support
4 3 (4.69%) Network Engineer
4 3 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.13%) Applications Support Analyst
5 2 (3.13%) Change Manager
5 2 (3.13%) Designer
5 2 (3.13%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (3.13%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (3.13%) Firewall Engineer
5 2 (3.13%) Release Manager
5 2 (3.13%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (3.13%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.81%) Terraform
2 4 (6.25%) REST
3 2 (3.13%) SOAP
3 2 (3.13%) XML
4 1 (1.56%) .NET
4 1 (1.56%) .NET Core
4 1 (1.56%) Ajax
4 1 (1.56%) ARM Templates
4 1 (1.56%) ASP.NET
4 1 (1.56%) CSS
4 1 (1.56%) HTML
4 1 (1.56%) JSON
4 1 (1.56%) Kafka
4 1 (1.56%) Middleware
4 1 (1.56%) OAuth
4 1 (1.56%) OAuth2
4 1 (1.56%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
4 1 (1.56%) RESTful
4 1 (1.56%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (17.19%) CMDB
2 7 (10.94%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.25%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
4 3 (4.69%) Data Centre
4 3 (4.69%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (3.13%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.13%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.13%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.56%) AS400
6 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.56%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (1.56%) Grid Computing
6 1 (1.56%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.31%) Windows
2 3 (4.69%) Mac OS
2 3 (4.69%) Windows 10
2 3 (4.69%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.13%) Linux
4 1 (1.56%) Android
4 1 (1.56%) Unix
4 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2012
4 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (1.56%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (35.94%) Problem-Solving
2 20 (31.25%) Agile
2 20 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
3 19 (29.69%) Service Management
4 17 (26.56%) ITSM
5 14 (21.88%) Service Delivery
6 13 (20.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 12 (18.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 11 (17.19%) Asset Management
9 9 (14.06%) Change Management
9 9 (14.06%) DevOps
9 9 (14.06%) Enterprise Architecture
9 9 (14.06%) Incident Management
10 8 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
10 8 (12.50%) Problem Management
11 7 (10.94%) AI
11 7 (10.94%) Migration
12 6 (9.38%) Project Management
12 6 (9.38%) Risk Management
12 6 (9.38%) Software Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.38%) PowerShell
2 5 (7.81%) SQL
3 3 (4.69%) Python
4 2 (3.13%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.56%) Bicep
5 1 (1.56%) COBOL
5 1 (1.56%) RPG
Qualifications
1 15 (23.44%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.06%) SC Cleared
3 7 (10.94%) Degree
4 4 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (4.69%) CCNP
5 3 (4.69%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (4.69%) PMI Certification
5 3 (4.69%) PMP
6 2 (3.13%) CCNA
6 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.56%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (1.56%) CCSE
7 1 (1.56%) CISM
7 1 (1.56%) CISSP
7 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.56%) ISEB
7 1 (1.56%) ISTQB
7 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.56%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.38%) SLA
2 4 (6.25%) COBIT
3 3 (4.69%) GDPR
4 2 (3.13%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.13%) GRC
4 2 (3.13%) NIST
4 2 (3.13%) PMO
4 2 (3.13%) QA
4 2 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.56%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 19770
5 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 1 (1.56%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 10 (15.63%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.56%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.56%) Oracle RAC
3 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.56%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (7.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (6.25%) SCCM
3 3 (4.69%) Grafana
3 3 (4.69%) Kubernetes
3 3 (4.69%) Prometheus
4 1 (1.56%) Ansible
4 1 (1.56%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.56%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 21 (32.81%) Microsoft
1 21 (32.81%) ServiceNow
2 7 (10.94%) Cisco
3 6 (9.38%) Remedy
3 6 (9.38%) VMware
4 5 (7.81%) Oracle
4 5 (7.81%) Splunk
5 4 (6.25%) Dynatrace
6 3 (4.69%) Adobe
6 3 (4.69%) AppDynamics
6 3 (4.69%) BMC
6 3 (4.69%) Nexthink
7 2 (3.13%) Autodesk
7 2 (3.13%) Bloomberg
7 2 (3.13%) Citrix
7 2 (3.13%) Forcepoint
7 2 (3.13%) IBM
7 2 (3.13%) Juniper
7 2 (3.13%) SAP
7 2 (3.13%) Symantec