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 22 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 46 52
Rank change year-on-year -29 +6 +5
Contract jobs citing ITIL 67 81 82
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.01% 4.69% 3.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.38% 4.98% 4.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 55 54
10th Percentile £188 £240 £270
25th Percentile £318 £384 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -7.14% +0.96% -2.35%
75th Percentile £688 £631 £623
90th Percentile £758 £733 £764
Central London median daily rate £450 £508 £513
% change year-on-year -11.33% -0.98% -0.97%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 4
10th Percentile £20.23 £26.59 £19.10
25th Percentile £21.69 £26.62 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.75 £27.54 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.11% +14.73% -
75th Percentile £28.19 £29.33 £27.00
90th Percentile £29.88 £29.88 -
Central London median hourly rate £24.75 £26.57 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.85% +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 1,981 1,625 1,921
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 88.91% 94.09% 91.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,365 1,080 1,214
10th Percentile £366 £321 £370
25th Percentile £456 £419 £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 £766 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% -3.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 21 18
10th Percentile £16.98 £17.08 £15.40
25th Percentile £17.60 £23.75 £20.88
Median hourly rate £21.00 £28.15 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.40% -14.05% +19.09%
75th Percentile £32.05 £56.75 £107.13
90th Percentile £50.59 £63.75 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £25.00 £28.33 £35.00
% change year-on-year -11.74% -19.07% +30.84%

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 22 September 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 22 September 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 (4.48%) Confluence
1 3 (4.48%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.49%) IIS
Applications
1 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Excel
1 4 (5.97%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.99%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.99%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (8.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.99%) Exchequer
3 1 (1.49%) Maximo
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 19 (28.36%) Azure
2 11 (16.42%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (11.94%) Power Platform
4 6 (8.96%) AWS
4 6 (8.96%) GitHub
5 5 (7.46%) GitHub Actions
6 4 (5.97%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.97%) OneDrive
7 3 (4.48%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (4.48%) Power Automate
7 3 (4.48%) PowerApps
7 3 (4.48%) SaaS
8 2 (2.99%) GCP
9 1 (1.49%) Amazon EC2
9 1 (1.49%) BlazeMeter
9 1 (1.49%) Datadog
9 1 (1.49%) Google Docs
9 1 (1.49%) Google Drive
9 1 (1.49%) Google Sheets
9 1 (1.49%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 10 (14.93%) DNS
2 7 (10.45%) Firewall
2 7 (10.45%) VPN
3 5 (7.46%) DHCP
4 3 (4.48%) TCP/IP
5 2 (2.99%) LAN
5 2 (2.99%) SD-WAN
5 2 (2.99%) Value-Added Service
5 2 (2.99%) WAN
5 2 (2.99%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.49%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.49%) HTTPS
6 1 (1.49%) Intelligent Network
6 1 (1.49%) Internet
6 1 (1.49%) Network Security
6 1 (1.49%) SSH
6 1 (1.49%) tcpdump
6 1 (1.49%) VoIP
6 1 (1.49%) WinSCP
6 1 (1.49%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (11.94%) Power BI
2 4 (5.97%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.49%) KDB
4 1 (1.49%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.49%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (1.49%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.49%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (13.43%) JIRA
2 1 (1.49%) GitLab
2 1 (1.49%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.49%) JMeter
2 1 (1.49%) Locust
2 1 (1.49%) Newman
2 1 (1.49%) Robot Framework
2 1 (1.49%) TestCafe
General
1 29 (43.28%) Social Skills
2 24 (35.82%) Finance
3 11 (16.42%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (14.93%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.96%) Banking
5 6 (8.96%) Telecoms
6 4 (5.97%) Documentation Skills
6 4 (5.97%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (4.48%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.99%) Front Office
8 2 (2.99%) Military
8 2 (2.99%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.49%) Law
Job Titles
1 9 (13.43%) Analyst
2 7 (10.45%) Architect
3 4 (5.97%) DevOps Engineer
3 4 (5.97%) Support Analyst
4 3 (4.48%) Applications Support
4 3 (4.48%) Change Manager
4 3 (4.48%) IT Analyst
4 3 (4.48%) Lead
4 3 (4.48%) Service Manager
4 3 (4.48%) Solutions Architect
4 3 (4.48%) Support Engineer
4 3 (4.48%) Technical Manager
5 2 (2.99%) Applications Support Analyst
5 2 (2.99%) Designer
5 2 (2.99%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (2.99%) Desktop Support Engineer
5 2 (2.99%) IT Support
5 2 (2.99%) Service Analyst
5 2 (2.99%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (2.99%) Technical Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.46%) REST
1 5 (7.46%) Terraform
2 2 (2.99%) Middleware
2 2 (2.99%) SOAP
3 1 (1.49%) .NET
3 1 (1.49%) .NET Core
3 1 (1.49%) Ajax
3 1 (1.49%) ARM Templates
3 1 (1.49%) ASP.NET
3 1 (1.49%) Blazor
3 1 (1.49%) CSS
3 1 (1.49%) HTML
3 1 (1.49%) LDAP
3 1 (1.49%) OAuth
3 1 (1.49%) Oracle Fusion
3 1 (1.49%) Taurus
3 1 (1.49%) Web Services
3 1 (1.49%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (14.93%) CMDB
1 10 (14.93%) Onboarding
2 4 (5.97%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.48%) Data Centre
3 3 (4.48%) Video Conferencing
4 2 (2.99%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.49%) AS400
5 1 (1.49%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.49%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.49%) Distributed Computing
5 1 (1.49%) Grid Computing
5 1 (1.49%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.49%) Media Streaming
5 1 (1.49%) PKI
5 1 (1.49%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.49%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 16 (23.88%) Windows
2 5 (7.46%) Linux
2 5 (7.46%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.97%) Mac OS
4 2 (2.99%) CentOS
4 2 (2.99%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (2.99%) Unix
4 2 (2.99%) Windows 10
4 2 (2.99%) Windows Server 2012
4 2 (2.99%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.49%) Android
5 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2008
5 1 (1.49%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (35.82%) Problem-Solving
2 23 (34.33%) Service Management
2 23 (34.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 21 (31.34%) Agile
3 21 (31.34%) ITSM
4 15 (22.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 15 (22.39%) Service Delivery
5 11 (16.42%) Incident Management
6 10 (14.93%) Asset Management
6 10 (14.93%) Change Management
6 10 (14.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (13.43%) DevOps
8 8 (11.94%) Business Intelligence
8 8 (11.94%) Enterprise Architecture
8 8 (11.94%) Problem Management
9 7 (10.45%) Customer Service
9 7 (10.45%) Migration
9 7 (10.45%) User Experience
10 6 (8.96%) Observability
10 6 (8.96%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.94%) PowerShell
2 5 (7.46%) SQL
3 4 (5.97%) Python
4 1 (1.49%) Bicep
4 1 (1.49%) COBOL
4 1 (1.49%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.49%) RPG
Qualifications
1 16 (23.88%) Security Cleared
2 9 (13.43%) SC Cleared
3 6 (8.96%) Degree
4 5 (7.46%) ITIL Certification
5 4 (5.97%) PMI Certification
5 4 (5.97%) PMP
6 2 (2.99%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.99%) CCNA
6 2 (2.99%) CCNP
6 2 (2.99%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (2.99%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (2.99%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.49%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.49%) CISM
7 1 (1.49%) CISSP
7 1 (1.49%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.49%) ISEB
7 1 (1.49%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.49%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.45%) SLA
2 3 (4.48%) COBIT
2 3 (4.48%) QA
3 2 (2.99%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.99%) GDPR
3 2 (2.99%) GRC
3 2 (2.99%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.99%) NIST
4 1 (1.49%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 19770
4 1 (1.49%) ISO/IEC 42001
4 1 (1.49%) PMO
4 1 (1.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (14.93%) Active Directory
2 6 (8.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (4.48%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.49%) Oracle RAC
4 1 (1.49%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.49%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (7.46%) Microsoft Intune
1 5 (7.46%) SCCM
2 3 (4.48%) Grafana
2 3 (4.48%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.48%) Prometheus
3 2 (2.99%) Ansible
3 2 (2.99%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.49%) Data Guard
4 1 (1.49%) PowerCLI
4 1 (1.49%) Red Hat Satellite
4 1 (1.49%) SCOM
4 1 (1.49%) SCOrch
4 1 (1.49%) WSUS
Vendors
1 21 (31.34%) Microsoft
1 21 (31.34%) ServiceNow
2 8 (11.94%) VMware
3 7 (10.45%) Remedy
4 5 (7.46%) Cisco
4 5 (7.46%) Oracle
5 4 (5.97%) BMC
5 4 (5.97%) Dynatrace
5 4 (5.97%) IBM
5 4 (5.97%) Splunk
6 3 (4.48%) Adobe
6 3 (4.48%) AppDynamics
6 3 (4.48%) Google
6 3 (4.48%) Nexthink
7 2 (2.99%) Autodesk
7 2 (2.99%) Bloomberg
7 2 (2.99%) Citrix
7 2 (2.99%) Samsung
7 2 (2.99%) SAP
7 2 (2.99%) Symantec