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 1 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 78 56 53
Rank change year-on-year -22 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing ITIL 54 70 82
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.32% 4.11% 3.81%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.72% 4.39% 4.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 51 63
10th Percentile £180 £225 £303
25th Percentile £398 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £683 £588 £650
90th Percentile £749 £675 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £498 £525
% change year-on-year +5.53% -5.24% +0.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £19.72 - -
25th Percentile £20.43 £26.75 -
Median hourly rate £24.88 £28.50 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.69% +5.56% -
75th Percentile £40.00 £30.25 -
90th Percentile £62.05 - -
Central London median hourly rate £24.88 £27.48 £27.00
% change year-on-year -9.44% +1.76% -

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 1,985 1,594 1,954
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 85.23% 93.60% 90.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,357 1,012 1,367
10th Percentile £356 £355 £350
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% -6.25%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 14 12
10th Percentile £17.38 £18.15 £19.95
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.98 £20.22
Median hourly rate £25.77 £28.33 £26.63
Median % change year-on-year -9.02% +6.38% -23.93%
75th Percentile £52.16 £41.48 £40.46
90th Percentile £62.89 £59.25 £49.41
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £28.33 £27.81
% change year-on-year -7.82% +1.85% -20.54%

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 1 June 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 1 June 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 1 (1.85%) IIS
1 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (1.85%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (9.26%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (7.41%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (3.70%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 14 (25.93%) Azure
2 12 (22.22%) AWS
3 7 (12.96%) Microsoft 365
4 6 (11.11%) GCP
4 6 (11.11%) Power Platform
5 4 (7.41%) OpenShift
5 4 (7.41%) SaaS
6 3 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.70%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.70%) Google Workspace
7 2 (3.70%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.70%) Rubrik
7 2 (3.70%) Slack
8 1 (1.85%) Azure AI
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Sentinel
8 1 (1.85%) Azure Service Bus
8 1 (1.85%) GitHub
8 1 (1.85%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.85%) OneDrive
8 1 (1.85%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.26%) Firewall
1 5 (9.26%) VPN
2 4 (7.41%) DNS
3 2 (3.70%) DHCP
3 2 (3.70%) IPsec
3 2 (3.70%) Network Security
3 2 (3.70%) SSL
3 2 (3.70%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.85%) BGP
4 1 (1.85%) IPv4
4 1 (1.85%) IPv6
4 1 (1.85%) iSCSI
4 1 (1.85%) OSPF
4 1 (1.85%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.26%) Power BI
2 3 (5.56%) Tableau
3 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.85%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.85%) KDB
4 1 (1.85%) NoSQL
4 1 (1.85%) Oracle BI EE
4 1 (1.85%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 7 (12.96%) JIRA
General
1 28 (51.85%) Social Skills
2 14 (25.93%) Analytical Skills
2 14 (25.93%) Finance
3 9 (16.67%) Public Sector
4 6 (11.11%) Banking
4 6 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Financial Institution
6 2 (3.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.85%) Automotive
7 1 (1.85%) Front Office
7 1 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.85%) Law
7 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.85%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (16.67%) Analyst
2 7 (12.96%) Architect
3 4 (7.41%) IT Support
3 4 (7.41%) Lead
3 4 (7.41%) Senior
3 4 (7.41%) Support Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) Change Manager
4 3 (5.56%) IT Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (5.56%) Release Manager
5 2 (3.70%) Applications Support
5 2 (3.70%) Business Process Analyst
5 2 (3.70%) Change and Release Manager
5 2 (3.70%) Incident Manager
5 2 (3.70%) Network Architect
5 2 (3.70%) Operations Analyst
5 2 (3.70%) Process Analyst
5 2 (3.70%) Service Manager
5 2 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.70%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.85%) .NET
1 1 (1.85%) .NET Core
1 1 (1.85%) ASP.NET
1 1 (1.85%) Blazor
1 1 (1.85%) JSON
1 1 (1.85%) Kafka
1 1 (1.85%) Middleware
1 1 (1.85%) OAuth
1 1 (1.85%) OAuth2
1 1 (1.85%) Oracle Fusion
1 1 (1.85%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (1.85%) RESTful
1 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) CMDB
2 7 (12.96%) Onboarding
3 6 (11.11%) Cloud Native
4 4 (7.41%) Product Ownership
5 3 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (3.70%) Data Centre
7 1 (1.85%) Anti-Spyware
7 1 (1.85%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.85%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (1.85%) Grid Computing
7 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.85%) PKI
7 1 (1.85%) Taxonomies
7 1 (1.85%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (14.81%) Windows
2 3 (5.56%) Windows 10
3 2 (3.70%) Linux
3 2 (3.70%) Mac OS
3 2 (3.70%) Windows Server
4 1 (1.85%) Android
4 1 (1.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (35.19%) Continuous Improvement
2 18 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 16 (29.63%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (25.93%) ITSM
4 14 (25.93%) Service Delivery
5 13 (24.07%) Agile
6 10 (18.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 9 (16.67%) Change Management
7 9 (16.67%) Service Management
8 8 (14.81%) Project Management
8 8 (14.81%) Runbook
9 6 (11.11%) AI
9 6 (11.11%) Asset Management
9 6 (11.11%) Business Intelligence
9 6 (11.11%) High Availability
9 6 (11.11%) Project Delivery
9 6 (11.11%) Roadmaps
10 5 (9.26%) Enterprise Architecture
10 5 (9.26%) Supplier Management
10 5 (9.26%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 4 (7.41%) PowerShell
2 3 (5.56%) Python
3 2 (3.70%) SQL
4 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 12 (22.22%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.96%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) Degree
3 3 (5.56%) DV Cleared
3 3 (5.56%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (3.70%) CCNP
4 2 (3.70%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.85%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.85%) CCSE
5 1 (1.85%) CISSP
5 1 (1.85%) CompTIA Security+
5 1 (1.85%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.85%) Network+ Certification
5 1 (1.85%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.81%) SLA
2 4 (7.41%) COBIT
2 4 (7.41%) NIST
3 3 (5.56%) GDPR
3 3 (5.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (3.70%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (3.70%) Data Quality
4 2 (3.70%) PMO
5 1 (1.85%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.85%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (1.85%) GRC
5 1 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 42001
5 1 (1.85%) QA
5 1 (1.85%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 8 (14.81%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (1.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (5.56%) Grafana
1 3 (5.56%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (5.56%) SCCM
2 2 (3.70%) Terraform
3 1 (1.85%) Ansible
3 1 (1.85%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (1.85%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.85%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.85%) QRadar
Vendors
1 23 (42.59%) ServiceNow
2 14 (25.93%) Microsoft
3 5 (9.26%) Remedy
3 5 (9.26%) Splunk
4 4 (7.41%) Dynatrace
5 3 (5.56%) BMC
5 3 (5.56%) Cisco
5 3 (5.56%) Google
5 3 (5.56%) Oracle
5 3 (5.56%) VMware
6 2 (3.70%) IBM
6 2 (3.70%) Nexthink
6 2 (3.70%) Palo Alto
6 2 (3.70%) Salesforce
6 2 (3.70%) Snow
7 1 (1.85%) BiZZdesign
7 1 (1.85%) Charles River
7 1 (1.85%) CheckPoint
7 1 (1.85%) ForeScout
7 1 (1.85%) Zscaler