ITIL Contracts in the City of London

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

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for ITIL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ITIL over the 6 months to 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 51 59 43
Rank change year-on-year +8 -16 +25
Contract jobs citing ITIL 83 127 223
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.81% 3.59% 5.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.21% 3.92% 5.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 99 181
10th Percentile £300 £211 £196
25th Percentile £413 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - +2.44%
75th Percentile £641 £648 £600
90th Percentile £775 £751 £650
Central London median daily rate £525 £520 £525
% change year-on-year +0.96% -0.95% +2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £16.50
Median hourly rate £27.00 - £17.00
75th Percentile - - £17.50
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £27.00 - £29.25
% change year-on-year - - +10.38%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

ITIL is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,970 3,243 3,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.41% 91.58% 92.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,391 2,190 2,958
10th Percentile £350 £356 £381
25th Percentile £450 £480 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £560 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £688
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 26 46
10th Percentile £19.95 £14.75 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £17.08 £21.81
Median hourly rate £25.63 £35.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.79% -12.50% +122.53%
75th Percentile £40.00 £57.50 £54.38
90th Percentile £41.65 £88.30 £64.13
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £40.50
% change year-on-year -20.54% -13.58% +102.50%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing ITIL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for ITIL in the City of London

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITIL in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for ITIL in the City of London

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 20 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in the City of London

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITIL in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for ITIL in the City of London

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 11 (13.25%) SharePoint
2 8 (9.64%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.20%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.41%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.41%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (3.61%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.20%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.20%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 19 (22.89%) Azure
2 17 (20.48%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (9.64%) Microsoft Purview
3 8 (9.64%) Power Platform
4 5 (6.02%) OneDrive
5 4 (4.82%) Entra ID
5 4 (4.82%) IaaS
5 4 (4.82%) Mimecast
6 3 (3.61%) AWS
6 3 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (3.61%) PaaS
7 2 (2.41%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.41%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (1.20%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.02%) Firewall
2 3 (3.61%) DKIM
2 3 (3.61%) DMARC
3 2 (2.41%) LAN
3 2 (2.41%) WAN
4 1 (1.20%) Cisco IOS
4 1 (1.20%) DNS
4 1 (1.20%) Network Security
4 1 (1.20%) SAN
4 1 (1.20%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.20%) WebEx
4 1 (1.20%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.23%) Sybase ASE
2 5 (6.02%) DB2
2 5 (6.02%) RDBMS
2 5 (6.02%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.20%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Visual Studio
2 2 (2.41%) JIRA
3 1 (1.20%) Git
3 1 (1.20%) Jenkins
General
1 32 (38.55%) Social Skills
2 28 (33.73%) Finance
3 14 (16.87%) Banking
4 12 (14.46%) Legal
5 7 (8.43%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (8.43%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (6.02%) Presentation Skills
7 4 (4.82%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.41%) Front Office
9 1 (1.20%) Advertising
9 1 (1.20%) Back Office
9 1 (1.20%) French Language
9 1 (1.20%) Law
9 1 (1.20%) Local Government
9 1 (1.20%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.20%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 15 (18.07%) Architect
2 14 (16.87%) Service Manager
3 10 (12.05%) Analyst
4 8 (9.64%) Lead
5 5 (6.02%) Infrastructure Engineer
5 5 (6.02%) ITIL Manager
5 5 (6.02%) ITIL Service Manager
5 5 (6.02%) Microsoft 365 Architect
5 5 (6.02%) Service Transition Manager
5 5 (6.02%) Transition Manager
6 4 (4.82%) DBA
6 4 (4.82%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (4.82%) ITIL Service Delivery Manager
6 4 (4.82%) Senior
6 4 (4.82%) Service Delivery Manager
6 4 (4.82%) ServiceNow Architect
6 4 (4.82%) Sybase DBA
7 3 (3.61%) AWS Infrastructure Engineer
7 3 (3.61%) Developer
7 3 (3.61%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.61%) CSS
1 3 (3.61%) HTML5 Canvas
1 3 (3.61%) jQuery
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (2.41%) LDAP
3 1 (1.20%) EDI
3 1 (1.20%) SAP ALE
Miscellaneous
1 5 (6.02%) Data Centre
1 5 (6.02%) Linux Command Line
1 5 (6.02%) Replication
2 3 (3.61%) CMDB
3 2 (2.41%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.20%) Biopharmaceutical
4 1 (1.20%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (1.20%) Digital Signage
4 1 (1.20%) Handset
4 1 (1.20%) HP Storage
4 1 (1.20%) iPhone
4 1 (1.20%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.20%) Robotics
4 1 (1.20%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.07%) Windows
2 7 (8.43%) Linux
3 5 (6.02%) Unix
4 4 (4.82%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.41%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.20%) Android
6 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.20%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (22.89%) Change Management
1 19 (22.89%) Project Management
1 19 (22.89%) Service Management
2 17 (20.48%) ITSM
3 16 (19.28%) Migration
4 15 (18.07%) Agile
4 15 (18.07%) PRINCE2
5 13 (15.66%) Computer Science
6 12 (14.46%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 11 (13.25%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (12.05%) Data Loss Prevention
9 8 (9.64%) SDLC
9 8 (9.64%) Service Delivery
9 8 (9.64%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (7.23%) DevOps
10 6 (7.23%) Enterprise Architecture
10 6 (7.23%) Incident Management
10 6 (7.23%) Root Cause Analysis
11 5 (6.02%) Change Data Capture
11 5 (6.02%) E-Discovery
Programming Languages
1 9 (10.84%) PowerShell
2 7 (8.43%) Python
2 7 (8.43%) SQL
3 6 (7.23%) Perl
4 5 (6.02%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.61%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.41%) Java
7 1 (1.20%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 19 (22.89%) Degree
2 18 (21.69%) ITIL Certification
3 11 (13.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 6 (7.23%) Security Cleared
5 5 (6.02%) Azure Certification
5 5 (6.02%) SC Cleared
6 4 (4.82%) TOGAF Certification
7 3 (3.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Certification
8 2 (2.41%) CCNA
8 2 (2.41%) Cisco Certification
8 2 (2.41%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (1.20%) A+ Certification
9 1 (1.20%) CompTIA Security+
9 1 (1.20%) MCP
9 1 (1.20%) MCSE
9 1 (1.20%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.23%) QA
2 3 (3.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.41%) COBIT
3 2 (2.41%) SLA
4 1 (1.20%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.20%) GDPR
4 1 (1.20%) GxP
4 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 7 (8.43%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.02%) Veritas Cluster Server
3 2 (2.41%) Virtual Servers
3 2 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
4 1 (1.20%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 9 (10.84%) Microsoft Intune
2 8 (9.64%) PingFederate
3 2 (2.41%) Ansible
3 2 (2.41%) Puppet
4 1 (1.20%) AirWatch
4 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
4 1 (1.20%) SCCM
4 1 (1.20%) vRealize
4 1 (1.20%) vRealize Orchestrator
Vendors
1 28 (33.73%) Microsoft
2 18 (21.69%) ServiceNow
3 8 (9.64%) SAP
4 6 (7.23%) Citrix
4 6 (7.23%) IBM
4 6 (7.23%) Sun
4 6 (7.23%) Sybase
5 5 (6.02%) Oracle
5 5 (6.02%) Veritas
6 4 (4.82%) VMware
7 3 (3.61%) Cisco
7 3 (3.61%) Proofpoint
7 3 (3.61%) Symantec
8 1 (1.20%) Aruba
8 1 (1.20%) CyberArk
8 1 (1.20%) Dell
8 1 (1.20%) Fortinet
8 1 (1.20%) HP
8 1 (1.20%) Juniper
8 1 (1.20%) SaltStack