ITIL Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring ITIL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 June 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 42 46
Rank change year-on-year -13 +4 -34
Contract jobs citing ITIL 32 19 22
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 2.88% 3.14% 2.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.67% 3.56% 3.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 8 21
10th Percentile £169 £248 £225
25th Percentile £340 £309 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £443 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.88% -11.40% +21.21%
75th Percentile £453 £494 £560
90th Percentile £550 £550 £588
England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -

All Process & Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 871 534 633
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 78.33% 88.12% 77.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 490 360 430
10th Percentile £200 £225 £200
25th Percentile £393 £331 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £425 £422
Median % change year-on-year +7.65% +0.71% -11.16%
75th Percentile £550 £518 £550
90th Percentile £638 £600 £623
England median daily rate £515 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -1.55% -0.36% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 122 39 57
10th Percentile £13.51 £13.81 £11.41
25th Percentile £16.35 £15.19 £12.75
Median hourly rate £18.00 £18.51 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.76% +8.88% -26.88%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.38 £26.15
90th Percentile £32.12 £37.41 £42.35
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.53 £37.50
% change year-on-year +64.77% -23.93% +0.54%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

ITIL job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing ITIL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing ITIL

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 4 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in the East Midlands

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing ITIL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing ITIL

ITIL
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 June 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire -7 17 £413 +28.91% 8
Derbyshire -4 9 £650 +116.67% 7
Leicestershire -5 2 - - 5
Northamptonshire -8 2 £404 -7.34% 3
Lincolnshire - 2 £413 - 4
ITIL
England

ITIL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (3.13%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) SAS
2 1 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 13 (40.63%) Azure
2 6 (18.75%) AWS
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (9.38%) Entra ID
5 1 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.13%) Azure Logic Apps
5 1 (3.13%) Power Automate
5 1 (3.13%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.13%) DHCP
1 1 (3.13%) DNS
1 1 (3.13%) Value-Added Service
1 1 (3.13%) VLAN
1 1 (3.13%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (6.25%) JIRA
2 1 (3.13%) Chocolatey
2 1 (3.13%) Git
2 1 (3.13%) SonarQube
General
1 8 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (18.75%) Local Government
3 5 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (15.63%) Fire and Rescue
3 5 (15.63%) Police
4 3 (9.38%) Finance
4 3 (9.38%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (6.25%) Law
5 2 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 1 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.13%) Legal
6 1 (3.13%) Retail
6 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (34.38%) Analyst
2 5 (15.63%) Help Desk Technician
2 5 (15.63%) ICT Technician
3 3 (9.38%) IT Support
3 3 (9.38%) ITSM Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Operations Manager
3 3 (9.38%) Portfolio Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) Service Manager
4 2 (6.25%) CloudOps Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Project Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Senior
4 2 (6.25%) Service Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Service Desk Analyst
4 2 (6.25%) Support Engineer
5 1 (3.13%) 3rd Line Support
5 1 (3.13%) Desktop Support
5 1 (3.13%) Developer
5 1 (3.13%) Process Analyst
5 1 (3.13%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.25%) REST
2 1 (3.13%) .NET
2 1 (3.13%) ISPF
2 1 (3.13%) JSON
2 1 (3.13%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Driving Licence
2 2 (6.25%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (6.25%) Public Cloud
2 2 (6.25%) Security Posture
3 1 (3.13%) CMDB
3 1 (3.13%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.13%) EMV
3 1 (3.13%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.13%) Smartphone
3 1 (3.13%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 11 (34.38%) Windows
2 6 (18.75%) Linux
3 2 (6.25%) Windows Server
4 1 (3.13%) MVS
4 1 (3.13%) Windows 10
4 1 (3.13%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Stakeholder Management
2 13 (40.63%) Agile
3 12 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 12 (37.50%) ITSM
4 9 (28.13%) Process Improvement
4 9 (28.13%) Service Delivery
5 7 (21.88%) Service Management
6 6 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (18.75%) Quality Management
6 6 (18.75%) Target Operating Model
7 5 (15.63%) Business Continuity
7 5 (15.63%) Change Management
7 5 (15.63%) Data Protection
7 5 (15.63%) Mathematics
7 5 (15.63%) Project Delivery
7 5 (15.63%) SIAM
8 4 (12.50%) Demand Management
8 4 (12.50%) Portfolio Management
9 3 (9.38%) Incident Management
9 3 (9.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 3 (9.38%) PowerShell
2 1 (3.13%) C#
2 1 (3.13%) JCL
2 1 (3.13%) REXX
Qualifications
1 5 (15.63%) Degree
1 5 (15.63%) NVQ Level 3
2 3 (9.38%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.25%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (6.25%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (6.25%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
4 1 (3.13%) PMI Certification
4 1 (3.13%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (25.00%) Data Quality
2 6 (18.75%) PMO
3 2 (6.25%) GDPR
3 2 (6.25%) SLA
4 1 (3.13%) COBIT
4 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.13%) PSD2
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Hyper-V
1 6 (18.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 4 (12.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (3.13%) Docker
3 1 (3.13%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Ansible
1 1 (3.13%) Control-M
1 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (3.13%) SCCM
1 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds Orion
1 1 (3.13%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (43.75%) ServiceNow
2 6 (18.75%) VMware
3 5 (15.63%) Microsoft
4 1 (3.13%) Apple
4 1 (3.13%) BMC
4 1 (3.13%) CyberArk
4 1 (3.13%) HP
4 1 (3.13%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.13%) Splunk
4 1 (3.13%) TSYS