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

6 months to
2 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 47 37
Rank change year-on-year -16 -10 -13
Contract jobs citing ITIL 21 22 27
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 1.66% 2.89% 3.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.22% 3.38% 4.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 22
10th Percentile £271 £188 £263
25th Percentile £345 £275 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £436 £488
Median % change year-on-year -5.39% -10.56% +7.14%
75th Percentile £481 £475 £534
90th Percentile £533 £478 £588
England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 2
10th Percentile - £21.64 £52.20
25th Percentile - £22.23 £63.00
Median hourly rate - £23.20 £83.50
Median % change year-on-year - -72.22% +307.12%
75th Percentile - £24.18 £101.50
90th Percentile - £24.76 £110.80
England median hourly rate £25.92 £26.45 £21.37
% change year-on-year -2.00% +23.77% +22.11%

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 945 650 613
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 74.53% 85.41% 81.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 452 408
10th Percentile £235 £232 £268
25th Percentile £400 £339 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £410 £455
Median % change year-on-year +17.32% -9.89% -9.00%
75th Percentile £575 £500 £575
90th Percentile £650 £626 £626
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 149 57 34
10th Percentile £12.83 £15.20 £12.75
25th Percentile £13.81 £17.87 £14.74
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.87 £19.16
Median % change year-on-year -5.30% -1.51% -33.36%
75th Percentile £26.90 £25.15 £48.06
90th Percentile £36.99 - £50.50
England median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +1.18%

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 2 September 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 2 September 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 -12 11 £413 -8.33% 18
Lincolnshire -14 4 £352 +78.93% 3
Northamptonshire +11 2 £250 -42.79% 9
Leicestershire -14 2 - - 10
Derbyshire -12 1 £525 +75.00% 6
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 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.76%) SAS
2 1 (4.76%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (33.33%) Azure
1 7 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (9.52%) Entra ID
3 1 (4.76%) Azure Logic Apps
3 1 (4.76%) OneDrive
3 1 (4.76%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (19.05%) DHCP
1 4 (19.05%) DNS
1 4 (19.05%) TCP/IP
1 4 (19.05%) WAN
2 3 (14.29%) LAN
3 2 (9.52%) Network Security
4 1 (4.76%) Ethernet
4 1 (4.76%) Firewall
4 1 (4.76%) SAN
4 1 (4.76%) SD-WAN
4 1 (4.76%) Value-Added Service
4 1 (4.76%) VPN
4 1 (4.76%) Wireless
General
1 4 (19.05%) Social Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Finance
2 2 (9.52%) Organisational Skills
2 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
3 1 (4.76%) Legal
3 1 (4.76%) Local Government
3 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (38.10%) Analyst
2 4 (19.05%) Cloud Engineer
2 4 (19.05%) Server Engineer
3 3 (14.29%) Portfolio Analyst
3 3 (14.29%) Support Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) IT Support
4 2 (9.52%) ITSM Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Network Engineer
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Network Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Automation Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco Support Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Cloud Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Incident Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Mainframe Systems Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) PMO Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Cisco Network Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Network Support
5 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) REST
2 1 (4.76%) ISPF
2 1 (4.76%) JSON
2 1 (4.76%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.52%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (4.76%) Mainframe
2 1 (4.76%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (33.33%) Windows
2 4 (19.05%) Windows Server
3 1 (4.76%) Linux
3 1 (4.76%) MVS
3 1 (4.76%) Windows 10
3 1 (4.76%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (38.10%) Process Improvement
3 6 (28.57%) ITSM
3 6 (28.57%) Project Delivery
3 6 (28.57%) Quality Management
3 6 (28.57%) Target Operating Model
4 5 (23.81%) Continuous Improvement
5 4 (19.05%) Demand Management
5 4 (19.05%) Portfolio Management
5 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (19.05%) SIAM
6 3 (14.29%) Incident Management
6 3 (14.29%) Infrastructure Engineering
6 3 (14.29%) Root Cause Analysis
6 3 (14.29%) Service Management
7 2 (9.52%) Agile
7 2 (9.52%) Change Management
7 2 (9.52%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (9.52%) High Availability
7 2 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) JCL
1 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.76%) REXX
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 3 (14.29%) Degree
3 2 (9.52%) MCSA
3 2 (9.52%) MCSE
3 2 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
3 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 1 (4.76%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (38.10%) Data Quality
2 6 (28.57%) PMO
3 2 (9.52%) SLA
System Software
1 6 (28.57%) Active Directory
2 4 (19.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.76%) Firmware
3 1 (4.76%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (4.76%) NFS
3 1 (4.76%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (14.29%) VxRail
2 1 (4.76%) Control-M
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (4.76%) SCCM
2 1 (4.76%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 10 (47.62%) ServiceNow
2 7 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 4 (19.05%) VMware
4 3 (14.29%) SolarWinds
5 1 (4.76%) Aruba
5 1 (4.76%) BMC
5 1 (4.76%) Cisco
5 1 (4.76%) CyberArk
5 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
5 1 (4.76%) Juniper
5 1 (4.76%) Meraki
5 1 (4.76%) Splunk