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 13 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 38 30 25
Rank change year-on-year -8 -5 -6
Contract jobs citing ITIL 36 25 42
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 3.97% 4.46% 5.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 5.12% 6.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 9 29
10th Percentile £188 £179 £378
25th Percentile £373 £185 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £300 £450
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -33.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £538 £400 £550
90th Percentile £680 £441 £580
England median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - £52.20 £15.32
25th Percentile - £63.00 £16.18
Median hourly rate £21.25 £83.50 £19.23
Median % change year-on-year -74.55% +334.27% +24.05%
75th Percentile - £101.50 £21.31
90th Percentile - £110.80 £22.76
England median hourly rate £26.00 £25.00 £17.07
% change year-on-year +4.00% +46.46% +10.13%

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 775 488 601
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.45% 87.14% 83.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 471 296 429
10th Percentile £188 £240 £213
25th Percentile £350 £324 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.18% -5.56% -1.19%
75th Percentile £525 £545 £565
90th Percentile £625 £631 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 23 43
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.48 £11.86
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £17.95 £22.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.24% +12.50% +18.84%
75th Percentile £24.49 £27.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £38.49 £54.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -26.03% -20.00% +21.43%

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 13 January 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 13 January 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
Leicestershire +1 12 £413 +40.43% 10
Derbyshire -2 10 £800 +60.00% 5
Northamptonshire -19 5 £410 +13.89% 6
Nottinghamshire -13 4 £497 +161.32% 11
Lincolnshire -8 3 £424 +173.23% 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 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.78%) Mule
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.78%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.78%) assyst
2 1 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.00%) Azure
2 6 (16.67%) AWS
3 4 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (8.33%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.78%) GCP
5 1 (2.78%) GitHub
5 1 (2.78%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.56%) DHCP
1 2 (5.56%) DNS
2 1 (2.78%) Network Security
2 1 (2.78%) SAN
2 1 (2.78%) VLAN
2 1 (2.78%) VPN
2 1 (2.78%) VSAN
Development Applications
1 3 (8.33%) JIRA
2 1 (2.78%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.78%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 6 (16.67%) Finance
2 6 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (13.89%) Manufacturing
4 4 (11.11%) Retail
5 3 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Fire and Rescue
6 2 (5.56%) Law
6 2 (5.56%) Local Government
6 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (5.56%) Police
7 1 (2.78%) Banking
7 1 (2.78%) Front Office
7 1 (2.78%) Legal
7 1 (2.78%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) Analyst
2 5 (13.89%) IT Analyst
2 5 (13.89%) IT Support
2 5 (13.89%) IT Support Analyst
2 5 (13.89%) Lead
2 5 (13.89%) Service Manager
2 5 (13.89%) Support Analyst
3 4 (11.11%) Architect
3 4 (11.11%) Support Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Senior
4 3 (8.33%) Senior Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Senior Service Assurance Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Senior Service Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Service Assurance Manager
5 2 (5.56%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Application Support Team Leader
5 2 (5.56%) CloudOps Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Lead Architect
5 2 (5.56%) Service Management Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.78%) ISPF
1 1 (2.78%) LDAP
1 1 (2.78%) OAuth
1 1 (2.78%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (19.44%) Driving Licence
2 6 (16.67%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.56%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (5.56%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.56%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.56%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.78%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.78%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.78%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.78%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.78%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 13 (36.11%) Windows
2 2 (5.56%) Linux
2 2 (5.56%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.78%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (2.78%) Unix
3 1 (2.78%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.78%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.78%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (52.78%) Service Management
2 13 (36.11%) ITSM
3 12 (33.33%) Change Management
4 11 (30.56%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (25.00%) Agile
5 9 (25.00%) Problem Management
6 7 (19.44%) Data Protection
6 7 (19.44%) Incident Management
6 7 (19.44%) Project Management
6 7 (19.44%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (16.67%) DevOps
7 6 (16.67%) Information Security
7 6 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (13.89%) Customer Service
8 5 (13.89%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (13.89%) Service Delivery
8 5 (13.89%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
9 4 (11.11%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.11%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.56%) SQL
3 1 (2.78%) JCL
3 1 (2.78%) REXX
Qualifications
1 10 (27.78%) Degree
1 10 (27.78%) Security Cleared
2 5 (13.89%) A+ Certification
2 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.33%) Microsoft Certification
4 2 (5.56%) DV Cleared
4 2 (5.56%) NVQ Level 3
5 1 (2.78%) AWS Certification
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
5 1 (2.78%) CISA
5 1 (2.78%) CISSP
5 1 (2.78%) GIAC
5 1 (2.78%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.78%) MCSE
5 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.78%) PMP
5 1 (2.78%) Server+ Certification
5 1 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
5 1 (2.78%) VCAP
5 1 (2.78%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.89%) SLA
2 3 (8.33%) ISO 9001
2 3 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.78%) GDPR
3 1 (2.78%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.78%) QA
3 1 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (16.67%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (13.89%) Active Directory
2 5 (13.89%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.78%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (2.78%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.78%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (2.78%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.78%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (36.11%) Microsoft
2 9 (25.00%) ServiceNow
3 6 (16.67%) VMware
4 2 (5.56%) Oracle
4 2 (5.56%) Remedy
5 1 (2.78%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.78%) Google
5 1 (2.78%) NetApp
5 1 (2.78%) SAP
5 1 (2.78%) Splunk
5 1 (2.78%) Workday
5 1 (2.78%) Zoho