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

6 months to
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 44 28 24
Rank change year-on-year -16 -4 -7
Contract jobs citing ITIL 35 24 43
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 3.77% 4.40% 5.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.41% 5.07% 6.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 9 31
10th Percentile £310 £179 £290
25th Percentile £388 £185 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £300 £445
Median % change year-on-year +41.67% -32.58% +18.67%
75th Percentile £538 £400 £550
90th Percentile £710 £441 -
England median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +7.53%
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 £25.00 £26.31 £17.50
% change year-on-year -4.99% +50.36% +12.90%

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 793 473 622
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 85.36% 86.63% 83.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 472 280 442
10th Percentile £190 £248 £201
25th Percentile £350 £348 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £428 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.78% -4.97% -2.70%
75th Percentile £525 £538 £550
90th Percentile £625 £626 £672
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 21 49
10th Percentile £15.15 - £11.15
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.50 £17.95
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% +25.38% +6.63%
75th Percentile £24.36 £30.00 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £39.68 £54.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%

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 20 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 20 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 0 11 £419 +39.58% 10
Derbyshire -1 11 £800 +60.00% 6
Northamptonshire -18 5 £358 -0.56% 8
Nottinghamshire -19 4 £497 +161.32% 13
Lincolnshire -8 2 £650 +319.35% 5
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 1 (2.86%) Confluence
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (2.86%) Mule
1 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.86%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.86%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 10 (28.57%) Azure
2 7 (20.00%) AWS
3 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
3 3 (8.57%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.86%) GCP
4 1 (2.86%) GitHub
4 1 (2.86%) Lucidchart
4 1 (2.86%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.71%) DHCP
1 2 (5.71%) DNS
2 1 (2.86%) Network Security
2 1 (2.86%) SAN
2 1 (2.86%) VLAN
2 1 (2.86%) VPN
2 1 (2.86%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (11.43%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 12 (34.29%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Finance
3 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
4 5 (14.29%) Manufacturing
5 4 (11.43%) Retail
6 3 (8.57%) Fire and Rescue
6 3 (8.57%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (8.57%) Local Government
6 3 (8.57%) Police
7 2 (5.71%) Law
8 1 (2.86%) Banking
8 1 (2.86%) Front Office
8 1 (2.86%) Legal
8 1 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Analyst
2 5 (14.29%) IT Analyst
2 5 (14.29%) IT Support
2 5 (14.29%) IT Support Analyst
2 5 (14.29%) Lead
2 5 (14.29%) Service Manager
2 5 (14.29%) Support Analyst
3 4 (11.43%) Architect
4 3 (8.57%) Help Desk Technician
4 3 (8.57%) ICT Technician
4 3 (8.57%) Senior
4 3 (8.57%) Senior Manager
4 3 (8.57%) Senior Service Assurance Manager
4 3 (8.57%) Senior Service Manager
4 3 (8.57%) Service Assurance Manager
4 3 (8.57%) Support Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Application Support Team Leader
5 2 (5.71%) CloudOps Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Lead Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Service Management Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.86%) ISPF
1 1 (2.86%) LDAP
1 1 (2.86%) OAuth
1 1 (2.86%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (22.86%) Driving Licence
2 6 (17.14%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.71%) Cloud Security Posture
3 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Software
3 2 (5.71%) Public Cloud
3 2 (5.71%) Security Posture
4 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.86%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.86%) Data Centre
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Applications
4 1 (2.86%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (2.86%) EMV
4 1 (2.86%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.86%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 12 (34.29%) Windows
2 3 (8.57%) Linux
3 1 (2.86%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (2.86%) Unix
3 1 (2.86%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.86%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (48.57%) Service Management
2 13 (37.14%) ITSM
3 12 (34.29%) Change Management
4 11 (31.43%) Agile
5 10 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
6 9 (25.71%) Problem Management
7 8 (22.86%) Data Protection
7 8 (22.86%) Project Management
7 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (20.00%) Incident Management
9 6 (17.14%) DevOps
9 6 (17.14%) Information Security
9 6 (17.14%) Root Cause Analysis
9 6 (17.14%) Service Delivery
9 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 5 (14.29%) Customer Service
10 5 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
11 4 (11.43%) Business Strategy
11 4 (11.43%) Collaborative Working
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.57%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.71%) SQL
3 1 (2.86%) JCL
3 1 (2.86%) REXX
Qualifications
1 10 (28.57%) Degree
2 9 (25.71%) Security Cleared
3 5 (14.29%) A+ Certification
4 4 (11.43%) SC Cleared
5 3 (8.57%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (8.57%) NVQ Level 3
6 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared
6 2 (5.71%) PMI Certification
6 2 (5.71%) PMP
7 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
7 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
7 1 (2.86%) CISA
7 1 (2.86%) CISSP
7 1 (2.86%) GIAC
7 1 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (2.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (2.86%) MCSE
7 1 (2.86%) Server+ Certification
7 1 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
7 1 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) SLA
2 3 (8.57%) ISO 9001
2 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.86%) GDPR
3 1 (2.86%) HIPAA
3 1 (2.86%) PCI DSS
3 1 (2.86%) PSD2
3 1 (2.86%) QA
3 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (17.14%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (14.29%) Hyper-V
3 3 (8.57%) Active Directory
4 1 (2.86%) Job Entry Subsystem
4 1 (2.86%) VMware NSX
4 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (2.86%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (34.29%) Microsoft
2 8 (22.86%) ServiceNow
3 6 (17.14%) VMware
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle
5 1 (2.86%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.86%) Google
5 1 (2.86%) NetApp
5 1 (2.86%) Remedy
5 1 (2.86%) SAP
5 1 (2.86%) Splunk
5 1 (2.86%) TSYS
5 1 (2.86%) Workday
5 1 (2.86%) Zoho