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 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 39 29 21
Rank change year-on-year -10 -8 0
Contract jobs citing ITIL 35 25 44
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 3.92% 4.27% 6.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 4.91% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 9 27
10th Percentile £188 £179 £290
25th Percentile £380 £185 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £431 £300 £445
Median % change year-on-year +43.67% -32.58% +15.58%
75th Percentile £538 £400 £519
90th Percentile £665 £441 £550
England median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +5.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £52.20 £15.71
25th Percentile - £63.00 £17.62
Median hourly rate £21.25 £83.50 £21.39
Median % change year-on-year -74.55% +290.32% +38.02%
75th Percentile - £101.50 £72.49
90th Percentile - £110.80 £88.75
England median hourly rate £26.57 £25.56 £17.50
% change year-on-year +3.94% +46.07% +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 753 509 599
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 84.42% 86.86% 82.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 466 314 427
10th Percentile £189 £250 £213
25th Percentile £352 £340 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £421 £425 £453
Median % change year-on-year -1.06% -6.18% -4.63%
75th Percentile £525 £545 £575
90th Percentile £625 £625 £686
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 23 45
10th Percentile £15.90 £15.48 £12.80
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.50 £22.28
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +1.01% +32.35%
75th Percentile £25.00 £27.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £38.49 £62.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +25.00%

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 30 December 2025.

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 30 December 2025. 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 -2 12 £413 +40.43% 28
Derbyshire -1 8 £800 +60.00% 33
Northamptonshire -13 6 £424 +17.64% 28
Nottinghamshire -13 4 £497 +161.32% 24
Lincolnshire -7 3 £424 +173.23% 23
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 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.86%) Mule
2 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Project
1 1 (2.86%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.86%) assyst
2 1 (2.86%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (20.00%) Azure
2 5 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (11.43%) AWS
4 3 (8.57%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.86%) GCP
5 1 (2.86%) GitHub
5 1 (2.86%) Lucidchart
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
Development Applications
1 3 (8.57%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.86%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 14 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (17.14%) Finance
2 6 (17.14%) Public Sector
3 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (14.29%) Manufacturing
4 4 (11.43%) Retail
5 3 (8.57%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (5.71%) Law
6 2 (5.71%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (2.86%) Banking
7 1 (2.86%) Front Office
7 1 (2.86%) Legal
7 1 (2.86%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 8 (22.86%) Analyst
2 5 (14.29%) Architect
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%) Support Engineer
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
5 2 (5.71%) CloudOps Manager
5 2 (5.71%) Desktop Engineer
5 2 (5.71%) Enterprise Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Lead Architect
5 2 (5.71%) Oracle Team Leader
5 2 (5.71%) Team Leader
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 6 (17.14%) Management Information System
2 5 (14.29%) Driving Licence
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%) Mainframe
4 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.86%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 12 (34.29%) Windows
2 2 (5.71%) Windows 10
2 2 (5.71%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.86%) Data ONTAP
3 1 (2.86%) Mac OS
3 1 (2.86%) Unix
3 1 (2.86%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (2.86%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (54.29%) Service Management
2 12 (34.29%) Change Management
3 11 (31.43%) ITSM
3 11 (31.43%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (25.71%) Problem Management
5 8 (22.86%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (20.00%) Agile
6 7 (20.00%) Incident Management
6 7 (20.00%) Project Management
7 6 (17.14%) DevOps
7 6 (17.14%) Information Security
7 6 (17.14%) Root Cause Analysis
8 5 (14.29%) Customer Service
8 5 (14.29%) Cybersecurity
8 5 (14.29%) Data Protection
8 5 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (11.43%) Business Strategy
9 4 (11.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (11.43%) Enterprise Architecture
9 4 (11.43%) Security Operations
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.43%) PowerShell
2 2 (5.71%) SQL
3 1 (2.86%) JCL
3 1 (2.86%) REXX
Qualifications
1 11 (31.43%) Degree
2 10 (28.57%) Security Cleared
3 5 (14.29%) A+ Certification
3 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 4 (11.43%) Microsoft Certification
5 2 (5.71%) DV Cleared
6 1 (2.86%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
6 1 (2.86%) CISA
6 1 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (2.86%) GIAC
6 1 (2.86%) ITIL Certification
6 1 (2.86%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.86%) Master's Degree
6 1 (2.86%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.86%) PMP
6 1 (2.86%) Server+ Certification
6 1 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
6 1 (2.86%) VCAP
6 1 (2.86%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (14.29%) SLA
2 4 (11.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (8.57%) ISO 9001
4 2 (5.71%) GDPR
5 1 (2.86%) HIPAA
5 1 (2.86%) QA
5 1 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 5 (14.29%) Active Directory
1 5 (14.29%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (8.57%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.86%) Job Entry Subsystem
3 1 (2.86%) VMware NSX
3 1 (2.86%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) SCCM
2 1 (2.86%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 14 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 9 (25.71%) ServiceNow
3 5 (14.29%) VMware
4 2 (5.71%) Oracle
4 2 (5.71%) Remedy
5 1 (2.86%) Citrix
5 1 (2.86%) Fortinet
5 1 (2.86%) Google
5 1 (2.86%) NetApp
5 1 (2.86%) SAP
5 1 (2.86%) Splunk
5 1 (2.86%) Workday
5 1 (2.86%) Zoho