ITIL Contracts in Edinburgh

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring ITIL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ITIL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 25 43 53
Rank change year-on-year +18 +10 +10
Contract jobs citing ITIL 44 29 66
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 7.04% 3.56% 5.07%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.41% 4.03% 5.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 20 45
10th Percentile £161 £200 £138
25th Percentile £191 £224 £156
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £282 £188
Median % change year-on-year +50.71% +50.40% -55.22%
75th Percentile £526 £459 £538
90th Percentile £598 £521 £621
Scotland median daily rate £428 £380 £425
% change year-on-year +12.50% -10.59% +13.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 0 0
10th Percentile £19.04 - -
25th Percentile £21.00 - -
Median hourly rate £22.00 - -
75th Percentile £24.09 - -
90th Percentile £28.51 - -
Scotland median hourly rate £22.00 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 594 720 1,240
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.04% 88.34% 95.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 333 422 884
10th Percentile £214 £233 £254
25th Percentile £403 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £471 £484 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.59% +1.79% -
75th Percentile £541 £575 £545
90th Percentile £630 £663 £625
Scotland median daily rate £463 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -2.63% - +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 31 11
10th Percentile - £15.10 £13.16
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.44 £22.87 £21.26
Median % change year-on-year -1.89% +7.57% -46.85%
75th Percentile £25.59 £60.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £42.35 - £54.50
Scotland median hourly rate £21.59 £19.34 £17.72
% change year-on-year +11.66% +9.11% -55.69%

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Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing ITIL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for ITIL in Edinburgh

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITIL in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for ITIL in Edinburgh

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Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in Edinburgh

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITIL in Edinburgh.

Hourly rate trend for ITIL in Edinburgh

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Hourly Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITIL in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ITIL in Edinburgh

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Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (6.82%) Confluence
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.27%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (11.36%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (2.27%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 8 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (13.64%) AWS
2 6 (13.64%) Azure
3 3 (6.82%) IaaS
3 3 (6.82%) PaaS
4 2 (4.55%) OneDrive
4 2 (4.55%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.55%) SaaS
5 1 (2.27%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 9 (20.45%) Remote Desktop
2 4 (9.09%) TCP/IP
3 3 (6.82%) SNA
4 2 (4.55%) 4G
4 2 (4.55%) DNS
4 2 (4.55%) Firewall
4 2 (4.55%) Internet
4 2 (4.55%) SD-WAN
4 2 (4.55%) SSL
4 2 (4.55%) WAN
5 1 (2.27%) DHCP
5 1 (2.27%) HTTP
5 1 (2.27%) Intranet
5 1 (2.27%) LAN
5 1 (2.27%) Network Security
5 1 (2.27%) VPN
5 1 (2.27%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (2.27%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle Exadata
1 1 (2.27%) Oracle Reports
1 1 (2.27%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (6.82%) JIRA
General
1 22 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (34.09%) Finance
3 11 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 10 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (11.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (9.09%) Law
7 3 (6.82%) Banking
8 1 (2.27%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (2.27%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 7 (15.91%) Service Desk Engineer
2 6 (13.64%) Service Manager
2 6 (13.64%) Windows Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Analyst
3 5 (11.36%) IT Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Service Desk Support
3 5 (11.36%) Support Engineer
3 5 (11.36%) Windows Support Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Architect
4 4 (9.09%) Deployment Engineer
4 4 (9.09%) Server Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Desktop Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Linux Engineer
5 3 (6.82%) Senior
5 3 (6.82%) Service Analyst
5 3 (6.82%) Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (4.55%) Cybersecurity Specialist
6 2 (4.55%) Desktop Support
6 2 (4.55%) Linux Server Engineer
6 2 (4.55%) Mainframe Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.27%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 10 (22.73%) Device Driver
2 6 (13.64%) Product Ownership
3 3 (6.82%) CMDB
3 3 (6.82%) Mainframe
4 2 (4.55%) Cyber Threat
4 2 (4.55%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.55%) Management Information System
5 1 (2.27%) Blackberry
5 1 (2.27%) Clustering
5 1 (2.27%) Distributed Systems
5 1 (2.27%) PKI
5 1 (2.27%) Public Cloud
5 1 (2.27%) Replication
5 1 (2.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 24 (54.55%) Windows
2 9 (20.45%) Linux
3 8 (18.18%) Windows Server
4 5 (11.36%) Amazon Linux
5 4 (9.09%) Windows 10
6 3 (6.82%) Unix
6 3 (6.82%) zOS
7 2 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (4.55%) Solaris
7 2 (4.55%) Ubuntu
8 1 (2.27%) AIX
8 1 (2.27%) Android
8 1 (2.27%) Apple iOS
8 1 (2.27%) Windows 7
8 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (2.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (34.09%) Service Management
3 13 (29.55%) Project Delivery
4 12 (27.27%) Agile
4 12 (27.27%) Customer Service
5 10 (22.73%) Customer Experience
6 9 (20.45%) Task Automation
7 8 (18.18%) ITSM
7 8 (18.18%) Problem Management
8 6 (13.64%) Change Management
9 5 (11.36%) Disaster Recovery
9 5 (11.36%) Mentoring
9 5 (11.36%) Service-Level Objective
9 5 (11.36%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (11.36%) Technical Debt
10 4 (9.09%) Asset Management
10 4 (9.09%) Commercial Awareness
10 4 (9.09%) SDLC
10 4 (9.09%) Service Delivery
10 4 (9.09%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (20.45%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.82%) JCL
3 2 (4.55%) SQL
4 1 (2.27%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.27%) REXX
Qualifications
1 10 (22.73%) Microsoft Certification
2 9 (20.45%) A+ Certification
3 5 (11.36%) Degree
4 4 (9.09%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (4.55%) Azure Certification
5 2 (4.55%) MCSE
5 2 (4.55%) Security Cleared
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Certification
6 1 (2.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (2.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (2.27%) CISSP
6 1 (2.27%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.27%) SC Cleared
6 1 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.36%) Disclosure Scotland
2 2 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 2 (4.55%) QA
3 1 (2.27%) Accessibility
3 1 (2.27%) Data Quality
3 1 (2.27%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 3 (6.82%) Hyper-V
2 3 (6.82%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (2.27%) BitLocker
3 1 (2.27%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 6 (13.64%) SCCM
2 4 (9.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (6.82%) Tivoli NetView
4 2 (4.55%) Ansible
5 1 (2.27%) Data Guard
5 1 (2.27%) Failover Clustering
5 1 (2.27%) Microsoft Clustering
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
5 1 (2.27%) Oracle Flashback
5 1 (2.27%) Terraform
Vendors
1 17 (38.64%) Microsoft
2 7 (15.91%) VMware
3 6 (13.64%) Red Hat
4 5 (11.36%) ServiceNow
5 4 (9.09%) HP
6 3 (6.82%) Dynatrace
6 3 (6.82%) IBM
6 3 (6.82%) Oracle
7 2 (4.55%) BT
7 2 (4.55%) Cisco
7 2 (4.55%) Snow
8 1 (2.27%) Adobe
8 1 (2.27%) Autodesk
8 1 (2.27%) Avaya
8 1 (2.27%) Dell
8 1 (2.27%) Equitrac
8 1 (2.27%) Fortinet
8 1 (2.27%) Mitel
8 1 (2.27%) Progress
8 1 (2.27%) Symantec