ITIL Certification Contracts in England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for ITIL Certification qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 3 months to 26 June 2017 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

Note that daily and hourly rates are treated separately in these statistics. When calculating contractor rate percentiles, daily rates are never derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Information Technology Infrastructure Library (ITIL) Certification UK / England
Location	3 months to 26 Jun 2017	Same period 2016	Same period 2015
Rank	339	285	292
Rank change year-on-year	-54	+7
Contract jobs citing ITIL Certification	278	411	399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England	0.64%	0.84%	0.78%
As % of the Qualifications category	3.33%	3.90%	4.17%
Number of daily rates quoted	187	257	242
Median daily rate	£406	£388	£350
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+4.83%	+10.71%
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£199	£259	£204
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£550	£575	£500
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£370	£350
% change year-on-year	+8.10%	+5.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted	8	26	22
Median hourly rate	£12.50	£18.25	£22.25
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	-31.50%	-17.97%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£11.31	£10.00	£12.70
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£14.65	£51.50	£39.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£12.50	£22.00	£22.50
% change year-on-year	-43.18%	-2.22%

ITIL Certification is in the academic qualifications and professional certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all academic qualifications and professional certifications cited in contract job vacancies advertised in England.

Academic & Professional Certification England
Contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications	8358	10527	9571
As % of all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England	19.36%	21.60%	18.80%
Number of daily rates quoted	5023	6658	5658
Median daily rate	£435	£400	£400
Median daily rate % change year-on-year	+8.75%	-
90% offered a daily rate of more than	£270	£255	£250
10% offered a daily rate of more than	£575	£588	£550
UK excluding London median daily rate	£400	£375	£375
% change year-on-year	+6.66%	-
Number of hourly rates quoted	444	363	482
Median hourly rate	£32.50	£27.56	£23.00
Median hourly rate % change year-on-year	+17.92%	+19.82%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than	£13.00	£12.50	£13.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than	£50.00	£49.00	£50.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate	£33.00	£30.00	£24.12
% change year-on-year	+10.00%	+24.37%

ITIL Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

The job posting trend of jobs advertised in England citing ITIL Certification as a proportion of all contract or permanent IT jobs with a match in the Qualifications category.

Job vacancy trend for ITIL Certification in England

ITIL Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in contract jobs citing ITIL Certification in England.

Contractor daily rate trend for ITIL Certification in England

ITIL Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Histogram in England

The daily rate distribution of IT jobs citing ITIL Certification in England over the 3 months to 26 June 2017.

Contractor daily rate histogram for ITIL Certification in England

ITIL Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for contractor hourly rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL Certification in England.

Contractor hourly rate trend for ITIL Certification in England

ITIL Certification
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL Certification within the England region over the 3 months to 26 June 2017. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location	Rank Change on Same Period Last Year	Matching Contract IT Job Ads	Median Daily Rate Last 3 Months	Median Daily Rate % Change on Same Period Last Year	Live Job Vacancies
London	-26	126	£425	-5.55%	21
South East	0	65	£425	+13.33%	18
Yorkshire	+19	20	£350	-6.66%	3
West Midlands	+22	18	£448	+37.69%	3
North West	+5	15	£319	-19.04%	1
South West	-15	12	£488	+42.33%	6
East of England	-15	12	£405	+15.71%	6
East Midlands	-27	8	£288	-20.13%	1
Midlands	-	1	-	-	4
ITIL Certification UK

ITIL Certification
Top 30 Co-occurring IT Skills in England

For the 6 months to 26 June 2017, IT contractor jobs citing ITIL Certification also mentioned the following skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number co-occurrences and its proportion to all contract ads across the England region with a requirement for ITIL Certification.

1	525 (100.00%)	ITIL
2	179 (34.10%)	Service Management
3	128 (24.38%)	Finance
3	128 (24.38%)	Microsoft
4	104 (19.81%)	Windows
5	96 (18.29%)	Project Management
6	88 (16.76%)	ITSM
6	88 (16.76%)	Change Management
7	79 (15.05%)	PRINCE2
8	78 (14.86%)	Microsoft Office
8	78 (14.86%)	Active Directory
9	71 (13.52%)	SLA
9	71 (13.52%)	Service Delivery
10	67 (12.76%)	Analytical Skills
11	63 (12.00%)	Agile Software Development

12	55 (10.48%)	Degree
12	55 (10.48%)	Security Cleared
13	54 (10.29%)	Stakeholder Management
14	50 (9.52%)	Incident Management
15	48 (9.14%)	Problem Management
16	46 (8.76%)	Service Design
17	45 (8.57%)	Cisco
18	43 (8.19%)	Telecoms
19	39 (7.43%)	SC Cleared
20	38 (7.24%)	Data Centre
21	36 (6.86%)	Microsoft Certification
22	35 (6.67%)	Release Management
22	35 (6.67%)	Office 365
23	33 (6.29%)	Remedy
24	32 (6.10%)	HP

ITIL Certification
Co-occurring IT Skills in England by Category

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

Application Platforms
Applications
Business Applications
Cloud Services
Communications & Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
Development Applications
General
Job Titles
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
Miscellaneous
Operating Systems
Processes & Methodologies
Programming Languages
Qualifications
Quality Assurance & Compliance
System Software
Systems Management
Vendors

Application Platforms
1	20 (3.81%)	MS Exchange
2	15 (2.86%)	SharePoint
3	11 (2.10%)	Exchange Server 2010
4	9 (1.71%)	Blackberry Enterprise Server
5	7 (1.33%)	Exchange Server 2003
6	6 (1.14%)	Skype for Business
7	4 (0.76%)	Exchange Server 2007
8	3 (0.57%)	Confluence
8	3 (0.57%)	Exchange Server 2013
8	3 (0.57%)	IBM Notes
8	3 (0.57%)	JBoss
9	2 (0.38%)	CMS
9	2 (0.38%)	SAS
9	2 (0.38%)	WebLogic
10	1 (0.19%)	DataSynapse
10	1 (0.19%)	IBM Domino
10	1 (0.19%)	Tomcat
10	1 (0.19%)	WebSphere
10	1 (0.19%)	WebSphere Application Server
10	1 (0.19%)	WebSphere Process Server

Applications
1	78 (14.86%)	Microsoft Office
2	18 (3.43%)	Microsoft PowerPoint
3	13 (2.48%)	Microsoft Excel
3	13 (2.48%)	MS Visio
4	4 (0.76%)	Microsoft Project
5	1 (0.19%)	S-PLUS
5	1 (0.19%)	Spreadsheet

Business Applications
1	25 (4.76%)	Remedy ITSM
2	4 (0.76%)	Dynamics CRM
3	1 (0.19%)	Maximo
3	1 (0.19%)	Oracle EBS
3	1 (0.19%)	Sage CRM
3	1 (0.19%)	SAP FI
3	1 (0.19%)	SAP SD

Cloud Services
1	35 (6.67%)	Office 365
2	24 (4.57%)	Microsoft Azure
3	12 (2.29%)	Amazon AWS
3	12 (2.29%)	SaaS
4	7 (1.33%)	IaaS
4	7 (1.33%)	PaaS
5	4 (0.76%)	BPaaS
6	3 (0.57%)	Cloud Computing
6	3 (0.57%)	OneDrive
7	2 (0.38%)	Yammer
8	1 (0.19%)	Amazon CloudWatch
8	1 (0.19%)	AWS CloudFormation
8	1 (0.19%)	Azure Active Directory
8	1 (0.19%)	G Suite
8	1 (0.19%)	OpenShift
8	1 (0.19%)	SuccessFactors

Communications & Networking
1	24 (4.57%)	Firewall
1	24 (4.57%)	WAN
2	23 (4.38%)	LAN
3	16 (3.05%)	Wireless
4	15 (2.86%)	TCP/IP
5	12 (2.29%)	VPN
6	11 (2.10%)	SAN
7	10 (1.90%)	DNS
8	7 (1.33%)	BGP
8	7 (1.33%)	DHCP
9	6 (1.14%)	Cisco Nexus
9	6 (1.14%)	Internet
9	6 (1.14%)	LDAP
9	6 (1.14%)	NAS
10	5 (0.95%)	Cisco ASA
10	5 (0.95%)	OSPF
10	5 (0.95%)	VLAN
10	5 (0.95%)	VoIP
11	4 (0.76%)	Network Security
11	4 (0.76%)	Radio Access Network

Database & Business Intelligence
1	31 (5.90%)	SQL Server
2	7 (1.33%)	SQL Server 2005
2	7 (1.33%)	SQL Server 2008
2	7 (1.33%)	SQL Server 2012
3	6 (1.14%)	SQL Server 2014
3	6 (1.14%)	SQL Server Analysis Services
3	6 (1.14%)	SQL Server Integration Services
3	6 (1.14%)	SQL Server Reporting Services
4	3 (0.57%)	GIS
5	2 (0.38%)	Big Data
5	2 (0.38%)	Data Warehouse
6	1 (0.19%)	Apache Cassandra
6	1 (0.19%)	DB2
6	1 (0.19%)	Hadoop
6	1 (0.19%)	MongoDB
6	1 (0.19%)	MySQL
6	1 (0.19%)	Power BI
6	1 (0.19%)	RDBMS
6	1 (0.19%)	Relational Database

Development Applications
1	8 (1.52%)	Team Foundation Server
2	7 (1.33%)	JIRA
3	3 (0.57%)	Rational DOORS
4	2 (0.38%)	ClearCase
4	2 (0.38%)	ClearQuest
4	2 (0.38%)	Git (software)
5	1 (0.19%)	Artifactory
5	1 (0.19%)	Atlassian Bamboo
5	1 (0.19%)	Selenium

General
1	128 (24.38%)	Finance
2	43 (8.19%)	Telecoms
3	32 (6.10%)	Banking
4	13 (2.48%)	Investment Banking
5	12 (2.29%)	Retail
6	10 (1.90%)	Advertising
7	9 (1.71%)	Legal
8	7 (1.33%)	Manufacturing
9	6 (1.14%)	Back Office
9	6 (1.14%)	Publishing
10	5 (0.95%)	Front Office
10	5 (0.95%)	Law
11	4 (0.76%)	Financial Institution
12	3 (0.57%)	Military
13	2 (0.38%)	Automotive
13	2 (0.38%)	French Language
13	2 (0.38%)	Local Government
13	2 (0.38%)	Marketing
13	2 (0.38%)	Pharmaceutical
13	2 (0.38%)	Retail Banking

Job Titles
1	135 (25.71%)	Analyst
2	91 (17.33%)	Service Manager
3	68 (12.95%)	Service Analyst
4	55 (10.48%)	Project Manager
5	47 (8.95%)	Architect
6	44 (8.38%)	Support Analyst
7	40 (7.62%)	Service Desk Analyst
8	27 (5.14%)	ITIL Manager
9	24 (4.57%)	IT Analyst
10	22 (4.19%)	Delivery Manager
10	22 (4.19%)	IT Manager
11	21 (4.00%)	2nd Line Support
12	20 (3.81%)	Applications Support
13	19 (3.62%)	Services Delivery Manager
14	16 (3.05%)	Change Analyst
14	16 (3.05%)	ITIL Service Manager
15	15 (2.86%)	Business Analyst
15	15 (2.86%)	Service Desk Support
15	15 (2.86%)	Technical Analyst
16	14 (2.67%)	Service Transition Manager

Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1	16 (3.05%)	Web Services
2	7 (1.33%)	HTML
3	5 (0.95%)	CSS
3	5 (0.95%)	REST
4	4 (0.76%)	.NET
4	4 (0.76%)	AngularJS
4	4 (0.76%)	Twitter Bootstrap
5	3 (0.57%)	Middleware
6	2 (0.38%)	SAML
6	2 (0.38%)	SOAP
6	2 (0.38%)	Software Packaging
6	2 (0.38%)	XMPP
7	1 (0.19%)	ASP.NET
7	1 (0.19%)	ASP.NET Web Forms
7	1 (0.19%)	HTML5
7	1 (0.19%)	Velocity

Miscellaneous
1	67 (12.76%)	Analytical Skills
2	38 (7.24%)	Data Centre
3	22 (4.19%)	Management Information System
4	12 (2.29%)	Blackberry
4	12 (2.29%)	Computer Science
5	9 (1.71%)	Public Cloud
5	9 (1.71%)	Replication
6	8 (1.52%)	Clustering
6	8 (1.52%)	User Experience
7	7 (1.33%)	CMDB
7	7 (1.33%)	Greenfield Project
7	7 (1.33%)	PKI
8	5 (0.95%)	CESG
8	5 (0.95%)	Enterprise Software
8	5 (0.95%)	PMI
9	4 (0.76%)	Data Protection Act
9	4 (0.76%)	Minimum Viable Product
9	4 (0.76%)	NHS
10	3 (0.57%)	Private Cloud
10	3 (0.57%)	Virtual Team

Operating Systems
1	104 (19.81%)	Windows
2	32 (6.10%)	Windows 7
3	26 (4.95%)	Windows Server
4	24 (4.57%)	Windows 10
5	19 (3.62%)	Linux
6	18 (3.43%)	Windows Server 2012
7	15 (2.86%)	Windows Server 2008
8	12 (2.29%)	Windows Server 2003
9	11 (2.10%)	Unix
10	9 (1.71%)	Mac OS X
11	6 (1.14%)	Windows XP
12	5 (0.95%)	Apple iOS
13	4 (0.76%)	Android
14	3 (0.57%)	Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14	3 (0.57%)	Solaris
14	3 (0.57%)	Windows 8
15	2 (0.38%)	AIX
15	2 (0.38%)	CentOS
16	1 (0.19%)	Mac OS
16	1 (0.19%)	Oracle Linux

Processes & Methodologies
1	525 (100.00%)	ITIL
2	179 (34.10%)	Service Management
3	96 (18.29%)	Project Management
4	88 (16.76%)	Change Management
4	88 (16.76%)	ITSM
5	79 (15.05%)	PRINCE2
6	71 (13.52%)	Service Delivery
7	63 (12.00%)	Agile Software Development
8	54 (10.29%)	Stakeholder Management
9	50 (9.52%)	Incident Management
10	48 (9.14%)	Problem Management
11	46 (8.76%)	Service Design
12	35 (6.67%)	Release Management
13	29 (5.52%)	Migration
14	26 (4.95%)	TOGAF
15	24 (4.57%)	Configuration Management
15	24 (4.57%)	Root Cause Analysis
16	20 (3.81%)	Agile Project Management
16	20 (3.81%)	Business Analysis
17	19 (3.62%)	Scrum

Programming Languages
1	29 (5.52%)	SQL
2	16 (3.05%)	PowerShell
3	6 (1.14%)	T-SQL
4	4 (0.76%)	C
4	4 (0.76%)	Java
5	3 (0.57%)	C#
5	3 (0.57%)	Perl
6	2 (0.38%)	JavaScript
6	2 (0.38%)	VB.NET
7	1 (0.19%)	Bash Shell
7	1 (0.19%)	Jython
7	1 (0.19%)	Korn
7	1 (0.19%)	PHP
7	1 (0.19%)	Python
7	1 (0.19%)	VB
7	1 (0.19%)	VBA

Qualifications
1	55 (10.48%)	Degree
1	55 (10.48%)	Security Cleared
2	39 (7.43%)	SC Cleared
3	36 (6.86%)	Microsoft Certification
4	19 (3.62%)	MCSE
5	17 (3.24%)	PMI Certification
6	16 (3.05%)	MCP
7	13 (2.48%)	Cisco Certification
7	13 (2.48%)	DV Cleared
7	13 (2.48%)	PMP
8	12 (2.29%)	PRINCE2 Certification
9	8 (1.52%)	CCNP
10	7 (1.33%)	PRINCE2 Practitioner
11	6 (1.14%)	Computer Science Degree
12	5 (0.95%)	BPSS Clearance
12	5 (0.95%)	MCSA
12	5 (0.95%)	VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13	4 (0.76%)	ISEB
13	4 (0.76%)	MCDST
14	3 (0.57%)	MOS

Quality Assurance & Compliance
1	71 (13.52%)	SLA
2	16 (3.05%)	ISO/IEC 27001
3	12 (2.29%)	QA
4	10 (1.90%)	PMO
5	6 (1.14%)	COBIT
5	6 (1.14%)	Disclosure Scotland
6	4 (0.76%)	ISO/IEC 20000
7	3 (0.57%)	GAMP
7	3 (0.57%)	GxP
7	3 (0.57%)	PCI DSS
8	2 (0.38%)	HL7
8	2 (0.38%)	ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
8	2 (0.38%)	ISO/IEC 27005
8	2 (0.38%)	PMBOK
9	1 (0.19%)	Data Quality
9	1 (0.19%)	EFQM
9	1 (0.19%)	ISO 22301
9	1 (0.19%)	ISO 9000

System Software
1	78 (14.86%)	Active Directory
2	19 (3.62%)	VMware Infrastructure
3	15 (2.86%)	vSphere
4	10 (1.90%)	XenApp
5	8 (1.52%)	Virtual Desktop
6	7 (1.33%)	Hyper-V
7	5 (0.95%)	BitLocker
8	4 (0.76%)	Docker
8	4 (0.76%)	XenDesktop
9	3 (0.57%)	Virtual Servers
10	2 (0.38%)	DFS Replication
10	2 (0.38%)	Microsoft Virtual Server
10	2 (0.38%)	Terminal Services
10	2 (0.38%)	Virtual Machines
11	1 (0.19%)	KVM
11	1 (0.19%)	Oracle RAC
11	1 (0.19%)	VMware ESXi
11	1 (0.19%)	XenServer

Systems Management
1	26 (4.95%)	SCCM
2	11 (2.10%)	SCOM
3	6 (1.14%)	Microsoft Clustering
4	5 (0.95%)	Microsoft Intune
4	5 (0.95%)	vCenter Server
5	3 (0.57%)	AirWatch
5	3 (0.57%)	Puppet
5	3 (0.57%)	Tivoli
6	2 (0.38%)	NetBackup
6	2 (0.38%)	Terraform
7	1 (0.19%)	Ansible
7	1 (0.19%)	Cacti
7	1 (0.19%)	Nagios
7	1 (0.19%)	Opscode Chef
7	1 (0.19%)	ServiceCenter

Vendors
1	128 (24.38%)	Microsoft
2	45 (8.57%)	Cisco
3	33 (6.29%)	Remedy
4	32 (6.10%)	HP
5	30 (5.71%)	ServiceNow
5	30 (5.71%)	VMware
6	24 (4.57%)	Citrix
7	16 (3.05%)	BMC
8	13 (2.48%)	Oracle
9	12 (2.29%)	LANDesk
10	10 (1.90%)	SolarWinds
11	9 (1.71%)	SAP
12	7 (1.33%)	EMC
13	6 (1.14%)	CheckPoint
13	6 (1.14%)	Dell
13	6 (1.14%)	Intel
13	6 (1.14%)	NetApp
14	5 (0.95%)	Google
15	4 (0.76%)	Apple
15	4 (0.76%)	Fortinet