ITIL Contract Job Trends in England

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring ITIL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 42 39
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +4
Contract jobs citing ITIL 1,904 1,324 1,574
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.22% 4.85% 4.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.94% 5.35% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,301 815 1,045
10th Percentile £200 £213 £205
25th Percentile £377 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £580
90th Percentile £675 £658 £667
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 103 92 119
10th Percentile £17.25 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.81 £16.45 £15.63
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.58 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +7.53% +19.68% +22.11%
75th Percentile £80.40 £34.88 £25.00
90th Percentile £87.80 £58.63 £43.54
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £22.53 £21.37
% change year-on-year -2.33% +5.40% +20.06%

All Process & Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 38,560 24,752 31,552
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.53% 90.73% 85.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,293 15,918 20,488
10th Percentile £325 £300 £308
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £514 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.14% -2.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £733 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £518 £501 £525
% change year-on-year +3.40% -4.67% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,394 1,279 2,235
10th Percentile £15.35 £14.28 £13.00
25th Percentile £20.87 £17.99 £16.25
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.09%
75th Percentile £68.75 £54.88 £62.50
90th Percentile £82.85 £72.50 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -4.70%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ITIL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

ITIL job vacancy trend in England

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ITIL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ITIL

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in England over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in England

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ITIL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ITIL

ITIL
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITIL in England over the 6 months to 12 July 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ITIL in England

ITIL
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 within the England region over the 6 months to 12 July 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
London -14 618 £500 - 194
South East +8 475 £510 +13.28% 226
North of England -11 335 £480 +25.00% 146
North West -9 218 £491 +15.59% 93
South West -10 192 £500 +26.98% 84
Midlands -35 154 £450 +5.88% 66
West Midlands -44 124 £450 +5.88% 34
Yorkshire -23 103 £480 +30.08% 35
East of England -2 99 £425 - 51
East Midlands -6 29 £413 -9.84% 32
North East -29 15 £440 +125.64% 20
ITIL
UK

ITIL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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
1 124 (6.51%) SharePoint
2 73 (3.83%) Microsoft Exchange
3 62 (3.26%) Confluence
4 11 (0.58%) IIS
5 9 (0.47%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.32%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.32%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 6 (0.32%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.26%) SAS
8 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.21%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.16%) CMS
9 3 (0.16%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.11%) Apache
10 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 72 (3.78%) Microsoft Office
2 48 (2.52%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (1.52%) Microsoft Project
4 22 (1.16%) MS Visio
5 14 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.53%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.42%) Revit
8 7 (0.37%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.053%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.053%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 61 (3.20%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.42%) ContrOCC
3 6 (0.32%) Oracle HRMS
3 6 (0.32%) Primavera
4 5 (0.26%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.11%) assyst
7 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.11%) Remedy AR System
7 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.053%) Eloqua
Cloud Services
1 452 (23.74%) Azure
2 317 (16.65%) Microsoft 365
3 206 (10.82%) AWS
4 153 (8.04%) Entra ID
5 95 (4.99%) Power Platform
6 79 (4.15%) SaaS
7 67 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (2.78%) GitHub
9 52 (2.73%) GCP
10 44 (2.31%) OneDrive
11 30 (1.58%) PaaS
12 26 (1.37%) IaaS
13 25 (1.31%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (1.31%) AWS Lambda
13 25 (1.31%) Azure Monitor
13 25 (1.31%) Datadog
13 25 (1.31%) Serverless
14 24 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
15 23 (1.21%) Amazon S3
15 23 (1.21%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 170 (8.93%) Firewall
2 138 (7.25%) DNS
3 107 (5.62%) VPN
4 98 (5.15%) WAN
5 94 (4.94%) LAN
6 87 (4.57%) DHCP
7 83 (4.36%) TCP/IP
8 66 (3.47%) Network Security
9 54 (2.84%) Wi-Fi
10 47 (2.47%) SSL
11 46 (2.42%) SD-WAN
12 43 (2.26%) BGP
12 43 (2.26%) OSPF
13 34 (1.79%) Wireless
14 32 (1.68%) SAN
15 27 (1.42%) Cisco ASA
16 25 (1.31%) Cisco Firepower
16 25 (1.31%) VLAN
17 21 (1.10%) BIG-IP
18 20 (1.05%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (4.15%) Power BI
2 65 (3.41%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.31%) Oracle Database
4 20 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 13 (0.68%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (0.63%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
7 11 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (0.53%) MySQL
8 10 (0.53%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (0.47%) Relational Database
10 8 (0.42%) NoSQL
11 7 (0.37%) Metadata
11 7 (0.37%) Oracle Database 11g
11 7 (0.37%) Oracle Database 12c
11 7 (0.37%) Tableau
12 5 (0.26%) Db2
12 5 (0.26%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.26%) Oracle BI EE
13 4 (0.21%) DTS
Development Applications
1 196 (10.29%) JIRA
2 36 (1.89%) Git
3 30 (1.58%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.42%) GitLab
5 16 (0.84%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.42%) MSI
7 4 (0.21%) AdminStudio
7 4 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.21%) Browser DevTools
7 4 (0.21%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.21%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.21%) InstallShield
7 4 (0.21%) Maven
7 4 (0.21%) MLflow
7 4 (0.21%) Postman
7 4 (0.21%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.21%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (0.16%) Chocolatey
8 3 (0.16%) Flyway
8 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 736 (38.66%) Social Skills
2 338 (17.75%) Finance
3 300 (15.76%) Analytical Skills
4 208 (10.92%) Public Sector
5 99 (5.20%) Banking
6 85 (4.46%) Telecoms
7 78 (4.10%) Organisational Skills
8 66 (3.47%) Legal
9 57 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
10 38 (2.00%) Retail
11 37 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
12 27 (1.42%) Local Government
13 26 (1.37%) Military
13 26 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
14 20 (1.05%) Aerospace
15 18 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 17 (0.89%) Financial Institution
17 16 (0.84%) Police
18 15 (0.79%) Law
19 13 (0.68%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 277 (14.55%) Analyst
2 155 (8.14%) Senior
3 153 (8.04%) IT Support
4 143 (7.51%) Service Manager
5 131 (6.88%) Support Engineer
6 125 (6.57%) Architect
7 123 (6.46%) Lead
8 96 (5.04%) IT Manager
9 91 (4.78%) Service Analyst
10 85 (4.46%) Consultant
11 76 (3.99%) IT Analyst
12 75 (3.94%) IT Engineer
13 69 (3.62%) IT Support Engineer
13 69 (3.62%) Network Engineer
14 65 (3.41%) Support Analyst
15 63 (3.31%) Delivery Manager
16 61 (3.20%) Project Manager
17 54 (2.84%) Service Desk Analyst
18 53 (2.78%) Administrator
19 52 (2.73%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (5.41%) REST
2 55 (2.89%) SOAP
3 35 (1.84%) Middleware
4 25 (1.31%) LDAP
4 25 (1.31%) Web Services
5 24 (1.26%) CSS
6 22 (1.16%) .NET
7 21 (1.10%) HTML
7 21 (1.10%) OAuth
8 18 (0.95%) SAML
9 16 (0.84%) 802.1X
9 16 (0.84%) ISPF
9 16 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
10 15 (0.79%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 14 (0.74%) Ajax
11 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
12 13 (0.68%) OpenID
13 12 (0.63%) AWS CDK
14 11 (0.58%) OAuth2
15 9 (0.47%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 141 (7.41%) CMDB
2 139 (7.30%) Onboarding
3 104 (5.46%) Data Centre
4 73 (3.83%) Product Ownership
5 65 (3.41%) Enterprise Software
6 54 (2.84%) Management Information System
7 48 (2.52%) Clustering
8 47 (2.47%) PKI
9 41 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
10 32 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
11 31 (1.63%) Cloud Native
11 31 (1.63%) Security Posture
12 30 (1.58%) Driving Licence
12 30 (1.58%) Replication
13 29 (1.52%) Mainframe
14 25 (1.31%) Legacy Systems
15 23 (1.21%) Hybrid Cloud
16 22 (1.16%) Virtual Team
17 13 (0.68%) Distributed Systems
17 13 (0.68%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 453 (23.79%) Windows
2 127 (6.67%) Linux
3 118 (6.20%) Windows 10
4 89 (4.67%) Windows Server
5 68 (3.57%) Unix
6 52 (2.73%) Mac OS
7 42 (2.21%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 39 (2.05%) Apple iOS
9 28 (1.47%) Android
10 17 (0.89%) zOS
11 15 (0.79%) Windows Server 2019
12 11 (0.58%) AIX
13 10 (0.53%) Windows Server 2016
14 8 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
14 8 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
15 7 (0.37%) Solaris
15 7 (0.37%) VMS
16 5 (0.26%) HPUX
16 5 (0.26%) SUSE
17 4 (0.21%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 622 (32.67%) Service Management
2 546 (28.68%) ITSM
3 481 (25.26%) Problem-Solving
4 422 (22.16%) Stakeholder Management
5 417 (21.90%) Agile
6 367 (19.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 318 (16.70%) Change Management
8 304 (15.97%) Service Delivery
9 223 (11.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 208 (10.92%) DevOps
11 202 (10.61%) Customer Service
12 190 (9.98%) Incident Management
13 177 (9.30%) Roadmaps
14 159 (8.35%) Problem Management
15 151 (7.93%) Project Delivery
16 145 (7.62%) AI
17 142 (7.46%) Migration
18 138 (7.25%) Service Design
19 136 (7.14%) Root Cause Analysis
20 123 (6.46%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 156 (8.19%) PowerShell
2 118 (6.20%) SQL
3 84 (4.41%) Python
4 73 (3.83%) JavaScript
5 36 (1.89%) Bash
6 26 (1.37%) Java
7 21 (1.10%) PL/SQL
8 20 (1.05%) Shell Script
9 16 (0.84%) Korn
10 14 (0.74%) C#
11 10 (0.53%) Bicep
11 10 (0.53%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.47%) Groovy
12 9 (0.47%) Perl
13 7 (0.37%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.21%) JCL
14 4 (0.21%) REXX
15 3 (0.16%) SOQL
15 3 (0.16%) TypeScript
15 3 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 665 (34.93%) Security Cleared
2 454 (23.84%) SC Cleared
3 244 (12.82%) Degree
4 199 (10.45%) DV Cleared
5 150 (7.88%) ITIL Certification
6 74 (3.89%) PMI Certification
7 69 (3.62%) Microsoft Certification
8 68 (3.57%) PMP
9 67 (3.52%) Cisco Certification
9 67 (3.52%) Computer Science Degree
10 47 (2.47%) Azure Certification
10 47 (2.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 46 (2.42%) CCNP
12 41 (2.15%) CISSP
13 30 (1.58%) BPSS Clearance
14 29 (1.52%) CCNA
15 24 (1.26%) Master's Degree
16 23 (1.21%) A+ Certification
17 21 (1.10%) MCSE
18 20 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 178 (9.35%) SLA
2 75 (3.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 54 (2.84%) Data Quality
3 54 (2.84%) NIST
4 41 (2.15%) GDPR
5 39 (2.05%) QA
6 36 (1.89%) COBIT
7 30 (1.58%) NCSC
7 30 (1.58%) PMO
8 27 (1.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 26 (1.37%) GRC
10 13 (0.68%) PCI DSS
11 10 (0.53%) ISO 9001
12 9 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
13 7 (0.37%) Accessibility
13 7 (0.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 5 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 42001
14 5 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 352 (18.49%) Active Directory
2 89 (4.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (1.79%) Docker
4 30 (1.58%) Oracle RAC
5 23 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
6 22 (1.16%) Hyper-V
7 19 (1.00%) Virtual Machines
7 19 (1.00%) VMware NSX
8 16 (0.84%) Firmware
9 15 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
9 15 (0.79%) vSphere
10 14 (0.74%) RACF
11 10 (0.53%) IAG
12 9 (0.47%) NFS
13 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
14 3 (0.16%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.16%) OpenAM
14 3 (0.16%) PowerHA
14 3 (0.16%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 167 (8.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 81 (4.25%) Terraform
3 79 (4.15%) Ansible
4 76 (3.99%) SCCM
5 56 (2.94%) Kubernetes
6 26 (1.37%) Oracle RMAN
7 18 (0.95%) Data Guard
7 18 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
7 18 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (0.89%) Grafana
8 17 (0.89%) SCOM
9 15 (0.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 15 (0.79%) vCenter Server
10 14 (0.74%) WSUS
11 13 (0.68%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.68%) OMEGAMON
12 12 (0.63%) Prometheus
12 12 (0.63%) Red Hat Satellite
13 10 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 9 (0.47%) CASB
Vendors
1 512 (26.89%) Microsoft
2 510 (26.79%) ServiceNow
3 134 (7.04%) VMware
4 106 (5.57%) Cisco
5 92 (4.83%) Oracle
6 78 (4.10%) Remedy
7 59 (3.10%) Splunk
8 51 (2.68%) Palo Alto
9 43 (2.26%) SolarWinds
10 39 (2.05%) IBM
10 39 (2.05%) SAP
11 38 (2.00%) BMC
11 38 (2.00%) Citrix
12 36 (1.89%) Juniper
13 33 (1.73%) Dynatrace
14 30 (1.58%) Fortinet
14 30 (1.58%) Red Hat
15 28 (1.47%) F5
16 27 (1.42%) Google
17 26 (1.37%) Salesforce