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 21 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 45 43
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 -1
Contract jobs citing ITIL 1,901 1,319 1,510
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.24% 4.84% 4.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.97% 5.34% 4.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,296 821 994
10th Percentile £200 £213 £205
25th Percentile £381 £325 £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 £659 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 102 93 109
10th Percentile £17.25 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.06 £16.50 £15.76
Median hourly rate £27.75 £26.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +6.73% +21.67% +22.11%
75th Percentile £82.25 £37.50 £25.00
90th Percentile £87.92 £59.24 £35.24
UK median hourly rate £22.21 £23.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year -3.46% +7.63% +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 38,258 24,707 30,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.32% 90.66% 85.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,997 15,833 19,804
10th Percentile £325 £300 £310
25th Percentile £421 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £645
90th Percentile £735 £745 £751
UK median daily rate £520 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -4.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,373 1,323 1,986
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.22 £13.25
25th Percentile £21.00 £17.88 £17.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.43%
75th Percentile £69.50 £53.75 £63.75
90th Percentile £83.00 £71.03 £74.22
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +74.79% -34.02% -10.31%

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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -11 629 £500 - 188
South East +4 484 £510 +3.66% 161
North of England -14 327 £477 +24.09% 124
North West -12 217 £478 +10.84% 78
South West -8 186 £500 +39.37% 60
Midlands -32 154 £450 +5.88% 60
West Midlands -34 126 £463 +8.82% 32
Yorkshire -26 96 £480 +37.14% 34
East of England +1 92 £425 -2.86% 60
East Midlands -7 27 £413 -8.33% 28
North East -35 15 £440 +125.64% 15
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
1 132 (6.94%) SharePoint
2 75 (3.95%) Microsoft Exchange
3 57 (3.00%) 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%) Apache
9 3 (0.16%) CMS
9 3 (0.16%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.11%) JBoss
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 76 (4.00%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (2.68%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 17 (0.89%) 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 60 (3.16%) 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%) Dynamics CRM
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 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
1 462 (24.30%) Azure
2 317 (16.68%) Microsoft 365
3 205 (10.78%) AWS
4 167 (8.78%) Entra ID
5 94 (4.94%) Power Platform
6 81 (4.26%) SaaS
7 69 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
8 57 (3.00%) GitHub
9 51 (2.68%) OneDrive
10 49 (2.58%) GCP
11 32 (1.68%) Azure Monitor
12 29 (1.53%) PaaS
13 27 (1.42%) AWS Lambda
13 27 (1.42%) Datadog
13 27 (1.42%) IaaS
13 27 (1.42%) Serverless
14 26 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 25 (1.32%) Amazon S3
15 25 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
16 23 (1.21%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 174 (9.15%) Firewall
2 154 (8.10%) DNS
3 114 (6.00%) VPN
4 102 (5.37%) DHCP
5 96 (5.05%) WAN
6 95 (5.00%) LAN
7 93 (4.89%) TCP/IP
8 71 (3.73%) Network Security
9 56 (2.95%) Wi-Fi
10 49 (2.58%) SSL
11 43 (2.26%) BGP
11 43 (2.26%) OSPF
12 41 (2.16%) SD-WAN
13 36 (1.89%) SAN
14 35 (1.84%) Wireless
15 28 (1.47%) Cisco ASA
16 26 (1.37%) Cisco Firepower
16 26 (1.37%) VLAN
17 20 (1.05%) NAS
18 19 (1.00%) BIG-IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (4.16%) Power BI
2 69 (3.63%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.32%) Oracle Database
4 20 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 13 (0.68%) Amazon RDS
6 12 (0.63%) Oracle Reports
6 12 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (0.58%) 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 6 (0.32%) Db2
13 5 (0.26%) Oracle BI EE
14 4 (0.21%) DTS
14 4 (0.21%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 191 (10.05%) JIRA
2 37 (1.95%) Git
3 31 (1.63%) Jenkins
4 28 (1.47%) GitLab
5 16 (0.84%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.42%) MSI
7 5 (0.26%) Maven
8 4 (0.21%) AdminStudio
8 4 (0.21%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.21%) Browser DevTools
8 4 (0.21%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.21%) Eclipse
8 4 (0.21%) InstallShield
8 4 (0.21%) MLflow
8 4 (0.21%) Postman
8 4 (0.21%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.21%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (0.16%) Chocolatey
9 3 (0.16%) Flyway
9 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 751 (39.51%) Social Skills
2 338 (17.78%) Finance
3 303 (15.94%) Analytical Skills
4 206 (10.84%) Public Sector
5 99 (5.21%) Banking
6 81 (4.26%) Telecoms
7 73 (3.84%) Organisational Skills
8 67 (3.52%) Legal
9 58 (3.05%) Influencing Skills
10 40 (2.10%) Documentation Skills
11 32 (1.68%) Retail
12 26 (1.37%) Local Government
12 26 (1.37%) Military
12 26 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (1.05%) Aerospace
13 20 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 17 (0.89%) Financial Institution
15 16 (0.84%) Police
16 13 (0.68%) Law
17 12 (0.63%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 275 (14.47%) Analyst
2 162 (8.52%) Senior
3 148 (7.79%) IT Support
4 143 (7.52%) Service Manager
5 130 (6.84%) Support Engineer
6 126 (6.63%) Lead
7 124 (6.52%) Architect
8 96 (5.05%) IT Manager
9 89 (4.68%) Service Analyst
10 78 (4.10%) Consultant
11 76 (4.00%) IT Analyst
12 74 (3.89%) IT Engineer
13 68 (3.58%) Network Engineer
14 67 (3.52%) IT Support Engineer
15 66 (3.47%) Support Analyst
16 63 (3.31%) Delivery Manager
17 61 (3.21%) Project Manager
18 56 (2.95%) Transition Manager
19 53 (2.79%) Administrator
20 51 (2.68%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (5.73%) REST
2 59 (3.10%) SOAP
3 34 (1.79%) Middleware
4 28 (1.47%) Web Services
5 26 (1.37%) CSS
5 26 (1.37%) LDAP
6 23 (1.21%) HTML
7 22 (1.16%) .NET
8 21 (1.10%) OAuth
8 21 (1.10%) SAML
9 16 (0.84%) 802.1X
9 16 (0.84%) ISPF
9 16 (0.84%) Oracle Fusion
10 15 (0.79%) Ajax
10 15 (0.79%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
12 13 (0.68%) OpenID
13 12 (0.63%) AWS CDK
14 11 (0.58%) OAuth2
15 10 (0.53%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 146 (7.68%) Onboarding
2 141 (7.42%) CMDB
3 106 (5.58%) Data Centre
4 76 (4.00%) Product Ownership
5 66 (3.47%) Enterprise Software
6 58 (3.05%) Management Information System
7 53 (2.79%) Clustering
8 50 (2.63%) PKI
9 39 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
10 32 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
11 31 (1.63%) Security Posture
12 30 (1.58%) Cloud Native
12 30 (1.58%) Driving Licence
12 30 (1.58%) Replication
13 28 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
13 28 (1.47%) Mainframe
14 25 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
15 20 (1.05%) Virtual Team
16 14 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
17 13 (0.68%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 464 (24.41%) Windows
2 133 (7.00%) Linux
3 116 (6.10%) Windows 10
4 99 (5.21%) Windows Server
5 72 (3.79%) Unix
6 53 (2.79%) Mac OS
7 46 (2.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 37 (1.95%) Apple iOS
9 27 (1.42%) Android
10 17 (0.89%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (0.89%) zOS
11 14 (0.74%) AIX
12 11 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
13 8 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
14 7 (0.37%) Solaris
14 7 (0.37%) VMS
15 5 (0.26%) HPUX
15 5 (0.26%) SUSE
16 4 (0.21%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 644 (33.88%) Service Management
2 547 (28.77%) ITSM
3 473 (24.88%) Problem-Solving
4 432 (22.72%) Stakeholder Management
5 415 (21.83%) Agile
6 380 (19.99%) Continuous Improvement
7 333 (17.52%) Change Management
8 312 (16.41%) Service Delivery
9 217 (11.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 211 (11.10%) DevOps
11 204 (10.73%) Customer Service
12 193 (10.15%) Incident Management
13 174 (9.15%) Roadmaps
14 165 (8.68%) Problem Management
15 160 (8.42%) Project Delivery
16 147 (7.73%) Root Cause Analysis
17 144 (7.57%) AI
18 140 (7.36%) Migration
18 140 (7.36%) Service Design
19 132 (6.94%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 165 (8.68%) PowerShell
2 119 (6.26%) SQL
3 92 (4.84%) Python
4 76 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 45 (2.37%) Bash
6 25 (1.32%) Java
7 21 (1.10%) PL/SQL
8 20 (1.05%) Shell Script
9 16 (0.84%) Bicep
9 16 (0.84%) Korn
10 14 (0.74%) C#
11 12 (0.63%) Perl
12 10 (0.53%) Groovy
12 10 (0.53%) T-SQL
13 7 (0.37%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.21%) JCL
14 4 (0.21%) REXX
14 4 (0.21%) TypeScript
15 3 (0.16%) SOQL
15 3 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 680 (35.77%) Security Cleared
2 462 (24.30%) SC Cleared
3 244 (12.84%) Degree
4 204 (10.73%) DV Cleared
5 151 (7.94%) ITIL Certification
6 73 (3.84%) PMI Certification
7 71 (3.73%) Microsoft Certification
8 70 (3.68%) PMP
9 64 (3.37%) Cisco Certification
10 63 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
11 50 (2.63%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 48 (2.52%) Azure Certification
13 44 (2.31%) CISSP
14 43 (2.26%) CCNP
15 32 (1.68%) BPSS Clearance
16 28 (1.47%) CCNA
17 25 (1.32%) A+ Certification
18 23 (1.21%) Master's Degree
19 22 (1.16%) MCSE
20 21 (1.10%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 177 (9.31%) SLA
2 73 (3.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 56 (2.95%) NIST
4 51 (2.68%) Data Quality
5 39 (2.05%) QA
6 37 (1.95%) GDPR
7 35 (1.84%) COBIT
8 31 (1.63%) PMO
9 30 (1.58%) NCSC
10 28 (1.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 27 (1.42%) GRC
12 11 (0.58%) ISO 9001
12 11 (0.58%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
15 7 (0.37%) Accessibility
16 6 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
17 5 (0.26%) SOC 2
18 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 360 (18.94%) Active Directory
2 91 (4.79%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (1.84%) Docker
4 31 (1.63%) Oracle RAC
5 25 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
6 21 (1.10%) Hyper-V
7 20 (1.05%) Virtual Machines
7 20 (1.05%) VMware NSX
8 19 (1.00%) Firmware
9 17 (0.89%) vSphere
10 16 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
11 14 (0.74%) RACF
12 13 (0.68%) IAG
13 10 (0.53%) NFS
14 6 (0.32%) PowerHA
15 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
16 3 (0.16%) OpenAM
16 3 (0.16%) XenDesktop
17 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
17 2 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 169 (8.89%) Microsoft Intune
2 89 (4.68%) Terraform
3 86 (4.52%) Ansible
4 76 (4.00%) SCCM
5 58 (3.05%) Kubernetes
6 26 (1.37%) Oracle RMAN
7 21 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.00%) Data Guard
8 19 (1.00%) SCOM
9 18 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
10 16 (0.84%) Grafana
10 16 (0.84%) vCenter Server
11 15 (0.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 13 (0.68%) OMEGAMON
12 13 (0.68%) Red Hat Satellite
12 13 (0.68%) WSUS
13 12 (0.63%) FortiGate
14 11 (0.58%) Prometheus
15 10 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 9 (0.47%) CASB
Vendors
1 525 (27.62%) Microsoft
2 521 (27.41%) ServiceNow
3 135 (7.10%) VMware
4 108 (5.68%) Cisco
5 93 (4.89%) Oracle
6 76 (4.00%) Remedy
7 58 (3.05%) Splunk
8 49 (2.58%) Palo Alto
9 43 (2.26%) IBM
10 42 (2.21%) SolarWinds
11 41 (2.16%) SAP
12 37 (1.95%) Citrix
13 36 (1.89%) BMC
14 34 (1.79%) Juniper
15 32 (1.68%) Red Hat
16 31 (1.63%) Dynatrace
17 29 (1.53%) Fortinet
18 26 (1.37%) F5
19 25 (1.32%) Apple
19 25 (1.32%) Salesforce