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 3 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 44 37
Rank change year-on-year -7 -7 +6
Contract jobs citing ITIL 1,639 1,176 1,764
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.05% 4.82% 4.76%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.77% 5.29% 5.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,104 720 1,187
10th Percentile £213 £210 £205
25th Percentile £375 £309 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £466 £499
Median % change year-on-year +7.35% -6.66% +5.05%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £588
90th Percentile £694 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £495 £459 £493
% change year-on-year +7.86% -6.91% +5.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 68 148
10th Percentile £17.64 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.25 £14.16
Median hourly rate £28.88 £21.63 £17.69
Median % change year-on-year +33.55% +22.24% -6.89%
75th Percentile £82.25 £30.68 £23.97
90th Percentile £99.75 £43.39 £46.18
UK median hourly rate £22.50 £22.03 £17.69
% change year-on-year +2.16% +24.51% -8.74%

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 34,370 22,228 32,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.91% 91.19% 86.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,972 14,556 21,057
10th Percentile £316 £309 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £615 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,137 921 2,257
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.70 £12.97
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +50.00% -16.67% -3.59%
75th Percentile £67.50 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £41.56 £29.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year +43.29% -18.31% -1.39%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 3 May 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 -24 504 £500 - 168
South East +4 387 £490 +5.95% 191
North of England -23 252 £482 +39.64% 111
South West -9 213 £591 +25.74% 56
North West -10 164 £538 +50.14% 55
Midlands -24 162 £438 -2.78% 81
West Midlands -21 131 £450 - 50
East of England -7 96 £400 -5.88% 84
Yorkshire -43 66 £468 +33.71% 45
East Midlands -23 30 £419 +30.86% 31
North East -7 22 £425 +117.95% 12
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 80 (4.88%) Confluence
2 67 (4.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 61 (3.72%) SharePoint
4 16 (0.98%) IIS
5 8 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.43%) Apache
7 6 (0.37%) Mattermost
7 6 (0.37%) Oracle Self-Service HR
8 4 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.24%) CMS
8 4 (0.24%) SAS
9 3 (0.18%) CICS
10 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.12%) WebSphere Portal
11 1 (0.061%) Mule
Applications
1 86 (5.25%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (3.42%) Microsoft Project
3 28 (1.71%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (0.92%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.37%) Chatbot
7 5 (0.31%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.18%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.18%) Revit
9 1 (0.061%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.061%) Trello
Business Applications
1 41 (2.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (0.61%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.37%) Maximo
3 6 (0.37%) Oracle HRMS
3 6 (0.37%) Primavera
4 5 (0.31%) Oracle Payables
4 5 (0.31%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.24%) assyst
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
6 3 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.12%) DELMIA
7 2 (0.12%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle Cash Management
8 1 (0.061%) Bloomberg TOMS
8 1 (0.061%) Eloqua
8 1 (0.061%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.061%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.061%) Remedy AR System
8 1 (0.061%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 377 (23.00%) Azure
2 216 (13.18%) Microsoft 365
3 205 (12.51%) AWS
4 107 (6.53%) Entra ID
5 84 (5.13%) GCP
6 73 (4.45%) Power Platform
7 63 (3.84%) Azure DevOps
8 62 (3.78%) SaaS
9 41 (2.50%) GitHub
10 32 (1.95%) PaaS
11 31 (1.89%) Google Workspace
11 31 (1.89%) IaaS
12 25 (1.53%) Serverless
13 24 (1.46%) AWS Lambda
14 21 (1.28%) Amazon S3
14 21 (1.28%) AWS CloudFormation
15 20 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 20 (1.22%) OCI
16 19 (1.16%) Amazon EKS
16 19 (1.16%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 147 (8.97%) Firewall
2 105 (6.41%) DNS
3 94 (5.74%) VPN
4 92 (5.61%) WAN
5 83 (5.06%) LAN
6 67 (4.09%) DHCP
7 57 (3.48%) Network Security
8 55 (3.36%) TCP/IP
9 50 (3.05%) SD-WAN
10 41 (2.50%) Wi-Fi
11 33 (2.01%) SAN
12 30 (1.83%) BGP
13 28 (1.71%) OSPF
14 23 (1.40%) SSL
15 20 (1.22%) VoIP
16 19 (1.16%) BIG-IP
17 18 (1.10%) VLAN
18 17 (1.04%) Wireless
19 15 (0.92%) NAS
20 14 (0.85%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (3.36%) Power BI
2 50 (3.05%) SQL Server
3 16 (0.98%) Oracle Database
4 15 (0.92%) Tableau
5 14 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (0.79%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (0.73%) Amazon RDS
8 11 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
9 8 (0.49%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 7 (0.43%) Metadata
11 5 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.31%) DB2
11 5 (0.31%) MySQL
11 5 (0.31%) Oracle Database 12c
11 5 (0.31%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.24%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.24%) DTS
12 4 (0.24%) Oracle BI EE
12 4 (0.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 189 (11.53%) JIRA
2 32 (1.95%) Jenkins
3 30 (1.83%) GitLab
4 22 (1.34%) Git
5 11 (0.67%) Bitbucket
6 9 (0.55%) MSI
7 5 (0.31%) AdminStudio
7 5 (0.31%) InstallShield
8 4 (0.24%) JMeter
8 4 (0.24%) Maven
8 4 (0.24%) MLflow
8 4 (0.24%) ScriptRunner
9 3 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.18%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (0.18%) Flyway
9 3 (0.18%) IBM UrbanCode
10 2 (0.12%) Chocolatey
10 2 (0.12%) git-flow
10 2 (0.12%) IntelliJ
10 2 (0.12%) Introscope
General
1 610 (37.22%) Social Skills
2 268 (16.35%) Finance
3 260 (15.86%) Analytical Skills
4 181 (11.04%) Public Sector
5 66 (4.03%) Banking
6 62 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
7 57 (3.48%) Military
8 56 (3.42%) Telecoms
9 54 (3.29%) Legal
10 36 (2.20%) Documentation Skills
11 35 (2.14%) Influencing Skills
12 28 (1.71%) Retail
13 22 (1.34%) Law
14 20 (1.22%) Aerospace
15 17 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
16 15 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 15 (0.92%) Local Government
16 15 (0.92%) Police
17 13 (0.79%) Investment Banking
18 11 (0.67%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 216 (13.18%) Analyst
2 168 (10.25%) Architect
3 149 (9.09%) Lead
4 135 (8.24%) Service Manager
5 128 (7.81%) Senior
6 95 (5.80%) IT Support
7 85 (5.19%) Support Engineer
8 78 (4.76%) Service Analyst
9 74 (4.51%) IT Manager
10 66 (4.03%) Consultant
11 57 (3.48%) Delivery Manager
12 50 (3.05%) IT Analyst
13 49 (2.99%) Support Analyst
14 48 (2.93%) Infrastructure Engineer
14 48 (2.93%) Service Architect
14 48 (2.93%) Service Desk Analyst
15 46 (2.81%) Network Engineer
16 42 (2.56%) IT Engineer
17 41 (2.50%) Change Manager
17 41 (2.50%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 66 (4.03%) REST
2 37 (2.26%) SOAP
3 25 (1.53%) .NET
4 20 (1.22%) Middleware
5 19 (1.16%) CSS
5 19 (1.16%) LDAP
5 19 (1.16%) Oracle Fusion
5 19 (1.16%) Web Services
6 15 (0.92%) Oracle GoldenGate
7 14 (0.85%) 802.1X
7 14 (0.85%) OAuth
8 13 (0.79%) HTML
9 11 (0.67%) Kafka
9 11 (0.67%) SAML
10 10 (0.61%) AngularJS
10 10 (0.61%) Microsoft Graph
10 10 (0.61%) OAuth2
11 9 (0.55%) AWS CDK
12 8 (0.49%) ARM Templates
12 8 (0.49%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 100 (6.10%) CMDB
2 97 (5.92%) Onboarding
3 94 (5.74%) Product Ownership
4 79 (4.82%) Data Centre
5 52 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
6 39 (2.38%) Management Information System
7 35 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
8 34 (2.07%) Replication
9 33 (2.01%) PKI
10 31 (1.89%) Cloud Native
10 31 (1.89%) Virtual Team
11 29 (1.77%) Clustering
12 27 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
13 24 (1.46%) Security Posture
14 23 (1.40%) Hybrid Cloud
15 20 (1.22%) Mainframe
16 19 (1.16%) Driving Licence
17 15 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
17 15 (0.92%) Smartphone
18 14 (0.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 362 (22.09%) Windows
2 102 (6.22%) Linux
3 98 (5.98%) Windows Server
4 94 (5.74%) Windows 10
5 47 (2.87%) Unix
6 31 (1.89%) Mac OS
7 28 (1.71%) Android
7 28 (1.71%) Apple iOS
8 25 (1.53%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 13 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
10 10 (0.61%) Ubuntu
10 10 (0.61%) Windows Server 2019
10 10 (0.61%) zOS
11 9 (0.55%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.43%) AIX
13 6 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
14 5 (0.31%) Solaris
15 4 (0.24%) HPUX
15 4 (0.24%) SUSE
15 4 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 549 (33.50%) Service Management
2 453 (27.64%) ITSM
3 388 (23.67%) Agile
4 362 (22.09%) Problem-Solving
5 301 (18.36%) Change Management
5 301 (18.36%) Continuous Improvement
6 289 (17.63%) Stakeholder Management
7 243 (14.83%) Service Delivery
8 200 (12.20%) DevOps
9 194 (11.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 162 (9.88%) Roadmaps
11 160 (9.76%) Customer Service
12 141 (8.60%) Problem Management
12 141 (8.60%) Service Design
13 139 (8.48%) Incident Management
14 133 (8.11%) Migration
15 122 (7.44%) Root Cause Analysis
16 118 (7.20%) CI/CD
17 114 (6.96%) Project Management
18 109 (6.65%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 131 (7.99%) PowerShell
2 99 (6.04%) SQL
3 60 (3.66%) Python
4 47 (2.87%) JavaScript
5 30 (1.83%) Bash
6 22 (1.34%) Java
7 21 (1.28%) Shell Script
8 16 (0.98%) Korn
9 15 (0.92%) Bicep
10 12 (0.73%) C#
10 12 (0.73%) PL/SQL
11 10 (0.61%) JCL
11 10 (0.61%) REXX
12 9 (0.55%) Groovy
12 9 (0.55%) Perl
13 6 (0.37%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.18%) Assembly Language
14 3 (0.18%) COBOL
14 3 (0.18%) Go
14 3 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 603 (36.79%) Security Cleared
2 450 (27.46%) SC Cleared
3 216 (13.18%) Degree
4 155 (9.46%) DV Cleared
5 150 (9.15%) ITIL Certification
6 60 (3.66%) Microsoft Certification
7 59 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
8 57 (3.48%) PMI Certification
9 53 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
10 51 (3.11%) PMP
11 46 (2.81%) Azure Certification
12 43 (2.62%) CCNP
13 35 (2.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 34 (2.07%) TOGAF Certification
15 31 (1.89%) CISSP
16 24 (1.46%) ISEB
16 24 (1.46%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 19 (1.16%) AWS Certification
18 18 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
18 18 (1.10%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (8.11%) SLA
2 62 (3.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 50 (3.05%) NIST
4 41 (2.50%) COBIT
5 40 (2.44%) GDPR
6 39 (2.38%) Data Quality
7 31 (1.89%) QA
8 21 (1.28%) GRC
9 20 (1.22%) NCSC
10 19 (1.16%) Cyber Essentials
10 19 (1.16%) PMO
11 17 (1.04%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 13 (0.79%) PCI DSS
13 12 (0.73%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.55%) Accessibility
15 8 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 6 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 6 (0.37%) NIST 800
System Software
1 292 (17.82%) Active Directory
2 75 (4.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (2.32%) Docker
4 29 (1.77%) Hyper-V
5 28 (1.71%) Virtual Desktop
6 19 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (1.16%) vSphere
7 18 (1.10%) Oracle RAC
8 13 (0.79%) Firmware
9 10 (0.61%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.31%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 4 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.24%) XenApp
12 4 (0.24%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.18%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.18%) IAG
13 3 (0.18%) NFS
13 3 (0.18%) PowerHA
14 2 (0.12%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 108 (6.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 93 (5.67%) Terraform
3 76 (4.64%) Ansible
4 63 (3.84%) Kubernetes
4 63 (3.84%) SCCM
5 30 (1.83%) OPNET
6 23 (1.40%) Grafana
7 19 (1.16%) Oracle RMAN
8 18 (1.10%) Prometheus
9 17 (1.04%) WSUS
10 16 (0.98%) SCOM
10 16 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
11 15 (0.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 14 (0.85%) FortiGate
12 14 (0.85%) vCenter Server
13 9 (0.55%) Nessus
13 9 (0.55%) Red Hat Satellite
14 8 (0.49%) CASB
14 8 (0.49%) vMotion
15 7 (0.43%) vRealize
Vendors
1 391 (23.86%) Microsoft
2 371 (22.64%) ServiceNow
3 128 (7.81%) VMware
4 90 (5.49%) Remedy
5 84 (5.13%) Cisco
6 83 (5.06%) Oracle
7 56 (3.42%) Google
8 55 (3.36%) Splunk
9 45 (2.75%) Citrix
10 44 (2.68%) Atlassian
11 37 (2.26%) SAP
12 36 (2.20%) Palo Alto
13 32 (1.95%) Red Hat
14 31 (1.89%) Fortinet
15 29 (1.77%) SolarWinds
16 26 (1.59%) BMC
17 24 (1.46%) Dynatrace
17 24 (1.46%) Juniper
17 24 (1.46%) Zscaler
18 23 (1.40%) IBM