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 5 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 44 43
Rank change year-on-year -4 -1 -1
Contract jobs citing ITIL 1,895 1,349 1,420
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.17% 4.89% 4.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.90% 5.39% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,282 842 935
10th Percentile £200 £214 £213
25th Percentile £376 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £459 £485
Median % change year-on-year +8.82% -5.26% -0.01%
75th Percentile £598 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £667
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 110 91 91
10th Percentile £17.25 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.56 £16.28
Median hourly rate £28.00 £26.00 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +7.69% +21.67% +22.11%
75th Percentile £78.10 £37.50 £26.72
90th Percentile £87.24 £59.30 £53.00
UK median hourly rate £24.86 £23.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +8.09% +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 38,695 25,047 28,792
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.19% 90.72% 85.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,133 16,039 18,801
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £758
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,478 1,391 1,685
10th Percentile £14.96 £14.20 £14.05
25th Percentile £20.69 £17.87 £18.16
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +78.93% -40.82% -
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.00 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £40.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -37.90% -4.71%

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 5 August 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 5 August 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 5 August 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 -10 638 £500 - 272
South East -3 478 £520 +4.00% 192
North of England -11 327 £463 +21.71% 153
North West -4 213 £455 +1.00% 86
South West -12 173 £500 +25.00% 69
Midlands -37 156 £450 +5.88% 83
West Midlands -34 133 £456 +7.29% 46
Yorkshire -27 102 £475 +36.30% 43
East of England +9 94 £425 +3.03% 57
East Midlands -9 22 £413 -5.50% 38
North East -32 15 £425 +117.95% 27
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 (6.97%) SharePoint
2 75 (3.96%) Microsoft Exchange
3 64 (3.38%) Confluence
4 11 (0.58%) IIS
5 8 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.32%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.32%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 6 (0.32%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.26%) JBoss
7 5 (0.26%) SAS
8 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.21%) CMS
8 4 (0.21%) WebLogic
9 3 (0.16%) Apache
9 3 (0.16%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
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 82 (4.33%) Microsoft Office
2 51 (2.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.11%) MS Visio
5 19 (1.00%) 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 62 (3.27%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.42%) ContrOCC
3 6 (0.32%) Oracle HRMS
3 6 (0.32%) Primavera
3 6 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.21%) Remedy AR System
5 3 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.11%) assyst
6 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.11%) NEC Housing
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.11%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.053%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 465 (24.54%) Azure
2 331 (17.47%) Microsoft 365
3 204 (10.77%) AWS
4 169 (8.92%) Entra ID
5 96 (5.07%) Power Platform
6 89 (4.70%) SaaS
7 74 (3.91%) Azure DevOps
8 56 (2.96%) GitHub
9 55 (2.90%) OneDrive
10 49 (2.59%) GCP
11 35 (1.85%) Azure Monitor
12 30 (1.58%) Datadog
13 28 (1.48%) PaaS
14 27 (1.42%) Serverless
15 26 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 26 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
16 25 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
17 24 (1.27%) Amazon S3
17 24 (1.27%) IaaS
17 24 (1.27%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 174 (9.18%) Firewall
2 167 (8.81%) DNS
3 122 (6.44%) VPN
4 116 (6.12%) DHCP
5 98 (5.17%) TCP/IP
5 98 (5.17%) WAN
6 93 (4.91%) LAN
7 76 (4.01%) Network Security
8 57 (3.01%) Wi-Fi
9 49 (2.59%) SSL
10 45 (2.37%) BGP
10 45 (2.37%) OSPF
11 42 (2.22%) SD-WAN
12 37 (1.95%) SAN
12 37 (1.95%) Wireless
13 29 (1.53%) VLAN
14 28 (1.48%) Cisco ASA
15 26 (1.37%) Cisco Firepower
16 19 (1.00%) Cisco Nexus
16 19 (1.00%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (4.12%) Power BI
2 76 (4.01%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.37%) Oracle Database
4 22 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 13 (0.69%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (0.69%) MySQL
6 12 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
8 9 (0.47%) Relational Database
8 9 (0.47%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (0.42%) NoSQL
10 7 (0.37%) Metadata
10 7 (0.37%) Oracle Database 11g
10 7 (0.37%) Oracle Database 12c
11 6 (0.32%) Db2
11 6 (0.32%) Tableau
12 5 (0.26%) Oracle BI EE
13 4 (0.21%) DTS
13 4 (0.21%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 190 (10.03%) JIRA
2 36 (1.90%) Git
3 31 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 28 (1.48%) GitLab
5 23 (1.21%) Bitbucket
6 11 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 8 (0.42%) MSI
8 5 (0.26%) Chocolatey
8 5 (0.26%) Maven
9 4 (0.21%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.21%) Browser DevTools
9 4 (0.21%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.21%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.21%) InstallShield
9 4 (0.21%) MLflow
9 4 (0.21%) Postman
9 4 (0.21%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.16%) Flyway
10 3 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 777 (41.00%) Social Skills
2 347 (18.31%) Finance
3 316 (16.68%) Analytical Skills
4 198 (10.45%) Public Sector
5 102 (5.38%) Banking
6 78 (4.12%) Telecoms
7 70 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
8 60 (3.17%) Legal
9 59 (3.11%) Influencing Skills
10 36 (1.90%) Documentation Skills
11 32 (1.69%) Retail
12 30 (1.58%) Presentation Skills
13 26 (1.37%) Military
14 25 (1.32%) Local Government
15 23 (1.21%) Aerospace
16 20 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 16 (0.84%) Financial Institution
17 16 (0.84%) Police
18 14 (0.74%) Law
19 13 (0.69%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 271 (14.30%) Analyst
2 175 (9.23%) Senior
3 149 (7.86%) IT Support
4 137 (7.23%) Support Engineer
5 134 (7.07%) Service Manager
6 132 (6.97%) Lead
7 115 (6.07%) Architect
8 89 (4.70%) IT Manager
9 87 (4.59%) Service Analyst
10 80 (4.22%) IT Engineer
11 77 (4.06%) Consultant
12 74 (3.91%) Network Engineer
13 71 (3.75%) IT Analyst
14 70 (3.69%) IT Support Engineer
15 68 (3.59%) Support Analyst
16 66 (3.48%) Delivery Manager
17 59 (3.11%) Project Manager
18 57 (3.01%) Transition Manager
19 54 (2.85%) Administrator
20 50 (2.64%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (5.86%) REST
2 59 (3.11%) SOAP
3 35 (1.85%) Middleware
4 30 (1.58%) Web Services
5 26 (1.37%) CSS
6 23 (1.21%) HTML
7 22 (1.16%) SAML
8 21 (1.11%) OAuth
9 20 (1.06%) .NET
10 18 (0.95%) LDAP
11 17 (0.90%) Oracle Fusion
12 16 (0.84%) 802.1X
12 16 (0.84%) Ajax
12 16 (0.84%) ISPF
13 15 (0.79%) Oracle GoldenGate
14 14 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
15 13 (0.69%) OpenID
16 12 (0.63%) AWS CDK
17 11 (0.58%) OAuth2
18 10 (0.53%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 162 (8.55%) Onboarding
2 145 (7.65%) CMDB
3 104 (5.49%) Data Centre
4 72 (3.80%) Enterprise Software
4 72 (3.80%) Product Ownership
5 61 (3.22%) Clustering
6 59 (3.11%) Management Information System
7 50 (2.64%) PKI
8 42 (2.22%) Self-Motivation
9 38 (2.01%) Hybrid Cloud
10 33 (1.74%) Analytical Mindset
11 32 (1.69%) Cloud Native
11 32 (1.69%) Replication
12 30 (1.58%) Driving Licence
12 30 (1.58%) Security Posture
13 28 (1.48%) Mainframe
14 25 (1.32%) Legacy Systems
15 18 (0.95%) Virtual Team
16 14 (0.74%) Distributed Systems
16 14 (0.74%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 486 (25.65%) Windows
2 138 (7.28%) Linux
3 120 (6.33%) Windows 10
4 116 (6.12%) Windows Server
5 71 (3.75%) Unix
6 50 (2.64%) Mac OS
6 50 (2.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 38 (2.01%) Apple iOS
8 28 (1.48%) Android
9 18 (0.95%) Windows Server 2019
10 17 (0.90%) zOS
11 15 (0.79%) AIX
12 11 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
13 8 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
14 7 (0.37%) Solaris
14 7 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
15 6 (0.32%) VMS
16 5 (0.26%) HPUX
16 5 (0.26%) SUSE
17 4 (0.21%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 661 (34.88%) Service Management
2 565 (29.82%) ITSM
3 475 (25.07%) Problem-Solving
4 447 (23.59%) Stakeholder Management
5 422 (22.27%) Agile
6 387 (20.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 332 (17.52%) Change Management
8 329 (17.36%) Service Delivery
9 221 (11.66%) DevOps
10 206 (10.87%) Customer Service
10 206 (10.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 197 (10.40%) Incident Management
12 167 (8.81%) Project Delivery
13 165 (8.71%) Roadmaps
14 158 (8.34%) Problem Management
15 155 (8.18%) Migration
16 152 (8.02%) Root Cause Analysis
17 146 (7.70%) AI
18 145 (7.65%) Service Design
19 136 (7.18%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 172 (9.08%) PowerShell
2 119 (6.28%) SQL
3 100 (5.28%) Python
4 74 (3.91%) JavaScript
5 52 (2.74%) Bash
6 23 (1.21%) Java
7 18 (0.95%) Bicep
7 18 (0.95%) PL/SQL
7 18 (0.95%) Shell Script
8 16 (0.84%) Korn
9 14 (0.74%) C#
10 13 (0.69%) Perl
11 12 (0.63%) T-SQL
12 10 (0.53%) Groovy
13 7 (0.37%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.21%) JCL
14 4 (0.21%) REXX
14 4 (0.21%) TypeScript
14 4 (0.21%) VBScript
15 3 (0.16%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 683 (36.04%) Security Cleared
2 469 (24.75%) SC Cleared
3 260 (13.72%) Degree
4 191 (10.08%) DV Cleared
5 149 (7.86%) ITIL Certification
6 78 (4.12%) Microsoft Certification
7 70 (3.69%) PMI Certification
8 69 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
9 66 (3.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 66 (3.48%) PMP
10 59 (3.11%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 54 (2.85%) Azure Certification
12 45 (2.37%) CISSP
13 43 (2.27%) CCNP
14 42 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
15 33 (1.74%) CCNA
16 30 (1.58%) A+ Certification
17 24 (1.27%) MCSE
18 23 (1.21%) Master's Degree
19 19 (1.00%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (9.82%) SLA
2 72 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 53 (2.80%) NIST
4 51 (2.69%) Data Quality
5 39 (2.06%) QA
6 34 (1.79%) GDPR
7 32 (1.69%) PMO
8 31 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 30 (1.58%) NCSC
10 28 (1.48%) COBIT
11 26 (1.37%) GRC
12 11 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
12 11 (0.58%) ISO 9001
12 11 (0.58%) PCI DSS
13 9 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
14 7 (0.37%) Accessibility
15 6 (0.32%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 5 (0.26%) SOC 2
17 4 (0.21%) ISO/IEC 42001
System Software
1 363 (19.16%) Active Directory
2 103 (5.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (1.95%) Docker
4 32 (1.69%) Hyper-V
5 31 (1.64%) Oracle RAC
6 27 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
7 21 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
7 21 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
7 21 (1.11%) VMware NSX
8 20 (1.06%) Firmware
9 19 (1.00%) vSphere
10 14 (0.74%) IAG
10 14 (0.74%) RACF
11 9 (0.47%) NFS
12 7 (0.37%) PowerHA
13 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
14 3 (0.16%) OpenAM
14 3 (0.16%) Virtual Servers
15 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
15 2 (0.11%) zsh
Systems Management
1 179 (9.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 91 (4.80%) Terraform
3 90 (4.75%) Ansible
4 84 (4.43%) SCCM
5 56 (2.96%) Kubernetes
6 26 (1.37%) Oracle RMAN
7 21 (1.11%) SCOM
8 19 (1.00%) Data Guard
9 18 (0.95%) Jamf Pro
10 17 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (0.90%) vCenter Server
11 16 (0.84%) Red Hat Satellite
12 15 (0.79%) Grafana
12 15 (0.79%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
13 14 (0.74%) WSUS
14 13 (0.69%) OMEGAMON
15 12 (0.63%) Prometheus
16 11 (0.58%) FortiGate
17 9 (0.47%) CASB
18 8 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 553 (29.18%) Microsoft
2 547 (28.87%) ServiceNow
3 152 (8.02%) VMware
4 120 (6.33%) Cisco
5 96 (5.07%) Oracle
6 77 (4.06%) Remedy
7 59 (3.11%) Splunk
8 53 (2.80%) Palo Alto
9 47 (2.48%) SolarWinds
10 45 (2.37%) IBM
11 42 (2.22%) SAP
12 41 (2.16%) Citrix
13 40 (2.11%) BMC
14 38 (2.01%) Red Hat
15 34 (1.79%) Juniper
16 32 (1.69%) Dynatrace
17 28 (1.48%) Meraki
18 27 (1.42%) F5
18 27 (1.42%) Fortinet
19 25 (1.32%) Zscaler