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

6 months to
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 42 39
Rank change year-on-year -8 -3 +3
Contract jobs citing ITIL 1,647 1,197 1,686
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.99% 4.94% 4.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.72% 5.41% 5.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,105 734 1,125
10th Percentile £206 £213 £205
25th Percentile £385 £302 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +2.63%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £588
90th Percentile £688 £661 £679
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +1.93%
Number of hourly rates quoted 78 73 141
10th Percentile £17.12 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.69 £16.25 £14.16
Median hourly rate £27.75 £22.05 £17.69
Median % change year-on-year +25.85% +24.65% -0.31%
75th Percentile £81.32 £33.00 £23.80
90th Percentile £97.88 £45.62 £46.18
UK median hourly rate £22.32 £22.05 £17.69
% change year-on-year +1.20% +24.65% -1.72%

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 34,902 22,108 31,434
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.66% 91.30% 86.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,235 14,434 20,613
10th Percentile £325 £306 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £510 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -0.49% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,141 960 2,249
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.42 £12.92
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.22 £16.00
Median hourly rate £46.80 £28.75 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.78% -21.23% -0.11%
75th Percentile £67.84 £62.24 £60.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.79% -23.29% +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 21 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 21 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 21 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 -18 520 £500 - 161
South East +6 375 £500 +11.11% 174
North of England -28 253 £500 +29.03% 118
South West -7 208 £575 +27.78% 56
Midlands -20 160 £450 +5.88% 81
North West -14 155 £550 +37.50% 52
West Midlands -26 127 £450 +5.88% 50
East of England -2 106 £400 -5.88% 49
Yorkshire -38 76 £475 +35.71% 51
East Midlands -12 32 £413 +9.13% 31
North East -11 22 £440 +125.64% 16
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 71 (4.31%) SharePoint
2 67 (4.07%) Confluence
3 57 (3.46%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.91%) IIS
5 8 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.36%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.36%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 5 (0.30%) Apache
8 4 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.24%) CMS
8 4 (0.24%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.18%) SAS
10 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.12%) CICS
10 2 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.12%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 76 (4.61%) Microsoft Office
2 42 (2.55%) Microsoft Project
3 33 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (0.91%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.24%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.18%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.18%) Revit
9 1 (0.061%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.061%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 48 (2.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.36%) Oracle HRMS
3 6 (0.36%) Primavera
4 5 (0.30%) Maximo
5 4 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
7 2 (0.12%) assyst
7 2 (0.12%) DELMIA
7 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
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%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.061%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 380 (23.07%) Azure
2 216 (13.11%) Microsoft 365
3 199 (12.08%) AWS
4 108 (6.56%) Entra ID
5 75 (4.55%) Power Platform
6 74 (4.49%) GCP
7 65 (3.95%) Azure DevOps
8 55 (3.34%) SaaS
9 46 (2.79%) GitHub
10 30 (1.82%) PaaS
11 29 (1.76%) Google Workspace
12 28 (1.70%) IaaS
13 24 (1.46%) AWS CloudFormation
14 22 (1.34%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (1.34%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (1.34%) Serverless
15 20 (1.21%) Amazon S3
16 19 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 19 (1.15%) OneDrive
16 19 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 137 (8.32%) Firewall
2 100 (6.07%) DNS
3 91 (5.53%) WAN
4 88 (5.34%) VPN
5 84 (5.10%) LAN
6 64 (3.89%) DHCP
7 57 (3.46%) Network Security
8 55 (3.34%) TCP/IP
9 51 (3.10%) SD-WAN
10 40 (2.43%) Wi-Fi
11 37 (2.25%) SAN
12 32 (1.94%) BGP
13 30 (1.82%) OSPF
14 24 (1.46%) SSL
15 21 (1.28%) VLAN
16 19 (1.15%) BIG-IP
16 19 (1.15%) Wireless
17 17 (1.03%) VoIP
18 16 (0.97%) NAS
19 15 (0.91%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (3.58%) Power BI
2 51 (3.10%) SQL Server
3 18 (1.09%) Oracle Database
4 16 (0.97%) Tableau
5 15 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
7 11 (0.67%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (0.49%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.43%) Metadata
11 5 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.30%) MySQL
11 5 (0.30%) Oracle BI EE
11 5 (0.30%) Oracle Database 12c
11 5 (0.30%) Star Schema
12 4 (0.24%) DB2
12 4 (0.24%) DTS
12 4 (0.24%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 170 (10.32%) JIRA
2 32 (1.94%) GitLab
3 31 (1.88%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.58%) Git
5 14 (0.85%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.49%) MSI
7 5 (0.30%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.24%) AdminStudio
8 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.24%) InstallShield
8 4 (0.24%) JMeter
8 4 (0.24%) Maven
8 4 (0.24%) MLflow
8 4 (0.24%) Postman
8 4 (0.24%) ScriptRunner
8 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
9 3 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 3 (0.18%) Browser DevTools
9 3 (0.18%) Flyway
10 2 (0.12%) git-flow
General
1 602 (36.55%) Social Skills
2 272 (16.51%) Finance
3 247 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
4 183 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 70 (4.25%) Banking
6 60 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
7 59 (3.58%) Telecoms
8 51 (3.10%) Legal
9 44 (2.67%) Military
10 35 (2.13%) Influencing Skills
10 35 (2.13%) Retail
11 33 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
12 21 (1.28%) Law
13 20 (1.21%) Aerospace
14 17 (1.03%) Local Government
14 17 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
15 15 (0.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (0.91%) Police
16 12 (0.73%) Financial Institution
16 12 (0.73%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 216 (13.11%) Analyst
2 153 (9.29%) Architect
3 141 (8.56%) Service Manager
4 127 (7.71%) Senior
5 116 (7.04%) Lead
6 103 (6.25%) IT Support
7 91 (5.53%) Support Engineer
8 79 (4.80%) Service Analyst
9 76 (4.61%) IT Manager
10 68 (4.13%) Consultant
11 57 (3.46%) Delivery Manager
12 51 (3.10%) IT Analyst
12 51 (3.10%) Service Desk Analyst
13 49 (2.98%) Network Engineer
14 47 (2.85%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 46 (2.79%) Support Analyst
16 45 (2.73%) Change Manager
16 45 (2.73%) IT Engineer
16 45 (2.73%) Transition Manager
17 41 (2.49%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (4.92%) REST
2 48 (2.91%) SOAP
3 25 (1.52%) CSS
4 23 (1.40%) .NET
4 23 (1.40%) Middleware
5 21 (1.28%) Web Services
6 20 (1.21%) LDAP
7 18 (1.09%) HTML
8 17 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
9 16 (0.97%) OAuth
10 15 (0.91%) 802.1X
10 15 (0.91%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 11 (0.67%) AWS CDK
11 11 (0.67%) Kafka
11 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Graph
11 11 (0.67%) SAML
12 10 (0.61%) AngularJS
12 10 (0.61%) OAuth2
13 9 (0.55%) Ajax
13 9 (0.55%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 116 (7.04%) CMDB
2 101 (6.13%) Onboarding
3 86 (5.22%) Data Centre
4 85 (5.16%) Product Ownership
5 56 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
6 39 (2.37%) Management Information System
7 31 (1.88%) Cloud Native
7 31 (1.88%) Self-Motivation
8 30 (1.82%) Clustering
8 30 (1.82%) Replication
9 28 (1.70%) PKI
10 26 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
11 25 (1.52%) Security Posture
12 23 (1.40%) Virtual Team
13 19 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
14 18 (1.09%) Driving Licence
15 15 (0.91%) Mainframe
15 15 (0.91%) Operational Technology
15 15 (0.91%) PMI
16 14 (0.85%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 358 (21.74%) Windows
2 101 (6.13%) Linux
3 92 (5.59%) Windows 10
4 86 (5.22%) Windows Server
5 54 (3.28%) Unix
6 36 (2.19%) Mac OS
7 35 (2.13%) Apple iOS
8 29 (1.76%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 28 (1.70%) Android
10 13 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
11 12 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
12 8 (0.49%) AIX
12 8 (0.49%) Ubuntu
12 8 (0.49%) zOS
13 7 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (0.36%) Oracle Linux
15 4 (0.24%) HPUX
15 4 (0.24%) Solaris
15 4 (0.24%) SUSE
15 4 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 510 (30.97%) Service Management
2 450 (27.32%) ITSM
3 375 (22.77%) Problem-Solving
4 363 (22.04%) Agile
5 302 (18.34%) Stakeholder Management
6 290 (17.61%) Continuous Improvement
7 285 (17.30%) Change Management
8 233 (14.15%) Service Delivery
9 194 (11.78%) DevOps
10 188 (11.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 160 (9.71%) Customer Service
11 160 (9.71%) Roadmaps
12 146 (8.86%) Incident Management
13 145 (8.80%) Problem Management
14 137 (8.32%) Service Design
15 131 (7.95%) Migration
16 124 (7.53%) CI/CD
17 118 (7.16%) Root Cause Analysis
18 111 (6.74%) Project Management
19 107 (6.50%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 116 (7.04%) PowerShell
2 101 (6.13%) SQL
3 63 (3.83%) JavaScript
4 57 (3.46%) Python
5 28 (1.70%) Bash
6 24 (1.46%) Java
7 20 (1.21%) Shell Script
8 16 (0.97%) Bicep
8 16 (0.97%) Korn
9 15 (0.91%) PL/SQL
10 14 (0.85%) C#
11 8 (0.49%) Groovy
11 8 (0.49%) Perl
12 7 (0.43%) Apex Code
12 7 (0.43%) JCL
12 7 (0.43%) REXX
13 5 (0.30%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.18%) SOQL
14 3 (0.18%) TypeScript
15 2 (0.12%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 593 (36.00%) Security Cleared
2 432 (26.23%) SC Cleared
3 194 (11.78%) Degree
4 162 (9.84%) DV Cleared
5 144 (8.74%) ITIL Certification
6 60 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
7 58 (3.52%) PMI Certification
8 56 (3.40%) Microsoft Certification
9 52 (3.16%) Computer Science Degree
10 49 (2.98%) PMP
11 45 (2.73%) Azure Certification
12 44 (2.67%) CCNP
13 34 (2.06%) CISSP
14 30 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 23 (1.40%) TOGAF Certification
16 20 (1.21%) BPSS Clearance
17 19 (1.15%) AWS Certification
17 19 (1.15%) ISEB
18 18 (1.09%) CCNA
18 18 (1.09%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 138 (8.38%) SLA
2 58 (3.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 55 (3.34%) NIST
4 49 (2.98%) Data Quality
5 40 (2.43%) GDPR
6 38 (2.31%) COBIT
7 30 (1.82%) QA
8 28 (1.70%) NCSC
9 22 (1.34%) GRC
10 20 (1.21%) PMO
11 18 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 17 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
13 14 (0.85%) PCI DSS
14 10 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
15 8 (0.49%) Accessibility
15 8 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
16 7 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
16 7 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 5 (0.30%) NIST 800
System Software
1 282 (17.12%) Active Directory
2 83 (5.04%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (2.31%) Docker
4 32 (1.94%) Hyper-V
5 25 (1.52%) Virtual Desktop
6 19 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (1.09%) Oracle RAC
7 18 (1.09%) vSphere
8 12 (0.73%) Firmware
9 11 (0.67%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.55%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.30%) NFS
12 4 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
12 4 (0.24%) XenDesktop
13 3 (0.18%) DFS Replication
13 3 (0.18%) IAG
13 3 (0.18%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 3 (0.18%) PowerHA
13 3 (0.18%) XenApp
14 2 (0.12%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 110 (6.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 90 (5.46%) Terraform
3 73 (4.43%) Ansible
4 58 (3.52%) Kubernetes
5 56 (3.40%) SCCM
6 23 (1.40%) Grafana
7 21 (1.28%) Oracle RMAN
8 19 (1.15%) OPNET
9 17 (1.03%) Prometheus
10 16 (0.97%) Single Sign-On
11 15 (0.91%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
12 14 (0.85%) FortiGate
13 13 (0.79%) WSUS
14 12 (0.73%) SCOM
14 12 (0.73%) vCenter Server
15 10 (0.61%) Red Hat Satellite
16 9 (0.55%) CASB
17 8 (0.49%) Jamf Pro
17 8 (0.49%) vMotion
18 7 (0.43%) vRealize
Vendors
1 393 (23.86%) Microsoft
2 385 (23.38%) ServiceNow
3 134 (8.14%) VMware
4 85 (5.16%) Cisco
5 84 (5.10%) Remedy
6 79 (4.80%) Oracle
7 58 (3.52%) Splunk
8 42 (2.55%) Google
9 41 (2.49%) Citrix
10 37 (2.25%) Palo Alto
11 34 (2.06%) SAP
12 32 (1.94%) Fortinet
12 32 (1.94%) Red Hat
13 30 (1.82%) BMC
13 30 (1.82%) Dynatrace
14 29 (1.76%) Atlassian
15 28 (1.70%) SolarWinds
16 27 (1.64%) IBM
17 25 (1.52%) Juniper
17 25 (1.52%) Salesforce