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

6 months to
14 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 39 39
Rank change year-on-year -12 0 +5
Contract jobs citing ITIL 1,684 1,237 1,660
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.94% 5.02% 4.42%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.63% 5.49% 5.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,141 754 1,104
10th Percentile £200 £211 £205
25th Percentile £382 £300 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £658 £659
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 87 133
10th Percentile £17.19 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.28 £14.16
Median hourly rate £25.54 £22.05 £17.69
Median % change year-on-year +15.83% +24.65% +1.09%
75th Percentile £73.75 £33.75 £25.00
90th Percentile £86.90 £52.00 £45.52
UK median hourly rate £22.24 £22.05 £18.03
% change year-on-year +0.85% +22.28% +3.04%

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 36,403 22,531 32,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.14% 91.36% 85.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,041 14,566 20,743
10th Percentile £325 £303 £300
25th Percentile £415 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.77% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £508 £525
% change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,276 1,039 2,376
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.82 £18.13 £16.02
Median hourly rate £47.00 £27.53 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.72% -26.59% +5.63%
75th Percentile £68.00 £57.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £82.25 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.00 £37.09
% change year-on-year +62.81% -27.20% +5.97%

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 14 June 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 14 June 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 14 June 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 -18 571 £500 - 158
South East +5 388 £510 +13.33% 184
North of England -27 275 £500 +30.21% 129
South West -13 175 £500 +26.98% 56
North West -12 169 £544 +35.94% 70
Midlands -29 152 £450 +5.88% 66
West Midlands -30 122 £450 +5.88% 38
East of England -7 100 £381 -11.34% 42
Yorkshire -31 88 £472 +27.78% 50
East Midlands -13 29 £413 -6.88% 29
North East -23 18 £440 +125.64% 11
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 94 (5.58%) SharePoint
2 62 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
3 55 (3.27%) Confluence
4 14 (0.83%) IIS
5 9 (0.53%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.36%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.36%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 5 (0.30%) WebSphere
8 4 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.18%) Apache
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.12%) CMS
10 2 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.12%) SAS
10 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.12%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 63 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 28 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (1.07%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.71%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.42%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.42%) Revit
7 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.24%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.059%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.059%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 54 (3.21%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.36%) Maximo
2 6 (0.36%) Oracle HRMS
2 6 (0.36%) Primavera
3 5 (0.30%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.24%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.12%) assyst
6 2 (0.12%) ContrOCC
6 2 (0.12%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Cash Management
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS R12
6 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.059%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 409 (24.29%) Azure
2 251 (14.90%) Microsoft 365
3 194 (11.52%) AWS
4 121 (7.19%) Entra ID
5 79 (4.69%) Power Platform
6 66 (3.92%) SaaS
7 65 (3.86%) Azure DevOps
8 61 (3.62%) GCP
9 46 (2.73%) GitHub
10 34 (2.02%) OneDrive
11 28 (1.66%) Google Workspace
12 27 (1.60%) PaaS
13 23 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
13 23 (1.37%) IaaS
13 23 (1.37%) Serverless
14 22 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 21 (1.25%) Amazon S3
16 20 (1.19%) Azure Monitor
16 20 (1.19%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 148 (8.79%) Firewall
2 108 (6.41%) DNS
3 95 (5.64%) WAN
4 91 (5.40%) VPN
5 89 (5.29%) LAN
6 73 (4.33%) DHCP
7 63 (3.74%) TCP/IP
8 59 (3.50%) Network Security
9 49 (2.91%) Wi-Fi
10 47 (2.79%) SD-WAN
11 35 (2.08%) SSL
12 32 (1.90%) BGP
13 31 (1.84%) OSPF
14 29 (1.72%) SAN
15 24 (1.43%) Wireless
16 21 (1.25%) VLAN
17 18 (1.07%) BIG-IP
18 16 (0.95%) MPLS
19 15 (0.89%) Cisco ISE
19 15 (0.89%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (3.92%) Power BI
2 50 (2.97%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.25%) Oracle Database
4 15 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 13 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (0.77%) Tableau
6 12 (0.71%) Oracle Reports
7 11 (0.65%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (0.59%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 9 (0.53%) Amazon RDS
10 7 (0.42%) Metadata
10 7 (0.42%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.30%) MySQL
11 5 (0.30%) Oracle BI EE
11 5 (0.30%) Oracle Database 12c
12 4 (0.24%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.24%) DTS
12 4 (0.24%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.24%) Oracle Database 11g
12 4 (0.24%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 178 (10.57%) JIRA
2 29 (1.72%) Jenkins
3 28 (1.66%) Git
4 27 (1.60%) GitLab
5 15 (0.89%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.48%) MSI
7 5 (0.30%) JMeter
8 4 (0.24%) AdminStudio
8 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.24%) InstallShield
8 4 (0.24%) Maven
8 4 (0.24%) MLflow
8 4 (0.24%) Postman
8 4 (0.24%) REST Assured
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%) Eclipse
9 3 (0.18%) Flyway
General
1 628 (37.29%) Social Skills
2 288 (17.10%) Finance
3 257 (15.26%) Analytical Skills
4 171 (10.15%) Public Sector
5 83 (4.93%) Banking
6 63 (3.74%) Telecoms
7 61 (3.62%) Organisational Skills
8 57 (3.38%) Legal
9 39 (2.32%) Influencing Skills
10 34 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
10 34 (2.02%) Retail
11 24 (1.43%) Military
11 24 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
12 20 (1.19%) Aerospace
12 20 (1.19%) Local Government
13 17 (1.01%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (0.95%) Law
15 15 (0.89%) Financial Institution
15 15 (0.89%) Police
16 13 (0.77%) Front Office
Job Titles
1 244 (14.49%) Analyst
2 136 (8.08%) Senior
3 129 (7.66%) Service Manager
4 120 (7.13%) IT Support
5 118 (7.01%) Architect
6 104 (6.18%) Lead
6 104 (6.18%) Support Engineer
7 86 (5.11%) IT Manager
8 78 (4.63%) Service Analyst
9 77 (4.57%) Consultant
10 63 (3.74%) Delivery Manager
11 56 (3.33%) IT Analyst
12 55 (3.27%) Network Engineer
13 52 (3.09%) Support Analyst
14 51 (3.03%) Project Manager
15 50 (2.97%) IT Engineer
16 48 (2.85%) IT Support Engineer
16 48 (2.85%) Transition Manager
17 46 (2.73%) Service Desk Analyst
18 44 (2.61%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 87 (5.17%) REST
2 47 (2.79%) SOAP
3 29 (1.72%) Middleware
4 25 (1.48%) CSS
5 22 (1.31%) Web Services
6 21 (1.25%) .NET
7 19 (1.13%) HTML
8 18 (1.07%) LDAP
9 17 (1.01%) 802.1X
9 17 (1.01%) OAuth
10 16 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
11 15 (0.89%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 13 (0.77%) Ajax
12 13 (0.77%) Microsoft Graph
12 13 (0.77%) SAML
13 12 (0.71%) AWS CDK
14 10 (0.59%) ISPF
14 10 (0.59%) Kafka
14 10 (0.59%) OAuth2
15 9 (0.53%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 124 (7.36%) CMDB
2 117 (6.95%) Onboarding
3 93 (5.52%) Data Centre
4 69 (4.10%) Enterprise Software
5 68 (4.04%) Product Ownership
6 45 (2.67%) Management Information System
7 38 (2.26%) PKI
7 38 (2.26%) Self-Motivation
8 37 (2.20%) Clustering
9 32 (1.90%) Cloud Native
10 27 (1.60%) Analytical Mindset
10 27 (1.60%) Security Posture
11 26 (1.54%) Replication
12 24 (1.43%) Virtual Team
13 20 (1.19%) Driving Licence
13 20 (1.19%) Hybrid Cloud
14 19 (1.13%) Mainframe
15 17 (1.01%) Legacy Systems
16 12 (0.71%) Operational Technology
16 12 (0.71%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 388 (23.04%) Windows
2 109 (6.47%) Linux
3 92 (5.46%) Windows 10
4 84 (4.99%) Windows Server
5 59 (3.50%) Unix
6 44 (2.61%) Mac OS
7 40 (2.38%) Apple iOS
8 33 (1.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 30 (1.78%) Android
10 11 (0.65%) AIX
10 11 (0.65%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.65%) zOS
11 10 (0.59%) Windows Server 2016
12 8 (0.48%) Oracle Linux
13 7 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
14 5 (0.30%) HPUX
14 5 (0.30%) Solaris
14 5 (0.30%) SUSE
15 4 (0.24%) VMS
16 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 534 (31.71%) Service Management
2 475 (28.21%) ITSM
3 406 (24.11%) Problem-Solving
4 369 (21.91%) Agile
5 343 (20.37%) Stakeholder Management
6 317 (18.82%) Continuous Improvement
7 289 (17.16%) Change Management
8 255 (15.14%) Service Delivery
9 204 (12.11%) DevOps
10 184 (10.93%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 165 (9.80%) Customer Service
12 159 (9.44%) Incident Management
13 158 (9.38%) Roadmaps
14 146 (8.67%) Problem Management
15 131 (7.78%) Migration
16 126 (7.48%) CI/CD
16 126 (7.48%) Service Design
17 125 (7.42%) Root Cause Analysis
18 119 (7.07%) Project Delivery
19 115 (6.83%) AI
Programming Languages
1 140 (8.31%) PowerShell
2 95 (5.64%) SQL
3 72 (4.28%) Python
4 65 (3.86%) JavaScript
5 37 (2.20%) Bash
6 24 (1.43%) Java
7 18 (1.07%) PL/SQL
7 18 (1.07%) Shell Script
8 16 (0.95%) Korn
9 14 (0.83%) Bicep
9 14 (0.83%) C#
10 11 (0.65%) Perl
11 9 (0.53%) Groovy
12 7 (0.42%) Apex Code
13 5 (0.30%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.24%) JCL
14 4 (0.24%) REXX
15 3 (0.18%) SOQL
15 3 (0.18%) TypeScript
16 2 (0.12%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 569 (33.79%) Security Cleared
2 404 (23.99%) SC Cleared
3 195 (11.58%) Degree
4 167 (9.92%) DV Cleared
5 144 (8.55%) ITIL Certification
6 62 (3.68%) Cisco Certification
6 62 (3.68%) PMI Certification
7 58 (3.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 56 (3.33%) PMP
9 54 (3.21%) Computer Science Degree
10 48 (2.85%) Azure Certification
11 44 (2.61%) CCNP
12 40 (2.38%) CISSP
13 34 (2.02%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 22 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
15 21 (1.25%) CISM
16 20 (1.19%) CCNA
16 20 (1.19%) Master's Degree
17 18 (1.07%) MCSE
18 17 (1.01%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 149 (8.85%) SLA
2 68 (4.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 63 (3.74%) NIST
4 54 (3.21%) Data Quality
5 39 (2.32%) GDPR
6 36 (2.14%) COBIT
7 31 (1.84%) QA
8 27 (1.60%) PMO
9 26 (1.54%) GRC
9 26 (1.54%) NCSC
10 16 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 13 (0.77%) PCI DSS
12 11 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
13 9 (0.53%) Government Security Classifications
14 8 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
14 8 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.42%) Accessibility
15 7 (0.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 6 (0.36%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 5 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 293 (17.40%) Active Directory
2 79 (4.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (2.32%) Docker
4 29 (1.72%) Hyper-V
5 20 (1.19%) Oracle RAC
6 19 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (1.07%) Virtual Desktop
8 15 (0.89%) vSphere
9 13 (0.77%) Virtual Machines
10 12 (0.71%) Firmware
10 12 (0.71%) VMware NSX
11 8 (0.48%) RACF
12 5 (0.30%) NFS
13 4 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
14 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
14 3 (0.18%) DFS Replication
14 3 (0.18%) IAG
14 3 (0.18%) PowerHA
14 3 (0.18%) XenDesktop
15 2 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 138 (8.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 78 (4.63%) Terraform
3 64 (3.80%) Ansible
4 62 (3.68%) SCCM
5 58 (3.44%) Kubernetes
6 23 (1.37%) Oracle RMAN
7 22 (1.31%) Grafana
8 17 (1.01%) Prometheus
9 16 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (0.89%) FortiGate
10 15 (0.89%) Jamf Pro
10 15 (0.89%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 14 (0.83%) WSUS
12 10 (0.59%) vCenter Server
13 9 (0.53%) CASB
13 9 (0.53%) SCOM
14 8 (0.48%) Data Guard
14 8 (0.48%) vMotion
15 7 (0.42%) OMEGAMON
15 7 (0.42%) vRealize
Vendors
1 437 (25.95%) Microsoft
2 410 (24.35%) ServiceNow
3 118 (7.01%) VMware
4 91 (5.40%) Cisco
5 81 (4.81%) Oracle
6 72 (4.28%) Remedy
7 62 (3.68%) Splunk
8 39 (2.32%) Google
8 39 (2.32%) Palo Alto
9 37 (2.20%) SAP
10 36 (2.14%) Citrix
10 36 (2.14%) SolarWinds
11 34 (2.02%) BMC
12 33 (1.96%) IBM
13 31 (1.84%) Dynatrace
13 31 (1.84%) Fortinet
14 29 (1.72%) Red Hat
15 28 (1.66%) Juniper
16 27 (1.60%) Salesforce
17 23 (1.37%) Zscaler