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

6 months to
25 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 40 39
Rank change year-on-year -11 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing ITIL 1,632 1,195 1,654
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.94% 4.98% 4.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.65% 5.46% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,096 729 1,101
10th Percentile £205 £210 £205
25th Percentile £375 £300 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £600 £585 £578
90th Percentile £675 £659 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +1.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 79 78 139
10th Percentile £17.12 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.88 £16.26 £14.16
Median hourly rate £28.00 £22.05 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.98% +26.00% -
75th Percentile £80.40 £33.68 £23.78
90th Percentile £97.75 £46.46 £43.54
UK median hourly rate £22.36 £22.05 £17.50
% change year-on-year +1.42% +26.00% -1.38%

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 35,064 21,889 31,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.71% 91.30% 86.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,297 14,308 20,582
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £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 2,170 926 2,283
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.35 £12.88
25th Percentile £20.39 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £28.18 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +59.69% -22.79% -2.46%
75th Percentile £67.84 £60.00 £61.25
90th Percentile £80.28 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.13 £27.59 £36.05
% change year-on-year +52.71% -23.47% -0.22%

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 25 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 25 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 25 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 -22 521 £500 - 188
South East +2 372 £500 +11.11% 172
North of England -27 251 £500 +25.00% 116
South West -10 195 £550 +22.22% 56
Midlands -21 161 £450 +4.53% 75
North West -20 154 £550 +37.50% 51
West Midlands -34 125 £450 +5.88% 49
East of England -6 107 £413 -2.94% 47
Yorkshire -45 76 £475 +35.71% 51
East Midlands -6 35 £413 -5.39% 26
North East -12 21 £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 75 (4.60%) SharePoint
2 61 (3.74%) Confluence
3 60 (3.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.92%) IIS
5 8 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.37%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.37%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 5 (0.31%) Apache
8 4 (0.25%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.25%) CMS
8 4 (0.25%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.18%) SAS
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%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.12%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 70 (4.29%) Microsoft Office
2 37 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
3 34 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
4 15 (0.92%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.25%) 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 (2.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.49%) Oracle EBS
3 6 (0.37%) Oracle HRMS
3 6 (0.37%) Primavera
4 5 (0.31%) Maximo
5 4 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.18%) assyst
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%) DELMIA
7 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.061%) FLEXCUBE
8 1 (0.061%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.061%) Oracle EBS R12
8 1 (0.061%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.061%) Oracle General Ledger
8 1 (0.061%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 379 (23.22%) Azure
2 223 (13.66%) Microsoft 365
3 194 (11.89%) AWS
4 111 (6.80%) Entra ID
5 75 (4.60%) Power Platform
6 71 (4.35%) GCP
7 66 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
8 55 (3.37%) SaaS
9 46 (2.82%) GitHub
10 29 (1.78%) Google Workspace
10 29 (1.78%) PaaS
11 26 (1.59%) IaaS
12 24 (1.47%) AWS CloudFormation
13 23 (1.41%) OneDrive
14 22 (1.35%) AWS Lambda
14 22 (1.35%) GitHub Actions
14 22 (1.35%) Serverless
15 20 (1.23%) Amazon S3
16 19 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 19 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 135 (8.27%) Firewall
2 100 (6.13%) DNS
3 89 (5.45%) WAN
4 84 (5.15%) LAN
4 84 (5.15%) VPN
5 65 (3.98%) DHCP
6 57 (3.49%) Network Security
7 54 (3.31%) TCP/IP
8 48 (2.94%) SD-WAN
9 39 (2.39%) Wi-Fi
10 37 (2.27%) SAN
11 32 (1.96%) BGP
12 30 (1.84%) OSPF
13 23 (1.41%) SSL
14 21 (1.29%) VLAN
15 19 (1.16%) BIG-IP
15 19 (1.16%) Wireless
16 17 (1.04%) VoIP
17 16 (0.98%) NAS
18 15 (0.92%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 59 (3.62%) Power BI
2 50 (3.06%) SQL Server
3 18 (1.10%) Oracle Database
4 16 (0.98%) Tableau
5 15 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (0.74%) 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 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
11 5 (0.31%) MySQL
11 5 (0.31%) Oracle BI EE
11 5 (0.31%) Oracle Database 12c
12 4 (0.25%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.25%) DTS
12 4 (0.25%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.25%) Relational Database
12 4 (0.25%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 165 (10.11%) JIRA
2 32 (1.96%) GitLab
3 31 (1.90%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.59%) Git
5 14 (0.86%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.49%) MSI
7 5 (0.31%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.25%) AdminStudio
8 4 (0.25%) Cucumber
8 4 (0.25%) InstallShield
8 4 (0.25%) JMeter
8 4 (0.25%) Maven
8 4 (0.25%) MLflow
8 4 (0.25%) Postman
8 4 (0.25%) ScriptRunner
8 4 (0.25%) 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
1 594 (36.40%) Social Skills
2 270 (16.54%) Finance
3 242 (14.83%) Analytical Skills
4 177 (10.85%) Public Sector
5 69 (4.23%) Banking
6 63 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
7 59 (3.62%) Telecoms
8 46 (2.82%) Legal
9 37 (2.27%) Military
10 35 (2.14%) Retail
11 34 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
12 33 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
13 21 (1.29%) Law
14 20 (1.23%) Aerospace
15 18 (1.10%) Presentation Skills
16 17 (1.04%) Local Government
17 16 (0.98%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 16 (0.98%) Police
18 11 (0.67%) Financial Institution
18 11 (0.67%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 222 (13.60%) Analyst
2 137 (8.39%) Service Manager
3 136 (8.33%) Architect
4 127 (7.78%) Senior
5 111 (6.80%) Lead
6 107 (6.56%) IT Support
7 92 (5.64%) Support Engineer
8 79 (4.84%) Service Analyst
9 77 (4.72%) IT Manager
10 69 (4.23%) Consultant
11 55 (3.37%) Delivery Manager
12 52 (3.19%) IT Analyst
12 52 (3.19%) Service Desk Analyst
13 49 (3.00%) Network Engineer
14 47 (2.88%) Support Analyst
15 45 (2.76%) Change Manager
15 45 (2.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
15 45 (2.76%) IT Engineer
16 44 (2.70%) Transition Manager
17 41 (2.51%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (4.90%) REST
2 46 (2.82%) SOAP
3 26 (1.59%) CSS
4 23 (1.41%) .NET
4 23 (1.41%) Middleware
5 21 (1.29%) Web Services
6 19 (1.16%) HTML
6 19 (1.16%) LDAP
7 17 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
8 16 (0.98%) OAuth
9 15 (0.92%) 802.1X
9 15 (0.92%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 11 (0.67%) AWS CDK
10 11 (0.67%) Kafka
10 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Graph
10 11 (0.67%) SAML
11 10 (0.61%) Ajax
11 10 (0.61%) AngularJS
11 10 (0.61%) OAuth2
12 9 (0.55%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 114 (6.99%) CMDB
2 101 (6.19%) Onboarding
3 87 (5.33%) Data Centre
4 78 (4.78%) Product Ownership
5 57 (3.49%) Enterprise Software
6 40 (2.45%) Management Information System
7 31 (1.90%) Cloud Native
7 31 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
8 30 (1.84%) Clustering
8 30 (1.84%) Replication
9 28 (1.72%) PKI
10 26 (1.59%) Analytical Mindset
11 25 (1.53%) Security Posture
12 23 (1.41%) Virtual Team
13 19 (1.16%) Driving Licence
13 19 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
14 15 (0.92%) Mainframe
15 14 (0.86%) Operational Technology
16 13 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (0.80%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 361 (22.12%) Windows
2 101 (6.19%) Linux
3 93 (5.70%) Windows 10
4 86 (5.27%) Windows Server
5 54 (3.31%) Unix
6 37 (2.27%) Mac OS
7 36 (2.21%) Apple iOS
8 29 (1.78%) Android
8 29 (1.78%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 13 (0.80%) Windows Server 2016
10 12 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
11 8 (0.49%) AIX
12 7 (0.43%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
12 7 (0.43%) zOS
13 6 (0.37%) Oracle Linux
14 4 (0.25%) HPUX
14 4 (0.25%) Solaris
14 4 (0.25%) SUSE
14 4 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 502 (30.76%) Service Management
2 452 (27.70%) ITSM
3 377 (23.10%) Problem-Solving
4 353 (21.63%) Agile
5 303 (18.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 289 (17.71%) Continuous Improvement
7 287 (17.59%) Change Management
8 238 (14.58%) Service Delivery
9 193 (11.83%) DevOps
10 185 (11.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 161 (9.87%) Customer Service
12 148 (9.07%) Incident Management
12 148 (9.07%) Roadmaps
13 144 (8.82%) Problem Management
14 130 (7.97%) Migration
15 129 (7.90%) Service Design
16 124 (7.60%) CI/CD
17 117 (7.17%) Root Cause Analysis
18 110 (6.74%) Project Delivery
19 109 (6.68%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 117 (7.17%) PowerShell
2 100 (6.13%) SQL
3 62 (3.80%) JavaScript
4 58 (3.55%) Python
5 29 (1.78%) Bash
6 24 (1.47%) Java
7 20 (1.23%) Shell Script
8 16 (0.98%) Bicep
8 16 (0.98%) Korn
9 15 (0.92%) PL/SQL
10 14 (0.86%) C#
11 8 (0.49%) Groovy
11 8 (0.49%) Perl
12 7 (0.43%) Apex Code
13 6 (0.37%) JCL
13 6 (0.37%) REXX
14 5 (0.31%) T-SQL
15 3 (0.18%) SOQL
15 3 (0.18%) TypeScript
16 2 (0.12%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 580 (35.54%) Security Cleared
2 420 (25.74%) SC Cleared
3 188 (11.52%) Degree
4 161 (9.87%) DV Cleared
5 135 (8.27%) ITIL Certification
6 58 (3.55%) Cisco Certification
7 55 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
7 55 (3.37%) PMI Certification
8 52 (3.19%) Computer Science Degree
9 48 (2.94%) PMP
10 45 (2.76%) Azure Certification
11 42 (2.57%) CCNP
12 35 (2.14%) CISSP
13 30 (1.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 20 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
15 19 (1.16%) AWS Certification
16 18 (1.10%) CISM
16 18 (1.10%) Master's Degree
17 17 (1.04%) CCNA
18 16 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 139 (8.52%) SLA
2 58 (3.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 54 (3.31%) NIST
4 51 (3.13%) Data Quality
5 39 (2.39%) GDPR
6 29 (1.78%) COBIT
6 29 (1.78%) QA
7 28 (1.72%) NCSC
8 23 (1.41%) PMO
9 20 (1.23%) GRC
10 18 (1.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 17 (1.04%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.86%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.61%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 8 (0.49%) Accessibility
14 8 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
15 7 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.43%) Government Security Classifications
15 7 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
16 5 (0.31%) NIST 800
System Software
1 285 (17.46%) Active Directory
2 81 (4.96%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (2.33%) Docker
4 31 (1.90%) Hyper-V
5 25 (1.53%) Virtual Desktop
6 19 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
7 18 (1.10%) Oracle RAC
7 18 (1.10%) vSphere
8 12 (0.74%) Firmware
9 11 (0.67%) VMware NSX
10 10 (0.61%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.31%) NFS
12 4 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
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%) XenDesktop
14 2 (0.12%) BitLocker
14 2 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 114 (6.99%) Microsoft Intune
2 89 (5.45%) Terraform
3 71 (4.35%) Ansible
4 57 (3.49%) Kubernetes
4 57 (3.49%) SCCM
5 23 (1.41%) Grafana
6 21 (1.29%) Oracle RMAN
7 17 (1.04%) Prometheus
8 15 (0.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
8 15 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (0.86%) FortiGate
10 13 (0.80%) OPNET
10 13 (0.80%) WSUS
11 12 (0.74%) SCOM
11 12 (0.74%) vCenter Server
12 10 (0.61%) Jamf Pro
12 10 (0.61%) Red Hat Satellite
13 9 (0.55%) CASB
14 8 (0.49%) vMotion
15 7 (0.43%) vRealize
Vendors
1 401 (24.57%) Microsoft
2 382 (23.41%) ServiceNow
3 131 (8.03%) VMware
4 82 (5.02%) Cisco
5 79 (4.84%) Oracle
6 78 (4.78%) Remedy
7 58 (3.55%) Splunk
8 42 (2.57%) Google
9 39 (2.39%) Citrix
10 35 (2.14%) Palo Alto
11 33 (2.02%) SAP
12 31 (1.90%) Red Hat
13 30 (1.84%) BMC
13 30 (1.84%) Dynatrace
14 29 (1.78%) Fortinet
15 28 (1.72%) SolarWinds
16 27 (1.65%) IBM
17 25 (1.53%) Salesforce
18 23 (1.41%) Atlassian
18 23 (1.41%) Juniper