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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 44 35
Rank change year-on-year -8 -9 +9
Contract jobs citing ITIL 1,653 1,151 1,826
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.23% 4.73% 4.87%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.93% 5.20% 5.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,096 715 1,232
10th Percentile £213 £210 £206
25th Percentile £374 £315 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £594
90th Percentile £700 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £499 £470 £499
% change year-on-year +6.22% -5.81% +6.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 89 59 153
10th Percentile £17.18 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.15 £14.16
Median hourly rate £27.50 £23.80 £17.69
Median % change year-on-year +15.55% +34.54% -6.89%
75th Percentile £72.50 £35.75 £25.00
90th Percentile £89.40 £67.64 £49.28
UK median hourly rate £22.32 £24.00 £17.69
% change year-on-year -7.02% +35.67% -7.83%

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 33,539 22,147 32,451
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.75% 90.94% 86.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,506 14,596 21,405
10th Percentile £313 £313 £300
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £614 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,075 867 2,189
10th Percentile £15.43 £14.99 £12.92
25th Percentile £19.91 £19.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £40.00 £32.50 £34.00
Median % change year-on-year +23.08% -4.41% -9.33%
75th Percentile £65.74 £65.00 £58.70
90th Percentile £77.80 £76.25 £70.78
UK median hourly rate £36.70 £31.64 £33.07
% change year-on-year +15.99% -4.31% -8.15%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -25 496 £500 - 124
South East +3 376 £490 +5.38% 171
North of England -15 257 £489 +30.27% 114
South West +4 242 £575 +17.95% 44
Midlands -18 166 £438 -2.78% 76
North West -10 162 £558 +55.73% 64
West Midlands -14 129 £450 -5.26% 50
East of England -11 98 £520 +20.93% 43
Yorkshire -29 69 £450 +5.88% 39
East Midlands -19 36 £425 +32.81% 26
North East 0 26 £440 +125.64% 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 90 (5.44%) Confluence
2 75 (4.54%) Microsoft Exchange
3 70 (4.23%) SharePoint
4 12 (0.73%) IIS
5 8 (0.48%) Apache
5 8 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.36%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 5 (0.30%) Mattermost
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 (0.060%) Oracle Application Server
Applications
1 90 (5.44%) Microsoft Office
2 52 (3.15%) Microsoft Project
3 31 (1.88%) Microsoft Excel
4 13 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.73%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.30%) Acrobat
7 3 (0.18%) Chatbot
8 1 (0.060%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.060%) Revit
8 1 (0.060%) Trello
Business Applications
1 47 (2.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 24 (1.45%) Oracle EBS
3 7 (0.42%) Maximo
4 6 (0.36%) Oracle HRMS
4 6 (0.36%) Primavera
5 4 (0.24%) assyst
5 4 (0.24%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
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
7 2 (0.12%) SystmOne
8 1 (0.060%) Aareon QL
8 1 (0.060%) MIS ActiveH
8 1 (0.060%) OPENHousing
8 1 (0.060%) Oracle Assets
8 1 (0.060%) Orchard Housing
Cloud Services
1 378 (22.87%) Azure
2 228 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
3 204 (12.34%) AWS
4 111 (6.72%) Entra ID
5 91 (5.51%) GCP
6 63 (3.81%) Power Platform
7 60 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
8 56 (3.39%) SaaS
9 34 (2.06%) GitHub
10 31 (1.88%) PaaS
11 29 (1.75%) Google Workspace
12 28 (1.69%) IaaS
13 24 (1.45%) OneDrive
14 22 (1.33%) Serverless
15 20 (1.21%) AWS Lambda
16 19 (1.15%) OCI
17 18 (1.09%) AWS CloudFormation
17 18 (1.09%) Azure Monitor
17 18 (1.09%) Datadog
18 17 (1.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 147 (8.89%) Firewall
2 104 (6.29%) DNS
3 102 (6.17%) VPN
4 92 (5.57%) WAN
5 84 (5.08%) LAN
6 70 (4.23%) DHCP
7 57 (3.45%) TCP/IP
8 53 (3.21%) SD-WAN
9 52 (3.15%) Network Security
10 40 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
11 34 (2.06%) SAN
12 33 (2.00%) BGP
13 31 (1.88%) OSPF
14 22 (1.33%) SSL
15 21 (1.27%) VoIP
15 21 (1.27%) Wireless
16 20 (1.21%) VLAN
17 19 (1.15%) BIG-IP
18 16 (0.97%) NAS
19 15 (0.91%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (2.84%) Power BI
2 46 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 16 (0.97%) Tableau
4 14 (0.85%) Oracle Database
4 14 (0.85%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (0.79%) Amazon RDS
5 13 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
6 11 (0.67%) Metadata
6 11 (0.67%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (0.60%) Oracle Reports
8 7 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 5 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
9 5 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
9 5 (0.30%) DB2
9 5 (0.30%) MySQL
9 5 (0.30%) Oracle Database 12c
9 5 (0.30%) Redis
9 5 (0.30%) Star Schema
10 4 (0.24%) Data Lake
10 4 (0.24%) DTS
Development Applications
1 186 (11.25%) JIRA
2 27 (1.63%) Jenkins
3 25 (1.51%) GitLab
4 22 (1.33%) Git
5 7 (0.42%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.24%) Maven
6 4 (0.24%) MLflow
6 4 (0.24%) MSI
6 4 (0.24%) ScriptRunner
7 3 (0.18%) AdminStudio
7 3 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.18%) Browser DevTools
7 3 (0.18%) Flyway
7 3 (0.18%) IBM UrbanCode
7 3 (0.18%) InstallShield
7 3 (0.18%) JMeter
7 3 (0.18%) Liquibase
8 2 (0.12%) JUnit
8 2 (0.12%) Mockito
8 2 (0.12%) Rational DOORS
General
1 641 (38.78%) Social Skills
2 258 (15.61%) Finance
3 254 (15.37%) Analytical Skills
4 189 (11.43%) Public Sector
5 63 (3.81%) Banking
6 62 (3.75%) Military
7 60 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
8 54 (3.27%) Legal
8 54 (3.27%) Telecoms
9 41 (2.48%) Documentation Skills
9 41 (2.48%) Influencing Skills
10 28 (1.69%) Retail
11 22 (1.33%) Law
12 19 (1.15%) Aerospace
12 19 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.03%) Local Government
14 14 (0.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 13 (0.79%) Manufacturing
16 12 (0.73%) Investment Banking
17 11 (0.67%) Police
Job Titles
1 205 (12.40%) Analyst
2 193 (11.68%) Architect
3 182 (11.01%) Lead
4 136 (8.23%) Service Manager
5 122 (7.38%) Senior
6 92 (5.57%) IT Support
7 86 (5.20%) Support Engineer
8 78 (4.72%) Consultant
9 77 (4.66%) Service Analyst
10 67 (4.05%) IT Manager
11 56 (3.39%) Delivery Manager
12 51 (3.09%) Service Architect
13 50 (3.02%) IT Analyst
13 50 (3.02%) Support Analyst
14 48 (2.90%) Service Desk Analyst
15 46 (2.78%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 45 (2.72%) Network Engineer
17 43 (2.60%) IT Engineer
18 39 (2.36%) Change Manager
18 39 (2.36%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 79 (4.78%) REST
2 41 (2.48%) SOAP
3 24 (1.45%) .NET
4 20 (1.21%) LDAP
4 20 (1.21%) Middleware
5 19 (1.15%) Web Services
6 17 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
7 15 (0.91%) Oracle GoldenGate
8 14 (0.85%) CSS
9 13 (0.79%) 802.1X
10 11 (0.67%) Kafka
11 10 (0.60%) AngularJS
11 10 (0.60%) ARM Templates
11 10 (0.60%) HTML
11 10 (0.60%) OAuth
11 10 (0.60%) SAML
12 8 (0.48%) Elastic Stack
13 7 (0.42%) Microsoft Graph
14 6 (0.36%) AWS CDK
14 6 (0.36%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 102 (6.17%) CMDB
2 91 (5.51%) Onboarding
2 91 (5.51%) Product Ownership
3 77 (4.66%) Data Centre
4 46 (2.78%) Enterprise Software
5 43 (2.60%) Management Information System
6 39 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
7 38 (2.30%) Virtual Team
8 35 (2.12%) Replication
9 33 (2.00%) PKI
10 30 (1.81%) Cloud Native
11 26 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
12 24 (1.45%) Clustering
12 24 (1.45%) Hybrid Cloud
13 23 (1.39%) Security Posture
14 20 (1.21%) Mainframe
15 18 (1.09%) Driving Licence
16 16 (0.97%) NHS
16 16 (0.97%) PMI
17 14 (0.85%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 369 (22.32%) Windows
2 103 (6.23%) Windows 10
3 96 (5.81%) Linux
4 90 (5.44%) Windows Server
5 41 (2.48%) Unix
6 33 (2.00%) Mac OS
7 29 (1.75%) Android
8 26 (1.57%) Apple iOS
9 24 (1.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 11 (0.67%) Ubuntu
10 11 (0.67%) Windows Server 2012
11 10 (0.60%) zOS
12 9 (0.54%) Windows Server 2016
13 7 (0.42%) AIX
14 5 (0.30%) VMS
14 5 (0.30%) Windows Server 2019
15 4 (0.24%) CentOS
15 4 (0.24%) Oracle Linux
15 4 (0.24%) Windows Server 2003
16 3 (0.18%) Solaris
Processes & Methodologies
1 572 (34.60%) Service Management
2 474 (28.68%) ITSM
3 404 (24.44%) Agile
4 363 (21.96%) Problem-Solving
5 319 (19.30%) Change Management
6 310 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
7 278 (16.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 264 (15.97%) Service Delivery
9 209 (12.64%) DevOps
10 206 (12.46%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 173 (10.47%) Customer Service
12 163 (9.86%) Roadmaps
13 142 (8.59%) Incident Management
14 141 (8.53%) Problem Management
15 140 (8.47%) Migration
16 139 (8.41%) Service Design
17 124 (7.50%) Project Management
18 116 (7.02%) Root Cause Analysis
19 114 (6.90%) Project Delivery
20 110 (6.65%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 145 (8.77%) PowerShell
2 102 (6.17%) SQL
3 80 (4.84%) Python
4 46 (2.78%) JavaScript
5 31 (1.88%) Bash
6 23 (1.39%) Java
7 21 (1.27%) Shell Script
8 16 (0.97%) Korn
9 14 (0.85%) Bicep
10 13 (0.79%) C#
11 11 (0.67%) Perl
12 10 (0.60%) Groovy
12 10 (0.60%) JCL
12 10 (0.60%) PL/SQL
12 10 (0.60%) REXX
13 5 (0.30%) T-SQL
14 3 (0.18%) Assembly Language
14 3 (0.18%) COBOL
14 3 (0.18%) HLASM
14 3 (0.18%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 603 (36.48%) Security Cleared
2 456 (27.59%) SC Cleared
3 238 (14.40%) Degree
4 154 (9.32%) ITIL Certification
5 149 (9.01%) DV Cleared
6 65 (3.93%) Microsoft Certification
7 60 (3.63%) Cisco Certification
8 57 (3.45%) PMI Certification
9 50 (3.02%) Computer Science Degree
10 49 (2.96%) Azure Certification
11 48 (2.90%) PMP
12 44 (2.66%) CCNP
13 38 (2.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 36 (2.18%) CISSP
15 34 (2.06%) TOGAF Certification
16 33 (2.00%) ISEB
17 30 (1.81%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 22 (1.33%) AWS Certification
18 22 (1.33%) MCSE
19 17 (1.03%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 133 (8.05%) SLA
2 71 (4.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 55 (3.33%) NIST
4 48 (2.90%) COBIT
5 46 (2.78%) GDPR
6 39 (2.36%) Data Quality
7 29 (1.75%) QA
8 26 (1.57%) GRC
9 22 (1.33%) NCSC
10 20 (1.21%) PMO
11 19 (1.15%) Cyber Essentials
11 19 (1.15%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 16 (0.97%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 10 (0.60%) Accessibility
14 10 (0.60%) JSP 440
15 8 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.48%) Government Security Classifications
15 8 (0.48%) HMG Security Policy Framework
16 7 (0.42%) NIST 800
System Software
1 293 (17.73%) Active Directory
2 67 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 33 (2.00%) Docker
4 26 (1.57%) Hyper-V
5 23 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 16 (0.97%) Oracle RAC
7 15 (0.91%) vSphere
8 13 (0.79%) Firmware
8 13 (0.79%) VMware ESXi
9 12 (0.73%) VMware NSX
10 7 (0.42%) Virtual Machines
11 5 (0.30%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 3 (0.18%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.18%) IAG
12 3 (0.18%) NFS
12 3 (0.18%) PowerHA
13 2 (0.12%) BitLocker
13 2 (0.12%) Microsoft App-V
13 2 (0.12%) XenApp
13 2 (0.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 115 (6.96%) Microsoft Intune
2 91 (5.51%) Terraform
3 80 (4.84%) Ansible
4 65 (3.93%) SCCM
5 62 (3.75%) Kubernetes
6 30 (1.81%) OPNET
7 21 (1.27%) Grafana
8 19 (1.15%) SCOM
8 19 (1.15%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (1.03%) Oracle RMAN
10 15 (0.91%) FortiGate
10 15 (0.91%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 15 (0.91%) Prometheus
11 14 (0.85%) WSUS
12 12 (0.73%) vCenter Server
13 9 (0.54%) Nessus
13 9 (0.54%) Red Hat Satellite
14 8 (0.48%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 8 (0.48%) CASB
15 7 (0.42%) vRealize
Vendors
1 367 (22.20%) Microsoft
2 363 (21.96%) ServiceNow
3 117 (7.08%) VMware
4 98 (5.93%) Remedy
5 89 (5.38%) Oracle
6 84 (5.08%) Cisco
7 56 (3.39%) Atlassian
8 54 (3.27%) Google
9 53 (3.21%) Splunk
10 42 (2.54%) Citrix
11 37 (2.24%) Palo Alto
12 34 (2.06%) Fortinet
13 32 (1.94%) Red Hat
14 31 (1.88%) SAP
15 30 (1.81%) SolarWinds
16 29 (1.75%) BMC
17 27 (1.63%) F5
18 25 (1.51%) IBM
18 25 (1.51%) Juniper
19 24 (1.45%) Salesforce