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

6 months to
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 47 44
Rank change year-on-year -4 -3 -8
Contract jobs citing ITIL 1,968 1,336 1,377
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.25% 4.77% 4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.02% 5.25% 4.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,345 845 834
10th Percentile £200 £200 £200
25th Percentile £375 £300 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.26%
75th Percentile £600 £556 £588
90th Percentile £700 £625 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £463
% change year-on-year +11.11% -2.70% -3.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 103 52
10th Percentile £17.15 £15.65 £16.26
25th Percentile £18.58 £18.41 £21.06
Median hourly rate £24.39 £29.60 £26.59
Median % change year-on-year -17.62% +11.32% +61.15%
75th Percentile £55.66 £46.06 £35.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £63.17 £67.95
UK median hourly rate £23.60 £26.00 £26.50
% change year-on-year -9.23% -1.89% +60.61%

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 39,226 25,436 27,906
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 84.80% 90.90% 86.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,709 16,124 17,045
10th Percentile £325 £294 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £641
90th Percentile £738 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,969 1,568 1,160
10th Percentile £13.70 £14.50 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.43 £17.87 £20.28
Median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £42.69
Median % change year-on-year +59.05% -41.09% -4.07%
75th Percentile £67.25 £45.80 £67.14
90th Percentile £78.75 £67.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £25.15 £40.33
% change year-on-year +49.11% -37.63% -7.56%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +1 647 £500 +4.17% 537
South East -4 450 £550 +15.79% 266
North of England -7 390 £455 +18.42% 239
North West -1 266 £447 -0.67% 129
Midlands -28 155 £450 +5.88% 160
South West -25 153 £558 +48.67% 127
West Midlands -24 129 £474 +11.53% 101
East of England +9 118 £450 +17.65% 124
Yorkshire -23 107 £485 +38.57% 83
East Midlands -9 26 £419 -4.18% 59
North East -20 20 £400 +105.13% 30
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
1 137 (6.96%) SharePoint
2 87 (4.42%) Microsoft Exchange
3 61 (3.10%) Confluence
4 16 (0.81%) IIS
5 9 (0.46%) SAS
6 8 (0.41%) JBoss
7 6 (0.30%) WebLogic
8 5 (0.25%) Apache
8 5 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 4 (0.20%) CICS
9 4 (0.20%) CMS
9 4 (0.20%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.20%) WebSphere
10 2 (0.10%) Oracle Service Bus
10 2 (0.10%) Skype for Business
10 2 (0.10%) Tomcat
11 1 (0.051%) Documentum
11 1 (0.051%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.051%) nginx
11 1 (0.051%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 82 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
2 63 (3.20%) Microsoft Excel
3 20 (1.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (0.97%) MS Visio
5 18 (0.91%) Microsoft Project
6 9 (0.46%) AutoCAD
7 7 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 7 (0.36%) Revit
8 3 (0.15%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 67 (3.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.41%) ContrOCC
2 8 (0.41%) Remedy AR System
3 6 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.20%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.20%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.15%) Cloudability
5 3 (0.15%) Exchequer
5 3 (0.15%) Maximo
5 3 (0.15%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.15%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.15%) SystmOne
6 2 (0.10%) assyst
6 2 (0.10%) Dynamics NAV
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.10%) Salesforce CRM
6 2 (0.10%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.10%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 501 (25.46%) Azure
2 370 (18.80%) Microsoft 365
3 214 (10.87%) AWS
4 202 (10.26%) Entra ID
5 100 (5.08%) SaaS
6 94 (4.78%) Power Platform
7 70 (3.56%) OneDrive
8 64 (3.25%) GCP
9 57 (2.90%) Azure DevOps
10 56 (2.85%) Azure Monitor
11 41 (2.08%) GitHub
12 30 (1.52%) Datadog
13 24 (1.22%) IaaS
14 23 (1.17%) Serverless
15 22 (1.12%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 22 (1.12%) GitHub Actions
15 22 (1.12%) Google Workspace
16 21 (1.07%) AWS Lambda
16 21 (1.07%) Power Automate
17 20 (1.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 182 (9.25%) DNS
2 159 (8.08%) Firewall
3 140 (7.11%) DHCP
4 134 (6.81%) VPN
5 101 (5.13%) TCP/IP
6 81 (4.12%) WAN
7 74 (3.76%) Network Security
8 70 (3.56%) LAN
9 46 (2.34%) Wi-Fi
10 37 (1.88%) SAN
10 37 (1.88%) SSL
11 36 (1.83%) BGP
11 36 (1.83%) OSPF
12 35 (1.78%) Wireless
13 32 (1.63%) SD-WAN
14 31 (1.58%) VLAN
15 29 (1.47%) Cisco ASA
16 28 (1.42%) Cisco Firepower
17 20 (1.02%) Kerberos
17 20 (1.02%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 71 (3.61%) Power BI
2 59 (3.00%) SQL Server
3 19 (0.97%) Oracle Database
4 17 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 15 (0.76%) Amazon RDS
6 14 (0.71%) MySQL
7 12 (0.61%) Relational Database
8 10 (0.51%) Metadata
8 10 (0.51%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.46%) Db2
10 8 (0.41%) Oracle Database 11g
11 7 (0.36%) Big Data
12 6 (0.30%) BigQuery
12 6 (0.30%) Hadoop
12 6 (0.30%) Looker
12 6 (0.30%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.30%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.25%) Azure SQL Database
13 5 (0.25%) Data Warehouse
13 5 (0.25%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 156 (7.93%) JIRA
2 33 (1.68%) Git
3 26 (1.32%) Jenkins
4 19 (0.97%) Bitbucket
4 19 (0.97%) GitLab
5 11 (0.56%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 9 (0.46%) MSI
7 6 (0.30%) Postman
8 5 (0.25%) JMeter
9 4 (0.20%) Chocolatey
9 4 (0.20%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.20%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.20%) REST Assured
9 4 (0.20%) Sonatype Nexus
10 3 (0.15%) eggPlant
10 3 (0.15%) Locust
10 3 (0.15%) Robot Framework
10 3 (0.15%) TestCafe
10 3 (0.15%) Visual Studio
11 2 (0.10%) Zephyr
General
1 853 (43.34%) Social Skills
2 347 (17.63%) Finance
3 320 (16.26%) Analytical Skills
4 201 (10.21%) Public Sector
5 122 (6.20%) Banking
6 85 (4.32%) Telecoms
7 82 (4.17%) Organisational Skills
8 68 (3.46%) Legal
9 63 (3.20%) Influencing Skills
10 51 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
11 45 (2.29%) Aerospace
12 33 (1.68%) Retail
13 29 (1.47%) Military
14 28 (1.42%) Local Government
15 27 (1.37%) Manufacturing
15 27 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
16 22 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 17 (0.86%) Law
18 16 (0.81%) Police
19 15 (0.76%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 266 (13.52%) Analyst
2 152 (7.72%) Lead
3 150 (7.62%) Support Engineer
4 148 (7.52%) Senior
5 146 (7.42%) IT Support
6 135 (6.86%) Architect
7 120 (6.10%) Service Manager
8 91 (4.62%) IT Engineer
9 76 (3.86%) Delivery Manager
9 76 (3.86%) IT Support Engineer
10 73 (3.71%) Service Analyst
11 70 (3.56%) IT Manager
12 69 (3.51%) Consultant
13 67 (3.40%) Network Engineer
14 62 (3.15%) Support Analyst
15 61 (3.10%) Desktop Support
16 58 (2.95%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 58 (2.95%) Project Manager
17 56 (2.85%) IT Analyst
18 53 (2.69%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (5.34%) Terraform
2 100 (5.08%) REST
3 48 (2.44%) SOAP
4 47 (2.39%) Middleware
5 22 (1.12%) HTML
6 21 (1.07%) CSS
7 20 (1.02%) SAML
7 20 (1.02%) Web Services
8 19 (0.97%) OAuth
9 18 (0.91%) .NET
10 17 (0.86%) Ajax
11 15 (0.76%) ARM Templates
12 14 (0.71%) ISPF
12 14 (0.71%) LDAP
12 14 (0.71%) OpenID
13 11 (0.56%) Software Packaging
14 10 (0.51%) JSON
14 10 (0.51%) Microsoft Graph
14 10 (0.51%) XML
15 8 (0.41%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 192 (9.76%) Onboarding
2 166 (8.43%) CMDB
3 98 (4.98%) Data Centre
4 86 (4.37%) Management Information System
5 81 (4.12%) Enterprise Software
6 56 (2.85%) Hybrid Cloud
7 52 (2.64%) Clustering
8 50 (2.54%) Product Ownership
9 48 (2.44%) PKI
10 35 (1.78%) Driving Licence
11 31 (1.58%) Security Operations Centre
12 30 (1.52%) Cloud Native
12 30 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
13 29 (1.47%) Mainframe
14 25 (1.27%) Cyber Threat
15 23 (1.17%) Legacy Systems
15 23 (1.17%) Security Posture
15 23 (1.17%) Virtual Team
16 22 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
17 19 (0.97%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 546 (27.74%) Windows
2 176 (8.94%) Windows Server
3 157 (7.98%) Linux
4 136 (6.91%) Windows 10
5 58 (2.95%) Mac OS
6 53 (2.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 52 (2.64%) Apple iOS
7 52 (2.64%) Unix
8 49 (2.49%) Android
9 25 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
10 19 (0.97%) zOS
11 17 (0.86%) AIX
12 11 (0.56%) Solaris
13 10 (0.51%) Windows Server 2016
14 9 (0.46%) VMS
15 6 (0.30%) Oracle Linux
15 6 (0.30%) SUSE
15 6 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
16 5 (0.25%) HPUX
17 4 (0.20%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 789 (40.09%) Service Management
2 605 (30.74%) ITSM
3 581 (29.52%) Stakeholder Management
4 470 (23.88%) Continuous Improvement
5 454 (23.07%) Problem-Solving
6 411 (20.88%) Agile
7 343 (17.43%) Change Management
8 341 (17.33%) Service Delivery
9 243 (12.35%) Incident Management
10 237 (12.04%) Customer Service
11 214 (10.87%) Roadmaps
12 202 (10.26%) DevOps
13 199 (10.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 198 (10.06%) Root Cause Analysis
15 191 (9.71%) Cybersecurity
16 184 (9.35%) Project Delivery
17 163 (8.28%) PRINCE2
18 162 (8.23%) Migration
19 154 (7.83%) Service Design
20 153 (7.77%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 219 (11.13%) PowerShell
2 124 (6.30%) Python
3 115 (5.84%) SQL
4 74 (3.76%) Bash
5 67 (3.40%) JavaScript
6 26 (1.32%) Bicep
7 16 (0.81%) Java
8 15 (0.76%) T-SQL
9 13 (0.66%) PL/SQL
10 9 (0.46%) Perl
10 9 (0.46%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.36%) Groovy
12 6 (0.30%) Apex Code
12 6 (0.30%) C#
12 6 (0.30%) JCL
13 4 (0.20%) Google Apps Script
13 4 (0.20%) VBScript
14 3 (0.15%) COBOL
14 3 (0.15%) Korn
14 3 (0.15%) RPG
Qualifications
1 725 (36.84%) Security Cleared
2 513 (26.07%) SC Cleared
3 252 (12.80%) Degree
4 177 (8.99%) DV Cleared
5 141 (7.16%) ITIL Certification
6 78 (3.96%) Microsoft Certification
7 77 (3.91%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 74 (3.76%) PMI Certification
9 69 (3.51%) PMP
10 62 (3.15%) Azure Certification
10 62 (3.15%) Cisco Certification
11 60 (3.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 60 (3.05%) CISSP
12 56 (2.85%) Computer Science Degree
13 38 (1.93%) CCNP
14 37 (1.88%) A+ Certification
15 35 (1.78%) CISM
16 29 (1.47%) AWS Certification
17 26 (1.32%) CCNA
18 20 (1.02%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 204 (10.37%) SLA
2 73 (3.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 66 (3.35%) QA
4 59 (3.00%) Data Quality
5 49 (2.49%) NIST
6 38 (1.93%) GRC
7 35 (1.78%) GDPR
7 35 (1.78%) NCSC
8 33 (1.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
9 23 (1.17%) PMO
10 18 (0.91%) COBIT
11 17 (0.86%) ISO 9001
12 15 (0.76%) PCI DSS
13 11 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
14 7 (0.36%) ISO 22301
15 6 (0.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.30%) ISO 31000
15 6 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27005
16 5 (0.25%) GxP
16 5 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 386 (19.61%) Active Directory
2 168 (8.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 72 (3.66%) Hyper-V
4 44 (2.24%) Virtual Desktop
5 38 (1.93%) Docker
6 30 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
7 29 (1.47%) vSphere
8 26 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
9 21 (1.07%) Firmware
10 19 (0.97%) Oracle RAC
11 16 (0.81%) VMware NSX
12 15 (0.76%) IAG
13 14 (0.71%) Citrix Hypervisor
13 14 (0.71%) RACF
14 10 (0.51%) XenApp
14 10 (0.51%) XenDesktop
15 9 (0.46%) NFS
15 9 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
16 5 (0.25%) ISA Server
16 5 (0.25%) OpenAM
Systems Management
1 209 (10.62%) Microsoft Intune
2 130 (6.61%) SCCM
3 96 (4.88%) Ansible
4 58 (2.95%) Kubernetes
5 42 (2.13%) SCOM
6 23 (1.17%) vCenter Server
7 22 (1.12%) Data Guard
8 21 (1.07%) Grafana
8 21 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
9 20 (1.02%) Single Sign-On
10 18 (0.91%) Prometheus
11 16 (0.81%) Red Hat Satellite
12 14 (0.71%) WSUS
13 13 (0.66%) OMEGAMON
14 12 (0.61%) Oracle RMAN
14 12 (0.61%) Puppet
15 8 (0.41%) Failover Clustering
15 8 (0.41%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.41%) SysTrack
15 8 (0.41%) vMotion
Vendors
1 657 (33.38%) Microsoft
2 552 (28.05%) ServiceNow
3 207 (10.52%) VMware
4 118 (6.00%) Cisco
5 77 (3.91%) Remedy
6 69 (3.51%) Oracle
7 59 (3.00%) IBM
8 54 (2.74%) Citrix
9 52 (2.64%) Palo Alto
10 48 (2.44%) Google
11 46 (2.34%) BMC
12 43 (2.18%) SolarWinds
13 40 (2.03%) Dynatrace
14 38 (1.93%) SAP
15 36 (1.83%) Red Hat
15 36 (1.83%) Splunk
16 32 (1.63%) Apple
16 32 (1.63%) Salesforce
17 26 (1.32%) Fortinet
17 26 (1.32%) Meraki