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

6 months to
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 40 39
Rank change year-on-year -10 -1 +4
Contract jobs citing ITIL 1,667 1,205 1,644
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.97% 5.00% 4.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.67% 5.48% 5.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,121 729 1,089
10th Percentile £200 £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 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £659 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +0.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 83 138
10th Percentile £17.12 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.06 £16.25 £14.16
Median hourly rate £26.52 £22.05 £17.69
Median % change year-on-year +20.27% +24.65% +2.36%
75th Percentile £76.73 £33.75 £24.14
90th Percentile £87.73 £47.42 £43.87
UK median hourly rate £22.27 £22.05 £17.69
% change year-on-year +0.98% +24.65% +1.09%

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 35,679 21,999 31,507
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.05% 91.35% 85.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,608 14,249 20,517
10th Percentile £325 £304 £300
25th Percentile £413 £409 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -0.96% -0.95% -4.55%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,238 979 2,317
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.83
25th Percentile £20.76 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.50 £28.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +66.67% -24.00% +1.35%
75th Percentile £68.00 £59.60 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.93 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £27.53 £36.50
% change year-on-year +59.68% -24.58% +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 5 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 5 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 5 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 -15 559 £500 - 208
South East +4 373 £500 +11.11% 191
North of England -29 273 £500 +33.33% 140
South West -14 179 £525 +20.00% 66
North West -14 165 £550 +37.50% 78
Midlands -27 155 £450 +5.88% 66
West Midlands -33 122 £450 +5.88% 41
East of England -4 106 £400 -6.98% 49
Yorkshire -28 88 £475 +39.71% 50
East Midlands -11 32 £413 -6.88% 26
North East -16 20 £440 +125.64% 13
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 83 (4.98%) SharePoint
2 64 (3.84%) Microsoft Exchange
3 51 (3.06%) Confluence
4 14 (0.84%) IIS
5 8 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.36%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.36%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 4 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 4 (0.24%) WebSphere
8 3 (0.18%) Apache
8 3 (0.18%) CMS
8 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.12%) ArcGIS
9 2 (0.12%) IBM HTTP Server
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle HTTP Server
9 2 (0.12%) Oracle Spatial
9 2 (0.12%) SAS
9 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
9 2 (0.12%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 60 (3.60%) Microsoft Office
2 40 (2.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 25 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (0.90%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.72%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.30%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.30%) Revit
7 4 (0.24%) Acrobat
8 1 (0.060%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.060%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 52 (3.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.36%) Oracle HRMS
2 6 (0.36%) Primavera
3 5 (0.30%) Maximo
3 5 (0.30%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
4 4 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
5 3 (0.18%) assyst
5 3 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.12%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
6 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.060%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.060%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 396 (23.76%) Azure
2 244 (14.64%) Microsoft 365
3 193 (11.58%) AWS
4 119 (7.14%) Entra ID
5 76 (4.56%) Power Platform
6 65 (3.90%) Azure DevOps
7 64 (3.84%) GCP
8 62 (3.72%) SaaS
9 45 (2.70%) GitHub
10 32 (1.92%) Google Workspace
11 31 (1.86%) OneDrive
12 28 (1.68%) PaaS
13 24 (1.44%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (1.44%) Serverless
14 23 (1.38%) IaaS
15 22 (1.32%) Amazon S3
16 21 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 21 (1.26%) GitHub Actions
17 20 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
17 20 (1.20%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 143 (8.58%) Firewall
2 108 (6.48%) DNS
3 95 (5.70%) WAN
4 93 (5.58%) VPN
5 89 (5.34%) LAN
6 71 (4.26%) DHCP
7 58 (3.48%) Network Security
8 57 (3.42%) TCP/IP
9 47 (2.82%) SD-WAN
10 44 (2.64%) Wi-Fi
11 35 (2.10%) SSL
12 33 (1.98%) SAN
13 32 (1.92%) BGP
14 31 (1.86%) OSPF
15 22 (1.32%) VLAN
16 21 (1.26%) Wireless
17 18 (1.08%) BIG-IP
18 16 (0.96%) MPLS
18 16 (0.96%) VoIP
19 15 (0.90%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (3.72%) Power BI
2 50 (3.00%) SQL Server
3 20 (1.20%) Oracle Database
4 15 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 13 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
5 13 (0.78%) Tableau
6 12 (0.72%) Oracle Reports
7 11 (0.66%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.60%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (0.42%) Metadata
10 6 (0.36%) 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%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.18%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.18%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 169 (10.14%) JIRA
2 29 (1.74%) GitLab
2 29 (1.74%) Jenkins
3 27 (1.62%) Git
4 15 (0.90%) Bitbucket
5 8 (0.48%) MSI
6 5 (0.30%) JMeter
7 4 (0.24%) AdminStudio
7 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.24%) InstallShield
7 4 (0.24%) Maven
7 4 (0.24%) MLflow
7 4 (0.24%) Postman
7 4 (0.24%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.24%) ScriptRunner
7 4 (0.24%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.18%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.18%) Flyway
9 2 (0.12%) Eclipse
General
1 607 (36.41%) Social Skills
2 278 (16.68%) Finance
3 253 (15.18%) Analytical Skills
4 168 (10.08%) Public Sector
5 79 (4.74%) Banking
6 63 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
6 63 (3.78%) Telecoms
7 56 (3.36%) Legal
8 35 (2.10%) Retail
9 33 (1.98%) Influencing Skills
10 32 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
11 26 (1.56%) Military
12 20 (1.20%) Aerospace
12 20 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (1.14%) Law
13 19 (1.14%) Local Government
14 18 (1.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 15 (0.90%) Police
16 13 (0.78%) Front Office
16 13 (0.78%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 240 (14.40%) Analyst
2 133 (7.98%) Service Manager
3 129 (7.74%) Senior
4 116 (6.96%) Architect
5 115 (6.90%) IT Support
6 106 (6.36%) Lead
7 101 (6.06%) Support Engineer
8 84 (5.04%) IT Manager
9 80 (4.80%) Service Analyst
10 72 (4.32%) Consultant
11 61 (3.66%) Delivery Manager
12 56 (3.36%) IT Analyst
13 54 (3.24%) Network Engineer
14 52 (3.12%) Support Analyst
15 50 (3.00%) Service Desk Analyst
16 47 (2.82%) IT Engineer
17 46 (2.76%) Project Manager
17 46 (2.76%) Transition Manager
18 44 (2.64%) IT Support Engineer
19 43 (2.58%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (4.98%) REST
2 47 (2.82%) SOAP
3 29 (1.74%) Middleware
4 25 (1.50%) CSS
5 23 (1.38%) Web Services
6 21 (1.26%) .NET
7 19 (1.14%) LDAP
8 18 (1.08%) HTML
9 17 (1.02%) 802.1X
9 17 (1.02%) OAuth
9 17 (1.02%) Oracle Fusion
10 15 (0.90%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 13 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
11 13 (0.78%) SAML
12 12 (0.72%) AWS CDK
13 11 (0.66%) Ajax
14 10 (0.60%) ISPF
14 10 (0.60%) Kafka
14 10 (0.60%) OAuth2
15 9 (0.54%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 121 (7.26%) CMDB
2 113 (6.78%) Onboarding
3 92 (5.52%) Data Centre
4 69 (4.14%) Product Ownership
5 65 (3.90%) Enterprise Software
6 42 (2.52%) Management Information System
7 37 (2.22%) Clustering
7 37 (2.22%) PKI
8 35 (2.10%) Self-Motivation
9 31 (1.86%) Cloud Native
10 28 (1.68%) Analytical Mindset
11 27 (1.62%) Replication
12 26 (1.56%) Security Posture
13 24 (1.44%) Virtual Team
14 20 (1.20%) Driving Licence
15 19 (1.14%) Hybrid Cloud
15 19 (1.14%) Mainframe
16 16 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
17 14 (0.84%) Operational Technology
18 13 (0.78%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 386 (23.16%) Windows
2 110 (6.60%) Linux
3 91 (5.46%) Windows 10
4 86 (5.16%) Windows Server
5 57 (3.42%) Unix
6 41 (2.46%) Mac OS
7 40 (2.40%) Apple iOS
8 35 (2.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 32 (1.92%) Android
10 11 (0.66%) Windows Server 2016
10 11 (0.66%) Windows Server 2019
10 11 (0.66%) zOS
11 10 (0.60%) AIX
12 7 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
12 7 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
13 4 (0.24%) HPUX
13 4 (0.24%) Solaris
13 4 (0.24%) SUSE
13 4 (0.24%) VMS
14 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 513 (30.77%) Service Management
2 474 (28.43%) ITSM
3 399 (23.94%) Problem-Solving
4 357 (21.42%) Agile
5 326 (19.56%) Stakeholder Management
6 309 (18.54%) Continuous Improvement
7 288 (17.28%) Change Management
8 246 (14.76%) Service Delivery
9 200 (12.00%) DevOps
10 181 (10.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 165 (9.90%) Customer Service
12 158 (9.48%) Incident Management
13 153 (9.18%) Roadmaps
14 144 (8.64%) Problem Management
15 126 (7.56%) CI/CD
15 126 (7.56%) Migration
16 122 (7.32%) Root Cause Analysis
17 119 (7.14%) Service Design
18 116 (6.96%) Project Delivery
19 110 (6.60%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 131 (7.86%) PowerShell
2 96 (5.76%) SQL
3 64 (3.84%) JavaScript
4 62 (3.72%) Python
5 33 (1.98%) Bash
6 24 (1.44%) Java
7 19 (1.14%) Shell Script
8 16 (0.96%) Korn
8 16 (0.96%) PL/SQL
9 15 (0.90%) Bicep
10 14 (0.84%) C#
11 9 (0.54%) Groovy
12 8 (0.48%) Perl
13 7 (0.42%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.30%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.24%) JCL
15 4 (0.24%) REXX
16 3 (0.18%) SOQL
16 3 (0.18%) TypeScript
17 2 (0.12%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 570 (34.19%) Security Cleared
2 409 (24.54%) SC Cleared
3 188 (11.28%) Degree
4 162 (9.72%) DV Cleared
5 143 (8.58%) ITIL Certification
6 60 (3.60%) Cisco Certification
7 57 (3.42%) PMI Certification
8 56 (3.36%) Microsoft Certification
9 54 (3.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 50 (3.00%) PMP
11 48 (2.88%) Azure Certification
12 42 (2.52%) CCNP
13 39 (2.34%) CISSP
14 34 (2.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 22 (1.32%) BPSS Clearance
16 21 (1.26%) CISM
17 18 (1.08%) CCNA
17 18 (1.08%) Master's Degree
18 16 (0.96%) AWS Certification
19 15 (0.90%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 152 (9.12%) SLA
2 62 (3.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (3.48%) NIST
4 52 (3.12%) Data Quality
5 37 (2.22%) GDPR
6 34 (2.04%) COBIT
7 29 (1.74%) QA
8 25 (1.50%) PMO
9 24 (1.44%) NCSC
10 22 (1.32%) GRC
11 16 (0.96%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 13 (0.78%) PCI DSS
13 12 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.54%) Government Security Classifications
15 8 (0.48%) Accessibility
15 8 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
15 8 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 8 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 42001
17 5 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 297 (17.82%) Active Directory
2 83 (4.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 40 (2.40%) Docker
4 32 (1.92%) Hyper-V
5 19 (1.14%) Oracle RAC
5 19 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (1.08%) Virtual Desktop
7 15 (0.90%) Firmware
7 15 (0.90%) vSphere
8 12 (0.72%) Virtual Machines
8 12 (0.72%) VMware NSX
9 8 (0.48%) RACF
10 5 (0.30%) NFS
11 4 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
12 3 (0.18%) BitLocker
12 3 (0.18%) DFS Replication
12 3 (0.18%) IAG
12 3 (0.18%) PowerHA
12 3 (0.18%) XenDesktop
13 2 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 128 (7.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 80 (4.80%) Terraform
3 68 (4.08%) Ansible
4 59 (3.54%) Kubernetes
5 57 (3.42%) SCCM
6 23 (1.38%) Grafana
7 22 (1.32%) Oracle RMAN
8 18 (1.08%) Prometheus
9 16 (0.96%) Single Sign-On
10 15 (0.90%) FortiGate
10 15 (0.90%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 15 (0.90%) WSUS
11 13 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
12 11 (0.66%) vCenter Server
13 10 (0.60%) Red Hat Satellite
13 10 (0.60%) SCOM
14 9 (0.54%) CASB
15 8 (0.48%) vMotion
16 7 (0.42%) Data Guard
16 7 (0.42%) vRealize
Vendors
1 433 (25.97%) Microsoft
2 386 (23.16%) ServiceNow
3 126 (7.56%) VMware
4 88 (5.28%) Cisco
5 80 (4.80%) Oracle
6 70 (4.20%) Remedy
7 60 (3.60%) Splunk
8 44 (2.64%) Google
9 37 (2.22%) Citrix
9 37 (2.22%) Palo Alto
10 34 (2.04%) IBM
10 34 (2.04%) SAP
11 32 (1.92%) BMC
12 31 (1.86%) Fortinet
12 31 (1.86%) Red Hat
12 31 (1.86%) SolarWinds
13 30 (1.80%) Dynatrace
14 25 (1.50%) Salesforce
15 24 (1.44%) Juniper
16 23 (1.38%) Zscaler