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

 6 months to
2 Jun 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 36 39
Rank change year-on-year -15 +3 +3
Contract jobs citing ITIL 1,632 1,208 1,656
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.92% 5.02% 4.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.61% 5.49% 5.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,093 737 1,098
10th Percentile £201 £213 £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 £594 £575 £575
90th Percentile £675 £660 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 82 82 139
10th Percentile £17.12 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.63 £16.25 £14.16
Median hourly rate £26.52 £22.05 £17.69
Median % change year-on-year +20.27% +24.65% +1.09%
75th Percentile £78.10 £33.75 £24.03
90th Percentile £96.55 £47.03 £43.54
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 35,421 21,987 31,631
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.31% 85.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,454 14,284 20,634
10th Percentile £325 £305 £300
25th Percentile £413 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.10% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £513 £525
% change year-on-year - -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,213 963 2,325
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.10 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.60 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +64.34% -23.73% +0.43%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £27.99 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.84% -23.32% +0.29%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 -17 538 £500 - 195
South East +3 363 £500 +11.11% 189
North of England -26 263 £496 +28.06% 132
South West -11 182 £525 +20.00% 70
North West -19 161 £550 +37.50% 69
Midlands -28 157 £450 +5.88% 78
West Midlands -31 123 £450 +5.88% 47
East of England -4 105 £425 - 53
Yorkshire -40 82 £472 +36.67% 53
East Midlands -13 33 £413 -6.88% 31
North East -14 20 £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 81 (4.96%) SharePoint
2 62 (3.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 52 (3.19%) Confluence
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%) WebSphere
9 3 (0.18%) CMS
9 3 (0.18%) Oracle SOA Suite
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%) SAS
10 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.12%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.12%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 61 (3.74%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (2.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
4 15 (0.92%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.25%) Acrobat
7 4 (0.25%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.25%) Revit
8 1 (0.061%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.061%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 52 (3.19%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.37%) Oracle HRMS
2 6 (0.37%) Primavera
3 5 (0.31%) Maximo
3 5 (0.31%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.25%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.18%) assyst
5 3 (0.18%) Oracle Applications
5 3 (0.18%) Oracle Payables
5 3 (0.18%) Oracle Receivables
5 3 (0.18%) SAP S/4HANA
6 2 (0.12%) DELMIA
6 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.12%) FLEXCUBE
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle ERP
6 2 (0.12%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.061%) Dynamics CRM
7 1 (0.061%) Oracle EBS R12
7 1 (0.061%) Oracle General Ledger
7 1 (0.061%) Remedy AR System
Cloud Services
1 391 (23.96%) Azure
2 232 (14.22%) Microsoft 365
3 197 (12.07%) AWS
4 117 (7.17%) Entra ID
5 76 (4.66%) Power Platform
6 68 (4.17%) GCP
7 66 (4.04%) Azure DevOps
8 58 (3.55%) SaaS
9 45 (2.76%) GitHub
10 29 (1.78%) Google Workspace
11 28 (1.72%) OneDrive
12 27 (1.65%) PaaS
13 24 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (1.47%) Serverless
14 22 (1.35%) Amazon S3
14 22 (1.35%) IaaS
15 21 (1.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 21 (1.29%) AWS CloudFormation
15 21 (1.29%) GitHub Actions
16 20 (1.23%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 135 (8.27%) Firewall
2 106 (6.50%) DNS
3 93 (5.70%) WAN
4 87 (5.33%) LAN
5 84 (5.15%) VPN
6 70 (4.29%) DHCP
7 57 (3.49%) TCP/IP
8 55 (3.37%) Network Security
9 47 (2.88%) SD-WAN
10 42 (2.57%) Wi-Fi
11 37 (2.27%) SAN
12 31 (1.90%) SSL
13 30 (1.84%) BGP
14 29 (1.78%) OSPF
15 21 (1.29%) VLAN
15 21 (1.29%) Wireless
16 18 (1.10%) BIG-IP
17 16 (0.98%) NAS
17 16 (0.98%) VoIP
18 15 (0.92%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (3.80%) Power BI
2 49 (3.00%) SQL Server
3 20 (1.23%) Oracle Database
4 15 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 14 (0.86%) Tableau
6 13 (0.80%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (0.67%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (0.67%) Oracle Reports
8 10 (0.61%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.61%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 7 (0.43%) Metadata
10 6 (0.37%) NoSQL
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%) Relational Database
13 3 (0.18%) Amazon Aurora
13 3 (0.18%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 165 (10.11%) JIRA
2 31 (1.90%) GitLab
3 30 (1.84%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.65%) Git
5 14 (0.86%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.49%) MSI
7 4 (0.25%) AdminStudio
7 4 (0.25%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.25%) InstallShield
7 4 (0.25%) JMeter
7 4 (0.25%) Maven
7 4 (0.25%) MLflow
7 4 (0.25%) Postman
7 4 (0.25%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.25%) ScriptRunner
7 4 (0.25%) Visual Studio
8 3 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.18%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.18%) Flyway
9 2 (0.12%) Introscope
General
1 591 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 266 (16.30%) Finance
3 243 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 169 (10.36%) Public Sector
5 72 (4.41%) Banking
6 64 (3.92%) Organisational Skills
7 63 (3.86%) Telecoms
8 50 (3.06%) Legal
9 35 (2.14%) Retail
10 33 (2.02%) Documentation Skills
10 33 (2.02%) Influencing Skills
11 27 (1.65%) Military
12 20 (1.23%) Aerospace
12 20 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
13 19 (1.16%) Law
14 18 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 18 (1.10%) Local Government
15 15 (0.92%) Police
16 11 (0.67%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 228 (13.97%) Analyst
2 131 (8.03%) Service Manager
3 127 (7.78%) Senior
4 122 (7.48%) Architect
5 111 (6.80%) IT Support
6 101 (6.19%) Lead
7 94 (5.76%) Support Engineer
8 82 (5.02%) IT Manager
9 75 (4.60%) Service Analyst
10 67 (4.11%) Consultant
11 57 (3.49%) Delivery Manager
12 54 (3.31%) IT Analyst
13 52 (3.19%) Network Engineer
14 50 (3.06%) Service Desk Analyst
14 50 (3.06%) Support Analyst
15 45 (2.76%) Project Manager
16 43 (2.63%) Infrastructure Engineer
16 43 (2.63%) IT Engineer
16 43 (2.63%) Transition Manager
17 41 (2.51%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 84 (5.15%) REST
2 49 (3.00%) SOAP
3 26 (1.59%) Middleware
4 25 (1.53%) CSS
5 22 (1.35%) Web Services
6 21 (1.29%) .NET
7 19 (1.16%) LDAP
8 18 (1.10%) HTML
9 17 (1.04%) 802.1X
9 17 (1.04%) OAuth
9 17 (1.04%) Oracle Fusion
10 15 (0.92%) Oracle GoldenGate
11 13 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
11 13 (0.80%) SAML
12 11 (0.67%) Ajax
12 11 (0.67%) AWS CDK
12 11 (0.67%) Kafka
13 10 (0.61%) OAuth2
14 9 (0.55%) AngularJS
14 9 (0.55%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 118 (7.23%) CMDB
2 109 (6.68%) Onboarding
3 90 (5.51%) Data Centre
4 70 (4.29%) Product Ownership
5 63 (3.86%) Enterprise Software
6 41 (2.51%) Management Information System
7 36 (2.21%) PKI
8 35 (2.14%) Self-Motivation
9 34 (2.08%) Clustering
10 32 (1.96%) Cloud Native
11 29 (1.78%) Replication
12 27 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
13 25 (1.53%) Security Posture
14 23 (1.41%) Virtual Team
15 19 (1.16%) Driving Licence
15 19 (1.16%) Hybrid Cloud
16 15 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
16 15 (0.92%) Mainframe
16 15 (0.92%) Operational Technology
17 13 (0.80%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 373 (22.86%) Windows
2 112 (6.86%) Linux
3 90 (5.51%) Windows 10
4 86 (5.27%) Windows Server
5 57 (3.49%) Unix
6 39 (2.39%) Mac OS
7 38 (2.33%) Apple iOS
8 34 (2.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 32 (1.96%) Android
10 12 (0.74%) Windows Server 2016
10 12 (0.74%) Windows Server 2019
11 10 (0.61%) AIX
12 8 (0.49%) zOS
13 7 (0.43%) Oracle Linux
13 7 (0.43%) Windows Server 2012
14 6 (0.37%) Ubuntu
15 4 (0.25%) HPUX
15 4 (0.25%) Solaris
15 4 (0.25%) SUSE
15 4 (0.25%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (30.27%) Service Management
2 455 (27.88%) ITSM
3 387 (23.71%) Problem-Solving
4 351 (21.51%) Agile
5 307 (18.81%) Stakeholder Management
6 295 (18.08%) Continuous Improvement
7 280 (17.16%) Change Management
8 236 (14.46%) Service Delivery
9 195 (11.95%) DevOps
10 178 (10.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 165 (10.11%) Customer Service
12 155 (9.50%) Incident Management
13 150 (9.19%) Roadmaps
14 142 (8.70%) Problem Management
15 127 (7.78%) Migration
16 126 (7.72%) CI/CD
17 118 (7.23%) Root Cause Analysis
17 118 (7.23%) Service Design
18 111 (6.80%) Project Delivery
18 111 (6.80%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 128 (7.84%) PowerShell
2 97 (5.94%) SQL
3 66 (4.04%) JavaScript
4 64 (3.92%) Python
5 33 (2.02%) Bash
6 24 (1.47%) Java
7 21 (1.29%) Shell Script
8 16 (0.98%) Korn
8 16 (0.98%) PL/SQL
9 15 (0.92%) Bicep
10 14 (0.86%) C#
11 9 (0.55%) Groovy
12 8 (0.49%) Perl
13 7 (0.43%) Apex Code
14 5 (0.31%) T-SQL
15 4 (0.25%) JCL
15 4 (0.25%) REXX
16 3 (0.18%) SOQL
16 3 (0.18%) TypeScript
17 2 (0.12%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 571 (34.99%) Security Cleared
2 408 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 187 (11.46%) Degree
4 163 (9.99%) DV Cleared
5 138 (8.46%) ITIL Certification
6 57 (3.49%) Cisco Certification
6 57 (3.49%) PMI Certification
7 55 (3.37%) Microsoft Certification
8 54 (3.31%) Computer Science Degree
9 49 (3.00%) PMP
10 45 (2.76%) Azure Certification
11 40 (2.45%) CCNP
12 39 (2.39%) CISSP
13 32 (1.96%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 21 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
14 21 (1.29%) CISM
15 18 (1.10%) Master's Degree
16 17 (1.04%) CCNA
17 16 (0.98%) AWS Certification
18 15 (0.92%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (9.07%) SLA
2 59 (3.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 58 (3.55%) NIST
4 49 (3.00%) Data Quality
5 35 (2.14%) GDPR
6 30 (1.84%) COBIT
7 28 (1.72%) QA
8 24 (1.47%) NCSC
8 24 (1.47%) PMO
9 22 (1.35%) GRC
10 16 (0.98%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 13 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (0.80%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
13 8 (0.49%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.49%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.49%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.49%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.43%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 5 (0.31%) SOC 2
System Software
1 290 (17.77%) Active Directory
2 84 (5.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (2.39%) Docker
4 31 (1.90%) Hyper-V
5 20 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
6 19 (1.16%) Oracle RAC
6 19 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
7 18 (1.10%) vSphere
8 14 (0.86%) VMware NSX
9 12 (0.74%) Firmware
10 11 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
11 6 (0.37%) NFS
12 5 (0.31%) RACF
13 4 (0.25%) Microsoft App-V
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%) BitLocker
15 2 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 123 (7.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 82 (5.02%) Terraform
3 69 (4.23%) Ansible
4 58 (3.55%) Kubernetes
5 54 (3.31%) SCCM
6 23 (1.41%) Grafana
7 22 (1.35%) Oracle RMAN
8 17 (1.04%) Prometheus
8 17 (1.04%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (0.92%) FortiGate
9 15 (0.92%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 12 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (0.74%) WSUS
11 11 (0.67%) vCenter Server
12 10 (0.61%) Red Hat Satellite
12 10 (0.61%) SCOM
13 9 (0.55%) CASB
14 8 (0.49%) vMotion
15 7 (0.43%) Data Guard
15 7 (0.43%) vRealize
Vendors
1 422 (25.86%) Microsoft
2 375 (22.98%) ServiceNow
3 133 (8.15%) VMware
4 85 (5.21%) Cisco
5 78 (4.78%) Oracle
6 73 (4.47%) Remedy
7 58 (3.55%) Splunk
8 42 (2.57%) Google
9 37 (2.27%) Palo Alto
10 35 (2.14%) Citrix
11 34 (2.08%) Red Hat
12 33 (2.02%) BMC
12 33 (2.02%) SAP
13 32 (1.96%) SolarWinds
14 30 (1.84%) Dynatrace
14 30 (1.84%) IBM
15 29 (1.78%) Fortinet
16 24 (1.47%) Salesforce
17 23 (1.41%) Zscaler
18 22 (1.35%) Juniper
680 ITIL jobs in England