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 3 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 47 42 40
Rank change year-on-year -5 -2 +5
Contract jobs citing ITIL 1,822 1,273 1,594
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.15% 4.88% 4.26%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.86% 5.36% 4.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,242 779 1,049
10th Percentile £200 £210 £205
25th Percentile £381 £308 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £578
90th Percentile £675 £656 £663
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 96 90 123
10th Percentile £17.19 £14.99 £14.03
25th Percentile £18.58 £16.35 £14.48
Median hourly rate £23.90 £24.58 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year -2.75% +15.00% +22.11%
75th Percentile £72.81 £33.75 £25.00
90th Percentile £85.13 £48.63 £42.88
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £22.05 £21.37
% change year-on-year -0.23% +3.18% +22.11%

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 37,490 23,760 31,971
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.37% 91.05% 85.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,605 15,276 20,748
10th Percentile £325 £300 £305
25th Percentile £419 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.46% -1.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £730 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £505 £525
% change year-on-year +1.98% -3.81% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,362 1,184 2,308
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.23 £12.79
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.95 £16.06
Median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
Median % change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% +1.65%
75th Percentile £68.55 £55.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £82.25 £72.50 £73.75
UK median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £37.50
% change year-on-year +74.79% -32.93% +3.45%

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 3 July 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 3 July 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 3 July 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 -16 596 £500 - 179
South East +5 442 £510 +13.28% 207
North of England -17 316 £485 +26.96% 144
North West -11 201 £496 +16.76% 97
South West -9 186 £500 +53.85% 72
Midlands -35 151 £450 +5.88% 70
West Midlands -36 121 £450 +5.88% 38
East of England -2 100 £425 - 42
Yorkshire -28 100 £485 +34.91% 34
East Midlands -5 29 £413 -9.84% 32
North East -30 16 £440 +125.64% 14
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
1 114 (6.26%) SharePoint
2 69 (3.79%) Microsoft Exchange
3 60 (3.29%) Confluence
4 11 (0.60%) IIS
5 9 (0.49%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.33%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.33%) Oracle Self-Service HR
6 6 (0.33%) WebSphere
7 5 (0.27%) SAS
8 4 (0.22%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 3 (0.16%) CMS
9 3 (0.16%) OpenStack
9 3 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 3 (0.16%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.11%) ArcGIS
10 2 (0.11%) IBM HTTP Server
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle HTTP Server
10 2 (0.11%) Oracle Spatial
10 2 (0.11%) WebSphere Application Server
10 2 (0.11%) WebSphere Portal
Applications
1 68 (3.73%) Microsoft Office
2 43 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
4 22 (1.21%) MS Visio
5 12 (0.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.55%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.44%) Revit
8 7 (0.38%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.055%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.055%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 58 (3.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.44%) ContrOCC
3 6 (0.33%) Oracle HRMS
3 6 (0.33%) Primavera
4 5 (0.27%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.22%) Oracle EBS
5 4 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 4 (0.22%) Payment Gateway
6 3 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
6 3 (0.16%) Oracle Payables
6 3 (0.16%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.11%) assyst
7 2 (0.11%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle Cash Management
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS R12
7 2 (0.11%) Remedy AR System
7 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.055%) iTrent
Cloud Services
1 436 (23.93%) Azure
2 290 (15.92%) Microsoft 365
3 201 (11.03%) AWS
4 140 (7.68%) Entra ID
5 92 (5.05%) Power Platform
6 74 (4.06%) SaaS
7 66 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
8 54 (2.96%) GCP
9 52 (2.85%) GitHub
10 38 (2.09%) OneDrive
11 28 (1.54%) PaaS
12 25 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 25 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
12 25 (1.37%) Serverless
13 24 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
13 24 (1.32%) GitHub Actions
14 23 (1.26%) Amazon S3
14 23 (1.26%) IaaS
15 22 (1.21%) Power Automate
16 21 (1.15%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 156 (8.56%) Firewall
2 123 (6.75%) DNS
3 100 (5.49%) VPN
4 96 (5.27%) WAN
5 91 (4.99%) LAN
6 77 (4.23%) DHCP
7 72 (3.95%) TCP/IP
8 63 (3.46%) Network Security
9 52 (2.85%) Wi-Fi
10 48 (2.63%) SD-WAN
11 46 (2.52%) SSL
12 42 (2.31%) BGP
12 42 (2.31%) OSPF
13 30 (1.65%) SAN
14 28 (1.54%) Wireless
15 26 (1.43%) Cisco ASA
16 24 (1.32%) Cisco Firepower
17 22 (1.21%) BIG-IP
17 22 (1.21%) VLAN
18 20 (1.10%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (4.17%) Power BI
2 56 (3.07%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.32%) Oracle Database
4 20 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 13 (0.71%) PostgreSQL
6 12 (0.66%) Oracle Reports
7 11 (0.60%) Amazon RDS
7 11 (0.60%) Data Warehouse
8 10 (0.55%) MySQL
8 10 (0.55%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 8 (0.44%) NoSQL
9 8 (0.44%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.44%) Tableau
10 7 (0.38%) Metadata
11 6 (0.33%) Oracle Database 11g
11 6 (0.33%) Oracle Database 12c
12 5 (0.27%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.27%) Oracle BI EE
13 4 (0.22%) Db2
13 4 (0.22%) DTS
Development Applications
1 190 (10.43%) JIRA
2 34 (1.87%) Git
3 31 (1.70%) Jenkins
4 28 (1.54%) GitLab
5 15 (0.82%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.44%) MSI
7 4 (0.22%) AdminStudio
7 4 (0.22%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.22%) Eclipse
7 4 (0.22%) InstallShield
7 4 (0.22%) Maven
7 4 (0.22%) MLflow
7 4 (0.22%) Postman
7 4 (0.22%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.22%) ScriptRunner
8 3 (0.16%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 3 (0.16%) Browser DevTools
8 3 (0.16%) Flyway
8 3 (0.16%) JMeter
8 3 (0.16%) Visual Studio
General
1 695 (38.14%) Social Skills
2 318 (17.45%) Finance
3 284 (15.59%) Analytical Skills
4 202 (11.09%) Public Sector
5 94 (5.16%) Banking
6 80 (4.39%) Telecoms
7 71 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
8 63 (3.46%) Legal
9 50 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
10 35 (1.92%) Documentation Skills
10 35 (1.92%) Retail
11 27 (1.48%) Local Government
12 26 (1.43%) Military
12 26 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
13 21 (1.15%) Aerospace
14 17 (0.93%) Financial Institution
14 17 (0.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 16 (0.88%) Police
16 13 (0.71%) Front Office
16 13 (0.71%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 260 (14.27%) Analyst
2 151 (8.29%) Senior
3 141 (7.74%) Service Manager
4 140 (7.68%) IT Support
5 121 (6.64%) Architect
6 119 (6.53%) Lead
6 119 (6.53%) Support Engineer
7 94 (5.16%) IT Manager
8 84 (4.61%) Consultant
8 84 (4.61%) Service Analyst
9 70 (3.84%) IT Analyst
10 65 (3.57%) IT Engineer
11 63 (3.46%) Delivery Manager
12 62 (3.40%) Network Engineer
13 60 (3.29%) IT Support Engineer
13 60 (3.29%) Project Manager
14 59 (3.24%) Support Analyst
15 52 (2.85%) Service Desk Analyst
16 51 (2.80%) Transition Manager
17 50 (2.74%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (5.49%) REST
2 54 (2.96%) SOAP
3 34 (1.87%) Middleware
4 24 (1.32%) LDAP
4 24 (1.32%) Web Services
5 23 (1.26%) CSS
6 22 (1.21%) .NET
7 21 (1.15%) OAuth
8 20 (1.10%) HTML
9 17 (0.93%) SAML
10 16 (0.88%) 802.1X
10 16 (0.88%) ISPF
10 16 (0.88%) Oracle Fusion
11 15 (0.82%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 14 (0.77%) Microsoft Graph
13 13 (0.71%) Ajax
13 13 (0.71%) OpenID
14 12 (0.66%) AWS CDK
15 11 (0.60%) OAuth2
16 10 (0.55%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 136 (7.46%) CMDB
2 129 (7.08%) Onboarding
3 104 (5.71%) Data Centre
4 74 (4.06%) Product Ownership
5 61 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
6 54 (2.96%) Management Information System
7 47 (2.58%) Clustering
8 44 (2.41%) PKI
9 37 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
10 32 (1.76%) Analytical Mindset
10 32 (1.76%) Cloud Native
11 30 (1.65%) Replication
12 29 (1.59%) Security Posture
13 28 (1.54%) Mainframe
14 25 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
15 24 (1.32%) Driving Licence
16 23 (1.26%) Hybrid Cloud
16 23 (1.26%) Virtual Team
17 13 (0.71%) Data Protection Act
17 13 (0.71%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 427 (23.44%) Windows
2 124 (6.81%) Linux
3 107 (5.87%) Windows 10
4 86 (4.72%) Windows Server
5 66 (3.62%) Unix
6 49 (2.69%) Mac OS
7 41 (2.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 39 (2.14%) Apple iOS
9 27 (1.48%) Android
10 17 (0.93%) zOS
11 13 (0.71%) Windows Server 2019
12 11 (0.60%) AIX
13 10 (0.55%) Windows Server 2016
14 8 (0.44%) Oracle Linux
14 8 (0.44%) Windows Server 2012
15 7 (0.38%) VMS
16 6 (0.33%) Solaris
17 5 (0.27%) HPUX
17 5 (0.27%) SUSE
18 4 (0.22%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 585 (32.11%) Service Management
2 514 (28.21%) ITSM
3 454 (24.92%) Problem-Solving
4 404 (22.17%) Agile
5 398 (21.84%) Stakeholder Management
6 354 (19.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 303 (16.63%) Change Management
8 285 (15.64%) Service Delivery
9 208 (11.42%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 205 (11.25%) DevOps
11 192 (10.54%) Customer Service
12 184 (10.10%) Incident Management
13 177 (9.71%) Roadmaps
14 151 (8.29%) Problem Management
15 143 (7.85%) Project Delivery
16 140 (7.68%) Migration
17 139 (7.63%) AI
18 134 (7.35%) Service Design
19 132 (7.24%) Root Cause Analysis
20 125 (6.86%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 150 (8.23%) PowerShell
2 108 (5.93%) SQL
3 82 (4.50%) Python
4 71 (3.90%) JavaScript
5 35 (1.92%) Bash
6 26 (1.43%) Java
7 20 (1.10%) PL/SQL
8 19 (1.04%) Shell Script
9 16 (0.88%) Korn
10 14 (0.77%) C#
11 10 (0.55%) Bicep
11 10 (0.55%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.49%) Groovy
12 9 (0.49%) Perl
13 7 (0.38%) Apex Code
14 4 (0.22%) JCL
14 4 (0.22%) REXX
15 3 (0.16%) SOQL
15 3 (0.16%) TypeScript
15 3 (0.16%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 636 (34.91%) Security Cleared
2 437 (23.98%) SC Cleared
3 233 (12.79%) Degree
4 190 (10.43%) DV Cleared
5 146 (8.01%) ITIL Certification
6 71 (3.90%) PMI Certification
7 66 (3.62%) Cisco Certification
7 66 (3.62%) Computer Science Degree
8 64 (3.51%) PMP
9 62 (3.40%) Microsoft Certification
10 47 (2.58%) Azure Certification
11 45 (2.47%) CCNP
12 44 (2.41%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 40 (2.20%) CISSP
14 28 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
15 27 (1.48%) CCNA
16 24 (1.32%) Master's Degree
17 20 (1.10%) MCSE
18 18 (0.99%) A+ Certification
19 17 (0.93%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 169 (9.28%) SLA
2 72 (3.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 56 (3.07%) NIST
4 54 (2.96%) Data Quality
5 42 (2.31%) GDPR
6 39 (2.14%) QA
7 37 (2.03%) COBIT
8 30 (1.65%) PMO
9 29 (1.59%) NCSC
10 25 (1.37%) GRC
11 23 (1.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 14 (0.77%) PCI DSS
13 10 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
14 9 (0.49%) Government Security Classifications
15 8 (0.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
16 7 (0.38%) Accessibility
16 7 (0.38%) ISO 9001
17 6 (0.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 5 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 42001
18 5 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 326 (17.89%) Active Directory
2 86 (4.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (1.87%) Docker
4 24 (1.32%) Hyper-V
5 23 (1.26%) Oracle RAC
6 21 (1.15%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (1.04%) Virtual Machines
8 17 (0.93%) VMware NSX
9 16 (0.88%) Firmware
10 15 (0.82%) Virtual Desktop
11 14 (0.77%) RACF
12 13 (0.71%) vSphere
13 8 (0.44%) IAG
13 8 (0.44%) NFS
14 4 (0.22%) Microsoft App-V
15 3 (0.16%) BitLocker
15 3 (0.16%) OpenAM
15 3 (0.16%) PowerHA
15 3 (0.16%) XenDesktop
16 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 155 (8.51%) Microsoft Intune
2 78 (4.28%) Terraform
3 75 (4.12%) Ansible
4 72 (3.95%) SCCM
5 53 (2.91%) Kubernetes
6 25 (1.37%) Oracle RMAN
7 17 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (0.88%) Grafana
8 16 (0.88%) Jamf Pro
9 15 (0.82%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
9 15 (0.82%) SCOM
10 14 (0.77%) WSUS
11 13 (0.71%) FortiGate
11 13 (0.71%) OMEGAMON
12 12 (0.66%) Red Hat Satellite
13 11 (0.60%) Data Guard
13 11 (0.60%) Prometheus
13 11 (0.60%) vCenter Server
14 10 (0.55%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 9 (0.49%) CASB
Vendors
1 481 (26.40%) Microsoft
2 477 (26.18%) ServiceNow
3 129 (7.08%) VMware
4 103 (5.65%) Cisco
5 87 (4.77%) Oracle
6 76 (4.17%) Remedy
7 57 (3.13%) Splunk
8 47 (2.58%) Palo Alto
9 41 (2.25%) SolarWinds
10 39 (2.14%) IBM
10 39 (2.14%) SAP
11 37 (2.03%) Citrix
12 36 (1.98%) BMC
13 32 (1.76%) Juniper
14 30 (1.65%) Dynatrace
14 30 (1.65%) Fortinet
14 30 (1.65%) Google
14 30 (1.65%) Red Hat
15 29 (1.59%) F5
16 27 (1.48%) Salesforce