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 30 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 39 39
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +4
Contract jobs citing ITIL 1,650 1,203 1,660
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.93% 5.01% 4.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.62% 5.48% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,103 734 1,101
10th Percentile £204 £213 £205
25th Percentile £375 £308 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £596 £575 £580
90th Percentile £675 £661 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% +0.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 81 83 138
10th Percentile £17.12 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.25 £14.16
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.05 £17.69
Median % change year-on-year +24.72% +24.65% +1.09%
75th Percentile £78.55 £33.61 £23.80
90th Percentile £97.50 £46.93 £43.87
UK median hourly rate £22.29 £22.05 £17.69
% change year-on-year +1.09% +24.65% -0.31%

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 35,705 21,941 31,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.00% 91.32% 85.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,665 14,273 20,637
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 £623 £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 2,224 953 2,305
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.20 £12.84
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £47.00 £28.55 £37.18
Median % change year-on-year +64.62% -23.21% -0.85%
75th Percentile £68.00 £60.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £81.05 £75.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £42.30 £27.97 £36.50
% change year-on-year +51.26% -23.38% -1.35%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 -18 538 £500 - 154
South East +1 367 £500 +11.11% 163
North of England -30 263 £494 +23.50% 122
South West -12 188 £525 +20.00% 61
Midlands -23 163 £450 +5.88% 69
North West -20 162 £544 +35.94% 59
West Midlands -33 128 £450 +5.88% 43
East of England -6 106 £425 - 52
Yorkshire -43 81 £472 +36.67% 51
East Midlands -6 34 £413 -6.88% 26
North East -12 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 (5.03%) SharePoint
2 62 (3.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 57 (3.45%) Confluence
4 15 (0.91%) IIS
5 8 (0.48%) Oracle Workflow
6 6 (0.36%) Mattermost
6 6 (0.36%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 5 (0.30%) Apache
8 4 (0.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.24%) 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 65 (3.94%) Microsoft Office
2 41 (2.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 31 (1.88%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (0.97%) MS Visio
5 13 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.30%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.24%) Acrobat
7 4 (0.24%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.24%) Revit
8 1 (0.061%) Oracle Smart View
8 1 (0.061%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 52 (3.15%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.36%) Oracle EBS
2 6 (0.36%) Oracle HRMS
2 6 (0.36%) Primavera
3 5 (0.30%) Maximo
4 4 (0.24%) 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
1 392 (23.76%) Azure
2 233 (14.12%) Microsoft 365
3 200 (12.12%) AWS
4 122 (7.39%) Entra ID
5 76 (4.61%) Power Platform
6 69 (4.18%) GCP
7 66 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
8 58 (3.52%) SaaS
9 45 (2.73%) GitHub
10 29 (1.76%) Google Workspace
10 29 (1.76%) PaaS
11 27 (1.64%) OneDrive
12 25 (1.52%) AWS CloudFormation
12 25 (1.52%) IaaS
13 24 (1.45%) AWS Lambda
13 24 (1.45%) Serverless
14 22 (1.33%) Amazon S3
15 21 (1.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 21 (1.27%) GitHub Actions
15 21 (1.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 139 (8.42%) Firewall
2 107 (6.48%) DNS
3 98 (5.94%) WAN
4 92 (5.58%) LAN
5 89 (5.39%) VPN
6 71 (4.30%) DHCP
7 57 (3.45%) Network Security
8 56 (3.39%) TCP/IP
9 50 (3.03%) SD-WAN
10 42 (2.55%) Wi-Fi
11 37 (2.24%) SAN
12 31 (1.88%) BGP
12 31 (1.88%) SSL
13 30 (1.82%) OSPF
14 21 (1.27%) VLAN
14 21 (1.27%) Wireless
15 19 (1.15%) BIG-IP
16 17 (1.03%) VoIP
17 16 (0.97%) NAS
18 15 (0.91%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (3.76%) Power BI
2 51 (3.09%) SQL Server
3 19 (1.15%) Oracle Database
4 15 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 14 (0.85%) Tableau
6 13 (0.79%) 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 (0.42%) 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%) DB2
13 3 (0.18%) Star Schema
Development Applications
1 169 (10.24%) JIRA
2 31 (1.88%) GitLab
3 30 (1.82%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.64%) Git
5 14 (0.85%) Bitbucket
6 8 (0.48%) MSI
7 4 (0.24%) AdminStudio
7 4 (0.24%) Cucumber
7 4 (0.24%) InstallShield
7 4 (0.24%) JMeter
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%) Introscope
General
1 595 (36.06%) Social Skills
2 271 (16.42%) Finance
3 248 (15.03%) Analytical Skills
4 174 (10.55%) Public Sector
5 72 (4.36%) Banking
6 64 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
6 64 (3.88%) Telecoms
7 50 (3.03%) Legal
8 36 (2.18%) Retail
9 33 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
10 32 (1.94%) Documentation Skills
10 32 (1.94%) Military
11 20 (1.21%) Aerospace
12 19 (1.15%) Law
12 19 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (1.09%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 18 (1.09%) Local Government
14 15 (0.91%) Police
15 11 (0.67%) Financial Institution
15 11 (0.67%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 228 (13.82%) Analyst
2 133 (8.06%) Service Manager
3 131 (7.94%) Architect
4 128 (7.76%) Senior
5 109 (6.61%) IT Support
6 108 (6.55%) Lead
7 93 (5.64%) Support Engineer
8 82 (4.97%) IT Manager
9 76 (4.61%) Service Analyst
10 67 (4.06%) Consultant
11 56 (3.39%) Delivery Manager
12 55 (3.33%) IT Analyst
13 53 (3.21%) Network Engineer
14 51 (3.09%) Support Analyst
15 50 (3.03%) Service Desk Analyst
16 45 (2.73%) Infrastructure Engineer
17 44 (2.67%) Project Manager
17 44 (2.67%) Transition Manager
18 43 (2.61%) IT Engineer
19 41 (2.48%) Change Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 83 (5.03%) REST
2 49 (2.97%) SOAP
3 26 (1.58%) Middleware
4 24 (1.45%) CSS
5 22 (1.33%) Web Services
6 21 (1.27%) .NET
7 19 (1.15%) LDAP
8 17 (1.03%) 802.1X
8 17 (1.03%) HTML
8 17 (1.03%) OAuth
8 17 (1.03%) Oracle Fusion
9 15 (0.91%) Oracle GoldenGate
10 13 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
10 13 (0.79%) SAML
11 11 (0.67%) AWS CDK
11 11 (0.67%) Kafka
12 10 (0.61%) Ajax
12 10 (0.61%) OAuth2
13 9 (0.55%) AngularJS
13 9 (0.55%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 119 (7.21%) CMDB
2 109 (6.61%) Onboarding
3 89 (5.39%) Data Centre
4 74 (4.48%) Product Ownership
5 63 (3.82%) Enterprise Software
6 41 (2.48%) Management Information System
7 36 (2.18%) PKI
8 34 (2.06%) Clustering
8 34 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
9 31 (1.88%) Cloud Native
10 29 (1.76%) Replication
11 26 (1.58%) Analytical Mindset
12 25 (1.52%) Security Posture
13 23 (1.39%) Virtual Team
14 19 (1.15%) Driving Licence
14 19 (1.15%) Hybrid Cloud
15 16 (0.97%) Mainframe
16 15 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
16 15 (0.91%) Operational Technology
17 14 (0.85%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 378 (22.91%) Windows
2 112 (6.79%) Linux
3 93 (5.64%) Windows 10
4 88 (5.33%) Windows Server
5 57 (3.45%) Unix
6 38 (2.30%) Mac OS
7 37 (2.24%) Apple iOS
8 34 (2.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 32 (1.94%) Android
10 13 (0.79%) Windows Server 2016
11 12 (0.73%) Windows Server 2019
12 10 (0.61%) AIX
13 9 (0.55%) zOS
14 7 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
14 7 (0.42%) Ubuntu
14 7 (0.42%) Windows Server 2012
15 4 (0.24%) HPUX
15 4 (0.24%) Solaris
15 4 (0.24%) SUSE
15 4 (0.24%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 504 (30.55%) Service Management
2 457 (27.70%) ITSM
3 386 (23.39%) Problem-Solving
4 354 (21.45%) Agile
5 307 (18.61%) Stakeholder Management
6 295 (17.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 282 (17.09%) Change Management
8 236 (14.30%) Service Delivery
9 197 (11.94%) DevOps
10 179 (10.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 164 (9.94%) Customer Service
12 156 (9.45%) Incident Management
13 154 (9.33%) Roadmaps
14 143 (8.67%) Problem Management
15 131 (7.94%) Migration
16 126 (7.64%) CI/CD
17 124 (7.52%) Service Design
18 119 (7.21%) Root Cause Analysis
19 113 (6.85%) Project Delivery
20 111 (6.73%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 128 (7.76%) PowerShell
2 98 (5.94%) SQL
3 65 (3.94%) JavaScript
3 65 (3.94%) Python
4 33 (2.00%) Bash
5 24 (1.45%) Java
6 21 (1.27%) Shell Script
7 16 (0.97%) Bicep
7 16 (0.97%) Korn
7 16 (0.97%) PL/SQL
8 14 (0.85%) C#
9 9 (0.55%) Groovy
10 8 (0.48%) Perl
11 7 (0.42%) Apex Code
12 5 (0.30%) JCL
12 5 (0.30%) REXX
12 5 (0.30%) T-SQL
13 3 (0.18%) SOQL
13 3 (0.18%) TypeScript
14 2 (0.12%) Search Processing Language
Qualifications
1 580 (35.15%) Security Cleared
2 415 (25.15%) SC Cleared
3 191 (11.58%) Degree
4 165 (10.00%) DV Cleared
5 139 (8.42%) ITIL Certification
6 58 (3.52%) Cisco Certification
7 57 (3.45%) PMI Certification
8 55 (3.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 54 (3.27%) Computer Science Degree
10 48 (2.91%) PMP
11 46 (2.79%) Azure Certification
12 42 (2.55%) CCNP
13 38 (2.30%) CISSP
14 31 (1.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 21 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
16 20 (1.21%) AWS Certification
16 20 (1.21%) CISM
17 18 (1.09%) Master's Degree
18 17 (1.03%) CCNA
19 15 (0.91%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 148 (8.97%) SLA
2 59 (3.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 59 (3.58%) NIST
3 49 (2.97%) Data Quality
4 36 (2.18%) GDPR
5 30 (1.82%) COBIT
6 28 (1.70%) NCSC
6 28 (1.70%) QA
7 24 (1.45%) PMO
8 22 (1.33%) GRC
9 17 (1.03%) Cyber Essentials
10 16 (0.97%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 13 (0.79%) PCI DSS
12 9 (0.55%) Government Security Classifications
13 8 (0.48%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
13 8 (0.48%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 7 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 42001
15 5 (0.30%) SOC 2
System Software
1 294 (17.82%) Active Directory
2 86 (5.21%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (2.36%) Docker
4 32 (1.94%) Hyper-V
5 23 (1.39%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
7 19 (1.15%) Oracle RAC
8 18 (1.09%) vSphere
9 14 (0.85%) VMware NSX
10 12 (0.73%) Firmware
11 11 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
12 6 (0.36%) NFS
13 5 (0.30%) RACF
14 4 (0.24%) Microsoft App-V
15 3 (0.18%) DFS Replication
15 3 (0.18%) IAG
15 3 (0.18%) PowerHA
15 3 (0.18%) XenDesktop
16 2 (0.12%) BitLocker
16 2 (0.12%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 123 (7.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 90 (5.45%) Terraform
3 73 (4.42%) Ansible
4 59 (3.58%) Kubernetes
5 54 (3.27%) SCCM
6 23 (1.39%) Grafana
7 22 (1.33%) Oracle RMAN
8 17 (1.03%) Prometheus
8 17 (1.03%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (0.91%) FortiGate
9 15 (0.91%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
10 13 (0.79%) WSUS
11 11 (0.67%) Jamf Pro
11 11 (0.67%) SCOM
11 11 (0.67%) vCenter Server
12 10 (0.61%) Red Hat Satellite
13 9 (0.55%) CASB
14 8 (0.48%) OPNET
14 8 (0.48%) vMotion
15 7 (0.42%) Data Guard
Vendors
1 420 (25.45%) Microsoft
2 380 (23.03%) ServiceNow
3 136 (8.24%) VMware
4 88 (5.33%) Cisco
5 78 (4.73%) Oracle
5 78 (4.73%) Remedy
6 58 (3.52%) Splunk
7 42 (2.55%) Google
8 39 (2.36%) Citrix
9 38 (2.30%) Palo Alto
10 34 (2.06%) Red Hat
11 33 (2.00%) BMC
11 33 (2.00%) SAP
12 32 (1.94%) SolarWinds
13 31 (1.88%) IBM
14 30 (1.82%) Dynatrace
14 30 (1.82%) Fortinet
15 24 (1.45%) Juniper
15 24 (1.45%) Salesforce
15 24 (1.45%) Zscaler