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 11 August 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 48 42 45
Rank change year-on-year -6 +3 -3
Contract jobs citing ITIL 1,911 1,363 1,402
As % of all contract jobs in England 4.19% 4.93% 4.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.93% 5.43% 4.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,291 852 926
10th Percentile £200 £213 £209
25th Percentile £375 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% +1.56%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £652 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 111 90 86
10th Percentile £17.25 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.44 £16.30
Median hourly rate £28.00 £26.23 £21.37
Median % change year-on-year +6.77% +22.72% +22.11%
75th Percentile £77.65 £37.50 £27.00
90th Percentile £87.16 £59.71 £53.38
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £23.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +8.70% +7.63% +20.06%

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 38,792 25,089 28,626
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.08% 90.79% 85.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,117 16,022 18,624
10th Percentile £325 £300 £313
25th Percentile £425 £405 £422
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £630 £650
90th Percentile £738 £738 £756
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -3.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,537 1,415 1,654
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.20 £14.16
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.87 £18.39
Median hourly rate £43.96 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.79% -41.51% +4.78%
75th Percentile £68.75 £50.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £82.25 £70.16 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £40.94
% change year-on-year +68.99% -38.57% -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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 -14 644 £500 - 292
South East -4 481 £520 +4.00% 196
North of England -12 333 £450 +18.42% 160
North West -3 219 £450 - 97
South West -14 173 £500 +25.00% 79
Midlands -36 159 £450 +5.88% 83
West Midlands -34 137 £455 +7.06% 50
Yorkshire -30 100 £475 +39.71% 40
East of England +2 94 £438 +2.94% 59
East Midlands -12 21 £413 -5.50% 34
North East -33 17 £425 +117.95% 26
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
1 136 (7.12%) SharePoint
2 79 (4.13%) Microsoft Exchange
3 64 (3.35%) Confluence
4 11 (0.58%) IIS
5 8 (0.42%) Oracle Workflow
6 7 (0.37%) JBoss
7 6 (0.31%) Mattermost
7 6 (0.31%) Oracle Self-Service HR
7 6 (0.31%) WebSphere
8 5 (0.26%) CMS
8 5 (0.26%) SAS
9 4 (0.21%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 4 (0.21%) OpenStack
9 4 (0.21%) WebLogic
10 3 (0.16%) Apache
10 3 (0.16%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 2 (0.10%) IBM HTTP Server
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle HTTP Server
11 2 (0.10%) Oracle Service Bus
11 2 (0.10%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 81 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
2 53 (2.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 27 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 19 (0.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.52%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.42%) Revit
8 7 (0.37%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.052%) Oracle Smart View
9 1 (0.052%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 63 (3.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.42%) ContrOCC
3 6 (0.31%) Oracle HRMS
3 6 (0.31%) Primavera
3 6 (0.31%) Remedy AR System
3 6 (0.31%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.21%) Oracle EBS
4 4 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.21%) Payment Gateway
5 3 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
5 3 (0.16%) NEC Housing
5 3 (0.16%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.10%) assyst
6 2 (0.10%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.10%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.10%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.10%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.052%) Oracle Assets
7 1 (0.052%) Oracle Cash Management
Cloud Services
1 478 (25.01%) Azure
2 337 (17.63%) Microsoft 365
3 206 (10.78%) AWS
4 176 (9.21%) Entra ID
5 95 (4.97%) Power Platform
6 92 (4.81%) SaaS
7 72 (3.77%) Azure DevOps
8 58 (3.04%) OneDrive
9 56 (2.93%) GitHub
10 50 (2.62%) GCP
11 40 (2.09%) Azure Monitor
12 31 (1.62%) Datadog
13 29 (1.52%) PaaS
14 28 (1.47%) IaaS
14 28 (1.47%) Serverless
15 27 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 27 (1.41%) AWS Lambda
16 25 (1.31%) Amazon S3
16 25 (1.31%) GitHub Actions
17 24 (1.26%) OCI
Communications & Networking
1 177 (9.26%) Firewall
2 172 (9.00%) DNS
3 126 (6.59%) VPN
4 121 (6.33%) DHCP
5 104 (5.44%) TCP/IP
6 100 (5.23%) WAN
7 95 (4.97%) LAN
8 77 (4.03%) Network Security
9 57 (2.98%) Wi-Fi
10 49 (2.56%) SSL
11 46 (2.41%) BGP
11 46 (2.41%) OSPF
12 42 (2.20%) SD-WAN
13 37 (1.94%) SAN
13 37 (1.94%) Wireless
14 30 (1.57%) VLAN
15 28 (1.47%) Cisco ASA
16 26 (1.36%) Cisco Firepower
17 20 (1.05%) MPLS
18 19 (0.99%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (3.98%) Power BI
2 72 (3.77%) SQL Server
3 26 (1.36%) Oracle Database
4 21 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
5 15 (0.78%) Amazon RDS
6 13 (0.68%) MySQL
7 12 (0.63%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (0.58%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (0.58%) Oracle Reports
9 9 (0.47%) Relational Database
10 8 (0.42%) Metadata
10 8 (0.42%) NoSQL
10 8 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 7 (0.37%) Oracle Database 11g
11 7 (0.37%) Oracle Database 12c
12 6 (0.31%) Db2
12 6 (0.31%) Tableau
13 5 (0.26%) Big Data
13 5 (0.26%) Hadoop
13 5 (0.26%) Oracle BI EE
Development Applications
1 186 (9.73%) JIRA
2 36 (1.88%) Git
3 32 (1.67%) Jenkins
4 29 (1.52%) GitLab
5 23 (1.20%) Bitbucket
6 11 (0.58%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 8 (0.42%) MSI
8 5 (0.26%) Maven
9 4 (0.21%) AdminStudio
9 4 (0.21%) Browser DevTools
9 4 (0.21%) Chocolatey
9 4 (0.21%) Cucumber
9 4 (0.21%) Eclipse
9 4 (0.21%) InstallShield
9 4 (0.21%) MLflow
9 4 (0.21%) Postman
9 4 (0.21%) REST Assured
10 3 (0.16%) Flyway
10 3 (0.16%) ScriptRunner
10 3 (0.16%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 793 (41.50%) Social Skills
2 351 (18.37%) Finance
3 322 (16.85%) Analytical Skills
4 200 (10.47%) Public Sector
5 103 (5.39%) Banking
6 78 (4.08%) Telecoms
7 68 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
8 62 (3.24%) Legal
9 60 (3.14%) Influencing Skills
10 35 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
11 32 (1.67%) Retail
12 30 (1.57%) Presentation Skills
13 26 (1.36%) Local Government
14 25 (1.31%) Military
15 23 (1.20%) Aerospace
16 19 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 16 (0.84%) Financial Institution
17 16 (0.84%) Police
18 14 (0.73%) Front Office
18 14 (0.73%) Law
Job Titles
1 273 (14.29%) Analyst
2 180 (9.42%) Senior
3 151 (7.90%) IT Support
4 141 (7.38%) Support Engineer
5 135 (7.06%) Lead
6 131 (6.86%) Service Manager
7 117 (6.12%) Architect
8 87 (4.55%) IT Manager
9 86 (4.50%) Service Analyst
10 82 (4.29%) IT Engineer
11 77 (4.03%) Consultant
12 74 (3.87%) Network Engineer
13 72 (3.77%) IT Analyst
14 71 (3.72%) IT Support Engineer
14 71 (3.72%) Support Analyst
15 63 (3.30%) Delivery Manager
16 60 (3.14%) Project Manager
17 57 (2.98%) Transition Manager
18 56 (2.93%) Administrator
19 52 (2.72%) Infrastructure Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (5.81%) REST
2 60 (3.14%) SOAP
3 37 (1.94%) Middleware
4 31 (1.62%) Web Services
5 25 (1.31%) CSS
6 23 (1.20%) SAML
7 22 (1.15%) HTML
7 22 (1.15%) OAuth
8 18 (0.94%) .NET
8 18 (0.94%) LDAP
9 17 (0.89%) Oracle Fusion
10 16 (0.84%) 802.1X
10 16 (0.84%) Ajax
10 16 (0.84%) ISPF
11 15 (0.78%) Oracle GoldenGate
12 14 (0.73%) OpenID
13 13 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
14 12 (0.63%) AWS CDK
14 12 (0.63%) OAuth2
15 10 (0.52%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 163 (8.53%) Onboarding
2 152 (7.95%) CMDB
3 104 (5.44%) Data Centre
4 75 (3.92%) Enterprise Software
5 74 (3.87%) Product Ownership
6 62 (3.24%) Clustering
7 61 (3.19%) Management Information System
8 50 (2.62%) PKI
9 43 (2.25%) Hybrid Cloud
10 41 (2.15%) Self-Motivation
11 32 (1.67%) Cloud Native
12 31 (1.62%) Analytical Mindset
12 31 (1.62%) Driving Licence
12 31 (1.62%) Replication
12 31 (1.62%) Security Posture
13 28 (1.47%) Mainframe
14 26 (1.36%) Legacy Systems
15 17 (0.89%) Virtual Team
16 16 (0.84%) Distributed Systems
17 15 (0.78%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 497 (26.01%) Windows
2 143 (7.48%) Linux
3 126 (6.59%) Windows Server
4 122 (6.38%) Windows 10
5 72 (3.77%) Unix
6 50 (2.62%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 49 (2.56%) Mac OS
8 37 (1.94%) Apple iOS
9 27 (1.41%) Android
10 19 (0.99%) Windows Server 2019
11 17 (0.89%) zOS
12 15 (0.78%) AIX
13 11 (0.58%) Windows Server 2016
14 8 (0.42%) Oracle Linux
15 7 (0.37%) Solaris
15 7 (0.37%) VMS
15 7 (0.37%) Windows Server 2012
16 5 (0.26%) HPUX
16 5 (0.26%) SUSE
17 4 (0.21%) OpenVMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 678 (35.48%) Service Management
2 579 (30.30%) ITSM
3 476 (24.91%) Problem-Solving
4 463 (24.23%) Stakeholder Management
5 421 (22.03%) Agile
6 398 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
7 336 (17.58%) Change Management
8 324 (16.95%) Service Delivery
9 223 (11.67%) DevOps
10 211 (11.04%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 210 (10.99%) Customer Service
12 202 (10.57%) Incident Management
13 172 (9.00%) Project Delivery
14 170 (8.90%) Roadmaps
15 161 (8.42%) Migration
16 159 (8.32%) Problem Management
16 159 (8.32%) Root Cause Analysis
17 146 (7.64%) AI
17 146 (7.64%) Service Design
18 142 (7.43%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 179 (9.37%) PowerShell
2 117 (6.12%) SQL
3 108 (5.65%) Python
4 73 (3.82%) JavaScript
5 56 (2.93%) Bash
6 22 (1.15%) Java
7 19 (0.99%) Bicep
8 18 (0.94%) Shell Script
9 17 (0.89%) PL/SQL
10 16 (0.84%) Korn
11 13 (0.68%) Perl
12 12 (0.63%) C#
13 10 (0.52%) T-SQL
14 9 (0.47%) Groovy
15 6 (0.31%) Apex Code
16 5 (0.26%) VBScript
17 4 (0.21%) JCL
17 4 (0.21%) REXX
17 4 (0.21%) TypeScript
18 2 (0.10%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 687 (35.95%) Security Cleared
2 473 (24.75%) SC Cleared
3 260 (13.61%) Degree
4 193 (10.10%) DV Cleared
5 142 (7.43%) ITIL Certification
6 82 (4.29%) Microsoft Certification
7 71 (3.72%) PMI Certification
8 68 (3.56%) Cisco Certification
9 67 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
9 67 (3.51%) PMP
10 63 (3.30%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 57 (2.98%) Azure Certification
12 45 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
12 45 (2.35%) CISSP
13 42 (2.20%) CCNP
14 32 (1.67%) A+ Certification
14 32 (1.67%) CCNA
15 25 (1.31%) MCSE
16 21 (1.10%) CISM
16 21 (1.10%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 186 (9.73%) SLA
2 72 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 52 (2.72%) NIST
4 51 (2.67%) Data Quality
5 42 (2.20%) QA
6 33 (1.73%) NCSC
7 32 (1.67%) GDPR
7 32 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
7 32 (1.67%) PMO
8 28 (1.47%) COBIT
9 27 (1.41%) GRC
10 11 (0.58%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.58%) ISO 9001
10 11 (0.58%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.47%) Government Security Classifications
12 7 (0.37%) Accessibility
13 6 (0.31%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 5 (0.26%) JSP 440
14 5 (0.26%) SOC 2
System Software
1 370 (19.36%) Active Directory
2 113 (5.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 38 (1.99%) Docker
4 37 (1.94%) Hyper-V
5 31 (1.62%) Oracle RAC
6 27 (1.41%) Virtual Desktop
6 27 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
7 21 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
7 21 (1.10%) VMware NSX
8 20 (1.05%) Firmware
9 19 (0.99%) vSphere
10 14 (0.73%) IAG
10 14 (0.73%) RACF
11 9 (0.47%) NFS
12 7 (0.37%) PowerHA
13 5 (0.26%) Virtual Servers
14 4 (0.21%) Microsoft App-V
15 3 (0.16%) OpenAM
16 2 (0.10%) Job Entry Subsystem
16 2 (0.10%) zsh
Systems Management
1 182 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
2 95 (4.97%) Terraform
3 89 (4.66%) Ansible
4 88 (4.60%) SCCM
5 57 (2.98%) Kubernetes
6 26 (1.36%) Oracle RMAN
7 24 (1.26%) SCOM
8 19 (0.99%) Data Guard
8 19 (0.99%) Jamf Pro
9 18 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
9 18 (0.94%) vCenter Server
10 16 (0.84%) Grafana
11 15 (0.78%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
11 15 (0.78%) Red Hat Satellite
12 14 (0.73%) WSUS
13 13 (0.68%) OMEGAMON
13 13 (0.68%) Prometheus
14 11 (0.58%) FortiGate
15 9 (0.47%) CASB
16 8 (0.42%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 572 (29.93%) Microsoft
2 550 (28.78%) ServiceNow
3 160 (8.37%) VMware
4 123 (6.44%) Cisco
5 95 (4.97%) Oracle
6 79 (4.13%) Remedy
7 59 (3.09%) Splunk
8 55 (2.88%) Palo Alto
9 47 (2.46%) SolarWinds
10 46 (2.41%) IBM
11 42 (2.20%) Citrix
11 42 (2.20%) SAP
12 41 (2.15%) BMC
13 37 (1.94%) Red Hat
14 33 (1.73%) Juniper
15 32 (1.67%) Dynatrace
16 29 (1.52%) Fortinet
16 29 (1.52%) Meraki
17 26 (1.36%) F5
17 26 (1.36%) Zscaler