ITIL Contracts in Kent

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
South East > Kent

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Kent requiring ITIL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ITIL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 8 20 15
Rank change year-on-year +12 -5 +9
Contract jobs citing ITIL 13 9 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 12.38% 4.46% 8.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 13.68% 6.77% 10.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 9 14
10th Percentile £265 £318 -
25th Percentile £419 £375 £121
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £569 £488 £123
Median % change year-on-year +16.62% +297.96% -30.00%
75th Percentile £623 £656 £378
90th Percentile - - £588
South East median daily rate £465 £488 £455
% change year-on-year -4.62% +7.14% +7.06%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Kent

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 Kent.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 95 133 166
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 90.48% 65.84% 75.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 70 93 126
10th Percentile £199 £205 £122
25th Percentile £213 £263 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £333 £425 £350
Median % change year-on-year -21.76% +21.43% -19.08%
75th Percentile £545 £540 £514
90th Percentile £688 £656 £674
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 13 6
10th Percentile £14.68 £11.47 £36.85
25th Percentile £17.52 £15.00 £41.16
Median hourly rate £21.43 £35.50 £52.28
Median % change year-on-year -39.63% -32.09% +47.07%
75th Percentile £22.61 £46.87 £57.44
90th Percentile £51.55 £62.96 £62.25
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in Kent

Job postings citing ITIL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Kent.

Job vacancy trend for ITIL in Kent

ITIL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Kent

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITIL in Kent.

Daily rate trend for ITIL in Kent

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in Kent over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in Kent

ITIL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITIL in Kent.

Hourly rate trend for ITIL in Kent

ITIL
Contract Job Locations in Kent

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the Kent region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
Maidstone - 6 £615 - 11
Chatham -2 1 £500 +2.56% 3
ITIL
South East

ITIL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Kent by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
1 1 (7.69%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 10 (76.92%) Azure
2 6 (46.15%) IaaS
3 3 (23.08%) Entra ID
3 3 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (23.08%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (46.15%) DHCP
1 6 (46.15%) DNS
1 6 (46.15%) Firewall
1 6 (46.15%) SAN
2 3 (23.08%) Fibre Channel
3 1 (7.69%) Internet
3 1 (7.69%) Remote Desktop
General
1 3 (23.08%) Finance
1 3 (23.08%) Social Skills
2 2 (15.38%) Telecoms
3 1 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (46.15%) Azure Engineer
1 6 (46.15%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 6 (46.15%) VMware Engineer
1 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (30.77%) Support Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
3 3 (23.08%) 3rd Line Support
3 3 (23.08%) 3rd Line Support Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Support
3 3 (23.08%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
3 3 (23.08%) VMware Support Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) DevOps Engineer
4 2 (15.38%) Service Design Manager
4 2 (15.38%) Service Manager
5 1 (7.69%) Desktop Engineer
5 1 (7.69%) Desktop Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Onboarding
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 10 (76.92%) Windows
2 1 (7.69%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (46.15%) Cybersecurity
1 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure as Code
1 6 (46.15%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 6 (46.15%) Security Patching
2 5 (38.46%) DevOps
3 3 (23.08%) Analytics
4 2 (15.38%) B2B
4 2 (15.38%) Computer Science
4 2 (15.38%) Incident Management
4 2 (15.38%) ITSM
4 2 (15.38%) Knowledge Management
4 2 (15.38%) Service Delivery
4 2 (15.38%) Service Design
5 1 (7.69%) Decision-Making
5 1 (7.69%) Inventory Management
5 1 (7.69%) IT Strategy
5 1 (7.69%) Line Management
5 1 (7.69%) Microservices
5 1 (7.69%) Problem-Solving
5 1 (7.69%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 2 (15.38%) A+ Certification
1 2 (15.38%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (15.38%) Degree
1 2 (15.38%) ITIL Certification
1 2 (15.38%) MCP
1 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (46.15%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (76.92%) Active Directory
2 6 (46.15%) DFS Replication
2 6 (46.15%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (46.15%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 11 (84.62%) Microsoft
2 6 (46.15%) VMware
3 2 (15.38%) ServiceNow