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 23 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 9 17 23
Rank change year-on-year +8 +6 -2
DemandTrendContract jobs citing ITIL 16 7 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Kent 12.60% 3.85% 5.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 15.24% 5.93% 7.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 6 7
10th Percentile - £151 £284
25th Percentile £153 £163 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £248 £450
Median % change year-on-year +91.92% -45.00% +0.84%
75th Percentile £623 £455 £501
90th Percentile £638 £612 £588
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £450
% change year-on-year - +11.11% -2.17%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 105 118 161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Kent 82.68% 64.84% 73.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 81 63 127
10th Percentile £200 £153 £200
25th Percentile £256 £203 £205
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.25% -11.11% -7.69%
75th Percentile £525 £562 £540
90th Percentile £625 £698 £643
South East median daily rate £500 £519 £518
% change year-on-year -3.57% +0.10% +3.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 15 8
10th Percentile - - £53.38
25th Percentile £16.36 £15.00 £54.22
Median hourly rate £20.40 £24.00 £62.12
Median % change year-on-year -15.00% -61.37% -
75th Percentile - £54.18 £79.05
90th Percentile £21.02 £62.96 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £23.50 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -59.02% +14.70% +92.31%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Kent

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing ITIL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing ITIL

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in Kent

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in Kent over the 6 months to 23 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in Kent

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend in Kent

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing ITIL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Kent citing ITIL

ITIL
DemandTrendContract 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 23 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Tonbridge - 5 £155 -
West Malling - 3 £625 - 3
Maidstone 0 2 £615 -
Chatham -5 1 £500 +2.56% 2
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 6 (37.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (31.25%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 6 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 5 (31.25%) Azure
3 4 (25.00%) IaaS
4 2 (12.50%) PaaS
5 1 (6.25%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 9 (56.25%) DNS
1 9 (56.25%) Firewall
2 5 (31.25%) Remote Desktop
2 5 (31.25%) TCP/IP
2 5 (31.25%) VPN
3 4 (25.00%) DHCP
3 4 (25.00%) SAN
4 3 (18.75%) Broadband
5 2 (12.50%) Fibre Channel
General
1 5 (31.25%) Law
1 5 (31.25%) Legal
1 5 (31.25%) Telecoms
2 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Finance
3 3 (18.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (31.25%) Help Desk Officer
1 5 (31.25%) Help Desk Support
1 5 (31.25%) IT Support
1 5 (31.25%) Service Desk Officer
1 5 (31.25%) Service Desk Support
1 5 (31.25%) Support Officer
2 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) VMware Engineer
2 4 (25.00%) VMware Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
3 3 (18.75%) Change and Release Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Change Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Release Manager
3 3 (18.75%) Service Manager
4 2 (12.50%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Support
4 2 (12.50%) Azure DevOps Engineer
4 2 (12.50%) Infrastructure Support
Operating Systems
1 10 (62.50%) Windows
2 5 (31.25%) Windows 10
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2012
2 5 (31.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) CRM
2 5 (31.25%) Creative Problem-Solving
2 5 (31.25%) Preventative Maintenance
2 5 (31.25%) PRINCE2
2 5 (31.25%) Problem-Solving
3 4 (25.00%) Change Management
3 4 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (25.00%) DevOps
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
3 4 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Security Patching
4 3 (18.75%) Agile
4 3 (18.75%) Process Improvement
4 3 (18.75%) Release Management
4 3 (18.75%) Service Delivery
4 3 (18.75%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (18.75%) Test Automation
4 3 (18.75%) Test Management
4 3 (18.75%) Test Planning
4 3 (18.75%) Waterfall
Qualifications
1 2 (12.50%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (31.25%) GDPR
2 4 (25.00%) SLA
3 3 (18.75%) QA
System Software
1 10 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 9 (56.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (31.25%) Hyper-V
3 5 (31.25%) Terminal Services
4 4 (25.00%) DFS Replication
4 4 (25.00%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (68.75%) Microsoft
2 9 (56.25%) VMware
3 5 (31.25%) Citrix
4 3 (18.75%) Salesforce