ITIL Contracts in Lancashire

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
North West > Lancashire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Lancashire 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 17 16 6
Rank change year-on-year -1 -10 +18
Contract jobs citing ITIL 12 16 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Lancashire 6.86% 8.21% 16.53%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.59% 10.39% 18.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 8 16
10th Percentile - £350 £313
25th Percentile - £481 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £720 £468
Median % change year-on-year - +54.01% +6.75%
75th Percentile - - £653
90th Percentile - - £775
North West median daily rate £350 £487 £484
% change year-on-year -28.06% +0.52% +11.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 6 15
10th Percentile £31.88 £28.40 £29.30
25th Percentile £34.10 £37.63 £35.28
Median hourly rate £40.59 £43.22 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -6.07% +1.68% +113.97%
75th Percentile £51.34 £46.18 £47.50
90th Percentile £56.12 - £49.52
North West median hourly rate £35.50 £29.72 £42.50
% change year-on-year +19.45% -30.08% +136.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Lancashire

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 Lancashire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 158 154 211
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Lancashire 90.29% 78.97% 87.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 74 118
10th Percentile £400 £313 £339
25th Percentile £463 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £538 £533
Median % change year-on-year -0.93% +0.94% +11.52%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £625
90th Percentile £630 £747 £700
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 51 42
10th Percentile £14.62 - £22.31
25th Percentile £23.87 £16.06 £28.85
Median hourly rate £28.75 £19.18 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +49.90% -54.87% +7.59%
75th Percentile £43.94 £46.03 £49.52
90th Percentile £60.59 £48.00 £53.43
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £21.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +51.81% -40.00% +70.82%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in Lancashire

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

Job vacancy trend for ITIL in Lancashire

ITIL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Daily rate trend for ITIL in Lancashire

ITIL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Lancashire

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

Hourly rate trend for ITIL in Lancashire

ITIL
Hourly Rate Histogram in Lancashire

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITIL in Lancashire over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ITIL in Lancashire

ITIL
Contract Job Locations in Lancashire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the Lancashire 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
Burnley - 8 - - 2
Preston -8 3 - - 3
ITIL
North West

ITIL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Lancashire 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 2 (16.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (50.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (41.67%) MS Visio
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (8.33%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 8 (66.67%) LAN
2 5 (41.67%) VPN
3 3 (25.00%) Network Security
3 3 (25.00%) SAN
3 3 (25.00%) WLAN
General
1 8 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 6 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (41.67%) Documentation Skills
3 5 (41.67%) Manufacturing
3 5 (41.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
1 5 (41.67%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) 2nd Line Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) 2nd Line Support
1 5 (41.67%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Desktop Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Desktop Support
1 5 (41.67%) Desktop Support Engineer
1 5 (41.67%) Support Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Industrial Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (16.67%) SharePoint Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Designer
4 1 (8.33%) ICT Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Designer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (41.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (8.33%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (8.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 8 (66.67%) Windows
1 8 (66.67%) Windows Server
1 8 (66.67%) Windows Server 2003
2 5 (41.67%) Windows 10
2 5 (41.67%) Windows 8
2 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2008
2 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2012
2 5 (41.67%) Windows Server 2016
2 5 (41.67%) Windows XP
3 3 (25.00%) Linux
3 3 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Asset Management
1 8 (66.67%) Proactive Maintenance
2 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (41.67%) Business Case
3 5 (41.67%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 5 (41.67%) Mentoring
3 5 (41.67%) Project Delivery
3 5 (41.67%) Technical Analysis
3 5 (41.67%) Time Management
4 3 (25.00%) Business Continuity
4 3 (25.00%) Data Management
4 3 (25.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 3 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (25.00%) Storage Management
4 3 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (8.33%) Agile
5 1 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (8.33%) Service Management
5 1 (8.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (8.33%) Technical Leadership
Qualifications
1 8 (66.67%) Microsoft Certification
System Software
1 8 (66.67%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) SCCM
2 3 (25.00%) Backup Exec
2 3 (25.00%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 10 (83.33%) Microsoft
2 5 (41.67%) Canon
3 4 (33.33%) Cisco
4 3 (25.00%) Symantec
4 3 (25.00%) Veeam
4 3 (25.00%) VMware
5 1 (8.33%) Nintex
5 1 (8.33%) Oracle
5 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow