ITIL Certification Contract Job Trends in London

ITIL Certification
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for ITIL Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 24 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 346 322 311
Rank change year-on-year -24 -11 +112
Contract jobs citing ITIL Certification 38 51 88
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.26% 0.34% 0.48%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.92% 1.32% 1.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 34 57
10th Percentile £358 £215 £198
25th Percentile £400 £265 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £525
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -33.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £538 £534 £563
90th Percentile £588 £663 £623
England median daily rate £503 £445 £525
% change year-on-year +12.98% -15.24% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £85.00 - -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £35.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +157.14% - -
75th Percentile £95.00 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £6.00 £35.00 £19.25
% change year-on-year -82.86% +81.82% -12.50%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

ITIL Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,111 3,877 4,447
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.54% 25.84% 24.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,863 2,449 2,974
10th Percentile £360 £350 £350
25th Percentile £430 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £668
90th Percentile £750 £775 £775
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 59 88
10th Percentile £20.57 £21.00 £19.18
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.63 £23.19
Median hourly rate £25.47 £37.50 £47.44
Median % change year-on-year -32.08% -20.95% +7.55%
75th Percentile £62.31 £58.00 £66.19
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £86.33
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.25 £52.05
% change year-on-year -46.77% -9.24% +15.67%

ITIL Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ITIL Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

ITIL Certification job vacancy trend in London

ITIL Certification
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ITIL Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ITIL Certification

ITIL Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL Certification in London over the 6 months to 24 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL Certification in London

ITIL Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ITIL Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ITIL Certification

ITIL Certification
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL Certification within the London region over the 6 months to 24 December 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
South London - 8 £475 - 2
West London -11 4 £600 +242.86% 3
Central London -15 2 £496 +4.32% 3
ITIL Certification
England

ITIL Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 8 (21.05%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.89%) Confluence
2 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (26.32%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (10.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 10 (26.32%) Azure
2 8 (21.05%) OneDrive
3 5 (13.16%) AWS
3 5 (13.16%) Entra ID
4 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (5.26%) IaaS
5 2 (5.26%) PaaS
5 2 (5.26%) SaaS
5 2 (5.26%) ShareGate
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
6 1 (2.63%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (2.63%) GCP
6 1 (2.63%) GitHub
6 1 (2.63%) GitHub Actions
6 1 (2.63%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) Firewall
2 4 (10.53%) VPN
3 3 (7.89%) DNS
3 3 (7.89%) Internet
4 2 (5.26%) HTTP
4 2 (5.26%) SD-WAN
4 2 (5.26%) SMTP
4 2 (5.26%) TCP/IP
4 2 (5.26%) VoIP
4 2 (5.26%) WAN
5 1 (2.63%) DHCP
5 1 (2.63%) Kerberos
5 1 (2.63%) RTP
5 1 (2.63%) SSL
5 1 (2.63%) VoLTE
5 1 (2.63%) Wireless
5 1 (2.63%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (21.05%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) Fiddler
2 1 (2.63%) GCC
2 1 (2.63%) GitLab
2 1 (2.63%) Jenkins
2 1 (2.63%) MSI
2 1 (2.63%) Postman
General
1 20 (52.63%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.95%) Finance
3 6 (15.79%) Retail
4 4 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Back Office
7 1 (2.63%) Banking
7 1 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.63%) Military
7 1 (2.63%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Analyst
2 8 (21.05%) Operational Support Analyst
2 8 (21.05%) Operations Analyst
2 8 (21.05%) Operations Support Analyst
2 8 (21.05%) SharePoint Analyst
2 8 (21.05%) SharePoint Support
2 8 (21.05%) Support Analyst
3 7 (18.42%) Lead
4 5 (13.16%) Service Manager
4 5 (13.16%) Service Transition Leader
5 3 (7.89%) Consultant
5 3 (7.89%) ITIL Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Senior
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Service Transition Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Support Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) SAML
2 1 (2.63%) Kafka
2 1 (2.63%) LDAP
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (2.63%) OAuth
2 1 (2.63%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.63%) OpenID
2 1 (2.63%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.26%) CMDB
1 2 (5.26%) PKI
2 1 (2.63%) Cloud Native
2 1 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.63%) Fat Client
2 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.63%) Smartphone
2 1 (2.63%) Thin Client
2 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.42%) Windows
2 5 (13.16%) Linux
3 3 (7.89%) Apple iOS
4 2 (5.26%) Android
4 2 (5.26%) Mac OS
4 2 (5.26%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) ITIL
2 19 (50.00%) ITSM
3 17 (44.74%) Service Delivery
4 13 (34.21%) Service Management
5 12 (31.58%) Change Management
6 10 (26.32%) Information Security
6 10 (26.32%) Problem Management
6 10 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (23.68%) Agile
7 9 (23.68%) Service Design
8 8 (21.05%) Roadmaps
9 6 (15.79%) DevOps
10 5 (13.16%) Backlog Management
10 5 (13.16%) Collaborative Working
10 5 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (13.16%) Data Protection
10 5 (13.16%) High Availability
10 5 (13.16%) Project Delivery
10 5 (13.16%) Requirements Gathering
10 5 (13.16%) SIAM
Programming Languages
1 14 (36.84%) PowerShell
2 8 (21.05%) SQL
3 3 (7.89%) Python
4 2 (5.26%) Bash
5 1 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 6 (15.79%) SC Cleared
1 6 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) Degree
2 2 (5.26%) MCITP
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.63%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (10.53%) SLA
2 2 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.63%) COBIT
System Software
1 17 (44.74%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.63%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (26.32%) SCOM
2 8 (21.05%) HP SiteScope
3 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (5.26%) Terraform
5 1 (2.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
5 1 (2.63%) Nagios
5 1 (2.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (31.58%) Microsoft
2 10 (26.32%) Remedy
2 10 (26.32%) Splunk
3 6 (15.79%) ServiceNow
4 4 (10.53%) SAP
5 2 (5.26%) BMC
5 2 (5.26%) Cisco
5 2 (5.26%) Citrix
5 2 (5.26%) Fortinet
5 2 (5.26%) HP
5 2 (5.26%) Meraki
5 2 (5.26%) Oracle
5 2 (5.26%) Zscaler
6 1 (2.63%) Bloomberg
6 1 (2.63%) Google
6 1 (2.63%) Reuters
6 1 (2.63%) Ribbon
6 1 (2.63%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.63%) Spotify