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 15 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 379 323 333
Rank change year-on-year -56 +10 +64
Contract jobs citing ITIL Certification 50 43 64
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.25% 0.32% 0.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.91% 1.24% 1.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 32 48
10th Percentile £423 £308 £389
25th Percentile £491 £373 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +2.44% +5.13%
75th Percentile £638 £632 £573
90th Percentile £678 £723 £675
England median daily rate £531 £485 £500
% change year-on-year +9.51% -3.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate - - £21.00
75th Percentile - - £21.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £42.25 £28.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +50.89% +1.82% -32.13%

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 5,471 3,470 4,124
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.71% 25.65% 23.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,953 2,346 2,851
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £450 £431 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £660 £650
90th Percentile £727 £750 £770
England median daily rate £525 £525 £537
% change year-on-year - -2.16% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 81 100
10th Percentile £19.44 £18.82 £16.25
25th Percentile £26.25 £25.04 £20.86
Median hourly rate £54.00 £25.15 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +114.71% -3.27% -51.85%
75th Percentile £73.00 £47.50 £43.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £63.75 £68.75
England median hourly rate £54.25 £27.50 £43.00
% change year-on-year +97.27% -36.05% -21.82%

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 15 July 2026.

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 15 July 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
Central London -17 3 £488 -2.50% 3
West London - 2 £600 - 2
South London -12 1 £575 -11.54%
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 5 (10.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (6.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (4.00%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 13 (26.00%) Azure
2 12 (24.00%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (14.00%) AWS
4 5 (10.00%) SaaS
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon ECS
5 3 (6.00%) Amazon S3
5 3 (6.00%) AWS CloudFormation
5 3 (6.00%) AWS Lambda
5 3 (6.00%) Entra ID
5 3 (6.00%) GCP
5 3 (6.00%) GitHub
5 3 (6.00%) Google Workspace
5 3 (6.00%) Serverless
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (4.00%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (4.00%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (4.00%) GitHub Actions
7 1 (2.00%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.00%) DNS
1 3 (6.00%) Firewall
1 3 (6.00%) VoIP
2 1 (2.00%) DHCP
2 1 (2.00%) Internet
2 1 (2.00%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.00%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 14 (28.00%) JIRA
2 3 (6.00%) GitLab
2 3 (6.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.00%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.00%) Maven
3 1 (2.00%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 15 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (24.00%) Public Sector
4 9 (18.00%) Finance
5 5 (10.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 5 (10.00%) Local Government
6 3 (6.00%) Banking
6 3 (6.00%) Military
6 3 (6.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.00%) Legal
7 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 21 (42.00%) IT Manager
2 9 (18.00%) Service Manager
3 6 (12.00%) ITIL Manager
3 6 (12.00%) Support Manager
4 5 (10.00%) Change Manager
4 5 (10.00%) IT Operations Manager
4 5 (10.00%) IT Support
4 5 (10.00%) IT Support Manager
4 5 (10.00%) Operations Manager
5 4 (8.00%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (8.00%) IT Services Manager
5 4 (8.00%) Service Delivery Manager
5 4 (8.00%) Service Transition Manager
5 4 (8.00%) Transition Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Applications Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Infrastructure Manager
6 3 (6.00%) IT Services Delivery Manager
6 3 (6.00%) Service Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (6.00%) Service Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.00%) .NET
1 2 (4.00%) Kafka
2 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
2 1 (2.00%) Gherkin
2 1 (2.00%) Jest
2 1 (2.00%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.00%) Cloud Native
1 3 (6.00%) Onboarding
1 3 (6.00%) Smartphone
2 2 (4.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (4.00%) Low-Code
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
3 1 (2.00%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 10 (20.00%) Windows
2 3 (6.00%) Android
2 3 (6.00%) Apple iOS
2 3 (6.00%) Mac OS
3 2 (4.00%) Linux
3 2 (4.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (100.00%) ITIL
2 23 (46.00%) ITSM
2 23 (46.00%) Service Management
3 20 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (38.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 13 (26.00%) Service Delivery
5 13 (26.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 12 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (20.00%) Agile
7 10 (20.00%) Change Management
8 8 (16.00%) DevOps
9 7 (14.00%) AI
9 7 (14.00%) Decision-Making
9 7 (14.00%) IT Governance
9 7 (14.00%) User Experience
10 5 (10.00%) Contract Management
10 5 (10.00%) Performance Management
10 5 (10.00%) Project Management
10 5 (10.00%) Release Management
10 5 (10.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (6.00%) Bash
2 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (4.00%) Python
3 1 (2.00%) Groovy
3 1 (2.00%) Java
3 1 (2.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 11 (22.00%) Security Cleared
2 9 (18.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) Azure Certification
3 2 (4.00%) Degree
3 2 (4.00%) PMI Certification
3 2 (4.00%) PMP
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 1 (2.00%) CISA
4 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.00%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.00%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 6 (12.00%) SLA
2 5 (10.00%) COBIT
3 3 (6.00%) PCI DSS
4 2 (4.00%) GDPR
4 2 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (2.00%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (6.00%) Docker
2 2 (4.00%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.00%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.00%) IAG
3 1 (2.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (8.00%) Terraform
2 3 (6.00%) Ansible
2 3 (6.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.00%) HP Fortify
3 1 (2.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 19 (38.00%) ServiceNow
2 17 (34.00%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.00%) BMC
3 3 (6.00%) Google
3 3 (6.00%) Remedy
4 2 (4.00%) Autodesk
4 2 (4.00%) InterSystems
4 2 (4.00%) Kronos
4 2 (4.00%) VMware
4 2 (4.00%) Workday
5 1 (2.00%) Nexthink
5 1 (2.00%) Qualys