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 19 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 362 304 323
Rank change year-on-year -58 +19 +89
Contract jobs citing ITIL Certification 38 46 72
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.24% 0.34% 0.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.83% 1.34% 1.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 31 49
10th Percentile £358 £200 £207
25th Percentile £413 £265 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £400 £525
Median % change year-on-year +15.63% -23.81% +10.53%
75th Percentile £567 £601 £575
90th Percentile £713 £700 £623
England median daily rate £519 £425 £525
% change year-on-year +22.13% -19.05% +12.90%
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 -
% change year-on-year -82.86% - -

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 4,578 3,423 4,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.37% 25.28% 24.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,250 2,156 2,969
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £430 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £530 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £772 £769
England median daily rate £520 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 60 129
10th Percentile £19.94 £21.48 £14.27
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £19.99
Median hourly rate £35.00 £38.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -8.50% +7.75% -11.25%
75th Percentile £65.88 £56.88 £65.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £78.88 £83.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £47.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -47.05% +5.56% -0.55%

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 19 February 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 19 February 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
South London - 5 - -
West London -20 3 - -
Central London -25 1 £425 -11.92% 2
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 (13.16%) SharePoint
2 2 (5.26%) Confluence
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (13.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 7 (18.42%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (10.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 7 (18.42%) Azure
2 5 (13.16%) AWS
2 5 (13.16%) OneDrive
3 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (10.53%) Entra ID
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon EC2
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon ECS
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon EKS
4 3 (7.89%) Amazon S3
4 3 (7.89%) AWS CloudFormation
4 3 (7.89%) AWS Lambda
4 3 (7.89%) GitHub
4 3 (7.89%) GitHub Actions
4 3 (7.89%) Serverless
5 2 (5.26%) GCP
5 2 (5.26%) Google Workspace
5 2 (5.26%) ShareGate
6 1 (2.63%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.89%) Firewall
1 3 (7.89%) VoIP
2 2 (5.26%) DNS
2 2 (5.26%) HTTP
2 2 (5.26%) Internet
2 2 (5.26%) SD-WAN
2 2 (5.26%) SMTP
2 2 (5.26%) TCP/IP
2 2 (5.26%) VPN
2 2 (5.26%) WAN
3 1 (2.63%) Kerberos
3 1 (2.63%) RTP
3 1 (2.63%) VoLTE
Development Applications
1 7 (18.42%) JIRA
2 3 (7.89%) GitLab
2 3 (7.89%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.63%) GCC
3 1 (2.63%) MSI
General
1 18 (47.37%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.95%) Finance
3 6 (15.79%) Retail
4 5 (13.16%) Public Sector
5 4 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (7.89%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (7.89%) Banking
6 3 (7.89%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (5.26%) Local Government
7 2 (5.26%) Military
8 1 (2.63%) Police
Job Titles
1 8 (21.05%) Analyst
2 7 (18.42%) Lead
3 5 (13.16%) IT Manager
3 5 (13.16%) Operational Support Analyst
3 5 (13.16%) Operations Analyst
3 5 (13.16%) Operations Support Analyst
3 5 (13.16%) Service Transition Leader
3 5 (13.16%) SharePoint Analyst
3 5 (13.16%) SharePoint Support
3 5 (13.16%) Support Analyst
4 4 (10.53%) Administrator
4 4 (10.53%) Change Manager
5 3 (7.89%) IT Change Manager
5 3 (7.89%) Service Manager
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (5.26%) Senior
6 2 (5.26%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) 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%) SAML
2 1 (2.63%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (7.89%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.26%) CMDB
2 2 (5.26%) Smartphone
3 1 (2.63%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
3 1 (2.63%) Fat Client
3 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.63%) PKI
3 1 (2.63%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 6 (15.79%) Windows
2 4 (10.53%) Linux
3 2 (5.26%) Android
3 2 (5.26%) Apple iOS
3 2 (5.26%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) ITIL
2 19 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 17 (44.74%) ITSM
4 13 (34.21%) Service Management
5 12 (31.58%) Change Management
5 12 (31.58%) Service Design
6 11 (28.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (26.32%) DevOps
8 9 (23.68%) Agile
9 8 (21.05%) Continuous Improvement
10 7 (18.42%) Information Security
10 7 (18.42%) Roadmaps
11 6 (15.79%) CI/CD
11 6 (15.79%) Collaborative Working
11 6 (15.79%) Problem Management
11 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (13.16%) Configuration Management
12 5 (13.16%) Data Protection
12 5 (13.16%) High Availability
12 5 (13.16%) Knowledge Management
Programming Languages
1 12 (31.58%) PowerShell
2 5 (13.16%) Python
2 5 (13.16%) SQL
3 4 (10.53%) Bash
4 1 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (10.53%) SC Cleared
1 4 (10.53%) Security Cleared
2 3 (7.89%) Degree
3 2 (5.26%) CISA
3 2 (5.26%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (2.63%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) COBIT
1 3 (7.89%) PCI DSS
1 3 (7.89%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 2 (5.26%) GDPR
2 2 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 2 (5.26%) SLA
System Software
1 10 (26.32%) Active Directory
2 3 (7.89%) Docker
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 5 (13.16%) HP SiteScope
1 5 (13.16%) SCOM
2 4 (10.53%) Terraform
3 3 (7.89%) Kubernetes
4 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (2.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (2.63%) Nagios
5 1 (2.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (21.05%) ServiceNow
2 7 (18.42%) Microsoft
2 7 (18.42%) Remedy
3 6 (15.79%) Splunk
4 4 (10.53%) SAP
5 2 (5.26%) BMC
5 2 (5.26%) Cisco
5 2 (5.26%) Fortinet
5 2 (5.26%) Google
5 2 (5.26%) Meraki
6 1 (2.63%) Ribbon
6 1 (2.63%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.63%) Zscaler