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 6 April 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 372 310 311
Rank change year-on-year -62 +1 +88
Contract jobs citing ITIL Certification 36 41 76
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.21% 0.32% 0.42%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.72% 1.28% 1.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 30 56
10th Percentile £413 £260 £285
25th Percentile £444 £309 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £485 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.09% -11.82% +15.79%
75th Percentile £678 £588 £575
90th Percentile £800 £704 £669
England median daily rate £550 £473 £525
% change year-on-year +16.40% -10.00% +13.51%

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 4,986 3,208 4,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.15% 25.29% 24.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,567 2,180 2,919
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £436 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £658
90th Percentile £750 £763 £775
England median daily rate £520 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -0.95% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 60 118
10th Percentile £19.54 £21.13 £14.19
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.37 £20.62
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.25 £26.12
Median % change year-on-year +0.67% +42.61% -39.26%
75th Percentile £76.58 £59.25 £60.00
90th Percentile £88.75 £69.72 £83.40
England median hourly rate £37.92 £50.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -24.17% +33.33% -27.90%

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 6 April 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 6 April 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
West London - 4 - - 2
Central London -23 1 £425 -12.82% 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 2 (5.56%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (5.56%) SharePoint
2 1 (2.78%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (5.56%) Primavera
2 1 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (2.78%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.67%) AWS
1 6 (16.67%) Azure
2 4 (11.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 4 (11.11%) GitHub
3 3 (8.33%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (8.33%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (8.33%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (8.33%) Amazon S3
3 3 (8.33%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (8.33%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (8.33%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (8.33%) Serverless
4 2 (5.56%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (5.56%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.56%) GCP
4 2 (5.56%) Google Workspace
4 2 (5.56%) ShareGate
5 1 (2.78%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (2.78%) Datadog
5 1 (2.78%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.33%) VoIP
2 2 (5.56%) Firewall
2 2 (5.56%) SD-WAN
2 2 (5.56%) VPN
2 2 (5.56%) WAN
3 1 (2.78%) DHCP
3 1 (2.78%) DNS
3 1 (2.78%) Internet
3 1 (2.78%) RTP
3 1 (2.78%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 6 (16.67%) JIRA
2 3 (8.33%) GitLab
2 3 (8.33%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (36.11%) Social Skills
2 7 (19.44%) Finance
3 6 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.89%) Public Sector
5 4 (11.11%) Banking
6 3 (8.33%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (8.33%) Retail
7 2 (5.56%) Local Government
7 2 (5.56%) Military
8 1 (2.78%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.78%) Police
Job Titles
1 8 (22.22%) IT Manager
2 5 (13.89%) Change Manager
2 5 (13.89%) Lead
3 4 (11.11%) Administrator
3 4 (11.11%) IT Change Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Analyst
4 3 (8.33%) Applications Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Senior
4 3 (8.33%) Service Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) IT Services Manager
5 2 (5.56%) Management Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) Service Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Service Desk Analyst
5 2 (5.56%) Service Desk Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Service Management Consultant
5 2 (5.56%) Service Transition Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) Kafka
2 1 (2.78%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 4 (11.11%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.56%) CMDB
2 2 (5.56%) Low-Code
2 2 (5.56%) Smartphone
3 1 (2.78%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.78%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 6 (16.67%) Windows
2 4 (11.11%) Linux
3 2 (5.56%) Android
3 2 (5.56%) Apple iOS
3 2 (5.56%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (100.00%) ITIL
2 16 (44.44%) Change Management
3 13 (36.11%) Service Management
4 12 (33.33%) ITSM
4 12 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (30.56%) Service Delivery
6 9 (25.00%) Agile
6 9 (25.00%) DevOps
6 9 (25.00%) Service Design
7 7 (19.44%) CI/CD
7 7 (19.44%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 5 (13.89%) AI
9 5 (13.89%) Roadmaps
10 4 (11.11%) Business Continuity
10 4 (11.11%) Change Advisory Board
10 4 (11.11%) Decision-Making
10 4 (11.11%) Project Delivery
10 4 (11.11%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 5 (13.89%) PowerShell
2 4 (11.11%) Bash
2 4 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (13.89%) SC Cleared
1 5 (13.89%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.11%) Degree
3 3 (8.33%) CISA
3 3 (8.33%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (2.78%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.78%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.78%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.78%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) PCI DSS
1 4 (11.11%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (8.33%) GDPR
2 3 (8.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.56%) COBIT
3 2 (5.56%) SLA
4 1 (2.78%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (11.11%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.33%) Docker
3 1 (2.78%) IAG
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
1 4 (11.11%) Terraform
2 2 (5.56%) Ansible
3 1 (2.78%) Nagios
3 1 (2.78%) SCOM
Vendors
1 12 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (5.56%) Autodesk
2 2 (5.56%) Cisco
2 2 (5.56%) Fortinet
2 2 (5.56%) Google
2 2 (5.56%) Kronos
2 2 (5.56%) Meraki
2 2 (5.56%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.56%) Workday
3 1 (2.78%) BMC
3 1 (2.78%) InterSystems
3 1 (2.78%) Nexthink
3 1 (2.78%) Remedy
3 1 (2.78%) Ribbon
3 1 (2.78%) SAP
3 1 (2.78%) SolarWinds
3 1 (2.78%) Splunk
3 1 (2.78%) VMware