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 14 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 331 329 348
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 +97
Contract jobs citing ITIL Certification 42 62 81
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.30% 0.39% 0.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.07% 1.56% 1.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 26 43 58
10th Percentile £358 £250 £198
25th Percentile £372 £291 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £460 £527
Median % change year-on-year +10.50% -12.73% +10.84%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £565
90th Percentile £619 £663 £598
England median daily rate £496 £460 £525
% change year-on-year +7.83% -12.48% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 0
10th Percentile - £21.95 -
25th Percentile £85.00 £24.13 -
Median hourly rate £90.00 £28.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +221.43% - -
75th Percentile £95.00 £31.63 -
90th Percentile - £33.65 -
England median hourly rate £6.00 £27.50 £19.25
% change year-on-year -78.18% +42.86% -12.82%

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 3,923 3,978 4,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.87% 25.30% 23.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,706 2,541 3,170
10th Percentile £353 £350 £350
25th Percentile £438 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.38% -0.91% -4.35%
75th Percentile £656 £650 £670
90th Percentile £750 £760 £775
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.94% -3.64% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 98 58 105
10th Percentile £19.44 £20.35 £19.00
25th Percentile - £30.06 £23.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.25 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.92% -27.31% +14.89%
75th Percentile £41.71 £60.56 £68.00
90th Percentile £65.17 £76.90 £86.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -49.70% -4.76% +16.67%

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 14 November 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 14 November 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 - 9 £563 -
Central London -6 5 £496 +4.32% 13
West London -9 1 £600 +242.86% 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 8 (19.05%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.76%) Confluence
2 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (2.38%) Mattermost
3 1 (2.38%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 9 (21.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.38%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 10 (23.81%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (9.52%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (26.19%) Azure
2 8 (19.05%) OneDrive
3 7 (16.67%) AWS
4 6 (14.29%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (11.90%) Entra ID
6 4 (9.52%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (7.14%) IaaS
7 3 (7.14%) PaaS
7 3 (7.14%) SaaS
8 2 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (4.76%) GCP
9 1 (2.38%) Google Workspace
9 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
9 1 (2.38%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (11.90%) Firewall
2 3 (7.14%) DNS
2 3 (7.14%) Internet
2 3 (7.14%) VPN
3 2 (4.76%) HTTP
3 2 (4.76%) SMTP
3 2 (4.76%) TCP/IP
3 2 (4.76%) VoIP
3 2 (4.76%) WebEx
4 1 (2.38%) DHCP
4 1 (2.38%) Kerberos
4 1 (2.38%) RTP
4 1 (2.38%) SAN
4 1 (2.38%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.38%) Skype
4 1 (2.38%) SSL
4 1 (2.38%) Unified Communications
4 1 (2.38%) VoLTE
4 1 (2.38%) WAN
4 1 (2.38%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) SQL Server
2 1 (2.38%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (16.67%) JIRA
2 1 (2.38%) Fiddler
2 1 (2.38%) GCC
2 1 (2.38%) MSI
2 1 (2.38%) Postman
General
1 23 (54.76%) Social Skills
2 13 (30.95%) Finance
3 4 (9.52%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (9.52%) Retail
4 3 (7.14%) Banking
5 2 (4.76%) Public Sector
6 1 (2.38%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.38%) Back Office
6 1 (2.38%) Investment Banking
6 1 (2.38%) Military
6 1 (2.38%) Police
Job Titles
1 9 (21.43%) Analyst
2 8 (19.05%) Operational Support Analyst
2 8 (19.05%) Operations Analyst
2 8 (19.05%) Operations Support Analyst
2 8 (19.05%) Service Manager
2 8 (19.05%) SharePoint Analyst
2 8 (19.05%) SharePoint Support
2 8 (19.05%) Support Analyst
3 7 (16.67%) ITIL Manager
4 5 (11.90%) Lead
4 5 (11.90%) Platform Manager
4 5 (11.90%) Service Transition Leader
4 5 (11.90%) Support Manager
5 4 (9.52%) Consultant
6 3 (7.14%) Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Senior
6 3 (7.14%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (4.76%) IT Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Service Transition Manager
7 2 (4.76%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (4.76%) SAML
2 1 (2.38%) LDAP
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (2.38%) OAuth
2 1 (2.38%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.38%) OpenID
2 1 (2.38%) Software Packaging
2 1 (2.38%) WebRTC
2 1 (2.38%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 2 (4.76%) PKI
2 1 (2.38%) CCTV
2 1 (2.38%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.38%) Fat Client
2 1 (2.38%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.38%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.38%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.38%) Smartphone
2 1 (2.38%) Thin Client
2 1 (2.38%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (16.67%) Windows
2 5 (11.90%) Linux
3 3 (7.14%) Apple iOS
4 2 (4.76%) Android
4 2 (4.76%) Mac OS
4 2 (4.76%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.38%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (100.00%) ITIL
2 20 (47.62%) ITSM
3 17 (40.48%) Service Management
4 15 (35.71%) Service Delivery
5 12 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 11 (26.19%) Agile
7 10 (23.81%) Information Security
7 10 (23.81%) Problem Management
8 9 (21.43%) Change Management
8 9 (21.43%) Roadmaps
9 8 (19.05%) SIAM
10 7 (16.67%) DevOps
10 7 (16.67%) Service Design
11 6 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
12 5 (11.90%) Backlog Management
12 5 (11.90%) Data Protection
12 5 (11.90%) High Availability
12 5 (11.90%) Project Delivery
12 5 (11.90%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 13 (30.95%) PowerShell
2 9 (21.43%) SQL
3 2 (4.76%) Python
4 1 (2.38%) Bash
4 1 (2.38%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (21.43%) SC Cleared
1 9 (21.43%) Security Cleared
2 5 (11.90%) Degree
3 2 (4.76%) MCITP
3 2 (4.76%) Microsoft Certification
4 1 (2.38%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.38%) CCNA
4 1 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (2.38%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (11.90%) SLA
2 3 (7.14%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.38%) COBIT
3 1 (2.38%) GDPR
System Software
1 17 (40.48%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.38%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (2.38%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (26.19%) SCOM
2 8 (19.05%) HP SiteScope
3 4 (9.52%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.38%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.38%) Nagios
4 1 (2.38%) SCCM
4 1 (2.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (26.19%) Splunk
3 10 (23.81%) Remedy
4 7 (16.67%) ServiceNow
5 4 (9.52%) Cisco
5 4 (9.52%) SAP
6 2 (4.76%) BMC
6 2 (4.76%) Citrix
6 2 (4.76%) HP
6 2 (4.76%) Oracle
6 2 (4.76%) Zscaler
7 1 (2.38%) Bloomberg
7 1 (2.38%) Databricks
7 1 (2.38%) Google
7 1 (2.38%) Meraki
7 1 (2.38%) Red Hat
7 1 (2.38%) Reuters
7 1 (2.38%) Ribbon
7 1 (2.38%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.38%) Spotify