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 23 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 366 310 315
Rank change year-on-year -56 +5 +93
Contract jobs citing ITIL Certification 35 48 73
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.21% 0.37% 0.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.72% 1.47% 1.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 35 52
10th Percentile £407 £208 £215
25th Percentile £425 £283 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £425 £531
Median % change year-on-year +16.18% -20.00% +11.84%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £575
90th Percentile £800 £700 £625
England median daily rate £536 £450 £525
% change year-on-year +19.01% -14.29% +14.13%
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 £32.50 -
% change year-on-year -81.54% - -

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 4,892 3,261 4,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.51% 25.39% 24.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,475 2,185 2,965
10th Percentile £363 £350 £325
25th Percentile £431 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £653 £659
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 83 66 120
10th Percentile £19.54 £21.38 £14.23
25th Percentile £25.15 £24.66 £20.98
Median hourly rate £37.00 £36.75 £35.61
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% +3.22% -12.09%
75th Percentile £75.17 £56.00 £61.77
90th Percentile £77.35 £71.13 £83.75
England median hourly rate £30.00 £50.00 £37.83
% change year-on-year -40.00% +32.18% -24.35%

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 23 March 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 23 March 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 - 3 - - 2
Central London -25 1 £425 -12.37% 1
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 (5.71%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (2.86%) Confluence
2 1 (2.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (5.71%) Remedy ITSM
1 2 (5.71%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (2.86%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 6 (17.14%) Azure
2 5 (14.29%) AWS
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon EC2
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon ECS
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon EKS
3 3 (8.57%) Amazon S3
3 3 (8.57%) AWS CloudFormation
3 3 (8.57%) AWS Lambda
3 3 (8.57%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (8.57%) GitHub
3 3 (8.57%) GitHub Actions
3 3 (8.57%) Serverless
4 2 (5.71%) Entra ID
4 2 (5.71%) GCP
4 2 (5.71%) Google Workspace
4 2 (5.71%) ShareGate
5 1 (2.86%) IaaS
5 1 (2.86%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (8.57%) VoIP
2 2 (5.71%) Firewall
2 2 (5.71%) SD-WAN
2 2 (5.71%) VPN
2 2 (5.71%) WAN
3 1 (2.86%) DHCP
3 1 (2.86%) DNS
3 1 (2.86%) Internet
3 1 (2.86%) RTP
3 1 (2.86%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.86%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 7 (20.00%) JIRA
2 3 (8.57%) GitLab
2 3 (8.57%) Jenkins
General
1 13 (37.14%) Social Skills
2 7 (20.00%) Finance
3 6 (17.14%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (14.29%) Public Sector
5 4 (11.43%) Banking
5 4 (11.43%) Retail
6 3 (8.57%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (5.71%) Local Government
7 2 (5.71%) Military
8 1 (2.86%) Police
8 1 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 7 (20.00%) IT Manager
2 6 (17.14%) Lead
3 5 (14.29%) Change Manager
4 4 (11.43%) Administrator
4 4 (11.43%) IT Change Manager
5 3 (8.57%) Analyst
5 3 (8.57%) Senior
5 3 (8.57%) Service Manager
5 3 (8.57%) Service Transition Leader
6 2 (5.71%) Applications Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) IT Services Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Management Consultant
6 2 (5.71%) Migration Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Senior Infrastructure Engineer
6 2 (5.71%) Service Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Service Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.71%) Service Desk Analyst
6 2 (5.71%) Service Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.57%) Kafka
2 1 (2.86%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.57%) Cloud Native
2 2 (5.71%) CMDB
2 2 (5.71%) Smartphone
3 1 (2.86%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.86%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (2.86%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 6 (17.14%) Windows
2 4 (11.43%) Linux
3 2 (5.71%) Android
3 2 (5.71%) Apple iOS
3 2 (5.71%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.86%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (100.00%) ITIL
2 15 (42.86%) Change Management
3 14 (40.00%) Service Management
4 13 (37.14%) ITSM
5 12 (34.29%) Service Delivery
5 12 (34.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (28.57%) Service Design
7 9 (25.71%) DevOps
8 8 (22.86%) Agile
9 7 (20.00%) CI/CD
9 7 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (17.14%) Roadmaps
10 6 (17.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 5 (14.29%) Knowledge Management
12 4 (11.43%) AI
12 4 (11.43%) Configuration Management
12 4 (11.43%) Process Improvement
12 4 (11.43%) Release Management
12 4 (11.43%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 5 (14.29%) PowerShell
2 4 (11.43%) Bash
2 4 (11.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 5 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 4 (11.43%) Degree
3 3 (8.57%) CISA
3 3 (8.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
4 1 (2.86%) Azure Certification
4 1 (2.86%) CTC Cleared
4 1 (2.86%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) PCI DSS
1 4 (11.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 3 (8.57%) COBIT
2 3 (8.57%) GDPR
2 3 (8.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.71%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (11.43%) Active Directory
2 3 (8.57%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (11.43%) Terraform
2 3 (8.57%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.86%) Ansible
3 1 (2.86%) Nagios
3 1 (2.86%) SCOM
Vendors
1 11 (31.43%) ServiceNow
2 2 (5.71%) BMC
2 2 (5.71%) Cisco
2 2 (5.71%) Fortinet
2 2 (5.71%) Google
2 2 (5.71%) Meraki
2 2 (5.71%) Microsoft
2 2 (5.71%) Remedy
2 2 (5.71%) SAP
3 1 (2.86%) Autodesk
3 1 (2.86%) InterSystems
3 1 (2.86%) Kronos
3 1 (2.86%) Ribbon
3 1 (2.86%) SolarWinds
3 1 (2.86%) Splunk
3 1 (2.86%) VMware
3 1 (2.86%) Workday