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

6 months to
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 351 320 347
Rank change year-on-year -31 +27 +89
Contract jobs citing ITIL Certification 38 58 81
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.27% 0.37% 0.41%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.97% 1.44% 1.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 40 56
10th Percentile £358 £245 £198
25th Percentile £425 £277 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £459 £527
Median % change year-on-year +7.93% -12.81% +10.84%
75th Percentile £538 £528 £565
90th Percentile £608 £664 £588
England median daily rate £496 £468 £525
% change year-on-year +5.84% -10.83% +10.53%
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% -12.66%

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 3,908 4,039 4,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 27.96% 25.56% 23.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,710 2,581 3,150
10th Percentile £353 £350 £350
25th Percentile £428 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £527 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.36% -1.82% -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £665
90th Percentile £748 £760 £775
England median daily rate £525 £530 £550
% change year-on-year -0.99% -3.59% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 100 54 100
10th Percentile £19.33 £20.15 £19.23
25th Percentile - £27.81 £23.94
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.46 £53.25
Median % change year-on-year -37.83% -24.03% +9.79%
75th Percentile £42.09 £63.00 £65.27
90th Percentile £66.02 £81.76 £83.55
England median hourly rate £25.15 £50.00 £53.50
% change year-on-year -49.70% -6.54% +18.89%

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 24 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 24 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 - 8 £475 -
Central London -7 4 £496 +4.32% 2
West London -9 1 £600 +242.86%
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 (21.05%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.89%) Confluence
3 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 8 (21.05%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (26.32%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (10.53%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (28.95%) Azure
2 8 (21.05%) OneDrive
3 7 (18.42%) AWS
4 6 (15.79%) Microsoft 365
5 5 (13.16%) Entra ID
6 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (7.89%) IaaS
7 3 (7.89%) PaaS
7 3 (7.89%) SaaS
8 2 (5.26%) Cloud Computing
8 2 (5.26%) GCP
9 1 (2.63%) Google Workspace
9 1 (2.63%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (13.16%) Firewall
2 3 (7.89%) DNS
2 3 (7.89%) Internet
2 3 (7.89%) VPN
3 2 (5.26%) HTTP
3 2 (5.26%) SMTP
3 2 (5.26%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.26%) VoIP
4 1 (2.63%) DHCP
4 1 (2.63%) Kerberos
4 1 (2.63%) RTP
4 1 (2.63%) SAN
4 1 (2.63%) SD-WAN
4 1 (2.63%) SSL
4 1 (2.63%) VoLTE
4 1 (2.63%) WAN
4 1 (2.63%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.63%) Wireless
4 1 (2.63%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.26%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (21.05%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) Fiddler
2 1 (2.63%) GCC
2 1 (2.63%) MSI
2 1 (2.63%) Postman
General
1 21 (55.26%) Social Skills
2 11 (28.95%) Finance
3 4 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
3 4 (10.53%) Retail
4 2 (5.26%) Banking
4 2 (5.26%) Public Sector
5 1 (2.63%) Analytical Skills
5 1 (2.63%) Back Office
5 1 (2.63%) Investment Banking
5 1 (2.63%) Military
5 1 (2.63%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (26.32%) Analyst
2 8 (21.05%) Operational Support Analyst
2 8 (21.05%) Operations Analyst
2 8 (21.05%) Operations Support Analyst
2 8 (21.05%) SharePoint Analyst
2 8 (21.05%) SharePoint Support
2 8 (21.05%) Support Analyst
3 6 (15.79%) ITIL Manager
4 5 (13.16%) Lead
4 5 (13.16%) Platform Manager
4 5 (13.16%) Service Manager
4 5 (13.16%) Service Transition Leader
4 5 (13.16%) Support Manager
5 4 (10.53%) Consultant
6 3 (7.89%) Architect
6 3 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
7 2 (5.26%) IT Manager
7 2 (5.26%) Senior
7 2 (5.26%) Technical Consultant
7 2 (5.26%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.26%) SAML
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%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.26%) PKI
2 1 (2.63%) CCTV
2 1 (2.63%) CMDB
2 1 (2.63%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (2.63%) Data Centre
2 1 (2.63%) Fat Client
2 1 (2.63%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.63%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.63%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.63%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (2.63%) Smartphone
2 1 (2.63%) Thin Client
2 1 (2.63%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (18.42%) Windows
2 4 (10.53%) Linux
3 3 (7.89%) Apple iOS
4 2 (5.26%) Android
4 2 (5.26%) Mac OS
4 2 (5.26%) Windows Server
5 1 (2.63%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (100.00%) ITIL
2 20 (52.63%) ITSM
3 16 (42.11%) Service Management
4 14 (36.84%) Service Delivery
5 12 (31.58%) Agile
5 12 (31.58%) Stakeholder Management
6 10 (26.32%) Information Security
7 9 (23.68%) Problem Management
7 9 (23.68%) Roadmaps
8 8 (21.05%) Change Management
8 8 (21.05%) SIAM
9 7 (18.42%) DevOps
10 6 (15.79%) Service Design
11 5 (13.16%) Backlog Management
11 5 (13.16%) Collaborative Working
11 5 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (13.16%) High Availability
11 5 (13.16%) Problem-Solving
11 5 (13.16%) Project Delivery
11 5 (13.16%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 12 (31.58%) PowerShell
2 8 (21.05%) SQL
3 2 (5.26%) Python
4 1 (2.63%) Bash
4 1 (2.63%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 9 (23.68%) SC Cleared
1 9 (23.68%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.26%) Degree
2 2 (5.26%) MCITP
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.63%) Azure Certification
3 1 (2.63%) CCNA
3 1 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (2.63%) CTC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (13.16%) SLA
2 3 (7.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (2.63%) COBIT
3 1 (2.63%) GDPR
System Software
1 16 (42.11%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft App-V
2 1 (2.63%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (26.32%) SCOM
2 8 (21.05%) HP SiteScope
3 4 (10.53%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.63%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.63%) Nagios
4 1 (2.63%) SCCM
4 1 (2.63%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (34.21%) Microsoft
2 10 (26.32%) Remedy
2 10 (26.32%) Splunk
3 6 (15.79%) ServiceNow
4 4 (10.53%) SAP
5 2 (5.26%) BMC
5 2 (5.26%) Cisco
5 2 (5.26%) Citrix
5 2 (5.26%) HP
5 2 (5.26%) Oracle
5 2 (5.26%) Zscaler
6 1 (2.63%) Bloomberg
6 1 (2.63%) Databricks
6 1 (2.63%) Fortinet
6 1 (2.63%) Google
6 1 (2.63%) Meraki
6 1 (2.63%) Reuters
6 1 (2.63%) Ribbon
6 1 (2.63%) SolarWinds
6 1 (2.63%) Spotify