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 10 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 333 309 321
Rank change year-on-year -24 +12 +112
Contract jobs citing ITIL Certification 40 50 80
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.28% 0.35% 0.44%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.96% 1.37% 1.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 35 52
10th Percentile £358 £220 £198
25th Percentile £400 £265 £372
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £350 £525
Median % change year-on-year +35.71% -33.33% +16.67%
75th Percentile £538 £531 £568
90th Percentile £613 £663 £625
England median daily rate £503 £418 £525
% change year-on-year +20.42% -20.48% +13.51%
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 £19.25
% change year-on-year -82.86% +81.82% -12.50%

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 4,156 3,647 4,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 29.29% 25.88% 24.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,900 2,279 2,913
10th Percentile £363 £350 £340
25th Percentile £434 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -4.35%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £656
90th Percentile £750 £775 £770
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 85 58 93
10th Percentile £19.94 £20.88 £18.81
25th Percentile £25.15 £23.79 £19.99
Median hourly rate £27.50 £38.25 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.10% -15.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £65.00 £59.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £76.58 £83.20 £86.45
England median hourly rate £25.15 £46.18 £51.89
% change year-on-year -45.54% -11.00% +15.31%

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 10 January 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 10 January 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 - 8 £475 -
West London -14 4 £600 +242.86% 2
Central London -15 3 £496 +4.32% 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 8 (20.00%) SharePoint
2 3 (7.50%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (5.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 8 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 10 (25.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (10.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (22.50%) Azure
2 8 (20.00%) OneDrive
3 4 (10.00%) AWS
3 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (10.00%) Entra ID
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft 365
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon EC2
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon ECS
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon EKS
4 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
4 2 (5.00%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (5.00%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (5.00%) GitHub
4 2 (5.00%) IaaS
4 2 (5.00%) PaaS
4 2 (5.00%) SaaS
4 2 (5.00%) Serverless
4 2 (5.00%) ShareGate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (12.50%) Firewall
2 3 (7.50%) VPN
3 2 (5.00%) DNS
3 2 (5.00%) HTTP
3 2 (5.00%) Internet
3 2 (5.00%) SD-WAN
3 2 (5.00%) SMTP
3 2 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 2 (5.00%) VoIP
3 2 (5.00%) WAN
4 1 (2.50%) Kerberos
4 1 (2.50%) RTP
4 1 (2.50%) VoLTE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (5.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (17.50%) JIRA
2 2 (5.00%) GitLab
2 2 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.50%) GCC
3 1 (2.50%) MSI
General
1 19 (47.50%) Social Skills
2 12 (30.00%) Finance
3 6 (15.00%) Retail
4 4 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
5 3 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Banking
6 2 (5.00%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 1 (2.50%) Back Office
7 1 (2.50%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.50%) Military
7 1 (2.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Analyst
2 8 (20.00%) Operational Support Analyst
2 8 (20.00%) Operations Analyst
2 8 (20.00%) Operations Support Analyst
2 8 (20.00%) SharePoint Analyst
2 8 (20.00%) SharePoint Support
2 8 (20.00%) Support Analyst
3 7 (17.50%) Lead
4 5 (12.50%) Service Manager
4 5 (12.50%) Service Transition Leader
5 4 (10.00%) Administrator
6 3 (7.50%) Consultant
6 3 (7.50%) Senior
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Azure Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) IT Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Migration Engineer
7 2 (5.00%) Service Transition Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Technical Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.00%) Kafka
2 1 (2.50%) LDAP
2 1 (2.50%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (2.50%) OAuth
2 1 (2.50%) OAuth2
2 1 (2.50%) OpenID
2 1 (2.50%) SAML
2 1 (2.50%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Cloud Native
1 2 (5.00%) CMDB
2 1 (2.50%) Cyber Defence
2 1 (2.50%) Fat Client
2 1 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (2.50%) Management Information System
2 1 (2.50%) Onboarding
2 1 (2.50%) PKI
2 1 (2.50%) Smartphone
2 1 (2.50%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 7 (17.50%) Windows
2 5 (12.50%) Linux
3 2 (5.00%) Android
3 2 (5.00%) Apple iOS
3 2 (5.00%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.50%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (100.00%) ITIL
2 20 (50.00%) ITSM
2 20 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 13 (32.50%) Change Management
4 12 (30.00%) Service Management
5 11 (27.50%) Service Design
6 10 (25.00%) Information Security
7 9 (22.50%) Problem Management
7 9 (22.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 8 (20.00%) Roadmaps
9 7 (17.50%) Agile
9 7 (17.50%) DevOps
10 6 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
11 5 (12.50%) Data Protection
11 5 (12.50%) High Availability
11 5 (12.50%) Project Delivery
11 5 (12.50%) Requirements Gathering
12 4 (10.00%) Backlog Management
12 4 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 15 (37.50%) PowerShell
2 8 (20.00%) SQL
3 4 (10.00%) Python
4 3 (7.50%) Bash
5 1 (2.50%) Kusto Query Language
Qualifications
1 4 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (5.00%) Degree
2 2 (5.00%) MCITP
2 2 (5.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (2.50%) CISA
3 1 (2.50%) CTC Cleared
3 1 (2.50%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (12.50%) SLA
2 3 (7.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (5.00%) COBIT
4 1 (2.50%) GDPR
4 1 (2.50%) PCI DSS
4 1 (2.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (5.00%) Docker
3 1 (2.50%) Microsoft App-V
3 1 (2.50%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 10 (25.00%) SCOM
2 8 (20.00%) HP SiteScope
3 4 (10.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (7.50%) Terraform
5 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
6 1 (2.50%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (2.50%) Nagios
6 1 (2.50%) SCCM
Vendors
1 12 (30.00%) Microsoft
2 10 (25.00%) Remedy
3 9 (22.50%) Splunk
4 7 (17.50%) ServiceNow
5 4 (10.00%) SAP
6 2 (5.00%) BMC
6 2 (5.00%) Cisco
6 2 (5.00%) Fortinet
6 2 (5.00%) HP
6 2 (5.00%) Meraki
6 2 (5.00%) Oracle
7 1 (2.50%) Bloomberg
7 1 (2.50%) Citrix
7 1 (2.50%) Google
7 1 (2.50%) Reuters
7 1 (2.50%) Ribbon
7 1 (2.50%) SolarWinds
7 1 (2.50%) Zscaler