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 29 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 396 331 332
Rank change year-on-year -65 +1 +40
Contract jobs citing ITIL Certification 53 42 62
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.26% 0.31% 0.38%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.94% 1.19% 1.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 31 49
10th Percentile £413 £355 £250
25th Percentile £481 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £525 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.86% +10.53% -5.00%
75th Percentile £631 £600 £573
90th Percentile £675 £675 £665
England median daily rate £525 £496 £472
% change year-on-year +5.95% +5.07% -0.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £20.50
Median hourly rate - - £21.00
75th Percentile - - £21.50
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £42.25 £28.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year +50.89% +1.82% -25.74%

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 5,666 3,531 3,966
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 28.02% 26.22% 24.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,059 2,384 2,680
10th Percentile £371 £350 £350
25th Percentile £456 £430 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £530 £538
Median % change year-on-year +2.83% -1.40% -2.27%
75th Percentile £638 £654 £650
90th Percentile £737 £738 £763
England median daily rate £525 £525 £538
% change year-on-year - -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 82 65
10th Percentile £19.50 £18.87 £17.98
25th Percentile £25.44 - £22.00
Median hourly rate £52.75 £25.15 £32.29
Median % change year-on-year +109.74% -22.11% -41.29%
75th Percentile £73.00 £46.88 £48.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £65.00 £64.80
England median hourly rate £52.50 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +108.75% -49.70% -9.09%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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
Central London -19 5 £569 +14.26%
West London -16 3 £600 -
South London -17 1 £575 +2.22% 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 7 (13.21%) SharePoint
2 3 (5.66%) Confluence
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Chatbot
2 2 (3.77%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.89%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (5.66%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (3.77%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 16 (30.19%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (28.30%) Azure
3 7 (13.21%) AWS
4 5 (9.43%) Entra ID
4 5 (9.43%) SaaS
5 3 (5.66%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.66%) GitHub
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon ECS
6 2 (3.77%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.77%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.77%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (3.77%) Azure Monitor
6 2 (3.77%) GCP
6 2 (3.77%) Google Workspace
6 2 (3.77%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.77%) Serverless
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon ECR
7 1 (1.89%) Amazon SQS
Communications & Networking
1 5 (9.43%) DNS
1 5 (9.43%) Firewall
2 2 (3.77%) DHCP
2 2 (3.77%) Network Security
2 2 (3.77%) TCP/IP
2 2 (3.77%) VoIP
2 2 (3.77%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (1.89%) Broadband
3 1 (1.89%) LAN
3 1 (1.89%) VPN
3 1 (1.89%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.55%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.77%) Power BI
3 1 (1.89%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 15 (28.30%) JIRA
2 2 (3.77%) GitLab
2 2 (3.77%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.89%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.89%) eggPlant
3 1 (1.89%) Maven
3 1 (1.89%) Selenium
3 1 (1.89%) SonarQube
General
1 28 (52.83%) Social Skills
2 17 (32.08%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (22.64%) Public Sector
4 7 (13.21%) Finance
5 5 (9.43%) Banking
5 5 (9.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (7.55%) Local Government
6 4 (7.55%) Retail
7 2 (3.77%) Military
8 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Legal
8 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 19 (35.85%) IT Manager
2 7 (13.21%) Service Manager
3 6 (11.32%) IT Operations Manager
3 6 (11.32%) Operations Manager
4 5 (9.43%) IT Support
4 5 (9.43%) IT Support Manager
4 5 (9.43%) ITIL Manager
4 5 (9.43%) Support Manager
5 4 (7.55%) Analyst
5 4 (7.55%) Infrastructure Manager
5 4 (7.55%) Infrastructure Operations Manager
5 4 (7.55%) IT Infrastructure Manager
5 4 (7.55%) Project Manager
5 4 (7.55%) Service Transition Manager
5 4 (7.55%) Transition Manager
6 3 (5.66%) Change and Release Manager
6 3 (5.66%) IT Services Manager
6 3 (5.66%) Management Consultant
6 3 (5.66%) Service Desk Consultant
6 3 (5.66%) Service Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.55%) Terraform
2 3 (5.66%) .NET
3 1 (1.89%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.89%) Gherkin
3 1 (1.89%) Jest
3 1 (1.89%) Kafka
3 1 (1.89%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.89%) Web Services
3 1 (1.89%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.66%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.77%) Cloud Native
2 2 (3.77%) DataPower
2 2 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (3.77%) Low-Code
2 2 (3.77%) Smartphone
3 1 (1.89%) Data Centre
3 1 (1.89%) Product Ownership
3 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.89%) Wiki
Operating Systems
1 12 (22.64%) Windows
2 4 (7.55%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.77%) Android
3 2 (3.77%) Apple iOS
3 2 (3.77%) Linux
3 2 (3.77%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.89%) Unix
4 1 (1.89%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (100.00%) ITIL
2 26 (49.06%) ITSM
3 24 (45.28%) Service Management
4 21 (39.62%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (39.62%) Stakeholder Management
5 16 (30.19%) Service Delivery
6 15 (28.30%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (24.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 12 (22.64%) Agile
9 10 (18.87%) Decision-Making
10 9 (16.98%) Change Management
11 8 (15.09%) User Experience
12 7 (13.21%) AI
12 7 (13.21%) IT Governance
13 6 (11.32%) DevOps
14 5 (9.43%) Analytics
14 5 (9.43%) Contract Management
14 5 (9.43%) Incident Management
14 5 (9.43%) Knowledge Management
14 5 (9.43%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 3 (5.66%) PowerShell
2 2 (3.77%) Bash
2 2 (3.77%) Java
3 1 (1.89%) Groovy
3 1 (1.89%) Python
3 1 (1.89%) SQL
3 1 (1.89%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (22.64%) Security Cleared
2 9 (16.98%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.66%) PMI Certification
3 3 (5.66%) PMP
4 2 (3.77%) Azure Certification
4 2 (3.77%) Degree
4 2 (3.77%) DV Cleared
4 2 (3.77%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.89%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
5 1 (1.89%) ISEB
5 1 (1.89%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (13.21%) SLA
2 5 (9.43%) COBIT
2 5 (9.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.89%) GDPR
3 1 (1.89%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.89%) PMO
3 1 (1.89%) QA
System Software
1 5 (9.43%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.77%) Docker
2 2 (3.77%) Hyper-V
3 1 (1.89%) IAG
3 1 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (7.55%) Ansible
2 3 (5.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (3.77%) Kubernetes
3 2 (3.77%) SCCM
4 1 (1.89%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 23 (43.40%) Microsoft
2 20 (37.74%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.66%) BMC
3 3 (5.66%) Remedy
4 2 (3.77%) Autodesk
4 2 (3.77%) Google
4 2 (3.77%) InterSystems
4 2 (3.77%) Kronos
4 2 (3.77%) VMware
4 2 (3.77%) Workday
5 1 (1.89%) Nexthink
5 1 (1.89%) Oracle
5 1 (1.89%) Parasoft
5 1 (1.89%) Qualys
5 1 (1.89%) SOASTA