ITIL Foundation Certificate Contract Job Trends in Manchester

ITIL Foundation Certificate
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester with a requirement for ITIL Foundation Certificate qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 1 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 113 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate 10 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.50% - -
As % of the Qualifications category 1.99% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £579 - -
25th Percentile £584 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 - -
75th Percentile £634 - -
90th Percentile £636 - -
North West median daily rate £163 £330 -
% change year-on-year -50.76% - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Manchester

ITIL Foundation Certificate 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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 503 283 282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 25.20% 28.10% 23.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 306 169 160
10th Percentile £363 £351 £350
25th Percentile £418 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £508
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +3.45% -3.33%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £675
90th Percentile £718 £750 £825
North West median daily rate £515 £492 £505
% change year-on-year +4.67% -2.48% -3.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 27 20
10th Percentile £17.40 £20.00 £16.76
25th Percentile £28.50 £22.16 £24.33
Median hourly rate £36.00 £32.00 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -20.00% +105.13%
75th Percentile £45.75 £55.25 £64.31
90th Percentile £178.75 £71.50 £100.00
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £29.27 £31.50
% change year-on-year +50.19% -7.08% -25.88%

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ITIL Foundation Certificate relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

ITIL Foundation Certificate job vacancy trend in Manchester

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing ITIL Foundation Certificate.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing ITIL Foundation Certificate

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing ITIL Foundation Certificate.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing ITIL Foundation Certificate

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (90.00%) Azure
2 8 (80.00%) Azure DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) Azure Monitor
2 8 (80.00%) Power Platform
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 8 (80.00%) SSL
2 1 (10.00%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (80.00%) MySQL
1 8 (80.00%) Power BI
1 8 (80.00%) SQL Server
1 8 (80.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
General
1 1 (10.00%) Finance
1 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (10.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (80.00%) DBA
1 8 (80.00%) SQL DBA
2 6 (60.00%) Lead
3 3 (30.00%) SC Cleared DBA
4 1 (10.00%) Administrator
4 1 (10.00%) Architect
4 1 (10.00%) IT Architect
Miscellaneous
1 8 (80.00%) Clustering
1 8 (80.00%) Replication
2 1 (10.00%) CMDB
2 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (10.00%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (10.00%) PKI
2 1 (10.00%) Tandem
Operating Systems
1 8 (80.00%) Windows
1 8 (80.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (10.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) ITIL
2 8 (80.00%) Business Intelligence
2 8 (80.00%) DevOps
2 8 (80.00%) Performance Tuning
2 8 (80.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 2 (20.00%) Computer Science
3 2 (20.00%) Configuration Management
3 2 (20.00%) Service Management
4 1 (10.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (10.00%) Cryptography
4 1 (10.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (10.00%) Enterprise Architecture
4 1 (10.00%) ERP
4 1 (10.00%) IT Asset Management
4 1 (10.00%) ITSM
4 1 (10.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (10.00%) Software Asset Management
4 1 (10.00%) Software Licensing
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (80.00%) PowerShell
1 8 (80.00%) SQL
1 8 (80.00%) T-SQL
2 1 (10.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 10 (100.00%) Degree
2 8 (80.00%) Azure Certification
2 8 (80.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 8 (80.00%) SC Cleared
2 8 (80.00%) Security Cleared
3 6 (60.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 8 (80.00%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (10.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 8 (80.00%) SCOM
Vendors
1 9 (90.00%) Microsoft
1 9 (90.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (20.00%) IBM
3 1 (10.00%) Adobe
3 1 (10.00%) Gemalto
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Oracle
3 1 (10.00%) SAP
3 1 (10.00%) Thales
3 1 (10.00%) VMware