ITIL Contracts in Manchester

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Manchester requiring ITIL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ITIL over the 6 months leading up to 1 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 26 50 33
Rank change year-on-year +24 -17 +11
Contract jobs citing ITIL 57 47 84
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 6.31% 3.26% 4.71%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.09% 3.77% 5.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 30 56
10th Percentile £206 £270 £300
25th Percentile £341 £300 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £394 £481
Median % change year-on-year +13.52% -18.18% +13.24%
75th Percentile £625 £495 £582
90th Percentile £818 £577 £600
North West median daily rate £400 £450 £463
% change year-on-year -11.11% -2.70% +7.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 7
10th Percentile - - £15.01
25th Percentile £31.00 - £16.17
Median hourly rate £32.00 - £20.00
75th Percentile £33.00 - £42.50
90th Percentile - - £65.00
North West median hourly rate £36.30 £40.25 £42.50
% change year-on-year -9.83% -5.29% +142.86%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

ITIL falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 804 1,246 1,616
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 88.94% 86.41% 90.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 550 845 1,191
10th Percentile £312 £325 £318
25th Percentile £400 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% - -
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £667 £694 £675
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 77 51
10th Percentile £14.17 £12.46 £16.00
25th Percentile £24.70 £13.50 £17.71
Median hourly rate £60.00 £26.00 £27.70
Median % change year-on-year +130.77% -6.14% +51.30%
75th Percentile £74.38 £61.25 £43.13
90th Percentile £86.20 £73.30 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £30.20 £26.46 £35.00
% change year-on-year +14.16% -24.41% +53.85%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

Job postings citing ITIL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Manchester.

Job vacancy trend for ITIL in Manchester

ITIL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITIL in Manchester.

Daily rate trend for ITIL in Manchester

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in Manchester

ITIL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITIL in Manchester.

Hourly rate trend for ITIL in Manchester

ITIL
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 1 June 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
Salford 0 8 £675 - 1
Bolton -5 3 £245 -48.96% 72
Stockport - 1 - - 56
ITIL
North West

ITIL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 6 (10.53%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 2 (3.51%) Confluence
3 2 (3.51%) IIS
Applications
1 5 (8.77%) MS Visio
2 4 (7.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
3 3 (5.26%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Oracle EBS
1 1 (1.75%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (12.28%) Azure
2 6 (10.53%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (8.77%) AWS
4 4 (7.02%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.26%) SaaS
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (3.51%) Amazon S3
6 2 (3.51%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (3.51%) Lucidchart
6 2 (3.51%) Nutanix
6 2 (3.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
7 1 (1.75%) Cloudflare
7 1 (1.75%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.77%) DHCP
1 5 (8.77%) DNS
2 3 (5.26%) Firewall
3 2 (3.51%) MPLS
3 2 (3.51%) SD-WAN
3 2 (3.51%) VoIP
3 2 (3.51%) VPN
3 2 (3.51%) WAN
4 1 (1.75%) Cisco Nexus
4 1 (1.75%) H.323
4 1 (1.75%) LAN
4 1 (1.75%) Network Security
4 1 (1.75%) TCP/IP
4 1 (1.75%) Unified Communications
4 1 (1.75%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.75%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 7 (12.28%) JIRA
2 1 (1.75%) GitLab
2 1 (1.75%) Jenkins
General
1 20 (35.09%) Analytical Skills
2 19 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 7 (12.28%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.26%) Marketing
4 3 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Finance
5 2 (3.51%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.51%) Military
5 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.75%) Law
6 1 (1.75%) Legal
6 1 (1.75%) Publishing
6 1 (1.75%) Retail
6 1 (1.75%) Social Housing
6 1 (1.75%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (28.07%) Analyst
2 12 (21.05%) Lead
3 9 (15.79%) Support Analyst
4 8 (14.04%) Desktop Support
5 6 (10.53%) Service Manager
6 5 (8.77%) IT Support
7 4 (7.02%) Consultant
7 4 (7.02%) Deskside Analyst
7 4 (7.02%) Deskside Support
7 4 (7.02%) Deskside Support Analyst
7 4 (7.02%) Head of Design
7 4 (7.02%) Head of IT
7 4 (7.02%) Head of IT Services
7 4 (7.02%) IT Analyst
7 4 (7.02%) IT Consultant
7 4 (7.02%) Service Design Consultant
7 4 (7.02%) Technology Support Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) 2nd Line Support
8 3 (5.26%) Business Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) IT Manager
Miscellaneous
1 4 (7.02%) CMDB
2 3 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.51%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.51%) Clustering
3 2 (3.51%) Driving Licence
4 1 (1.75%) Product Ownership
4 1 (1.75%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.75%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.75%) Social Media
4 1 (1.75%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (15.79%) Windows
2 5 (8.77%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.26%) Linux
4 2 (3.51%) CentOS
4 2 (3.51%) VMS
4 2 (3.51%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.75%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (36.84%) Service Management
2 20 (35.09%) ITSM
3 19 (33.33%) Change Management
4 13 (22.81%) Problem-Solving
4 13 (22.81%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (19.30%) Problem Management
6 10 (17.54%) Customer Service
6 10 (17.54%) Service Design
7 8 (14.04%) Agile
7 8 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (14.04%) DevOps
7 8 (14.04%) Incident Management
7 8 (14.04%) Project Management
7 8 (14.04%) Service Catalogue
7 8 (14.04%) Service Delivery
8 7 (12.28%) PRINCE2
9 6 (10.53%) Data Analysis
9 6 (10.53%) Risk Management
9 6 (10.53%) Workflow
10 5 (8.77%) Disaster Recovery
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
1 1 (1.75%) Python
1 1 (1.75%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (15.79%) ITIL Certification
1 9 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 7 (12.28%) Degree
3 6 (10.53%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.26%) Microsoft Certification
4 3 (5.26%) PMI Certification
4 3 (5.26%) PMP
5 2 (3.51%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (1.75%) CCNA
6 1 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.75%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.75%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.75%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.75%) MCP
6 1 (1.75%) MCSA
6 1 (1.75%) MCSE
6 1 (1.75%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (14.04%) SLA
2 3 (5.26%) ISO 22301
2 3 (5.26%) ISO 31000
2 3 (5.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.51%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 2 (3.51%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.75%) COBIT
4 1 (1.75%) QA
4 1 (1.75%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 9 (15.79%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.51%) VMware ESXi
3 2 (3.51%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (8.77%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (5.26%) Ansible
2 3 (5.26%) Nagios
2 3 (5.26%) Terraform
2 3 (5.26%) ZABBIX
3 2 (3.51%) Prometheus
3 2 (3.51%) WSUS
4 1 (1.75%) Cisco Prime
4 1 (1.75%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.75%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 22 (38.60%) Microsoft
2 12 (21.05%) ServiceNow
3 5 (8.77%) SolarWinds
4 4 (7.02%) VMware
5 3 (5.26%) Cisco
6 2 (3.51%) Dell
6 2 (3.51%) Fortinet
6 2 (3.51%) HP
6 2 (3.51%) IBM
6 2 (3.51%) Meraki
6 2 (3.51%) Oracle
7 1 (1.75%) Aruba
7 1 (1.75%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.75%) BMC
7 1 (1.75%) Google
7 1 (1.75%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.75%) Remedy