ITIL Certification Contract Job Trends in the Midlands

ITIL Certification
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands with a requirement for ITIL Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 8 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 142 120 139
Rank change year-on-year -22 +19 +46
Contract jobs citing ITIL Certification 6 19 9
As % of all contract jobs in the Midlands 0.22% 0.70% 0.31%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.66% 2.43% 1.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 15 5
10th Percentile £429 £165 £365
25th Percentile £436 £209 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £575
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -30.43% +10.84%
75th Percentile £531 £606 £600
90th Percentile £565 £687 -
England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 911 781 806
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 33.35% 28.97% 27.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 556 476 499
10th Percentile £216 £307 £295
25th Percentile £399 £392 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £519 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% -1.14% +6.06%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £604
90th Percentile £671 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 117 30 39
10th Percentile £17.87 £17.00 £17.03
25th Percentile £18.87 £19.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.08 £24.18 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.70% +5.13% +16.96%
75th Percentile £26.50 £43.38 £67.50
90th Percentile £46.40 £52.98 £69.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £52.50 £53.77
% change year-on-year -52.10% -2.36% +19.48%

ITIL Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ITIL Certification relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

ITIL Certification job vacancy trend in the Midlands

ITIL Certification
Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing ITIL Certification.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing ITIL Certification

ITIL Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL Certification in the Midlands over the 6 months to 8 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL Certification in the Midlands

ITIL Certification
Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing ITIL Certification.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Midlands citing ITIL Certification

ITIL Certification
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 8 October 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
West Midlands -23 4 £511 +127.11% 3
East Midlands -9 2 £450 - 1
ITIL Certification
England

ITIL Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Midlands 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 1 (16.67%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (16.67%) InDesign
1 1 (16.67%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Sprinklr
Cloud Services
1 3 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) DHCP
1 2 (33.33%) DNS
1 2 (33.33%) Ethereal
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
1 2 (33.33%) Network Security
1 2 (33.33%) SD-WAN
1 2 (33.33%) VPN
1 2 (33.33%) Wireless
1 2 (33.33%) Wireshark
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Big Data
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (16.67%) Dremio
1 1 (16.67%) Hadoop
1 1 (16.67%) Power BI
1 1 (16.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dreamweaver
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Documentation Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Marketing
2 2 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (16.67%) Finance
3 1 (16.67%) Financial Institution
3 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
3 1 (16.67%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Consultant
1 2 (33.33%) Implementation Consultant
2 1 (16.67%) Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Data Architect
2 1 (16.67%) Delivery Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Service Delivery Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) Flash
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
1 1 (16.67%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (16.67%) Blog
2 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (16.67%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) ITIL
2 3 (50.00%) Analytics
2 3 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Agile Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Capacity Planning
3 2 (33.33%) Computer Science
3 2 (33.33%) Customer Service
3 2 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 2 (33.33%) High Availability
3 2 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 2 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
3 2 (33.33%) Project Delivery
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Project Planning
3 2 (33.33%) RBAC
3 2 (33.33%) Service Management
3 2 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) CCIE
1 2 (33.33%) CCNP
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco Certification
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) CCIE Routing and Switching
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (33.33%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) HDFS
Systems Management
1 2 (33.33%) OpenView
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Avaya
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) F5
1 2 (33.33%) Fortinet
1 2 (33.33%) Genesys
2 1 (16.67%) Ab Initio
2 1 (16.67%) Adobe
2 1 (16.67%) Facebook
2 1 (16.67%) Instagram
2 1 (16.67%) Oracle
2 1 (16.67%) Twitter
2 1 (16.67%) YouTube