ITIL Contracts in the Midlands

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 25 27
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 -2
Contract jobs citing ITIL 102 144 246
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.33% 5.22% 7.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.09% 6.35% 8.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 94 177
10th Percentile £185 £258 £223
25th Percentile £280 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year - - +7.14%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £550
90th Percentile £610 £707 £625
England median daily rate £468 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -6.35% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 11 11
10th Percentile £19.85 £13.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £22.03 £17.63 £13.61
Median hourly rate £22.05 £22.50 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +45.16% -8.82%
75th Percentile £30.26 £23.75 £20.58
90th Percentile £31.80 £55.00 £24.25
England median hourly rate £21.63 £17.69 £19.94
% change year-on-year +22.24% -11.29% +26.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for ITIL in the Midlands

ITIL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for ITIL in the Midlands

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in the Midlands

ITIL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for ITIL in the Midlands

ITIL
Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITIL in the Midlands over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ITIL in the Midlands

ITIL
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 within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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 -7 81 £450 - 103
East Midlands +9 21 £320 -40.74% 43
ITIL
England

ITIL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.90%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (3.92%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (3.92%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 2 (1.96%) IIS
Applications
1 2 (1.96%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.98%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (3.92%) Oracle HRMS
1 4 (3.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (0.98%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (0.98%) SAP Oil and Gas
2 1 (0.98%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 20 (19.61%) Azure
2 16 (15.69%) Microsoft 365
3 12 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 7 (6.86%) OneDrive
4 7 (6.86%) SaaS
5 4 (3.92%) AWS
6 3 (2.94%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (2.94%) GCP
7 2 (1.96%) IaaS
7 2 (1.96%) OCI
7 2 (1.96%) PaaS
8 1 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.98%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.98%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 6 (5.88%) SAN
2 4 (3.92%) WAN
3 3 (2.94%) Firewall
3 3 (2.94%) LAN
4 2 (1.96%) Cisco Firepower
4 2 (1.96%) TCP/IP
5 1 (0.98%) BGP
5 1 (0.98%) DHCP
5 1 (0.98%) DNS
5 1 (0.98%) EIGRP
5 1 (0.98%) IPv4
5 1 (0.98%) MPLS
5 1 (0.98%) OSPF
5 1 (0.98%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.98%) VPN
5 1 (0.98%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (7.84%) SQL Server
2 7 (6.86%) NoSQL
3 4 (3.92%) Oracle Database
3 4 (3.92%) PostgreSQL
4 2 (1.96%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.96%) Relational Database
4 2 (1.96%) Tableau
5 1 (0.98%) MariaDB
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.98%) Oracle Discoverer
5 1 (0.98%) Power BI
5 1 (0.98%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (4.90%) Git
2 3 (2.94%) Chocolatey
2 3 (2.94%) SonarQube
General
1 44 (43.14%) Social Skills
2 18 (17.65%) Finance
3 13 (12.75%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (8.82%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (5.88%) Legal
5 6 (5.88%) Public Sector
5 6 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 5 (4.90%) Influencing Skills
6 5 (4.90%) Law
7 3 (2.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.96%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Automotive
9 1 (0.98%) Banking
9 1 (0.98%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (0.98%) Retail
Job Titles
1 20 (19.61%) Analyst
2 10 (9.80%) Support Analyst
3 9 (8.82%) Lead
4 8 (7.84%) IT Analyst
4 8 (7.84%) IT Manager
4 8 (7.84%) IT Support
5 7 (6.86%) Architect
5 7 (6.86%) Service Manager
6 6 (5.88%) Service Analyst
7 5 (4.90%) IT Support Analyst
8 4 (3.92%) 1st Line Support
8 4 (3.92%) Administrator
8 4 (3.92%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (3.92%) Developer
8 4 (3.92%) Oracle Specialist
8 4 (3.92%) Service Delivery Manager
8 4 (3.92%) Service Desk Analyst
8 4 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
8 4 (3.92%) Support Officer
9 3 (2.94%) IT Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.76%) .NET
2 3 (2.94%) .NET Framework
2 3 (2.94%) Apache Axis
3 2 (1.96%) HTML
3 2 (1.96%) Middleware
3 2 (1.96%) Web Services
4 1 (0.98%) LDAP
4 1 (0.98%) OAuth
4 1 (0.98%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.98%) SAML
4 1 (0.98%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (2.94%) Management Information System
1 3 (2.94%) Onboarding
2 2 (1.96%) CMDB
2 2 (1.96%) Data Centre
2 2 (1.96%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (1.96%) Driving Licence
2 2 (1.96%) Legacy Systems
2 2 (1.96%) PMI
3 1 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (0.98%) AS400
3 1 (0.98%) CCTV
3 1 (0.98%) Data Structures
3 1 (0.98%) iSeries
3 1 (0.98%) Operational Technology
3 1 (0.98%) Product Ownership
3 1 (0.98%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 26 (25.49%) Windows
2 10 (9.80%) Linux
3 7 (6.86%) Unix
3 7 (6.86%) Windows 10
3 7 (6.86%) Windows Server
4 5 (4.90%) AIX
4 5 (4.90%) Windows Server 2016
5 4 (3.92%) Android
6 2 (1.96%) Debian
6 2 (1.96%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.96%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (25.49%) Service Management
2 25 (24.51%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (22.55%) Customer Service
4 20 (19.61%) Agile
5 17 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
6 16 (15.69%) ITSM
7 14 (13.73%) Service Delivery
8 12 (11.76%) Risk Management
9 10 (9.80%) Change Management
9 10 (9.80%) Workflow
10 9 (8.82%) Collaborative Working
10 9 (8.82%) Migration
11 8 (7.84%) CI/CD
11 8 (7.84%) Microservices
12 7 (6.86%) Project Management
12 7 (6.86%) Release Management
12 7 (6.86%) Supplier Management
13 6 (5.88%) Configuration Management
13 6 (5.88%) Disaster Recovery
13 6 (5.88%) Problem Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (15.69%) SQL
2 12 (11.76%) PowerShell
3 10 (9.80%) Python
4 8 (7.84%) C#
5 5 (4.90%) JavaScript
6 3 (2.94%) Java
6 3 (2.94%) Ruby
7 2 (1.96%) Perl
7 2 (1.96%) Shell Script
8 1 (0.98%) Bash
8 1 (0.98%) PL/SQL
8 1 (0.98%) RPG
8 1 (0.98%) RPG/400
Qualifications
1 22 (21.57%) Security Cleared
2 15 (14.71%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.80%) Degree
3 10 (9.80%) Microsoft Certification
4 7 (6.86%) DV Cleared
4 7 (6.86%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (5.88%) CISSP
5 6 (5.88%) MCSE
6 5 (4.90%) CompTIA Security+
7 3 (2.94%) AWS Certification
7 3 (2.94%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
7 3 (2.94%) PMI Certification
8 2 (1.96%) CISA
8 2 (1.96%) CISM
8 2 (1.96%) GIAC
8 2 (1.96%) ISACA
8 2 (1.96%) SANS
8 2 (1.96%) Tableau Certification
9 1 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (0.98%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (16.67%) SLA
2 6 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 6 (5.88%) QA
3 3 (2.94%) Data Quality
4 2 (1.96%) GDPR
4 2 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 2 (1.96%) PMO
5 1 (0.98%) Accessibility
5 1 (0.98%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (0.98%) GRC
System Software
1 20 (19.61%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.88%) Docker
2 6 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.98%) Firmware
3 1 (0.98%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (12.75%) Kubernetes
2 8 (7.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 4 (3.92%) Grafana
3 4 (3.92%) SCCM
3 4 (3.92%) Tivoli
3 4 (3.92%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 3 (2.94%) Ansible
4 3 (2.94%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.94%) Terraform
5 2 (1.96%) BMC PATROL
5 2 (1.96%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.96%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.98%) Podman
6 1 (0.98%) SCOM
6 1 (0.98%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 36 (35.29%) Microsoft
2 15 (14.71%) ServiceNow
3 13 (12.75%) VMware
4 10 (9.80%) Oracle
5 5 (4.90%) BMC
5 5 (4.90%) Cisco
5 5 (4.90%) IBM
6 4 (3.92%) Remedy
7 2 (1.96%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.96%) Tenable
8 1 (0.98%) Ariba
8 1 (0.98%) CheckPoint
8 1 (0.98%) Concur
8 1 (0.98%) CyberArk
8 1 (0.98%) Dell
8 1 (0.98%) Google
8 1 (0.98%) Huawei
8 1 (0.98%) SAP
8 1 (0.98%) Snow
8 1 (0.98%) Veeam