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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 34 34 24
Rank change year-on-year 0 -10 -1
Contract jobs citing ITIL 105 124 236
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 5.31% 4.61% 7.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.01% 5.62% 8.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 67 81 173
10th Percentile £158 £225 £223
25th Percentile £263 £325 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £430
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +4.65% +1.18%
75th Percentile £519 £588 £550
90th Percentile £599 £688 £625
England median daily rate £450 £488 £475
% change year-on-year -7.69% +2.63% +2.15%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 9 8
10th Percentile £19.55 £13.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £21.52 £14.00 £12.65
Median hourly rate £22.05 £22.50 £15.01
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +49.90% -14.52%
75th Percentile £22.08 £23.75 £20.13
90th Percentile £28.04 £33.91 £24.92
England median hourly rate £22.05 £17.69 £17.75
% change year-on-year +24.65% -0.31% +14.48%

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 1,747 2,205 2,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.28% 81.91% 88.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,151 1,487 2,014
10th Percentile £200 £235 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £468 £498
Median % change year-on-year +1.60% -6.03% +4.74%
75th Percentile £558 £596 £595
90th Percentile £650 £700 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 169 102
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.05
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.91 £14.64
Median hourly rate £18.75 £18.00 £22.34
Median % change year-on-year +4.18% -19.41% +27.41%
75th Percentile £25.11 £33.25 £38.96
90th Percentile £48.20 £55.00 £57.25
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%

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

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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 22 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in the Midlands

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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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITIL in the Midlands over the 6 months to 22 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ITIL in the Midlands

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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 22 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 +5 89 £425 - 285
East Midlands -1 16 £436 -19.26% 175
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 (5.71%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.76%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (3.81%) Oracle Self-Service HR
4 2 (1.90%) IIS
4 2 (1.90%) Microsoft Exchange
5 1 (0.95%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (1.90%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 4 (3.81%) Oracle HRMS
1 4 (3.81%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle EBS R12
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle ERP
2 2 (1.90%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle Assets
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle General Ledger
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle Payables
3 1 (0.95%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (0.95%) SAP Oil and Gas
3 1 (0.95%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (22.86%) Azure
2 22 (20.95%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (12.38%) Entra ID
4 8 (7.62%) AWS
5 6 (5.71%) SaaS
6 5 (4.76%) GCP
6 5 (4.76%) OneDrive
7 3 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (1.90%) IaaS
8 2 (1.90%) OCI
8 2 (1.90%) PaaS
9 1 (0.95%) Cloud Computing
9 1 (0.95%) Nutanix
9 1 (0.95%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (8.57%) Firewall
2 7 (6.67%) VPN
3 6 (5.71%) SAN
4 5 (4.76%) DHCP
4 5 (4.76%) DNS
5 4 (3.81%) TCP/IP
5 4 (3.81%) WAN
6 3 (2.86%) BGP
6 3 (2.86%) EIGRP
6 3 (2.86%) LAN
6 3 (2.86%) OSPF
6 3 (2.86%) Wireless
7 2 (1.90%) Cisco Firepower
7 2 (1.90%) HTTP
7 2 (1.90%) IPsec
7 2 (1.90%) MPLS
7 2 (1.90%) Network Security
7 2 (1.90%) Software-Defined Networking
7 2 (1.90%) TACACS
7 2 (1.90%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.67%) NoSQL
2 5 (4.76%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.81%) Oracle Database
4 3 (2.86%) PostgreSQL
4 3 (2.86%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 2 (1.90%) Elasticsearch
5 2 (1.90%) Tableau
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle BI Publisher
6 1 (0.95%) Oracle Discoverer
6 1 (0.95%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (2.86%) Chocolatey
1 3 (2.86%) Git
1 3 (2.86%) SonarQube
2 1 (0.95%) GitLab
2 1 (0.95%) JIRA
General
1 51 (48.57%) Social Skills
2 19 (18.10%) Finance
3 13 (12.38%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (11.43%) Organisational Skills
5 10 (9.52%) Public Sector
6 8 (7.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 6 (5.71%) Legal
8 4 (3.81%) Automotive
8 4 (3.81%) Law
9 3 (2.86%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.86%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.90%) Banking
10 2 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.90%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.90%) Retail
11 1 (0.95%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (16.19%) Analyst
2 9 (8.57%) IT Analyst
2 9 (8.57%) IT Support
3 8 (7.62%) Architect
3 8 (7.62%) IT Manager
3 8 (7.62%) Support Analyst
3 8 (7.62%) Support Engineer
4 6 (5.71%) 1st Line Support
4 6 (5.71%) IT Support Analyst
4 6 (5.71%) Lead
4 6 (5.71%) Support Officer
5 5 (4.76%) Administrator
5 5 (4.76%) IT Engineer
5 5 (4.76%) Service Manager
5 5 (4.76%) Solutions Architect
6 4 (3.81%) Deployment Engineer
6 4 (3.81%) Developer
6 4 (3.81%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 4 (3.81%) Oracle Specialist
6 4 (3.81%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (9.52%) .NET
2 3 (2.86%) .NET Framework
2 3 (2.86%) Apache Axis
2 3 (2.86%) Middleware
3 2 (1.90%) HTML
3 2 (1.90%) Software Packaging
3 2 (1.90%) Web Services
4 1 (0.95%) Oracle Fusion
4 1 (0.95%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (5.71%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.76%) Onboarding
3 2 (1.90%) CMDB
3 2 (1.90%) Distributed Systems
3 2 (1.90%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.90%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (1.90%) PMI
3 2 (1.90%) Replication
3 2 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (0.95%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.95%) AS400
4 1 (0.95%) CCTV
4 1 (0.95%) Data Centre
4 1 (0.95%) Data Structures
4 1 (0.95%) Fibre Optics
4 1 (0.95%) iSeries
4 1 (0.95%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.95%) Operational Technology
4 1 (0.95%) SCADA
Operating Systems
1 30 (28.57%) Windows
2 8 (7.62%) Linux
3 7 (6.67%) Unix
3 7 (6.67%) Windows Server
4 6 (5.71%) Android
5 5 (4.76%) AIX
5 5 (4.76%) Windows 10
5 5 (4.76%) Windows Server 2016
6 2 (1.90%) Debian
6 2 (1.90%) Ubuntu
6 2 (1.90%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (29.52%) Problem-Solving
2 22 (20.95%) Service Management
3 20 (19.05%) Agile
4 19 (18.10%) Customer Service
5 14 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (13.33%) Migration
6 13 (12.38%) ITSM
7 12 (11.43%) Change Management
8 11 (10.48%) Collaborative Working
9 10 (9.52%) Risk Management
9 10 (9.52%) Service Delivery
10 9 (8.57%) CI/CD
10 9 (8.57%) DevOps
11 7 (6.67%) Disaster Recovery
11 7 (6.67%) Problem Management
11 7 (6.67%) Project Management
11 7 (6.67%) Root Cause Analysis
12 6 (5.71%) Business Intelligence
12 6 (5.71%) Configuration Management
12 6 (5.71%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 19 (18.10%) SQL
2 15 (14.29%) PowerShell
3 8 (7.62%) C#
3 8 (7.62%) Python
4 5 (4.76%) JavaScript
5 3 (2.86%) Java
5 3 (2.86%) Ruby
6 2 (1.90%) Perl
6 2 (1.90%) PL/SQL
6 2 (1.90%) Shell Script
6 2 (1.90%) VBScript
7 1 (0.95%) Bash
7 1 (0.95%) RPG
7 1 (0.95%) RPG/400
Qualifications
1 24 (22.86%) Security Cleared
2 17 (16.19%) SC Cleared
3 10 (9.52%) Microsoft Certification
4 9 (8.57%) Degree
5 7 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
5 7 (6.67%) MCSE
6 6 (5.71%) CISSP
6 6 (5.71%) DV Cleared
7 5 (4.76%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (4.76%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 4 (3.81%) Cisco Certification
9 3 (2.86%) AWS Certification
9 3 (2.86%) CCNA
9 3 (2.86%) PMI Certification
10 2 (1.90%) CCNP
10 2 (1.90%) CISA
10 2 (1.90%) CISM
10 2 (1.90%) GIAC
10 2 (1.90%) ISACA
10 2 (1.90%) SANS
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (17.14%) SLA
2 6 (5.71%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (3.81%) QA
4 3 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 3 (2.86%) GDPR
5 2 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 2 (1.90%) PMO
6 1 (0.95%) Accessibility
6 1 (0.95%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.95%) COBIT
6 1 (0.95%) GRC
System Software
1 19 (18.10%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.71%) Docker
2 6 (5.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.95%) Firmware
3 1 (0.95%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 13 (12.38%) Kubernetes
2 6 (5.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 6 (5.71%) SCCM
3 4 (3.81%) Grafana
3 4 (3.81%) Tivoli
3 4 (3.81%) Tivoli Storage Manager
4 3 (2.86%) Ansible
4 3 (2.86%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (2.86%) Terraform
5 2 (1.90%) BMC PATROL
5 2 (1.90%) FortiGate
5 2 (1.90%) Nagios
5 2 (1.90%) Prometheus
6 1 (0.95%) Podman
6 1 (0.95%) SCOM
6 1 (0.95%) SolarWinds Orion
Vendors
1 39 (37.14%) Microsoft
2 13 (12.38%) VMware
3 12 (11.43%) ServiceNow
4 11 (10.48%) Cisco
4 11 (10.48%) Oracle
5 5 (4.76%) BMC
5 5 (4.76%) IBM
6 4 (3.81%) Remedy
6 4 (3.81%) Salesforce
7 3 (2.86%) Dell
7 3 (2.86%) Google
7 3 (2.86%) SolarWinds
8 2 (1.90%) Arista
8 2 (1.90%) HP
8 2 (1.90%) Juniper
8 2 (1.90%) Red Hat
8 2 (1.90%) Tenable
9 1 (0.95%) Atlassian
9 1 (0.95%) CheckPoint
9 1 (0.95%) Huawei