ITIL Contract Job Trends in the North East

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring ITIL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 25 14
Rank change year-on-year -10 -11 +32
Contract jobs citing ITIL 14 19 21
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 3.53% 6.33% 8.37%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.01% 6.83% 9.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 17
10th Percentile £238 £322 £420
25th Percentile £260 £340 £690
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £618 £720
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -14.24% +51.58%
75th Percentile £531 £688 -
90th Percentile £681 £744 -
England median daily rate £475 £477 £500
% change year-on-year -0.31% -4.70% +5.26%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 349 278 214
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 87.91% 92.67% 85.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 235 132 149
10th Percentile £178 £306 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £481 £450
Median % change year-on-year -6.49% +6.94% -18.18%
75th Percentile £536 £591 £575
90th Percentile £591 £718 £711
England median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 25 9
10th Percentile £14.35 £14.13 £15.46
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £28.91 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +56.27% +5.71% -22.22%
75th Percentile £53.75 £46.18 £46.18
90th Percentile £55.00 - -
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +19.85%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

ITIL job vacancy trend in the North East

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing ITIL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing ITIL

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in the North East over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in the North East

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing ITIL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing ITIL

ITIL
Contract Job Locations in the North East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the North East region over the 6 months to 21 December 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
Tyne and Wear -12 14 £444 +30.51% 13
ITIL
England

ITIL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 3 (21.43%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) AWS
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.14%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) OneDrive
General
1 8 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 4 (28.57%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (42.86%) Lead
2 3 (21.43%) Analyst
2 3 (21.43%) Application Support Team Leader
2 3 (21.43%) Applications Support
2 3 (21.43%) Oracle Team Leader
2 3 (21.43%) Support Team Leader
2 3 (21.43%) Team Leader
3 2 (14.29%) Infrastructure Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Service Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Service Transition Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Transition Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Desktop Support
4 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Desktop Support Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) 2nd Line Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Business Continuity Specialist
4 1 (7.14%) Head of IT Operations
4 1 (7.14%) Head of Service Operations
4 1 (7.14%) Infrastructure Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Mobile Engineer
4 1 (7.14%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) RabbitMQ
1 1 (7.14%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 3 (21.43%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (35.71%) Customer Service
2 5 (35.71%) Disaster Recovery
2 5 (35.71%) Patch Management
3 4 (28.57%) Business Continuity
4 3 (21.43%) Application Security
4 3 (21.43%) Coaching
4 3 (21.43%) Service Management
4 3 (21.43%) Supplier Management
5 2 (14.29%) Agile
5 2 (14.29%) Incident Management
5 2 (14.29%) Mentoring
5 2 (14.29%) People Management
5 2 (14.29%) Performance Management
5 2 (14.29%) Project Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Security Management
5 2 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 2 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (7.14%) IT Governance
6 1 (7.14%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) C#
1 1 (7.14%) PowerShell
1 1 (7.14%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (21.43%) Degree
2 2 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (7.14%) CISA
3 1 (7.14%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (35.71%) SLA
2 3 (21.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (14.29%) COBIT
4 1 (7.14%) GDPR
4 1 (7.14%) ISO 22301
4 1 (7.14%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.14%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (7.14%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Jamf Pro
1 1 (7.14%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (35.71%) Microsoft
2 4 (28.57%) Oracle
3 1 (7.14%) Citrix
3 1 (7.14%) VMware