ITIL Certification Contracts in the North West

ITIL Certification
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for ITIL Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered 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 102 105 135
Rank change year-on-year +3 +30 -6
Contract jobs citing ITIL Certification 18 32 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.91% 1.16% 0.69%
As % of the Qualifications category 2.55% 3.86% 2.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 23 19
10th Percentile £156 £213 £322
25th Percentile £243 £226 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +5.00% +16.69%
75th Percentile £734 £719 £559
90th Percentile £825 £720 £581
England median daily rate £475 £513 £463
% change year-on-year -7.32% +10.81% +2.78%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 706 829 1,003
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 35.87% 30.09% 31.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 404 474 683
10th Percentile £230 £268 £325
25th Percentile £398 £416 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.66% -1.44% +4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £602
90th Percentile £650 £725 £700
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 124 67
10th Percentile £17.70 £10.95 £20.00
25th Percentile £25.26 £11.77 £25.00
Median hourly rate £32.50 £16.06 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +102.37% -57.17% -5.60%
75th Percentile £60.00 £39.54 £49.52
90th Percentile £83.13 £62.50 £66.13
England median hourly rate £45.00 £40.00 £52.40
% change year-on-year +12.50% -23.66% +39.73%

ITIL Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

Job postings citing ITIL Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North West.

Job vacancy trend for ITIL Certification in the North West

ITIL Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITIL Certification in the North West.

Daily rate trend for ITIL Certification in the North West

ITIL Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for ITIL Certification in the North West

ITIL Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITIL Certification in the North West.

Hourly rate trend for ITIL Certification in the North West

ITIL Certification
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 North West 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
Cheshire +9 10 £165 -68.57% 8
Manchester +8 7 £550 +17.65% 13
Merseyside -1 1 - - 2
ITIL Certification
England

ITIL Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 9 (50.00%) Skype for Business
2 5 (27.78%) Mattermost
Applications
1 4 (22.22%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (5.56%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) GCP
2 1 (5.56%) AWS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 9 (50.00%) Skype
2 5 (27.78%) Softphone
2 5 (27.78%) Unified Communications
2 5 (27.78%) WebEx
3 1 (5.56%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (5.56%) VoIP
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
2 1 (5.56%) GitLab
2 1 (5.56%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (77.78%) Social Skills
2 4 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (5.56%) Military
3 1 (5.56%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Analyst
2 6 (33.33%) Service Analyst
2 6 (33.33%) Service Desk Analyst
3 5 (27.78%) Messaging Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Messaging Support
3 5 (27.78%) Messaging Support Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Operations Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Operations Support Engineer
3 5 (27.78%) Support Engineer
4 4 (22.22%) Messaging Analyst
4 4 (22.22%) Messaging Support Analyst
4 4 (22.22%) Operational Support Analyst
4 4 (22.22%) Operations Analyst
4 4 (22.22%) Operations Support Analyst
4 4 (22.22%) Support Analyst
5 3 (16.67%) Service Manager
6 2 (11.11%) IT Manager
6 2 (11.11%) IT Services Manager
6 2 (11.11%) Service Continuity Manager
6 2 (11.11%) Service Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (27.78%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 6 (33.33%) Management Information System
2 4 (22.22%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
3 1 (5.56%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 5 (27.78%) Linux
2 1 (5.56%) Android
2 1 (5.56%) Apple iOS
2 1 (5.56%) Mac OS
2 1 (5.56%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (100.00%) ITIL
2 13 (72.22%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (55.56%) Problem Management
4 6 (33.33%) ITSM
5 5 (27.78%) B2B
5 5 (27.78%) Procure-to-Pay
5 5 (27.78%) Service Delivery
5 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
6 4 (22.22%) Process Improvement
7 3 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (16.67%) DevOps
7 3 (16.67%) Disaster Recovery
7 3 (16.67%) Risk Management
7 3 (16.67%) Service Continuity Management
7 3 (16.67%) Service Management
8 2 (11.11%) Change Management
8 2 (11.11%) Computer Science
8 2 (11.11%) Matrix Management
8 2 (11.11%) PRINCE2
8 2 (11.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 5 (27.78%) PowerShell
1 5 (27.78%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (33.33%) Degree
1 6 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (27.78%) SC Cleared
3 2 (11.11%) PMI Certification
3 2 (11.11%) PMP
4 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (22.22%) SLA
2 3 (16.67%) ISO 22301
2 3 (16.67%) ISO 31000
2 3 (16.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.56%) COBIT
System Software
1 5 (27.78%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (27.78%) SCOM
2 1 (5.56%) Ansible
2 1 (5.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (5.56%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 5 (27.78%) Cisco
2 5 (27.78%) Microsoft
2 5 (27.78%) Red Hat
2 5 (27.78%) Splunk
3 2 (11.11%) Remedy
4 1 (5.56%) BMC
4 1 (5.56%) Google