ITIL Foundation Certificate Contract Job Trends in Reading

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Berkshire > Reading

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Reading with a requirement for ITIL Foundation Certificate qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 15 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 85 - 72
Rank change year-on-year - - +9
Contract jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate 4 0 15
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.37% - 1.37%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.76% - 3.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 13
10th Percentile £411 - -
25th Percentile £427 - £603
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £459 - £605
Median % change year-on-year - - -0.82%
75th Percentile £495 - £608
90th Percentile £514 - -
Berkshire median daily rate £459 £605 £605
% change year-on-year -24.17% - -0.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £61.74 - -
Median hourly rate £63.48 - -
75th Percentile £65.22 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.48 - -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Reading

ITIL Foundation Certificate 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 Reading.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 524 166 466
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 48.21% 29.07% 42.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 303 96 245
10th Percentile £414 £281 £385
25th Percentile £524 £450 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £525 £605
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% -13.22% +10.00%
75th Percentile £725 £618 £688
90th Percentile £788 £736 £765
Berkshire median daily rate £575 £500 £583
% change year-on-year +14.90% -14.24% +11.31%
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 3 36
10th Percentile £31.43 £35.40 £50.95
25th Percentile £71.00 £48.38 £60.95
Median hourly rate £85.00 £70.00 £72.33
Median % change year-on-year +21.43% -3.22% +2.41%
75th Percentile £102.10 - £90.00
90th Percentile £106.25 - £100.00
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £43.96 £63.15
% change year-on-year +88.83% -30.40% -1.18%

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ITIL Foundation Certificate relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

ITIL Foundation Certificate job vacancy trend in Reading

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing ITIL Foundation Certificate.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing ITIL Foundation Certificate

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Hourly Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing ITIL Foundation Certificate.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing ITIL Foundation Certificate

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Azure
1 3 (75.00%) Azure Monitor
1 3 (75.00%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 3 (75.00%) DHCP
1 3 (75.00%) DNS
1 3 (75.00%) Firewall
1 3 (75.00%) TCP/IP
1 3 (75.00%) VPN
General
1 4 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Aerospace
4 1 (25.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Systems Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Data Integration Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Integration Engineer
2 2 (50.00%) Systems Integration Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
3 1 (25.00%) Lead
3 1 (25.00%) Product Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (75.00%) Terraform
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Linux
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
1 3 (75.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) Business Continuity
2 3 (75.00%) Change Management
2 3 (75.00%) Collaborative Engineering
2 3 (75.00%) DevOps
2 3 (75.00%) Disaster Recovery
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 3 (75.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
3 2 (50.00%) Data Integration
4 1 (25.00%) Agile
4 1 (25.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Customer Service
4 1 (25.00%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (25.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Resource Management
4 1 (25.00%) Service Catalogue
4 1 (25.00%) Service Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Service Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (75.00%) Bash
1 3 (75.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (75.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) CISSP
2 1 (25.00%) GCFA
2 1 (25.00%) GIAC
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Docker
1 3 (75.00%) Hyper-V
1 3 (75.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (75.00%) Ansible
1 3 (75.00%) Grafana
1 3 (75.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (75.00%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) VMware