ITIL Certification Contracts in Scotland

ITIL Certification
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 103 118 142
Rank change year-on-year +15 +24 +17
Contract jobs citing ITIL Certification 13 11 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.80% 0.50% 0.73%
As % of the Qualifications category 4.05% 1.82% 3.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 6 13
10th Percentile £308 £422 £373
25th Percentile £343 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £368 £463 £473
Median % change year-on-year -20.43% -2.12% +44.72%
75th Percentile £436 £483 £473
90th Percentile £523 £513 £497
UK median daily rate £466 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -6.75% +11.11% -

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 321 606 591
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 19.75% 27.33% 20.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 215 326 408
10th Percentile £200 £188 £163
25th Percentile £363 £346 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £550 £600 £538
90th Percentile £600 £675 £632
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 47 14
10th Percentile £17.01 £12.95 £13.65
25th Percentile £19.73 £16.50 £15.99
Median hourly rate £22.88 £40.94 £21.47
Median % change year-on-year -44.13% +90.73% -49.57%
75th Percentile £28.07 £60.00 £57.90
90th Percentile £61.16 £64.70 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

ITIL Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing ITIL Certification as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for ITIL Certification in Scotland

ITIL Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITIL Certification in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for ITIL Certification in Scotland

ITIL Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for ITIL Certification in Scotland

ITIL Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITIL Certification in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for ITIL Certification in Scotland

ITIL Certification
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Glasgow - 8 £368 - 4
Edinburgh +2 4 £463 +1.37%
ITIL Certification
UK

ITIL Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Power Platform
3 1 (7.69%) IaaS
3 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (7.69%) PaaS
3 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (15.38%) SSL
2 1 (7.69%) DNS
2 1 (7.69%) Firewall
2 1 (7.69%) HTTP
2 1 (7.69%) TCP/IP
General
1 8 (61.54%) Finance
2 7 (53.85%) Social Skills
3 5 (38.46%) Banking
4 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (15.38%) Public Sector
6 1 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (23.08%) Analyst
1 3 (23.08%) Senior
1 3 (23.08%) Service Manager
2 2 (15.38%) Architect
2 2 (15.38%) Change Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Specialist
2 2 (15.38%) IT Analyst
2 2 (15.38%) Security Specialist
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Business Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Data Architect
3 1 (7.69%) Infrastructure Architect
3 1 (7.69%) IT Technician
3 1 (7.69%) ITIL Change Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Change Analyst
3 1 (7.69%) Senior Technician
3 1 (7.69%) ServiceNow Architect
Miscellaneous
1 3 (23.08%) CMDB
2 2 (15.38%) Cyber Threat
2 2 (15.38%) Management Information System
3 1 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (7.69%) PKI
3 1 (7.69%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (7.69%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
1 1 (7.69%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (100.00%) ITIL
2 6 (46.15%) Change Management
3 5 (38.46%) Agile
3 5 (38.46%) Service Management
3 5 (38.46%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (30.77%) Change Advisory Board
4 4 (30.77%) Configuration Management
4 4 (30.77%) Release Management
4 4 (30.77%) Risk Assessment
5 3 (23.08%) ITSM
5 3 (23.08%) Operational Stability
5 3 (23.08%) Problem Management
5 3 (23.08%) Process Improvement
6 2 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (15.38%) Cybersecurity
6 2 (15.38%) Penetration Testing
6 2 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (15.38%) Security Operations
6 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 2 (15.38%) Threat Modelling
Qualifications
1 3 (23.08%) Degree
2 2 (15.38%) MCSE
2 2 (15.38%) Microsoft Certification
3 1 (7.69%) Azure Certification
3 1 (7.69%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (7.69%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Hyper-V
2 1 (7.69%) Active Directory
2 1 (7.69%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (7.69%) Ansible
1 1 (7.69%) SCCM
1 1 (7.69%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (53.85%) ServiceNow
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.69%) Snow
2 1 (7.69%) VMware