ITIL Contracts in Scotland

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 39 40
Rank change year-on-year +12 +1 +10
Contract jobs citing ITIL 114 95 170
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 7.03% 4.41% 6.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.50% 4.99% 6.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 71 74 115
10th Percentile £181 £175 £146
25th Percentile £264 £200 £164
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £340 £420
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -19.05% +6.33%
75th Percentile £524 £450 £500
90th Percentile £588 £538 £636
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £465
% change year-on-year -5.26% +2.15% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 0
10th Percentile £16.62 - -
25th Percentile £19.96 - -
Median hourly rate £22.00 - -
75th Percentile £23.81 - -
90th Percentile £27.55 - -
UK median hourly rate £22.05 £17.50 £18.25
% change year-on-year +26.00% -4.11% +12.31%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,520 1,904 2,514
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 93.71% 88.31% 92.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 873 1,167 1,792
10th Percentile £263 £225 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.63% - +0.96%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £556
90th Percentile £600 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 90 54
10th Percentile £15.90 £12.30 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.00 £11.51
Median hourly rate £19.97 £19.50 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% +20.00% -56.59%
75th Percentile £24.66 £46.24 £52.25
90th Percentile £51.48 £60.93 £67.22
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for ITIL in Scotland

ITIL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for ITIL in Scotland

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in Scotland

ITIL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for ITIL in Scotland

ITIL
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITIL in Scotland over the 6 months to 16 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ITIL in Scotland

ITIL
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 within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 16 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 +19 57 £436 +3.81% 41
Edinburgh +9 45 £425 +36.66% 20
West Lothian +7 4 £188 - 2
Dundee +2 2 £200 -
South Lanarkshire +20 1 - -
Lanarkshire 0 1 £130 -17.46% 7
West Dunbartonshire - 1 £188 -
ITIL
UK

ITIL
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (3.51%) SharePoint
3 3 (2.63%) Confluence
3 3 (2.63%) SAS
4 1 (0.88%) JBoss
4 1 (0.88%) WebLogic
4 1 (0.88%) WebSphere
4 1 (0.88%) WebSphere Application Server
Applications
1 8 (7.02%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (3.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.88%) Acrobat
4 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Dynamics GP
1 1 (0.88%) Oracle Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 20 (17.54%) Microsoft 365
2 18 (15.79%) Azure
3 8 (7.02%) AWS
4 6 (5.26%) Power Platform
5 5 (4.39%) Entra ID
5 5 (4.39%) OpenShift
6 4 (3.51%) IaaS
6 4 (3.51%) OCI
6 4 (3.51%) OneDrive
6 4 (3.51%) PaaS
7 2 (1.75%) Azure Sentinel
7 2 (1.75%) SaaS
8 1 (0.88%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.88%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 10 (8.77%) Remote Desktop
2 6 (5.26%) Internet
2 6 (5.26%) WAN
3 5 (4.39%) Firewall
3 5 (4.39%) VPN
4 4 (3.51%) LAN
4 4 (3.51%) SD-WAN
4 4 (3.51%) TCP/IP
5 3 (2.63%) 4G
5 3 (2.63%) SNA
6 2 (1.75%) DNS
6 2 (1.75%) SSL
6 2 (1.75%) Unified Communications
6 2 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.75%) WLAN
7 1 (0.88%) BGP
7 1 (0.88%) Intranet
7 1 (0.88%) MPLS
7 1 (0.88%) OSPF
7 1 (0.88%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (5.26%) Oracle Reports
1 6 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 4 (3.51%) Oracle Exadata
2 4 (3.51%) Power BI
3 3 (2.63%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.88%) SQLite
Development Applications
1 6 (5.26%) Git
1 6 (5.26%) JIRA
2 5 (4.39%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.88%) GitLab
3 1 (0.88%) Jenkins
General
1 58 (50.88%) Social Skills
2 37 (32.46%) Finance
3 29 (25.44%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (25.44%) Public Sector
4 15 (13.16%) Banking
5 6 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 5 (4.39%) Investment Banking
6 5 (4.39%) Law
7 3 (2.63%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (2.63%) Legal
7 3 (2.63%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (1.75%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (1.75%) Military
8 2 (1.75%) Publishing
9 1 (0.88%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 26 (22.81%) Analyst
2 15 (13.16%) Service Manager
3 12 (10.53%) Senior
4 11 (9.65%) Architect
5 10 (8.77%) IT Engineer
6 9 (7.89%) Service Analyst
6 9 (7.89%) Service Desk Analyst
7 8 (7.02%) Data Architect
8 7 (6.14%) IT Analyst
8 7 (6.14%) Service Desk Engineer
9 6 (5.26%) Support Engineer
9 6 (5.26%) Windows Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Applications Support
10 5 (4.39%) Database Engineer
10 5 (4.39%) Service Desk Support
10 5 (4.39%) Windows Support Engineer
11 4 (3.51%) Deployment Engineer
11 4 (3.51%) IT Services Manager
11 4 (3.51%) Senior Database Engineer
11 4 (3.51%) Server Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (5.26%) Loki
1 6 (5.26%) Middleware
2 3 (2.63%) CSS
3 2 (1.75%) HTML
4 1 (0.88%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.88%) HTML5
4 1 (0.88%) IBM Integration Bus
4 1 (0.88%) J2EE
4 1 (0.88%) JSON
4 1 (0.88%) pytest
4 1 (0.88%) SOAP
4 1 (0.88%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (9.65%) CMDB
2 10 (8.77%) Device Driver
3 7 (6.14%) Product Ownership
3 7 (6.14%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (5.26%) Management Information System
5 4 (3.51%) Clustering
5 4 (3.51%) Distributed Systems
5 4 (3.51%) Mainframe
5 4 (3.51%) Replication
6 3 (2.63%) Blackberry
6 3 (2.63%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (2.63%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (1.75%) Data Centre
7 2 (1.75%) Public Cloud
8 1 (0.88%) Data Structures
8 1 (0.88%) Driving Licence
8 1 (0.88%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (0.88%) PKI
8 1 (0.88%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 45 (39.47%) Windows
2 27 (23.68%) Linux
3 15 (13.16%) Unix
4 14 (12.28%) Windows Server
5 8 (7.02%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 8 (7.02%) Solaris
5 8 (7.02%) Windows 10
6 5 (4.39%) Amazon Linux
7 4 (3.51%) AIX
8 3 (2.63%) Windows Server 2012
8 3 (2.63%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (2.63%) zOS
9 2 (1.75%) Android
9 2 (1.75%) Apple iOS
9 2 (1.75%) Ubuntu
9 2 (1.75%) Windows Server 2019
10 1 (0.88%) Mac OS
10 1 (0.88%) Windows 7
10 1 (0.88%) Windows Server 2008
10 1 (0.88%) Windows XP
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (35.96%) Service Management
2 39 (34.21%) Problem-Solving
3 30 (26.32%) ITSM
4 28 (24.56%) Agile
5 25 (21.93%) Problem Management
6 22 (19.30%) Change Management
6 22 (19.30%) Customer Service
7 16 (14.04%) Project Delivery
8 14 (12.28%) Configuration Management
8 14 (12.28%) Time Management
9 13 (11.40%) Incident Management
9 13 (11.40%) Service Delivery
9 13 (11.40%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (9.65%) Task Automation
11 10 (8.77%) Customer Experience
11 10 (8.77%) Disaster Recovery
11 10 (8.77%) PRINCE2
12 9 (7.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 9 (7.89%) Data Modelling
12 9 (7.89%) Programme Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (8.77%) PowerShell
1 10 (8.77%) Python
2 5 (4.39%) SQL
3 4 (3.51%) Shell Script
4 3 (2.63%) JCL
5 2 (1.75%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.88%) Bicep
6 1 (0.88%) Kusto Query Language
6 1 (0.88%) PL/SQL
6 1 (0.88%) REXX
Qualifications
1 15 (13.16%) Degree
2 13 (11.40%) ITIL Certification
3 12 (10.53%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (8.77%) A+ Certification
5 8 (7.02%) Security Cleared
6 6 (5.26%) SC Cleared
7 5 (4.39%) CISSP
8 3 (2.63%) Azure Certification
8 3 (2.63%) CISM
9 2 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.75%) Cisco Certification
9 2 (1.75%) HNC
9 2 (1.75%) ISEB
9 2 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.75%) MCSE
10 1 (0.88%) CCNA
10 1 (0.88%) DV Cleared
10 1 (0.88%) GCIA
10 1 (0.88%) GCIH
10 1 (0.88%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (9.65%) Disclosure Scotland
2 6 (5.26%) Data Quality
3 5 (4.39%) SLA
4 3 (2.63%) Accessibility
4 3 (2.63%) QA
5 2 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.88%) GRC
6 1 (0.88%) PMO
System Software
1 16 (14.04%) Active Directory
2 6 (5.26%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 6 (5.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (4.39%) Oracle RAC
4 4 (3.51%) Docker
4 4 (3.51%) Virtual Machines
5 3 (2.63%) Apache ZooKeeper
5 3 (2.63%) Hyper-V
6 2 (1.75%) BitLocker
7 1 (0.88%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 9 (7.89%) Terraform
2 8 (7.02%) Ansible
3 7 (6.14%) Kubernetes
4 6 (5.26%) Grafana
4 6 (5.26%) Prometheus
4 6 (5.26%) SCCM
5 5 (4.39%) Data Guard
5 5 (4.39%) Microsoft Intune
6 4 (3.51%) Failover Clustering
6 4 (3.51%) Microsoft Clustering
6 4 (3.51%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
6 4 (3.51%) Oracle Flashback
7 3 (2.63%) Tivoli NetView
8 1 (0.88%) Cisco Prime
8 1 (0.88%) FortiGate
8 1 (0.88%) Podman
8 1 (0.88%) RSA Archer
8 1 (0.88%) ServiceCenter
8 1 (0.88%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 28 (24.56%) Microsoft
2 22 (19.30%) ServiceNow
3 15 (13.16%) Oracle
4 13 (11.40%) VMware
5 9 (7.89%) Red Hat
6 8 (7.02%) Splunk
7 7 (6.14%) Dynatrace
8 6 (5.26%) Veritas
9 5 (4.39%) Cisco
9 5 (4.39%) HP
10 4 (3.51%) Dell
10 4 (3.51%) Fortinet
10 4 (3.51%) IBM
11 3 (2.63%) BT
11 3 (2.63%) Qualys
11 3 (2.63%) Snow
11 3 (2.63%) Symantec
12 2 (1.75%) Equitrac
12 2 (1.75%) Extreme Networks
12 2 (1.75%) Netskope