ITIL Certification Contracts in the South East

ITIL Certification
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 139 183 177
Rank change year-on-year +44 -6 +17
Contract jobs citing ITIL Certification 20 22 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.66% 0.40% 0.78%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.64% 0.88% 2.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 14 33
10th Percentile £263 £320 £254
25th Percentile £400 £475 £333
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £525 £465
Median % change year-on-year -19.05% +12.90% +6.29%
75th Percentile £563 £563 £600
90th Percentile £588 - £813
England median daily rate £475 £513 £463
% change year-on-year -7.32% +10.81% +2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £28.00 £70.39 £54.56
Median % change year-on-year -60.22% +29.01% -
75th Percentile £29.44 - -
90th Percentile £32.03 - -
England median hourly rate £28.00 £70.39 £20.64
% change year-on-year -60.22% +241.04% -35.05%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 1,222 2,486 2,176
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 40.60% 44.73% 37.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 778 1,412 1,432
10th Percentile £302 £313 £300
25th Percentile £438 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.32% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £623
90th Percentile £688 £735 £713
England median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 83 213 145
10th Percentile £20.00 £17.52 £21.40
25th Percentile £26.13 £27.50 £42.50
Median hourly rate £56.75 £57.35 £57.76
Median % change year-on-year -1.05% -0.71% +28.75%
75th Percentile £70.63 £67.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £78.13 £85.41 £75.00
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 South East

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

Job vacancy trend for ITIL Certification in the South East

ITIL Certification
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITIL Certification in the South East.

Daily rate trend for ITIL Certification in the South East

ITIL Certification
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for ITIL Certification in the South East

ITIL Certification
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITIL Certification in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for ITIL Certification in the South East

ITIL Certification
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley +45 7 £425 +70.00% 20
Surrey +12 5 £425 -19.05% 5
Hampshire +25 4 £575 +63.12% 7
Buckinghamshire - 4 £475 - 11
Berkshire +29 2 £413 - 7
East Sussex - 2 £275 - 2
Kent - 2 £425 - 11
Oxfordshire +5 1 £250 - 4
ITIL Certification
England

ITIL Certification
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (10.00%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.00%) Azure
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (10.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (15.00%) Softphone
2 2 (10.00%) DHCP
3 1 (5.00%) BGP
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco ISE
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco Nexus
3 1 (5.00%) DNS
3 1 (5.00%) EIGRP
3 1 (5.00%) LAN
3 1 (5.00%) OSPF
3 1 (5.00%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (5.00%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.00%) VXLAN
3 1 (5.00%) WAN
3 1 (5.00%) Wireless
General
1 13 (65.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (30.00%) Telecoms
3 5 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
3 5 (25.00%) Finance
4 3 (15.00%) Banking
4 3 (15.00%) Retail
5 1 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (5.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (45.00%) Service Manager
2 5 (25.00%) Delivery Manager
2 5 (25.00%) Service Delivery Manager
3 4 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
4 3 (15.00%) Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Consultant
5 2 (10.00%) IT Support
5 2 (10.00%) Service Analyst
5 2 (10.00%) Service Design Manager
5 2 (10.00%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) 2nd Line Technical Support
6 1 (5.00%) 2nd Line Technical Support Analyst
6 1 (5.00%) CyberArk Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) IT Engineer
6 1 (5.00%) Junior Service Delivery Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Senior
6 1 (5.00%) Senior Relationships Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Service Relationship Manager
6 1 (5.00%) Service Transition Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (5.00%) Data Centre
2 1 (5.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.00%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 6 (30.00%) Windows
1 6 (30.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (100.00%) ITIL
2 11 (55.00%) Service Delivery
3 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (40.00%) Service Management
5 5 (25.00%) Customer Service
6 4 (20.00%) Incident Management
6 4 (20.00%) ITSM
7 3 (15.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (15.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (10.00%) Asset Management
8 2 (10.00%) B2B
8 2 (10.00%) Desktop Virtualisation
8 2 (10.00%) Problem Management
8 2 (10.00%) Security Management
8 2 (10.00%) Service Design
9 1 (5.00%) Change Management
9 1 (5.00%) Data Modelling
9 1 (5.00%) PRINCE2
9 1 (5.00%) Process Management
9 1 (5.00%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Cisco Certification
2 1 (5.00%) Degree
2 1 (5.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (5.00%) PMI Certification
2 1 (5.00%) PMP
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (30.00%) SLA
2 1 (5.00%) COBIT
System Software
1 5 (25.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (5.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 3 (15.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 3 (15.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.00%) ServiceNow
3 1 (5.00%) Arista
3 1 (5.00%) Aruba
3 1 (5.00%) BMC
3 1 (5.00%) Cisco
3 1 (5.00%) Citrix
3 1 (5.00%) CyberArk
3 1 (5.00%) VMware