ITIL Contracts in the South East

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 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 31 29 26
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 -5
Contract jobs citing ITIL 190 327 441
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 6.31% 5.88% 7.60%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.89% 6.93% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 133 241 342
10th Percentile £219 £205 £200
25th Percentile £400 £263 £320
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £488 £455
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% +7.14% +7.06%
75th Percentile £603 £575 £550
90th Percentile £685 £608 £650
England median daily rate £468 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -6.35% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 19 10
10th Percentile £18.13 - £17.53
25th Percentile £23.74 £17.69 £22.03
Median hourly rate £28.00 £21.50 £36.70
Median % change year-on-year +30.23% -41.42% +112.75%
75th Percentile £29.44 £30.00 £51.48
90th Percentile £46.78 £53.50 £57.24
England median hourly rate £21.63 £17.69 £19.94
% change year-on-year +22.24% -11.29% +26.62%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for ITIL in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for ITIL in the South East

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in the South East

ITIL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

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

Hourly rate trend for ITIL in the South East

ITIL
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITIL in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ITIL in the South East

ITIL
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 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 -4 109 £450 -3.22% 154
Berkshire -13 63 £450 -18.18% 71
Hampshire +10 35 £550 -8.33% 87
Buckinghamshire +2 35 £565 +21.51% 57
Surrey +16 21 £513 -2.38% 36
Kent +12 13 £569 +16.62% 48
Oxfordshire -2 11 £250 -9.09% 40
East Sussex +7 10 £450 -5.26% 14
West Sussex -10 2 £200 -52.94% 27
ITIL
England

ITIL
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 10 (5.26%) Microsoft Exchange
2 9 (4.74%) SharePoint
3 3 (1.58%) Exchange Server 2003
3 3 (1.58%) Exchange Server 2007
3 3 (1.58%) Exchange Server 2010
3 3 (1.58%) Exchange Server 2013
3 3 (1.58%) Office Communications Server
3 3 (1.58%) SharePoint Server
3 3 (1.58%) Skype for Business
4 2 (1.05%) IIS
5 1 (0.53%) Confluence
5 1 (0.53%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.53%) WebLogic
Applications
1 13 (6.84%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.53%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.53%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (2.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.53%) Infor CloudSuite
2 1 (0.53%) Maximo
Cloud Services
1 38 (20.00%) Azure
2 28 (14.74%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (7.89%) AWS
3 15 (7.89%) SaaS
4 14 (7.37%) IaaS
5 11 (5.79%) PaaS
6 7 (3.68%) Entra ID
7 2 (1.05%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (0.53%) Azure Monitor
8 1 (0.53%) Azure Storage
8 1 (0.53%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 20 (10.53%) DNS
2 19 (10.00%) DHCP
3 11 (5.79%) Firewall
3 11 (5.79%) VSAN
3 11 (5.79%) WAN
4 10 (5.26%) SAN
5 9 (4.74%) Network Security
6 8 (4.21%) LAN
6 8 (4.21%) TCP/IP
6 8 (4.21%) VPN
7 6 (3.16%) HTTP
7 6 (3.16%) MPLS
7 6 (3.16%) Radio Access Network
8 5 (2.63%) SD-WAN
9 4 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (1.58%) BGP
10 3 (1.58%) DDNS
10 3 (1.58%) OSPF
10 3 (1.58%) Softphone
10 3 (1.58%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (5.26%) SQL Server
2 5 (2.63%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 2 (1.05%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (1.05%) MariaDB
3 2 (1.05%) Metadata
3 2 (1.05%) MongoDB
3 2 (1.05%) Oracle BI EE
3 2 (1.05%) Oracle Database
3 2 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (1.05%) Tableau
4 1 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.53%) GIS
4 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (0.53%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (0.53%) Sybase IQ
Development Applications
1 2 (1.05%) JIRA
2 1 (0.53%) GitLab
General
1 66 (34.74%) Social Skills
2 25 (13.16%) Telecoms
3 24 (12.63%) Analytical Skills
3 24 (12.63%) Finance
4 17 (8.95%) Public Sector
5 8 (4.21%) Retail
6 5 (2.63%) Automotive
7 4 (2.11%) Banking
8 3 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (1.05%) Billing
9 2 (1.05%) Electronics
9 2 (1.05%) Law
9 2 (1.05%) Manufacturing
9 2 (1.05%) Marketing
9 2 (1.05%) Organisational Skills
9 2 (1.05%) Police
10 1 (0.53%) Back Office
10 1 (0.53%) Legal
10 1 (0.53%) Local Government
10 1 (0.53%) Military
Job Titles
1 31 (16.32%) Architect
2 27 (14.21%) Analyst
3 22 (11.58%) Senior
4 19 (10.00%) Lead
5 16 (8.42%) Service Manager
6 14 (7.37%) Support Engineer
6 14 (7.37%) Technical Architect
7 11 (5.79%) 2nd Line Support
8 10 (5.26%) Consultant
8 10 (5.26%) DBA
8 10 (5.26%) IT Support
8 10 (5.26%) Senior Architect
9 9 (4.74%) Senior Technical Architect
9 9 (4.74%) Service Analyst
9 9 (4.74%) Service Desk Analyst
10 7 (3.68%) 3rd Line Engineer
10 7 (3.68%) Azure Engineer
10 7 (3.68%) Infrastructure Engineer
11 6 (3.16%) IT Analyst
11 6 (3.16%) VMware Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (4.21%) Web Services
2 6 (3.16%) SOAP
3 4 (2.11%) Ajax
3 4 (2.11%) CSS
3 4 (2.11%) HTML
3 4 (2.11%) REST
3 4 (2.11%) XML
4 2 (1.05%) Apache Axis
4 2 (1.05%) Middleware
5 1 (0.53%) .NET
5 1 (0.53%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.53%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.53%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 11 (5.79%) Data Centre
1 11 (5.79%) PKI
2 10 (5.26%) Hybrid Cloud
2 10 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 9 (4.74%) CMDB
3 9 (4.74%) Driving Licence
4 8 (4.21%) Replication
5 7 (3.68%) Public Cloud
6 5 (2.63%) Management Information System
6 5 (2.63%) Smartphone
7 4 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
7 4 (2.11%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.05%) SCADA
8 2 (1.05%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.05%) Video Conferencing
8 2 (1.05%) Virtual Team
9 1 (0.53%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.53%) Clustering
9 1 (0.53%) Cyber Defence
Operating Systems
1 55 (28.95%) Windows
2 21 (11.05%) Windows 10
3 12 (6.32%) Windows Server
4 10 (5.26%) Linux
5 7 (3.68%) Mac OS
6 6 (3.16%) Windows Server 2019
7 4 (2.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 4 (2.11%) Windows Server 2016
8 3 (1.58%) Windows Server 2003
9 2 (1.05%) Windows 7
9 2 (1.05%) Windows Server 2012
10 1 (0.53%) Android
10 1 (0.53%) Apple iOS
10 1 (0.53%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 40 (21.05%) Problem-Solving
2 39 (20.53%) Service Delivery
2 39 (20.53%) Service Management
3 34 (17.89%) ITSM
4 29 (15.26%) Agile
5 26 (13.68%) Cybersecurity
6 22 (11.58%) Infrastructure as Code
6 22 (11.58%) Roadmaps
7 21 (11.05%) Customer Service
7 21 (11.05%) TOGAF
8 18 (9.47%) Incident Management
9 17 (8.95%) CI/CD
9 17 (8.95%) Continuous Improvement
9 17 (8.95%) Continuous Integration
9 17 (8.95%) Microservices
10 16 (8.42%) Change Management
11 15 (7.89%) Containerisation
11 15 (7.89%) Continuous Delivery
11 15 (7.89%) DevSecOps
11 15 (7.89%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 19 (10.00%) SQL
2 13 (6.84%) PowerShell
3 9 (4.74%) Python
4 3 (1.58%) C#
4 3 (1.58%) Java
4 3 (1.58%) T-SQL
5 2 (1.05%) Perl
5 2 (1.05%) Ruby
6 1 (0.53%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.53%) Bicep
6 1 (0.53%) Go
6 1 (0.53%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.53%) Magik
6 1 (0.53%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.53%) VB
6 1 (0.53%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 63 (33.16%) Security Cleared
2 47 (24.74%) SC Cleared
3 22 (11.58%) DV Cleared
4 21 (11.05%) Microsoft Certification
5 20 (10.53%) ITIL Certification
6 15 (7.89%) Degree
6 15 (7.89%) MCSE
7 10 (5.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 10 (5.26%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
8 8 (4.21%) Cisco Certification
9 7 (3.68%) A+ Certification
9 7 (3.68%) CCNP
10 5 (2.63%) PMI Certification
11 4 (2.11%) PMP
12 3 (1.58%) CCNA
12 3 (1.58%) CompTIA Security+
12 3 (1.58%) Computer Science Degree
12 3 (1.58%) MCP
13 2 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
13 2 (1.05%) ISACA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 28 (14.74%) SLA
2 22 (11.58%) NIST
3 13 (6.84%) NCSC
4 9 (4.74%) COBIT
4 9 (4.74%) Cyber Essentials
5 8 (4.21%) GDPR
6 4 (2.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (1.58%) QA
8 1 (0.53%) ISO 22301
8 1 (0.53%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 20000
8 1 (0.53%) NIST 800
8 1 (0.53%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.53%) PMO
System Software
1 40 (21.05%) Active Directory
2 20 (10.53%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (5.79%) VMware NSX
4 7 (3.68%) vSphere
5 6 (3.16%) DFS Replication
6 3 (1.58%) Brightmail
6 3 (1.58%) ISA Server
7 2 (1.05%) Microsoft App-V
8 1 (0.53%) Hyper-V
8 1 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
8 1 (0.53%) Virtual Machines
8 1 (0.53%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 15 (7.89%) SCCM
2 10 (5.26%) Microsoft Intune
3 5 (2.63%) WSUS
4 4 (2.11%) NetBackup
4 4 (2.11%) SCOM
5 3 (1.58%) Ansible
5 3 (1.58%) Microsoft Clustering
6 2 (1.05%) Amdocs OSS
6 2 (1.05%) BMC PATROL
6 2 (1.05%) Foglight
6 2 (1.05%) Kubernetes
6 2 (1.05%) Single Sign-On
7 1 (0.53%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 1 (0.53%) Rancher
7 1 (0.53%) Terraform
Vendors
1 47 (24.74%) Microsoft
2 40 (21.05%) ServiceNow
3 28 (14.74%) VMware
4 18 (9.47%) Cisco
5 12 (6.32%) Palo Alto
6 8 (4.21%) BMC
6 8 (4.21%) Remedy
7 6 (3.16%) HP
8 5 (2.63%) Oracle
8 5 (2.63%) SAP
9 4 (2.11%) 3PAR
9 4 (2.11%) Citrix
9 4 (2.11%) Dell
9 4 (2.11%) Red Hat
9 4 (2.11%) Snow
9 4 (2.11%) Sybase
9 4 (2.11%) Veritas
10 3 (1.58%) Atlassian
10 3 (1.58%) LogRhythm
10 3 (1.58%) SolarWinds