ITIL Contracts in South Wales

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in South Wales 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 14 37 14
Rank change year-on-year +23 -23 +37
Contract jobs citing ITIL 20 5 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 8.33% 1.49% 9.04%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.26% 1.87% 10.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 5 42
10th Percentile £185 £154 £160
25th Percentile £358 £185 £228
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £409 £365 £419
Median % change year-on-year +11.99% -12.84% +11.67%
75th Percentile £444 £419 £538
90th Percentile £480 £558 £588
Wales median daily rate £413 £365 £275
% change year-on-year +13.01% +32.73% -26.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £28.50 - £46.63
25th Percentile £31.88 - £47.19
Median hourly rate £37.50 - £48.75
75th Percentile £41.25 - £49.69
90th Percentile - - £49.88
Wales median hourly rate £37.50 - £48.75
% change year-on-year - - +95.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 216 268 462
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 90.00% 80.00% 88.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 153 189 353
10th Percentile £185 £160 £190
25th Percentile £285 £356 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -2.56%
75th Percentile £530 £588 £575
90th Percentile £625 £668 £650
Wales median daily rate £413 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -17.50% +5.26% -1.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 23
10th Percentile £15.30 £11.21 £16.37
25th Percentile £19.09 £15.35 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.62 £22.68 £18.14
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +25.03% -16.12%
75th Percentile £41.25 £52.31 £22.11
90th Percentile £45.00 £87.62 £49.75
Wales median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
% change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for ITIL in South Wales

ITIL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for ITIL in South Wales

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in South Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in South Wales over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in South Wales

ITIL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for ITIL in South Wales

ITIL
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 3 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
Cardiff +17 10 £436 -33.00% 15
Newport +13 9 £365 - 4
Caerphilly - 1 £180 - 2
ITIL
Wales

ITIL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (10.00%) WebLogic
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 13 (65.00%) Azure
2 7 (35.00%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (30.00%) AWS
4 4 (20.00%) GCP
5 2 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (10.00%) GitHub
5 2 (10.00%) OCI
6 1 (5.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 7 (35.00%) Firewall
2 2 (10.00%) SAN
2 2 (10.00%) VPN
3 1 (5.00%) Remote Desktop
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) Jenkins
1 2 (10.00%) Subversion
2 1 (5.00%) JIRA
General
1 14 (70.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (20.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (10.00%) Digital Health
3 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (20.00%) 2nd Line Support
1 4 (20.00%) Analyst
1 4 (20.00%) Architect
1 4 (20.00%) Support Engineer
1 4 (20.00%) Support Specialist
2 3 (15.00%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (15.00%) IT Engineer
2 3 (15.00%) IT Support
3 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) IT Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) IT Support Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Migration Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Principal Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Principal Solutions Architect
3 2 (10.00%) Technical Analyst
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Engineer
3 2 (10.00%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.00%) Middleware
1 2 (10.00%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (25.00%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 4 (20.00%) Data Centre
3 2 (10.00%) NHS
3 2 (10.00%) Public Cloud
4 1 (5.00%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 13 (65.00%) Windows
2 7 (35.00%) Windows 10
3 4 (20.00%) Windows Server
3 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (20.00%) Windows Server 2019
4 1 (5.00%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 10 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 8 (40.00%) Computer Science
3 6 (30.00%) Incident Management
4 5 (25.00%) Agile
5 4 (20.00%) Application Packaging
5 4 (20.00%) Cloud Security
5 4 (20.00%) Data Privacy
5 4 (20.00%) DevSecOps
5 4 (20.00%) Enterprise Architecture
5 4 (20.00%) IT Strategy
5 4 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 4 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 4 (20.00%) TOGAF
6 3 (15.00%) Technical Leadership
7 2 (10.00%) Architectural Design
7 2 (10.00%) Architectural Patterns
7 2 (10.00%) CI/CD
7 2 (10.00%) DevOps
7 2 (10.00%) Performance Tuning
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.00%) PowerShell
1 2 (10.00%) Python
1 2 (10.00%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
Qualifications
1 8 (40.00%) Degree
2 5 (25.00%) A+ Certification
2 5 (25.00%) Network+ Certification
3 4 (20.00%) AWS Certification
3 4 (20.00%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (20.00%) Azure Certification
3 4 (20.00%) CITP
3 4 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (20.00%) Master's Degree
4 1 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (45.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (25.00%) Jamf Pro
1 5 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (20.00%) SCCM
3 2 (10.00%) Ansible
Vendors
1 7 (35.00%) Microsoft
1 7 (35.00%) ServiceNow
2 5 (25.00%) VMware
3 4 (20.00%) Google
4 2 (10.00%) Ivanti
4 2 (10.00%) Oracle
5 1 (5.00%) Cisco