ITIL Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Yorkshire requiring ITIL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 75 47 20
Rank change year-on-year -28 -27 +11
Contract jobs citing ITIL 25 26 49
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 2.15% 4.44% 10.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.50% 4.68% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 19 34
10th Percentile £443 £185 £403
25th Percentile £463 £288 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £350 £475
Median % change year-on-year +42.86% -26.32% -13.64%
75th Percentile £565 £380 £550
90th Percentile £950 £420 £574
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £349 £483
% change year-on-year +36.30% -27.77% +10.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.84 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.92 £18.00 £17.50
% change year-on-year +49.56% +2.86% -10.87%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,002 556 419
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 86.23% 94.88% 86.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 645 367 230
10th Percentile £363 £285 £353
25th Percentile £425 £370 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 £507
Median % change year-on-year +7.99% -8.68% -14.61%
75th Percentile £575 £538 £580
90th Percentile £675 £625 £645
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 8 14
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.00 -
25th Percentile £13.35 £17.33 £12.55
Median hourly rate £20.60 £18.36 £12.83
Median % change year-on-year +12.22% +43.08% -34.21%
75th Percentile £23.25 £18.87 £21.13
90th Percentile £24.29 - £21.85
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £13.50
% change year-on-year +3.03% +64.00% -32.31%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ITIL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire.

ITIL job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing ITIL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing ITIL

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 28 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in South Yorkshire

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing ITIL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in South Yorkshire citing ITIL

ITIL
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 28 July 2026. 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
Sheffield -32 22 £500 +58.48% 3
Barnsley +1 1 £475 +25.00% 1
Doncaster - 1 - - 1
ITIL
Yorkshire

ITIL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (4.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 5 (20.00%) Azure
1 5 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (16.00%) AWS
3 3 (12.00%) GCP
4 2 (8.00%) Entra ID
4 2 (8.00%) OpenShift
5 1 (4.00%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.00%) Firewall
1 1 (4.00%) Kerberos
1 1 (4.00%) SNMP
1 1 (4.00%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.00%) Db2
1 1 (4.00%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 2 (8.00%) JIRA
General
1 14 (56.00%) Finance
1 14 (56.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Analytical Skills
2 6 (24.00%) Banking
3 4 (16.00%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (16.00%) Organisational Skills
4 2 (8.00%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.00%) Law
5 1 (4.00%) Retail
5 1 (4.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 6 (24.00%) Lead
2 3 (12.00%) IT Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) IT Support
2 3 (12.00%) IT Support Engineer
2 3 (12.00%) Service Manager
2 3 (12.00%) Support Engineer
3 2 (8.00%) AWS Consultant
3 2 (8.00%) Azure Consultant
3 2 (8.00%) Cloud Consultant
3 2 (8.00%) Consultant
3 2 (8.00%) GCP Consultant
3 2 (8.00%) Operations Manager
3 2 (8.00%) Service Operations Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Change Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (4.00%) IT Risk Manager
4 1 (4.00%) Senior
4 1 (4.00%) Service Desk Analyst
4 1 (4.00%) Service Owner
4 1 (4.00%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.00%) FIDO
1 1 (4.00%) LDAP
1 1 (4.00%) OAuth
1 1 (4.00%) OAuth2
1 1 (4.00%) OpenID
1 1 (4.00%) SAML
1 1 (4.00%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 3 (12.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (12.00%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (4.00%) CMDB
2 1 (4.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.00%) Enterprise Storage
2 1 (4.00%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (4.00%) IoT
2 1 (4.00%) iSeries
2 1 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
2 1 (4.00%) Mainframe
2 1 (4.00%) Operational Technology
2 1 (4.00%) PKI
2 1 (4.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (20.00%) Linux
1 5 (20.00%) Windows
2 1 (4.00%) CoreOS
2 1 (4.00%) MVS
2 1 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (4.00%) VMS
2 1 (4.00%) Windows Server
2 1 (4.00%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (56.00%) ITSM
2 13 (52.00%) Incident Management
3 10 (40.00%) Change Management
3 10 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (40.00%) Problem Management
3 10 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 10 (40.00%) Service Management
4 8 (32.00%) Service Delivery
5 6 (24.00%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
6 5 (20.00%) Disaster Recovery
6 5 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 4 (16.00%) Computer Science
8 3 (12.00%) Capacity Management
8 3 (12.00%) Knowledge Management
8 3 (12.00%) Observability
8 3 (12.00%) Performance Monitoring
8 3 (12.00%) Vulnerability Assessment
8 3 (12.00%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (16.00%) PowerShell
2 2 (8.00%) Python
3 1 (4.00%) Bash
3 1 (4.00%) CLIST
3 1 (4.00%) Go
3 1 (4.00%) Java
3 1 (4.00%) JCL
3 1 (4.00%) REXX
Qualifications
1 6 (24.00%) Degree
2 5 (20.00%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (16.00%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 3 (12.00%) Master's Degree
4 3 (12.00%) Network+ Certification
4 3 (12.00%) PMI Certification
4 3 (12.00%) PMP
5 2 (8.00%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (4.00%) Azure Certification
6 1 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (4.00%) CCNA
6 1 (4.00%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (4.00%) CISSP
6 1 (4.00%) ECDL
6 1 (4.00%) GIAC
6 1 (4.00%) MCSE
6 1 (4.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (4.00%) RHCA
6 1 (4.00%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 1 (4.00%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (12.00%) SLA
2 2 (8.00%) QA
3 1 (4.00%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.00%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.00%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (12.00%) Active Directory
2 2 (8.00%) Hyper-V
2 2 (8.00%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (4.00%) ACF2
3 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
3 1 (4.00%) Ceph
3 1 (4.00%) NDS
3 1 (4.00%) NetIQ eDirectory
3 1 (4.00%) RACF
3 1 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (4.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (4.00%) Ansible
1 1 (4.00%) Argo
1 1 (4.00%) Grafana
1 1 (4.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.00%) Prometheus
1 1 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (4.00%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
1 1 (4.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (36.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (12.00%) ServiceNow
3 2 (8.00%) Veeam
3 2 (8.00%) VMware
4 1 (4.00%) Broadcom
4 1 (4.00%) Cisco
4 1 (4.00%) Commvault
4 1 (4.00%) IBM
4 1 (4.00%) Okta
4 1 (4.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (4.00%) Red Hat