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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 30 26
Rank change year-on-year -10 -4 +21
Contract jobs citing ITIL 33 28 29
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 5.21% 6.26% 6.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.45% 7.12% 6.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 18 14
10th Percentile £231 £419 £246
25th Percentile £280 £502 £442
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £525 £720
Median % change year-on-year -32.38% -27.08% +71.43%
75th Percentile £500 £554 -
90th Percentile - £582 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £344 £501 £498
% change year-on-year -31.22% +0.50% +42.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £18.65
25th Percentile - - £18.88
Median hourly rate - - £19.50
75th Percentile - - £19.88
90th Percentile - - £19.95
Yorkshire median hourly rate £18.50 £17.50 £19.89
% change year-on-year +5.71% -11.99% -6.97%

All Process and 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 605 393 432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.43% 87.92% 93.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 205 277
10th Percentile £294 £250 £363
25th Percentile £373 £425 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £520 £587
Median % change year-on-year -8.65% -11.48% +17.49%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £680
90th Percentile £625 £650 £745
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £500 £525
% change year-on-year -5.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 15 6
10th Percentile £14.77 - £14.63
25th Percentile £15.00 £12.55 £18.31
Median hourly rate £18.21 £12.83 £20.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.89% -36.64% +25.58%
75th Percentile £18.87 £20.75 £29.13
90th Percentile - £21.80 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.14 £17.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year +26.51% -12.50% +5.26%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for ITIL 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 16 September 2025.

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 16 September 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
Sheffield -19 27 £349 -33.62% 7
Barnsley - 6 £380 - 1
ITIL
Yorkshire

ITIL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Yorkshire 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 4 (12.12%) Mule
2 3 (9.09%) Confluence
3 1 (3.03%) CICS
Applications
1 9 (27.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 6 (18.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 6 (18.18%) MS Visio
3 2 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 7 (21.21%) Power Platform
2 4 (12.12%) GCP
2 4 (12.12%) GitHub
2 4 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
3 3 (9.09%) Azure
3 3 (9.09%) Entra ID
3 3 (9.09%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.03%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (21.21%) Power BI
2 3 (9.09%) Data Mining
2 3 (9.09%) Relational Database
3 1 (3.03%) DB2
Development Applications
1 7 (21.21%) JIRA
2 4 (12.12%) Jenkins
2 4 (12.12%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 27 (81.82%) Social Skills
2 22 (66.67%) Finance
3 15 (45.45%) Banking
4 12 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (15.15%) Financial Institution
5 5 (15.15%) Presentation Skills
6 3 (9.09%) Billing
7 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 18 (54.55%) Analyst
2 6 (18.18%) Business Process Analyst
2 6 (18.18%) Process Analyst
3 5 (15.15%) Data Analyst
3 5 (15.15%) Incident Manager
3 5 (15.15%) Major Incident Manager
4 4 (12.12%) IT Analyst
4 4 (12.12%) IT Support
5 3 (9.09%) IT Support Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Report Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Service Manager
5 3 (9.09%) Support Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Asset Management Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Business Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Infrastructure Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Senior
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Splunk Engineer
7 1 (3.03%) Systems Programmer
7 1 (3.03%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) ISPF
Miscellaneous
1 7 (21.21%) Data Centre
1 7 (21.21%) Mainframe
2 6 (18.18%) Enterprise Software
3 4 (12.12%) Distributed Applications
3 4 (12.12%) Onboarding
4 3 (9.09%) Public Cloud
5 2 (6.06%) IVR
6 1 (3.03%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (3.03%) Distributed Computing
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.03%) Windows
1 1 (3.03%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (39.39%) Stakeholder Management
2 12 (36.36%) Service Management
3 8 (24.24%) Change Management
3 8 (24.24%) Problem-Solving
4 7 (21.21%) Budgeting
4 7 (21.21%) Cost Management
4 7 (21.21%) Virtual Environments
5 6 (18.18%) Asset Management
5 6 (18.18%) Business Process Analysis
5 6 (18.18%) DevOps
5 6 (18.18%) IT Asset Management
5 6 (18.18%) Process Improvement
6 5 (15.15%) CI/CD
6 5 (15.15%) Data Mapping
6 5 (15.15%) Impact Analysis
6 5 (15.15%) ITSM
6 5 (15.15%) Root Cause Analysis
7 4 (12.12%) Availability Management
7 4 (12.12%) Business Impact Analysis
7 4 (12.12%) Observability
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.12%) Perl
1 4 (12.12%) Python
1 4 (12.12%) Shell Script
1 4 (12.12%) SQL
2 1 (3.03%) COBOL
2 1 (3.03%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (12.12%) QA
1 4 (12.12%) SLA
2 2 (6.06%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.03%) GDPR
3 1 (3.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 3 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 1 (3.03%) Job Entry Subsystem
2 1 (3.03%) RACF
2 1 (3.03%) Time Sharing Option
Systems Management
1 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 12 (36.36%) Microsoft
2 10 (30.30%) ServiceNow
3 4 (12.12%) Google
3 4 (12.12%) Splunk
4 2 (6.06%) Genesys