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 29 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 89 47 25
Rank change year-on-year -42 -22 +20
Contract jobs citing ITIL 22 9 41
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.87% 2.22% 8.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.08% 2.36% 10.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 6 26
10th Percentile £418 - £393
25th Percentile £463 £185 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £295 £445
Median % change year-on-year +64.41% -33.71% +175.97%
75th Percentile £560 £428 £527
90th Percentile £950 £550 £557
Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £345 £464
% change year-on-year +37.68% -25.65% +16.00%

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 1,060 382 402
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 90.29% 94.32% 86.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 700 243 236
10th Percentile £363 £236 £358
25th Percentile £423 £385 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% - -13.64%
75th Percentile £551 £565 £582
90th Percentile £669 £638 £624
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -6.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 6 16
10th Percentile £15.29 £18.10 £10.90
25th Percentile £16.34 £18.20 £12.55
Median hourly rate £19.97 £18.69 £12.83
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% +45.67% +20.70%
75th Percentile £23.37 £18.87 £22.00
90th Percentile £24.29 - £23.75
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
% change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%

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 29 May 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 29 May 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 -44 20 £485 +64.41% 13
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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) AWS
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) GCP
2 2 (9.09%) OpenShift
3 1 (4.55%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) DB2
1 1 (4.55%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 14 (63.64%) Finance
2 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 5 (22.73%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (18.18%) Banking
4 4 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Lead
2 4 (18.18%) Service Manager
3 2 (9.09%) AWS Consultant
3 2 (9.09%) Azure Consultant
3 2 (9.09%) Change Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Consultant
3 2 (9.09%) Consultant
3 2 (9.09%) GCP Consultant
3 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Operations Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Programme Manager
3 2 (9.09%) Service Operations Manager
4 1 (4.55%) DB2 Specialist
4 1 (4.55%) Programme Change Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Senior
4 1 (4.55%) Service Owner
4 1 (4.55%) Service Transition Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Transformation Manager
4 1 (4.55%) Transformation Programme Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (13.64%) Distributed Computing
1 3 (13.64%) PMI
2 2 (9.09%) Data Centre
3 1 (4.55%) CMDB
3 1 (4.55%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (4.55%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (4.55%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) CoreOS
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) MVS
1 1 (4.55%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 1 (4.55%) VMS
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
1 1 (4.55%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Service Management
2 10 (45.45%) Change Management
2 10 (45.45%) ITSM
3 8 (36.36%) Risk Management
3 8 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 7 (31.82%) Incident Management
5 6 (27.27%) Problem Management
5 6 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (22.73%) Agile
6 5 (22.73%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
7 4 (18.18%) Decision-Making
7 4 (18.18%) Release Management
7 4 (18.18%) Service Delivery
8 3 (13.64%) Budget Management
8 3 (13.64%) Capacity Management
8 3 (13.64%) Dependency Management
8 3 (13.64%) High Availability
8 3 (13.64%) Observability
8 3 (13.64%) Performance Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.55%) Bash
1 1 (4.55%) CLIST
1 1 (4.55%) Go
1 1 (4.55%) Java
1 1 (4.55%) JCL
1 1 (4.55%) Python
1 1 (4.55%) REXX
Qualifications
1 6 (27.27%) PMI Certification
2 4 (18.18%) Degree
2 4 (18.18%) ITIL Certification
3 3 (13.64%) Master's Degree
3 3 (13.64%) PMP
4 1 (4.55%) Azure Certification
4 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (4.55%) RHCA
4 1 (4.55%) Six Sigma Black Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (13.64%) SLA
2 2 (9.09%) QA
3 1 (4.55%) HIPAA
3 1 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (4.55%) PCI DSS
3 1 (4.55%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) ACF2
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory
1 1 (4.55%) Ceph
1 1 (4.55%) RACF
1 1 (4.55%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (4.55%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Ansible
1 1 (4.55%) Argo
1 1 (4.55%) Grafana
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.55%) Prometheus
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (18.18%) Microsoft
2 3 (13.64%) ServiceNow
3 1 (4.55%) Broadcom
3 1 (4.55%) Commvault
3 1 (4.55%) IBM
3 1 (4.55%) Red Hat
3 1 (4.55%) Veeam
3 1 (4.55%) VMware