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 November 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 26 15
Rank change year-on-year -26 -11 +24
Contract jobs citing ITIL 36 23 48
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 4.95% 5.76% 12.00%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.16% 6.23% 12.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 16 19
10th Percentile £275 £174 £390
25th Percentile £303 £396 £466
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £369 £515 £720
Median % change year-on-year -28.35% -28.47% +69.41%
75th Percentile £500 £542 -
90th Percentile - £571 -
Yorkshire median daily rate £350 £463 £575
% change year-on-year -24.32% -19.57% +43.75%
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 - £18.07 £19.50
% change year-on-year - -7.35% -8.24%

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 697 369 382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 95.74% 92.48% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 467 201 236
10th Percentile £313 £213 £363
25th Percentile £400 £421 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £476 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.33% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £543 £590 £650
90th Percentile £642 £665 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.00% - -0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 10 6
10th Percentile £14.31 £12.47 £19.25
25th Percentile - £12.55 £20.31
Median hourly rate £15.00 £13.17 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.94% -41.49% +60.71%
75th Percentile £25.15 £19.29 £29.38
90th Percentile - £21.50 £40.63
Yorkshire median hourly rate £25.15 £21.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year +19.76% -4.55% +15.79%

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 November 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 29 November 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 -28 30 £353 -31.55% 5
Barnsley - 6 £380 -
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 4 (11.11%) Confluence
1 4 (11.11%) Mule
2 1 (2.78%) CICS
2 1 (2.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 11 (30.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (19.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (16.67%) MS Visio
4 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 10 (27.78%) Power Platform
2 4 (11.11%) GCP
2 4 (11.11%) GitHub
2 4 (11.11%) PowerApps
3 2 (5.56%) Azure
3 2 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (2.78%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.78%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.78%) DNS
1 1 (2.78%) Firewall
1 1 (2.78%) NetScaler
1 1 (2.78%) Network Security
1 1 (2.78%) SSL
1 1 (2.78%) TCP/IP
1 1 (2.78%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (27.78%) Power BI
2 4 (11.11%) Data Mining
2 4 (11.11%) Relational Database
3 1 (2.78%) DB2
Development Applications
1 8 (22.22%) JIRA
2 4 (11.11%) Jenkins
2 4 (11.11%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 29 (80.56%) Social Skills
2 25 (69.44%) Finance
3 19 (52.78%) Banking
4 13 (36.11%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (22.22%) Presentation Skills
6 6 (16.67%) Financial Institution
7 4 (11.11%) Billing
8 2 (5.56%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 17 (47.22%) Analyst
2 8 (22.22%) Data Analyst
3 6 (16.67%) Business Process Analyst
3 6 (16.67%) Process Analyst
3 6 (16.67%) Report Analyst
4 5 (13.89%) Incident Manager
4 5 (13.89%) Major Incident Manager
5 3 (8.33%) Senior
5 3 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (8.33%) Service Manager
6 2 (5.56%) Asset Management Analyst
6 2 (5.56%) IT Support
6 2 (5.56%) Scrum Master
6 2 (5.56%) Splunk Engineer
7 1 (2.78%) Citrix Expert
7 1 (2.78%) IT Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) IT Infrastructure Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Senior Reporting Analyst
7 1 (2.78%) Systems Programmer
7 1 (2.78%) z/OS Systems Programmer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.56%) Spring Boot
2 1 (2.78%) ISPF
2 1 (2.78%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 10 (27.78%) Data Centre
2 9 (25.00%) Mainframe
3 6 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
4 4 (11.11%) Distributed Applications
4 4 (11.11%) Onboarding
4 4 (11.11%) Public Cloud
5 2 (5.56%) IVR
5 2 (5.56%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Windows
2 1 (2.78%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (47.22%) Service Management
2 10 (27.78%) Budgeting
2 10 (27.78%) Cost Management
2 10 (27.78%) Stakeholder Management
2 10 (27.78%) Virtual Environments
3 8 (22.22%) Change Management
3 8 (22.22%) DevOps
4 7 (19.44%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (16.67%) Asset Management
5 6 (16.67%) Business Intelligence
5 6 (16.67%) Business Process Analysis
5 6 (16.67%) Data Analysis
5 6 (16.67%) Data Mapping
5 6 (16.67%) Data Visualisation
5 6 (16.67%) IT Asset Management
5 6 (16.67%) ITSM
5 6 (16.67%) Process Improvement
5 6 (16.67%) Visualisation
6 5 (13.89%) Problem Management
6 5 (13.89%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 6 (16.67%) SQL
2 4 (11.11%) Perl
2 4 (11.11%) Python
2 4 (11.11%) Shell Script
3 1 (2.78%) COBOL
3 1 (2.78%) JCL
Qualifications
1 1 (2.78%) CCA
1 1 (2.78%) Citrix Certification
1 1 (2.78%) Degree
1 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.11%) Data Quality
1 4 (11.11%) QA
1 4 (11.11%) SLA
2 1 (2.78%) GDPR
2 1 (2.78%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (2.78%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.78%) Job Entry Subsystem
1 1 (2.78%) RACF
1 1 (2.78%) Time Sharing Option
1 1 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (2.78%) XenApp
1 1 (2.78%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.78%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 10 (27.78%) ServiceNow
2 9 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 4 (11.11%) Google
3 4 (11.11%) Splunk
4 2 (5.56%) Genesys
5 1 (2.78%) Citrix
5 1 (2.78%) F5
5 1 (2.78%) VMware