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 26 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 76 37 32
Rank change year-on-year -39 -5 -11
Contract jobs citing ITIL 32 34 28
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 2.78% 5.41% 6.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.30% 5.68% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 27 17
10th Percentile £417 £272 £410
25th Percentile £465 £300 £508
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £355 £525
Median % change year-on-year +40.85% -32.38% -27.08%
75th Percentile £601 £500 £554
90th Percentile £949 - £583
Yorkshire median daily rate £485 £344 £495
% change year-on-year +40.89% -30.49% -3.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £25.84 - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £26.92 £18.50 £17.50
% change year-on-year +45.51% +5.71% -11.99%

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 970 599 406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 84.35% 95.38% 88.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 398 210
10th Percentile £366 £289 £230
25th Percentile £435 £371 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £475 £520
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% -8.65% -11.48%
75th Percentile £576 £550 £588
90th Percentile £675 £634 £650
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 8 15
10th Percentile - £14.66 -
25th Percentile £13.00 £15.00 £12.55
Median hourly rate £18.30 £18.87 £12.83
Median % change year-on-year -3.02% +47.08% -37.41%
75th Percentile £22.72 £20.44 £20.75
90th Percentile £24.29 £25.15 £21.80
Yorkshire median hourly rate £19.68 £22.36 £17.50
% change year-on-year -11.98% +27.76% -13.58%

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 26 September 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 26 September 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 -35 27 £500 +43.16% 8
Barnsley +1 1 £475 +25.00% 2
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 4 (12.50%) Confluence
2 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (3.13%) CICS
Applications
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (9.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (9.38%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 9 (28.13%) Azure
2 7 (21.88%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (18.75%) AWS
4 5 (15.63%) GCP
5 4 (12.50%) Entra ID
6 3 (9.38%) Google Data Studio
7 1 (3.13%) OpenShift
7 1 (3.13%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 3 (9.38%) Firewall
2 1 (3.13%) Kerberos
2 1 (3.13%) SNMP
2 1 (3.13%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.38%) Power Query
2 2 (6.25%) Db2
3 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (6.25%) Tricentis qTest
2 2 (6.25%) Zephyr
General
1 16 (50.00%) Finance
1 16 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 8 (25.00%) Banking
3 5 (15.63%) Influencing Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Law
6 2 (6.25%) Financial Institution
7 1 (3.13%) Retail
7 1 (3.13%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (31.25%) Lead
2 4 (12.50%) Analyst
3 3 (9.38%) IT Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) IT Support
3 3 (9.38%) IT Support Engineer
3 3 (9.38%) Service Manager
3 3 (9.38%) Support Engineer
4 2 (6.25%) AWS Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Azure Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Cloud Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Delivery Manager
4 2 (6.25%) GCP Consultant
4 2 (6.25%) Infrastructure Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Migration Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Project Delivery Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Technical Delivery Manager
4 2 (6.25%) Technical Leader
4 2 (6.25%) Technical Manager
5 1 (3.13%) Operations Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.13%) FIDO
1 1 (3.13%) LDAP
1 1 (3.13%) OAuth
1 1 (3.13%) OAuth2
1 1 (3.13%) OpenID
1 1 (3.13%) SAML
1 1 (3.13%) Terraform
1 1 (3.13%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.63%) Data Centre
2 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (6.25%) Mainframe
3 1 (3.13%) CMDB
3 1 (3.13%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.13%) Distributed Computing
3 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Storage
3 1 (3.13%) IBM Mainframe
3 1 (3.13%) IoT
3 1 (3.13%) iSeries
3 1 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
3 1 (3.13%) Operational Technology
3 1 (3.13%) PKI
3 1 (3.13%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 10 (31.25%) Windows
2 7 (21.88%) Linux
3 5 (15.63%) Windows Server
4 2 (6.25%) zOS
5 1 (3.13%) CoreOS
5 1 (3.13%) MVS
5 1 (3.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 1 (3.13%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (46.88%) Service Management
2 13 (40.63%) Incident Management
2 13 (40.63%) Risk Management
3 12 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (34.38%) ITSM
4 11 (34.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (31.25%) Cybersecurity
6 9 (28.13%) Change Management
6 9 (28.13%) Service Delivery
7 8 (25.00%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (25.00%) Problem Management
8 7 (21.88%) Agile
9 6 (18.75%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 5 (15.63%) Decision-Making
10 5 (15.63%) PRINCE2
10 5 (15.63%) Roadmaps
10 5 (15.63%) Technical Leadership
11 4 (12.50%) Business Continuity
11 4 (12.50%) Migration
11 4 (12.50%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.50%) PowerShell
2 2 (6.25%) JCL
2 2 (6.25%) Python
3 1 (3.13%) Bash
3 1 (3.13%) CLIST
3 1 (3.13%) Go
3 1 (3.13%) Java
3 1 (3.13%) REXX
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Degree
2 5 (15.63%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (15.63%) PMI Certification
2 5 (15.63%) PMP
3 4 (12.50%) Microsoft Certified Professional
4 3 (9.38%) IIBA
4 3 (9.38%) Network+ Certification
5 2 (6.25%) Azure Certification
5 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (6.25%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 1 (3.13%) AWS Certification
6 1 (3.13%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (3.13%) ECDL
6 1 (3.13%) GIAC
6 1 (3.13%) Master's Degree
6 1 (3.13%) MCSE
6 1 (3.13%) RHCA
6 1 (3.13%) Six Sigma Black Belt
6 1 (3.13%) SSCP
6 1 (3.13%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (15.63%) GRC
2 4 (12.50%) QA
3 2 (6.25%) SLA
4 1 (3.13%) HIPAA
4 1 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 1 (3.13%) SOC 2
System Software
1 6 (18.75%) Hyper-V
2 4 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (9.38%) Active Directory
4 2 (6.25%) vSphere
5 1 (3.13%) ACF2
5 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (3.13%) Ceph
5 1 (3.13%) NDS
5 1 (3.13%) NetIQ eDirectory
5 1 (3.13%) RACF
5 1 (3.13%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (3.13%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (3.13%) Ansible
1 1 (3.13%) Argo
1 1 (3.13%) Control-M
1 1 (3.13%) Grafana
1 1 (3.13%) Kubernetes
1 1 (3.13%) Prometheus
1 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (3.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 11 (34.38%) Microsoft
2 5 (15.63%) ServiceNow
3 4 (12.50%) VMware
4 3 (9.38%) Cisco
4 3 (9.38%) Google
4 3 (9.38%) Palo Alto
5 2 (6.25%) Veeam
6 1 (3.13%) Broadcom
6 1 (3.13%) Commvault
6 1 (3.13%) IBM
6 1 (3.13%) Okta
6 1 (3.13%) Red Hat