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

6 months to
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 87 34 14
Rank change year-on-year -53 -20 +28
Contract jobs citing ITIL 17 9 46
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 1.76% 3.11% 10.90%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.88% 3.24% 11.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 5 19
10th Percentile £334 - £287
25th Percentile £463 £135 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £422 £445
Median % change year-on-year +12.56% -5.17% +11.25%
75th Percentile £500 £438 £620
90th Percentile £559 £573 £720
Yorkshire median daily rate £450 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +5.88% -15.00% +25.00%

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 904 278 390
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 93.58% 96.19% 92.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 598 175 234
10th Percentile £350 £213 £306
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.80% - -9.09%
75th Percentile £550 £588 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £668
Yorkshire median daily rate £488 £475 £475
% change year-on-year +2.63% - -9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 1 12
10th Percentile £15.28 - £10.90
25th Percentile £15.34 £15.22 £12.19
Median hourly rate £19.34 £16.19 £13.23
Median % change year-on-year +19.46% +22.37% +24.46%
75th Percentile £25.15 £17.16 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £15.00
% change year-on-year +3.03% +47.60% +41.11%

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 February 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 February 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 -52 16 £475 +12.56% 4
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 2 (11.76%) Confluence
2 1 (5.88%) SharePoint
Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (11.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) Power Platform
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
3 1 (5.88%) Entra ID
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.88%) OneDrive
3 1 (5.88%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.88%) DNS
1 1 (5.88%) Firewall
1 1 (5.88%) NetScaler
1 1 (5.88%) Network Security
1 1 (5.88%) SSL
1 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
1 1 (5.88%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (17.65%) Power BI
2 1 (5.88%) Data Mining
2 1 (5.88%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) JIRA
General
1 7 (41.18%) Finance
2 6 (35.29%) Social Skills
3 5 (29.41%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (23.53%) Banking
5 3 (17.65%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (5.88%) Billing
6 1 (5.88%) Financial Institution
6 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (17.65%) Analyst
1 3 (17.65%) Data Analyst
1 3 (17.65%) Report Analyst
1 3 (17.65%) Service Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Change Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Programme Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Programme Manager
2 2 (11.76%) Scrum Master
3 1 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support
3 1 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (5.88%) IT Support
3 1 (5.88%) Operations Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Senior Reporting Analyst
3 1 (5.88%) Service Delivery Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Service Operations Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Service Transition Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Transformation Programme Manager
3 1 (5.88%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) Spring Boot
2 1 (5.88%) LDAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (17.65%) Data Centre
1 3 (17.65%) PMI
2 2 (11.76%) Mainframe
2 2 (11.76%) Virtual Team
3 1 (5.88%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Service Management
2 7 (41.18%) Agile
2 7 (41.18%) ITSM
3 6 (35.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (23.53%) High Availability
4 4 (23.53%) Release Management
5 3 (17.65%) AI
5 3 (17.65%) Budgeting and Forecasting
5 3 (17.65%) Change Management
5 3 (17.65%) Cost Management
5 3 (17.65%) Cutover Planning
5 3 (17.65%) Decision-Making
5 3 (17.65%) Dependency Management
5 3 (17.65%) Observability
5 3 (17.65%) Performance Management
5 3 (17.65%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (17.65%) Programme Governance
5 3 (17.65%) Root Cause Analysis
5 3 (17.65%) Scrum
5 3 (17.65%) Virtual Environments
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Perl
1 3 (17.65%) Python
1 3 (17.65%) Shell Script
2 2 (11.76%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (17.65%) PMI Certification
2 2 (11.76%) ITIL Certification
3 1 (5.88%) CCA
3 1 (5.88%) Citrix Certification
3 1 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.76%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.88%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
1 1 (5.88%) XenApp
1 1 (5.88%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 1 (5.88%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) ServiceNow
2 3 (17.65%) Splunk
3 1 (5.88%) Citrix
3 1 (5.88%) F5
3 1 (5.88%) Microsoft
3 1 (5.88%) VMware