ITIL Contract Job Trends in Staffordshire

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
West Midlands > Staffordshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Staffordshire requiring ITIL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 10 12 21
Rank change year-on-year +2 +9 0
Contract jobs citing ITIL 5 7 6
As % of all contract jobs in Staffordshire 8.06% 5.74% 3.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 10.42% 7.87% 3.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 5 6
10th Percentile - £343 £268
25th Percentile - £425 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £200 £450 £375
Median % change year-on-year -55.56% +20.00% -
75th Percentile - £594 £388
90th Percentile - - £431
West Midlands median daily rate £400 £450 £448
% change year-on-year -11.11% +0.39% -5.63%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Staffordshire

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 Staffordshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 48 89 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire 77.42% 72.95% 87.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 45 111
10th Percentile £140 £127 £263
25th Percentile £202 £288 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £275 £400 £500
Median % change year-on-year -31.25% -20.00% +10.99%
75th Percentile £466 £488 £594
90th Percentile £514 £594 £745
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £515 £500
% change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 4 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £29.00 £33.93 £23.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £34.47 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.96% +25.33% -
75th Percentile £31.00 £38.44 £28.75
90th Percentile £35.90 £44.63 -
West Midlands median hourly rate £23.05 £26.13 £27.50
% change year-on-year -11.77% -5.00% +55.19%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in Staffordshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ITIL relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Staffordshire.

ITIL job vacancy trend in Staffordshire

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing ITIL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing ITIL

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend in Staffordshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing ITIL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Staffordshire citing ITIL

ITIL
Contract Job Locations in Staffordshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the Staffordshire region over the 6 months to 27 October 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
Stoke-on-Trent +6 1 £200 - 9
Stafford - 1 - - 5
ITIL
West Midlands

ITIL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Staffordshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) DHCP
1 1 (20.00%) DNS
1 1 (20.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (20.00%) VPN
Development Applications
1 4 (80.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Desktop Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support
2 1 (20.00%) Desktop Support Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Self-Motivation
2 2 (40.00%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (20.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (20.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (60.00%) Active Listening
2 3 (60.00%) Coaching
2 3 (60.00%) Conflict Resolution
2 3 (60.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) Mentoring
2 3 (60.00%) Project Management
2 3 (60.00%) Project Planning
2 3 (60.00%) Release Management
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Assessment
2 3 (60.00%) Service Management
2 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 3 (60.00%) Time Management
3 1 (20.00%) Change Management
3 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Service
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile Device Management
3 1 (20.00%) Patch Management
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) A+ Certification
1 1 (20.00%) MCP
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (60.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (20.00%) Microsoft