ITIL Contract Job Trends in Taunton

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
Somerset > Taunton

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Taunton requiring ITIL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 10 - 5
Rank change year-on-year - - +11
Contract jobs citing ITIL 2 0 8
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 8.70% - 28.57%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.09% - 29.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 8
10th Percentile £505 - £462
25th Percentile £513 - £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £603
Median % change year-on-year - - +60.87%
75th Percentile £588 - £625
90th Percentile £595 - -
Somerset median daily rate £350 £466 £488
% change year-on-year -24.93% -4.36% +30.00%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22 10 27
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 95.65% 100.00% 96.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 2 26
10th Percentile £455 £614 £525
25th Percentile £500 £616 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £638 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +6.25% -7.69%
75th Percentile £608 £666 £634
90th Percentile £630 £671 £739
Somerset median daily rate £409 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -18.25% +5.26% -14.61%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.25 - -
Median hourly rate £40.54 - -
75th Percentile £43.84 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median hourly rate £57.50 £13.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year +342.31% -67.50% -20.00%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

ITIL job vacancy trend in Taunton

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing ITIL

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend in Taunton

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Taunton citing ITIL

ITIL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) AWS CloudFormation
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) DHCP
1 1 (50.00%) DNS
1 1 (50.00%) NAS
1 1 (50.00%) SAN
1 1 (50.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (50.00%) TCP/IP
1 1 (50.00%) VPN
1 1 (50.00%) WAN
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Architect
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Network Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Network Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architect
1 1 (50.00%) Storage Architect
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 2 (100.00%) Windows
2 1 (50.00%) Linux
2 1 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) FinOps
1 1 (50.00%) Impact Assessments
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure Monitoring
1 1 (50.00%) Network Segmentation
1 1 (50.00%) Observability
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Tuning
1 1 (50.00%) Privileged Access Management
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) SIEM
1 1 (50.00%) SOAR
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) UX Research
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
1 1 (50.00%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Bicep
1 1 (50.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (50.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Certification
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (50.00%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Hyper-V
1 1 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Ansible
1 1 (50.00%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (50.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (100.00%) VMware
2 1 (50.00%) ESRI
2 1 (50.00%) F5
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft