ITIL Foundation Certificate Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

ITIL Foundation Certificate
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for ITIL Foundation Certificate qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 109 114 135
Rank change year-on-year +5 +21 +48
Contract jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate 4 16 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.25% 0.73% 0.43%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.75% 1.77% 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 14 12
10th Percentile £182 - £318
25th Percentile £184 £603 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £303 £605 £610
Median % change year-on-year -50.00% -0.82% +25.77%
75th Percentile £474 £608 £615
90th Percentile £554 - -
South East median daily rate £303 £605 £610
% change year-on-year -50.00% -0.82% +87.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
Thames Valley

ITIL Foundation Certificate falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 535 904 1,061
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 33.17% 41.09% 38.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 334 523 691
10th Percentile £219 £313 £275
25th Percentile £376 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £496 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.17% -2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £623
90th Percentile £650 £699 £688
South East median daily rate £514 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -6.55% +4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 71 52
10th Percentile £18.87 £30.00 £16.48
25th Percentile - £50.95 £48.40
Median hourly rate £25.15 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -59.17% +2.67% +185.71%
75th Percentile £54.03 £75.32 £73.69
90th Percentile £88.87 £97.50 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £58.17 £60.00
% change year-on-year -56.77% -3.05% +33.33%

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Job postings citing ITIL Foundation Certificate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Job vacancy trend for ITIL Foundation Certificate in the Thames Valley

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ITIL Foundation Certificate.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ITIL Foundation Certificate

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL Foundation Certificate in the Thames Valley

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ITIL Foundation Certificate.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing ITIL Foundation Certificate

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 22 September 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
Buckinghamshire +5 3 £185 +8.82% 2
Berkshire +2 1 £605 -
ITIL Foundation Certificate
South East

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (75.00%) Entra ID
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Monitor
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Storage
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub
2 1 (25.00%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) DHCP
1 1 (25.00%) DNS
1 1 (25.00%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Service Analyst
1 2 (50.00%) Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) 1st Line Service Desk Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) 1st Line Support
2 1 (25.00%) 1st Line Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Support
2 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Support Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Azure Engineer
2 1 (25.00%) Release Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Service Desk Support
2 1 (25.00%) Service Desk Support Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (75.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (25.00%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 3 (75.00%) Windows
2 2 (50.00%) Windows 10
3 1 (25.00%) Linux
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (25.00%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) ITIL
2 3 (75.00%) Service Management
3 2 (50.00%) Agile
3 2 (50.00%) CI/CD
3 2 (50.00%) Critical Thinking
3 2 (50.00%) Customer Service
3 2 (50.00%) DevOps
3 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (50.00%) Release Management
3 2 (50.00%) Virtual Environments
4 1 (25.00%) Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
4 1 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (25.00%) Log Analytics
4 1 (25.00%) Multi-Factor Authentication
4 1 (25.00%) Privileged Identity Management
4 1 (25.00%) RBAC
4 1 (25.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Bicep
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (25.00%) VB
1 1 (25.00%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) Degree
1 3 (75.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (75.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
System Software
1 3 (75.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (25.00%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 1 (25.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
1 1 (25.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (25.00%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (25.00%) SCCM
1 1 (25.00%) SCOM
1 1 (25.00%) WSUS
Vendors
1 3 (75.00%) Microsoft
1 3 (75.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (25.00%) Salesforce