ITIL Contracts in the Thames Valley

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
South East > Thames Valley

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for ITIL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ITIL over the 6 months to 6 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 20 18 20
Rank change year-on-year -2 +2 +13
Contract jobs citing ITIL 219 267 302
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 8.21% 9.21% 8.59%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 9.43% 10.03% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 195 185
10th Percentile £205 £280 £166
25th Percentile £213 £404 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £480 £423
Median % change year-on-year -3.13% +13.61% +5.63%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £500
90th Percentile £608 £638 £575
South East median daily rate £488 £455 £428
% change year-on-year +7.14% +6.43% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 8 23
10th Percentile £24.90 £22.35 £11.05
25th Percentile £26.81 £41.25 £13.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £49.20 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -39.02% +189.41% -19.24%
75th Percentile £50.20 £54.56 £17.50
90th Percentile £62.31 £62.60 £22.30
South East median hourly rate £21.50 £36.70 £17.25
% change year-on-year -41.42% +112.75% -18.05%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

ITIL is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,322 2,661 3,136
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 87.03% 91.82% 89.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,312 1,850 2,115
10th Percentile £213 £322 £225
25th Percentile £370 £413 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year - +4.17% +6.67%
75th Percentile £600 £604 £580
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
South East median daily rate £501 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -1.86% +2.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 168 64 86
10th Percentile £14.25 £18.50 £10.77
25th Percentile £19.25 £22.88 £12.10
Median hourly rate £45.00 £51.25 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.20% +192.86% -16.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.21 £24.69
90th Percentile £85.65 £79.19 £66.88
South East median hourly rate £47.50 £49.00 £21.95
% change year-on-year -3.06% +123.23% -20.18%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for ITIL in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITIL in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for ITIL in the Thames Valley

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in the Thames Valley

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITIL in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for ITIL in the Thames Valley

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITIL in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for ITIL in the Thames Valley

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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 within the Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
Berkshire +17 151 £575 +19.48% 42
Buckinghamshire -3 50 £465 -3.13% 15
Oxfordshire +9 18 £275 -43.59% 6
ITIL
South East

ITIL
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 29 (13.24%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (1.37%) Exchange Server 2007
2 3 (1.37%) Exchange Server 2013
2 3 (1.37%) SAS
3 2 (0.91%) nginx
4 1 (0.46%) Confluence
4 1 (0.46%) Oracle Spatial
Applications
1 35 (15.98%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (1.37%) SPSS
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (0.91%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Sage X3
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.46%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.46%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 35 (15.98%) Azure
2 21 (9.59%) Microsoft 365
3 18 (8.22%) Entra ID
4 17 (7.76%) Azure Monitor
4 17 (7.76%) Azure Storage
5 14 (6.39%) OCI
6 2 (0.91%) AWS
7 1 (0.46%) PaaS
7 1 (0.46%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 40 (18.26%) DHCP
1 40 (18.26%) DNS
2 36 (16.44%) Firewall
2 36 (16.44%) SAN
3 18 (8.22%) LAN
4 15 (6.85%) TCP/IP
5 9 (4.11%) Network Security
6 5 (2.28%) Cisco IOS
7 4 (1.83%) VSAN
7 4 (1.83%) WAN
8 2 (0.91%) Radio Access Network
8 2 (0.91%) Wireless
9 1 (0.46%) HTTP
9 1 (0.46%) Internet
9 1 (0.46%) MPLS
9 1 (0.46%) RNC
9 1 (0.46%) SDH
9 1 (0.46%) SGSN
9 1 (0.46%) SNMP
9 1 (0.46%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (1.37%) Qlik Sense
1 3 (1.37%) Tableau
2 2 (0.91%) MySQL
2 2 (0.91%) SQL Server
3 1 (0.46%) GIS
3 1 (0.46%) Relational Database
3 1 (0.46%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 6 (2.74%) JIRA
2 1 (0.46%) Axure RP
2 1 (0.46%) GitLab
2 1 (0.46%) MSI
General
1 109 (49.77%) Social Skills
2 35 (15.98%) Organisational Skills
3 14 (6.39%) Telecoms
4 12 (5.48%) Finance
5 9 (4.11%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (4.11%) Public Sector
6 7 (3.20%) Presentation Skills
7 5 (2.28%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (2.28%) Retail
8 4 (1.83%) Manufacturing
9 3 (1.37%) Automotive
9 3 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (0.91%) Legal
10 2 (0.91%) Police
11 1 (0.46%) Banking
11 1 (0.46%) Billing
11 1 (0.46%) Electronics
11 1 (0.46%) Law
11 1 (0.46%) Marketing
11 1 (0.46%) Military
Job Titles
1 25 (11.42%) Analyst
2 22 (10.05%) Hardware Engineer
2 22 (10.05%) Support Engineer
3 21 (9.59%) Build Engineer
3 21 (9.59%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 21 (9.59%) Windows Build Engineer
3 21 (9.59%) Windows Engineer
4 19 (8.68%) Desktop Engineer
5 18 (8.22%) Desktop Support
5 18 (8.22%) Desktop Support Engineer
6 17 (7.76%) DV Cleared Desktop Support
7 16 (7.31%) Active Directory Support
7 16 (7.31%) Developer
8 15 (6.85%) Azure Specialist
8 15 (6.85%) Python Developer
9 14 (6.39%) Active Directory Specialist
9 14 (6.39%) Support Specialist
10 13 (5.94%) Senior
11 11 (5.02%) Architect
11 11 (5.02%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (7.31%) ARM Templates
2 3 (1.37%) D3.js
3 2 (0.91%) EDI
4 1 (0.46%) .NET
4 1 (0.46%) CSS
4 1 (0.46%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (0.46%) HTML
4 1 (0.46%) OpenLayers
4 1 (0.46%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.46%) Web Services
4 1 (0.46%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 37 (16.89%) Driving Licence
2 30 (13.70%) Data Centre
3 25 (11.42%) PKI
4 23 (10.50%) Self-Motivation
5 6 (2.74%) Video Conferencing
6 5 (2.28%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.37%) Blackberry
7 3 (1.37%) CCTV
7 3 (1.37%) Enterprise Storage
8 2 (0.91%) CSOC
8 2 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
8 2 (0.91%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.46%) Cyberattack
9 1 (0.46%) Linux Command Line
9 1 (0.46%) Mobile App
9 1 (0.46%) Product Ownership
9 1 (0.46%) Public Cloud
9 1 (0.46%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 107 (48.86%) Windows
2 76 (34.70%) Windows 10
3 56 (25.57%) Windows Server 2016
3 56 (25.57%) Windows Server 2019
4 54 (24.66%) Windows Server
5 52 (23.74%) Linux
6 40 (18.26%) Windows Server 2012
7 38 (17.35%) Windows 7
8 21 (9.59%) Windows NT
9 17 (7.76%) Ubuntu
10 15 (6.85%) Debian
11 14 (6.39%) Windows XP
12 5 (2.28%) Mac OS
12 5 (2.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (1.83%) Unix
14 3 (1.37%) Mac OS X
15 2 (0.91%) Android
15 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 74 (33.79%) Customer Service
1 74 (33.79%) Problem-Solving
2 57 (26.03%) Service Management
3 55 (25.11%) Agile
4 54 (24.66%) Release Management
5 31 (14.16%) Service Delivery
6 26 (11.87%) Project Management
7 24 (10.96%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 23 (10.50%) Configuration Management
9 21 (9.59%) Deployment Automation
9 21 (9.59%) Incident Management
9 21 (9.59%) Problem Management
9 21 (9.59%) User Acceptance Testing
10 20 (9.13%) Break/Fix
10 20 (9.13%) DevOps
10 20 (9.13%) Stakeholder Management
11 18 (8.22%) Analytics
11 18 (8.22%) CI/CD
11 18 (8.22%) Data Modelling
11 18 (8.22%) Software Deployment
Programming Languages
1 36 (16.44%) PowerShell
2 21 (9.59%) Python
3 17 (7.76%) C#
3 17 (7.76%) VB
3 17 (7.76%) VBScript
4 16 (7.31%) Bicep
5 8 (3.65%) SQL
6 5 (2.28%) Shell Script
7 3 (1.37%) R
8 1 (0.46%) Go
8 1 (0.46%) Groovy
8 1 (0.46%) Java
8 1 (0.46%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 138 (63.01%) Security Cleared
2 112 (51.14%) DV Cleared
3 72 (32.88%) SC Cleared
4 62 (28.31%) Degree
5 22 (10.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 16 (7.31%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (6.85%) CCNA
7 15 (6.85%) CCNP
8 7 (3.20%) ISACA
9 5 (2.28%) ITIL Certification
10 4 (1.83%) VCAP
10 4 (1.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
11 3 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
12 2 (0.91%) CompTIA Security+
12 2 (0.91%) NVQ Level 3
12 2 (0.91%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 2 (0.91%) Server+ Certification
13 1 (0.46%) Azure Certification
13 1 (0.46%) BPSS Clearance
13 1 (0.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (11.87%) QA
2 13 (5.94%) SLA
3 10 (4.57%) COBIT
3 10 (4.57%) NIST
4 9 (4.11%) GDPR
5 7 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 2 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 1 (0.46%) ITGC
7 1 (0.46%) NCSC
System Software
1 66 (30.14%) Active Directory
2 38 (17.35%) Firmware
3 20 (9.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (7.76%) Virtual Desktop
4 17 (7.76%) Virtual Machines
5 14 (6.39%) Hyper-V
5 14 (6.39%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (1.83%) VMware NSX
6 4 (1.83%) vSphere
7 1 (0.46%) XenApp
7 1 (0.46%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 91 (41.55%) SCCM
2 52 (23.74%) WSUS
3 31 (14.16%) SCOM
4 22 (10.05%) Microsoft Intune
5 21 (9.59%) Sysprep
6 18 (8.22%) Kubernetes
7 17 (7.76%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 17 (7.76%) NetBackup
8 14 (6.39%) EMC NetWorker
8 14 (6.39%) vCenter Server
9 6 (2.74%) AirWatch
10 3 (1.37%) Ansible
11 2 (0.91%) PaperCut
12 1 (0.46%) Rancher
12 1 (0.46%) Terraform
Vendors
1 117 (53.42%) Microsoft
2 65 (29.68%) HP
3 37 (16.89%) VMware
4 23 (10.50%) Cisco
5 22 (10.05%) ServiceNow
6 20 (9.13%) Dell
6 20 (9.13%) Red Hat
7 17 (7.76%) 3PAR
8 16 (7.31%) Oracle
8 16 (7.31%) Veeam
9 15 (6.85%) Juniper
10 14 (6.39%) EMC
10 14 (6.39%) Extreme Networks
10 14 (6.39%) Palo Alto
10 14 (6.39%) Symantec
11 6 (2.74%) Apple
12 5 (2.28%) Nimble Storage
12 5 (2.28%) Remedy
13 4 (1.83%) BT
14 3 (1.37%) Siemens