ITIL Contracts in the Thames Valley

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

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley requiring ITIL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ITIL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 20 16
Rank change year-on-year -4 -4 +3
Contract jobs citing ITIL 109 217 274
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 7.21% 8.08% 9.35%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 7.77% 9.27% 10.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 72 179 204
10th Percentile £250 £205 £277
25th Percentile £402 £213 £407
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £465 £478
Median % change year-on-year -3.22% -2.62% +15.06%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £550
90th Percentile £675 £608 £630
South East median daily rate £465 £488 £455
% change year-on-year -4.62% +7.14% +7.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 4 7
10th Percentile - £25.54 £22.30
25th Percentile - £28.41 £35.00
Median hourly rate £77.19 £30.00 £48.40
Median % change year-on-year +157.30% -38.02% +184.71%
75th Percentile - £40.10 £53.53
90th Percentile - £58.27 £65.28
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £21.50 £36.70
% change year-on-year +30.23% -41.42% +112.75%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,403 2,340 2,682
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 87.12% 91.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 851 1,306 1,860
10th Percentile £300 £213 £320
25th Percentile £413 £369 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.30 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.48 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £64.57 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%

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 1 May 2025.

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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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 1 May 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
Berkshire -13 63 £450 -18.18% 55
Buckinghamshire +2 35 £565 +21.51% 46
Oxfordshire -2 11 £250 -9.09% 31
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 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (1.83%) SharePoint
3 1 (0.92%) Smallworld
3 1 (0.92%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.92%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.92%) Infor CloudSuite
Cloud Services
1 16 (14.68%) Azure
2 13 (11.93%) SaaS
3 12 (11.01%) Microsoft 365
4 10 (9.17%) AWS
5 8 (7.34%) IaaS
5 8 (7.34%) PaaS
6 1 (0.92%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.92%) Azure Storage
6 1 (0.92%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.92%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 11 (10.09%) VSAN
2 8 (7.34%) Network Security
3 7 (6.42%) DNS
3 7 (6.42%) TCP/IP
4 6 (5.50%) Radio Access Network
5 5 (4.59%) DHCP
5 5 (4.59%) Firewall
5 5 (4.59%) MPLS
5 5 (4.59%) WAN
6 4 (3.67%) HTTP
6 4 (3.67%) SD-WAN
7 3 (2.75%) LAN
7 3 (2.75%) VPN
8 2 (1.83%) BGP
8 2 (1.83%) Broadband
8 2 (1.83%) Ethernet
8 2 (1.83%) OSPF
8 2 (1.83%) SDH
8 2 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
8 2 (1.83%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.83%) MariaDB
1 2 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
1 2 (1.83%) SQL Server
1 2 (1.83%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (0.92%) GIS
General
1 26 (23.85%) Social Skills
2 18 (16.51%) Analytical Skills
3 16 (14.68%) Telecoms
4 12 (11.01%) Finance
5 7 (6.42%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.59%) Automotive
6 5 (4.59%) Retail
7 2 (1.83%) Billing
7 2 (1.83%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (0.92%) Back Office
8 1 (0.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.92%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (0.92%) Legal
8 1 (0.92%) Police
Job Titles
1 28 (25.69%) Architect
2 17 (15.60%) Senior
3 14 (12.84%) Analyst
4 13 (11.93%) Lead
5 12 (11.01%) Technical Architect
6 10 (9.17%) Senior Architect
7 9 (8.26%) Senior Technical Architect
8 8 (7.34%) Consultant
9 7 (6.42%) Service Manager
10 6 (5.50%) Head of Architecture
10 6 (5.50%) Head of Security
11 5 (4.59%) Head of Strategy
11 5 (4.59%) IT Support
11 5 (4.59%) Principal Architect
12 4 (3.67%) Infrastructure Technical Architect
12 4 (3.67%) Security Architect
12 4 (3.67%) Service Analyst
12 4 (3.67%) Service Desk Analyst
12 4 (3.67%) ServiceNow Architect
12 4 (3.67%) Technical Infrastructure Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (7.34%) Web Services
2 6 (5.50%) SOAP
3 4 (3.67%) Ajax
3 4 (3.67%) CSS
3 4 (3.67%) HTML
3 4 (3.67%) REST
3 4 (3.67%) XML
4 2 (1.83%) Apache Axis
5 1 (0.92%) .NET
5 1 (0.92%) ARM Templates
5 1 (0.92%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 11 (10.09%) PKI
2 10 (9.17%) Hybrid Cloud
3 9 (8.26%) CMDB
3 9 (8.26%) Data Centre
4 7 (6.42%) Public Cloud
5 6 (5.50%) Onboarding
6 4 (3.67%) Enterprise Storage
7 3 (2.75%) Driving Licence
8 2 (1.83%) Analytical Mindset
8 2 (1.83%) SCADA
8 2 (1.83%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (1.83%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (0.92%) Cloud Native
9 1 (0.92%) Cyber Defence
9 1 (0.92%) EPoS
9 1 (0.92%) Management Information System
9 1 (0.92%) PMI
9 1 (0.92%) Replication
9 1 (0.92%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.92%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 16 (14.68%) Windows
2 9 (8.26%) Windows Server
3 7 (6.42%) Linux
4 6 (5.50%) Windows Server 2019
5 4 (3.67%) Mac OS
5 4 (3.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 4 (3.67%) Windows 10
5 4 (3.67%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (0.92%) Android
6 1 (0.92%) Apple iOS
6 1 (0.92%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (24.77%) Service Management
2 25 (22.94%) ITSM
3 24 (22.02%) Agile
4 23 (21.10%) Service Delivery
5 21 (19.27%) Roadmaps
6 18 (16.51%) TOGAF
7 17 (15.60%) Problem-Solving
8 16 (14.68%) CI/CD
8 16 (14.68%) Cybersecurity
8 16 (14.68%) Microservices
9 15 (13.76%) DevSecOps
9 15 (13.76%) Infrastructure as Code
10 14 (12.84%) Containerisation
10 14 (12.84%) Continuous Delivery
10 14 (12.84%) Continuous Integration
10 14 (12.84%) Zachman Framework
11 13 (11.93%) Problem Management
12 12 (11.01%) Incident Management
12 12 (11.01%) IT Strategy
12 12 (11.01%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 8 (7.34%) SQL
2 7 (6.42%) PowerShell
3 5 (4.59%) Python
4 3 (2.75%) C#
4 3 (2.75%) Java
5 2 (1.83%) Ruby
6 1 (0.92%) ActionScript
6 1 (0.92%) Bicep
6 1 (0.92%) JavaScript
6 1 (0.92%) Magik
6 1 (0.92%) Shell Script
6 1 (0.92%) VB
6 1 (0.92%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 41 (37.61%) Security Cleared
2 37 (33.94%) SC Cleared
3 17 (15.60%) Microsoft Certification
4 14 (12.84%) MCSE
5 12 (11.01%) DV Cleared
6 10 (9.17%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
7 8 (7.34%) Degree
7 8 (7.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 7 (6.42%) CCNP
8 7 (6.42%) Cisco Certification
8 7 (6.42%) ITIL Certification
9 4 (3.67%) PMI Certification
10 3 (2.75%) A+ Certification
10 3 (2.75%) CCNA
10 3 (2.75%) CompTIA Security+
10 3 (2.75%) PMP
11 2 (1.83%) CISSP
11 2 (1.83%) ISACA
11 2 (1.83%) MCSA
12 1 (0.92%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (19.27%) NIST
2 13 (11.93%) NCSC
3 9 (8.26%) COBIT
3 9 (8.26%) Cyber Essentials
3 9 (8.26%) SLA
4 8 (7.34%) GDPR
5 3 (2.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 3 (2.75%) QA
6 1 (0.92%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.92%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.92%) PMO
System Software
1 12 (11.01%) VMware Infrastructure
2 11 (10.09%) VMware NSX
3 10 (9.17%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.92%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.92%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.92%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.92%) vSphere
4 1 (0.92%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 9 (8.26%) SCCM
2 4 (3.67%) NetBackup
2 4 (3.67%) SCOM
3 3 (2.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (2.75%) WSUS
4 2 (1.83%) Amdocs OSS
4 2 (1.83%) BMC PATROL
4 2 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.92%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.92%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 24 (22.02%) ServiceNow
2 20 (18.35%) VMware
3 19 (17.43%) Microsoft
4 15 (13.76%) Cisco
5 11 (10.09%) Palo Alto
6 8 (7.34%) BMC
7 7 (6.42%) Remedy
8 6 (5.50%) HP
9 4 (3.67%) 3PAR
9 4 (3.67%) Dell
9 4 (3.67%) Red Hat
9 4 (3.67%) Snow
9 4 (3.67%) Veritas
10 3 (2.75%) Atlassian
10 3 (2.75%) BT
10 3 (2.75%) Citrix
10 3 (2.75%) Salesforce
10 3 (2.75%) SAP
10 3 (2.75%) SolarWinds
11 2 (1.83%) Cramer