ITIL Foundation Certificate Contracts in the UK excluding London

ITIL Foundation Certificate
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 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 302 347 431
Rank change year-on-year +45 +84 +19
Contract jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate 34 52 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.27% 0.25% 0.13%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.75% 0.68% 0.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 23 25 27
10th Percentile £231 £285 £155
25th Percentile £235 £508 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £250 £605 £246
Median % change year-on-year -58.68% +145.93% -29.71%
75th Percentile £431 £608 £369
90th Percentile £594 - £506
UK median daily rate £331 £605 £300
% change year-on-year -45.25% +101.67% -36.84%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 18 1
Median hourly rate - £25.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year - +78.57% +7.69%
UK median hourly rate £20.00 £25.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% +78.57% +7.69%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,542 7,695 7,993
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 35.58% 37.05% 33.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,785 4,411 5,360
10th Percentile £211 £263 £275
25th Percentile £394 £425 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £533 £530
Median % change year-on-year -6.10% +0.57% +6.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £631
90th Percentile £688 £723 £703
UK median daily rate £525 £535 £550
% change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 405 935 669
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.69 £14.25
25th Percentile £21.46 £16.50 £19.92
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.94 £49.57
Median % change year-on-year +3.81% -17.41% +53.14%
75th Percentile £67.50 £62.50 £65.75
90th Percentile £80.39 £76.29 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £40.00 £54.00
% change year-on-year - -25.93% +29.16%

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing ITIL Foundation Certificate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ITIL Foundation Certificate in the UK excluding London

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for ITIL Foundation Certificate in the UK excluding London

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL Foundation Certificate in the UK excluding London

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for ITIL Foundation Certificate in the UK excluding London

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South West +43 10 £235 -60.83% 5
South East +34 10 £448 -26.03% 7
North of England +23 9 £238 +18.75% 11
Yorkshire +11 6 £235 +17.50% 6
East of England +30 4 £203 - 8
North West +18 3 £245 - 4
Scotland - 1 £165 -
ITIL Foundation Certificate
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ITIL Foundation Certificate
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 11 (32.35%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 11 (32.35%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 16 (47.06%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (11.76%) Azure
3 3 (8.82%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.94%) Azure Storage
Communications & Networking
1 10 (29.41%) VPN
2 3 (8.82%) Firewall
3 2 (5.88%) VoIP
4 1 (2.94%) DHCP
4 1 (2.94%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Electronic Patient Records
General
1 25 (73.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (8.82%) Public Sector
3 2 (5.88%) Finance
4 1 (2.94%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (2.94%) Digital Health
4 1 (2.94%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (38.24%) Support Engineer
2 11 (32.35%) Desktop Support
3 10 (29.41%) Desktop Engineer
3 10 (29.41%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 4 (11.76%) Administrator
4 4 (11.76%) Consultant
4 4 (11.76%) Service Manager
4 4 (11.76%) ServiceNow Administrator
5 3 (8.82%) IT Engineer
5 3 (8.82%) Lead
6 2 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support
6 2 (5.88%) Configuration Management Consultant
6 2 (5.88%) Contracts Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (5.88%) Deployment Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) IT Support
6 2 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
6 2 (5.88%) ITSM Consultant
6 2 (5.88%) Management Consultant
6 2 (5.88%) Service Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.76%) Ajax
1 4 (11.76%) AngularJS
1 4 (11.76%) CSS
1 4 (11.76%) HTML
1 4 (11.76%) LDAP
1 4 (11.76%) Web Services
2 1 (2.94%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 3 (8.82%) Management Information System
1 3 (8.82%) NHS
2 2 (5.88%) CMDB
2 2 (5.88%) Driving Licence
2 2 (5.88%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.94%) PKI
3 1 (2.94%) Replication
3 1 (2.94%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (20.59%) Windows
2 2 (5.88%) Linux
2 2 (5.88%) Windows 10
3 1 (2.94%) Ubuntu
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (2.94%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) ITIL
2 22 (64.71%) ITSM
3 17 (50.00%) Service Management
4 15 (44.12%) Service Delivery
5 14 (41.18%) Customer Service
6 9 (26.47%) Case Management
6 9 (26.47%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (17.65%) SIAM
7 6 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (14.71%) Agile
9 4 (11.76%) Continuous Improvement
9 4 (11.76%) Operations Management
9 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
9 4 (11.76%) Roadmaps
9 4 (11.76%) Scrum
10 3 (8.82%) Asset Management
10 3 (8.82%) Data Management
10 3 (8.82%) Mentoring
10 3 (8.82%) Migration
11 2 (5.88%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (11.76%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.94%) Bicep
2 1 (2.94%) C#
2 1 (2.94%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.94%) VB
2 1 (2.94%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (32.35%) Degree
2 8 (23.53%) Security Cleared
3 5 (14.71%) SC Cleared
4 4 (11.76%) DV Cleared
5 1 (2.94%) A+ Certification
5 1 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.94%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.94%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.94%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (26.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.94%) COBIT
2 1 (2.94%) ISO 22301
2 1 (2.94%) NIST
2 1 (2.94%) NIST 800
2 1 (2.94%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (41.18%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 13 (38.24%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (11.76%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (8.82%) SCCM
4 1 (2.94%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.94%) SCOM
4 1 (2.94%) WSUS
Vendors
1 16 (47.06%) Microsoft
1 16 (47.06%) ServiceNow
2 9 (26.47%) Citrix
3 2 (5.88%) HP
3 2 (5.88%) MEDITECH
4 1 (2.94%) BMC
4 1 (2.94%) Cisco
4 1 (2.94%) Juniper
4 1 (2.94%) McAfee
4 1 (2.94%) Okta
4 1 (2.94%) Zscaler