ITIL Foundation Certificate Contracts in the UK excluding London

ITIL Foundation Certificate
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for ITIL Foundation Certificate qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 339 429 448
Rank change year-on-year +90 +19 -38
Contract jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate 52 32 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.25% 0.13% 0.20%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.67% 0.40% 0.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 27 41
10th Percentile £285 £155 £209
25th Percentile £508 £180 £250
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £246 £330
Median % change year-on-year +145.93% -25.45% +5.60%
75th Percentile £608 £369 £475
90th Percentile - £506 £488
UK median daily rate £605 £300 £500
% change year-on-year +101.67% -40.00% +56.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 2 7
10th Percentile £13.66 £14.20 £9.75
25th Percentile £15.32 £14.50 £10.13
Median hourly rate £25.00 £15.50 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +61.29% +19.23% -17.46%
75th Percentile - £17.00 £19.44
90th Percentile £29.59 £17.60 £20.51
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £15.50 £15.12
% change year-on-year +61.29% +2.51% -11.06%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

ITIL Foundation Certificate is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 7,719 8,055 8,145
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 37.14% 33.32% 26.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,451 5,404 5,257
10th Percentile £263 £273 £250
25th Percentile £425 £419 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year - +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £638 £631 £594
90th Percentile £720 £700 £675
UK median daily rate £534 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -2.84% +4.76% +8.36%
Number of hourly rates quoted 919 683 547
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.25 £13.25
25th Percentile £16.40 £20.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.28 £50.00 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.45% +61.29% -10.25%
75th Percentile £62.48 £66.00 £56.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £78.00 £66.12
UK median hourly rate £40.00 £54.28 £41.36
% change year-on-year -26.31% +31.25% +7.42%

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 25 April 2024.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram 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 25 April 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
South East +26 21 £605 +89.06% 2
South West - 14 £558 - 1
West Midlands +35 8 £425 - 2
Midlands +33 8 £425 - 3
North of England +32 5 £200 -58.97% 1
East of England +9 4 - -
Yorkshire +28 3 £200 -11.11%
North West +14 2 - - 1
ITIL Foundation Certificate
UK

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 15 (28.85%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.85%) IBM Notes
3 1 (1.92%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.92%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 10 (19.23%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 20 (38.46%) Azure
2 18 (34.62%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (28.85%) Azure Monitor
3 15 (28.85%) Azure Storage
3 15 (28.85%) Entra ID
4 3 (5.77%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 15 (28.85%) DHCP
1 15 (28.85%) DNS
1 15 (28.85%) Firewall
2 3 (5.77%) LAN
2 3 (5.77%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (5.77%) WAN
2 3 (5.77%) Wireless
3 1 (1.92%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (1.92%) Network Security
3 1 (1.92%) Skype
3 1 (1.92%) Telepresence
Development Applications
1 3 (5.77%) JIRA
2 1 (1.92%) Axure RP
General
1 35 (67.31%) Social Skills
2 8 (15.38%) Public Sector
3 7 (13.46%) Telecoms
4 5 (9.62%) Finance
5 4 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.85%) Electronics
6 2 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (3.85%) Manufacturing
6 2 (3.85%) Marketing
6 2 (3.85%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.92%) Fire and Rescue
7 1 (1.92%) Police
7 1 (1.92%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 23 (44.23%) Support Specialist
2 15 (28.85%) Azure Specialist
3 14 (26.92%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (26.92%) Active Directory Support
4 10 (19.23%) IT Support
5 9 (17.31%) IT Support Specialist
6 6 (11.54%) Analyst
6 6 (11.54%) Service Analyst
6 6 (11.54%) Service Desk Analyst
7 4 (7.69%) Problem Manager
8 3 (5.77%) Change Manager
9 2 (3.85%) IT Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) IT Manager
9 2 (3.85%) ITIL Change Manager
9 2 (3.85%) ITIL Manager
9 2 (3.85%) Network Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Service Manager
9 2 (3.85%) Service Transition Manager
9 2 (3.85%) Test Manager
9 2 (3.85%) Transition Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (26.92%) ARM Templates
2 2 (3.85%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 15 (28.85%) PKI
1 15 (28.85%) Self-Motivation
2 3 (5.77%) NHS
3 2 (3.85%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.92%) CMDB
4 1 (1.92%) Enterprise Storage
4 1 (1.92%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.92%) Smartphone
4 1 (1.92%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 26 (50.00%) Windows
2 17 (32.69%) Windows Server
3 14 (26.92%) Linux
3 14 (26.92%) Windows Server 2016
3 14 (26.92%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (5.77%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.85%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.92%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (100.00%) ITIL
2 28 (53.85%) Service Management
3 24 (46.15%) Analytics
4 17 (32.69%) DevOps
4 17 (32.69%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (30.77%) Agile
5 16 (30.77%) Identity Management
6 15 (28.85%) Log Analytics
6 15 (28.85%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 15 (28.85%) Privileged Identity Management
6 15 (28.85%) RBAC
6 15 (28.85%) Release Management
7 14 (26.92%) CI/CD
7 14 (26.92%) Data Analysis
7 14 (26.92%) Incident Management
7 14 (26.92%) Infrastructure as Code
8 13 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
8 13 (25.00%) Problem Management
9 11 (21.15%) User Experience
10 10 (19.23%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 17 (32.69%) PowerShell
2 15 (28.85%) C#
2 15 (28.85%) VB
2 15 (28.85%) VBScript
3 14 (26.92%) Bicep
Qualifications
1 18 (34.62%) Degree
2 17 (32.69%) Security Cleared
3 16 (30.77%) SC Cleared
4 15 (28.85%) DV Cleared
5 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Certification
6 3 (5.77%) ECDL
6 3 (5.77%) ISTQB
6 3 (5.77%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
6 3 (5.77%) Network+ Certification
7 2 (3.85%) Azure Certification
7 2 (3.85%) CCNA
7 2 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (3.85%) CompTIA Security+
7 2 (3.85%) ISEB
7 2 (3.85%) ISEB Practitioner
7 2 (3.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (1.92%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.92%) MCP
8 1 (1.92%) MCSE
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) COBIT
1 2 (3.85%) ISO 9000
1 2 (3.85%) QA
System Software
1 21 (40.38%) Active Directory
2 16 (30.77%) Virtual Desktop
3 15 (28.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 19 (36.54%) Microsoft Intune
2 17 (32.69%) SCCM
3 16 (30.77%) WSUS
4 15 (28.85%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 15 (28.85%) Kubernetes
4 15 (28.85%) SCOM
5 3 (5.77%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 26 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.69%) BT
2 4 (7.69%) ServiceNow
3 3 (5.77%) HP
4 2 (3.85%) Lotus
4 2 (3.85%) SAP
5 1 (1.92%) Apple
5 1 (1.92%) Cisco
5 1 (1.92%) Polycom