ITIL Consultant Contracts

ITIL Consultant
UK

The median ITIL Consultant daily rate in the UK is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 17 July 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 577 677
Rank change year-on-year +29 +100 +185
Contract jobs requiring an ITIL Consultant 5 3 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.007% 0.014%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.008% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 6
10th Percentile - £438 £469
25th Percentile - £456 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -13.33% +7.14%
75th Percentile - £519 £588
90th Percentile - £538 £613
UK excluding London median daily rate - £425 £500
% change year-on-year - -15.00% -13.04%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 29,869 39,249 52,928
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.68% 93.01% 94.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,996 25,329 36,728
10th Percentile £287 £288 £310
25th Percentile £400 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,413 2,586 1,568
10th Percentile £13.75 £13.25 £14.49
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.50 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.30 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.75% -5.88% +65.50%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £74.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £38.35
% change year-on-year -37.63% +5.15% +82.62%

ITIL Consultant
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured ITIL Consultant in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ITIL Consultant in the UK

ITIL Consultant
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITIL Consultant.

Daily rate trend for ITIL Consultant in the UK

ITIL Consultant
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITIL Consultant.

Hourly rate trend for ITIL Consultant in the UK

ITIL Consultant
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL Consultant within the UK over the 6 months to 17 July 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
England +57 3 - - 1
UK excluding London +25 3 - - 1
North of England +7 3 - - 1
North West - 3 - - 1
Work from Home +29 1 £450 -18.18%

ITIL Consultant Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 17 July 2025, ITIL Consultant contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring ITIL Consultant in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
2 4 (80.00%) Service Management
2 4 (80.00%) Change Management
3 3 (60.00%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
4 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (20.00%) Release Management
4 1 (20.00%) Azure
4 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Trend Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (20.00%) DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
4 1 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
4 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD

ITIL Consultant Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) ITIL
2 4 (80.00%) Change Management
2 4 (80.00%) Service Management
3 1 (20.00%) Actionable Insight
3 1 (20.00%) Capacity Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (20.00%) DevOps
3 1 (20.00%) GAP Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Incident Management
3 1 (20.00%) ITSM
3 1 (20.00%) Microservices
3 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Release Management
3 1 (20.00%) Root Cause Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Trend Analysis
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL Certification
2 1 (20.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Actionable Recommendations
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) ServiceNow