ITIL Foundation Certificate Contract Job Trends

ITIL Foundation Certificate
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 23 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Jul 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 603 499 519
Rank change year-on-year -104 +20 +112
Contract jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate 55 62 61
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.10% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.33% 0.62% 0.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 45 36
10th Percentile £194 £221 £121
25th Percentile £302 £235 £200
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £391 £275 £605
Median % change year-on-year +42.18% -54.55% +138.56%
75th Percentile £566 £450 £608
90th Percentile £630 £500 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 £235 £605
% change year-on-year +97.87% -61.16% +175.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 14
10th Percentile - - £13.20
25th Percentile - £16.84 £14.29
Median hourly rate - £17.45 £22.87
Median % change year-on-year - -23.72% +63.36%
75th Percentile - £19.60 £25.00
90th Percentile - £24.20 £26.40
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £17.45 £18.25
% change year-on-year - -4.41% +30.36%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 16,505 10,067 12,307
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.30% 30.82% 29.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,025 6,245 7,756
10th Percentile £350 £277 £310
25th Percentile £430 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.10% -0.10% -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £638
90th Percentile £713 £701 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,198 744 971
10th Percentile £17.87 £17.87 £14.25
25th Percentile £25.75 £19.38 £20.75
Median hourly rate £52.25 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +107.75% -41.51% -25.00%
75th Percentile £73.46 £56.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.00 £75.00 £75.24
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +98.81% -41.51% -21.82%

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ITIL Foundation Certificate relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

ITIL Foundation Certificate job vacancy trend in the UK

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ITIL Foundation Certificate.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ITIL Foundation Certificate

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate over the 6 months to 23 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL Foundation Certificate in the UK

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ITIL Foundation Certificate.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing ITIL Foundation Certificate

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Top 14 Contract Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 23 July 2026. 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 -113 51 £400 +60.00% 19
UK excluding London -102 36 £465 +97.87% 18
London -60 18 £331 +6.00% 1
Work from Home -54 14 £482 +7.11% 7
South East -58 13 £600 +11.11% 6
North of England -69 11 £315 +34.04% 8
North West -39 9 £314 -37.25% 4
Midlands -63 5 £250 -9.09% 1
West Midlands -68 4 £250 -9.09%
East of England - 4 £310 - 2
Scotland -9 3 £375 +21.95%
East Midlands -12 1 £250 - 1
Yorkshire -54 1 £315 +34.04% 3
North East - 1 - - 1

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 5 (9.09%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (9.09%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.64%) Confluence
3 1 (1.82%) Apache
3 1 (1.82%) JBoss
Applications
1 9 (16.36%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.82%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (29.09%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (18.18%) Azure
3 7 (12.73%) SuccessFactors
4 5 (9.09%) Entra ID
5 4 (7.27%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (7.27%) Azure Monitor
5 4 (7.27%) Power Platform
6 3 (5.45%) Google Workspace
6 3 (5.45%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.82%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.55%) VPN
2 5 (9.09%) SSL
2 5 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (7.27%) DNS
3 4 (7.27%) TCP/IP
4 3 (5.45%) DMZ
4 3 (5.45%) Firewall
5 2 (3.64%) iSCSI
5 2 (3.64%) NAS
5 2 (3.64%) SAN
6 1 (1.82%) DHCP
6 1 (1.82%) FTP
6 1 (1.82%) LAN
6 1 (1.82%) Network Security
6 1 (1.82%) Telepresence
6 1 (1.82%) VLAN
6 1 (1.82%) WAN
6 1 (1.82%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (9.09%) MySQL
2 4 (7.27%) Power BI
2 4 (7.27%) SQL Server
2 4 (7.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (5.45%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.82%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.82%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 4 (7.27%) JIRA
2 2 (3.64%) MSI
General
1 38 (69.09%) Social Skills
2 15 (27.27%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (16.36%) Finance
4 6 (10.91%) Banking
5 3 (5.45%) Front Office
5 3 (5.45%) Investment Banking
5 3 (5.45%) Public Sector
6 2 (3.64%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.82%) Legal
7 1 (1.82%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 14 (25.45%) Analyst
2 11 (20.00%) Senior
3 8 (14.55%) Consultant
4 7 (12.73%) SAP Consultant
4 7 (12.73%) Service Analyst
5 6 (10.91%) Lead
5 6 (10.91%) Support Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Administrator
6 5 (9.09%) Change Manager
6 5 (9.09%) DBA
6 5 (9.09%) IT Analyst
6 5 (9.09%) Senior Consultant
6 5 (9.09%) Senior SAP Consultant
7 4 (7.27%) Desktop Support
7 4 (7.27%) Service Desk Analyst
7 4 (7.27%) SQL DBA
8 3 (5.45%) Business Analyst
8 3 (5.45%) Help Desk Analyst
9 2 (3.64%) Project Manager
9 2 (3.64%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.82%) .NET
1 1 (1.82%) .NET Framework
1 1 (1.82%) EDI
1 1 (1.82%) Jakarta EE
1 1 (1.82%) LAMP
1 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Graph
1 1 (1.82%) REST
1 1 (1.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (20.00%) Replication
2 7 (12.73%) Onboarding
3 4 (7.27%) Clustering
3 4 (7.27%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (3.64%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (3.64%) BYOD
4 2 (3.64%) Client/Server
4 2 (3.64%) CMDB
5 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.82%) iPad
5 1 (1.82%) iPhone
5 1 (1.82%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.82%) PKI
5 1 (1.82%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.82%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.82%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 25 (45.45%) Windows
2 6 (10.91%) Windows Server
3 3 (5.45%) Mac OS
3 3 (5.45%) Windows 10
4 2 (3.64%) Linux
4 2 (3.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.64%) Unix
5 1 (1.82%) AIX
5 1 (1.82%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (100.00%) ITIL
2 20 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (34.55%) ITSM
4 18 (32.73%) Service Management
5 14 (25.45%) Continuous Improvement
5 14 (25.45%) Service Delivery
6 13 (23.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 11 (20.00%) Customer Service
7 11 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 9 (16.36%) Agile
8 9 (16.36%) Incident Management
9 7 (12.73%) User Acceptance Testing
10 6 (10.91%) Change Management
10 6 (10.91%) PRINCE2
10 6 (10.91%) Problem Management
10 6 (10.91%) Project Management
10 6 (10.91%) Root Cause Analysis
11 5 (9.09%) DevOps
11 5 (9.09%) Performance Tuning
11 5 (9.09%) Release Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.18%) PowerShell
2 8 (14.55%) SQL
3 4 (7.27%) T-SQL
4 1 (1.82%) ActionScript
4 1 (1.82%) ActionScript 2.0
4 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.82%) Perl
4 1 (1.82%) Shell Script
4 1 (1.82%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 26 (47.27%) Security Cleared
2 21 (38.18%) SC Cleared
3 16 (29.09%) Degree
4 11 (20.00%) Microsoft Certification
5 6 (10.91%) Azure Certification
6 5 (9.09%) DV Cleared
7 4 (7.27%) BPSS Clearance
7 4 (7.27%) PMI Certification
7 4 (7.27%) PMP
8 3 (5.45%) CBAP
8 3 (5.45%) Computer Science Degree
8 3 (5.45%) MCSA
9 2 (3.64%) ISEB
9 2 (3.64%) ISEB Practitioner
9 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Certified Professional
9 2 (3.64%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 2 (3.64%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
10 1 (1.82%) CISSP
10 1 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
10 1 (1.82%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (23.64%) SLA
2 3 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (3.64%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.64%) ISO 9001
3 2 (3.64%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 1 (1.82%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 11 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (9.09%) Virtual Machines
3 4 (7.27%) VMware Infrastructure
4 2 (3.64%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (1.82%) Microsoft App-V
5 1 (1.82%) NFS
5 1 (1.82%) Veritas Volume Manager
5 1 (1.82%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 6 (10.91%) SCCM
2 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (7.27%) SCOM
3 3 (5.45%) WSUS
4 2 (3.64%) Ansible
4 2 (3.64%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.82%) PowerBroker
5 1 (1.82%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.82%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
5 1 (1.82%) Tivoli
5 1 (1.82%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 26 (47.27%) Microsoft
2 20 (36.36%) ServiceNow
3 8 (14.55%) SAP
4 4 (7.27%) Citrix
4 4 (7.27%) Oracle
4 4 (7.27%) Remedy
4 4 (7.27%) VMware
5 3 (5.45%) Bloomberg
5 3 (5.45%) ION Trading
5 3 (5.45%) Reuters
6 2 (3.64%) Apple
6 2 (3.64%) Dell
6 2 (3.64%) HP
6 2 (3.64%) Murex
6 2 (3.64%) Red Hat
7 1 (1.82%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.82%) BMC
7 1 (1.82%) Juniper
7 1 (1.82%) Sybase
7 1 (1.82%) Veritas
21 ITIL Foundation Certificate jobs Nationwide