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 3 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 588 476 507
Rank change year-on-year -112 +31 +90
Contract jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate 91 77 43
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.17% 0.24% 0.11%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.54% 0.76% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 52 30
10th Percentile £181 £220 £120
25th Percentile £203 £235 £174
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £275 £462
Median % change year-on-year +36.36% -40.44% +42.06%
75th Percentile £538 £435 £608
90th Percentile £629 £488 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 £235 £605
% change year-on-year +59.57% -61.16% +137.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 11 5
10th Percentile - - £15.41
25th Percentile £61.74 £16.84 £15.76
Median hourly rate £63.48 £19.23 £20.74
Median % change year-on-year +230.11% -7.28% +7.87%
75th Percentile £65.22 - £27.00
90th Percentile - £19.46 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £63.48 £18.34 £15.76
% change year-on-year +246.18% +16.35% -18.03%

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 16,845 10,168 11,376
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 31.41% 31.28% 29.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,289 6,291 7,134
10th Percentile £350 £300 £313
25th Percentile £438 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year - - -4.55%
75th Percentile £628 £622 £638
90th Percentile £715 £700 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,265 820 723
10th Percentile £17.40 £17.98 £15.18
25th Percentile £25.77 £18.87 £22.00
Median hourly rate £47.54 £25.15 £48.18
Median % change year-on-year +89.03% -47.80% -12.40%
75th Percentile £72.50 £50.00 £67.50
90th Percentile £86.70 £72.50 £76.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £50.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -49.70% -

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 3 September 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 3 September 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 -100 81 £400 +52.38% 46
UK excluding London -96 60 £375 +59.57% 44
London -59 26 £300 -20.00% 12
North of England -45 24 £188 -20.21% 11
Work from Home -40 20 £518 +42.76% 22
North West -32 18 £163 -50.76% 5
South East -56 18 £578 +91.07% 11
Scotland -25 9 £210 -53.33% 6
Midlands -57 5 £250 -9.09% 7
North East - 5 £194 - 4
West Midlands -57 4 £250 -9.09% 3
East of England - 4 £310 - 3
East Midlands -19 1 £250 - 4
Yorkshire -45 1 £315 +34.04% 2

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 15 (16.48%) SharePoint
2 11 (12.09%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.10%) Apache
3 1 (1.10%) Confluence
3 1 (1.10%) JBoss
Applications
1 8 (8.79%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
3 2 (2.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.10%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 34 (37.36%) Microsoft 365
2 30 (32.97%) Azure
3 15 (16.48%) Entra ID
4 12 (13.19%) Azure Monitor
5 11 (12.09%) Power Platform
6 9 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
6 9 (9.89%) OneDrive
7 7 (7.69%) SuccessFactors
8 4 (4.40%) AWS
9 3 (3.30%) GCP
9 3 (3.30%) Google Workspace
9 3 (3.30%) OpenShift
10 1 (1.10%) Boomi
10 1 (1.10%) PowerApps
10 1 (1.10%) Workato
Communications & Networking
1 15 (16.48%) DNS
2 14 (15.38%) TCP/IP
2 14 (15.38%) VPN
3 12 (13.19%) DHCP
4 10 (10.99%) SSL
5 6 (6.59%) Firewall
5 6 (6.59%) LAN
5 6 (6.59%) WAN
6 4 (4.40%) Wi-Fi
7 3 (3.30%) DMZ
8 2 (2.20%) iSCSI
8 2 (2.20%) NAS
8 2 (2.20%) SAN
9 1 (1.10%) BIG-IP
9 1 (1.10%) FTP
9 1 (1.10%) Network Security
9 1 (1.10%) SSH
9 1 (1.10%) Telepresence
9 1 (1.10%) VLAN
9 1 (1.10%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (10.99%) MySQL
2 9 (9.89%) Power BI
2 9 (9.89%) SQL Server
2 9 (9.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 3 (3.30%) Oracle Database
4 1 (1.10%) Oracle Exadata
4 1 (1.10%) Sybase ASE
Development Applications
1 3 (3.30%) JIRA
2 2 (2.20%) MSI
General
1 61 (67.03%) Social Skills
2 32 (35.16%) Analytical Skills
3 14 (15.38%) Finance
4 6 (6.59%) Banking
5 5 (5.49%) Legal
6 4 (4.40%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (3.30%) Front Office
7 3 (3.30%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.30%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.20%) Aerospace
8 2 (2.20%) Law
8 2 (2.20%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (2.20%) Public Sector
9 1 (1.10%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.10%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.10%) Spanish Language
Job Titles
1 19 (20.88%) Analyst
1 19 (20.88%) Support Engineer
2 14 (15.38%) Senior
3 13 (14.29%) IT Support
4 12 (13.19%) IT Engineer
4 12 (13.19%) IT Support Engineer
5 11 (12.09%) Service Analyst
6 10 (10.99%) DBA
6 10 (10.99%) Lead
7 9 (9.89%) SQL DBA
8 7 (7.69%) Consultant
8 7 (7.69%) SAP Consultant
9 5 (5.49%) Administrator
9 5 (5.49%) IT Analyst
9 5 (5.49%) Senior Analyst
9 5 (5.49%) Senior Consultant
9 5 (5.49%) Senior SAP Consultant
9 5 (5.49%) Service Desk Analyst
10 4 (4.40%) Service Delivery Analyst
10 4 (4.40%) Service Management Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.30%) Terraform
2 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Graph
2 2 (2.20%) REST
3 1 (1.10%) EDI
3 1 (1.10%) Jakarta EE
3 1 (1.10%) JSON
3 1 (1.10%) LAMP
3 1 (1.10%) Middleware
3 1 (1.10%) SOAP
3 1 (1.10%) Web Services
3 1 (1.10%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (17.58%) Replication
2 12 (13.19%) Clustering
3 10 (10.99%) Onboarding
4 8 (8.79%) Data Centre
5 6 (6.59%) CMDB
6 5 (5.49%) Enterprise Software
6 5 (5.49%) PKI
7 3 (3.30%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.30%) Hybrid Cloud
8 2 (2.20%) BYOD
8 2 (2.20%) Client/Server
8 2 (2.20%) Data Protection Act
9 1 (1.10%) Distributed Systems
9 1 (1.10%) iPad
9 1 (1.10%) iPhone
9 1 (1.10%) Management Information System
9 1 (1.10%) Mobile App
9 1 (1.10%) Self-Motivation
9 1 (1.10%) Tandem
9 1 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 52 (57.14%) Windows
2 20 (21.98%) Windows Server
3 14 (15.38%) Windows 10
4 6 (6.59%) Apple iOS
5 5 (5.49%) Android
5 5 (5.49%) Linux
6 4 (4.40%) Mac OS
7 2 (2.20%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 2 (2.20%) Unix
8 1 (1.10%) AIX
Processes & Methodologies
1 91 (100.00%) ITIL
2 46 (50.55%) ITSM
3 40 (43.96%) Problem-Solving
4 35 (38.46%) Service Management
5 24 (26.37%) Continuous Improvement
5 24 (26.37%) Customer Service
6 21 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
7 18 (19.78%) Service Delivery
8 15 (16.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 12 (13.19%) Agile
9 12 (13.19%) DevOps
9 12 (13.19%) User Acceptance Testing
10 10 (10.99%) Performance Tuning
10 10 (10.99%) Problem Management
10 10 (10.99%) Roadmaps
11 9 (9.89%) Business Intelligence
11 9 (9.89%) Change Management
12 8 (8.79%) Configuration Management
12 8 (8.79%) Incident Management
12 8 (8.79%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 22 (24.18%) PowerShell
2 12 (13.19%) SQL
3 9 (9.89%) T-SQL
4 4 (4.40%) Python
5 3 (3.30%) Bash
6 2 (2.20%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.10%) ActionScript
7 1 (1.10%) ActionScript 2.0
7 1 (1.10%) Perl
7 1 (1.10%) Shell Script
7 1 (1.10%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 45 (49.45%) Security Cleared
2 35 (38.46%) SC Cleared
3 22 (24.18%) Degree
4 19 (20.88%) Microsoft Certification
5 14 (15.38%) Azure Certification
6 9 (9.89%) BPSS Clearance
7 6 (6.59%) A+ Certification
8 5 (5.49%) DV Cleared
9 4 (4.40%) Computer Science Degree
9 4 (4.40%) PMI Certification
9 4 (4.40%) PMP
10 3 (3.30%) CBAP
10 3 (3.30%) MCSA
11 2 (2.20%) ISEB
11 2 (2.20%) ISEB Practitioner
11 2 (2.20%) Microsoft Certified Professional
11 2 (2.20%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (2.20%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
12 1 (1.10%) GIAC
12 1 (1.10%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (20.88%) SLA
2 4 (4.40%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.20%) ISO 9001
4 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 19770
4 2 (2.20%) ISO/IEC 20000
5 1 (1.10%) Cyber Essentials
System Software
1 28 (30.77%) Active Directory
2 12 (13.19%) VMware Infrastructure
3 10 (10.99%) Virtual Machines
4 7 (7.69%) Hyper-V
5 3 (3.30%) Docker
6 2 (2.20%) VMware ESXi
7 1 (1.10%) Microsoft App-V
7 1 (1.10%) NFS
7 1 (1.10%) Veritas Volume Manager
7 1 (1.10%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 9 (9.89%) Microsoft Intune
1 9 (9.89%) SCCM
1 9 (9.89%) SCOM
2 5 (5.49%) Ansible
3 3 (3.30%) Grafana
3 3 (3.30%) Kubernetes
3 3 (3.30%) Prometheus
3 3 (3.30%) WSUS
4 2 (2.20%) vCenter Server
5 1 (1.10%) PowerBroker
5 1 (1.10%) Progress Chef
5 1 (1.10%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (1.10%) Tivoli
5 1 (1.10%) Tivoli Storage Manager
Vendors
1 58 (63.74%) Microsoft
2 40 (43.96%) ServiceNow
3 14 (15.38%) VMware
4 11 (12.09%) SAP
5 7 (7.69%) Citrix
5 7 (7.69%) Oracle
6 5 (5.49%) Remedy
7 4 (4.40%) IBM
8 3 (3.30%) Adobe
8 3 (3.30%) Bloomberg
8 3 (3.30%) Google
8 3 (3.30%) ION Trading
8 3 (3.30%) Reuters
9 2 (2.20%) Apple
9 2 (2.20%) Dell
9 2 (2.20%) HP
9 2 (2.20%) Murex
9 2 (2.20%) Red Hat
9 2 (2.20%) Snow
10 1 (1.10%) Juniper
59 ITIL Foundation Certificate jobs Nationwide