ITIL Foundation Certificate Contracts

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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 535 654
Rank change year-on-year +64 +119 +53
Contract jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate 48 65 59
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.15% 0.099%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.53% 0.49% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 32 41
10th Percentile £232 £264 £158
25th Percentile £235 £388 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 £605 £300
Median % change year-on-year -45.25% +101.67% -36.84%
75th Percentile £480 £608 £438
90th Percentile £620 - £506
UK excluding London median daily rate £250 £605 £246
% change year-on-year -58.68% +145.93% -29.71%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 20 1
Median hourly rate £20.00 £25.00 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +78.57% +7.69%
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £25.00 £14.00
% change year-on-year - +78.57% +7.69%

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 8,989 13,363 16,304
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.75% 30.65% 27.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,678 8,219 10,866
10th Percentile £288 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.87% -2.73% +4.76%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £707 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £501 £530 £530
% change year-on-year -5.57% - +6.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 516 1,077 849
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.87 £15.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.88 £20.00
Median hourly rate £40.72 £40.00 £54.00
Median % change year-on-year +1.79% -25.93% +29.75%
75th Percentile £66.00 £61.60 £68.25
90th Percentile £80.34 £75.25 £80.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £40.94 £49.57
% change year-on-year +9.92% -17.41% +55.44%

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ITIL Foundation Certificate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ITIL Foundation Certificate in the UK

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ITIL Foundation Certificate in the UK

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL Foundation Certificate in the UK

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for ITIL Foundation Certificate in the UK

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Top 11 Contract 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 30 April 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 +40 42 £278 -54.13% 44
UK excluding London +36 34 £250 -58.68% 40
Work from Home +31 12 £438 -27.69% 21
South West +42 10 £235 -60.83% 5
South East +31 10 £448 -26.03% 6
North of England +32 9 £238 +18.75% 14
London +28 6 £275 -21.43% 5
Yorkshire +18 6 £235 +17.50% 9
East of England +33 4 £203 - 8
North West +12 3 £245 - 4
Scotland - 1 £165 -

ITIL Foundation Certificate
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:

Application Platforms
1 11 (22.92%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (27.08%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 17 (35.42%) Microsoft 365
2 4 (8.33%) Azure
3 3 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Monitor
4 1 (2.08%) Azure Storage
4 1 (2.08%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 10 (20.83%) VPN
2 3 (6.25%) Firewall
3 2 (4.17%) VoIP
4 1 (2.08%) DHCP
4 1 (2.08%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.25%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 1 (2.08%) JIRA
General
1 32 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 10 (20.83%) Finance
3 6 (12.50%) Public Sector
4 5 (10.42%) Legal
5 3 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
6 1 (2.08%) Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Digital Health
6 1 (2.08%) Financial Institution
6 1 (2.08%) International Banking
6 1 (2.08%) Law
6 1 (2.08%) Local Government
6 1 (2.08%) Military
Job Titles
1 13 (27.08%) Support Engineer
2 11 (22.92%) Desktop Support
3 10 (20.83%) Desktop Engineer
3 10 (20.83%) Desktop Support Engineer
4 7 (14.58%) Service Manager
5 4 (8.33%) Administrator
5 4 (8.33%) Consultant
5 4 (8.33%) Developer
5 4 (8.33%) ServiceNow Administrator
5 4 (8.33%) ServiceNow Developer
6 3 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
6 3 (6.25%) Analyst
6 3 (6.25%) Architect
6 3 (6.25%) IT Engineer
6 3 (6.25%) IT Support
6 3 (6.25%) Lead
6 3 (6.25%) Senior
6 3 (6.25%) Service Continuity Manager
6 3 (6.25%) Service Design Architect
7 2 (4.17%) ITSM Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.33%) Ajax
1 4 (8.33%) AngularJS
1 4 (8.33%) CSS
1 4 (8.33%) HTML
1 4 (8.33%) LDAP
1 4 (8.33%) Web Services
2 1 (2.08%) ARM Templates
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.58%) CMDB
2 4 (8.33%) NHS
3 3 (6.25%) Driving Licence
3 3 (6.25%) Management Information System
3 3 (6.25%) Onboarding
4 2 (4.17%) Replication
5 1 (2.08%) Cyberattack
5 1 (2.08%) Hedge funds
5 1 (2.08%) iPad
5 1 (2.08%) iPhone
5 1 (2.08%) PKI
5 1 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.08%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.75%) Windows
2 3 (6.25%) Windows 10
3 2 (4.17%) Linux
4 1 (2.08%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.08%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.08%) Ubuntu
4 1 (2.08%) Windows Server
4 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2016
4 1 (2.08%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (100.00%) ITIL
2 30 (62.50%) ITSM
3 19 (39.58%) Service Delivery
3 19 (39.58%) Service Management
4 15 (31.25%) Customer Service
5 12 (25.00%) Collaborative Working
6 11 (22.92%) Problem-Solving
7 9 (18.75%) Case Management
8 8 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (12.50%) SIAM
10 5 (10.42%) Agile
10 5 (10.42%) Asset Management
10 5 (10.42%) Incident Management
10 5 (10.42%) Problem Management
10 5 (10.42%) Roadmaps
10 5 (10.42%) Workflow
11 4 (8.33%) Business Continuity
11 4 (8.33%) Continuous Improvement
11 4 (8.33%) Operations Management
11 4 (8.33%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 4 (8.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (2.08%) Bicep
2 1 (2.08%) C#
2 1 (2.08%) PowerShell
2 1 (2.08%) VB
2 1 (2.08%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 11 (22.92%) Degree
1 11 (22.92%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.58%) SC Cleared
3 5 (10.42%) DV Cleared
4 2 (4.17%) A+ Certification
4 2 (4.17%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.08%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (2.08%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.08%) MCSE
5 1 (2.08%) PMI Certification
5 1 (2.08%) PMP
5 1 (2.08%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (18.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.08%) COBIT
2 1 (2.08%) ISO 22301
2 1 (2.08%) NIST
2 1 (2.08%) NIST 800
2 1 (2.08%) SLA
System Software
1 14 (29.17%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.08%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (2.08%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (2.08%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 13 (27.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (8.33%) Single Sign-On
3 3 (6.25%) SCCM
4 1 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (2.08%) Kubernetes
4 1 (2.08%) SCOM
4 1 (2.08%) WSUS
Vendors
1 22 (45.83%) ServiceNow
2 21 (43.75%) Microsoft
3 9 (18.75%) Citrix
4 3 (6.25%) Cisco
4 3 (6.25%) Juniper
5 2 (4.17%) HP
5 2 (4.17%) MEDITECH
6 1 (2.08%) Apple
6 1 (2.08%) BMC
6 1 (2.08%) Dynatrace
6 1 (2.08%) Google
6 1 (2.08%) McAfee
6 1 (2.08%) Okta
6 1 (2.08%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.08%) Zscaler