ITIL Contracts in Wales

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Wales requiring ITIL skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ITIL over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 21 39 15
Rank change year-on-year +18 -24 +29
Contract jobs citing ITIL 22 5 57
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 7.51% 1.27% 8.98%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 8.63% 1.61% 10.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 50
10th Percentile £185 £154 £158
25th Percentile £358 £185 £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £365 £275
Median % change year-on-year +13.01% +32.73% -26.67%
75th Percentile £463 £419 £525
90th Percentile £485 £558 £588
UK median daily rate £463 £495 £470
% change year-on-year -6.57% +5.32% +4.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile £28.50 - £46.63
25th Percentile £31.88 - £47.19
Median hourly rate £37.50 - £48.75
75th Percentile £41.25 - £49.69
90th Percentile - - £49.88
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £17.69 £20.00
% change year-on-year +24.36% -11.55% +23.08%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

ITIL falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 255 311 549
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 87.03% 78.73% 86.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 182 212 421
10th Percentile £185 £168 £183
25th Percentile £285 £356 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £420 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -16.00% +5.26% -2.48%
75th Percentile £525 £571 £573
90th Percentile £625 £667 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 27 31 28
10th Percentile £15.60 £11.75 £14.78
25th Percentile £20.12 £14.78 £16.98
Median hourly rate £21.01 £22.50 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year -6.62% +19.59% -16.38%
75th Percentile £35.25 £51.75 £26.50
90th Percentile £45.00 £86.00 £49.13
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing ITIL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for ITIL in Wales

ITIL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Daily rate trend for ITIL in Wales

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in Wales over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in Wales

ITIL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for ITIL in Wales

ITIL
Contract Job Locations in Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the Wales region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
South Wales +20 20 £409 +11.99% 39
West Wales - 1 £475 - 1
ITIL
UK

ITIL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 2 (9.09%) Oracle Service Bus
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 2 (9.09%) WebLogic
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
Business Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 13 (59.09%) Azure
2 7 (31.82%) Microsoft 365
3 6 (27.27%) AWS
4 4 (18.18%) GCP
5 2 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (9.09%) GitHub
5 2 (9.09%) OCI
6 1 (4.55%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 8 (36.36%) Firewall
2 2 (9.09%) SAN
2 2 (9.09%) VPN
3 1 (4.55%) BGP
3 1 (4.55%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (4.55%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (4.55%) OSPF
3 1 (4.55%) Remote Desktop
3 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
3 1 (4.55%) VXLAN
3 1 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Jenkins
1 2 (9.09%) Subversion
2 1 (4.55%) JIRA
General
1 15 (68.18%) Social Skills
2 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (9.09%) Digital Health
3 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (22.73%) Support Engineer
2 4 (18.18%) 2nd Line Support
2 4 (18.18%) Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Architect
2 4 (18.18%) Support Specialist
3 3 (13.64%) Cloud Architect
3 3 (13.64%) IT Engineer
3 3 (13.64%) IT Support
4 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) 3rd Line Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) IT Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Migration Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Principal Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Principal Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Support Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Technical Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Windows Engineer
4 2 (9.09%) Windows Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) Middleware
1 2 (9.09%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 5 (22.73%) Video Conferencing
2 4 (18.18%) Cloud Native
2 4 (18.18%) Data Centre
3 2 (9.09%) NHS
3 2 (9.09%) Public Cloud
4 1 (4.55%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 14 (63.64%) Windows
2 7 (31.82%) Windows 10
3 4 (18.18%) Windows Server
3 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2012
3 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2016
3 4 (18.18%) Windows Server 2019
4 2 (9.09%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (50.00%) Customer Service
2 10 (45.45%) Problem-Solving
3 8 (36.36%) Computer Science
4 6 (27.27%) Incident Management
5 5 (22.73%) Agile
6 4 (18.18%) Application Packaging
6 4 (18.18%) Cloud Security
6 4 (18.18%) Data Privacy
6 4 (18.18%) DevSecOps
6 4 (18.18%) Enterprise Architecture
6 4 (18.18%) IT Strategy
6 4 (18.18%) Roadmaps
6 4 (18.18%) Strategic Roadmap
6 4 (18.18%) TOGAF
7 3 (13.64%) Service Management
7 3 (13.64%) Technical Leadership
8 2 (9.09%) IT Governance
8 2 (9.09%) ITSM
8 2 (9.09%) Service Delivery
8 2 (9.09%) SOA
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) PowerShell
1 2 (9.09%) Python
1 2 (9.09%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
Qualifications
1 8 (36.36%) Degree
2 5 (22.73%) A+ Certification
2 5 (22.73%) Network+ Certification
3 4 (18.18%) AWS Certification
3 4 (18.18%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 4 (18.18%) Azure Certification
3 4 (18.18%) CITP
3 4 (18.18%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (18.18%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
4 1 (4.55%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 9 (40.91%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (22.73%) Jamf Pro
1 5 (22.73%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (18.18%) SCCM
3 2 (9.09%) Ansible
Vendors
1 8 (36.36%) Microsoft
1 8 (36.36%) ServiceNow
2 5 (22.73%) VMware
3 4 (18.18%) Google
4 2 (9.09%) Cisco
4 2 (9.09%) Ivanti
4 2 (9.09%) Oracle
5 1 (4.55%) CheckPoint
5 1 (4.55%) F5
5 1 (4.55%) Juniper
5 1 (4.55%) SolarWinds