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 20 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 22 16 8
Rank change year-on-year -6 -8 +39
DemandTrendContract jobs citing ITIL 17 33 69
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 4.91% 8.33% 14.08%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.74% 11.00% 16.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 32 52
10th Percentile £192 £120 £180
25th Percentile £256 £135 £188
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £205 £350
Median % change year-on-year +97.56% -41.43% +15.70%
75th Percentile £480 £400 £566
90th Percentile £486 - £683
UK median daily rate £450 £475 £475
% change year-on-year -5.26% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £46.63
25th Percentile - - £47.19
Median hourly rate - - £48.75
75th Percentile - - £49.69
90th Percentile - - £49.88
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £21.37 £17.50
% change year-on-year +17.69% +22.11% +5.47%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 296 300 424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 85.55% 75.76% 86.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 167 315
10th Percentile £190 £142 £180
25th Percentile £266 £209 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £413 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.03% -13.16% -5.00%
75th Percentile £488 £544 £588
90th Percentile £637 £615 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 51 22
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.48 -
25th Percentile £15.00 £18.95 £16.98
Median hourly rate £20.50 £23.66 £23.21
Median % change year-on-year -13.36% +1.95% +28.93%
75th Percentile £25.15 £48.13 £35.69
90th Percentile - £53.75 £49.88
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £41.00
% change year-on-year -38.57% -0.15% +54.72%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing ITIL.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing ITIL

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in Wales

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in Wales over the 6 months to 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in Wales

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing ITIL.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing ITIL

ITIL
DemandTrendContract 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 20 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South Wales -6 14 £405 +113.16% 17
North Wales -1 1 £263 +19.32% 1
West Wales -3 1 £475 +262.60% 2
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 3 (17.65%) Oracle Service Bus
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
1 3 (17.65%) WebLogic
Business Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle BPM
Cloud Services
1 9 (52.94%) Azure
2 7 (41.18%) AWS
3 4 (23.53%) GCP
4 3 (17.65%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (17.65%) GitHub
4 3 (17.65%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (17.65%) OCI
5 2 (11.76%) Azure Sentinel
Communications & Networking
1 4 (23.53%) Firewall
2 2 (11.76%) LAN
2 2 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
3 1 (5.88%) BGP
3 1 (5.88%) DNS
3 1 (5.88%) Ethernet VPN
3 1 (5.88%) F5 BIG-IP LTM
3 1 (5.88%) OSPF
3 1 (5.88%) TCP/IP
3 1 (5.88%) VoIP
3 1 (5.88%) VXLAN
3 1 (5.88%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (17.65%) Jenkins
1 3 (17.65%) Subversion
General
1 11 (64.71%) Social Skills
2 8 (47.06%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Digital Health
3 2 (11.76%) Welsh Language
4 1 (5.88%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Military
4 1 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (5.88%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 4 (23.53%) Architect
2 3 (17.65%) Cloud Architect
2 3 (17.65%) IT Support
2 3 (17.65%) Support Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Migration Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Principal Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Principal Solutions Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Senior
3 2 (11.76%) SOC Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) 1st Line Support
4 1 (5.88%) Deskside Support
4 1 (5.88%) Desktop Support
4 1 (5.88%) Infrastructure Architect
4 1 (5.88%) IT Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Network Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Security Specialist
4 1 (5.88%) Senior Support Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (17.65%) Middleware
1 3 (17.65%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Cloud Native
2 3 (17.65%) Public Cloud
3 2 (11.76%) Cyber Defence
3 2 (11.76%) NHS
3 2 (11.76%) Operational Technology
4 1 (5.88%) CSOC
4 1 (5.88%) Data Centre
4 1 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (5.88%) Security Operations Centre
4 1 (5.88%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 3 (17.65%) Mac OS
1 3 (17.65%) Windows
2 1 (5.88%) Android
2 1 (5.88%) Linux
2 1 (5.88%) Unix
2 1 (5.88%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (29.41%) Roadmaps
1 5 (29.41%) Strategic Roadmap
2 4 (23.53%) Agile
2 4 (23.53%) Cloud Security
2 4 (23.53%) Computer Science
2 4 (23.53%) Data Privacy
2 4 (23.53%) DevSecOps
2 4 (23.53%) Enterprise Architecture
2 4 (23.53%) IT Strategy
2 4 (23.53%) Service Delivery
2 4 (23.53%) TOGAF
3 3 (17.65%) CI/CD
3 3 (17.65%) Customer Service
3 3 (17.65%) Cybersecurity
3 3 (17.65%) DevOps
3 3 (17.65%) ITSM
3 3 (17.65%) Performance Tuning
3 3 (17.65%) Security Operations
3 3 (17.65%) SOA
3 3 (17.65%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 3 (17.65%) Python
1 3 (17.65%) WebLogic Scripting Tool
2 1 (5.88%) JCL
2 1 (5.88%) Korn
2 1 (5.88%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Degree
2 4 (23.53%) AWS Certification
2 4 (23.53%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
2 4 (23.53%) Azure Certification
2 4 (23.53%) CITP
2 4 (23.53%) Computer Science Degree
2 4 (23.53%) Master's Degree
3 2 (11.76%) CISMP
3 2 (11.76%) GSEC
3 2 (11.76%) Security Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) CISSP
4 1 (5.88%) CompTIA Security+
4 1 (5.88%) HND
4 1 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (5.88%) Postgraduate
4 1 (5.88%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (17.65%) SLA
2 2 (11.76%) GDPR
3 1 (5.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (5.88%) NCSC
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (17.65%) Ansible
2 1 (5.88%) Control-M
Vendors
1 9 (52.94%) Microsoft
2 5 (29.41%) ServiceNow
3 4 (23.53%) Google
3 4 (23.53%) Oracle
4 1 (5.88%) Ab Initio
4 1 (5.88%) Apple
4 1 (5.88%) BMC
4 1 (5.88%) CheckPoint
4 1 (5.88%) Cisco
4 1 (5.88%) F5
4 1 (5.88%) Juniper
4 1 (5.88%) Micro Focus
4 1 (5.88%) SolarWinds
4 1 (5.88%) VMware