ITIL Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
England > Yorkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Yorkshire requiring ITIL skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 27 September 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
27 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 31 41
Rank change year-on-year -29 +10 -5
Contract jobs citing ITIL 104 108 64
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.59% 6.92% 4.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.32% 7.66% 5.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 68 27
10th Percentile £200 £153 £203
25th Percentile £308 £235 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £344 £501
Median % change year-on-year +40.89% -31.22% -2.34%
75th Percentile £600 £500 £554
90th Percentile £650 £559 £568
England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 3
10th Percentile £25.63 £17.27 £15.39
25th Percentile £25.77 £17.29 £15.71
Median hourly rate £26.92 £18.50 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.51% +5.71% -11.99%
75th Percentile £28.00 £19.76 £18.75
90th Percentile - £19.77 -
England median hourly rate £25.00 £29.60 £23.80
% change year-on-year -15.54% +24.37% +44.24%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,409 1,410 1,257
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 83.18% 90.38% 84.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,426 910 743
10th Percentile £336 £240 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £562 £580
90th Percentile £669 £650 £655
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 92 54 42
10th Percentile £13.45 £15.68 -
25th Percentile £15.39 £18.51 £12.55
Median hourly rate £19.68 £22.36 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.98% +22.51% -9.88%
75th Percentile £26.72 £25.15 £32.50
90th Percentile £43.96 £72.63 £47.75
England median hourly rate £41.03 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +63.14% -41.51% -2.27%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

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

ITIL job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

ITIL
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing ITIL

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 27 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in Yorkshire

ITIL
Hourly Rate Trend in Yorkshire

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing ITIL

ITIL
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 27 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
West Yorkshire -18 53 £525 +50.00% 42
South Yorkshire -35 32 £500 +40.85% 9
North Yorkshire -10 8 £200 +66.67% 8
ITIL
England

ITIL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire 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 12 (11.54%) Confluence
1 12 (11.54%) SharePoint
2 5 (4.81%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (0.96%) CICS
Applications
1 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (2.88%) Microsoft Project
2 3 (2.88%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.92%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 3 (2.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.96%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 35 (33.65%) Azure
2 27 (25.96%) Microsoft 365
3 21 (20.19%) Entra ID
4 15 (14.42%) AWS
5 12 (11.54%) OneDrive
6 8 (7.69%) GCP
7 7 (6.73%) OpenShift
8 5 (4.81%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.88%) Google Data Studio
9 3 (2.88%) SaaS
10 2 (1.92%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (1.92%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.96%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.62%) Firewall
2 9 (8.65%) SSL
3 8 (7.69%) Network Security
4 4 (3.85%) DHCP
4 4 (3.85%) DNS
4 4 (3.85%) VoIP
4 4 (3.85%) VPN
5 3 (2.88%) Fibre Channel
5 3 (2.88%) iSCSI
5 3 (2.88%) NAS
5 3 (2.88%) SAN
5 3 (2.88%) VLAN
6 2 (1.92%) TCP/IP
6 2 (1.92%) WAN
6 2 (1.92%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (1.92%) Wireless
7 1 (0.96%) Broadband
7 1 (0.96%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.96%) LAN
7 1 (0.96%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.88%) Power Query
2 2 (1.92%) Db2
3 1 (0.96%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (0.96%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 16 (15.38%) JIRA
2 2 (1.92%) Tricentis qTest
2 2 (1.92%) Zephyr
3 1 (0.96%) MSI
General
1 38 (36.54%) Finance
2 35 (33.65%) Social Skills
3 23 (22.12%) Banking
4 15 (14.42%) Legal
5 10 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (5.77%) Public Sector
8 5 (4.81%) Influencing Skills
9 4 (3.85%) Retail
9 4 (3.85%) Telecoms
10 3 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
10 3 (2.88%) Financial Institution
10 3 (2.88%) Law
10 3 (2.88%) Manufacturing
11 2 (1.92%) Military
12 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.96%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 16 (15.38%) Lead
2 14 (13.46%) Analyst
3 12 (11.54%) 2nd Line Support
4 11 (10.58%) Administrator
5 9 (8.65%) Senior
5 9 (8.65%) Service Analyst
6 7 (6.73%) Support Engineer
7 6 (5.77%) IT Engineer
8 5 (4.81%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (4.81%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 5 (4.81%) Service Desk Analyst
8 5 (4.81%) Service Desk Engineer
9 4 (3.85%) Technical Manager
10 3 (2.88%) Consultant
10 3 (2.88%) IT Support
10 3 (2.88%) IT Support Engineer
10 3 (2.88%) Service Manager
10 3 (2.88%) Technical Engineer
10 3 (2.88%) Technical Leader
11 2 (1.92%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (11.54%) Middleware
2 9 (8.65%) ISPF
3 4 (3.85%) Terraform
4 2 (1.92%) OAuth
4 2 (1.92%) OpenID
4 2 (1.92%) SAML
5 1 (0.96%) FIDO
5 1 (0.96%) Kafka
5 1 (0.96%) LDAP
5 1 (0.96%) OAuth2
5 1 (0.96%) REST
5 1 (0.96%) SOAP
5 1 (0.96%) WebAuthn
Miscellaneous
1 17 (16.35%) Mainframe
2 12 (11.54%) Data Centre
3 9 (8.65%) Clustering
4 3 (2.88%) CMDB
4 3 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
4 3 (2.88%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (1.92%) NHS
5 2 (1.92%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.96%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
6 1 (0.96%) Driving Licence
6 1 (0.96%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (0.96%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.96%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (0.96%) iSeries
6 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
6 1 (0.96%) Operational Technology
6 1 (0.96%) PKI
6 1 (0.96%) SystemC
Operating Systems
1 32 (30.77%) Windows
2 18 (17.31%) Linux
3 11 (10.58%) zOS
4 9 (8.65%) Windows Server
5 7 (6.73%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 3 (2.88%) VMS
7 2 (1.92%) Android
7 2 (1.92%) Apple iOS
7 2 (1.92%) Mac OS
7 2 (1.92%) OpenVMS
7 2 (1.92%) Unix
7 2 (1.92%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.96%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.96%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (41.35%) Service Management
2 26 (25.00%) Change Management
2 26 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 25 (24.04%) ITSM
3 25 (24.04%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (18.27%) Service Delivery
5 16 (15.38%) Agile
6 15 (14.42%) Incident Management
6 15 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (13.46%) Disaster Recovery
8 13 (12.50%) Migration
8 13 (12.50%) Problem Management
8 13 (12.50%) Risk Management
9 11 (10.58%) Cybersecurity
9 11 (10.58%) Performance Optimisation
9 11 (10.58%) Runbook
10 10 (9.62%) Vulnerability Remediation
11 9 (8.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 8 (7.69%) High Availability
12 8 (7.69%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 11 (10.58%) PowerShell
2 8 (7.69%) Python
3 6 (5.77%) Bash
4 2 (1.92%) DCL
4 2 (1.92%) JCL
5 1 (0.96%) CLIST
5 1 (0.96%) Go
5 1 (0.96%) Java
5 1 (0.96%) REXX
5 1 (0.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 10 (9.62%) Degree
1 10 (9.62%) ITIL Certification
2 7 (6.73%) SC Cleared
2 7 (6.73%) Security Cleared
3 6 (5.77%) PMI Certification
3 6 (5.77%) PMP
4 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 3 (2.88%) IIBA
5 3 (2.88%) Network+ Certification
5 3 (2.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
6 2 (1.92%) A+ Certification
6 2 (1.92%) Azure Certification
6 2 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (1.92%) CCNA
6 2 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (1.92%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.92%) MCSE
6 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (0.96%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.81%) GRC
2 4 (3.85%) QA
2 4 (3.85%) SLA
3 3 (2.88%) GxP
3 3 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.96%) HIPAA
4 1 (0.96%) NIST
4 1 (0.96%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.96%) SOC 2
System Software
1 25 (24.04%) Active Directory
2 10 (9.62%) RACF
3 9 (8.65%) Hyper-V
3 9 (8.65%) VMware Infrastructure
4 7 (6.73%) Virtual Machines
5 5 (4.81%) vSphere
6 4 (3.85%) Firmware
7 3 (2.88%) VMware ESXi
8 2 (1.92%) Virtual Desktop
9 1 (0.96%) ACF2
9 1 (0.96%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 1 (0.96%) Ceph
9 1 (0.96%) NDS
9 1 (0.96%) NetIQ eDirectory
Systems Management
1 17 (16.35%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (8.65%) Ansible
2 9 (8.65%) OMEGAMON
3 3 (2.88%) vCenter Server
3 3 (2.88%) vMotion
4 2 (1.92%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.96%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.96%) Argo
5 1 (0.96%) Control-M
5 1 (0.96%) FortiGate
5 1 (0.96%) Grafana
5 1 (0.96%) Kubernetes
5 1 (0.96%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.96%) SCCM
5 1 (0.96%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 20 (19.23%) Microsoft
1 20 (19.23%) ServiceNow
2 16 (15.38%) IBM
3 10 (9.62%) Cisco
4 9 (8.65%) VMware
5 5 (4.81%) Google
6 4 (3.85%) Palo Alto
7 3 (2.88%) BMC
7 3 (2.88%) Dell
7 3 (2.88%) Remedy
8 2 (1.92%) Okta
8 2 (1.92%) Veeam
9 1 (0.96%) Broadcom
9 1 (0.96%) Extreme Networks
9 1 (0.96%) Fortinet
9 1 (0.96%) Liquidlogic
9 1 (0.96%) Meraki
9 1 (0.96%) Mitel
9 1 (0.96%) MuleSoft
9 1 (0.96%) Samsung