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 18 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 45 30
Rank change year-on-year -7 -15 +2
Contract jobs citing ITIL 88 40 87
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.55% 3.98% 4.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.10% 4.58% 5.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 76 13 42
10th Percentile £153 £146 £302
25th Percentile £213 £188 £427
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £425 £545
Median % change year-on-year -17.65% -22.02% +36.25%
75th Percentile £500 £450 £720
90th Percentile £564 - -
England median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 3 3
Median hourly rate - £17.50 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year - +39.66% -19.16%
England median hourly rate £25.00 £26.31 £17.07
% change year-on-year -4.99% +54.14% +10.13%

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 1,725 873 1,574
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.15% 86.87% 88.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 523 988
10th Percentile £278 £233 £275
25th Percentile £399 £369 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% -5.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 22 42
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.52 £11.01
25th Percentile £17.48 £15.88 £12.53
Median hourly rate £25.15 £20.57 £17.28
Median % change year-on-year +22.28% +19.04% +23.41%
75th Percentile £55.00 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £60.15 £91.13 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -12.50% +14.29%

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 18 January 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 18 January 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 -6 34 £519 +22.06% 21
South Yorkshire -33 29 £398 +194.63% 9
North Yorkshire +6 19 £195 - 11
East Yorkshire - 1 £350 - 10
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 20 (22.73%) SharePoint
2 6 (6.82%) Confluence
3 5 (5.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (4.55%) Mule
Applications
1 18 (20.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 9 (10.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 5 (5.68%) Acrobat
4 4 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
5 2 (2.27%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.14%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.14%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 35 (39.77%) Microsoft 365
2 33 (37.50%) Azure
3 15 (17.05%) Entra ID
4 12 (13.64%) Power Platform
5 9 (10.23%) OneDrive
6 8 (9.09%) GCP
7 7 (7.95%) SaaS
8 6 (6.82%) AWS
8 6 (6.82%) Azure DevOps
8 6 (6.82%) PowerApps
9 4 (4.55%) Azure Logic Apps
9 4 (4.55%) GitHub
10 2 (2.27%) OCI
11 1 (1.14%) Azure Monitor
11 1 (1.14%) Azure Sentinel
11 1 (1.14%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (1.14%) Google Workspace
11 1 (1.14%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (11.36%) TCP/IP
2 8 (9.09%) LAN
2 8 (9.09%) WAN
2 8 (9.09%) Wi-Fi
3 6 (6.82%) DNS
4 5 (5.68%) DHCP
5 4 (4.55%) Firewall
5 4 (4.55%) VoIP
6 2 (2.27%) Network Security
6 2 (2.27%) VPN
7 1 (1.14%) Internet
7 1 (1.14%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.14%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (1.14%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (11.36%) Power BI
2 4 (4.55%) Data Mining
2 4 (4.55%) Relational Database
3 3 (3.41%) Electronic Patient Records
Development Applications
1 11 (12.50%) JIRA
2 4 (4.55%) Jenkins
2 4 (4.55%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 47 (53.41%) Social Skills
2 22 (25.00%) Finance
3 16 (18.18%) Banking
4 14 (15.91%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
6 7 (7.95%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (6.82%) Retail
8 5 (5.68%) Documentation Skills
9 4 (4.55%) Billing
9 4 (4.55%) Financial Institution
9 4 (4.55%) Legal
9 4 (4.55%) Public Sector
10 1 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.14%) Military
10 1 (1.14%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 19 (21.59%) IT Support
2 15 (17.05%) Analyst
3 13 (14.77%) 2nd Line Support
4 8 (9.09%) Data Analyst
5 7 (7.95%) Service Manager
6 6 (6.82%) Coordinator
6 6 (6.82%) Report Analyst
7 5 (5.68%) 1st Line Support
8 4 (4.55%) 2nd Line Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Build Manager
8 4 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) IT Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) IT Support Engineer
8 4 (4.55%) Project Manager
8 4 (4.55%) Senior
8 4 (4.55%) Support Engineer
9 3 (3.41%) Delivery Director
9 3 (3.41%) Major Incident Manager
9 3 (3.41%) Services Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.27%) LDAP
1 2 (2.27%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.14%) Middleware
2 1 (1.14%) OAuth
2 1 (1.14%) OpenID
2 1 (1.14%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.14%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (14.77%) Onboarding
2 11 (12.50%) CMDB
3 10 (11.36%) Data Centre
4 9 (10.23%) Enterprise Software
5 8 (9.09%) Mainframe
6 5 (5.68%) iPhone
7 4 (4.55%) Distributed Applications
7 4 (4.55%) NHS
7 4 (4.55%) Public Cloud
8 3 (3.41%) PMI
8 3 (3.41%) Smartphone
9 2 (2.27%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (2.27%) Management Information System
9 2 (2.27%) Mobile App
9 2 (2.27%) Virtual Team
10 1 (1.14%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.14%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (1.14%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 27 (30.68%) Windows
2 4 (4.55%) Android
2 4 (4.55%) Windows 10
2 4 (4.55%) Windows Server
3 3 (3.41%) Mac OS
4 1 (1.14%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (46.59%) Service Management
2 29 (32.95%) ITSM
3 24 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (19.32%) Agile
5 15 (17.05%) Project Management
5 15 (17.05%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (15.91%) Change Management
6 14 (15.91%) DevOps
7 13 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (14.77%) Migration
8 12 (13.64%) Service Delivery
9 11 (12.50%) Virtual Environments
10 10 (11.36%) Budgeting
10 10 (11.36%) Cost Management
10 10 (11.36%) Customer Service
10 10 (11.36%) Dependency Management
10 10 (11.36%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 10 (11.36%) Project Delivery
11 8 (9.09%) CI/CD
11 8 (9.09%) Cybersecurity
Programming Languages
1 7 (7.95%) PowerShell
1 7 (7.95%) SQL
2 4 (4.55%) Perl
2 4 (4.55%) Python
2 4 (4.55%) Shell Script
3 1 (1.14%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (6.82%) Degree
2 4 (4.55%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (4.55%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.27%) ACSP
3 2 (2.27%) ACTC
3 2 (2.27%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.27%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.14%) CCA
4 1 (1.14%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (1.14%) ISEB
4 1 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.14%) PMP
4 1 (1.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.09%) QA
1 8 (9.09%) SLA
2 5 (5.68%) Data Quality
3 4 (4.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.27%) COBIT
4 2 (2.27%) PMO
5 1 (1.14%) GDPR
5 1 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 17 (19.32%) Active Directory
2 6 (6.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.55%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.14%) XenApp
4 1 (1.14%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 16 (18.18%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (4.55%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.27%) Ansible
3 2 (2.27%) Jamf Pro
3 2 (2.27%) Terraform
4 1 (1.14%) Oracle Identity Manager
4 1 (1.14%) SCCM
4 1 (1.14%) SCOM
Vendors
1 22 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (19.32%) ServiceNow
3 6 (6.82%) Cisco
3 6 (6.82%) Google
3 6 (6.82%) VMware
4 5 (5.68%) Adobe
4 5 (5.68%) Meraki
4 5 (5.68%) SAP
4 5 (5.68%) Veeam
5 4 (4.55%) ESRI
5 4 (4.55%) Splunk
6 3 (3.41%) CheckPoint
6 3 (3.41%) F5
6 3 (3.41%) Oracle
7 2 (2.27%) Apple
7 2 (2.27%) Citrix
7 2 (2.27%) Dell
7 2 (2.27%) Dynatrace
7 2 (2.27%) HP
8 1 (1.14%) Ariba