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 6 October 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 35 39
Rank change year-on-year -24 +4 -4
Contract jobs citing ITIL 104 106 65
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.64% 6.54% 4.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.37% 7.26% 5.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 67 30
10th Percentile £200 £153 £173
25th Percentile £308 £235 £417
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £350 £483
Median % change year-on-year +40.71% -27.46% -8.10%
75th Percentile £600 £500 £550
90th Percentile £650 £551 £562
England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -2.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 3 2
10th Percentile £25.63 £17.27 -
25th Percentile £25.77 £17.29 £16.25
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 £24.72 £29.60 £26.13
% change year-on-year -16.49% +13.30% +58.33%

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 2,378 1,461 1,236
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 83.21% 90.19% 84.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,416 939 727
10th Percentile £331 £250 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £575
90th Percentile £675 £650 £654
England median daily rate £525 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +2.94% -2.86% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 95 52 40
10th Percentile £13.45 £17.34 £12.52
25th Percentile £15.39 £18.78 £12.55
Median hourly rate £19.00 £23.79 £18.25
Median % change year-on-year -20.13% +30.34% -10.98%
75th Percentile £26.28 £25.15 £33.75
90th Percentile £43.96 £78.38 £49.50
England median hourly rate £40.00 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +59.05% -41.51% -3.37%

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 6 October 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 6 October 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 -12 52 £525 +50.00% 53
South Yorkshire -29 34 £500 +35.50% 11
North Yorkshire -13 7 £200 +66.67% 9
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 2 (1.92%) 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 7 (6.73%) GCP
7 6 (5.77%) 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
11 1 (0.96%) Google Workspace
11 1 (0.96%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 10 (9.62%) Firewall
2 9 (8.65%) SSL
3 7 (6.73%) Network Security
4 4 (3.85%) DHCP
4 4 (3.85%) DNS
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
5 3 (2.88%) VoIP
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%) Cisco Nexus
7 1 (0.96%) Kerberos
7 1 (0.96%) SNMP
7 1 (0.96%) Structured Cabling
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 37 (35.58%) Finance
2 36 (34.62%) Social Skills
3 23 (22.12%) Banking
4 14 (13.46%) Legal
5 10 (9.62%) Analytical Skills
6 8 (7.69%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (4.81%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (4.81%) Public Sector
8 4 (3.85%) Retail
8 4 (3.85%) Telecoms
9 3 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (2.88%) Financial Institution
9 3 (2.88%) Law
9 3 (2.88%) Manufacturing
10 2 (1.92%) Local Government
11 1 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (0.96%) Military
Job Titles
1 16 (15.38%) Lead
2 13 (12.50%) Analyst
3 12 (11.54%) 2nd Line Support
4 11 (10.58%) Administrator
5 10 (9.62%) Senior
6 8 (7.69%) Service Analyst
7 7 (6.73%) Support Engineer
8 6 (5.77%) IT Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Linux Engineer
9 5 (4.81%) Senior Linux Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Service Desk Analyst
10 4 (3.85%) Service Desk Engineer
10 4 (3.85%) Technical Manager
11 3 (2.88%) Consultant
11 3 (2.88%) Infrastructure Manager
11 3 (2.88%) IT Support
11 3 (2.88%) IT Support Engineer
11 3 (2.88%) Service Manager
11 3 (2.88%) Technical Leader
12 2 (1.92%) Support Specialist
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 4 (3.85%) Onboarding
5 3 (2.88%) CMDB
5 3 (2.88%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.88%) Hybrid Cloud
6 2 (1.92%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.92%) NHS
6 2 (1.92%) SystemC
7 1 (0.96%) Distributed Computing
7 1 (0.96%) Driving Licence
7 1 (0.96%) IBM Mainframe
7 1 (0.96%) IoT
7 1 (0.96%) iSeries
7 1 (0.96%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (0.96%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.96%) Operational Technology
7 1 (0.96%) TM Forum
7 1 (0.96%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 31 (29.81%) 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%) OpenVMS
7 2 (1.92%) Unix
7 2 (1.92%) Windows 10
8 1 (0.96%) Android
8 1 (0.96%) Apple iOS
8 1 (0.96%) CoreOS
8 1 (0.96%) Mac OS
8 1 (0.96%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (44.23%) Service Management
2 26 (25.00%) ITSM
2 26 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 25 (24.04%) Continuous Improvement
4 24 (23.08%) Change Management
5 20 (19.23%) Service Delivery
6 16 (15.38%) Agile
7 15 (14.42%) Disaster Recovery
7 15 (14.42%) Incident Management
8 14 (13.46%) Migration
8 14 (13.46%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (12.50%) Problem Management
9 13 (12.50%) Risk Management
10 11 (10.58%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (10.58%) Performance Optimisation
10 11 (10.58%) Runbook
11 9 (8.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (8.65%) Technical Leadership
11 9 (8.65%) Vulnerability Remediation
12 8 (7.69%) Data Protection
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
2 8 (7.69%) ITIL Certification
3 6 (5.77%) PMI Certification
3 6 (5.77%) PMP
4 5 (4.81%) SC Cleared
4 5 (4.81%) Security Cleared
5 4 (3.85%) Microsoft Certified Professional
6 3 (2.88%) IIBA
6 3 (2.88%) Network+ Certification
6 3 (2.88%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 2 (1.92%) A+ Certification
7 2 (1.92%) Azure Certification
7 2 (1.92%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (1.92%) CCNA
7 2 (1.92%) Cisco Certification
7 2 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (1.92%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.92%) MCSE
7 2 (1.92%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (0.96%) CCNP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (4.81%) GRC
2 4 (3.85%) QA
3 3 (2.88%) GxP
3 3 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.88%) SLA
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%) KVM
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 4 (3.85%) Google
5 4 (3.85%) Palo Alto
6 3 (2.88%) BMC
6 3 (2.88%) Dell
6 3 (2.88%) Remedy
7 2 (1.92%) Liquidlogic
7 2 (1.92%) Okta
7 2 (1.92%) Red Hat
7 2 (1.92%) Veeam
8 1 (0.96%) Broadcom
8 1 (0.96%) Extreme Networks
8 1 (0.96%) Fortinet
8 1 (0.96%) Meraki
8 1 (0.96%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.96%) Samsung