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 31 May 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 30 27
Rank change year-on-year -38 -3 +10
Contract jobs citing ITIL 82 66 93
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.08% 6.08% 5.54%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.55% 6.55% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 32 59
10th Percentile £200 - £235
25th Percentile £400 £235 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £345 £453
Median % change year-on-year +36.67% -23.84% +13.25%
75th Percentile £538 £459 £540
90th Percentile £676 £571 £584
England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 6 6
10th Percentile £25.79 £16.25 -
25th Percentile £26.16 £16.31 £12.53
Median hourly rate £26.77 £17.90 £13.85
Median % change year-on-year +49.59% +29.21% -29.46%
75th Percentile £27.39 £19.69 £17.86
90th Percentile £27.75 £19.76 £19.75
England median hourly rate £27.75 £22.05 £17.69
% change year-on-year +25.85% +24.65% +1.09%

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 2,311 1,007 1,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 86.75% 92.73% 84.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,455 619 859
10th Percentile £325 £263 £275
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £490
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -3.06% -6.67%
75th Percentile £569 £550 £581
90th Percentile £675 £625 £650
England median daily rate £514 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -2.05% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 39 69
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.32 £11.30
25th Percentile £17.76 £17.95 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%
75th Percentile £55.50 £22.14 £20.74
90th Percentile £68.75 £29.06 £53.75
England median hourly rate £47.00 £28.75 £37.50
% change year-on-year +63.48% -23.33% -

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 31 May 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 31 May 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 -38 35 £519 +52.57% 20
South Yorkshire -40 23 £485 +64.41% 15
North Yorkshire 0 16 £350 -44.00% 4
East Yorkshire - 3 £350 - 2
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 9 (10.98%) SharePoint
2 4 (4.88%) Confluence
3 2 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 4 (4.88%) Acrobat
2 2 (2.44%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.66%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 23 (28.05%) Azure
2 22 (26.83%) Microsoft 365
3 11 (13.41%) AWS
4 9 (10.98%) Entra ID
5 7 (8.54%) OneDrive
6 6 (7.32%) GCP
6 6 (7.32%) SaaS
7 5 (6.10%) OpenShift
8 3 (3.66%) Google Workspace
9 2 (2.44%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
9 2 (2.44%) Amazon S3
9 2 (2.44%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.44%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (2.44%) Datadog
9 2 (2.44%) Power Platform
9 2 (2.44%) PowerApps
9 2 (2.44%) Serverless
10 1 (1.22%) Amazon ELB
10 1 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 7 (8.54%) TCP/IP
2 5 (6.10%) WAN
2 5 (6.10%) Wi-Fi
3 4 (4.88%) Firewall
3 4 (4.88%) LAN
3 4 (4.88%) Network Security
3 4 (4.88%) VoIP
4 3 (3.66%) DHCP
4 3 (3.66%) DNS
4 3 (3.66%) SSL
5 2 (2.44%) SAN
5 2 (2.44%) VLAN
6 1 (1.22%) Cisco Nexus
6 1 (1.22%) MPLS
6 1 (1.22%) SD-WAN
6 1 (1.22%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.88%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.66%) DTS
2 3 (3.66%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.66%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (3.66%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.22%) DB2
3 1 (1.22%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (4.88%) JIRA
2 3 (3.66%) Flyway
2 3 (3.66%) Git
2 3 (3.66%) GitLab
2 3 (3.66%) Jenkins
General
1 26 (31.71%) Social Skills
2 25 (30.49%) Finance
3 11 (13.41%) Banking
4 10 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (12.20%) Legal
5 6 (7.32%) Public Sector
6 5 (6.10%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (4.88%) Organisational Skills
8 3 (3.66%) Military
9 2 (2.44%) Financial Institution
9 2 (2.44%) Retail
10 1 (1.22%) Documentation Skills
10 1 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.22%) Local Government
10 1 (1.22%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 10 (12.20%) Analyst
2 8 (9.76%) Service Analyst
3 7 (8.54%) 2nd Line Support
3 7 (8.54%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 6 (7.32%) Service Manager
5 5 (6.10%) Coordinator
5 5 (6.10%) Lead
6 4 (4.88%) Consultant
6 4 (4.88%) Service Desk Analyst
6 4 (4.88%) Support Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Administrator
7 3 (3.66%) Architect
7 3 (3.66%) DBA
7 3 (3.66%) Delivery Manager
7 3 (3.66%) IT Support
7 3 (3.66%) IT Support Engineer
7 3 (3.66%) Programme Manager
7 3 (3.66%) Senior
7 3 (3.66%) Service Delivery Manager
7 3 (3.66%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (4.88%) Middleware
2 3 (3.66%) AWS CDK
2 3 (3.66%) ISPF
2 3 (3.66%) REST
3 1 (1.22%) JSON
3 1 (1.22%) Kafka
3 1 (1.22%) OAuth
3 1 (1.22%) OpenID
3 1 (1.22%) SAML
3 1 (1.22%) SOAP
3 1 (1.22%) Web Services
3 1 (1.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (8.54%) CMDB
1 7 (8.54%) Mainframe
1 7 (8.54%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.10%) Data Centre
3 4 (4.88%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.66%) Clustering
4 3 (3.66%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (3.66%) PMI
4 3 (3.66%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.22%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.22%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.22%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.22%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.22%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.22%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.22%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.22%) TM Forum
Operating Systems
1 20 (24.39%) Windows
2 6 (7.32%) Linux
3 5 (6.10%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 4 (4.88%) zOS
5 3 (3.66%) Android
5 3 (3.66%) Apple iOS
5 3 (3.66%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.44%) Windows Server
6 2 (2.44%) Windows Server 2016
7 1 (1.22%) CoreOS
7 1 (1.22%) MVS
7 1 (1.22%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.22%) Unix
7 1 (1.22%) VMS
7 1 (1.22%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 37 (45.12%) Service Management
2 27 (32.93%) ITSM
3 23 (28.05%) Problem-Solving
4 20 (24.39%) Change Management
5 19 (23.17%) Continuous Improvement
6 18 (21.95%) Service Delivery
7 14 (17.07%) Agile
8 13 (15.85%) Stakeholder Management
9 11 (13.41%) Incident Management
10 10 (12.20%) Customer Service
11 9 (10.98%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 8 (9.76%) Computer Science
12 8 (9.76%) Cybersecurity
12 8 (9.76%) Problem Management
12 8 (9.76%) Risk Management
12 8 (9.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 7 (8.54%) Business Continuity
13 7 (8.54%) High Availability
13 7 (8.54%) Migration
13 7 (8.54%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.10%) PowerShell
1 5 (6.10%) Python
2 3 (3.66%) Bash
2 3 (3.66%) SQL
2 3 (3.66%) TypeScript
3 2 (2.44%) Search Processing Language
4 1 (1.22%) CLIST
4 1 (1.22%) Go
4 1 (1.22%) Java
4 1 (1.22%) JCL
4 1 (1.22%) REXX
Qualifications
1 13 (15.85%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.41%) Degree
3 9 (10.98%) SC Cleared
4 7 (8.54%) ITIL Certification
4 7 (8.54%) PMI Certification
5 5 (6.10%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.88%) Master's Degree
6 4 (4.88%) PMP
7 1 (1.22%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.22%) CCNA
7 1 (1.22%) CCNP
7 1 (1.22%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.22%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 1 (1.22%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.22%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.22%) RHCA
7 1 (1.22%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (1.22%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.32%) SLA
2 5 (6.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (4.88%) QA
4 2 (2.44%) Actionable Recommendations
4 2 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.44%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.22%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.22%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.22%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.22%) PMO
5 1 (1.22%) SOC 2
System Software
1 12 (14.63%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.32%) Hyper-V
2 6 (7.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (4.88%) RACF
3 4 (4.88%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.44%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.44%) vSphere
5 1 (1.22%) ACF2
5 1 (1.22%) Ceph
Systems Management
1 12 (14.63%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (3.66%) Ansible
2 3 (3.66%) Foglight
2 3 (3.66%) Grafana
2 3 (3.66%) OMEGAMON
2 3 (3.66%) Terraform
3 1 (1.22%) Argo
3 1 (1.22%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.22%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 17 (20.73%) Microsoft
2 15 (18.29%) ServiceNow
3 8 (9.76%) VMware
4 7 (8.54%) Cisco
4 7 (8.54%) IBM
4 7 (8.54%) Veeam
5 5 (6.10%) Adobe
6 4 (4.88%) Meraki
6 4 (4.88%) SAP
7 3 (3.66%) Databricks
7 3 (3.66%) Google
7 3 (3.66%) Remedy
8 2 (2.44%) BMC
8 2 (2.44%) ESRI
8 2 (2.44%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.44%) HP
8 2 (2.44%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (2.44%) New Relic
8 2 (2.44%) Splunk
9 1 (1.22%) Broadcom