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 14 April 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 80 43 25
Rank change year-on-year -37 -18 +15
Contract jobs citing ITIL 63 43 100
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.72% 4.47% 6.05%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.10% 4.83% 7.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 26 62
10th Percentile £253 £186 £238
25th Percentile £400 £331 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £424 £475
Median % change year-on-year +6.26% -10.84% +18.75%
75th Percentile £525 £478 £550
90th Percentile £675 £556 £695
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £16.25 -
Median hourly rate - £17.75 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year - +41.66% -31.58%
75th Percentile - £19.56 £15.17
90th Percentile - £19.68 £18.51
England median hourly rate £35.57 £22.93 £17.69
% change year-on-year +55.14% +29.59% -5.65%

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 2,035 891 1,426
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 87.90% 92.52% 86.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,331 558 850
10th Percentile £313 £263 £250
25th Percentile £405 £365 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.53% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £558 £550 £575
90th Percentile £650 £638 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 34 62
10th Percentile £14.25 £11.60 £11.30
25th Percentile £15.25 £17.08 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £21.24 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +7.39% +57.33% +27.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £27.10 £21.66
90th Percentile £68.75 £80.10 £51.08
England median hourly rate £41.00 £31.88 £34.00
% change year-on-year +28.61% -6.24% -9.33%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 -22 35 £481 +13.24% 25
North Yorkshire -1 12 £450 -28.00% 4
South Yorkshire -43 12 £475 +18.75% 12
East Yorkshire - 3 £350 - 3
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 4 (6.35%) SharePoint
2 3 (4.76%) Confluence
3 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (7.94%) Acrobat
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.17%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.59%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.59%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 19 (30.16%) Microsoft 365
2 17 (26.98%) Azure
3 7 (11.11%) SaaS
4 5 (7.94%) AWS
4 5 (7.94%) Entra ID
5 4 (6.35%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (4.76%) GCP
6 3 (4.76%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.76%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (3.17%) Amazon S3
7 2 (3.17%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (3.17%) Datadog
7 2 (3.17%) Google Workspace
7 2 (3.17%) OpenShift
7 2 (3.17%) Serverless
8 1 (1.59%) Amazon ELB
8 1 (1.59%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.59%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 12 (19.05%) TCP/IP
2 9 (14.29%) WAN
3 8 (12.70%) DNS
3 8 (12.70%) LAN
4 7 (11.11%) DHCP
4 7 (11.11%) Wi-Fi
5 5 (7.94%) VoIP
6 4 (6.35%) Firewall
7 2 (3.17%) Network Security
7 2 (3.17%) SAN
7 2 (3.17%) VLAN
7 2 (3.17%) VPN
8 1 (1.59%) Internet
8 1 (1.59%) MPLS
8 1 (1.59%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.59%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.59%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.76%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (4.76%) DTS
1 3 (4.76%) SQL Server
1 3 (4.76%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (4.76%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (1.59%) DB2
2 1 (1.59%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (1.59%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (4.76%) Flyway
1 3 (4.76%) Git
1 3 (4.76%) GitLab
1 3 (4.76%) Jenkins
2 2 (3.17%) JIRA
General
1 27 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 13 (20.63%) Finance
3 9 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (11.11%) Public Sector
5 6 (9.52%) Legal
6 5 (7.94%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (7.94%) Retail
7 3 (4.76%) Banking
8 2 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (3.17%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.17%) Military
9 1 (1.59%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.59%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 10 (15.87%) Analyst
2 7 (11.11%) Coordinator
2 7 (11.11%) IT Support
2 7 (11.11%) Service Analyst
2 7 (11.11%) Service Manager
3 6 (9.52%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 6 (9.52%) IT Engineer
3 6 (9.52%) IT Support Engineer
3 6 (9.52%) Support Engineer
4 5 (7.94%) 2nd Line Support
5 4 (6.35%) 2nd Line Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Build Manager
5 4 (6.35%) Delivery Manager
5 4 (6.35%) Service Delivery Manager
6 3 (4.76%) DBA
6 3 (4.76%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Service Desk Analyst
6 3 (4.76%) Software Manager
6 3 (4.76%) SQL DBA
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.76%) AWS CDK
2 2 (3.17%) LDAP
2 2 (3.17%) REST
3 1 (1.59%) JSON
3 1 (1.59%) OAuth
3 1 (1.59%) OpenID
3 1 (1.59%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.59%) SAML
3 1 (1.59%) Web Services
3 1 (1.59%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.11%) CMDB
1 7 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 5 (7.94%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.76%) iPhone
3 3 (4.76%) PMI
4 2 (3.17%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (3.17%) Mainframe
4 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.17%) NHS
4 2 (3.17%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.59%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.59%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.59%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.59%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 15 (23.81%) Windows
2 6 (9.52%) Windows Server
3 5 (7.94%) Android
4 4 (6.35%) Windows 10
5 2 (3.17%) Apple iOS
5 2 (3.17%) Linux
5 2 (3.17%) Mac OS
5 2 (3.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.17%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.59%) MVS
6 1 (1.59%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.59%) Unix
6 1 (1.59%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (42.86%) Service Management
2 24 (38.10%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (30.16%) ITSM
4 18 (28.57%) Service Delivery
5 17 (26.98%) Agile
6 16 (25.40%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (20.63%) Change Management
8 12 (19.05%) Customer Service
8 12 (19.05%) Migration
8 12 (19.05%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (14.29%) Digital Transformation Programme
10 8 (12.70%) High Availability
10 8 (12.70%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 7 (11.11%) Computer Science
11 7 (11.11%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (11.11%) Dependency Management
11 7 (11.11%) Project Delivery
12 6 (9.52%) DevOps
12 6 (9.52%) Incident Management
12 6 (9.52%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.52%) PowerShell
2 4 (6.35%) SQL
3 3 (4.76%) TypeScript
4 2 (3.17%) Python
4 2 (3.17%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (1.59%) CLIST
5 1 (1.59%) JCL
5 1 (1.59%) REXX
Qualifications
1 12 (19.05%) Security Cleared
2 9 (14.29%) Degree
3 8 (12.70%) SC Cleared
4 6 (9.52%) PMI Certification
5 5 (7.94%) Computer Science Degree
5 5 (7.94%) ITIL Certification
6 3 (4.76%) PMP
7 2 (3.17%) Master's Degree
8 1 (1.59%) CCA
8 1 (1.59%) Citrix Certification
8 1 (1.59%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (6.35%) QA
2 4 (6.35%) SLA
3 3 (4.76%) PMO
4 2 (3.17%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.59%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.59%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.59%) GDPR
5 1 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (14.29%) Active Directory
2 6 (9.52%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (6.35%) Hyper-V
4 2 (3.17%) vSphere
5 1 (1.59%) ACF2
5 1 (1.59%) RACF
5 1 (1.59%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.59%) XenApp
5 1 (1.59%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (4.76%) Foglight
3 2 (3.17%) Grafana
3 2 (3.17%) Terraform
4 1 (1.59%) Oracle Identity Manager
4 1 (1.59%) SCCM
Vendors
1 13 (20.63%) Microsoft
2 9 (14.29%) ServiceNow
3 8 (12.70%) VMware
4 7 (11.11%) Veeam
5 6 (9.52%) Cisco
5 6 (9.52%) SAP
6 5 (7.94%) Adobe
6 5 (7.94%) Meraki
7 4 (6.35%) ESRI
8 3 (4.76%) Databricks
9 2 (3.17%) Fortinet
9 2 (3.17%) Google
9 2 (3.17%) HP
9 2 (3.17%) IBM
9 2 (3.17%) LogicMonitor
9 2 (3.17%) New Relic
9 2 (3.17%) Splunk
10 1 (1.59%) Broadcom
10 1 (1.59%) CyberArk
10 1 (1.59%) F5