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 22 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 38 27
Rank change year-on-year -25 -11 +15
Contract jobs citing ITIL 95 79 102
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 3.33% 5.69% 6.19%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.91% 6.19% 7.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 40 65
10th Percentile £194 £234 £345
25th Percentile £308 £239 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £360 £475
Median % change year-on-year +34.91% -24.32% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £459 £550
90th Percentile £650 £569 £589
England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 5 3
10th Percentile £26.03 £16.35 £15.39
25th Percentile £26.77 £16.50 £15.71
Median hourly rate £28.00 £18.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year +55.56% +2.86% -10.87%
75th Percentile - £19.75 £19.75
90th Percentile - £19.77 £20.34
England median hourly rate £28.00 £26.00 £21.37
% change year-on-year +7.69% +21.67% +22.11%

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 2,428 1,277 1,379
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 85.10% 91.94% 83.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,469 793 837
10th Percentile £325 £263 £300
25th Percentile £413 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £579
90th Percentile £675 £625 £650
England median daily rate £525 £513 £525
% change year-on-year +2.44% -2.38% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 60 55
10th Percentile £15.00 £16.13 -
25th Percentile £16.62 £18.29 £12.15
Median hourly rate £22.81 £22.14 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% +64.00% -32.50%
75th Percentile £29.75 £25.15 £21.75
90th Percentile £68.75 £30.68 £42.75
England median hourly rate £47.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +88.87% -37.13% -6.98%

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 22 July 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 22 July 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 54 £519 +52.57% 17
South Yorkshire -35 22 £500 +35.50% 5
North Yorkshire -10 8 £200 -68.00% 7
East Yorkshire -11 1 £275 - 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 13 (13.68%) SharePoint
2 8 (8.42%) Confluence
3 4 (4.21%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 2 (2.11%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.16%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.05%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (25.26%) Azure
2 22 (23.16%) Microsoft 365
3 15 (15.79%) Entra ID
4 13 (13.68%) AWS
5 12 (12.63%) OneDrive
6 8 (8.42%) OpenShift
7 6 (6.32%) GCP
8 2 (2.11%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.11%) Amazon EC2
8 2 (2.11%) Amazon S3
8 2 (2.11%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.11%) Datadog
8 2 (2.11%) Google Workspace
8 2 (2.11%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.11%) SaaS
8 2 (2.11%) Serverless
9 1 (1.05%) Amazon ELB
9 1 (1.05%) PowerApps
9 1 (1.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 9 (9.47%) SSL
2 7 (7.37%) Network Security
3 4 (4.21%) Firewall
3 4 (4.21%) VoIP
4 2 (2.11%) DHCP
4 2 (2.11%) DNS
4 2 (2.11%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.11%) TCP/IP
4 2 (2.11%) VPN
4 2 (2.11%) WAN
4 2 (2.11%) Wi-Fi
5 1 (1.05%) Broadband
5 1 (1.05%) Cisco Nexus
5 1 (1.05%) Kerberos
5 1 (1.05%) LAN
5 1 (1.05%) MPLS
5 1 (1.05%) SAN
5 1 (1.05%) Structured Cabling
5 1 (1.05%) VLAN
5 1 (1.05%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.21%) Amazon RDS
2 3 (3.16%) DTS
2 3 (3.16%) SQL Server
2 3 (3.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (3.16%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.05%) Db2
3 1 (1.05%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (10.53%) JIRA
2 3 (3.16%) Flyway
2 3 (3.16%) Git
2 3 (3.16%) GitLab
2 3 (3.16%) Jenkins
General
1 34 (35.79%) Finance
2 30 (31.58%) Social Skills
3 21 (22.11%) Banking
4 19 (20.00%) Legal
5 15 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
6 7 (7.37%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (6.32%) Public Sector
8 5 (5.26%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.16%) Financial Institution
9 3 (3.16%) Telecoms
10 2 (2.11%) Military
10 2 (2.11%) Retail
11 1 (1.05%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.05%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 14 (14.74%) Analyst
2 12 (12.63%) 2nd Line Support
3 11 (11.58%) Service Analyst
4 10 (10.53%) Administrator
5 8 (8.42%) Senior
6 7 (7.37%) Lead
6 7 (7.37%) Support Engineer
7 6 (6.32%) IT Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Linux Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Service Desk Analyst
8 5 (5.26%) Service Desk Engineer
8 5 (5.26%) Service Manager
9 4 (4.21%) DBA
9 4 (4.21%) IT Support
9 4 (4.21%) IT Support Engineer
10 3 (3.16%) Architect
10 3 (3.16%) Service Delivery Analyst
10 3 (3.16%) SQL DBA
10 3 (3.16%) Technical Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (12.63%) Middleware
2 9 (9.47%) ISPF
3 3 (3.16%) AWS CDK
3 3 (3.16%) REST
4 2 (2.11%) OAuth
4 2 (2.11%) OpenID
4 2 (2.11%) SAML
5 1 (1.05%) FIDO
5 1 (1.05%) JSON
5 1 (1.05%) Kafka
5 1 (1.05%) LDAP
5 1 (1.05%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.05%) SOAP
5 1 (1.05%) Web Services
5 1 (1.05%) WebAuthn
5 1 (1.05%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (16.84%) Mainframe
2 9 (9.47%) Clustering
3 6 (6.32%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.16%) Distributed Computing
4 3 (3.16%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.11%) CMDB
5 2 (2.11%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.11%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.05%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.05%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.05%) Hybrid Cloud
6 1 (1.05%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.05%) IoT
6 1 (1.05%) iSeries
6 1 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.05%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.05%) PKI
6 1 (1.05%) TM Forum
6 1 (1.05%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 22 (23.16%) Windows
2 13 (13.68%) Linux
3 10 (10.53%) zOS
4 8 (8.42%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 3 (3.16%) Unix
5 3 (3.16%) VMS
6 2 (2.11%) Android
6 2 (2.11%) Apple iOS
6 2 (2.11%) Mac OS
6 2 (2.11%) OpenVMS
7 1 (1.05%) CoreOS
7 1 (1.05%) MVS
7 1 (1.05%) Ubuntu
7 1 (1.05%) Windows 10
7 1 (1.05%) Windows Server
7 1 (1.05%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (41.05%) Service Management
2 27 (28.42%) ITSM
3 25 (26.32%) Continuous Improvement
4 24 (25.26%) Change Management
5 19 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 19 (20.00%) Service Delivery
6 16 (16.84%) Incident Management
7 15 (15.79%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (14.74%) Agile
9 13 (13.68%) Problem Management
10 12 (12.63%) Performance Optimisation
11 9 (9.47%) Computer Science
11 9 (9.47%) Risk Management
11 9 (9.47%) Runbook
12 8 (8.42%) Data Protection
13 7 (7.37%) Collaborative Working
13 7 (7.37%) High Availability
13 7 (7.37%) Migration
13 7 (7.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 6 (6.32%) Customer Service
Programming Languages
1 10 (10.53%) Python
2 8 (8.42%) PowerShell
3 6 (6.32%) Bash
4 4 (4.21%) SQL
5 3 (3.16%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.11%) DCL
6 2 (2.11%) Search Processing Language
7 1 (1.05%) CLIST
7 1 (1.05%) Go
7 1 (1.05%) Java
7 1 (1.05%) JCL
7 1 (1.05%) REXX
Qualifications
1 16 (16.84%) Security Cleared
2 13 (13.68%) Degree
3 12 (12.63%) SC Cleared
4 7 (7.37%) ITIL Certification
5 6 (6.32%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (4.21%) Master's Degree
6 4 (4.21%) PMI Certification
6 4 (4.21%) PMP
7 3 (3.16%) Microsoft Certified Professional
7 3 (3.16%) Network+ Certification
8 1 (1.05%) A+ Certification
8 1 (1.05%) CCNA
8 1 (1.05%) CCNP
8 1 (1.05%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (1.05%) CISSP
8 1 (1.05%) GIAC
8 1 (1.05%) MCSE
8 1 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.05%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (1.05%) SSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (7.37%) SLA
2 3 (3.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.11%) Actionable Recommendations
3 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.11%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 2 (2.11%) QA
4 1 (1.05%) GxP
4 1 (1.05%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.05%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.05%) PMO
4 1 (1.05%) SOC 2
System Software
1 19 (20.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (10.53%) RACF
3 7 (7.37%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.11%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.11%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (1.05%) ACF2
5 1 (1.05%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
5 1 (1.05%) Ceph
5 1 (1.05%) Firmware
5 1 (1.05%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 13 (13.68%) Microsoft Intune
2 9 (9.47%) OMEGAMON
3 6 (6.32%) Ansible
4 3 (3.16%) Foglight
4 3 (3.16%) Grafana
4 3 (3.16%) Terraform
5 2 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (1.05%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (1.05%) Argo
6 1 (1.05%) Kubernetes
6 1 (1.05%) Prometheus
6 1 (1.05%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 19 (20.00%) ServiceNow
2 16 (16.84%) IBM
3 12 (12.63%) Microsoft
4 4 (4.21%) Cisco
5 3 (3.16%) Databricks
5 3 (3.16%) Remedy
5 3 (3.16%) VMware
6 2 (2.11%) BMC
6 2 (2.11%) Google
6 2 (2.11%) LogicMonitor
6 2 (2.11%) New Relic
6 2 (2.11%) SAP
6 2 (2.11%) Splunk
6 2 (2.11%) Veeam
7 1 (1.05%) Adobe
7 1 (1.05%) Broadcom
7 1 (1.05%) Commvault
7 1 (1.05%) Fortinet
7 1 (1.05%) Mitel
7 1 (1.05%) Red Hat