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

6 months to
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 38 26
Rank change year-on-year -35 -12 +15
Contract jobs citing ITIL 68 56 100
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 2.84% 5.48% 5.95%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.24% 5.91% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 31 62
10th Percentile £258 £188 £238
25th Percentile £400 £240 £416
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £400 £475
Median % change year-on-year +14.06% -15.79% +18.75%
75th Percentile £525 £444 £550
90th Percentile £675 £538 £695
England median daily rate £500 £474 £500
% change year-on-year +5.54% -5.25% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £25.79 - -
25th Percentile £26.16 £16.25 -
Median hourly rate £26.77 £17.75 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year +50.82% +41.66% -35.36%
75th Percentile £27.39 £19.56 £15.17
90th Percentile £27.75 £19.68 £18.51
England median hourly rate £43.86 £22.05 £17.69
% change year-on-year +98.89% +24.65% -9.91%

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 2,097 948 1,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 87.52% 92.76% 86.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,358 597 871
10th Percentile £313 £256 £263
25th Percentile £405 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £482 £475 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.47% - -9.52%
75th Percentile £556 £550 £577
90th Percentile £646 £638 £650
England median daily rate £505 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.81% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 33 63
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.53 £11.30
25th Percentile £15.34 £17.08 £12.15
Median hourly rate £23.58 £21.24 £13.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.99% +57.33% +27.00%
75th Percentile £57.25 £28.75 £21.35
90th Percentile £68.75 £85.61 £48.40
England median hourly rate £42.50 £31.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.10% -11.43% -6.67%

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 23 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 23 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 -23 37 £481 +37.50% 18
North Yorkshire +2 13 £450 -28.00% 7
South Yorkshire -46 13 £475 +18.75% 9
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 (5.88%) Confluence
1 4 (5.88%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 5 (7.35%) Acrobat
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (2.94%) MS Visio
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.47%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.47%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.47%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 19 (27.94%) Azure
1 19 (27.94%) Microsoft 365
2 7 (10.29%) AWS
2 7 (10.29%) SaaS
3 5 (7.35%) Entra ID
4 4 (5.88%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.88%) GCP
5 3 (4.41%) Google Workspace
5 3 (4.41%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.41%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.41%) PowerApps
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon EC2
6 2 (2.94%) Amazon S3
6 2 (2.94%) AWS Lambda
6 2 (2.94%) Datadog
6 2 (2.94%) Serverless
7 1 (1.47%) Dynamics 365
7 1 (1.47%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.47%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 12 (17.65%) TCP/IP
2 9 (13.24%) WAN
3 8 (11.76%) DNS
3 8 (11.76%) LAN
4 7 (10.29%) DHCP
4 7 (10.29%) VoIP
4 7 (10.29%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (5.88%) Firewall
6 3 (4.41%) Network Security
7 2 (2.94%) SAN
7 2 (2.94%) VLAN
7 2 (2.94%) VPN
8 1 (1.47%) Cisco Nexus
8 1 (1.47%) Internet
8 1 (1.47%) MPLS
8 1 (1.47%) NetScaler
8 1 (1.47%) SD-WAN
8 1 (1.47%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.41%) Amazon RDS
1 3 (4.41%) DTS
1 3 (4.41%) SQL Server
1 3 (4.41%) SQL Server Integration Services
1 3 (4.41%) SQL Server Reporting Services
2 1 (1.47%) DB2
2 1 (1.47%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (1.47%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 3 (4.41%) Flyway
1 3 (4.41%) Git
1 3 (4.41%) GitLab
1 3 (4.41%) Jenkins
1 3 (4.41%) JIRA
General
1 27 (39.71%) Social Skills
2 13 (19.12%) Finance
3 9 (13.24%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.76%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.82%) Legal
6 5 (7.35%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (7.35%) Retail
7 4 (5.88%) Banking
8 3 (4.41%) Military
9 2 (2.94%) Documentation Skills
9 2 (2.94%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.47%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.47%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 11 (16.18%) Analyst
2 8 (11.76%) Service Analyst
3 7 (10.29%) Coordinator
3 7 (10.29%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 7 (10.29%) IT Support
3 7 (10.29%) Service Manager
4 6 (8.82%) IT Engineer
4 6 (8.82%) IT Support Engineer
4 6 (8.82%) Support Engineer
5 5 (7.35%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (5.88%) 2nd Line Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
6 4 (5.88%) Build Manager
6 4 (5.88%) Delivery Manager
6 4 (5.88%) Programme Manager
6 4 (5.88%) Service Delivery Manager
6 4 (5.88%) Service Desk Analyst
7 3 (4.41%) Microsoft 365 Business Analyst
7 3 (4.41%) SAP Manager
7 3 (4.41%) Software Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.41%) AWS CDK
2 2 (2.94%) LDAP
2 2 (2.94%) REST
3 1 (1.47%) JSON
3 1 (1.47%) OAuth
3 1 (1.47%) OpenID
3 1 (1.47%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.47%) SAML
3 1 (1.47%) Web Services
3 1 (1.47%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (10.29%) CMDB
1 7 (10.29%) Onboarding
2 5 (7.35%) Enterprise Software
3 3 (4.41%) iPhone
3 3 (4.41%) Management Information System
3 3 (4.41%) PMI
3 3 (4.41%) Smartphone
4 2 (2.94%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.94%) Distributed Computing
4 2 (2.94%) Mainframe
4 2 (2.94%) NHS
5 1 (1.47%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.47%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.47%) Freedom of Information
5 1 (1.47%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.47%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.47%) IBM Mainframe
5 1 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.47%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 17 (25.00%) Windows
2 6 (8.82%) Android
2 6 (8.82%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.88%) Windows 10
4 3 (4.41%) Apple iOS
4 3 (4.41%) Linux
4 3 (4.41%) Mac OS
4 3 (4.41%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (2.94%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.47%) CoreOS
6 1 (1.47%) MVS
6 1 (1.47%) Ubuntu
6 1 (1.47%) Unix
6 1 (1.47%) VMS
6 1 (1.47%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (41.18%) Service Management
2 25 (36.76%) Problem-Solving
3 20 (29.41%) ITSM
4 18 (26.47%) Service Delivery
5 17 (25.00%) Agile
6 16 (23.53%) Continuous Improvement
7 15 (22.06%) Change Management
8 13 (19.12%) Customer Service
8 13 (19.12%) Migration
8 13 (19.12%) Stakeholder Management
9 9 (13.24%) Digital Transformation Programme
9 9 (13.24%) Infrastructure Engineering
10 8 (11.76%) Dependency Management
10 8 (11.76%) High Availability
10 8 (11.76%) Project Delivery
11 7 (10.29%) Computer Science
11 7 (10.29%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (10.29%) Incident Management
11 7 (10.29%) PRINCE2
11 7 (10.29%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.82%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.88%) SQL
3 3 (4.41%) Python
3 3 (4.41%) TypeScript
4 2 (2.94%) Search Processing Language
5 1 (1.47%) Bash
5 1 (1.47%) CLIST
5 1 (1.47%) Go
5 1 (1.47%) Java
5 1 (1.47%) JCL
5 1 (1.47%) REXX
Qualifications
1 13 (19.12%) Security Cleared
2 11 (16.18%) Degree
3 9 (13.24%) SC Cleared
4 7 (10.29%) PMI Certification
5 6 (8.82%) ITIL Certification
6 5 (7.35%) Computer Science Degree
7 4 (5.88%) PMP
8 2 (2.94%) Master's Degree
9 1 (1.47%) Azure Certification
9 1 (1.47%) CCA
9 1 (1.47%) CCNA
9 1 (1.47%) CCNP
9 1 (1.47%) Cisco Certification
9 1 (1.47%) Citrix Certification
9 1 (1.47%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (1.47%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (1.47%) RHCA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.88%) QA
2 4 (5.88%) SLA
3 3 (4.41%) PMO
4 2 (2.94%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (1.47%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.47%) GDPR
5 1 (1.47%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.47%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.47%) SOC 2
System Software
1 9 (13.24%) Active Directory
2 8 (11.76%) VMware Infrastructure
3 5 (7.35%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.94%) Virtual Machines
4 2 (2.94%) vSphere
5 1 (1.47%) ACF2
5 1 (1.47%) Ceph
5 1 (1.47%) RACF
5 1 (1.47%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.47%) XenApp
5 1 (1.47%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 7 (10.29%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (4.41%) Foglight
2 3 (4.41%) Grafana
2 3 (4.41%) Terraform
3 1 (1.47%) Ansible
3 1 (1.47%) Argo
3 1 (1.47%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.47%) Oracle Identity Manager
3 1 (1.47%) Prometheus
3 1 (1.47%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (20.59%) Microsoft
2 10 (14.71%) ServiceNow
2 10 (14.71%) VMware
3 8 (11.76%) Veeam
4 7 (10.29%) Cisco
4 7 (10.29%) SAP
5 5 (7.35%) Adobe
5 5 (7.35%) Meraki
6 4 (5.88%) ESRI
7 3 (4.41%) Databricks
7 3 (4.41%) Google
8 2 (2.94%) Citrix
8 2 (2.94%) Fortinet
8 2 (2.94%) HP
8 2 (2.94%) IBM
8 2 (2.94%) LogicMonitor
8 2 (2.94%) New Relic
8 2 (2.94%) Splunk
9 1 (1.47%) Ariba
9 1 (1.47%) Oracle