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 3 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 41 30
Rank change year-on-year -17 -11 +4
Contract jobs citing ITIL 80 42 99
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.02% 4.48% 5.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 4.52% 5.09% 5.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 15 48
10th Percentile £179 £156 £257
25th Percentile £213 £300 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -19.05% +31.25%
75th Percentile £525 £450 £720
90th Percentile £625 £503 -
England median daily rate £475 £475 £500
% change year-on-year - -5.00% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 4 3
Median hourly rate - £17.50 £12.53
Median % change year-on-year - +39.66% -17.53%
England median hourly rate £25.08 £25.00 £18.22
% change year-on-year +0.30% +37.19% +17.56%

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 1,771 825 1,663
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 89.04% 88.05% 88.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,180 493 1,035
10th Percentile £295 £232 £265
25th Percentile £400 £363 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -2.56% -7.14%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £588
90th Percentile £675 £650 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 24 49
10th Percentile £14.25 £12.96 £11.09
25th Percentile £15.25 £16.13 £12.53
Median hourly rate £25.15 £20.57 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.28% +32.69% +45.81%
75th Percentile £55.00 £38.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £66.60 £80.10 £53.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £35.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -1.41% +1.43%

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 3 February 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 3 February 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 -7 35 £513 +20.59% 14
South Yorkshire -47 20 £484 +14.69% 9
North Yorkshire +3 17 £275 - 9
East Yorkshire - 2 £381 - 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 19 (23.75%) SharePoint
2 6 (7.50%) Confluence
3 5 (6.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (2.50%) Mule
Applications
1 10 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.25%) Acrobat
2 5 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.50%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.25%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 34 (42.50%) Microsoft 365
2 32 (40.00%) Azure
3 15 (18.75%) Entra ID
4 9 (11.25%) OneDrive
5 7 (8.75%) Power Platform
5 7 (8.75%) SaaS
6 6 (7.50%) Azure DevOps
6 6 (7.50%) GCP
7 5 (6.25%) AWS
7 5 (6.25%) PowerApps
8 4 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
9 2 (2.50%) GitHub
9 2 (2.50%) OCI
10 1 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
10 1 (1.25%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (1.25%) Google Workspace
10 1 (1.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 11 (13.75%) TCP/IP
2 8 (10.00%) LAN
2 8 (10.00%) WAN
2 8 (10.00%) Wi-Fi
3 7 (8.75%) DNS
4 6 (7.50%) DHCP
5 4 (5.00%) Firewall
5 4 (5.00%) VoIP
6 2 (2.50%) VPN
7 1 (1.25%) Internet
7 1 (1.25%) NetScaler
7 1 (1.25%) Network Security
7 1 (1.25%) SAN
7 1 (1.25%) SSL
7 1 (1.25%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.00%) Power BI
2 3 (3.75%) Electronic Patient Records
3 2 (2.50%) Data Mining
3 2 (2.50%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 9 (11.25%) JIRA
2 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.50%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 36 (45.00%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.50%) Finance
3 10 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (12.50%) Banking
4 7 (8.75%) Retail
5 6 (7.50%) Organisational Skills
6 5 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
6 5 (6.25%) Public Sector
7 4 (5.00%) Legal
7 4 (5.00%) Presentation Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.25%) Billing
9 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.25%) Local Government
9 1 (1.25%) Military
9 1 (1.25%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 17 (21.25%) IT Support
2 13 (16.25%) 2nd Line Support
3 10 (12.50%) Analyst
4 7 (8.75%) Service Manager
5 6 (7.50%) Coordinator
6 5 (6.25%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) IT Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (6.25%) Support Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) 2nd Line Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) 2nd Line Support Engineer
7 4 (5.00%) Build Manager
7 4 (5.00%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.75%) 1st Line Support
8 3 (3.75%) Business Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Data Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) IT Director
8 3 (3.75%) Programme Manager
8 3 (3.75%) Report Analyst
8 3 (3.75%) Services Director
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.50%) LDAP
1 2 (2.50%) Spring Boot
2 1 (1.25%) Middleware
2 1 (1.25%) OAuth
2 1 (1.25%) OpenID
2 1 (1.25%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.25%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) CMDB
1 11 (13.75%) Onboarding
2 7 (8.75%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (6.25%) iPhone
4 4 (5.00%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.00%) NHS
5 3 (3.75%) Mainframe
5 3 (3.75%) PMI
5 3 (3.75%) Smartphone
6 2 (2.50%) Distributed Applications
6 2 (2.50%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.50%) Mobile App
6 2 (2.50%) Public Cloud
6 2 (2.50%) Virtual Team
7 1 (1.25%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.25%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 26 (32.50%) Windows
2 5 (6.25%) Windows Server
3 4 (5.00%) Android
3 4 (5.00%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.75%) Mac OS
5 1 (1.25%) Apple iOS
5 1 (1.25%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 39 (48.75%) Service Management
2 31 (38.75%) ITSM
3 24 (30.00%) Problem-Solving
4 18 (22.50%) Agile
5 17 (21.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 14 (17.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (17.50%) Project Management
7 13 (16.25%) Migration
7 13 (16.25%) Service Delivery
8 12 (15.00%) DevOps
9 11 (13.75%) Customer Service
9 11 (13.75%) Project Delivery
10 10 (12.50%) Change Management
10 10 (12.50%) Dependency Management
10 10 (12.50%) Digital Transformation Programme
11 9 (11.25%) Infrastructure Engineering
12 8 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
13 7 (8.75%) Decision-Making
13 7 (8.75%) Incident Management
13 7 (8.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.00%) PowerShell
2 4 (5.00%) Perl
2 4 (5.00%) Python
2 4 (5.00%) Shell Script
3 3 (3.75%) SQL
4 1 (1.25%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (7.50%) Degree
2 4 (5.00%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (5.00%) PMI Certification
3 2 (2.50%) ACSP
3 2 (2.50%) ACTC
3 2 (2.50%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (2.50%) Security Cleared
4 1 (1.25%) CCA
4 1 (1.25%) Citrix Certification
4 1 (1.25%) ISEB
4 1 (1.25%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (1.25%) PMP
4 1 (1.25%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) QA
2 4 (5.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (5.00%) SLA
3 3 (3.75%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.50%) COBIT
4 2 (2.50%) PMO
5 1 (1.25%) GDPR
5 1 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (22.50%) Active Directory
2 6 (7.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (5.00%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.25%) vSphere
4 1 (1.25%) XenApp
4 1 (1.25%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 16 (20.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.50%) Ansible
2 2 (2.50%) Jamf Pro
2 2 (2.50%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.50%) Terraform
3 1 (1.25%) Oracle Identity Manager
3 1 (1.25%) SCCM
3 1 (1.25%) SCOM
Vendors
1 18 (22.50%) Microsoft
2 17 (21.25%) ServiceNow
3 7 (8.75%) VMware
4 6 (7.50%) Veeam
5 5 (6.25%) Adobe
5 5 (6.25%) Cisco
5 5 (6.25%) Meraki
5 5 (6.25%) SAP
6 4 (5.00%) ESRI
6 4 (5.00%) Splunk
7 3 (3.75%) CheckPoint
7 3 (3.75%) F5
7 3 (3.75%) Google
7 3 (3.75%) HP
7 3 (3.75%) Oracle
8 2 (2.50%) Apple
8 2 (2.50%) Dell
8 2 (2.50%) Dynatrace
9 1 (1.25%) Concur
9 1 (1.25%) CyberArk