ITIL Certification Job Trends in England

ITIL Certification
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for ITIL Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 12 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 616 531 517
Rank change year-on-year -85 -14 -99
Permanent jobs citing ITIL Certification 123 128 259
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.13% 0.29% 0.36%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.70% 0.82% 1.32%
Number of salaries quoted 83 103 204
10th Percentile £36,250 £32,000 £32,500
25th Percentile £41,250 £40,000 £44,438
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,500 £50,000 £53,150
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -5.93% +9.02%
75th Percentile £73,501 £66,000 £68,938
90th Percentile £91,000 £86,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £52,500 £50,000 £52,550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.85% +7.57%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

ITIL Certification falls under the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications in England.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 17,489 15,607 19,557
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 18.62% 35.74% 26.89%
Number of salaries quoted 9,731 7,090 10,623
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,750 £31,000
25th Percentile £43,500 £37,500 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,750 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £90,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

ITIL Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of permanent IT job postings citing ITIL Certification relative to all permanent IT jobs advertised in England.

ITIL Certification job vacancy trend in England

ITIL Certification
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing ITIL Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing ITIL Certification

ITIL Certification
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing ITIL Certification in England over the 6 months to 12 August 2026.

Salary histogram for ITIL Certification in England

ITIL Certification
Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL Certification within the England region over the 6 months to 12 August 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North of England -24 50 £45,750 -8.50% 10
London -61 34 £83,500 +62.93% 39
Yorkshire -7 30 £42,500 -19.05% 3
South East -28 22 £39,875 -20.25% 15
North West -13 20 £52,500 +43.84% 7
South West -60 7 £70,752 +24.68% 6
East of England -28 4 £70,663 - 3
Midlands -52 4 £62,500 +27.55% 8
East Midlands -31 2 £40,000 -11.87% 2
West Midlands -42 2 £85,000 +61.90% 6
ITIL Certification
UK

ITIL Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England 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 6 (4.88%) SharePoint
2 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (1.63%) Confluence
4 1 (0.81%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.81%) WebLogic
Applications
1 4 (3.25%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (2.44%) Chatbot
2 3 (2.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.44%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (6.50%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (2.44%) Dynamics AX
3 1 (0.81%) FLEXCUBE
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.81%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (0.81%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.81%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 30 (24.39%) Azure
2 24 (19.51%) Microsoft 365
3 23 (18.70%) AWS
4 17 (13.82%) Amazon ECR
4 17 (13.82%) Amazon ECS
4 17 (13.82%) Amazon S3
4 17 (13.82%) Apigee
4 17 (13.82%) AWS CloudFormation
4 17 (13.82%) AWS Lambda
4 17 (13.82%) AWS Step Functions
4 17 (13.82%) Serverless
5 14 (11.38%) Amazon SQS
6 9 (7.32%) Power Automate
7 8 (6.50%) Dynamics 365
7 8 (6.50%) Power Platform
7 8 (6.50%) SaaS
8 7 (5.69%) Azure Logic Apps
8 7 (5.69%) PowerApps
9 6 (4.88%) Microsoft Copilot
9 6 (4.88%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 5 (4.07%) Firewall
1 5 (4.07%) Network Security
2 4 (3.25%) BGP
2 4 (3.25%) Broadband
2 4 (3.25%) Cisco ISE
2 4 (3.25%) DNS
2 4 (3.25%) LAN
2 4 (3.25%) OSPF
2 4 (3.25%) VXLAN
2 4 (3.25%) WAN
3 3 (2.44%) Unified Communications
3 3 (2.44%) VPN
4 2 (1.63%) DHCP
4 2 (1.63%) DKIM
4 2 (1.63%) DMARC
4 2 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
4 2 (1.63%) Wireless
5 1 (0.81%) SSH
5 1 (0.81%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (13.82%) DynamoDB
2 7 (5.69%) SQL Server
3 4 (3.25%) MySQL
3 4 (3.25%) Power BI
3 4 (3.25%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 3 (2.44%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 1 (0.81%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle BI Publisher
5 1 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 21 (17.07%) GitLab
1 21 (17.07%) Jenkins
2 18 (14.63%) JIRA
3 17 (13.82%) Cypress.io
3 17 (13.82%) Maven
3 17 (13.82%) SonarQube
4 4 (3.25%) Git
5 2 (1.63%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 2 (1.63%) Bitbucket
6 1 (0.81%) MSI
General
1 36 (29.27%) Social Skills
2 34 (27.64%) Finance
3 25 (20.33%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (7.32%) Banking
5 8 (6.50%) Law
6 7 (5.69%) Organisational Skills
7 6 (4.88%) Retail
8 4 (3.25%) Games
8 4 (3.25%) Presentation Skills
9 3 (2.44%) Front Office
9 3 (2.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 3 (2.44%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.44%) Telecoms
10 2 (1.63%) Financial Institution
10 2 (1.63%) Investment Banking
10 2 (1.63%) Legal
11 1 (0.81%) Documentation Skills
11 1 (0.81%) Marketing
11 1 (0.81%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 27 (21.95%) Analyst
2 22 (17.89%) Developer
3 16 (13.01%) IT Analyst
3 16 (13.01%) Java Developer
4 15 (12.20%) Lead
5 14 (11.38%) Senior
6 12 (9.76%) Service Manager
7 9 (7.32%) Full-Stack Developer
7 9 (7.32%) Full-Stack Java Developer
7 9 (7.32%) Service Analyst
8 8 (6.50%) IT Manager
8 8 (6.50%) IT Support
9 6 (4.88%) Applications Engineer
9 6 (4.88%) Applications Support
9 6 (4.88%) Change Analyst
9 6 (4.88%) Incident Manager
9 6 (4.88%) Support Analyst
9 6 (4.88%) Support Engineer
10 5 (4.07%) Lead Developer
10 5 (4.07%) Senior Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.82%) AngularJS
1 17 (13.82%) Gherkin
1 17 (13.82%) Jest
1 17 (13.82%) Spring Boot
2 6 (4.88%) .NET
3 4 (3.25%) CSS
3 4 (3.25%) HTML
3 4 (3.25%) REST
3 4 (3.25%) SOAP
4 3 (2.44%) EDI
4 3 (2.44%) Web Services
5 2 (1.63%) React
6 1 (0.81%) Hibernate
6 1 (0.81%) Middleware
6 1 (0.81%) Spring
6 1 (0.81%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (9.76%) Onboarding
2 8 (6.50%) Data Centre
2 8 (6.50%) Virtual Team
3 7 (5.69%) Management Information System
4 5 (4.07%) Cyber Security Posture
4 5 (4.07%) Cyber Threat
5 4 (3.25%) Cloud Native
5 4 (3.25%) Cyberattack
6 3 (2.44%) CMDB
6 3 (2.44%) IVR
6 3 (2.44%) Self-Motivation
6 3 (2.44%) Smartcard
6 3 (2.44%) Social Media
7 2 (1.63%) Driving Licence
7 2 (1.63%) Hedge funds
7 2 (1.63%) PKI
7 2 (1.63%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.81%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (0.81%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (0.81%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 21 (17.07%) Windows
2 8 (6.50%) Windows Server
3 3 (2.44%) Linux
3 3 (2.44%) Mac OS
4 2 (1.63%) Windows 10
5 1 (0.81%) Unix
5 1 (0.81%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 123 (100.00%) ITIL
2 48 (39.02%) Continuous Improvement
3 43 (34.96%) Service Management
4 37 (30.08%) Agile
5 35 (28.46%) ITSM
6 34 (27.64%) Incident Management
6 34 (27.64%) Problem Management
6 34 (27.64%) Service Delivery
7 32 (26.02%) Stakeholder Management
8 31 (25.20%) DevOps
9 28 (22.76%) CI/CD
9 28 (22.76%) Root Cause Analysis
10 27 (21.95%) Problem-Solving
11 26 (21.14%) Decision-Making
11 26 (21.14%) Major Incident Management
12 19 (15.45%) Change Management
13 17 (13.82%) SDLC
13 17 (13.82%) Secure Coding
13 17 (13.82%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 15 (12.20%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 19 (15.45%) Bash
1 19 (15.45%) Java
2 17 (13.82%) Groovy
2 17 (13.82%) TypeScript
3 13 (10.57%) SQL
4 11 (8.94%) JavaScript
5 7 (5.69%) C#
6 4 (3.25%) PowerShell
7 2 (1.63%) Python
8 1 (0.81%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 17 (13.82%) AWS Certification
1 17 (13.82%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
2 14 (11.38%) Degree
2 14 (11.38%) Security Cleared
3 11 (8.94%) Microsoft Certification
4 10 (8.13%) SC Cleared
5 5 (4.07%) CISSP
6 4 (3.25%) CCNP
6 4 (3.25%) Cisco Certification
6 4 (3.25%) DV Cleared
7 3 (2.44%) A+ Certification
7 3 (2.44%) PMI Certification
7 3 (2.44%) PMP
8 2 (1.63%) Azure Certification
8 2 (1.63%) BICSI Certification
8 2 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (1.63%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 2 (1.63%) TOGAF Certification
9 1 (0.81%) RHCSA
9 1 (0.81%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 27 (21.95%) SLA
2 9 (7.32%) QA
3 8 (6.50%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 7 (5.69%) Cyber Essentials
5 6 (4.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (3.25%) PMO
7 3 (2.44%) GDPR
8 2 (1.63%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
9 1 (0.81%) COBIT
9 1 (0.81%) GRC
9 1 (0.81%) ISO 22301
9 1 (0.81%) NIST
System Software
1 17 (13.82%) Docker
2 12 (9.76%) Active Directory
3 6 (4.88%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.81%) Hyper-V
4 1 (0.81%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 17 (13.82%) HP Fortify
2 8 (6.50%) Terraform
3 6 (4.88%) Ansible
3 6 (4.88%) Kubernetes
4 5 (4.07%) Microsoft Intune
4 5 (4.07%) SCCM
5 4 (3.25%) FortiGate
6 2 (1.63%) Grafana
6 2 (1.63%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (1.63%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.81%) Autotask
7 1 (0.81%) WSUS
Vendors
1 44 (35.77%) Microsoft
2 11 (8.94%) ServiceNow
3 5 (4.07%) Cisco
3 5 (4.07%) Fortinet
3 5 (4.07%) Palo Alto
4 4 (3.25%) Zscaler
5 3 (2.44%) Oracle
6 2 (1.63%) Bloomberg
6 2 (1.63%) Citrix
6 2 (1.63%) Freshdesk
6 2 (1.63%) Reuters
6 2 (1.63%) Splunk
7 1 (0.81%) Arista
7 1 (0.81%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.81%) Google
7 1 (0.81%) Juniper
7 1 (0.81%) Red Hat
7 1 (0.81%) Remedy
7 1 (0.81%) Thales
7 1 (0.81%) Workday