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 13 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 480 444 408
Rank change year-on-year -36 -36 +38
Permanent jobs citing ITIL Certification 125 243 289
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.24% 0.51% 0.58%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.72% 1.35% 1.97%
Number of salaries quoted 70 159 248
10th Percentile £34,700 £31,250 £29,440
25th Percentile £39,250 £43,813 £38,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £52,000 £52,500 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% +5.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £71,875 £60,000 £63,813
90th Percentile £88,750 £72,500 £75,000
UK median annual salary £51,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% +5.26%

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 17,270 17,948 14,656
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 32.86% 37.41% 29.57%
Number of salaries quoted 6,996 7,018 9,980
10th Percentile £28,250 £32,500 £29,500
25th Percentile £36,250 £45,000 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £60,000 £57,500
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% -
75th Percentile £75,900 £77,500 £75,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £93,750 £93,750
UK median annual salary £55,000 £59,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -7.56% +3.48% -

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 13 January 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 13 January 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
London +22 52 £76,750 +33.48% 8
North of England +36 45 £50,000 -9.09% 8
Yorkshire +7 29 £32,000 -52.59% 4
Midlands +25 17 £57,435 +13.45% 4
West Midlands +22 15 £57,500 +15.00% 3
South East -36 11 £63,250 +27.78% 5
North West +18 10 £50,000 -5.21% 4
North East +8 6 £51,500 -23.70%
South West -4 3 £65,000 +31.98% 1
East Midlands -7 2 £45,390 -30.17% 1
East of England +10 1 - - 1
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 19 (15.20%) Microsoft Exchange
2 18 (14.40%) WebSphere
3 16 (12.80%) Tomcat
3 16 (12.80%) WebSphere Application Server
4 15 (12.00%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.80%) OpenStack
5 1 (0.80%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 11 (8.80%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.80%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (3.20%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (1.60%) Adaptiv
3 1 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 41 (32.80%) Azure
2 39 (31.20%) Microsoft 365
3 35 (28.00%) AWS
4 13 (10.40%) Amazon ECR
4 13 (10.40%) Amazon S3
4 13 (10.40%) AWS CloudFormation
4 13 (10.40%) AWS Lambda
4 13 (10.40%) Serverless
5 12 (9.60%) Entra ID
6 9 (7.20%) Dynamics 365
6 9 (7.20%) Power Platform
7 7 (5.60%) Amazon ECS
7 7 (5.60%) Amazon SQS
7 7 (5.60%) Apigee
7 7 (5.60%) AWS Step Functions
8 6 (4.80%) Amazon EC2
8 6 (4.80%) Amazon EKS
8 6 (4.80%) PowerApps
8 6 (4.80%) Route 53
8 6 (4.80%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 23 (18.40%) LAN
2 19 (15.20%) WAN
3 18 (14.40%) SSL
4 13 (10.40%) TCP/IP
4 13 (10.40%) VPN
4 13 (10.40%) Wi-Fi
5 8 (6.40%) Firewall
6 6 (4.80%) DHCP
6 6 (4.80%) DNS
7 5 (4.00%) Wireless
8 4 (3.20%) Network Security
9 2 (1.60%) SD-WAN
10 1 (0.80%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (14.40%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (12.80%) DB2
3 12 (9.60%) SQL Server
4 7 (5.60%) DynamoDB
5 6 (4.80%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (1.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 1 (0.80%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (6.40%) GitLab
2 7 (5.60%) Cypress.io
2 7 (5.60%) Git
2 7 (5.60%) Jenkins
2 7 (5.60%) Maven
2 7 (5.60%) SonarQube
3 6 (4.80%) Bitbucket
3 6 (4.80%) JIRA
General
1 48 (38.40%) Social Skills
2 37 (29.60%) Finance
3 21 (16.80%) Banking
4 10 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (8.00%) Investment Banking
5 6 (4.80%) Advertising
5 6 (4.80%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (4.80%) Public Sector
6 5 (4.00%) Law
6 5 (4.00%) Legal
6 5 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (3.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (1.60%) Back Office
8 2 (1.60%) Billing
9 1 (0.80%) Financial Institution
9 1 (0.80%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 24 (19.20%) Applications Support
2 20 (16.00%) Analyst
2 20 (16.00%) Service Manager
3 19 (15.20%) Linux Support
4 18 (14.40%) Infrastructure Support
5 17 (13.60%) IT Manager
5 17 (13.60%) IT Support
6 16 (12.80%) Support Analyst
7 15 (12.00%) Unix Support
8 14 (11.20%) Senior
9 12 (9.60%) Support Engineer
10 11 (8.80%) IT Support Technician
10 11 (8.80%) IT Technician
10 11 (8.80%) Senior IT Support
10 11 (8.80%) Support Technician
11 10 (8.00%) IT Services Manager
11 10 (8.00%) Lead
12 8 (6.40%) Developer
13 7 (5.60%) Delivery Manager
13 7 (5.60%) Java Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (13.60%) LDAP
2 16 (12.80%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (12.80%) WebSphere MQ
3 7 (5.60%) AngularJS
3 7 (5.60%) Gherkin
3 7 (5.60%) Jest
3 7 (5.60%) Spring Boot
4 2 (1.60%) HTML
4 2 (1.60%) Kafka
5 1 (0.80%) EDI
5 1 (0.80%) Middleware
5 1 (0.80%) REST
5 1 (0.80%) SOAP
5 1 (0.80%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 24 (19.20%) Management Information System
2 16 (12.80%) Data Centre
2 16 (12.80%) Linux Command Line
3 11 (8.80%) Driving Licence
4 7 (5.60%) Replication
5 5 (4.00%) Clustering
5 5 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (3.20%) e-Learning
6 4 (3.20%) NHS
7 3 (2.40%) BYOD
7 3 (2.40%) CMDB
7 3 (2.40%) Onboarding
7 3 (2.40%) PMI
7 3 (2.40%) Virtual Team
8 2 (1.60%) Credit Risk
8 2 (1.60%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (1.60%) Product Ownership
8 2 (1.60%) Security Posture
9 1 (0.80%) Enterprise Storage
9 1 (0.80%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 55 (44.00%) Windows
2 30 (24.00%) Linux
3 23 (18.40%) Unix
4 21 (16.80%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 16 (12.80%) Mac OS
6 12 (9.60%) Windows 10
7 10 (8.00%) Apple iOS
8 9 (7.20%) Android
9 8 (6.40%) Windows Server
10 3 (2.40%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.80%) Windows 7
Processes & Methodologies
1 125 (100.00%) ITIL
2 40 (32.00%) Change Management
3 39 (31.20%) Problem-Solving
4 36 (28.80%) Service Management
5 34 (27.20%) Service Delivery
6 30 (24.00%) Continuous Improvement
7 28 (22.40%) Customer Service
7 28 (22.40%) ITSM
8 21 (16.80%) Release Management
8 21 (16.80%) Stakeholder Management
9 18 (14.40%) Cybersecurity
10 16 (12.80%) Computer Science
10 16 (12.80%) Problem Management
10 16 (12.80%) User Acceptance Testing
11 14 (11.20%) Agile
12 13 (10.40%) Mentoring
13 12 (9.60%) DevOps
13 12 (9.60%) Disaster Recovery
13 12 (9.60%) Risk Management
14 11 (8.80%) Performance Monitoring
Programming Languages
1 19 (15.20%) Python
2 9 (7.20%) Java
3 8 (6.40%) Bash
4 7 (5.60%) Groovy
4 7 (5.60%) TypeScript
5 4 (3.20%) SQL
6 1 (0.80%) Perl
Qualifications
1 62 (49.60%) Degree
2 28 (22.40%) AWS Certification
3 16 (12.80%) Computer Science Degree
4 8 (6.40%) Microsoft Certification
5 7 (5.60%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
6 6 (4.80%) Azure Certification
6 6 (4.80%) PMI Certification
7 4 (3.20%) Master's Degree
7 4 (3.20%) MCP
8 3 (2.40%) A+ Certification
8 3 (2.40%) PMP
9 2 (1.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (1.60%) CFA
9 2 (1.60%) DBS Check
9 2 (1.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 2 (1.60%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (0.80%) CBAP
10 1 (0.80%) LPIC
10 1 (0.80%) SC Cleared
10 1 (0.80%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 29 (23.20%) SLA
2 4 (3.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (2.40%) QA
4 2 (1.60%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 36 (28.80%) Active Directory
2 17 (13.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 11 (8.80%) Hyper-V
4 8 (6.40%) Docker
5 5 (4.00%) Veritas Cluster Server
6 3 (2.40%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 21 (16.80%) Microsoft Intune
2 11 (8.80%) Jamf Pro
3 7 (5.60%) HP Fortify
3 7 (5.60%) Kubernetes
4 6 (4.80%) Control-M
4 6 (4.80%) Grafana
4 6 (4.80%) Prometheus
5 5 (4.00%) Ansible
6 4 (3.20%) SCCM
7 2 (1.60%) Autotask
8 1 (0.80%) Puppet
8 1 (0.80%) Terraform
Vendors
1 46 (36.80%) Microsoft
2 28 (22.40%) ServiceNow
3 23 (18.40%) Red Hat
4 18 (14.40%) IBM
5 17 (13.60%) VMware
6 8 (6.40%) Apple
7 7 (5.60%) Citrix
7 7 (5.60%) Veeam
8 5 (4.00%) Logitech
8 5 (4.00%) Symantec
9 4 (3.20%) Adobe
9 4 (3.20%) BMC
9 4 (3.20%) Mitel
9 4 (3.20%) Remedy
10 3 (2.40%) Oracle
11 2 (1.60%) FIS
11 2 (1.60%) Murex
11 2 (1.60%) StreamSets
12 1 (0.80%) Snow
12 1 (0.80%) Software AG