ITIL Foundation Certificate Job Trends in England

ITIL Foundation Certificate
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for ITIL Foundation Certificate qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 17 June 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
17 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 640 550 689
Rank change year-on-year -90 +139 +55
Permanent jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate 60 81 150
As % of all permanent jobs in England 0.072% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.37% 0.51% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 47 63 100
10th Percentile £25,500 £30,000 £26,500
25th Percentile £33,000 £36,250 £28,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £45,000 £40,144
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% +12.10% +14.70%
75th Percentile £61,250 £60,000 £59,000
90th Percentile £90,000 £62,000 £67,500
UK median annual salary £42,500 £45,000 £40,144
% change year-on-year -5.56% +12.10% +14.70%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
England

ITIL Foundation Certificate 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 16,100 15,837 24,735
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in England 19.35% 40.04% 26.08%
Number of salaries quoted 8,829 6,723 15,704
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £28,750
25th Percentile £42,500 £40,000 £38,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £54,296
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +1.30% -9.51%
75th Percentile £78,750 £72,500 £71,250
90th Percentile £93,634 £90,000 £87,500
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £53,500
% change year-on-year +9.09% +2.80% -10.83%

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

ITIL Foundation Certificate job vacancy trend in England

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Salary Trend in England

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing ITIL Foundation Certificate.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in England citing ITIL Foundation Certificate

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Salary Histogram in England

Salary distribution for jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate in England over the 6 months to 17 June 2026.

Salary histogram for ITIL Foundation Certificate in England

ITIL Foundation Certificate
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 Foundation Certificate within the England region over the 6 months to 17 June 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 -47 22 £65,000 +13.04% 6
South East -5 17 £42,000 -1.18% 11
North of England -31 17 £27,000 -10.00% 7
Yorkshire -35 14 £27,000 -10.00% 4
Midlands -28 4 £45,000 -25.00% 2
West Midlands -24 3 £45,000 -25.00% 1
North East -47 3 £105,000 +172.73%
South West -57 2 £27,000 -48.57% 3
East Midlands -30 1 £42,000 - 1
ITIL Foundation Certificate
UK

ITIL Foundation Certificate
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 8 (13.33%) SharePoint
2 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.67%) Apache
3 1 (1.67%) CMS
3 1 (1.67%) IIS
3 1 (1.67%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.67%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (11.67%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.67%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (5.00%) Elite 3E
Cloud Services
1 22 (36.67%) Azure
2 16 (26.67%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (11.67%) AWS
3 7 (11.67%) Entra ID
3 7 (11.67%) SaaS
4 6 (10.00%) GCP
5 5 (8.33%) Azure Sentinel
5 5 (8.33%) Cloudflare
6 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (3.33%) Datadog
7 2 (3.33%) IaaS
7 2 (3.33%) OneDrive
7 2 (3.33%) PaaS
8 1 (1.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 18 (30.00%) LAN
2 17 (28.33%) WAN
3 14 (23.33%) DNS
4 8 (13.33%) DHCP
5 5 (8.33%) SSL
5 5 (8.33%) TCP/IP
5 5 (8.33%) VPN
6 4 (6.67%) Structured Cabling
7 1 (1.67%) Firewall
7 1 (1.67%) Internet
7 1 (1.67%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (6.67%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (3.33%) SQLPlus
4 1 (1.67%) MySQL
4 1 (1.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (8.33%) JIRA
2 3 (5.00%) GitLab
2 3 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.67%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.67%) Git
General
1 26 (43.33%) Analytical Skills
1 26 (43.33%) Social Skills
2 13 (21.67%) Finance
3 8 (13.33%) Banking
4 6 (10.00%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
6 3 (5.00%) Games
6 3 (5.00%) Law
6 3 (5.00%) Legal
6 3 (5.00%) Legal Technology
7 2 (3.33%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (21.67%) IT Support
2 12 (20.00%) Analyst
3 10 (16.67%) IT Support Technician
3 10 (16.67%) IT Technician
3 10 (16.67%) Support Technician
4 8 (13.33%) IT Manager
4 8 (13.33%) Lead
4 8 (13.33%) Service Manager
5 7 (11.67%) Team Leader
6 5 (8.33%) Cybersecurity Analyst
6 5 (8.33%) Delivery Manager
6 5 (8.33%) Security Analyst
6 5 (8.33%) Service Delivery Manager
6 5 (8.33%) SOC Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (6.67%) Data Centre Engineer
7 4 (6.67%) Incident Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Security Incident Analyst
7 4 (6.67%) Support Team Leader
7 4 (6.67%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.67%) Ajax
1 1 (1.67%) CodeIgniter
1 1 (1.67%) CSS
1 1 (1.67%) CSS3
1 1 (1.67%) HTML
1 1 (1.67%) HTML5
1 1 (1.67%) jQuery
1 1 (1.67%) JSON
1 1 (1.67%) Laravel
1 1 (1.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 7 (11.67%) Onboarding
3 6 (10.00%) Data Centre
4 5 (8.33%) Cyber Defence
4 5 (8.33%) Security Operations Centre
5 4 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
6 3 (5.00%) Culture of Ownership
6 3 (5.00%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (3.33%) Cloud Native
8 1 (1.67%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 29 (48.33%) Windows
2 21 (35.00%) Windows Server
3 9 (15.00%) Linux
4 2 (3.33%) Mac OS
4 2 (3.33%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (100.00%) ITIL
2 28 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
3 26 (43.33%) ITSM
4 23 (38.33%) Continuous Improvement
5 20 (33.33%) Service Delivery
6 16 (26.67%) Service Management
7 14 (23.33%) Cybersecurity
8 13 (21.67%) Customer Service
9 11 (18.33%) AI
9 11 (18.33%) Stakeholder Management
10 8 (13.33%) Computer Science
10 8 (13.33%) Containerisation
10 8 (13.33%) Incident Management
10 8 (13.33%) Knowledge Transfer
10 8 (13.33%) Problem Management
11 7 (11.67%) Analytics
12 6 (10.00%) Agile
12 6 (10.00%) Business Continuity
12 6 (10.00%) Incident Response
12 6 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (16.67%) Python
2 6 (10.00%) PowerShell
3 5 (8.33%) SQL
4 2 (3.33%) VB
5 1 (1.67%) Bash
5 1 (1.67%) Bicep
5 1 (1.67%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.67%) PHP
Qualifications
1 13 (21.67%) Degree
2 12 (20.00%) Network+ Certification
3 9 (15.00%) CCNA
3 9 (15.00%) Cisco Certification
3 9 (15.00%) SC Cleared
3 9 (15.00%) Security Cleared
4 8 (13.33%) A+ Certification
5 6 (10.00%) Azure Certification
5 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 5 (8.33%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (6.67%) DV Cleared
7 4 (6.67%) NVQ Level 3
8 2 (3.33%) MOS
9 1 (1.67%) AWS Certification
9 1 (1.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
9 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
9 1 (1.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (20.00%) SLA
2 3 (5.00%) GDPR
2 3 (5.00%) QA
2 3 (5.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.67%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 27 (45.00%) Active Directory
2 6 (10.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (10.00%) Terraform
2 5 (8.33%) Control-M
2 5 (8.33%) Graylog
2 5 (8.33%) Kubernetes
3 4 (6.67%) Ansible
4 2 (3.33%) Grafana
4 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (3.33%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.67%) Autotask
Vendors
1 32 (53.33%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.33%) ServiceNow
3 5 (8.33%) SolarWinds
4 4 (6.67%) Cisco
5 3 (5.00%) Google
5 3 (5.00%) iManage
5 3 (5.00%) Oracle
6 2 (3.33%) SAP
7 1 (1.67%) Adobe