ITIL Certification Job Trends in London

ITIL Certification
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in London with a requirement for ITIL Certification qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 5 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 356 337 365
Rank change year-on-year -19 +28 +69
Permanent jobs citing ITIL Certification 34 85 114
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.21% 0.60% 0.53%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.81% 1.79% 1.96%
Number of salaries quoted 18 59 106
10th Percentile £48,500 £38,200 £37,125
25th Percentile £65,438 £45,625 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £85,000 £65,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year +30.77% +8.33% +4.35%
75th Percentile £88,750 £75,000 £75,000
90th Percentile £100,000 £83,000 £85,625
England median annual salary £51,500 £52,500 £50,000
% change year-on-year -1.90% +5.00% +5.26%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
London

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 London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 4,212 4,740 5,825
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 25.58% 33.40% 27.28%
Number of salaries quoted 2,236 1,954 4,109
10th Percentile £33,750 £41,250 £36,500
25th Percentile £51,250 £55,000 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £94,688 £88,750
90th Percentile £115,000 £119,625 £107,500
England median annual salary £55,000 £60,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -8.33% +9.09% -4.35%

ITIL Certification
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

ITIL Certification job vacancy trend in London

ITIL Certification
Salary Trend in London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing ITIL Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in London citing ITIL Certification

ITIL Certification
Salary Histogram in London

Salary distribution for jobs citing ITIL Certification in London over the 6 months to 5 March 2026.

Salary histogram for ITIL Certification in London

ITIL Certification
Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL Certification within the London region over the 6 months to 5 March 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
East London -2 8 £86,250 +18.97%
Central London +5 2 £130,000 +121.28% 8
ITIL Certification
England

ITIL Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 10 (29.41%) Tomcat
1 10 (29.41%) WebSphere
1 10 (29.41%) WebSphere Application Server
2 5 (14.71%) SharePoint
3 1 (2.94%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Adaptiv
1 1 (2.94%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (47.06%) AWS
2 7 (20.59%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (14.71%) Azure
4 4 (11.76%) Amazon EC2
4 4 (11.76%) Amazon ECR
4 4 (11.76%) Amazon EKS
4 4 (11.76%) Amazon S3
4 4 (11.76%) AWS CloudFormation
4 4 (11.76%) AWS Lambda
4 4 (11.76%) Entra ID
4 4 (11.76%) Route 53
4 4 (11.76%) Serverless
4 4 (11.76%) Virtual Private Cloud
5 2 (5.88%) Power Platform
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Logic Apps
6 1 (2.94%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (2.94%) Power Automate
6 1 (2.94%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 10 (29.41%) SSL
2 4 (11.76%) Firewall
2 4 (11.76%) LAN
2 4 (11.76%) Wi-Fi
2 4 (11.76%) Wireless
3 3 (8.82%) TCP/IP
4 1 (2.94%) DHCP
4 1 (2.94%) DNS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (29.41%) DB2
1 10 (29.41%) PostgreSQL
2 4 (11.76%) Amazon RDS
2 4 (11.76%) SQL Server
3 2 (5.88%) Power BI
4 1 (2.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (2.94%) Git
1 1 (2.94%) JIRA
General
1 15 (44.12%) Social Skills
2 12 (35.29%) Banking
2 12 (35.29%) Finance
3 6 (17.65%) Investment Banking
4 5 (14.71%) Law
4 5 (14.71%) Presentation Skills
5 3 (8.82%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (5.88%) Legal
6 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (41.18%) Linux Support
2 11 (32.35%) Infrastructure Support
2 11 (32.35%) Unix Support
3 10 (29.41%) Applications Support
4 7 (20.59%) Analyst
4 7 (20.59%) Service Manager
5 6 (17.65%) IT Analyst
6 5 (14.71%) Support Engineer
7 4 (11.76%) Applications Support Engineer
7 4 (11.76%) Infrastructure Specialist
7 4 (11.76%) IT Manager
7 4 (11.76%) IT Services Manager
7 4 (11.76%) IT Support Analyst
7 4 (11.76%) Linux Engineer
7 4 (11.76%) Linux Specialist
7 4 (11.76%) Senior Analyst
7 4 (11.76%) Senior Support Analyst
7 4 (11.76%) Support Analyst
7 4 (11.76%) Support Specialist
7 4 (11.76%) Unix Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (32.35%) LDAP
2 10 (29.41%) LAPP Stack
2 10 (29.41%) WebSphere MQ
3 1 (2.94%) Kafka
3 1 (2.94%) REST
3 1 (2.94%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 12 (35.29%) Management Information System
2 10 (29.41%) Linux Command Line
3 5 (14.71%) Clustering
3 5 (14.71%) Data Centre
4 4 (11.76%) e-Learning
4 4 (11.76%) Enterprise Software
5 3 (8.82%) Virtual Team
6 2 (5.88%) Distributed Systems
7 1 (2.94%) CMDB
7 1 (2.94%) Credit Risk
7 1 (2.94%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 1 (2.94%) Onboarding
7 1 (2.94%) Product Ownership
7 1 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 17 (50.00%) Windows
2 16 (47.06%) Linux
3 15 (44.12%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 15 (44.12%) Unix
4 5 (14.71%) Mac OS
5 1 (2.94%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (100.00%) ITIL
2 20 (58.82%) Change Management
3 13 (38.24%) Service Management
4 11 (32.35%) Customer Service
5 10 (29.41%) Release Management
5 10 (29.41%) User Acceptance Testing
6 7 (20.59%) Computer Science
7 6 (17.65%) Collaborative Working
7 6 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (17.65%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (17.65%) ITSM
8 5 (14.71%) Acceptance Criteria
8 5 (14.71%) Line Management
8 5 (14.71%) Service Delivery
8 5 (14.71%) Virtual Infrastructure
9 4 (11.76%) Case Management
9 4 (11.76%) Experiential Learning
9 4 (11.76%) Incident Management
9 4 (11.76%) Performance Monitoring
9 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 10 (29.41%) Python
2 1 (2.94%) Java
2 1 (2.94%) SQL
Qualifications
1 21 (61.76%) Degree
2 15 (44.12%) AWS Certification
3 7 (20.59%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (11.76%) Master's Degree
4 4 (11.76%) Microsoft Certified Professional
5 2 (5.88%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 1 (2.94%) A+ Certification
6 1 (2.94%) CFA
6 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (2.94%) PMI Certification
6 1 (2.94%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (50.00%) SLA
2 1 (2.94%) QA
System Software
1 7 (20.59%) Active Directory
2 5 (14.71%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 5 (14.71%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (14.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (11.76%) Ansible
3 1 (2.94%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (44.12%) Red Hat
2 13 (38.24%) ServiceNow
3 10 (29.41%) IBM
4 8 (23.53%) Microsoft
5 5 (14.71%) Symantec
5 5 (14.71%) VMware
6 1 (2.94%) Citrix
6 1 (2.94%) FIS
6 1 (2.94%) McAfee
6 1 (2.94%) Murex
6 1 (2.94%) StreamSets