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 29 November 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 322 364 329
Rank change year-on-year +42 -35 +117
Permanent jobs citing ITIL Certification 56 82 127
As % of all permanent jobs in London 0.43% 0.47% 0.68%
As % of the Qualifications category 1.42% 1.63% 2.59%
Number of salaries quoted 36 62 115
10th Percentile £39,000 £39,000 £36,550
25th Percentile £41,500 £48,402 £50,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £59,000 £57,500 £67,500
Median % change year-on-year +2.61% -14.81% +10.66%
75th Percentile £87,813 £66,875 £74,375
90th Percentile £132,500 £82,500 £82,500
England median annual salary £52,500 £51,099 £51,125
% change year-on-year +2.74% -0.05% +7.63%

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 3,951 5,040 4,898
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in London 30.03% 28.93% 26.27%
Number of salaries quoted 2,102 2,210 3,600
10th Percentile £32,500 £41,175 £39,085
25th Percentile £50,000 £52,500 £52,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £70,000 £70,000 £70,000
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.70%
75th Percentile £90,000 £90,000 £90,000
90th Percentile £120,000 £115,000 £113,750
England median annual salary £55,000 £58,500 £57,500
% change year-on-year -5.98% +1.74% +2.68%

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 29 November 2025.

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 29 November 2025. 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
Central London +24 14 £94,000 +63.48%
East London - 8 £85,000 - 2
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 18 (32.14%) WebSphere
2 16 (28.57%) Tomcat
2 16 (28.57%) WebSphere Application Server
3 7 (12.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 4 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (7.14%) Adaptiv
2 1 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 24 (42.86%) AWS
2 16 (28.57%) Microsoft 365
3 13 (23.21%) Azure
4 8 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
4 8 (14.29%) Power Platform
5 6 (10.71%) Amazon EC2
5 6 (10.71%) Amazon ECR
5 6 (10.71%) Amazon EKS
5 6 (10.71%) Amazon S3
5 6 (10.71%) AWS CloudFormation
5 6 (10.71%) AWS Lambda
5 6 (10.71%) PowerApps
5 6 (10.71%) Route 53
5 6 (10.71%) Serverless
5 6 (10.71%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 4 (7.14%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.79%) Azure Logic Apps
7 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.79%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 18 (32.14%) SSL
2 11 (19.64%) LAN
3 7 (12.50%) VPN
3 7 (12.50%) WAN
4 5 (8.93%) Firewall
4 5 (8.93%) Wi-Fi
5 4 (7.14%) Wireless
6 1 (1.79%) DHCP
6 1 (1.79%) DNS
6 1 (1.79%) SAN
6 1 (1.79%) TCP/IP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 18 (32.14%) PostgreSQL
2 16 (28.57%) DB2
3 6 (10.71%) Amazon RDS
3 6 (10.71%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.79%) Power BI
4 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (1.79%) Git
General
1 29 (51.79%) Banking
2 25 (44.64%) Finance
3 23 (41.07%) Social Skills
4 10 (17.86%) Investment Banking
5 5 (8.93%) Law
6 4 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (5.36%) Analytical Skills
8 2 (3.57%) Legal
8 2 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 18 (32.14%) Applications Support
2 17 (30.36%) Linux Support
3 16 (28.57%) Infrastructure Support
4 13 (23.21%) Unix Support
5 12 (21.43%) Analyst
6 10 (17.86%) Support Analyst
7 9 (16.07%) Support Engineer
8 8 (14.29%) IT Support
8 8 (14.29%) Service Manager
9 6 (10.71%) Applications Engineer
9 6 (10.71%) Applications Support Engineer
9 6 (10.71%) Head of IT
10 5 (8.93%) IT Analyst
10 5 (8.93%) IT Support Analyst
10 5 (8.93%) Linux Engineer
10 5 (8.93%) Linux Support Engineer
11 4 (7.14%) Senior
11 4 (7.14%) Senior IT Support
11 4 (7.14%) Senior IT Support Analyst
11 4 (7.14%) Senior Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (30.36%) LDAP
2 16 (28.57%) LAPP Stack
2 16 (28.57%) WebSphere MQ
3 2 (3.57%) .NET
3 2 (3.57%) Kafka
4 1 (1.79%) REST
4 1 (1.79%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 16 (28.57%) Linux Command Line
2 14 (25.00%) Management Information System
3 4 (7.14%) Credit Risk
3 4 (7.14%) e-Learning
3 4 (7.14%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.36%) Clustering
4 3 (5.36%) Data Centre
4 3 (5.36%) Onboarding
5 2 (3.57%) BYOD
5 2 (3.57%) Market Risk
5 2 (3.57%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.79%) CCTV
6 1 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.79%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.79%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.79%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 30 (53.57%) Windows
2 21 (37.50%) Linux
2 21 (37.50%) Unix
3 19 (33.93%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 11 (19.64%) Mac OS
5 7 (12.50%) Apple iOS
5 7 (12.50%) Windows 10
6 2 (3.57%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (100.00%) ITIL
2 25 (44.64%) Change Management
3 20 (35.71%) Service Management
4 16 (28.57%) Release Management
4 16 (28.57%) User Acceptance Testing
5 11 (19.64%) Continuous Improvement
5 11 (19.64%) ITSM
6 10 (17.86%) Customer Service
6 10 (17.86%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (14.29%) Disaster Recovery
7 8 (14.29%) Resource Allocation
7 8 (14.29%) Risk Management
8 7 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
8 7 (12.50%) Cybersecurity
8 7 (12.50%) Incident Management
8 7 (12.50%) Service Delivery
9 6 (10.71%) Analytics
9 6 (10.71%) Collaborative Working
9 6 (10.71%) Infrastructure Engineering
9 6 (10.71%) Machine Learning
Programming Languages
1 18 (32.14%) Python
2 6 (10.71%) Java
3 1 (1.79%) SQL
Qualifications
1 33 (58.93%) Degree
2 19 (33.93%) AWS Certification
3 6 (10.71%) CFA
3 6 (10.71%) PMI Certification
3 6 (10.71%) PMP
4 4 (7.14%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (7.14%) Master's Degree
4 4 (7.14%) MCP
5 3 (5.36%) Azure Certification
6 2 (3.57%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.79%) CCNA
7 1 (1.79%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.79%) Six Sigma Green Belt
7 1 (1.79%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 22 (39.29%) SLA
2 1 (1.79%) QA
System Software
1 13 (23.21%) Active Directory
2 3 (5.36%) Veritas Cluster Server
2 3 (5.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.57%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 11 (19.64%) Microsoft Intune
2 7 (12.50%) Jamf Pro
3 4 (7.14%) SCCM
4 2 (3.57%) Ansible
Vendors
1 21 (37.50%) Red Hat
2 18 (32.14%) IBM
3 17 (30.36%) Microsoft
4 16 (28.57%) ServiceNow
5 7 (12.50%) Apple
6 6 (10.71%) Murex
7 5 (8.93%) Logitech
8 4 (7.14%) FIS
9 3 (5.36%) Symantec
9 3 (5.36%) VMware
10 2 (3.57%) StreamSets
11 1 (1.79%) Cisco
11 1 (1.79%) Citrix
11 1 (1.79%) McAfee