ITIL Job Trends in Merseyside

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
North West > Merseyside

The table below provides summary statistics and salary benchmarking for jobs advertised in Merseyside requiring ITIL skills. It covers permanent job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 28 13
Rank change year-on-year -19 -15 +3
Permanent jobs citing ITIL 16 30 46
As % of all permanent jobs in Merseyside 2.52% 5.63% 9.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 3.14% 6.38% 10.98%
Number of salaries quoted 6 23 39
10th Percentile £47,863 £28,500 £25,750
25th Percentile £48,225 £31,250 £29,000
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £41,000 £41,000
Median % change year-on-year +21.95% - -11.17%
75th Percentile £51,875 £48,250 £50,000
90th Percentile £58,750 £49,700 £66,750
North West median annual salary £42,250 £44,000 £44,011
% change year-on-year -3.98% -0.03% +3.56%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Merseyside

ITIL falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all permanent job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Merseyside.

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 509 470 419
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in Merseyside 80.03% 88.18% 88.40%
Number of salaries quoted 295 217 301
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £29,500
25th Percentile £30,000 £33,000 £36,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £48,000 £45,000 £47,500
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £55,000 £63,750 £62,500
90th Percentile £65,000 £75,000 £77,500
North West median annual salary £50,000 £52,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year -3.85% -5.45% -

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

ITIL job vacancy trend in Merseyside

ITIL
Salary Trend in Merseyside

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing ITIL.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in Merseyside citing ITIL

ITIL
Salary Histogram in Merseyside

Salary distribution for jobs citing ITIL in Merseyside over the 6 months to 31 December 2025.

Salary histogram for ITIL in Merseyside

ITIL
Job Locations in Merseyside

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the Merseyside region over the 6 months to 31 December 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
Liverpool -13 14 £50,000 +17.65% 2
Bootle +2 2 - -
ITIL
North West

ITIL
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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 4 (25.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (6.25%) FactoryTalk
2 1 (6.25%) WinCC
Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 4 (25.00%) AWS
1 4 (25.00%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (18.75%) Azure
2 3 (18.75%) Power Platform
2 3 (18.75%) Snowflake
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EC2
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.25%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) BusinessObjects
1 3 (18.75%) Power BI
1 3 (18.75%) SQL Server
General
1 8 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 4 (25.00%) Finance
2 4 (25.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 2 (12.50%) Law
4 2 (12.50%) Organisational Skills
5 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 8 (50.00%) Analyst
2 6 (37.50%) Service Analyst
3 4 (25.00%) Lead
4 3 (18.75%) Data Engineer
4 3 (18.75%) IT Analyst
4 3 (18.75%) Support Engineer
5 2 (12.50%) Service Desk Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Operations Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Snowflake Engineer
6 1 (6.25%) Software Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Software Licensing Analyst
6 1 (6.25%) Technology Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (18.75%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (31.25%) Management Information System
1 5 (31.25%) Operational Technology
2 4 (25.00%) Cyber Kill Chain
2 4 (25.00%) Cyber Threat
2 4 (25.00%) Security Operations Centre
3 2 (12.50%) Low-Code
4 1 (6.25%) SCADA
4 1 (6.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 5 (31.25%) Windows
2 4 (25.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Coaching
1 8 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 6 (37.50%) Customer Service
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Business Strategy
3 4 (25.00%) Change Advisory Board
3 4 (25.00%) Creative Thinking
3 4 (25.00%) Cyber Intelligence
3 4 (25.00%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
3 4 (25.00%) Incident Management
3 4 (25.00%) Risk Management
3 4 (25.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (25.00%) SABSA
3 4 (25.00%) Security Operations
3 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (25.00%) Technology Roadmap
3 4 (25.00%) Threat and Vulnerability Management
3 4 (25.00%) Threat Intelligence
3 4 (25.00%) Vulnerability Management
4 3 (18.75%) Business Intelligence
Programming Languages
1 3 (18.75%) Bash
1 3 (18.75%) PowerShell
1 3 (18.75%) SQL
2 1 (6.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
2 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
2 2 (12.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (37.50%) SLA
2 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 4 (25.00%) ISO/IEC 27005
2 4 (25.00%) NIST
System Software
1 5 (31.25%) Active Directory
2 1 (6.25%) VMware ESXi
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) AssetCenter
1 1 (6.25%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (31.25%) ServiceNow
2 4 (25.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (12.50%) Adobe
3 2 (12.50%) Oracle
4 1 (6.25%) Cisco
4 1 (6.25%) Kepware
4 1 (6.25%) Rockwell
4 1 (6.25%) Siemens
4 1 (6.25%) VMware