ITIL Certification Job Trends in the UK excluding London

ITIL Certification
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 445 400 460
Rank change year-on-year -45 +60 +8
Permanent jobs citing ITIL Certification 94 134 214
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.18% 0.45% 0.40%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.63% 1.08% 1.43%
Number of salaries quoted 43 91 154
10th Percentile £30,650 £31,250 £26,575
25th Percentile £32,000 £39,445 £31,350
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £40,000 £52,000 £45,000
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% +15.56% +5.88%
75th Percentile £60,750 £57,500 £56,875
90th Percentile £67,500 £68,750 £63,925
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
UK excluding 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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 15,013 12,458 14,963
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.28% 42.18% 27.88%
Number of salaries quoted 5,430 4,989 10,474
10th Percentile £28,250 £31,250 £27,500
25th Percentile £32,000 £42,000 £35,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £50,000 £55,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £67,500 £68,568 £65,000
90th Percentile £82,500 £81,250 £78,750
UK 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 the UK excluding London

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

ITIL Certification job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ITIL Certification
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ITIL Certification.

Salary distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing ITIL Certification

ITIL Certification
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Salary histogram for ITIL Certification in the UK excluding London

ITIL Certification
Job Locations in the UK excluding 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 UK excluding 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
North of England -13 49 £50,750 -3.79% 10
Yorkshire -21 34 £32,000 -47.76% 3
Northern Ireland - 13 £35,500 -
South East -63 12 £33,750 -35.10% 24
Scotland -2 9 £35,500 -49.29% 24
North West -17 9 £51,250 -2.38% 7
Midlands -15 8 £49,500 -1.00% 10
West Midlands -7 6 £67,000 +34.00% 6
North East -11 6 £51,500 -23.70%
South West -23 5 £65,000 +34.02% 5
East Midlands -27 2 £35,000 -28.57% 4
East of England -2 1 - - 4
ITIL Certification
UK

ITIL Certification
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 12 (12.77%) Microsoft Exchange
1 12 (12.77%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.06%) OpenStack
2 1 (1.06%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 10 (10.64%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (8.51%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (2.13%) Weka
Business Applications
1 4 (4.26%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 30 (31.91%) Azure
2 22 (23.40%) AWS
2 22 (23.40%) Microsoft 365
3 16 (17.02%) Amazon ECR
3 16 (17.02%) Amazon ECS
3 16 (17.02%) Amazon S3
3 16 (17.02%) Amazon SQS
3 16 (17.02%) Apigee
3 16 (17.02%) AWS CloudFormation
3 16 (17.02%) AWS Lambda
3 16 (17.02%) AWS Step Functions
3 16 (17.02%) Serverless
4 7 (7.45%) Asana
5 6 (6.38%) Entra ID
6 5 (5.32%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.06%) Boomi
7 1 (1.06%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.06%) iPaaS
7 1 (1.06%) PaaS
7 1 (1.06%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 14 (14.89%) TCP/IP
2 11 (11.70%) DHCP
2 11 (11.70%) DNS
2 11 (11.70%) WAN
3 10 (10.64%) VPN
4 9 (9.57%) LAN
5 7 (7.45%) Firewall
5 7 (7.45%) Wi-Fi
6 5 (5.32%) Remote Desktop
7 4 (4.26%) Network Security
8 3 (3.19%) Broadband
8 3 (3.19%) Wireless
9 2 (2.13%) SD-WAN
10 1 (1.06%) WLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 16 (17.02%) DynamoDB
2 11 (11.70%) SQL Server
3 5 (5.32%) MySQL
4 1 (1.06%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 17 (18.09%) GitLab
2 16 (17.02%) Cypress.io
2 16 (17.02%) Jenkins
2 16 (17.02%) Maven
2 16 (17.02%) SonarQube
3 13 (13.83%) JIRA
4 6 (6.38%) Bitbucket
4 6 (6.38%) Git
General
1 26 (27.66%) Social Skills
2 18 (19.15%) Finance
3 14 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.38%) Advertising
5 4 (4.26%) Police
6 3 (3.19%) Games
6 3 (3.19%) Legal
6 3 (3.19%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.13%) Automotive
7 2 (2.13%) Back Office
7 2 (2.13%) Billing
7 2 (2.13%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
8 1 (1.06%) Law
8 1 (1.06%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 16 (17.02%) Developer
1 16 (17.02%) Java Developer
2 13 (13.83%) Senior
3 12 (12.77%) IT Support
4 11 (11.70%) Analyst
4 11 (11.70%) Applications Support
4 11 (11.70%) IT Support Technician
4 11 (11.70%) IT Technician
4 11 (11.70%) Support Technician
5 8 (8.51%) IT Manager
5 8 (8.51%) Senior IT Support
5 8 (8.51%) Service Manager
6 7 (7.45%) Coordinator
6 7 (7.45%) Project Coordinator
6 7 (7.45%) Senior IT Technician
6 7 (7.45%) Senior Support Technician
6 7 (7.45%) Senior Technician
7 6 (6.38%) Applications Support Analyst
7 6 (6.38%) Support Analyst
7 6 (6.38%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (17.02%) AngularJS
1 16 (17.02%) Gherkin
1 16 (17.02%) Jest
1 16 (17.02%) Spring Boot
2 5 (5.32%) .NET
2 5 (5.32%) CSS
2 5 (5.32%) HTML
3 1 (1.06%) Middleware
3 1 (1.06%) WAMP
Miscellaneous
1 18 (19.15%) Management Information System
2 15 (15.96%) Driving Licence
3 11 (11.70%) Data Centre
4 7 (7.45%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (7.45%) Replication
5 4 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
5 4 (4.26%) NHS
6 3 (3.19%) Cyber Threat
6 3 (3.19%) Cyberattack
6 3 (3.19%) PMI
7 2 (2.13%) CMDB
7 2 (2.13%) Onboarding
8 1 (1.06%) Hybrid Cloud
8 1 (1.06%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 29 (30.85%) Windows
2 10 (10.64%) Linux
3 9 (9.57%) Android
3 9 (9.57%) Windows Server
4 3 (3.19%) Mac OS
4 3 (3.19%) Windows 10
5 2 (2.13%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.06%) Windows 7
6 1 (1.06%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 94 (100.00%) ITIL
2 37 (39.36%) Problem-Solving
3 27 (28.72%) Continuous Improvement
4 23 (24.47%) Agile
4 23 (24.47%) Computer Science
4 23 (24.47%) DevOps
5 20 (21.28%) Service Management
6 19 (20.21%) CI/CD
6 19 (20.21%) Customer Service
7 18 (19.15%) ITSM
7 18 (19.15%) Service Delivery
8 17 (18.09%) SDLC
9 16 (17.02%) Secure Coding
9 16 (17.02%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
10 15 (15.96%) Mentoring
11 14 (14.89%) Change Management
12 13 (13.83%) Process Improvement
12 13 (13.83%) Project Delivery
12 13 (13.83%) Project Management
12 13 (13.83%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 17 (18.09%) Bash
2 16 (17.02%) Groovy
2 16 (17.02%) Java
2 16 (17.02%) TypeScript
3 8 (8.51%) JavaScript
4 6 (6.38%) SQL
5 5 (5.32%) C#
6 1 (1.06%) Perl
6 1 (1.06%) Python
Qualifications
1 42 (44.68%) Degree
2 18 (19.15%) AWS Certification
3 16 (17.02%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
4 13 (13.83%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (10.64%) PMI Certification
6 8 (8.51%) Microsoft Certification
7 7 (7.45%) PMP
8 6 (6.38%) Azure Certification
9 2 (2.13%) A+ Certification
9 2 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.13%) CISM
9 2 (2.13%) CISSP
9 2 (2.13%) Security Cleared
9 2 (2.13%) TOGAF Certification
10 1 (1.06%) DV Cleared
10 1 (1.06%) LPIC
10 1 (1.06%) MCSA
10 1 (1.06%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (8.51%) SLA
2 4 (4.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (2.13%) GxP
System Software
1 21 (22.34%) Active Directory
2 19 (20.21%) Docker
3 12 (12.77%) Hyper-V
4 11 (11.70%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (2.13%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 16 (17.02%) HP Fortify
2 9 (9.57%) Kubernetes
3 6 (6.38%) Control-M
3 6 (6.38%) Grafana
3 6 (6.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (6.38%) Prometheus
4 5 (5.32%) SCCM
5 2 (2.13%) Jamf Pro
5 2 (2.13%) Nagios
6 1 (1.06%) Ansible
6 1 (1.06%) Puppet
6 1 (1.06%) Terraform
6 1 (1.06%) WSUS
Vendors
1 40 (42.55%) Microsoft
2 12 (12.77%) ServiceNow
3 11 (11.70%) VMware
4 7 (7.45%) Veeam
5 4 (4.26%) Adobe
5 4 (4.26%) BMC
5 4 (4.26%) Citrix
5 4 (4.26%) CrowdStrike
5 4 (4.26%) Fortinet
5 4 (4.26%) Mitel
5 4 (4.26%) Palo Alto
5 4 (4.26%) Remedy
6 3 (3.19%) BeyondTrust
7 2 (2.13%) Cisco
7 2 (2.13%) Epicor
7 2 (2.13%) Oracle
7 2 (2.13%) SolarWinds
7 2 (2.13%) TP-LINK
8 1 (1.06%) SAP
8 1 (1.06%) Software AG