ITIL Foundation Certificate Job Trends in the UK excluding London

ITIL Foundation Certificate
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 Foundation Certificate qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 19 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 578 488 616
Rank change year-on-year -90 +128 -68
Permanent jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate 52 62 109
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK excluding London 0.072% 0.18% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.39% 0.49% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 43 56 87
10th Percentile £25,500 £30,000 £26,800
25th Percentile £26,000 £35,854 £29,375
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £35,500 £38,500 £37,500
Median % change year-on-year -7.79% +2.67% -1.32%
75th Percentile £44,375 £52,273 £56,525
90th Percentile £59,500 £58,750 £66,000
UK median annual salary £42,500 £42,000 £40,144
% change year-on-year +1.19% +4.62% -10.79%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 13,420 12,737 17,778
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 18.59% 37.54% 25.25%
Number of salaries quoted 6,797 5,310 10,977
10th Percentile £29,750 £28,000 £27,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £35,000 £36,875
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £50,000 £50,000
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £75,000 £66,254 £65,000
90th Percentile £88,000 £78,750 £80,000
UK median annual salary £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
% change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

ITIL Foundation Certificate job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Salary Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Salary Histogram in the UK excluding London

Salary distribution for jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 19 July 2026.

Salary histogram for ITIL Foundation Certificate in the UK excluding London

ITIL Foundation Certificate
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 Foundation Certificate within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 19 July 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 -29 21 £26,250 -26.06% 5
South East -27 20 £42,500 +13.33% 4
Yorkshire -21 19 £26,250 -12.50% 3
Midlands -32 5 £42,000 -26.96% 3
West Midlands -20 3 £31,000 -46.09% 1
South West -66 3 £27,000 -48.57% 2
Scotland +18 2 - -
East Midlands -15 2 £43,500 - 2
North East -48 2 - -
Wales -54 1 £48,500 +85.39% 1
ITIL Foundation Certificate
UK

ITIL Foundation Certificate
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 6 (11.54%) SharePoint
2 4 (7.69%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (5.77%) OpenStack
4 1 (1.92%) Apache
4 1 (1.92%) CMS
4 1 (1.92%) IIS
4 1 (1.92%) Tomcat
4 1 (1.92%) WordPress
Applications
1 5 (9.62%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.92%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.92%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.92%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.92%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.92%) SAP S/4HANA
1 1 (1.92%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 12 (23.08%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (17.31%) Azure
3 6 (11.54%) SaaS
4 5 (9.62%) Azure Sentinel
4 5 (9.62%) Cloudflare
4 5 (9.62%) Entra ID
5 3 (5.77%) AWS
5 3 (5.77%) GCP
6 2 (3.85%) IaaS
6 2 (3.85%) OneDrive
6 2 (3.85%) PaaS
7 1 (1.92%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (30.77%) WAN
2 14 (26.92%) DNS
3 13 (25.00%) LAN
4 8 (15.38%) DHCP
5 5 (9.62%) Firewall
5 5 (9.62%) SSL
5 5 (9.62%) VoIP
6 4 (7.69%) ADSL
6 4 (7.69%) BGP
6 4 (7.69%) MPLS
6 4 (7.69%) SD-WAN
6 4 (7.69%) VPN
6 4 (7.69%) WebEx
7 1 (1.92%) Converged Networks
7 1 (1.92%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.69%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (5.77%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.92%) MySQL
3 1 (1.92%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (9.62%) JIRA
2 1 (1.92%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.92%) Git
General
1 20 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 19 (36.54%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (7.69%) Finance
3 4 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (7.69%) Public Sector
4 3 (5.77%) Games
4 3 (5.77%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
5 2 (3.85%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.92%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) Analyst
2 10 (19.23%) IT Support
2 10 (19.23%) IT Support Technician
2 10 (19.23%) IT Technician
2 10 (19.23%) Support Technician
3 8 (15.38%) Support Analyst
4 7 (13.46%) IT Manager
5 5 (9.62%) Cybersecurity Analyst
5 5 (9.62%) Junior
5 5 (9.62%) Junior Analyst
5 5 (9.62%) Lead
5 5 (9.62%) Security Analyst
5 5 (9.62%) SOC Analyst
6 4 (7.69%) Incident Analyst
6 4 (7.69%) Junior Network Analyst
6 4 (7.69%) Junior Network Support
6 4 (7.69%) Junior Support Analyst
6 4 (7.69%) Security Incident Analyst
6 4 (7.69%) Senior
6 4 (7.69%) Vendor Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.92%) Ajax
1 1 (1.92%) CodeIgniter
1 1 (1.92%) CSS
1 1 (1.92%) CSS3
1 1 (1.92%) HTML
1 1 (1.92%) HTML5
1 1 (1.92%) jQuery
1 1 (1.92%) JSON
1 1 (1.92%) Laravel
1 1 (1.92%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (28.85%) Driving Licence
2 6 (11.54%) Data Centre
2 6 (11.54%) Onboarding
3 5 (9.62%) Cyber Defence
3 5 (9.62%) Security Operations Centre
4 4 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
5 3 (5.77%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 25 (48.08%) Windows
2 16 (30.77%) Windows Server
3 12 (23.08%) Linux
4 3 (5.77%) Debian
4 3 (5.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.85%) Mac OS
5 2 (3.85%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (100.00%) ITIL
2 25 (48.08%) Problem-Solving
3 23 (44.23%) ITSM
4 19 (36.54%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (36.54%) Service Delivery
5 17 (32.69%) Customer Service
6 14 (26.92%) Service Management
7 13 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
8 8 (15.38%) Knowledge Transfer
8 8 (15.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 7 (13.46%) Agile
9 7 (13.46%) Analytics
10 6 (11.54%) Incident Management
10 6 (11.54%) Problem Management
10 6 (11.54%) Project Delivery
10 6 (11.54%) Root Cause Analysis
11 5 (9.62%) Business Continuity
11 5 (9.62%) Process Improvement
11 5 (9.62%) Security Operations
11 5 (9.62%) SIEM
Programming Languages
1 8 (15.38%) Python
2 6 (11.54%) PowerShell
3 3 (5.77%) SQL
4 1 (1.92%) Bash
4 1 (1.92%) Bicep
4 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.92%) PHP
Qualifications
1 12 (23.08%) Network+ Certification
2 11 (21.15%) SC Cleared
2 11 (21.15%) Security Cleared
3 8 (15.38%) A+ Certification
4 6 (11.54%) Degree
5 5 (9.62%) CCNA
5 5 (9.62%) Cisco Certification
5 5 (9.62%) CompTIA Security+
5 5 (9.62%) DV Cleared
6 4 (7.69%) NVQ Level 3
7 2 (3.85%) PMI Certification
7 2 (3.85%) PMP
7 2 (3.85%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.85%) SLA
2 1 (1.92%) GRC
2 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 20000
2 1 (1.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (1.92%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 21 (40.38%) Active Directory
2 6 (11.54%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (9.62%) Graylog
2 4 (7.69%) Ansible
3 3 (5.77%) Kubernetes
3 3 (5.77%) Puppet
3 3 (5.77%) ZABBIX
4 2 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (1.92%) Autotask
5 1 (1.92%) Terraform
Vendors
1 23 (44.23%) Microsoft
2 7 (13.46%) ServiceNow
3 5 (9.62%) Cisco
4 4 (7.69%) Fortinet
4 4 (7.69%) Huawei
4 4 (7.69%) Meraki
4 4 (7.69%) Polycom
4 4 (7.69%) SAP
5 3 (5.77%) Google
5 3 (5.77%) Oracle
6 1 (1.92%) Adobe