ITIL Foundation Certificate Job Trends

ITIL Foundation Certificate
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for ITIL Foundation Certificate qualifications. It includes a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 688 569 679
Rank change year-on-year -119 +110 -13
Permanent jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate 100 101 132
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.093% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.51% 0.58% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 78 86 97
10th Percentile £25,625 £30,250 £27,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £34,756 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £39,215 £41,500
Median % change year-on-year +7.10% -5.51% -8.53%
75th Percentile £59,375 £53,750 £56,525
90th Percentile £72,250 £62,250 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £37,000 £39,459
% change year-on-year +8.11% -6.23% -7.70%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

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.

Permanent vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 19,730 17,302 21,534
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.33% 34.69% 25.89%
Number of salaries quoted 10,633 7,809 11,507
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,929 £37,170 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £72,500
90th Percentile £96,250 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £56,500 £50,000 £51,500
% change year-on-year +13.00% -2.91% -1.90%

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Job Vacancy Trend

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

ITIL Foundation Certificate job vacancy trend in the UK

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Salary Trend

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

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

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Salary histogram for ITIL Foundation Certificate in the UK

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Top 15 Job Locations

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 over the 6 months to 21 August 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
England -101 90 £42,000 +9.09% 17
UK excluding London -105 73 £40,000 +8.11% 20
North of England -41 25 £27,250 -23.62% 7
South East -30 22 £42,500 +13.33% 4
Work from Home -43 22 £55,000 +53.40% 6
London -68 20 £65,000 +30.00% 1
Yorkshire -29 19 £26,250 -12.50% 1
Midlands -36 11 £45,000 -21.74% 2
East of England -21 6 £38,250 +17.69% 2
North West -25 6 £27,500 -23.30% 2
West Midlands -34 6 £45,125 -21.52% 2
South West -70 6 £27,000 -46.00% 1
East Midlands -17 5 £45,000 -
Scotland +14 2 - - 3
Wales -55 1 £48,500 +85.39% 1

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 13 (13.00%) SharePoint
2 12 (12.00%) Microsoft Exchange
3 5 (5.00%) IIS
4 4 (4.00%) OpenStack
5 2 (2.00%) Confluence
5 2 (2.00%) nginx
6 1 (1.00%) Apache
6 1 (1.00%) CMS
6 1 (1.00%) Tomcat
6 1 (1.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (7.00%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 9 (9.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (4.00%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (4.00%) Shopify
3 2 (2.00%) Integrated Workplace Management System
4 1 (1.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 36 (36.00%) Microsoft 365
2 28 (28.00%) Azure
3 19 (19.00%) Entra ID
4 8 (8.00%) AWS
4 8 (8.00%) SaaS
5 6 (6.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (6.00%) Cloudflare
5 6 (6.00%) GCP
6 5 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.00%) OneDrive
7 4 (4.00%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 2 (2.00%) Amazon ECR
8 2 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
8 2 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
8 2 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
8 2 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.00%) Route 53
8 2 (2.00%) Serverless
8 2 (2.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (20.00%) WAN
2 18 (18.00%) DNS
3 16 (16.00%) LAN
4 12 (12.00%) VPN
5 11 (11.00%) DHCP
6 8 (8.00%) TCP/IP
6 8 (8.00%) VoIP
7 6 (6.00%) SSL
7 6 (6.00%) VLAN
8 5 (5.00%) Firewall
8 5 (5.00%) Internet
9 4 (4.00%) ADSL
9 4 (4.00%) BGP
9 4 (4.00%) MPLS
9 4 (4.00%) SD-WAN
9 4 (4.00%) WebEx
10 3 (3.00%) Unified Communications
10 3 (3.00%) Wi-Fi
10 3 (3.00%) Wireless
11 1 (1.00%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.00%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.00%) MySQL
4 1 (1.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (10.00%) JIRA
2 5 (5.00%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.00%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.00%) Git
3 3 (3.00%) GitLab
4 2 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (2.00%) git-flow
General
1 50 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 31 (31.00%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (18.00%) Finance
4 9 (9.00%) Influencing Skills
5 8 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.00%) Organisational Skills
6 6 (6.00%) Retail
7 5 (5.00%) Banking
8 4 (4.00%) Aviation
8 4 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
9 3 (3.00%) Games
9 3 (3.00%) Legal
9 3 (3.00%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.00%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 23 (23.00%) Analyst
2 19 (19.00%) IT Support
3 13 (13.00%) IT Support Technician
3 13 (13.00%) IT Technician
3 13 (13.00%) Support Technician
4 12 (12.00%) Support Analyst
5 11 (11.00%) Lead
6 10 (10.00%) Team Leader
7 9 (9.00%) IT Manager
8 8 (8.00%) Senior
9 7 (7.00%) Support Engineer
10 6 (6.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
10 6 (6.00%) Developer
10 6 (6.00%) IT Engineer
10 6 (6.00%) Security Analyst
10 6 (6.00%) SOC Analyst
11 5 (5.00%) IT Support Engineer
11 5 (5.00%) Junior
11 5 (5.00%) Junior Analyst
12 4 (4.00%) Junior Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (6.00%) Terraform
2 2 (2.00%) AWS CDK
2 2 (2.00%) CSS
3 1 (1.00%) Ajax
3 1 (1.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.00%) CodeIgniter
3 1 (1.00%) CSS3
3 1 (1.00%) HTML
3 1 (1.00%) HTML5
3 1 (1.00%) JDBC
3 1 (1.00%) jQuery
3 1 (1.00%) JSON
3 1 (1.00%) Laravel
3 1 (1.00%) LDAP
3 1 (1.00%) REST
3 1 (1.00%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (23.00%) Driving Licence
2 13 (13.00%) Onboarding
3 7 (7.00%) Data Centre
3 7 (7.00%) Management Information System
3 7 (7.00%) Security Operations Centre
4 6 (6.00%) Cyber Defence
5 5 (5.00%) CMDB
6 4 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 3 (3.00%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (3.00%) Linux Command Line
7 3 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (2.00%) Cloud Native
8 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
8 2 (2.00%) IoT
9 1 (1.00%) CSOC
9 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
9 1 (1.00%) Social Media
9 1 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
9 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 52 (52.00%) Windows
2 27 (27.00%) Windows Server
3 13 (13.00%) Linux
4 9 (9.00%) Windows 10
5 7 (7.00%) Mac OS
6 4 (4.00%) Debian
6 4 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.00%) Apple iOS
8 1 (1.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (100.00%) ITIL
2 55 (55.00%) ITSM
3 48 (48.00%) Problem-Solving
4 39 (39.00%) Service Management
5 36 (36.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (28.00%) Service Delivery
7 27 (27.00%) Customer Service
8 24 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (21.00%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (15.00%) Agile
10 15 (15.00%) Roadmaps
11 14 (14.00%) Incident Management
12 13 (13.00%) Workflow
13 12 (12.00%) Mentoring
14 11 (11.00%) AI
14 11 (11.00%) Business Continuity
14 11 (11.00%) Project Delivery
14 11 (11.00%) Root Cause Analysis
15 10 (10.00%) Change Management
15 10 (10.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 18 (18.00%) PowerShell
2 11 (11.00%) Python
3 8 (8.00%) SQL
4 5 (5.00%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.00%) Bash
6 2 (2.00%) Java
6 2 (2.00%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.00%) Bicep
7 1 (1.00%) PHP
Qualifications
1 22 (22.00%) Security Cleared
2 16 (16.00%) SC Cleared
3 15 (15.00%) Degree
4 13 (13.00%) Network+ Certification
5 12 (12.00%) Microsoft Certification
6 9 (9.00%) A+ Certification
6 9 (9.00%) CCNA
6 9 (9.00%) Cisco Certification
7 8 (8.00%) Azure Certification
8 6 (6.00%) CompTIA Security+
9 5 (5.00%) DV Cleared
10 4 (4.00%) NVQ Level 3
10 4 (4.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
11 2 (2.00%) AWS Certification
11 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
11 2 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
11 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
11 2 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
11 2 (2.00%) MOS
11 2 (2.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (17.00%) SLA
2 6 (6.00%) GDPR
3 3 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.00%) QA
3 3 (3.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (2.00%) ISO 22301
4 2 (2.00%) ISO 9001
4 2 (2.00%) NCSC
4 2 (2.00%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.00%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.00%) GRC
5 1 (1.00%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 45 (45.00%) Active Directory
2 12 (12.00%) Docker
3 3 (3.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.00%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 17 (17.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (10.00%) Ansible
3 9 (9.00%) ZABBIX
4 7 (7.00%) Kubernetes
4 7 (7.00%) SCCM
5 6 (6.00%) Graylog
5 6 (6.00%) Puppet
6 4 (4.00%) Control-M
7 3 (3.00%) Single Sign-On
8 2 (2.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
9 1 (1.00%) Autotask
9 1 (1.00%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 53 (53.00%) Microsoft
2 28 (28.00%) ServiceNow
3 9 (9.00%) Remedy
4 5 (5.00%) Cisco
5 4 (4.00%) Apple
5 4 (4.00%) Fortinet
5 4 (4.00%) Huawei
5 4 (4.00%) Meraki
5 4 (4.00%) Polycom
5 4 (4.00%) SAP
5 4 (4.00%) SolarWinds
6 3 (3.00%) BMC
6 3 (3.00%) Google
6 3 (3.00%) Oracle
6 3 (3.00%) Veeam
6 3 (3.00%) VMware
7 2 (2.00%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.00%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.00%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.00%) Salesforce