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 3 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 675 584 734
Rank change year-on-year -91 +150 0
Permanent jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate 75 87 168
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.078% 0.18% 0.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.40% 0.50% 0.63%
Number of salaries quoted 56 67 116
10th Percentile £25,563 £30,000 £26,750
25th Percentile £33,875 £36,250 £29,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,500 £42,500 £40,144
Median % change year-on-year - +5.87% +5.64%
75th Percentile £60,313 £59,375 £58,269
90th Percentile £81,250 £63,100 £66,750
UK excluding London median annual salary £40,000 £40,000 £37,500
% change year-on-year - +6.67% +7.14%

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 18,797 17,518 26,845
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 19.44% 37.07% 25.45%
Number of salaries quoted 9,890 7,619 16,891
10th Percentile £31,000 £29,750 £29,000
25th Percentile £43,000 £38,750 £38,734
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £53,150
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% +3.48% -11.42%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £70,556
90th Percentile £95,000 £90,000 £87,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £50,055 £50,000
% change year-on-year +9.88% +0.11% -4.76%

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 3 July 2026.

Salary histogram for ITIL Foundation Certificate in the UK

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Top 14 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 3 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
England -77 66 £42,500 - 26
UK excluding London -66 48 £40,000 - 26
London -37 22 £65,000 +12.55% 2
North of England -29 20 £27,000 -10.00% 10
South East -16 19 £42,250 +5.63% 7
Yorkshire -22 18 £27,000 -10.00% 2
Work from Home -5 15 £52,500 +39.07% 14
Midlands -28 4 £45,000 -25.00% 5
West Midlands -27 3 £45,000 -25.00% 3
South West -68 3 £27,000 -48.57% 2
North East -49 2 - - 1
Scotland +13 1 - - 2
East Midlands -15 1 £42,000 - 2
Wales -41 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 8 (10.67%) SharePoint
2 4 (5.33%) Microsoft Exchange
3 1 (1.33%) Apache
3 1 (1.33%) CMS
3 1 (1.33%) IIS
3 1 (1.33%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.33%) Tomcat
3 1 (1.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 7 (9.33%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.33%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.33%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 6 (8.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (2.67%) Elite 3E
3 1 (1.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 21 (28.00%) Azure
2 16 (21.33%) Microsoft 365
3 8 (10.67%) SaaS
4 7 (9.33%) Entra ID
5 6 (8.00%) AWS
5 6 (8.00%) GCP
6 5 (6.67%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (6.67%) Cloudflare
7 3 (4.00%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.67%) Datadog
8 2 (2.67%) IaaS
8 2 (2.67%) OneDrive
8 2 (2.67%) PaaS
8 2 (2.67%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 19 (25.33%) WAN
2 18 (24.00%) LAN
3 14 (18.67%) DNS
4 8 (10.67%) DHCP
5 7 (9.33%) VPN
6 5 (6.67%) SSL
6 5 (6.67%) TCP/IP
7 3 (4.00%) Firewall
7 3 (4.00%) VoIP
8 2 (2.67%) ADSL
8 2 (2.67%) BGP
8 2 (2.67%) MPLS
8 2 (2.67%) SD-WAN
8 2 (2.67%) Structured Cabling
8 2 (2.67%) WebEx
9 1 (1.33%) Converged Networks
9 1 (1.33%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (9.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.33%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.67%) Power BI
3 2 (2.67%) SQLPlus
4 1 (1.33%) MySQL
Development Applications
1 6 (8.00%) JIRA
2 3 (4.00%) GitLab
2 3 (4.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.33%) Git
General
1 35 (46.67%) Social Skills
2 28 (37.33%) Analytical Skills
3 18 (24.00%) Finance
4 8 (10.67%) Banking
5 7 (9.33%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (9.33%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.00%) Documentation Skills
6 3 (4.00%) Games
7 2 (2.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.67%) Law
7 2 (2.67%) Legal
7 2 (2.67%) Legal Technology
7 2 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 15 (20.00%) Analyst
2 12 (16.00%) IT Support
3 10 (13.33%) IT Support Technician
3 10 (13.33%) IT Technician
3 10 (13.33%) Lead
3 10 (13.33%) Support Technician
4 9 (12.00%) IT Manager
4 9 (12.00%) Team Leader
5 8 (10.67%) Service Manager
6 6 (8.00%) Delivery Manager
6 6 (8.00%) Service Delivery Manager
7 5 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) Security Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) SOC Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) Support Analyst
7 5 (6.67%) Vendor Manager
8 4 (5.33%) 2nd Line Support
8 4 (5.33%) Architect
8 4 (5.33%) ITSM Architect
8 4 (5.33%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.33%) Ajax
1 1 (1.33%) CodeIgniter
1 1 (1.33%) CSS
1 1 (1.33%) CSS3
1 1 (1.33%) HTML
1 1 (1.33%) HTML5
1 1 (1.33%) jQuery
1 1 (1.33%) JSON
1 1 (1.33%) Laravel
1 1 (1.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 15 (20.00%) Driving Licence
2 7 (9.33%) Onboarding
2 7 (9.33%) Security Operations Centre
3 6 (8.00%) Data Centre
4 5 (6.67%) Analytical Mindset
4 5 (6.67%) Cyber Defence
5 3 (4.00%) Linux Command Line
6 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
6 2 (2.67%) CSOC
6 2 (2.67%) Culture of Ownership
7 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
7 1 (1.33%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.33%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 33 (44.00%) Windows
2 21 (28.00%) Windows Server
3 10 (13.33%) Linux
4 3 (4.00%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.67%) Unix
5 2 (2.67%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.33%) Debian
6 1 (1.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (100.00%) ITIL
2 35 (46.67%) ITSM
3 34 (45.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 31 (41.33%) Problem-Solving
5 30 (40.00%) Service Delivery
6 22 (29.33%) Service Management
7 17 (22.67%) Customer Service
8 16 (21.33%) Stakeholder Management
9 15 (20.00%) Cybersecurity
10 11 (14.67%) AI
11 10 (13.33%) Incident Management
11 10 (13.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 9 (12.00%) Problem Management
13 8 (10.67%) Agile
13 8 (10.67%) Analytics
13 8 (10.67%) Business Continuity
13 8 (10.67%) Commercial Awareness
13 8 (10.67%) Knowledge Transfer
13 8 (10.67%) Roadmaps
13 8 (10.67%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (13.33%) Python
2 8 (10.67%) PowerShell
3 7 (9.33%) SQL
4 2 (2.67%) T-SQL
4 2 (2.67%) VB
5 1 (1.33%) Bash
5 1 (1.33%) Bicep
5 1 (1.33%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.33%) PHP
Qualifications
1 17 (22.67%) Security Cleared
2 13 (17.33%) Degree
2 13 (17.33%) SC Cleared
3 12 (16.00%) Network+ Certification
4 10 (13.33%) CCNA
4 10 (13.33%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (10.67%) A+ Certification
6 5 (6.67%) Azure Certification
6 5 (6.67%) CompTIA Security+
6 5 (6.67%) DV Cleared
6 5 (6.67%) Microsoft Certification
7 4 (5.33%) NVQ Level 3
8 2 (2.67%) CISA
8 2 (2.67%) CISM
8 2 (2.67%) CISSP
8 2 (2.67%) MOS
9 1 (1.33%) PMI Certification
9 1 (1.33%) PMP
9 1 (1.33%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (16.00%) SLA
2 4 (5.33%) GDPR
3 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (4.00%) QA
3 3 (4.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.33%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (1.33%) GRC
4 1 (1.33%) ISO 22301
4 1 (1.33%) ISO 9001
4 1 (1.33%) NEBOSH
4 1 (1.33%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 28 (37.33%) Active Directory
2 7 (9.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 6 (8.00%) Kubernetes
1 6 (8.00%) Terraform
2 5 (6.67%) Ansible
2 5 (6.67%) Control-M
2 5 (6.67%) Graylog
3 3 (4.00%) ZABBIX
4 2 (2.67%) Grafana
4 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (2.67%) Prometheus
5 1 (1.33%) Autotask
5 1 (1.33%) Puppet
Vendors
1 34 (45.33%) Microsoft
2 16 (21.33%) ServiceNow
3 6 (8.00%) Remedy
4 5 (6.67%) Cisco
4 5 (6.67%) SolarWinds
5 4 (5.33%) BMC
5 4 (5.33%) SAP
6 3 (4.00%) Google
6 3 (4.00%) Oracle
7 2 (2.67%) Fortinet
7 2 (2.67%) Huawei
7 2 (2.67%) iManage
7 2 (2.67%) Meraki
7 2 (2.67%) Polycom
8 1 (1.33%) Adobe
8 1 (1.33%) Freshdesk