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 29 August 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 693 574 677
Rank change year-on-year -119 +103 0
Permanent jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate 100 100 121
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.091% 0.20% 0.15%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.50% 0.58% 0.57%
Number of salaries quoted 76 85 84
10th Percentile £25,625 £30,500 £27,825
25th Percentile £29,938 £32,991 £36,188
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £39,929 £42,250
Median % change year-on-year +5.19% -5.49% -13.12%
75th Percentile £58,125 £56,250 £56,900
90th Percentile £73,750 £64,500 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,500 £37,000 £40,000
% change year-on-year +1.35% -7.50% -13.73%

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 19,834 17,245 21,270
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.12% 34.44% 26.18%
Number of salaries quoted 10,799 7,902 10,949
10th Percentile £31,250 £28,898 £31,250
25th Percentile £44,241 £36,925 £41,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £60,000 £55,000 £55,000
Median % change year-on-year +9.09% - -7.60%
75th Percentile £80,000 £72,500 £73,750
90th Percentile £97,500 £90,000 £90,000
UK excluding London median annual salary £57,500 £49,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year +17.35% -6.67% -

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 29 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 29 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 -97 91 £42,000 +7.10% 28
UK excluding London -96 74 £37,500 +1.35% 29
North of England -48 27 £27,500 -17.29% 10
Work from Home -48 22 £55,000 +53.40% 13
South East -35 20 £42,500 +13.33% 7
London -59 20 £65,000 +23.81% 5
Yorkshire -30 19 £26,250 -12.50% 2
Midlands -32 11 £45,000 -21.74% 3
North West -16 8 £27,500 -23.30% 4
South West -67 7 £27,000 -46.00% 2
East of England -17 6 £38,250 +17.69% 3
West Midlands -21 6 £45,125 -21.52% 3
East Midlands -23 5 £45,000 -
Scotland -1 2 - - 3
Wales -66 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 14 (14.00%) SharePoint
2 13 (13.00%) 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 10 (10.00%) 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 38 (38.00%) Microsoft 365
2 26 (26.00%) Azure
3 20 (20.00%) Entra ID
4 8 (8.00%) SaaS
5 6 (6.00%) AWS
5 6 (6.00%) Azure Sentinel
5 6 (6.00%) Cloudflare
5 6 (6.00%) OneDrive
6 5 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (4.00%) GCP
7 4 (4.00%) Power Automate
8 2 (2.00%) Amazon CloudWatch
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%) IaaS
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 19 (19.00%) DNS
3 16 (16.00%) LAN
4 13 (13.00%) VPN
5 12 (12.00%) DHCP
6 9 (9.00%) TCP/IP
6 9 (9.00%) VoIP
7 7 (7.00%) VLAN
8 6 (6.00%) Internet
8 6 (6.00%) SSL
9 5 (5.00%) Firewall
10 4 (4.00%) ADSL
10 4 (4.00%) BGP
10 4 (4.00%) MPLS
10 4 (4.00%) SD-WAN
10 4 (4.00%) Unified Communications
10 4 (4.00%) WebEx
10 4 (4.00%) Wireless
11 3 (3.00%) Wi-Fi
12 1 (1.00%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.00%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
2 2 (2.00%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.00%) MySQL
3 1 (1.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (9.00%) 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 51 (51.00%) 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%) Legal
9 3 (3.00%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.00%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.00%) Games
10 1 (1.00%) Law
Job Titles
1 22 (22.00%) Analyst
2 20 (20.00%) IT Support
3 14 (14.00%) IT Support Technician
3 14 (14.00%) IT Technician
3 14 (14.00%) Support Technician
4 10 (10.00%) Lead
4 10 (10.00%) Support Analyst
5 9 (9.00%) IT Manager
5 9 (9.00%) Team Leader
6 8 (8.00%) Senior
7 7 (7.00%) Developer
7 7 (7.00%) Support Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 6 (6.00%) IT Engineer
8 6 (6.00%) Security Analyst
8 6 (6.00%) SOC Analyst
9 5 (5.00%) IT Support Engineer
9 5 (5.00%) Junior
9 5 (5.00%) Junior Analyst
10 4 (4.00%) Architect
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 25 (25.00%) Driving Licence
2 13 (13.00%) Onboarding
3 8 (8.00%) Management Information System
4 7 (7.00%) Data Centre
5 6 (6.00%) Cyber Defence
5 6 (6.00%) Security Operations Centre
6 5 (5.00%) CMDB
7 4 (4.00%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (4.00%) Enterprise Software
8 3 (3.00%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (2.00%) Cloud Native
9 2 (2.00%) Data Protection Act
9 2 (2.00%) IoT
10 1 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
10 1 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
10 1 (1.00%) Social Media
10 1 (1.00%) Video Conferencing
10 1 (1.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 50 (50.00%) Windows
2 25 (25.00%) Windows Server
3 11 (11.00%) Linux
4 9 (9.00%) Windows 10
5 8 (8.00%) Mac OS
6 4 (4.00%) Debian
6 4 (4.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 100 (100.00%) ITIL
2 55 (55.00%) ITSM
3 51 (51.00%) Problem-Solving
4 41 (41.00%) Service Management
5 36 (36.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 29 (29.00%) Customer Service
7 27 (27.00%) Service Delivery
8 24 (24.00%) Stakeholder Management
9 21 (21.00%) Cybersecurity
10 15 (15.00%) Agile
10 15 (15.00%) Incident Management
10 15 (15.00%) Roadmaps
11 13 (13.00%) Workflow
12 12 (12.00%) Project Delivery
13 11 (11.00%) Business Continuity
13 11 (11.00%) Mentoring
13 11 (11.00%) Root Cause Analysis
14 10 (10.00%) AI
14 10 (10.00%) Change Management
14 10 (10.00%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 19 (19.00%) PowerShell
2 9 (9.00%) Python
3 6 (6.00%) 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 19 (19.00%) Security Cleared
2 15 (15.00%) Degree
3 13 (13.00%) Microsoft Certification
3 13 (13.00%) Network+ Certification
3 13 (13.00%) SC Cleared
4 9 (9.00%) A+ Certification
4 9 (9.00%) CCNA
4 9 (9.00%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (8.00%) Azure Certification
6 6 (6.00%) CompTIA Security+
7 4 (4.00%) NVQ Level 3
7 4 (4.00%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 3 (3.00%) DV Cleared
9 2 (2.00%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.00%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
9 2 (2.00%) ITIL Certification
9 2 (2.00%) MOS
9 2 (2.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (18.00%) 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 43 (43.00%) Active Directory
2 10 (10.00%) Docker
3 3 (3.00%) Hyper-V
4 2 (2.00%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 18 (18.00%) 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 54 (54.00%) Microsoft
2 27 (27.00%) ServiceNow
3 10 (10.00%) Remedy
4 5 (5.00%) Cisco
5 4 (4.00%) Apple
5 4 (4.00%) BMC
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%) Atlassian
6 3 (3.00%) Veeam
6 3 (3.00%) VMware
7 2 (2.00%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (2.00%) Planon
7 2 (2.00%) Red Hat
7 2 (2.00%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.00%) Oracle