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

6 months to
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 699 574 676
Rank change year-on-year -125 +102 -1
Permanent jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate 96 104 132
As % of all permanent jobs in the UK 0.090% 0.21% 0.16%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.48% 0.60% 0.61%
Number of salaries quoted 74 88 99
10th Percentile £25,625 £30,525 £27,000
25th Percentile £30,000 £35,854 £33,500
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £42,000 £39,929 £40,144
Median % change year-on-year +5.19% -0.53% -10.79%
75th Percentile £59,375 £53,750 £57,275
90th Percentile £75,250 £61,350 £67,500
UK excluding London median annual salary £37,000 £37,500 £39,116
% change year-on-year -1.33% -4.13% -7.96%

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 19,829 17,417 21,564
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 18.65% 34.89% 25.88%
Number of salaries quoted 10,551 7,850 11,789
10th Percentile £31,250 £29,000 £31,250
25th Percentile £43,500 £37,500 £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 £55,500 £50,000 £51,000
% change year-on-year +11.00% -1.96% -2.86%

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 14 August 2026.

Salary histogram for ITIL Foundation Certificate in the UK

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Top 16 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 14 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 -84 85 £41,000 +4.55% 33
UK excluding London -98 69 £37,000 -1.33% 28
North of England -38 25 £27,000 -24.69% 11
South East -26 22 £42,500 +13.33% 6
Work from Home -36 22 £55,000 +53.40% 11
Yorkshire -23 19 £26,250 -12.50% 1
London -62 19 £70,000 +47.37% 6
Midlands -25 9 £45,000 -21.74% 3
North West -11 5 £36,250 +1.10% 2
East Midlands -23 5 £45,000 -
East of England -24 5 £36,500 +12.31% 3
South West -64 5 £27,000 -46.00% 3
West Midlands -27 4 £31,000 -46.09% 3
Scotland +5 2 - - 3
Wales -61 1 £48,500 +85.39% 1
North East -62 1 - - 8

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 12 (12.50%) SharePoint
2 11 (11.46%) Microsoft Exchange
3 4 (4.17%) IIS
3 4 (4.17%) OpenStack
4 2 (2.08%) Confluence
4 2 (2.08%) nginx
5 1 (1.04%) Apache
5 1 (1.04%) CMS
5 1 (1.04%) Tomcat
5 1 (1.04%) WordPress
Applications
1 8 (8.33%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.08%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.04%) Acrobat
3 1 (1.04%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.04%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (9.38%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (4.17%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (4.17%) Shopify
3 1 (1.04%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 30 (31.25%) Microsoft 365
2 25 (26.04%) Azure
3 15 (15.63%) Entra ID
4 8 (8.33%) AWS
4 8 (8.33%) SaaS
5 6 (6.25%) GCP
6 5 (5.21%) Azure DevOps
6 5 (5.21%) Azure Sentinel
6 5 (5.21%) Cloudflare
7 4 (4.17%) OneDrive
8 3 (3.13%) Power Automate
9 2 (2.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 2 (2.08%) Amazon ECR
9 2 (2.08%) Amazon ECS
9 2 (2.08%) AWS CloudFormation
9 2 (2.08%) AWS Lambda
9 2 (2.08%) PaaS
9 2 (2.08%) Route 53
9 2 (2.08%) Serverless
9 2 (2.08%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 20 (20.83%) WAN
2 17 (17.71%) LAN
3 16 (16.67%) DNS
4 11 (11.46%) VPN
5 10 (10.42%) DHCP
6 7 (7.29%) TCP/IP
6 7 (7.29%) VoIP
7 5 (5.21%) Firewall
7 5 (5.21%) SSL
7 5 (5.21%) VLAN
8 4 (4.17%) ADSL
8 4 (4.17%) BGP
8 4 (4.17%) MPLS
8 4 (4.17%) SD-WAN
8 4 (4.17%) WebEx
9 3 (3.13%) Internet
9 3 (3.13%) Wi-Fi
10 2 (2.08%) Unified Communications
10 2 (2.08%) Wireless
11 1 (1.04%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (8.33%) SQL Server
2 4 (4.17%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (2.08%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (1.04%) MySQL
4 1 (1.04%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (8.33%) JIRA
2 5 (5.21%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.13%) Bitbucket
3 3 (3.13%) Git
3 3 (3.13%) GitLab
4 2 (2.08%) Atlassian Bamboo
4 2 (2.08%) git-flow
General
1 45 (46.88%) Social Skills
2 29 (30.21%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (19.79%) Finance
4 7 (7.29%) Influencing Skills
5 6 (6.25%) Organisational Skills
5 6 (6.25%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.25%) Retail
6 5 (5.21%) Banking
7 4 (4.17%) Documentation Skills
8 3 (3.13%) Aviation
8 3 (3.13%) Games
8 3 (3.13%) Legal
8 3 (3.13%) Telecoms
9 2 (2.08%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 1 (1.04%) Aerospace
10 1 (1.04%) Law
Job Titles
1 21 (21.88%) Analyst
2 17 (17.71%) IT Support
3 12 (12.50%) IT Support Technician
3 12 (12.50%) IT Technician
3 12 (12.50%) Lead
3 12 (12.50%) Support Analyst
3 12 (12.50%) Support Technician
4 11 (11.46%) Team Leader
5 7 (7.29%) IT Manager
5 7 (7.29%) Support Engineer
6 6 (6.25%) Developer
6 6 (6.25%) Senior
7 5 (5.21%) Cybersecurity Analyst
7 5 (5.21%) IT Engineer
7 5 (5.21%) Junior
7 5 (5.21%) Junior Analyst
7 5 (5.21%) Security Analyst
7 5 (5.21%) SOC Analyst
8 4 (4.17%) Incident Analyst
8 4 (4.17%) Junior Network Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.08%) AWS CDK
1 2 (2.08%) CSS
2 1 (1.04%) Ajax
2 1 (1.04%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.04%) CodeIgniter
2 1 (1.04%) CSS3
2 1 (1.04%) HTML
2 1 (1.04%) HTML5
2 1 (1.04%) JDBC
2 1 (1.04%) jQuery
2 1 (1.04%) JSON
2 1 (1.04%) Laravel
2 1 (1.04%) LDAP
2 1 (1.04%) REST
2 1 (1.04%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (21.88%) Driving Licence
2 11 (11.46%) Onboarding
3 7 (7.29%) Data Centre
3 7 (7.29%) Security Operations Centre
4 5 (5.21%) Cyber Defence
5 4 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 4 (4.17%) Management Information System
6 3 (3.13%) CMDB
6 3 (3.13%) Linux Command Line
6 3 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.08%) Cloud Native
7 2 (2.08%) CSOC
7 2 (2.08%) Data Protection Act
7 2 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.04%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.04%) Social Media
8 1 (1.04%) Video Conferencing
8 1 (1.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 49 (51.04%) Windows
2 26 (27.08%) Windows Server
3 12 (12.50%) Linux
4 8 (8.33%) Windows 10
5 6 (6.25%) Mac OS
6 4 (4.17%) Debian
6 4 (4.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 3 (3.13%) Apple iOS
8 2 (2.08%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 96 (100.00%) ITIL
2 51 (53.13%) ITSM
3 44 (45.83%) Problem-Solving
4 34 (35.42%) Continuous Improvement
4 34 (35.42%) Service Management
5 28 (29.17%) Service Delivery
6 24 (25.00%) Customer Service
7 23 (23.96%) Stakeholder Management
8 18 (18.75%) Cybersecurity
9 15 (15.63%) Roadmaps
10 13 (13.54%) Agile
10 13 (13.54%) Mentoring
11 12 (12.50%) Workflow
12 11 (11.46%) Incident Management
13 10 (10.42%) Change Management
13 10 (10.42%) CI/CD
13 10 (10.42%) Project Delivery
14 9 (9.38%) AI
14 9 (9.38%) DevOps
14 9 (9.38%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 16 (16.67%) PowerShell
2 10 (10.42%) Python
3 8 (8.33%) SQL
4 5 (5.21%) T-SQL
5 3 (3.13%) Bash
6 2 (2.08%) Java
6 2 (2.08%) JavaScript
7 1 (1.04%) Bicep
7 1 (1.04%) PHP
Qualifications
1 20 (20.83%) Security Cleared
2 16 (16.67%) SC Cleared
3 13 (13.54%) Degree
3 13 (13.54%) Network+ Certification
4 10 (10.42%) Microsoft Certification
5 9 (9.38%) A+ Certification
5 9 (9.38%) CCNA
5 9 (9.38%) Cisco Certification
6 7 (7.29%) Azure Certification
7 5 (5.21%) CompTIA Security+
7 5 (5.21%) DV Cleared
8 4 (4.17%) NVQ Level 3
9 2 (2.08%) AWS Certification
9 2 (2.08%) AWS Certified DevOps Engineer
9 2 (2.08%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (2.08%) CISA
9 2 (2.08%) CISM
9 2 (2.08%) CISSP
9 2 (2.08%) PMI Certification
9 2 (2.08%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (16.67%) SLA
2 6 (6.25%) GDPR
3 3 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 20000
3 3 (3.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.13%) QA
3 3 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 2 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials
4 2 (2.08%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 2 (2.08%) ISO 22301
4 2 (2.08%) ISO 9001
4 2 (2.08%) PCI DSS
5 1 (1.04%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.04%) GRC
5 1 (1.04%) NEBOSH
System Software
1 42 (43.75%) Active Directory
2 12 (12.50%) Docker
3 3 (3.13%) Hyper-V
4 1 (1.04%) BitLocker
Systems Management
1 14 (14.58%) Microsoft Intune
2 10 (10.42%) Ansible
3 9 (9.38%) ZABBIX
4 7 (7.29%) Kubernetes
5 6 (6.25%) Puppet
5 6 (6.25%) SCCM
5 6 (6.25%) Terraform
6 5 (5.21%) Graylog
7 4 (4.17%) Control-M
8 3 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
9 2 (2.08%) Active Directory Federation Services
10 1 (1.04%) Autotask
10 1 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
Vendors
1 47 (48.96%) Microsoft
2 25 (26.04%) ServiceNow
3 9 (9.38%) Remedy
4 5 (5.21%) Cisco
5 4 (4.17%) Apple
5 4 (4.17%) Fortinet
5 4 (4.17%) Huawei
5 4 (4.17%) Meraki
5 4 (4.17%) Polycom
5 4 (4.17%) SAP
5 4 (4.17%) SolarWinds
6 3 (3.13%) BMC
6 3 (3.13%) Google
6 3 (3.13%) Oracle
6 3 (3.13%) Veeam
6 3 (3.13%) VMware
7 2 (2.08%) Atlassian
7 2 (2.08%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.04%) Adobe
8 1 (1.04%) CA Agile Central