ITIL Contracts in the North of England

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
England > North of England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for ITIL skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited ITIL over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 36 23 29
Rank change year-on-year -13 +6 +9
Contract jobs citing ITIL 219 341 441
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 4.62% 6.19% 6.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 5.45% 6.87% 6.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 148 233 278
10th Percentile £225 £250 £163
25th Percentile £375 £363 £252
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £452 £450 £425
Median % change year-on-year +0.33% +5.88% +6.25%
75th Percentile £523 £550 £500
90th Percentile £571 £650 £575
England median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 29 49
10th Percentile £12.53 £16.25 £12.81
25th Percentile £14.00 £18.83 £15.25
Median hourly rate £17.50 £29.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.27% +46.50% +8.11%
75th Percentile £42.88 £44.50 £28.75
90th Percentile £46.18 £49.52 £34.00
England median hourly rate £17.69 £17.50 £15.50
% change year-on-year +1.09% +12.90% -18.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

ITIL is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,015 4,967 6,336
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.69% 90.15% 88.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,426 3,410 4,610
10th Percentile £300 £300 £240
25th Percentile £400 £413 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £500 £480
Median % change year-on-year -1.00% +4.17% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £575
90th Percentile £675 £688 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 385 207 254
10th Percentile £11.07 £10.63 £10.63
25th Percentile £12.55 £15.74 £13.66
Median hourly rate £20.74 £27.20 £19.05
Median % change year-on-year -23.75% +42.82% +7.18%
75th Percentile £46.18 £43.75 £34.04
90th Percentile £63.75 £63.75 £63.00
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%

ITIL
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing ITIL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for ITIL in the North of England

ITIL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITIL in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for ITIL in the North of England

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in the North of England

ITIL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITIL in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for ITIL in the North of England

ITIL
Hourly Rate Histogram in the North of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITIL in the North of England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for ITIL in the North of England

ITIL
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
North West -23 110 £450 -2.70% 83
Yorkshire +12 97 £475 +18.75% 51
North East +10 12 £420 +29.23% 21
ITIL
England

ITIL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 20 (9.13%) SharePoint
2 7 (3.20%) SharePoint 2010
2 7 (3.20%) SharePoint Server
3 6 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 3 (1.37%) Confluence
5 2 (0.91%) IBM Notes
6 1 (0.46%) CMS
6 1 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2007
6 1 (0.46%) Exchange Server 2010
6 1 (0.46%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 18 (8.22%) Microsoft Office
2 10 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.46%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (0.91%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 35 (15.98%) Microsoft 365
2 15 (6.85%) Power Platform
3 13 (5.94%) Azure
4 11 (5.02%) AWS
4 11 (5.02%) IaaS
5 6 (2.74%) PaaS
5 6 (2.74%) SaaS
6 4 (1.83%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 4 (1.83%) Amazon EC2
6 4 (1.83%) Amazon ECS
6 4 (1.83%) Amazon Kinesis
6 4 (1.83%) AWS Lambda
6 4 (1.83%) Serverless
7 3 (1.37%) Entra ID
8 1 (0.46%) Azure Stack
8 1 (0.46%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.46%) GCP
8 1 (0.46%) Mimecast
8 1 (0.46%) OneDrive
8 1 (0.46%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 16 (7.31%) Firewall
2 14 (6.39%) Cisco ASA
2 14 (6.39%) Wi-Fi
3 13 (5.94%) BGP
3 13 (5.94%) Cisco Firepower
3 13 (5.94%) Cisco ISE
3 13 (5.94%) EIGRP
3 13 (5.94%) HSRP
3 13 (5.94%) IPsec
3 13 (5.94%) NetScaler
3 13 (5.94%) OSPF
4 12 (5.48%) SNMP
4 12 (5.48%) Spanning Tree
5 6 (2.74%) SSL
6 4 (1.83%) DNS
7 3 (1.37%) DHCP
8 2 (0.91%) LAN
8 2 (0.91%) SAN
8 2 (0.91%) TCP/IP
8 2 (0.91%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (6.85%) Power BI
2 12 (5.48%) SQL Server
3 8 (3.65%) MySQL
4 7 (3.20%) Metadata
4 7 (3.20%) PowerPivot
4 7 (3.20%) Qlik Sense
4 7 (3.20%) Relational Database
4 7 (3.20%) SQL Server Reporting Services
5 6 (2.74%) Microsoft Power View
6 5 (2.28%) Data Mining
7 4 (1.83%) DynamoDB
8 1 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.46%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 10 (4.57%) JIRA
2 1 (0.46%) Hudson
General
1 72 (32.88%) Social Skills
2 30 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
3 29 (13.24%) Public Sector
4 24 (10.96%) Finance
5 6 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (2.74%) Publishing
5 6 (2.74%) Telecoms
6 5 (2.28%) Banking
7 2 (0.91%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (0.91%) Law
8 1 (0.46%) Advertising
8 1 (0.46%) Aviation
8 1 (0.46%) Billing
8 1 (0.46%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (0.46%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (0.46%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (0.46%) Local Government
8 1 (0.46%) Manufacturing
8 1 (0.46%) Police
Job Titles
1 35 (15.98%) Analyst
2 31 (14.16%) Senior
3 22 (10.05%) Developer
4 17 (7.76%) ServiceNow Developer
5 16 (7.31%) Network Engineer
6 14 (6.39%) Problem Manager
7 12 (5.48%) Consultant
7 12 (5.48%) Data Scientist
7 12 (5.48%) Service Analyst
7 12 (5.48%) Support Engineer
8 11 (5.02%) Lead
8 11 (5.02%) Service Desk Analyst
8 11 (5.02%) Service Manager
9 9 (4.11%) Senior Network Engineer
10 8 (3.65%) Architect
11 7 (3.20%) IT Manager
11 7 (3.20%) Project Manager
11 7 (3.20%) ServiceNow Architect
11 7 (3.20%) Support Analyst
12 6 (2.74%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (7.76%) CSS
1 17 (7.76%) HTML
1 17 (7.76%) Web Services
2 12 (5.48%) Jinja
3 10 (4.57%) AngularJS
4 6 (2.74%) ActiveMQ
4 6 (2.74%) Kafka
5 5 (2.28%) .NET
6 4 (1.83%) REST
7 3 (1.37%) .NET Framework
7 3 (1.37%) LDAP
8 2 (0.91%) Middleware
9 1 (0.46%) Apache NiFi
9 1 (0.46%) Elastic Stack
Miscellaneous
1 13 (5.94%) Virtual Team
2 12 (5.48%) CMDB
2 12 (5.48%) Management Information System
3 5 (2.28%) Clustering
4 4 (1.83%) Linux Command Line
4 4 (1.83%) Video Conferencing
5 2 (0.91%) Data Centre
5 2 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (0.91%) NHS
6 1 (0.46%) CCTV
6 1 (0.46%) Client/Server
6 1 (0.46%) Fat Client
6 1 (0.46%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (0.46%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (0.46%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (0.46%) iPhone
6 1 (0.46%) PKI
6 1 (0.46%) Public Cloud
6 1 (0.46%) Smartphone
6 1 (0.46%) Thin Client
Operating Systems
1 49 (22.37%) Windows
2 17 (7.76%) Windows 10
3 16 (7.31%) Windows Server
4 11 (5.02%) Linux
5 7 (3.20%) Windows Server 2012
6 5 (2.28%) Windows Server 2016
7 3 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
8 2 (0.91%) Windows Server 2008
9 1 (0.46%) Apple iOS
9 1 (0.46%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.46%) Unix
9 1 (0.46%) Windows Server 2003
Processes & Methodologies
1 76 (34.70%) Service Management
2 71 (32.42%) ITSM
3 55 (25.11%) Problem-Solving
4 43 (19.63%) Problem Management
5 41 (18.72%) DevOps
6 40 (18.26%) Service Delivery
7 38 (17.35%) Change Management
8 32 (14.61%) Customer Service
9 27 (12.33%) Mentoring
10 26 (11.87%) Incident Management
11 23 (10.50%) CI/CD
12 21 (9.59%) Stakeholder Management
13 20 (9.13%) Asset Management
14 19 (8.68%) Statistics
15 18 (8.22%) Continuous Improvement
16 17 (7.76%) Agile
16 17 (7.76%) IT Asset Management
16 17 (7.76%) Operations Management
16 17 (7.76%) Root Cause Analysis
16 17 (7.76%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 22 (10.05%) JavaScript
1 22 (10.05%) PowerShell
1 22 (10.05%) SQL
2 17 (7.76%) Python
3 16 (7.31%) Perl
4 12 (5.48%) Tcl
5 8 (3.65%) C#
6 4 (1.83%) Bash
7 3 (1.37%) MATLAB
7 3 (1.37%) VB.NET
7 3 (1.37%) VBA
Qualifications
1 55 (25.11%) Security Cleared
2 52 (23.74%) SC Cleared
3 36 (16.44%) Degree
4 26 (11.87%) ITIL Certification
5 21 (9.59%) CCNA
5 21 (9.59%) Cisco Certification
6 17 (7.76%) Microsoft Certification
7 12 (5.48%) CCNP
8 10 (4.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 10 (4.57%) MCSE
9 8 (3.65%) PMI Certification
9 8 (3.65%) PMP
10 7 (3.20%) Master's Degree
11 5 (2.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (1.83%) MCP
12 4 (1.83%) Network+ Certification
12 4 (1.83%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 3 (1.37%) DV Cleared
13 3 (1.37%) ISTQB
13 3 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.65%) SLA
2 6 (2.74%) QA
3 5 (2.28%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.46%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
4 1 (0.46%) GRC
System Software
1 32 (14.61%) Active Directory
2 22 (10.05%) VMware Infrastructure
3 13 (5.94%) Firmware
4 5 (2.28%) Hyper-V
5 3 (1.37%) VMware Workstation
6 1 (0.46%) Docker
6 1 (0.46%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 22 (10.05%) Ansible
2 15 (6.85%) Microsoft Intune
3 6 (2.74%) SCCM
4 4 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
5 2 (0.91%) Nagios
5 2 (0.91%) ZABBIX
6 1 (0.46%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.46%) EMC NetWorker
6 1 (0.46%) Jamf Pro
6 1 (0.46%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 61 (27.85%) ServiceNow
2 44 (20.09%) Microsoft
3 27 (12.33%) VMware
4 22 (10.05%) Citrix
5 17 (7.76%) Cisco
6 15 (6.85%) SolarWinds
7 13 (5.94%) Palo Alto
8 12 (5.48%) EMC
9 6 (2.74%) IBM
9 6 (2.74%) Solace
10 3 (1.37%) Google
10 3 (1.37%) Kofax
11 2 (0.91%) Apple
11 2 (0.91%) Lotus
11 2 (0.91%) Remedy
11 2 (0.91%) SAP
11 2 (0.91%) Sophos
12 1 (0.46%) BMC
12 1 (0.46%) NetApp
12 1 (0.46%) Red Hat