ITIL Contracts in the South East

ITIL (Information Technology Infrastructure Library)
England > South East

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 32 25 20
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 +11
Contract jobs citing ITIL 314 415 648
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 5.56% 7.36% 8.44%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 6.71% 8.26% 9.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 214 310 433
10th Percentile £205 £200 £183
25th Percentile £263 £320 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £466 £450
Median % change year-on-year +1.93% +3.56% +9.09%
75th Percentile £575 £570 £588
90th Percentile £608 £676 £675
England median daily rate £475 £475 £475
% change year-on-year - - +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 11 24
10th Percentile - £15.50 £12.48
25th Percentile £17.69 £16.63 £13.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £48.40 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -53.51% +184.71% -19.24%
75th Percentile £29.00 £53.53 £17.50
90th Percentile £32.00 £54.56 £23.68
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
South East

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 South East with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 4,683 5,022 6,900
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 82.99% 89.03% 89.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,708 3,452 4,710
10th Percentile £260 £250 £231
25th Percentile £400 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £504 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.29% +0.70% +8.11%
75th Percentile £625 £619 £600
90th Percentile £700 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 451 220 272
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.21 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.26 £22.47 £15.38
Median hourly rate £47.50 £52.50 £21.99
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +138.80% -20.05%
75th Percentile £62.60 £65.00 £47.77
90th Percentile £76.86 £75.00 £63.15
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 South East

Job postings citing ITIL as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for ITIL in the South East

ITIL
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITIL in the South East.

Daily rate trend for ITIL in the South East

ITIL
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL in the South East over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL in the South East

ITIL
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITIL in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for ITIL in the South East

ITIL
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Hourly rate histogram for ITIL in the South East

ITIL
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL within the South East 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
Thames Valley 0 211 £465 -2.11% 59
Berkshire +17 150 £575 +16.46% 38
Buckinghamshire -5 46 £465 -3.13% 15
Hampshire -30 40 £571 +107.73% 24
West Sussex +14 26 £475 -3.06% 5
Surrey +7 23 £500 +42.86% 24
Oxfordshire +7 15 £275 -37.14% 7
Kent +5 8 £488 +50.00% 13
Middlesex -3 3 £375 -31.82% 3
M4 Corridor - 1 £598 -
ITIL
England

ITIL
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 30 (9.55%) Microsoft Exchange
2 4 (1.27%) Confluence
3 3 (0.96%) SAS
4 1 (0.32%) CMS
4 1 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2007
4 1 (0.32%) Exchange Server 2013
4 1 (0.32%) Oracle Spatial
4 1 (0.32%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.32%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 29 (9.24%) Microsoft Office
2 8 (2.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 3 (0.96%) SPSS
5 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle AGIS
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle Assets
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle Cash Management
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle Financials
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle Receivables
2 1 (0.32%) Oracle Retail
2 1 (0.32%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (0.32%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 44 (14.01%) Azure
2 35 (11.15%) Microsoft 365
3 25 (7.96%) Entra ID
4 21 (6.69%) Azure Monitor
5 20 (6.37%) Azure Storage
6 14 (4.46%) OCI
7 7 (2.23%) AWS
8 4 (1.27%) Google Workspace
9 2 (0.64%) GCP
10 1 (0.32%) Azure DevOps
10 1 (0.32%) Dynamics 365
10 1 (0.32%) PaaS
10 1 (0.32%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 51 (16.24%) DNS
2 50 (15.92%) DHCP
3 44 (14.01%) Firewall
4 34 (10.83%) SAN
5 18 (5.73%) LAN
6 13 (4.14%) TCP/IP
7 12 (3.82%) Network Security
8 9 (2.87%) WAN
9 6 (1.91%) Wireless
10 5 (1.59%) HTTP
11 4 (1.27%) MPLS
11 4 (1.27%) VSAN
12 3 (0.96%) BGP
12 3 (0.96%) Fibre Channel
12 3 (0.96%) IPsec
12 3 (0.96%) OSPF
12 3 (0.96%) SDH
13 2 (0.64%) DMVPN
13 2 (0.64%) Radio Access Network
13 2 (0.64%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.96%) Qlik Sense
1 3 (0.96%) Tableau
2 1 (0.32%) GIS
2 1 (0.32%) Relational Database
2 1 (0.32%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 11 (3.50%) JIRA
2 8 (2.55%) Rational DOORS
3 4 (1.27%) GitLab
4 1 (0.32%) MSI
General
1 116 (36.94%) Social Skills
2 36 (11.46%) Finance
3 26 (8.28%) Organisational Skills
4 18 (5.73%) Analytical Skills
5 17 (5.41%) Telecoms
6 16 (5.10%) Public Sector
7 15 (4.78%) Retail
8 14 (4.46%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (4.14%) Legal
10 8 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.23%) Automotive
11 7 (2.23%) Marketing
12 6 (1.91%) German Language
12 6 (1.91%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
14 4 (1.27%) Pharmaceutical
15 3 (0.96%) Front Office
15 3 (0.96%) Inclusion and Diversity
16 2 (0.64%) Banking
17 1 (0.32%) Billing
Job Titles
1 44 (14.01%) Analyst
2 32 (10.19%) Senior
3 29 (9.24%) Architect
3 29 (9.24%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 28 (8.92%) Support Engineer
5 21 (6.69%) Active Directory Support
6 18 (5.73%) Build Engineer
6 18 (5.73%) Hardware Engineer
7 17 (5.41%) Service Analyst
7 17 (5.41%) Windows Build Engineer
7 17 (5.41%) Windows Engineer
8 16 (5.10%) 1st Line Support
8 16 (5.10%) Service Architect
9 15 (4.78%) Azure Specialist
9 15 (4.78%) Desktop Engineer
9 15 (4.78%) Desktop Support
9 15 (4.78%) Service Manager
10 14 (4.46%) Active Directory Specialist
10 14 (4.46%) Desktop Support Engineer
10 14 (4.46%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (6.37%) ARM Templates
2 4 (1.27%) BAPI
2 4 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
2 4 (1.27%) Kafka
2 4 (1.27%) Middleware
2 4 (1.27%) REST
2 4 (1.27%) SAP ALE
3 3 (0.96%) .NET
3 3 (0.96%) D3.js
4 1 (0.32%) CSS
4 1 (0.32%) HTML
4 1 (0.32%) OpenLayers
4 1 (0.32%) Regular Expression
4 1 (0.32%) SAP Fiori
4 1 (0.32%) Web Services
4 1 (0.32%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 34 (10.83%) Data Centre
2 29 (9.24%) PKI
3 28 (8.92%) Driving Licence
4 23 (7.32%) Self-Motivation
5 18 (5.73%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.23%) CMDB
6 7 (2.23%) Video Conferencing
7 2 (0.64%) CSOC
7 2 (0.64%) Distributed Systems
7 2 (0.64%) Linux Command Line
7 2 (0.64%) Renewable Energy
7 2 (0.64%) Smartphone
7 2 (0.64%) Tandem
8 1 (0.32%) Blackberry
8 1 (0.32%) Cyberattack
8 1 (0.32%) Onboarding
8 1 (0.32%) Product Ownership
8 1 (0.32%) Replication
8 1 (0.32%) Security Posture
8 1 (0.32%) Smartcard
Operating Systems
1 123 (39.17%) Windows
2 67 (21.34%) Windows 10
3 63 (20.06%) Linux
4 59 (18.79%) Windows Server 2016
5 56 (17.83%) Windows Server
6 54 (17.20%) Windows Server 2019
7 34 (10.83%) Windows Server 2012
8 29 (9.24%) Windows 7
9 23 (7.32%) Unix
10 17 (5.41%) Windows NT
11 14 (4.46%) Windows XP
12 12 (3.82%) Ubuntu
13 9 (2.87%) Debian
14 5 (1.59%) Mac OS
15 4 (1.27%) Solaris
16 2 (0.64%) Apple iOS
16 2 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 2 (0.64%) Windows Server 2003
17 1 (0.32%) Android
17 1 (0.32%) Windows Server 2008
Processes & Methodologies
1 88 (28.03%) Service Management
2 76 (24.20%) Agile
3 72 (22.93%) Customer Service
4 68 (21.66%) Problem-Solving
5 59 (18.79%) Release Management
6 41 (13.06%) Stakeholder Management
7 36 (11.46%) Project Management
8 34 (10.83%) Service Delivery
9 33 (10.51%) Incident Management
9 33 (10.51%) ITSM
10 32 (10.19%) Infrastructure Engineering
11 31 (9.87%) Configuration Management
12 28 (8.92%) Customer Requirements
12 28 (8.92%) DevOps
13 26 (8.28%) CI/CD
13 26 (8.28%) Disaster Recovery
14 25 (7.96%) Problem Management
14 25 (7.96%) Project Delivery
15 24 (7.64%) Infrastructure as Code
15 24 (7.64%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 49 (15.61%) PowerShell
2 22 (7.01%) VBScript
3 21 (6.69%) Bicep
4 20 (6.37%) C#
4 20 (6.37%) VB
5 17 (5.41%) Python
6 9 (2.87%) SQL
7 5 (1.59%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.27%) ABAP
8 4 (1.27%) Go
9 3 (0.96%) R
9 3 (0.96%) VB.NET
10 2 (0.64%) AWK
10 2 (0.64%) Bourne shell
10 2 (0.64%) C++
10 2 (0.64%) Korn
10 2 (0.64%) Perl
11 1 (0.32%) Groovy
11 1 (0.32%) Java
11 1 (0.32%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 160 (50.96%) Security Cleared
2 113 (35.99%) DV Cleared
3 84 (26.75%) Degree
4 76 (24.20%) SC Cleared
5 26 (8.28%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 20 (6.37%) ITIL Certification
7 19 (6.05%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (5.73%) CCNA
9 17 (5.41%) CCNP
10 7 (2.23%) ISACA
10 7 (2.23%) Master's Degree
11 6 (1.91%) Computer Science Degree
11 6 (1.91%) Microsoft Certification
12 5 (1.59%) VMware Certified Professional (VCP)
13 4 (1.27%) VCAP
14 3 (0.96%) DBS Check
14 3 (0.96%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 2 (0.64%) CompTIA Security+
15 2 (0.64%) NVQ Level 3
15 2 (0.64%) RHCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 26 (8.28%) SLA
2 25 (7.96%) QA
3 16 (5.10%) ISO/IEC 20000
4 11 (3.50%) COBIT
5 10 (3.18%) NIST
6 9 (2.87%) GDPR
7 8 (2.55%) PCI DSS
8 5 (1.59%) ISO 9001
9 4 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 2 (0.64%) PMO
11 1 (0.32%) ITGC
11 1 (0.32%) NCSC
System Software
1 85 (27.07%) Active Directory
2 30 (9.55%) Firmware
3 28 (8.92%) VMware Infrastructure
4 25 (7.96%) Virtual Machines
5 22 (7.01%) Virtual Desktop
6 20 (6.37%) Hyper-V
7 17 (5.41%) VMware ESXi
8 9 (2.87%) vSphere
9 4 (1.27%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.96%) XenApp
11 1 (0.32%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 87 (27.71%) SCCM
2 55 (17.52%) WSUS
3 36 (11.46%) SCOM
4 27 (8.60%) Microsoft Intune
5 26 (8.28%) Kubernetes
6 20 (6.37%) Active Directory Federation Services
7 17 (5.41%) NetBackup
7 17 (5.41%) Sysprep
8 15 (4.78%) vCenter Server
9 14 (4.46%) EMC NetWorker
10 10 (3.18%) Ansible
11 6 (1.91%) AirWatch
11 6 (1.91%) Rancher
11 6 (1.91%) Terraform
12 4 (1.27%) Red Hat Satellite
13 2 (0.64%) Oracle ZFS
13 2 (0.64%) Tivoli Identity Manager
13 2 (0.64%) yum
14 1 (0.32%) Backup Exec
14 1 (0.32%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 124 (39.49%) Microsoft
2 54 (17.20%) HP
3 44 (14.01%) ServiceNow
4 42 (13.38%) VMware
5 27 (8.60%) Cisco
6 22 (7.01%) Dell
7 20 (6.37%) Juniper
8 18 (5.73%) EMC
8 18 (5.73%) Palo Alto
9 16 (5.10%) Oracle
9 16 (5.10%) Symantec
10 15 (4.78%) 3PAR
11 14 (4.46%) Extreme Networks
11 14 (4.46%) Red Hat
11 14 (4.46%) Veeam
12 8 (2.55%) F5
13 7 (2.23%) Apple
13 7 (2.23%) IBM
13 7 (2.23%) SAP
14 5 (1.59%) Citrix