ITIL Foundation Certificate Contracts

ITIL Foundation Certificate
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for ITIL Foundation Certificate qualifications. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered over the 6 months to 15 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
15 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 518 647 706
Rank change year-on-year +129 +59 -45
Contract jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate 55 53 151
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.13% 0.093% 0.17%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.43% 0.34% 0.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 39 112
10th Percentile £263 £156 £250
25th Percentile £342 £180 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £250 £525
Median % change year-on-year +142.00% -52.38% +64.06%
75th Percentile £608 £444 £546
90th Percentile - £506 £612
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £244 £373
% change year-on-year +147.95% -34.50% +16.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 6
10th Percentile £13.54 - £9.75
25th Percentile £15.17 - £9.94
Median hourly rate £25.00 £14.00 £12.00
Median % change year-on-year +78.57% +16.67% -30.43%
75th Percentile - - £18.76
90th Percentile - - £20.51
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £14.00 £12.00
% change year-on-year +78.57% +16.67% -29.41%

All Academic and Professional Certifications
UK

ITIL Foundation Certificate is in the Academic Qualifications and Professional Certifications category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for academic qualifications or professional certifications.

Contract vacancies requiring academic qualifications or professional certifications 12,821 15,525 18,800
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.13% 27.19% 21.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,940 10,364 12,432
10th Percentile £307 £330 £336
25th Percentile £425 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £531 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.45% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £626
90th Percentile £738 £743 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £530 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +0.95% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,052 789 770
10th Percentile £13.69 £15.25 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.72 £20.47 £19.77
Median hourly rate £40.00 £54.00 £43.85
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% +23.15% +13.90%
75th Percentile £61.35 £67.50 £58.66
90th Percentile £76.15 £79.30 £67.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.63 £49.94 £35.00
% change year-on-year -18.63% +42.68% -1.41%

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing ITIL Foundation Certificate as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for ITIL Foundation Certificate in the UK

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate.

Daily rate trend for ITIL Foundation Certificate in the UK

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for ITIL Foundation Certificate in the UK

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate.

Hourly rate trend for ITIL Foundation Certificate in the UK

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate over the 6 months to 15 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for ITIL Foundation Certificate in the UK

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate within the UK over the 6 months to 15 May 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
England +116 55 £605 +89.06% 33
UK excluding London +61 42 £605 +147.95% 27
Work from Home +140 28 £605 +24.10% 17
South East +35 23 £605 +84.03% 14
London +100 13 £350 +47.37% 4
South West - 9 - - 1
North of England +21 5 £200 -58.97% 6
Yorkshire +22 3 £200 +33.33% 3
East of England +11 3 - -
Midlands +33 2 £338 - 7
West Midlands +20 2 £338 - 2
North West +17 2 - - 1

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (30.91%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.64%) IBM Notes
2 2 (3.64%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 12 (21.82%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (5.45%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.82%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (1.82%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.82%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 22 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 19 (34.55%) Azure
3 17 (30.91%) Azure Monitor
3 17 (30.91%) Azure Storage
3 17 (30.91%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 17 (30.91%) DHCP
1 17 (30.91%) DNS
1 17 (30.91%) Firewall
2 3 (5.45%) LAN
2 3 (5.45%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (5.45%) WAN
2 3 (5.45%) Wireless
3 2 (3.64%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (3.64%) Skype
3 2 (3.64%) Telepresence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.82%) GIS
1 1 (1.82%) Power BI
General
1 34 (61.82%) Social Skills
2 9 (16.36%) Public Sector
3 7 (12.73%) Finance
4 6 (10.91%) Presentation Skills
4 6 (10.91%) Telecoms
5 5 (9.09%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (7.27%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (3.64%) Banking
7 2 (3.64%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Back Office
8 1 (1.82%) Electronics
8 1 (1.82%) Fire and Rescue
8 1 (1.82%) Front Office
8 1 (1.82%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.82%) Marketing
8 1 (1.82%) Military
8 1 (1.82%) Police
Job Titles
1 23 (41.82%) Support Specialist
2 17 (30.91%) Active Directory Support
3 14 (25.45%) Active Directory Specialist
3 14 (25.45%) Azure Specialist
4 12 (21.82%) IT Support
5 9 (16.36%) IT Support Specialist
6 8 (14.55%) Analyst
7 7 (12.73%) Service Analyst
8 6 (10.91%) Service Desk Analyst
9 5 (9.09%) Support Engineer
10 4 (7.27%) Problem Manager
11 3 (5.45%) Active Directory Engineer
11 3 (5.45%) Active Directory Support Engineer
11 3 (5.45%) Azure Engineer
12 2 (3.64%) Associate Director
12 2 (3.64%) IT Engineer
12 2 (3.64%) IT Support Engineer
12 2 (3.64%) Senior
12 2 (3.64%) Service Desk Agent
12 2 (3.64%) Service Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (30.91%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.82%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 17 (30.91%) PKI
1 17 (30.91%) Self-Motivation
2 5 (9.09%) NHS
3 4 (7.27%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.64%) CMDB
4 2 (3.64%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (3.64%) Smartphone
4 2 (3.64%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.82%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.82%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 29 (52.73%) Windows
2 21 (38.18%) Windows Server
3 17 (30.91%) Linux
3 17 (30.91%) Windows Server 2016
3 17 (30.91%) Windows Server 2019
4 3 (5.45%) Windows 10
4 3 (5.45%) Windows 7
5 1 (1.82%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (100.00%) ITIL
2 27 (49.09%) Service Management
3 26 (47.27%) Analytics
4 22 (40.00%) Agile
5 19 (34.55%) DevOps
6 17 (30.91%) CI/CD
6 17 (30.91%) Identity Management
6 17 (30.91%) Infrastructure as Code
6 17 (30.91%) Log Analytics
6 17 (30.91%) Multi-Factor Authentication
6 17 (30.91%) Privileged Identity Management
6 17 (30.91%) RBAC
6 17 (30.91%) Release Management
7 15 (27.27%) Data Analysis
7 15 (27.27%) Incident Management
7 15 (27.27%) Problem Management
7 15 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (23.64%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (20.00%) Customer Service
9 11 (20.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 18 (32.73%) PowerShell
2 17 (30.91%) Bicep
2 17 (30.91%) C#
2 17 (30.91%) VB
2 17 (30.91%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 27 (49.09%) Degree
2 22 (40.00%) SC Cleared
2 22 (40.00%) Security Cleared
3 17 (30.91%) DV Cleared
4 6 (10.91%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (5.45%) ECDL
6 2 (3.64%) A+ Certification
6 2 (3.64%) CCNA
6 2 (3.64%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.64%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (3.64%) MCITP
6 2 (3.64%) Network+ Certification
7 1 (1.82%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.82%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.82%) MBA
7 1 (1.82%) MCP
7 1 (1.82%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.82%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (1.82%) SLA
System Software
1 22 (40.00%) Active Directory
2 17 (30.91%) Virtual Desktop
2 17 (30.91%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 18 (32.73%) Microsoft Intune
1 18 (32.73%) SCCM
2 17 (30.91%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 17 (30.91%) Kubernetes
2 17 (30.91%) SCOM
2 17 (30.91%) WSUS
Vendors
1 31 (56.36%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.27%) BT
3 2 (3.64%) Apple
3 2 (3.64%) Cisco
3 2 (3.64%) Citrix
3 2 (3.64%) Lotus
3 2 (3.64%) Polycom
3 2 (3.64%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.82%) BMC
4 1 (1.82%) Remedy
4 1 (1.82%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.82%) SAP