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 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 511 630 679
Rank change year-on-year +119 +49 +3
Contract jobs citing ITIL Foundation Certificate 64 52 159
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.15% 0.093% 0.18%
As % of the Qualifications category 0.50% 0.34% 0.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 35 120
10th Percentile £155 £159 £250
25th Percentile £263 £180 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £605 £244 £525
Median % change year-on-year +147.95% -53.52% +65.35%
75th Percentile £608 £433 £546
90th Percentile - £494 £621
UK excluding London median daily rate £605 £186 £375
% change year-on-year +224.83% -50.33% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 17 1 7
10th Percentile £13.54 - £9.75
25th Percentile £15.17 - £10.13
Median hourly rate £25.00 £14.00 £13.00
Median % change year-on-year +78.57% +7.69% -25.71%
75th Percentile - - £20.51
90th Percentile - - £20.61
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £14.00 £13.00
% change year-on-year +78.57% +7.69% -20.77%

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 12,872 15,254 19,038
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 29.89% 27.21% 21.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,011 10,183 12,699
10th Percentile £310 £338 £345
25th Percentile £425 £450 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +4.76% +6.06%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £630
90th Percentile £738 £738 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £535 £525 £500
% change year-on-year +1.90% +5.00% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,100 745 759
10th Percentile £13.87 £14.67 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.13 £21.24 £19.52
Median hourly rate £40.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% +23.60% +28.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £68.75 £58.75
90th Percentile £76.32 £79.19 £67.30
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.25 £52.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -21.43% +50.00% +16.67%

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 1 June 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 1 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for ITIL Foundation Certificate in the UK

ITIL Foundation Certificate
Top 13 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 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
England +117 60 £605 +89.06% 30
UK excluding London +54 49 £605 +224.83% 29
Work from Home +133 32 £605 +34.44% 13
South East +29 26 £605 +84.03% 9
London +98 15 £323 +20.09% 4
South West - 9 - - 2
North of England +27 5 £200 -58.97% 5
Wales +6 4 £123 -31.94% 4
East of England +5 3 - - 1
Yorkshire - 3 £200 - 1
North West +22 2 - - 3
Midlands +21 2 £338 - 8
West Midlands +12 2 £338 - 4

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 24 (37.50%) Microsoft Exchange
2 2 (3.13%) IBM Notes
2 2 (3.13%) Skype for Business
Applications
1 15 (23.44%) Microsoft Office
2 4 (6.25%) MS Visio
3 3 (4.69%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (1.56%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.56%) SystmOne
Cloud Services
1 27 (42.19%) Microsoft 365
2 22 (34.38%) Azure
3 20 (31.25%) Azure Monitor
3 20 (31.25%) Azure Storage
3 20 (31.25%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.56%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 20 (31.25%) DHCP
1 20 (31.25%) DNS
1 20 (31.25%) Firewall
2 3 (4.69%) LAN
2 3 (4.69%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (4.69%) WAN
2 3 (4.69%) Wireless
3 2 (3.13%) Cisco IOS
3 2 (3.13%) Skype
3 2 (3.13%) Telepresence
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.56%) GIS
1 1 (1.56%) Power BI
General
1 36 (56.25%) Social Skills
2 10 (15.63%) Public Sector
3 8 (12.50%) Finance
4 6 (9.38%) Telecoms
5 5 (7.81%) Influencing Skills
5 5 (7.81%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (6.25%) Analytical Skills
7 3 (4.69%) Legal
8 2 (3.13%) Banking
8 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.13%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Back Office
9 1 (1.56%) Electronics
9 1 (1.56%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (1.56%) Front Office
9 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.56%) Marketing
9 1 (1.56%) Military
9 1 (1.56%) Police
Job Titles
1 23 (35.94%) Support Specialist
2 20 (31.25%) Active Directory Support
3 18 (28.13%) IT Support
4 14 (21.88%) Active Directory Specialist
4 14 (21.88%) Azure Specialist
5 10 (15.63%) Support Engineer
6 9 (14.06%) IT Support Specialist
7 8 (12.50%) Analyst
8 7 (10.94%) Service Analyst
9 6 (9.38%) Active Directory Engineer
9 6 (9.38%) Active Directory Support Engineer
9 6 (9.38%) Azure Engineer
9 6 (9.38%) Service Desk Analyst
10 4 (6.25%) IT Engineer
10 4 (6.25%) IT Support Engineer
10 4 (6.25%) IT Support Technician
10 4 (6.25%) IT Technician
10 4 (6.25%) Problem Manager
10 4 (6.25%) Support Technician
11 3 (4.69%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 20 (31.25%) ARM Templates
2 1 (1.56%) Software Packaging
Miscellaneous
1 20 (31.25%) PKI
1 20 (31.25%) Self-Motivation
2 8 (12.50%) NHS
3 4 (6.25%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.13%) CMDB
4 2 (3.13%) iPhone
4 2 (3.13%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (3.13%) Smartphone
4 2 (3.13%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.56%) Handset
Operating Systems
1 38 (59.38%) Windows
2 28 (43.75%) Windows Server
3 20 (31.25%) Linux
3 20 (31.25%) Windows Server 2016
3 20 (31.25%) Windows Server 2019
4 5 (7.81%) Windows 10
5 3 (4.69%) Windows 7
6 2 (3.13%) Mac OS
7 1 (1.56%) Windows Vista
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (100.00%) ITIL
2 29 (45.31%) Analytics
2 29 (45.31%) Service Management
3 25 (39.06%) Agile
4 21 (32.81%) DevOps
5 20 (31.25%) CI/CD
5 20 (31.25%) Identity Management
5 20 (31.25%) Infrastructure as Code
5 20 (31.25%) Log Analytics
5 20 (31.25%) Multi-Factor Authentication
5 20 (31.25%) Privileged Identity Management
5 20 (31.25%) RBAC
5 20 (31.25%) Release Management
6 17 (26.56%) Incident Management
7 15 (23.44%) Data Analysis
7 15 (23.44%) Problem Management
7 15 (23.44%) Problem-Solving
8 13 (20.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 11 (17.19%) Customer Service
9 11 (17.19%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 21 (32.81%) PowerShell
2 20 (31.25%) Bicep
2 20 (31.25%) C#
2 20 (31.25%) VB
2 20 (31.25%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 35 (54.69%) Degree
2 26 (40.63%) SC Cleared
2 26 (40.63%) Security Cleared
3 20 (31.25%) DV Cleared
4 8 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
5 3 (4.69%) ECDL
6 2 (3.13%) A+ Certification
6 2 (3.13%) CCNA
6 2 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (3.13%) CompTIA Security+
6 2 (3.13%) MCITP
6 2 (3.13%) MCSA
6 2 (3.13%) Network+ Certification
6 2 (3.13%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.56%) ITIL Certification
7 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
7 1 (1.56%) MBA
7 1 (1.56%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.13%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (1.56%) SLA
System Software
1 29 (45.31%) Active Directory
2 20 (31.25%) Virtual Desktop
2 20 (31.25%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 21 (32.81%) Microsoft Intune
1 21 (32.81%) SCCM
2 20 (31.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 20 (31.25%) Kubernetes
2 20 (31.25%) SCOM
2 20 (31.25%) WSUS
Vendors
1 35 (54.69%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.25%) Apple
2 4 (6.25%) BT
3 2 (3.13%) Cisco
3 2 (3.13%) Citrix
3 2 (3.13%) Lotus
3 2 (3.13%) Okta
3 2 (3.13%) Polycom
3 2 (3.13%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.13%) Zscaler
4 1 (1.56%) BMC
4 1 (1.56%) Cegedim Rx
4 1 (1.56%) HP
4 1 (1.56%) Remedy
4 1 (1.56%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.56%) SAP