The ITIL 4 certifications required to be updated only when a new update to the ITIL library was released. For instance, anybody with the ITIL v3 certification was required to take an ITIL 4 Managing Professionals exam after a short re-training to upgrade their credentials to ITIL 4. This way, once the library was updated, one could transition to the latest update to keep their credentials current. However, from January 2023, all ITIL 4 certifications would be issued with a renew-by date that would be three years from the award date. Any certification holders who do not renew their certifications within three years of the award date will still be a part of the Successful Candidates Register but a note will be added to their record to indicate that their certification is not aligned with the current certification requirements.

So, if you are someone who has pursued their ITIL certification in 2023, or are planning to pursue it in the future, your certification comes with a renew-by date which would be exactly three years from the award date of the certification. But what if you already had an ITIL 4 certification, something you earned already before 2023? In that case, this is what you can do:

If you were certified before 30 June 2020, you have until 1 June 2023 to choose to renew your ITIL 4 certification, irrespective of when the certification was issued. If you were certified after June 2020, you will have the option of renewing your certificate within three years of the original award date.

If you are wondering how you can find out what your renew-by date is, allow us to help. You need to log into your PeopleCert account to get all the information about your ITIL 4 certification.