ServiceNow Contract Job Trends in the City of London

ServiceNow
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring knowledge or experience of ServiceNow products and/or services. It includes a benchmarking guide to contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited ServiceNow over the 6 months leading up to 10 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

The figures below represent the IT contractor job market in general and are not representative of contractor rates within ServiceNow.

6 months to
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 58 58
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +48
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 64 62 74
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.16% 3.43% 3.14%
As % of the Vendors category 6.93% 7.91% 7.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 43 59
10th Percentile £310 £257 £131
25th Percentile £409 £391 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £520 £530
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% -1.89% +6.00%
75th Percentile £582 £656 £638
90th Percentile £765 £720 £719
Central London median daily rate £520 £525 £523
% change year-on-year -0.95% +0.48% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.75 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £22.50
75th Percentile £20.25 - £23.75
90th Percentile £22.32 - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - £22.50
% change year-on-year - - +2.27%

All Vendors
City of London

ServiceNow falls under the Vendor Products and Services category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring knowledge or experience of all vendor products and services in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 924 784 1,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 45.56% 43.43% 42.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 611 498 726
10th Percentile £353 £313 £305
25th Percentile £425 £454 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -2.27% +1.85% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 8
10th Percentile - £35.10 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £41.25 £15.94
Median hourly rate £21.31 £112.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -80.97% +489.47% -8.23%
75th Percentile £37.76 - £23.75
90th Percentile £42.50 £157.30 £31.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £77.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year -67.03% +306.58% -9.52%

ServiceNow
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ServiceNow relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

ServiceNow job vacancy trend in the City of London

ServiceNow
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ServiceNow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ServiceNow

ServiceNow
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ServiceNow in the City of London over the 6 months to 10 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ServiceNow in the City of London

ServiceNow
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ServiceNow.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing ServiceNow

ServiceNow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 9 (14.06%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.13%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.81%) MS Visio
3 4 (6.25%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.56%) Trello
Business Applications
1 6 (9.38%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.63%) Azure
2 9 (14.06%) AWS
3 8 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 4 (6.25%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.13%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.13%) GCP
5 2 (3.13%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.13%) SaaS
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.56%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.56%) GitHub
6 1 (1.56%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.56%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.56%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.69%) LAN
1 3 (4.69%) Structured Cabling
1 3 (4.69%) WAN
2 2 (3.13%) VPN
3 1 (1.56%) Firewall
3 1 (1.56%) IPv4
3 1 (1.56%) IPv6
3 1 (1.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.13%) Metadata
1 2 (3.13%) Power BI
1 2 (3.13%) Tableau
2 1 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.56%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.56%) DB2
2 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 11 (17.19%) JIRA
2 3 (4.69%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.56%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.56%) GitLab
3 1 (1.56%) JUnit
3 1 (1.56%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.56%) Selenium
3 1 (1.56%) SpecFlow
General
1 27 (42.19%) Finance
2 20 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 9 (14.06%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.50%) Banking
5 4 (6.25%) Financial Institution
5 4 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (4.69%) Retail
6 3 (4.69%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.13%) Automotive
7 2 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.56%) French Language
8 1 (1.56%) Law
8 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.56%) Military
Job Titles
1 8 (12.50%) Developer
2 7 (10.94%) Architect
2 7 (10.94%) Project Manager
2 7 (10.94%) ServiceNow Developer
3 6 (9.38%) Analyst
3 6 (9.38%) IT Support
4 4 (6.25%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 4 (6.25%) 2nd Line Support
4 4 (6.25%) IT Manager
4 4 (6.25%) ServiceNow Manager
5 3 (4.69%) Administrator
5 3 (4.69%) IT Project Manager
5 3 (4.69%) Lead
5 3 (4.69%) Network Manager
6 2 (3.13%) Consultant
6 2 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
6 2 (3.13%) Desktop Support
6 2 (3.13%) Network Architect
6 2 (3.13%) Network Project Manager
6 2 (3.13%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.38%) REST
1 6 (9.38%) SOAP
2 2 (3.13%) CSS
2 2 (3.13%) HTML
2 2 (3.13%) Kafka
2 2 (3.13%) RESTful
2 2 (3.13%) XML
3 1 (1.56%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.56%) jQuery
3 1 (1.56%) JSON
3 1 (1.56%) Middleware
3 1 (1.56%) OAuth
3 1 (1.56%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.56%) Playwright
3 1 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.56%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.56%) Spring
3 1 (1.56%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.63%) CMDB
2 7 (10.94%) Onboarding
3 6 (9.38%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.69%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.56%) BYOD
6 1 (1.56%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.56%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.56%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.56%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.56%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.56%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.50%) Windows
2 3 (4.69%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.56%) Android
3 1 (1.56%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.56%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (40.63%) ITSM
2 22 (34.38%) ITIL
3 17 (26.56%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (25.00%) Project Management
5 15 (23.44%) Agile
6 11 (17.19%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (15.63%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (14.06%) Customer Service
8 9 (14.06%) Project Delivery
8 9 (14.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (12.50%) Change Management
10 7 (10.94%) Runbook
10 7 (10.94%) Scrum
11 6 (9.38%) DevOps
11 6 (9.38%) Problem Management
11 6 (9.38%) Service Delivery
11 6 (9.38%) User Acceptance Testing
12 5 (7.81%) Portfolio Management
12 5 (7.81%) Service Management
12 5 (7.81%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.94%) JavaScript
2 4 (6.25%) SQL
3 3 (4.69%) Python
4 2 (3.13%) Java
4 2 (3.13%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.56%) C#
5 1 (1.56%) R
5 1 (1.56%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 9 (14.06%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.94%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.81%) Degree
4 3 (4.69%) PMP
5 1 (1.56%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.56%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.56%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.56%) CISSP
5 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.56%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.25%) Data Quality
1 4 (6.25%) PMO
1 4 (6.25%) QA
1 4 (6.25%) SLA
2 3 (4.69%) GDPR
2 3 (4.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.13%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.56%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.56%) GRC
4 1 (1.56%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.13%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.13%) Grafana
1 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (3.13%) SCCM
1 2 (3.13%) Terraform
2 1 (1.56%) Ansible
2 1 (1.56%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.56%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.56%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 13 (20.31%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.94%) Remedy
3 4 (6.25%) Cisco
4 3 (4.69%) Arista
4 3 (4.69%) Dynatrace
4 3 (4.69%) Splunk
5 2 (3.13%) IBM
5 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.13%) Snow
5 2 (3.13%) Workday
6 1 (1.56%) BMC
6 1 (1.56%) Canon
6 1 (1.56%) Citrix
6 1 (1.56%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.56%) Google
6 1 (1.56%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.56%) Planview
6 1 (1.56%) Sybase
6 1 (1.56%) VMware
6 1 (1.56%) Zerto