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 29 August 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
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 72 77
Rank change year-on-year +7 +5 +26
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 79 54 47
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.40% 2.98% 2.27%
As % of the Vendors category 7.87% 6.12% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 57 28 35
10th Percentile £291 £249 £141
25th Percentile £481 £291 £279
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £538 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% +7.55% -8.26%
75th Percentile £644 £638 £580
90th Percentile £730 £683 £614
Central London median daily rate £530 £538 £499
% change year-on-year -1.44% +7.82% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.75 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £19.00
75th Percentile £21.94 - £19.50
90th Percentile £32.75 - -
Central London median hourly rate £20.25 - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -64.15%

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 1,004 883 917
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 43.20% 48.70% 44.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 696 578 615
10th Percentile £353 £319 £344
25th Percentile £450 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
75th Percentile £656 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £756
Central London median daily rate £538 £537 £550
% change year-on-year +0.14% -2.41% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 13 11
10th Percentile - £20.23 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £23.75 £19.50
Median hourly rate £22.50 £34.65 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.06% +28.33% -25.52%
75th Percentile £28.57 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.30 £65.21 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £23.58 £29.07 £27.00
% change year-on-year -18.89% +7.67% -25.52%

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

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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

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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 29 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ServiceNow in the City of London

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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

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Hourly Rate Histogram in the City of London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ServiceNow in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 August 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ServiceNow in the City of London

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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 10 (12.66%) SharePoint
2 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Exchange
3 3 (3.80%) Confluence
4 1 (1.27%) nginx
Applications
1 6 (7.59%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (2.53%) MS Visio
4 1 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 8 (10.13%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.27%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 17 (21.52%) Azure
2 11 (13.92%) Microsoft 365
3 10 (12.66%) AWS
4 7 (8.86%) OneDrive
5 6 (7.59%) Power Platform
6 4 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (5.06%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.06%) GCP
6 4 (5.06%) GitHub
7 3 (3.80%) Power Automate
7 3 (3.80%) PowerApps
8 2 (2.53%) Azure Functions
8 2 (2.53%) Azure Logic Apps
8 2 (2.53%) Copilot Studio
8 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Copilot
8 2 (2.53%) OpenShift
8 2 (2.53%) Serverless
9 1 (1.27%) Dynamics 365
9 1 (1.27%) IaaS
9 1 (1.27%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (12.66%) DNS
2 7 (8.86%) TCP/IP
2 7 (8.86%) VPN
3 6 (7.59%) DHCP
4 5 (6.33%) Firewall
5 4 (5.06%) SSH
6 2 (2.53%) BGP
6 2 (2.53%) SSL
6 2 (2.53%) Value-Added Service
6 2 (2.53%) VLAN
6 2 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (1.27%) Ethernet VPN
7 1 (1.27%) HTTP
7 1 (1.27%) MPLS
7 1 (1.27%) OSPF
7 1 (1.27%) Reverse Proxy
7 1 (1.27%) SD-WAN
7 1 (1.27%) SNMP
7 1 (1.27%) TACACS
7 1 (1.27%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.59%) SQL Server
2 5 (6.33%) Power BI
3 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.27%) MySQL
4 1 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
4 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
4 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Integration Services
4 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (20.25%) JIRA
2 4 (5.06%) Jenkins
3 3 (3.80%) Git
3 3 (3.80%) GitLab
4 2 (2.53%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.53%) Bitbucket
General
1 26 (32.91%) Social Skills
2 25 (31.65%) Finance
3 14 (17.72%) Analytical Skills
4 9 (11.39%) Banking
4 9 (11.39%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.33%) Law
5 5 (6.33%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.53%) Front Office
7 2 (2.53%) Retail
8 1 (1.27%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.27%) Legal
8 1 (1.27%) Military
8 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (17.72%) Developer
2 12 (15.19%) Architect
2 12 (15.19%) ServiceNow Developer
3 10 (12.66%) Support Engineer
4 9 (11.39%) ServiceNow Specialist
5 8 (10.13%) Analyst
6 7 (8.86%) IT Support
7 6 (7.59%) ServiceNow Architect
8 5 (6.33%) Senior
9 3 (3.80%) Applications Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Applications Support
9 3 (3.80%) Applications Support Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) IT Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) IT Support Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Platform Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Project Manager
9 3 (3.80%) Senior Architect
10 2 (2.53%) Business Analyst
10 2 (2.53%) Consultant
10 2 (2.53%) Desktop Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (13.92%) REST
2 7 (8.86%) SOAP
3 4 (5.06%) Terraform
4 3 (3.80%) JSON
5 2 (2.53%) .NET
5 2 (2.53%) CSS
5 2 (2.53%) HTML
5 2 (2.53%) LDAP
5 2 (2.53%) OAuth
5 2 (2.53%) OpenTelemetry
5 2 (2.53%) XML
6 1 (1.27%) Ajax
6 1 (1.27%) AngularJS
6 1 (1.27%) boto
6 1 (1.27%) Jakarta EE
6 1 (1.27%) JDBC
6 1 (1.27%) jQuery
6 1 (1.27%) OpenID
6 1 (1.27%) OpenTofu
6 1 (1.27%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.46%) CMDB
2 10 (12.66%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.06%) Video Conferencing
4 3 (3.80%) Data Centre
4 3 (3.80%) PKI
5 2 (2.53%) AI Agents
5 2 (2.53%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.53%) Low-Code
5 2 (2.53%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (2.53%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.27%) BYOD
6 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.27%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.27%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.27%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 19 (24.05%) Windows
2 7 (8.86%) Linux
3 5 (6.33%) Windows 10
4 4 (5.06%) Windows Server
5 2 (2.53%) Mac OS
5 2 (2.53%) VMS
6 1 (1.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (1.27%) SUSE
6 1 (1.27%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
6 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2016
6 1 (1.27%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (43.04%) ITSM
2 21 (26.58%) Problem-Solving
3 19 (24.05%) ITIL
4 12 (15.19%) Asset Management
4 12 (15.19%) Service Management
5 11 (13.92%) Agile
5 11 (13.92%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (12.66%) Data Modelling
7 9 (11.39%) Problem Management
7 9 (11.39%) Risk Management
7 9 (11.39%) Service Delivery
7 9 (11.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (11.39%) Workflow
8 8 (10.13%) Customer Service
9 7 (8.86%) DevOps
9 7 (8.86%) Enterprise Architecture
9 7 (8.86%) Migration
10 6 (7.59%) Configuration Management
10 6 (7.59%) Incident Management
10 6 (7.59%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 9 (11.39%) PowerShell
2 8 (10.13%) Python
3 5 (6.33%) SQL
4 4 (5.06%) Bash
4 4 (5.06%) Java
5 2 (2.53%) JavaScript
6 1 (1.27%) Korn
Qualifications
1 19 (24.05%) Security Cleared
2 15 (18.99%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.06%) Degree
4 2 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.53%) PMP
5 1 (1.27%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.27%) CCNA
5 1 (1.27%) CCNP
5 1 (1.27%) CESG Certified Professional
5 1 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.27%) CISM
5 1 (1.27%) CISSP
5 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.27%) MBA
5 1 (1.27%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.27%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.33%) Data Quality
1 5 (6.33%) SLA
2 4 (5.06%) GDPR
2 4 (5.06%) PMO
3 3 (3.80%) GRC
4 2 (2.53%) Accessibility
4 2 (2.53%) QA
4 2 (2.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.27%) COBIT
5 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.27%) HIPAA
5 1 (1.27%) ISO/IEC 19770
System Software
1 9 (11.39%) Active Directory
2 4 (5.06%) VMware Infrastructure
3 3 (3.80%) Docker
4 2 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (1.27%) Hyper-V
5 1 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
5 1 (1.27%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (6.33%) SCCM
1 5 (6.33%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (5.06%) Ansible
2 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.80%) ITRS Geneos
4 2 (2.53%) Grafana
4 2 (2.53%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.53%) PowerCLI
4 2 (2.53%) Rundeck
5 1 (1.27%) RSA Archer
5 1 (1.27%) SCOM
5 1 (1.27%) SCOrch
5 1 (1.27%) SELinux
Vendors
1 29 (36.71%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.13%) Remedy
3 7 (8.86%) Oracle
4 5 (6.33%) Cisco
4 5 (6.33%) Dynatrace
4 5 (6.33%) VMware
5 4 (5.06%) Google
6 3 (3.80%) Adobe
6 3 (3.80%) Bloomberg
6 3 (3.80%) Okta
6 3 (3.80%) Red Hat
6 3 (3.80%) SAP
7 2 (2.53%) Autodesk
7 2 (2.53%) BMC
7 2 (2.53%) CyberArk
7 2 (2.53%) ION Trading
7 2 (2.53%) Nexthink
7 2 (2.53%) OneTrust
7 2 (2.53%) Refinitiv
7 2 (2.53%) Symantec