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 20 January 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
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 77 66 66
Rank change year-on-year -11 0 +61
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 49 53 65
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.66% 2.85% 2.68%
As % of the Vendors category 5.52% 6.70% 6.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 37 53
10th Percentile £244 £260 £210
25th Percentile £353 £350 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -13.04% +3.37%
75th Percentile £575 £650 £675
90th Percentile £746 £710 £733
Central London median daily rate £510 £525 £570
% change year-on-year -2.86% -7.89% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £20.82 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £22.27 - £22.50
75th Percentile £23.71 - £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median hourly rate £22.27 - £22.50
% change year-on-year - - +8.43%

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 888 791 1,017
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 48.26% 42.55% 41.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 619 481 728
10th Percentile £350 £313 £329
25th Percentile £416 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -7.08% +2.73% -2.27%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £765 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 7 5 7
10th Percentile £20.02 £23.25 -
25th Percentile £20.50 £41.25 £17.00
Median hourly rate £25.77 £112.00 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -76.99% +397.78% +9.76%
75th Percentile £41.85 - £36.25
90th Percentile £44.16 £127.30 £60.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £77.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year -67.03% +306.58% -7.78%

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 20 January 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 10 (20.41%) SharePoint
2 2 (4.08%) Confluence
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (10.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (10.20%) MS Visio
3 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (2.04%) Trello
Business Applications
1 5 (10.20%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.41%) Azure
1 10 (20.41%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (16.33%) AWS
3 4 (8.16%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.16%) Entra ID
3 4 (8.16%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.08%) OneDrive
4 2 (4.08%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.08%) SaaS
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon ELB
5 1 (2.04%) Asana
5 1 (2.04%) AWS CloudFormation
5 1 (2.04%) GCP
5 1 (2.04%) Power Automate
5 1 (2.04%) Rubrik
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.16%) LAN
1 4 (8.16%) WAN
2 3 (6.12%) Structured Cabling
3 2 (4.08%) VPN
4 1 (2.04%) Cisco Wireless
4 1 (2.04%) IPv4
4 1 (2.04%) IPv6
4 1 (2.04%) NetScaler
4 1 (2.04%) SSL
4 1 (2.04%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (2.04%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.08%) Power BI
2 1 (2.04%) Metadata
2 1 (2.04%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.04%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (14.29%) JIRA
2 2 (4.08%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.04%) Cypress.io
3 1 (2.04%) GitLab
3 1 (2.04%) REST Assured
3 1 (2.04%) Selenium
3 1 (2.04%) SpecFlow
General
1 16 (32.65%) Finance
2 15 (30.61%) Social Skills
3 6 (12.24%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (8.16%) Banking
5 3 (6.12%) Financial Institution
5 3 (6.12%) Public Sector
5 3 (6.12%) Telecoms
6 2 (4.08%) Automotive
6 2 (4.08%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (2.04%) French Language
7 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (2.04%) Law
7 1 (2.04%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (18.37%) Developer
1 9 (18.37%) ServiceNow Developer
2 6 (12.24%) Architect
3 4 (8.16%) Analyst
3 4 (8.16%) IT Manager
3 4 (8.16%) Project Manager
4 3 (6.12%) IT Project Manager
4 3 (6.12%) Lead
4 3 (6.12%) Network Manager
4 3 (6.12%) ServiceNow Architect
5 2 (4.08%) Administrator
5 2 (4.08%) IT Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) Network Architect
5 2 (4.08%) Network Project Manager
5 2 (4.08%) Senior
5 2 (4.08%) Service Manager
5 2 (4.08%) SharePoint Engineer
5 2 (4.08%) SIAM Manager
6 1 (2.04%) IT Analyst
6 1 (2.04%) ITIL Service Management Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.29%) REST
1 7 (14.29%) SOAP
2 2 (4.08%) HTML
3 1 (2.04%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Camel
3 1 (2.04%) CSS
3 1 (2.04%) HTML5
3 1 (2.04%) JDBC
3 1 (2.04%) jQuery
3 1 (2.04%) JSON
3 1 (2.04%) LDAP
3 1 (2.04%) ODBC
3 1 (2.04%) Playwright
3 1 (2.04%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.04%) SailPoint
3 1 (2.04%) SAML
3 1 (2.04%) Web Services
3 1 (2.04%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (16.33%) CMDB
2 6 (12.24%) Onboarding
3 3 (6.12%) Data Centre
4 2 (4.08%) Product Ownership
5 1 (2.04%) BYOD
5 1 (2.04%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (2.04%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (2.04%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (2.04%) Security Posture
5 1 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (2.04%) Smartphone
5 1 (2.04%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (18.37%) Windows
2 3 (6.12%) Windows 10
3 2 (4.08%) Mac OS
4 1 (2.04%) Android
4 1 (2.04%) Apple iOS
4 1 (2.04%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (48.98%) ITSM
2 16 (32.65%) ITIL
3 13 (26.53%) Continuous Improvement
4 11 (22.45%) Agile
4 11 (22.45%) Project Management
5 10 (20.41%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (14.29%) DevOps
6 7 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (14.29%) Scrum
6 7 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 6 (12.24%) Runbook
7 6 (12.24%) Service Management
8 5 (10.20%) Change Management
8 5 (10.20%) Customer Experience
8 5 (10.20%) Project Delivery
8 5 (10.20%) User Acceptance Testing
9 4 (8.16%) Customer Service
9 4 (8.16%) Logistics
9 4 (8.16%) Roadmaps
9 4 (8.16%) SIAM
Programming Languages
1 7 (14.29%) JavaScript
2 3 (6.12%) PowerShell
2 3 (6.12%) Python
3 1 (2.04%) Java
3 1 (2.04%) Perl
3 1 (2.04%) R
3 1 (2.04%) SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (16.33%) Security Cleared
2 7 (14.29%) SC Cleared
3 4 (8.16%) Degree
4 1 (2.04%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.04%) CISSP
4 1 (2.04%) ISTQB
4 1 (2.04%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) SLA
2 4 (8.16%) QA
3 3 (6.12%) Data Quality
3 3 (6.12%) PMO
4 2 (4.08%) Accessibility
4 2 (4.08%) GDPR
4 2 (4.08%) NIST
4 2 (4.08%) PCI DSS
4 2 (4.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (2.04%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (2.04%) COBIT
5 1 (2.04%) GRC
5 1 (2.04%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (10.20%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.16%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (8.16%) SCCM
2 2 (4.08%) Terraform
3 1 (2.04%) Ansible
3 1 (2.04%) Grafana
3 1 (2.04%) Jamf Pro
3 1 (2.04%) RSA Archer
3 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 14 (28.57%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.20%) Remedy
3 4 (8.16%) Cisco
4 3 (6.12%) Arista
5 2 (4.08%) BMC
5 2 (4.08%) Citrix
5 2 (4.08%) Dynatrace
5 2 (4.08%) IBM
5 2 (4.08%) Snow
5 2 (4.08%) Splunk
6 1 (2.04%) Bloomberg
6 1 (2.04%) Canon
6 1 (2.04%) DocuSign
6 1 (2.04%) F5
6 1 (2.04%) HP
6 1 (2.04%) Ivanti
6 1 (2.04%) Reuters
6 1 (2.04%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.04%) VMware
6 1 (2.04%) Zerto