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 18 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
18 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 56 57
Rank change year-on-year -10 +1 +42
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 66 64 74
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.17% 3.59% 3.15%
As % of the Vendors category 7.09% 8.18% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 42 59
10th Percentile £310 £223 £135
25th Percentile £409 £413 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £535 £530
Median % change year-on-year -2.34% +0.94% +6.53%
75th Percentile £582 £659 £638
90th Percentile £765 £723 £719
Central London median daily rate £520 £550 £520
% change year-on-year -5.45% +5.77% +7.22%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 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 £21.98 - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - £22.50
% change year-on-year - - -4.26%

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 931 782 1,007
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 44.74% 43.88% 42.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 617 500 725
10th Percentile £353 £313 £312
25th Percentile £425 £456 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% - -1.79%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £535 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -2.77% +2.23% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 5 6
10th Percentile - £35.10 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £41.25 £13.81
Median hourly rate £20.36 £112.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -81.83% +439.76% -1.19%
75th Percentile £33.76 - £23.75
90th Percentile £41.94 £157.30 £36.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £42.50 £18.97
% change year-on-year -40.07% +124.10% -9.69%

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 18 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 (13.64%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.03%) Confluence
Applications
1 6 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (7.58%) MS Visio
3 4 (6.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 4 (6.06%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.52%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (10.61%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (15.15%) Azure
2 9 (13.64%) AWS
3 8 (12.12%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.06%) Entra ID
4 4 (6.06%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.03%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.03%) GCP
5 2 (3.03%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.03%) SaaS
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.52%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.52%) GitHub
6 1 (1.52%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.52%) IaaS
6 1 (1.52%) OneDrive
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.55%) LAN
1 3 (4.55%) Structured Cabling
1 3 (4.55%) WAN
2 2 (3.03%) VPN
3 1 (1.52%) Firewall
3 1 (1.52%) IPv4
3 1 (1.52%) IPv6
3 1 (1.52%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.03%) Metadata
1 2 (3.03%) Power BI
1 2 (3.03%) Tableau
2 1 (1.52%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.52%) DB2
2 1 (1.52%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.52%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.52%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 12 (18.18%) JIRA
2 3 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.52%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.52%) GitLab
3 1 (1.52%) JUnit
3 1 (1.52%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.52%) Selenium
3 1 (1.52%) SpecFlow
General
1 29 (43.94%) Finance
2 21 (31.82%) Social Skills
3 9 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (13.64%) Banking
4 4 (6.06%) Financial Institution
4 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
5 3 (4.55%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.55%) Retail
5 3 (4.55%) Telecoms
6 2 (3.03%) Automotive
6 2 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.03%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.52%) French Language
7 1 (1.52%) Law
7 1 (1.52%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.52%) Military
Job Titles
1 9 (13.64%) Developer
2 8 (12.12%) ServiceNow Developer
3 7 (10.61%) Architect
3 7 (10.61%) IT Support
3 7 (10.61%) Project Manager
4 6 (9.09%) Analyst
5 5 (7.58%) 1st/2nd Line Support
5 5 (7.58%) 2nd Line Support
6 4 (6.06%) IT Manager
6 4 (6.06%) ServiceNow Manager
7 3 (4.55%) Administrator
7 3 (4.55%) IT Project Manager
7 3 (4.55%) Lead
7 3 (4.55%) Network Manager
8 2 (3.03%) IT Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) Senior
8 2 (3.03%) ServiceNow Architect
8 2 (3.03%) ServiceNow Project Manager
8 2 (3.03%) SharePoint Engineer
8 2 (3.03%) SIAM Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.09%) REST
1 6 (9.09%) SOAP
2 2 (3.03%) CSS
2 2 (3.03%) HTML
2 2 (3.03%) Kafka
2 2 (3.03%) RESTful
2 2 (3.03%) XML
3 1 (1.52%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.52%) jQuery
3 1 (1.52%) JSON
3 1 (1.52%) Middleware
3 1 (1.52%) OAuth
3 1 (1.52%) OAuth2
3 1 (1.52%) Playwright
3 1 (1.52%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (1.52%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.52%) Spring
3 1 (1.52%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 10 (15.15%) CMDB
2 7 (10.61%) Onboarding
3 6 (9.09%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.55%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.03%) Cloud Native
5 2 (3.03%) Enterprise Software
6 1 (1.52%) BYOD
6 1 (1.52%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.52%) Cloud Security Posture
6 1 (1.52%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.52%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.52%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.52%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.52%) Smartphone
6 1 (1.52%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 8 (12.12%) Windows
2 3 (4.55%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.52%) Android
3 1 (1.52%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.52%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (40.91%) ITSM
2 22 (33.33%) ITIL
3 17 (25.76%) Continuous Improvement
4 16 (24.24%) Project Management
5 15 (22.73%) Agile
6 11 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 10 (15.15%) Customer Service
7 10 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
8 9 (13.64%) Project Delivery
8 9 (13.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 8 (12.12%) Change Management
10 7 (10.61%) Problem Management
10 7 (10.61%) Runbook
10 7 (10.61%) Scrum
11 6 (9.09%) DevOps
11 6 (9.09%) Service Delivery
11 6 (9.09%) User Acceptance Testing
12 5 (7.58%) Data Modelling
12 5 (7.58%) Service Management
12 5 (7.58%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.61%) JavaScript
2 4 (6.06%) SQL
3 3 (4.55%) Python
4 2 (3.03%) Java
4 2 (3.03%) PowerShell
5 1 (1.52%) C#
5 1 (1.52%) R
5 1 (1.52%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 9 (13.64%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.61%) SC Cleared
3 5 (7.58%) Degree
4 3 (4.55%) PMP
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.52%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.52%) CISSP
5 1 (1.52%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.52%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.52%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.52%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) Data Quality
1 4 (6.06%) PMO
1 4 (6.06%) QA
1 4 (6.06%) SLA
2 3 (4.55%) GDPR
2 3 (4.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
3 2 (3.03%) Accessibility
3 2 (3.03%) PCI DSS
4 1 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.52%) GRC
4 1 (1.52%) NIST
System Software
1 6 (9.09%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.03%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (3.03%) Grafana
1 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (3.03%) SCCM
1 2 (3.03%) Terraform
2 1 (1.52%) Ansible
2 1 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
2 1 (1.52%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.52%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 13 (19.70%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.12%) Remedy
3 4 (6.06%) Cisco
4 3 (4.55%) Arista
4 3 (4.55%) Dynatrace
4 3 (4.55%) Splunk
5 2 (3.03%) IBM
5 2 (3.03%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.03%) Snow
5 2 (3.03%) Workday
6 1 (1.52%) BMC
6 1 (1.52%) Citrix
6 1 (1.52%) DocuSign
6 1 (1.52%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.52%) Google
6 1 (1.52%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.52%) Planview
6 1 (1.52%) Sybase
6 1 (1.52%) VMware
6 1 (1.52%) Zerto