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 30 May 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
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 60 60
Rank change year-on-year -9 0 +29
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 64 59 66
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.74% 3.49% 3.06%
As % of the Vendors category 6.69% 7.69% 7.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 40 35 53
10th Percentile £305 £263 £138
25th Percentile £425 £313 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £528 £520 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.44% +4.00% -3.85%
75th Percentile £611 £638 £588
90th Percentile £738 £700 £650
Central London median daily rate £525 £523 £475
% change year-on-year +0.48% +10.00% -4.04%
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 - - -10.00%

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 957 767 930
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.00% 45.33% 43.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 622 465 684
10th Percentile £350 £313 £313
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £535 £550 £564
Median % change year-on-year -2.82% -2.44% -1.96%
75th Percentile £671 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £756 £798
Central London median daily rate £536 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 11 6
10th Percentile - £22.00 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £25.25 £13.56
Median hourly rate £19.50 £31.00 £19.75
Median % change year-on-year -37.10% +56.96% -5.95%
75th Percentile £24.22 £53.75 £23.75
90th Percentile £39.70 £100.00 £25.38
Central London median hourly rate £20.88 £29.07 £19.75
% change year-on-year -28.16% +47.19% -14.13%

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 30 May 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 2 (3.13%) Confluence
1 2 (3.13%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (1.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (10.94%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 9 (14.06%) AWS
2 6 (9.38%) Azure
3 5 (7.81%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.25%) Entra ID
4 4 (6.25%) OpenShift
5 3 (4.69%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.13%) GCP
6 2 (3.13%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon CloudWatch
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon EC2
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon ECS
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon Kinesis
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon S3
7 1 (1.56%) Amazon SQS
7 1 (1.56%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.56%) GitHub
7 1 (1.56%) Google Docs
7 1 (1.56%) IaaS
7 1 (1.56%) SaaS
7 1 (1.56%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.13%) Firewall
1 2 (3.13%) VPN
2 1 (1.56%) DHCP
2 1 (1.56%) DNS
2 1 (1.56%) IPv4
2 1 (1.56%) IPv6
2 1 (1.56%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.69%) Power BI
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%) Metadata
2 1 (1.56%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.56%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.56%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (14.06%) JIRA
2 1 (1.56%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.56%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.56%) JUnit
2 1 (1.56%) Selenium
2 1 (1.56%) SpecFlow
General
1 20 (31.25%) Finance
2 19 (29.69%) Social Skills
3 12 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (12.50%) Banking
5 6 (9.38%) Public Sector
6 4 (6.25%) Retail
7 3 (4.69%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (4.69%) Organisational Skills
8 2 (3.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.56%) Automotive
9 1 (1.56%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.56%) Law
9 1 (1.56%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.56%) Military
9 1 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.56%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (17.19%) Developer
2 10 (15.63%) Architect
2 10 (15.63%) ServiceNow Developer
3 7 (10.94%) Analyst
3 7 (10.94%) IT Support
3 7 (10.94%) ServiceNow Specialist
4 5 (7.81%) 1st/2nd Line Support
4 5 (7.81%) 2nd Line Support
5 4 (6.25%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.25%) Senior
5 4 (6.25%) ServiceNow Architect
5 4 (6.25%) ServiceNow Manager
6 3 (4.69%) Change Manager
6 3 (4.69%) Support Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Business Process Analyst
7 2 (3.13%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (3.13%) IT Support Engineer
7 2 (3.13%) Network Architect
7 2 (3.13%) Release Manager
7 2 (3.13%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (12.50%) REST
2 7 (10.94%) SOAP
3 3 (4.69%) CSS
3 3 (4.69%) HTML
4 2 (3.13%) AngularJS
4 2 (3.13%) jQuery
4 2 (3.13%) JSON
4 2 (3.13%) Kafka
4 2 (3.13%) OAuth
4 2 (3.13%) RESTful
4 2 (3.13%) XML
5 1 (1.56%) J2EE
5 1 (1.56%) JDBC
5 1 (1.56%) LDAP
5 1 (1.56%) Middleware
5 1 (1.56%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.56%) OpenID
5 1 (1.56%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.56%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.56%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 12 (18.75%) CMDB
2 8 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 5 (7.81%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.13%) Client/Server
4 2 (3.13%) Cloud Native
4 2 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.56%) BYOD
5 1 (1.56%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.56%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.56%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.56%) PKI
5 1 (1.56%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) Taxonomies
5 1 (1.56%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Windows
2 2 (3.13%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.56%) Linux
3 1 (1.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.56%) SUSE
3 1 (1.56%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (1.56%) VMS
3 1 (1.56%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (35.94%) ITIL
1 23 (35.94%) ITSM
2 15 (23.44%) Continuous Improvement
3 13 (20.31%) Agile
3 13 (20.31%) Problem-Solving
4 9 (14.06%) Risk Management
5 8 (12.50%) Project Management
5 8 (12.50%) Service Delivery
5 8 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (10.94%) Asset Management
6 7 (10.94%) Customer Service
6 7 (10.94%) Problem Management
6 7 (10.94%) Runbook
6 7 (10.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 7 (10.94%) Workflow
7 6 (9.38%) Data Modelling
8 5 (7.81%) Decision-Making
8 5 (7.81%) Project Delivery
8 5 (7.81%) Supplier Management
9 4 (6.25%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.38%) JavaScript
2 5 (7.81%) SQL
3 3 (4.69%) Java
3 3 (4.69%) PowerShell
3 3 (4.69%) Python
4 1 (1.56%) C#
4 1 (1.56%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 5 (7.81%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.25%) PMP
3 3 (4.69%) Degree
3 3 (4.69%) SC Cleared
4 2 (3.13%) ITIL Certification
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%) CISM
5 1 (1.56%) CISSP
5 1 (1.56%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.56%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.56%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.56%) MBA
5 1 (1.56%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.81%) SLA
2 3 (4.69%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.69%) GDPR
2 3 (4.69%) PMO
3 2 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.56%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.56%) COBIT
4 1 (1.56%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.56%) GRC
4 1 (1.56%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.56%) NIST
4 1 (1.56%) QA
System Software
1 6 (9.38%) Active Directory
2 1 (1.56%) Docker
2 1 (1.56%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.56%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (4.69%) SCCM
2 2 (3.13%) Grafana
2 2 (3.13%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.56%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.56%) PowerCLI
3 1 (1.56%) RSA Archer
3 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 12 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 8 (12.50%) Remedy
3 4 (6.25%) Workday
4 3 (4.69%) BMC
4 3 (4.69%) Oracle
5 2 (3.13%) Cisco
5 2 (3.13%) Dynatrace
5 2 (3.13%) Freshdesk
5 2 (3.13%) Google
5 2 (3.13%) IBM
5 2 (3.13%) Nexthink
5 2 (3.13%) Salesforce
5 2 (3.13%) SAP
5 2 (3.13%) Snow
5 2 (3.13%) Splunk
5 2 (3.13%) VMware
6 1 (1.56%) BiZZdesign
6 1 (1.56%) ForeScout
6 1 (1.56%) Zerto
6 1 (1.56%) Zscaler