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 2 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
2 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 68 73
Rank change year-on-year +4 +5 +15
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 79 62 57
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.29% 3.29% 2.77%
As % of the Vendors category 7.87% 6.95% 6.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 34 44
10th Percentile £293 £232 £139
25th Percentile £453 £350 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% -
75th Percentile £642 £656 £586
90th Percentile £739 £700 £610
Central London median daily rate £530 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.75 - £18.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £19.00
75th Percentile £20.25 - £19.50
90th Percentile £26.60 - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - £19.00
% change year-on-year - - -51.28%

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 1,004 892 905
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 41.82% 47.27% 43.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 679 573 645
10th Percentile £356 £325 £350
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - -1.79%
75th Percentile £659 £675 £663
90th Percentile £750 £751 £758
Central London median daily rate £538 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -2.27% +2.23% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 14 11
10th Percentile - £22.53 £16.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.91 £19.50
Median hourly rate £19.50 £38.58 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year -49.45% +42.87% -25.52%
75th Percentile £25.12 £63.75 £115.00
90th Percentile £42.13 £89.67 £137.50
Central London median hourly rate £22.50 £32.83 £34.25
% change year-on-year -31.45% -4.16% +37.00%

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 2 August 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
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 2 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 8 (10.13%) SharePoint
2 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.53%) Confluence
4 1 (1.27%) nginx
Applications
1 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.53%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.53%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 11 (13.92%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.27%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.27%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 16 (20.25%) Azure
2 11 (13.92%) AWS
3 7 (8.86%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (6.33%) Power Platform
5 4 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.06%) Entra ID
5 4 (5.06%) GCP
5 4 (5.06%) OneDrive
6 3 (3.80%) GitHub
7 2 (2.53%) Amazon EC2
7 2 (2.53%) GitHub Actions
7 2 (2.53%) OpenShift
7 2 (2.53%) Power Automate
7 2 (2.53%) PowerApps
7 2 (2.53%) Serverless
8 1 (1.27%) AWS CodeBuild
8 1 (1.27%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (1.27%) Google Docs
8 1 (1.27%) Google Sheets
8 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 8 (10.13%) DNS
2 6 (7.59%) Firewall
3 5 (6.33%) DHCP
3 5 (6.33%) TCP/IP
3 5 (6.33%) VPN
4 3 (3.80%) SSH
5 2 (2.53%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.27%) BGP
6 1 (1.27%) HTTP
6 1 (1.27%) LAN
6 1 (1.27%) MPLS
6 1 (1.27%) Network Security
6 1 (1.27%) OpenVPN
6 1 (1.27%) OSPF
6 1 (1.27%) Reverse Proxy
6 1 (1.27%) SNMP
6 1 (1.27%) SSL
6 1 (1.27%) VLAN
6 1 (1.27%) WAN
6 1 (1.27%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.06%) Power BI
1 4 (5.06%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.53%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.27%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.27%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.27%) Db2
3 1 (1.27%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.27%) Metadata
3 1 (1.27%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.27%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (1.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (20.25%) JIRA
2 4 (5.06%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.53%) Git
3 2 (2.53%) GitLab
4 1 (1.27%) Artifactory
4 1 (1.27%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.27%) JUnit
General
1 28 (35.44%) Finance
1 28 (35.44%) Social Skills
2 14 (17.72%) Analytical Skills
3 13 (16.46%) Banking
4 9 (11.39%) Public Sector
5 4 (5.06%) Organisational Skills
6 3 (3.80%) Law
6 3 (3.80%) Retail
6 3 (3.80%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.53%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.53%) Military
8 1 (1.27%) Automotive
8 1 (1.27%) Front Office
8 1 (1.27%) Legal
8 1 (1.27%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 12 (15.19%) Developer
2 11 (13.92%) Architect
3 10 (12.66%) IT Support
3 10 (12.66%) ServiceNow Developer
4 9 (11.39%) Analyst
5 8 (10.13%) ServiceNow Specialist
6 7 (8.86%) Support Engineer
7 6 (7.59%) Senior
7 6 (7.59%) ServiceNow Architect
8 5 (6.33%) 1st/2nd Line Support
8 5 (6.33%) 2nd Line Support
9 3 (3.80%) Consultant
9 3 (3.80%) IT Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) IT Support Engineer
9 3 (3.80%) Project Manager
9 3 (3.80%) Senior Architect
9 3 (3.80%) Service Analyst
10 2 (2.53%) Automation Specialist
10 2 (2.53%) Change and Release Manager
10 2 (2.53%) Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (11.39%) REST
2 7 (8.86%) SOAP
3 3 (3.80%) CSS
3 3 (3.80%) HTML
3 3 (3.80%) JSON
3 3 (3.80%) XML
4 2 (2.53%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.53%) jQuery
4 2 (2.53%) Kafka
4 2 (2.53%) LDAP
4 2 (2.53%) OAuth
4 2 (2.53%) OpenTelemetry
4 2 (2.53%) RESTful
5 1 (1.27%) .NET
5 1 (1.27%) boto
5 1 (1.27%) Jakarta EE
5 1 (1.27%) JDBC
5 1 (1.27%) OAuth2
5 1 (1.27%) Spring Boot
5 1 (1.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 13 (16.46%) CMDB
2 9 (11.39%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.80%) Client/Server
3 3 (3.80%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.53%) AI Agents
4 2 (2.53%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.53%) PKI
4 2 (2.53%) Taxonomies
4 2 (2.53%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.27%) BYOD
5 1 (1.27%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.27%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.27%) Low-Code
5 1 (1.27%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.27%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.27%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 15 (18.99%) Windows
2 6 (7.59%) Linux
3 4 (5.06%) Windows 10
4 3 (3.80%) Windows Server
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 32 (40.51%) ITSM
2 20 (25.32%) ITIL
3 18 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
4 14 (17.72%) Problem Management
5 13 (16.46%) Agile
6 11 (13.92%) Customer Service
6 11 (13.92%) Data Modelling
7 10 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (12.66%) Service Management
8 9 (11.39%) Asset Management
8 9 (11.39%) Risk Management
8 9 (11.39%) Workflow
9 7 (8.86%) AI
9 7 (8.86%) Enterprise Architecture
9 7 (8.86%) Project Management
9 7 (8.86%) Service Delivery
9 7 (8.86%) Stakeholder Management
10 6 (7.59%) DevOps
10 6 (7.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 5 (6.33%) IT Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (10.13%) PowerShell
2 7 (8.86%) Python
3 6 (7.59%) SQL
4 4 (5.06%) Java
4 4 (5.06%) JavaScript
5 3 (3.80%) Bash
6 1 (1.27%) C#
6 1 (1.27%) Korn
6 1 (1.27%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 16 (20.25%) Security Cleared
2 11 (13.92%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.06%) Degree
4 3 (3.80%) PMP
5 2 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
5 2 (2.53%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.27%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.27%) AWS Certification
6 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Developer
6 1 (1.27%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 1 (1.27%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.27%) CCNA
6 1 (1.27%) CCNP
6 1 (1.27%) CESG Certified Professional
6 1 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.27%) CISM
6 1 (1.27%) CISSP
6 1 (1.27%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.27%) Master's Degree
6 1 (1.27%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.06%) GDPR
1 4 (5.06%) PMO
2 3 (3.80%) Data Quality
2 3 (3.80%) GRC
2 3 (3.80%) SLA
3 2 (2.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.27%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.27%) COBIT
4 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.27%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.27%) QA
System Software
1 8 (10.13%) Active Directory
2 3 (3.80%) Docker
3 2 (2.53%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (1.27%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (6.33%) Single Sign-On
2 4 (5.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 4 (5.06%) SCCM
2 4 (5.06%) Terraform
3 3 (3.80%) Ansible
3 3 (3.80%) Kubernetes
4 2 (2.53%) ITRS Geneos
5 1 (1.27%) Grafana
5 1 (1.27%) PowerCLI
5 1 (1.27%) RSA Archer
5 1 (1.27%) Rundeck
5 1 (1.27%) SELinux
Vendors
1 25 (31.65%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.19%) Remedy
3 5 (6.33%) Oracle
4 4 (5.06%) Dynatrace
5 3 (3.80%) Cisco
5 3 (3.80%) Google
5 3 (3.80%) Okta
5 3 (3.80%) Splunk
5 3 (3.80%) Workday
6 2 (2.53%) Bloomberg
6 2 (2.53%) BMC
6 2 (2.53%) CyberArk
6 2 (2.53%) ForeScout
6 2 (2.53%) Freshdesk
6 2 (2.53%) Nexthink
6 2 (2.53%) OneTrust
6 2 (2.53%) Red Hat
6 2 (2.53%) Salesforce
6 2 (2.53%) SAP
6 2 (2.53%) VMware