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 July 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 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 65 65
Rank change year-on-year -4 0 +24
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 73 56 61
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 2.97% 3.15% 2.86%
As % of the Vendors category 7.26% 6.91% 6.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 33 49
10th Percentile £328 £263 £147
25th Percentile £472 £315 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +10.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £663 £675 £600
90th Percentile £758 £701 £650
Central London median daily rate £530 £550 £499
% change year-on-year -3.64% +10.28% +0.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.75 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £22.50
75th Percentile £20.25 - £23.75
90th Percentile £26.60 - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - £22.50
% change year-on-year - - -42.31%

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 1,006 811 949
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 40.99% 45.59% 44.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 662 501 694
10th Percentile £365 £313 £341
25th Percentile £450 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £558
Median % change year-on-year - -1.48% -1.63%
75th Percentile £668 £675 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £788
Central London median daily rate £550 £550 £550
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 8
10th Percentile - £22.35 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £26.75 £15.19
Median hourly rate £19.50 £34.65 £21.75
Median % change year-on-year -43.72% +59.31% -40.00%
75th Percentile £27.08 £63.75 £27.00
90th Percentile £42.13 £93.11 £63.53
Central London median hourly rate £22.08 £31.00 £21.75
% change year-on-year -28.77% +42.53% -13.00%

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

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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 2 July 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

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 July 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 4 (5.48%) SharePoint
2 2 (2.74%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.74%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 9 (12.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.37%) Aladdin
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Payables
2 1 (1.37%) Oracle Receivables
Cloud Services
1 10 (13.70%) Azure
2 5 (6.85%) AWS
3 4 (5.48%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (5.48%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.11%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.74%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.37%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.37%) AWS CloudFormation
6 1 (1.37%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.37%) GCP
6 1 (1.37%) GitHub
6 1 (1.37%) IaaS
6 1 (1.37%) OneDrive
6 1 (1.37%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.37%) SaaS
6 1 (1.37%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.48%) Firewall
2 2 (2.74%) DHCP
2 2 (2.74%) DNS
2 2 (2.74%) VPN
3 1 (1.37%) BGP
3 1 (1.37%) LAN
3 1 (1.37%) MPLS
3 1 (1.37%) Network Security
3 1 (1.37%) OSPF
3 1 (1.37%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.37%) SNMP
3 1 (1.37%) WAN
3 1 (1.37%) WebEx
3 1 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (4.11%) Power BI
2 2 (2.74%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.37%) Amazon RDS
3 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (1.37%) Db2
3 1 (1.37%) DynamoDB
3 1 (1.37%) Metadata
3 1 (1.37%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
3 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Analysis Services
3 1 (1.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.37%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (20.55%) JIRA
2 1 (1.37%) Cypress.io
2 1 (1.37%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.37%) JUnit
2 1 (1.37%) Selenium
2 1 (1.37%) SpecFlow
General
1 27 (36.99%) Finance
2 24 (32.88%) Social Skills
3 13 (17.81%) Banking
4 12 (16.44%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (9.59%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.48%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (5.48%) Retail
7 3 (4.11%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.74%) Financial Institution
8 2 (2.74%) Military
9 1 (1.37%) Automotive
9 1 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.37%) Law
9 1 (1.37%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.37%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (15.07%) Architect
1 11 (15.07%) Developer
2 10 (13.70%) ServiceNow Developer
3 9 (12.33%) IT Support
4 8 (10.96%) Analyst
4 8 (10.96%) ServiceNow Specialist
5 6 (8.22%) ServiceNow Architect
6 5 (6.85%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 5 (6.85%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (6.85%) Project Manager
6 5 (6.85%) Senior
7 4 (5.48%) ServiceNow Manager
7 4 (5.48%) Support Engineer
8 3 (4.11%) Solutions Architect
9 2 (2.74%) Business Process Analyst
9 2 (2.74%) Change Manager
9 2 (2.74%) Consultant
9 2 (2.74%) Delivery Manager
9 2 (2.74%) Process Analyst
9 2 (2.74%) Service Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (12.33%) REST
2 7 (9.59%) SOAP
3 3 (4.11%) CSS
3 3 (4.11%) HTML
3 3 (4.11%) JSON
3 3 (4.11%) XML
4 2 (2.74%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.74%) jQuery
4 2 (2.74%) Kafka
4 2 (2.74%) LDAP
4 2 (2.74%) OAuth
4 2 (2.74%) RESTful
5 1 (1.37%) J2EE
5 1 (1.37%) JDBC
5 1 (1.37%) Middleware
5 1 (1.37%) OpenID
5 1 (1.37%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (1.37%) SailPoint
5 1 (1.37%) SAML
5 1 (1.37%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 11 (15.07%) CMDB
2 5 (6.85%) Onboarding
3 4 (5.48%) Product Ownership
4 2 (2.74%) Client/Server
4 2 (2.74%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.74%) Enterprise Software
4 2 (2.74%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (2.74%) Taxonomies
4 2 (2.74%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.37%) BYOD
5 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.37%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Storage
5 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.37%) PKI
5 1 (1.37%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.37%) Web Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (13.70%) Windows
2 2 (2.74%) Linux
3 1 (1.37%) Mac OS
3 1 (1.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 1 (1.37%) SUSE
3 1 (1.37%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
3 1 (1.37%) VMS
3 1 (1.37%) Windows 10
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2012
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2016
3 1 (1.37%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (35.62%) ITSM
2 18 (24.66%) ITIL
3 15 (20.55%) Agile
4 13 (17.81%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (15.07%) Continuous Improvement
6 10 (13.70%) Problem Management
7 9 (12.33%) Asset Management
7 9 (12.33%) Customer Service
7 9 (12.33%) Data Modelling
7 9 (12.33%) Project Management
7 9 (12.33%) Risk Management
7 9 (12.33%) Workflow
8 8 (10.96%) Service Delivery
8 8 (10.96%) Service Management
8 8 (10.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 6 (8.22%) Enterprise Architecture
10 5 (6.85%) AI
10 5 (6.85%) Decision-Making
10 5 (6.85%) Project Delivery
11 4 (5.48%) Matrix Organization
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.22%) SQL
2 5 (6.85%) JavaScript
3 4 (5.48%) PowerShell
3 4 (5.48%) Python
4 3 (4.11%) Java
5 1 (1.37%) C#
5 1 (1.37%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 8 (10.96%) Security Cleared
2 5 (6.85%) PMP
2 5 (6.85%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.48%) Degree
4 2 (2.74%) ITIL Certification
4 2 (2.74%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.37%) A+ Certification
5 1 (1.37%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.37%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.37%) CCNA
5 1 (1.37%) CCNP
5 1 (1.37%) CESG Certified Professional
5 1 (1.37%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.37%) CISM
5 1 (1.37%) CISSP
5 1 (1.37%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.37%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.37%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.48%) PMO
2 3 (4.11%) GDPR
3 2 (2.74%) GRC
3 2 (2.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.37%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.37%) COBIT
4 1 (1.37%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.37%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.37%) QA
4 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (9.59%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.74%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (1.37%) Docker
3 1 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (1.37%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (5.48%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (2.74%) SCCM
3 1 (1.37%) Grafana
3 1 (1.37%) ITRS Geneos
3 1 (1.37%) Kubernetes
3 1 (1.37%) PowerCLI
3 1 (1.37%) RSA Archer
3 1 (1.37%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 18 (24.66%) Microsoft
2 10 (13.70%) Remedy
3 4 (5.48%) Workday
4 3 (4.11%) Cisco
4 3 (4.11%) Okta
4 3 (4.11%) Oracle
5 2 (2.74%) BMC
5 2 (2.74%) Dynatrace
5 2 (2.74%) ForeScout
5 2 (2.74%) Freshdesk
5 2 (2.74%) Google
5 2 (2.74%) Nexthink
5 2 (2.74%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.74%) SAP
5 2 (2.74%) Splunk
5 2 (2.74%) VMware
6 1 (1.37%) CyberArk
6 1 (1.37%) Meraki
6 1 (1.37%) Palo Alto
6 1 (1.37%) Snow