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 24 February 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
24 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 63 66
Rank change year-on-year -3 +3 +57
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 61 57 69
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 3.11% 3.16% 2.91%
As % of the Vendors category 6.70% 7.35% 6.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 41 56
10th Percentile £209 £263 £144
25th Percentile £353 £400 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% -1.79% +6.67%
75th Percentile £575 £675 £650
90th Percentile £743 £725 £738
Central London median daily rate £505 £550 £541
% change year-on-year -8.18% +1.62% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £18.75 - £21.25
Median hourly rate £19.50 - £22.50
75th Percentile £21.11 - £23.75
90th Percentile £22.67 - -
Central London median hourly rate £19.50 - £22.50
% change year-on-year - - +2.27%

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 910 776 1,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 46.33% 43.02% 42.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 480 716
10th Percentile £353 £313 £312
25th Percentile £425 £456 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.59% +0.05% -1.79%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £675
90th Percentile £775 £750 £775
Central London median daily rate £535 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.82% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 8
10th Percentile - £35.10 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.75 £41.25 £15.94
Median hourly rate £22.27 £112.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -80.12% +489.47% -8.88%
75th Percentile £41.75 - £23.75
90th Percentile £43.05 £157.30 £31.25
Central London median hourly rate £25.47 £77.25 £19.00
% change year-on-year -67.03% +306.58% -9.52%

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 24 February 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 11 (18.03%) SharePoint
2 2 (3.28%) Confluence
3 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (8.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 5 (8.20%) MS Visio
3 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (1.64%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (11.48%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 10 (16.39%) Azure
1 10 (16.39%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (13.11%) AWS
3 5 (8.20%) Entra ID
4 4 (6.56%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.56%) OpenShift
5 2 (3.28%) AWS CloudFormation
5 2 (3.28%) OneDrive
5 2 (3.28%) Power Platform
5 2 (3.28%) SaaS
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon CloudWatch
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon EC2
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon Kinesis
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon S3
6 1 (1.64%) Amazon SQS
6 1 (1.64%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (1.64%) GCP
6 1 (1.64%) GitHub
6 1 (1.64%) Google Workspace
Communications & Networking
1 4 (6.56%) LAN
1 4 (6.56%) WAN
2 3 (4.92%) Structured Cabling
2 3 (4.92%) VPN
3 1 (1.64%) IPv4
3 1 (1.64%) IPv6
3 1 (1.64%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.28%) Metadata
1 2 (3.28%) Power BI
1 2 (3.28%) Tableau
2 1 (1.64%) Amazon RDS
2 1 (1.64%) DB2
2 1 (1.64%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.64%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.64%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (16.39%) JIRA
2 3 (4.92%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.64%) Cypress.io
3 1 (1.64%) GitLab
3 1 (1.64%) JUnit
3 1 (1.64%) REST Assured
3 1 (1.64%) Selenium
3 1 (1.64%) SpecFlow
General
1 24 (39.34%) Finance
2 19 (31.15%) Social Skills
3 7 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (9.84%) Banking
5 4 (6.56%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.92%) Financial Institution
6 3 (4.92%) Retail
6 3 (4.92%) Telecoms
7 2 (3.28%) Automotive
7 2 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (3.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.64%) French Language
8 1 (1.64%) Law
8 1 (1.64%) Military
8 1 (1.64%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (13.11%) Developer
2 7 (11.48%) Project Manager
2 7 (11.48%) ServiceNow Developer
3 6 (9.84%) Analyst
3 6 (9.84%) Architect
4 5 (8.20%) IT Support
5 4 (6.56%) 2nd Line Support
5 4 (6.56%) IT Manager
6 3 (4.92%) 1st/2nd Line Support
6 3 (4.92%) Administrator
6 3 (4.92%) IT Engineer
6 3 (4.92%) IT Project Manager
6 3 (4.92%) Lead
6 3 (4.92%) Network Manager
6 3 (4.92%) ServiceNow Manager
7 2 (3.28%) Senior
7 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow Architect
7 2 (3.28%) ServiceNow Project Manager
7 2 (3.28%) SharePoint Engineer
7 2 (3.28%) SIAM Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (9.84%) REST
1 6 (9.84%) SOAP
2 2 (3.28%) CSS
2 2 (3.28%) HTML
3 1 (1.64%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.64%) jQuery
3 1 (1.64%) Kafka
3 1 (1.64%) Playwright
3 1 (1.64%) RESTful
3 1 (1.64%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.64%) Spring
3 1 (1.64%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.64%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 8 (13.11%) CMDB
2 7 (11.48%) Onboarding
3 5 (8.20%) Product Ownership
4 3 (4.92%) Data Centre
5 1 (1.64%) BYOD
5 1 (1.64%) Client/Server
5 1 (1.64%) Cloud Native
5 1 (1.64%) Cloud Security Posture
5 1 (1.64%) Cyber Threat
5 1 (1.64%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.64%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.64%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.64%) Smartphone
5 1 (1.64%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 10 (16.39%) Windows
2 3 (4.92%) Mac OS
3 2 (3.28%) Windows 10
4 1 (1.64%) Android
4 1 (1.64%) Apple iOS
4 1 (1.64%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (44.26%) ITSM
2 20 (32.79%) ITIL
3 16 (26.23%) Continuous Improvement
4 14 (22.95%) Agile
4 14 (22.95%) Project Management
5 10 (16.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 10 (16.39%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (13.11%) Change Management
6 8 (13.11%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (13.11%) Project Delivery
7 7 (11.48%) Customer Service
7 7 (11.48%) Scrum
8 6 (9.84%) DevOps
8 6 (9.84%) Runbook
8 6 (9.84%) Service Delivery
8 6 (9.84%) Service Management
9 5 (8.20%) Customer Experience
9 5 (8.20%) Problem Management
9 5 (8.20%) Roadmaps
9 5 (8.20%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.84%) JavaScript
2 3 (4.92%) SQL
3 2 (3.28%) Java
3 2 (3.28%) Python
4 1 (1.64%) C#
4 1 (1.64%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.64%) R
4 1 (1.64%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 9 (14.75%) Security Cleared
2 7 (11.48%) SC Cleared
3 4 (6.56%) Degree
4 2 (3.28%) PMP
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Developer
5 1 (1.64%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 1 (1.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.64%) CISSP
5 1 (1.64%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.64%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.64%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.64%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.20%) SLA
2 4 (6.56%) QA
3 3 (4.92%) Data Quality
3 3 (4.92%) PMO
4 2 (3.28%) Accessibility
4 2 (3.28%) GDPR
4 2 (3.28%) NIST
4 2 (3.28%) PCI DSS
4 2 (3.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (1.64%) Actionable Recommendations
5 1 (1.64%) COBIT
5 1 (1.64%) GRC
5 1 (1.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 7 (11.48%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.28%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.56%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (4.92%) SCCM
3 2 (3.28%) Grafana
3 2 (3.28%) Terraform
4 1 (1.64%) Ansible
4 1 (1.64%) Jamf Pro
4 1 (1.64%) Kubernetes
4 1 (1.64%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 14 (22.95%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.11%) Remedy
3 3 (4.92%) Arista
3 3 (4.92%) Cisco
3 3 (4.92%) Dynatrace
4 2 (3.28%) Citrix
4 2 (3.28%) IBM
4 2 (3.28%) Salesforce
4 2 (3.28%) Snow
4 2 (3.28%) Splunk
4 2 (3.28%) Workday
5 1 (1.64%) BMC
5 1 (1.64%) Canon
5 1 (1.64%) DocuSign
5 1 (1.64%) Google
5 1 (1.64%) LogicMonitor
5 1 (1.64%) Okta
5 1 (1.64%) Sybase
5 1 (1.64%) VMware
5 1 (1.64%) Zerto