ServiceNow Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

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England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East Midlands 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 21 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
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 45 49 52
Rank change year-on-year +4 +3 +12
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 38 7 15
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 3.43% 1.22% 1.96%
As % of the Vendors category 7.63% 2.82% 4.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 1 11
10th Percentile - - £160
25th Percentile £190 £506 £184
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £513 £275
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +86.36% -45.00%
75th Percentile £424 £519 £409
90th Percentile £515 - £443
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -

All Vendors
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 498 248 311
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 44.95% 43.06% 40.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 298 177 195
10th Percentile £196 £250 £166
25th Percentile £360 £340 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £460
Median % change year-on-year - -2.17% +2.22%
75th Percentile £575 £545 £600
90th Percentile £638 £638 £638
England median daily rate £501 £523 £515
% change year-on-year -4.21% +1.46% -3.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 17 25
10th Percentile £13.25 £13.79 £10.90
25th Percentile £15.25 £13.81 £12.28
Median hourly rate £17.87 £18.20 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.81% +30.00% -33.92%
75th Percentile £24.49 £19.15 £14.27
90th Percentile £74.00 £26.50 £26.50
England median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +22.87% +17.56% -40.00%

ServiceNow
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ServiceNow relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

ServiceNow job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

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Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing ServiceNow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing ServiceNow

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Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ServiceNow in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 21 May 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ServiceNow in the East Midlands

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Hourly Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing ServiceNow.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing ServiceNow

ServiceNow
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ServiceNow within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 21 May 2026. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Nottinghamshire -5 17 £270 -47.32% 5
Derbyshire -5 8 £488 - 2
Lincolnshire - 6 £531 -
Leicestershire - 5 - - 2
Northamptonshire - 2 £410 - 1
ServiceNow
England

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Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (2.63%) SAS
Applications
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Office
3 1 (2.63%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (2.63%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 1 (2.63%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 9 (23.68%) Azure
2 8 (21.05%) Microsoft 365
3 4 (10.53%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (10.53%) Power Platform
4 3 (7.89%) Azure AKS
4 3 (7.89%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (2.63%) Lucidchart
Communications & Networking
1 7 (18.42%) LAN
1 7 (18.42%) WLAN
2 1 (2.63%) Network Security
2 1 (2.63%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.53%) Power BI
2 3 (7.89%) Azure SQL Database
2 3 (7.89%) PostgreSQL
3 2 (5.26%) Power Query
3 2 (5.26%) PowerPivot
4 1 (2.63%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (23.68%) JIRA
2 1 (2.63%) Chocolatey
2 1 (2.63%) Git
2 1 (2.63%) SonarQube
General
1 12 (31.58%) Social Skills
2 9 (23.68%) Military
3 6 (15.79%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (15.79%) Finance
4 4 (10.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (7.89%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (2.63%) Legal
6 1 (2.63%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.63%) Retail
6 1 (2.63%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 11 (28.95%) Analyst
2 10 (26.32%) Systems Engineer
3 8 (21.05%) IT Support
4 7 (18.42%) IT Engineer
4 7 (18.42%) IT Support Engineer
4 7 (18.42%) Support Engineer
5 4 (10.53%) Portfolio Analyst
6 3 (7.89%) Cloud Engineer
6 3 (7.89%) ITSM Analyst
7 2 (5.26%) CloudOps Manager
7 2 (5.26%) Operations Manager
7 2 (5.26%) Senior
7 2 (5.26%) Senior Analyst
8 1 (2.63%) Delivery Manager
8 1 (2.63%) IT Support Specialist
8 1 (2.63%) Network Engineer
8 1 (2.63%) Operations Analyst
8 1 (2.63%) Process Analyst
8 1 (2.63%) SAP Business Analyst
8 1 (2.63%) Support Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.63%) .NET
1 1 (2.63%) ISPF
1 1 (2.63%) REST
1 1 (2.63%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 7 (18.42%) Onboarding
1 7 (18.42%) Virtual Team
2 2 (5.26%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (5.26%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.26%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.63%) CMDB
3 1 (2.63%) Driving Licence
3 1 (2.63%) Mainframe
3 1 (2.63%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 9 (23.68%) Windows
2 1 (2.63%) Data ONTAP
2 1 (2.63%) MVS
2 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
2 1 (2.63%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (39.47%) ITIL
2 12 (31.58%) ITSM
3 10 (26.32%) Stakeholder Management
4 9 (23.68%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 8 (21.05%) Change Management
6 7 (18.42%) Customer Service
6 7 (18.42%) DevOps
6 7 (18.42%) Process Improvement
7 6 (15.79%) Cloud Security
7 6 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
7 6 (15.79%) Service Management
8 5 (13.16%) Cloud Operations
8 5 (13.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (13.16%) Project Delivery
9 4 (10.53%) CI/CD
9 4 (10.53%) Infrastructure as Code
9 4 (10.53%) Quality Management
9 4 (10.53%) SIAM
9 4 (10.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 4 (10.53%) Target Operating Model
Programming Languages
1 4 (10.53%) PowerShell
1 4 (10.53%) SQL
2 3 (7.89%) Python
3 2 (5.26%) VBA
4 1 (2.63%) C#
4 1 (2.63%) JCL
4 1 (2.63%) REXX
Qualifications
1 12 (31.58%) Security Cleared
2 10 (26.32%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.26%) Degree
3 2 (5.26%) ITIL Certification
3 2 (5.26%) SC Cleared
4 1 (2.63%) Six Sigma Green Belt
4 1 (2.63%) Six Sigma Yellow Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (15.79%) Data Quality
1 6 (15.79%) PMO
2 3 (7.89%) SLA
3 1 (2.63%) QA
3 1 (2.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 7 (18.42%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.63%) Docker
2 1 (2.63%) Job Entry Subsystem
Systems Management
1 4 (10.53%) Terraform
2 1 (2.63%) Ansible
2 1 (2.63%) Control-M
2 1 (2.63%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.63%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (26.32%) Fortinet
1 10 (26.32%) NetApp
2 4 (10.53%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.26%) SAP
4 1 (2.63%) Ariba
4 1 (2.63%) BMC
4 1 (2.63%) CyberArk
4 1 (2.63%) JD Edwards
4 1 (2.63%) OpenText
4 1 (2.63%) Oracle
4 1 (2.63%) Splunk