ServiceNow Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

ServiceNow
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 22 March 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
22 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 50 38 49
Rank change year-on-year -12 +11 +10
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 34 12 16
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 3.34% 2.34% 2.15%
As % of the Vendors category 7.34% 5.19% 5.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 9 10
10th Percentile - £288 £340
25th Percentile £190 £313 £395
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £356 £472
Median % change year-on-year +12.36% -24.50% -12.28%
75th Percentile £428 £430 £698
90th Percentile £543 - £740
England median daily rate £496 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -0.82% - -

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 463 231 299
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 45.48% 45.03% 40.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 302 162 185
10th Percentile £190 £200 £166
25th Percentile £358 £356 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £441 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% - +2.86%
75th Percentile £550 £537 £575
90th Percentile £636 £608 £671
England median daily rate £501 £525 £513
% change year-on-year -4.67% +2.44% -4.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 11 25
10th Percentile £12.95 £13.75 £10.90
25th Percentile £14.96 £13.81 £12.28
Median hourly rate £16.35 £15.09 £14.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.35% +7.79% -20.99%
75th Percentile £24.49 £21.07 £15.25
90th Percentile £25.95 £31.76 £25.39
England median hourly rate £25.15 £30.40 £24.50
% change year-on-year -17.27% +24.08% -30.00%

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

ServiceNow
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ServiceNow in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 22 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ServiceNow in the East Midlands

ServiceNow
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 22 March 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
Derbyshire -1 10 £488 - 2
Nottinghamshire -13 9 £200 -52.10% 4
Lincolnshire - 6 £531 - 1
Leicestershire - 5 £400 - 1
Northamptonshire -21 3 £280 -21.35%
ServiceNow
England

ServiceNow
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:

Applications
1 2 (5.88%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.94%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (2.94%) assyst
1 1 (2.94%) OpenText VIM for SAP
1 1 (2.94%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (32.35%) Azure
2 8 (23.53%) Microsoft 365
3 7 (20.59%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (8.82%) Power Platform
5 2 (5.88%) Azure AKS
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
Communications & Networking
1 6 (17.65%) LAN
1 6 (17.65%) WLAN
2 1 (2.94%) Network Security
2 1 (2.94%) Value-Added Service
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (8.82%) Power BI
2 2 (5.88%) Azure SQL Database
2 2 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.94%) Power Query
3 1 (2.94%) PowerPivot
3 1 (2.94%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 9 (26.47%) JIRA
2 1 (2.94%) Chocolatey
2 1 (2.94%) Git
2 1 (2.94%) SonarQube
General
1 11 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 9 (26.47%) Military
3 4 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.76%) Finance
4 3 (8.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (5.88%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (5.88%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.94%) Electronics
6 1 (2.94%) Legal
6 1 (2.94%) Manufacturing
6 1 (2.94%) Marketing
6 1 (2.94%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (26.47%) Systems Engineer
2 7 (20.59%) IT Support
2 7 (20.59%) Support Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) IT Engineer
3 6 (17.65%) IT Support Engineer
4 3 (8.82%) Analyst
4 3 (8.82%) Support Specialist
5 2 (5.88%) Azure Specialist
5 2 (5.88%) Cloud Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) CloudOps Manager
5 2 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.88%) DevOps Specialist
5 2 (5.88%) Lead
5 2 (5.88%) Operations Manager
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Consultant
6 1 (2.94%) Azure DevOps Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) Azure Engineer
6 1 (2.94%) DevOps Consultant
6 1 (2.94%) Senior
6 1 (2.94%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (5.88%) ADO
2 1 (2.94%) .NET
2 1 (2.94%) SailPoint
2 1 (2.94%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.65%) Onboarding
1 6 (17.65%) Virtual Team
2 2 (5.88%) Cloud Security Posture
2 2 (5.88%) Public Cloud
2 2 (5.88%) Security Posture
3 1 (2.94%) CMDB
3 1 (2.94%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 8 (23.53%) Windows
2 1 (2.94%) Data ONTAP
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (32.35%) ITSM
2 10 (29.41%) ITIL
3 9 (26.47%) DevOps
3 9 (26.47%) Infrastructure Engineering
4 7 (20.59%) Customer Service
5 6 (17.65%) Service Management
6 5 (14.71%) Change Management
6 5 (14.71%) Cloud Security
6 5 (14.71%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (14.71%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (11.76%) Cloud Operations
7 4 (11.76%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (8.82%) Agile
8 3 (8.82%) Business Intelligence
8 3 (8.82%) CI/CD
8 3 (8.82%) Incident Management
8 3 (8.82%) Infrastructure as Code
8 3 (8.82%) Process Improvement
8 3 (8.82%) Service Delivery
9 2 (5.88%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (8.82%) PowerShell
1 3 (8.82%) SQL
2 2 (5.88%) Python
3 1 (2.94%) C#
3 1 (2.94%) VBA
Qualifications
1 16 (47.06%) Security Cleared
2 10 (29.41%) DV Cleared
3 6 (17.65%) SC Cleared
4 2 (5.88%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (2.94%) CISA
5 1 (2.94%) CISM
5 1 (2.94%) CISSP
5 1 (2.94%) Degree
5 1 (2.94%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.82%) SLA
2 1 (2.94%) COBIT
2 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (2.94%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
2 1 (2.94%) NIST
2 1 (2.94%) NIST 800
2 1 (2.94%) PMO
2 1 (2.94%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 6 (17.65%) Active Directory
2 1 (2.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (8.82%) Terraform
2 1 (2.94%) Ansible
2 1 (2.94%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.94%) RSA Archer
2 1 (2.94%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (29.41%) Fortinet
1 10 (29.41%) NetApp
2 3 (8.82%) Microsoft
3 2 (5.88%) SAP
4 1 (2.94%) Alteryx
4 1 (2.94%) Ariba
4 1 (2.94%) OpenText
4 1 (2.94%) Rapid7