ServiceNow Contract Job Trends in the East of England

ServiceNow
England > East of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the East of England 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 52 26 53
Rank change year-on-year -26 +27 +20
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 60 67 64
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.71% 6.87% 3.40%
As % of the Vendors category 6.84% 12.52% 9.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 20 16
10th Percentile £276 £219 £210
25th Percentile £472 £225 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £347 £631
Median % change year-on-year +51.52% -45.11% +172.97%
75th Percentile £600 £531 £750
90th Percentile £735 £603 -
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 24 41
10th Percentile £17.01 - £14.16
25th Percentile - £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £17.69 £15.74 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +12.37% -3.42% +5.16%
75th Percentile - £20.69 £21.37
90th Percentile £17.69 £21.55 -
England median hourly rate £22.27 £18.13 £16.30
% change year-on-year +22.81% +11.23% -12.88%

All Vendors
East of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 877 535 693
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 39.54% 54.87% 36.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 469 287 351
10th Percentile £192 £225 £200
25th Percentile £360 £413 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £593 £588
90th Percentile £688 £675 £701
England median daily rate £501 £523 £515
% change year-on-year -4.21% +1.46% -3.74%
Number of hourly rates quoted 208 95 217
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.90 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.64 £15.50 £14.48
Median hourly rate £20.69 £18.85 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.76% +10.88% -12.82%
75th Percentile £35.09 £60.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £68.25 £85.00 £77.15
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 of England

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

ServiceNow job vacancy trend in the East of England

ServiceNow
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

ServiceNow
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

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

Daily rate histogram for ServiceNow in the East of England

ServiceNow
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

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

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

ServiceNow
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England 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
Hertfordshire -11 35 £550 +15.79% 15
Cambridgeshire -12 15 £525 +16.67%
Bedfordshire - 7 £475 - 4
East Anglia - 2 - - 1
Suffolk -12 1 £724 +221.56% 3
ServiceNow
England

ServiceNow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (6.67%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (3.33%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (3.33%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.67%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.67%) Azure
2 6 (10.00%) Power Platform
3 5 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
3 5 (8.33%) Power Automate
4 4 (6.67%) OneDrive
5 3 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (5.00%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (5.00%) Entra ID
6 2 (3.33%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.33%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (3.33%) PowerApps
7 1 (1.67%) AWS
7 1 (1.67%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (16.67%) VPN
2 8 (13.33%) Firewall
3 7 (11.67%) Network Security
4 4 (6.67%) DNS
5 2 (3.33%) Cisco ASA
5 2 (3.33%) DHCP
5 2 (3.33%) LAN
5 2 (3.33%) SSL
5 2 (3.33%) WAN
6 1 (1.67%) TCP/IP
6 1 (1.67%) VLAN
6 1 (1.67%) Wi-Fi
6 1 (1.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.67%) Power BI
2 2 (3.33%) Power Query
2 2 (3.33%) PowerPivot
2 2 (3.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 4 (6.67%) JIRA
2 3 (5.00%) Git
3 2 (3.33%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.67%) MSI
General
1 16 (26.67%) Social Skills
2 11 (18.33%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (15.00%) Finance
4 5 (8.33%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Automotive
5 2 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
5 2 (3.33%) Retail
5 2 (3.33%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.67%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.67%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (1.67%) Law
6 1 (1.67%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 9 (15.00%) Analyst
2 8 (13.33%) Administrator
3 7 (11.67%) Consultant
4 6 (10.00%) IT Support
5 5 (8.33%) Risk Manager
5 5 (8.33%) ServiceNow Manager
6 4 (6.67%) 3rd Line Support
6 4 (6.67%) Project Manager
6 4 (6.67%) Senior
6 4 (6.67%) ServiceNow Consultant
6 4 (6.67%) Support Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Engineer
7 3 (5.00%) Service Analyst
7 3 (5.00%) Service Desk Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) IT Administrator
8 2 (3.33%) IT Support Analyst
8 2 (3.33%) Remedy Consultant
8 2 (3.33%) Senior Project Manager
8 2 (3.33%) Senior SAP Project Manager
8 2 (3.33%) Systems Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.00%) .NET
2 2 (3.33%) ADO
3 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Graph
3 1 (1.67%) Middleware
3 1 (1.67%) REST
3 1 (1.67%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (11.67%) CMDB
2 5 (8.33%) Onboarding
3 3 (5.00%) Low-Code
4 2 (3.33%) AI Agents
4 2 (3.33%) BYOD
4 2 (3.33%) Clustering
4 2 (3.33%) Data Centre
4 2 (3.33%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.33%) Management Information System
4 2 (3.33%) Operational Technology
4 2 (3.33%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (3.33%) Video Conferencing
5 1 (1.67%) PKI
5 1 (1.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 14 (23.33%) Windows
2 8 (13.33%) Linux
3 5 (8.33%) Windows 10
3 5 (8.33%) Windows Server
4 2 (3.33%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 2 (3.33%) Windows Server 2016
5 1 (1.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (46.67%) ITSM
2 14 (23.33%) ITIL
3 9 (15.00%) Migration
3 9 (15.00%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (13.33%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (13.33%) Mentoring
5 7 (11.67%) Data Modelling
5 7 (11.67%) Service Management
6 6 (10.00%) Customer Service
6 6 (10.00%) ERP
6 6 (10.00%) Logistics
6 6 (10.00%) Network Segmentation
6 6 (10.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (8.33%) Incident Management
7 5 (8.33%) Information Security
7 5 (8.33%) Infrastructure Engineering
7 5 (8.33%) Portfolio Management
7 5 (8.33%) Risk Management
7 5 (8.33%) Zero Trust
8 4 (6.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.00%) SQL
2 3 (5.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (5.00%) Python
3 2 (3.33%) C#
3 2 (3.33%) X++
4 1 (1.67%) Java
4 1 (1.67%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 18 (30.00%) Security Cleared
2 17 (28.33%) SC Cleared
3 8 (13.33%) Degree
4 4 (6.67%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (5.00%) CISM
5 3 (5.00%) CISSP
5 3 (5.00%) CRISC
6 2 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.67%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.67%) CCNA
7 1 (1.67%) CCNP
7 1 (1.67%) CompTIA Security+
7 1 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.67%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.67%) MCSE
7 1 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.33%) SLA
2 6 (10.00%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (8.33%) GRC
4 3 (5.00%) Data Quality
5 2 (3.33%) GLP
5 2 (3.33%) GMP
5 2 (3.33%) QA
6 1 (1.67%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.67%) GxP
6 1 (1.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 5 (8.33%) Active Directory
2 4 (6.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (3.33%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 3 (5.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.33%) Ansible
2 2 (3.33%) Terraform
3 1 (1.67%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 12 (20.00%) Microsoft
2 11 (18.33%) SAP
3 7 (11.67%) Cisco
3 7 (11.67%) Palo Alto
4 5 (8.33%) Barracuda Networks
4 5 (8.33%) VMware
5 4 (6.67%) BMC
5 4 (6.67%) Remedy
6 3 (5.00%) Dell
6 3 (5.00%) Freshdesk
6 3 (5.00%) HP
7 2 (3.33%) Databricks
7 2 (3.33%) Dynatrace
7 2 (3.33%) Infoblox
7 2 (3.33%) Red Hat
7 2 (3.33%) Salesforce
8 1 (1.67%) Juniper
8 1 (1.67%) MuleSoft
8 1 (1.67%) Pega