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 9 October 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
9 Oct 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 28 52
Rank change year-on-year -37 +24 +15
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 58 82 41
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.42% 6.10% 2.77%
As % of the Vendors category 6.20% 12.52% 6.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 34 20
10th Percentile £193 £190 £300
25th Percentile £413 £225 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -3.62% +10.53%
75th Percentile £735 £562 £591
90th Percentile £801 £600 £632
England median daily rate £513 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 19 11
10th Percentile - £14.99 -
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.78 £14.16
Median hourly rate £17.69 £16.30 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +8.54% - +4.15%
75th Percentile £29.64 £17.47 £19.03
90th Percentile £50.11 £23.05 £21.37
England median hourly rate £26.00 £18.82 £18.13
% change year-on-year +38.15% +3.81% -7.03%

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 935 655 648
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 38.97% 48.70% 43.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 412 337 275
10th Percentile £188 £213 £235
25th Percentile £350 £406 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £605 £588 £575
90th Percentile £735 £685 £650
England median daily rate £516 £506 £525
% change year-on-year +1.88% -3.62% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 226 104 163
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.52 £14.45
25th Percentile £16.81 £16.55 £15.62
Median hourly rate £31.96 £20.33 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +57.22% +25.26% -62.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £57.88 £46.88
90th Percentile £72.38 £65.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.75 £25.08 £35.00
% change year-on-year +2.69% -28.36% -20.16%

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 9 October 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
Hourly Rate Histogram in the East of England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ServiceNow in the East of England over the 6 months to 9 October 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ServiceNow in the East of England

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 9 October 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 -23 29 £650 +23.11% 31
Bedfordshire +5 11 £220 -27.27% 4
Cambridgeshire -16 11 £493 +9.44% 9
Suffolk -16 6 £724 +37.81%
Norfolk -6 1 - -
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 2 (3.45%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 13 (22.41%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (3.45%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 14 (24.14%) Microsoft 365
2 12 (20.69%) Azure
3 11 (18.97%) Power Platform
4 8 (13.79%) AWS
5 5 (8.62%) GCP
5 5 (8.62%) Power Automate
6 4 (6.90%) Google Workspace
6 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
7 3 (5.17%) Azure Logic Apps
7 3 (5.17%) Entra ID
7 3 (5.17%) OneDrive
7 3 (5.17%) SaaS
8 2 (3.45%) Amazon Bedrock
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Monitor
8 2 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
8 2 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (3.45%) GitHub
8 2 (3.45%) Google Gemini
8 2 (3.45%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (10.34%) Network Security
2 4 (6.90%) Firewall
3 3 (5.17%) SSL
3 3 (5.17%) TCP/IP
3 3 (5.17%) VPN
4 2 (3.45%) DHCP
4 2 (3.45%) DNS
4 2 (3.45%) InfiniBand
4 2 (3.45%) LAN
4 2 (3.45%) WAN
5 1 (1.72%) BGP
5 1 (1.72%) Ethernet
5 1 (1.72%) Intranet
5 1 (1.72%) MPLS
5 1 (1.72%) OSPF
5 1 (1.72%) SD-WAN
5 1 (1.72%) VLAN
5 1 (1.72%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (13.79%) Power BI
2 6 (10.34%) BigQuery
2 6 (10.34%) Looker
3 2 (3.45%) Metadata
3 2 (3.45%) Power Query
3 2 (3.45%) PowerPivot
3 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 6 (10.34%) JIRA
2 3 (5.17%) Git
3 2 (3.45%) Visual Studio
General
1 20 (34.48%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.34%) Finance
4 5 (8.62%) Documentation Skills
5 3 (5.17%) Legal
6 2 (3.45%) Aerospace
6 2 (3.45%) Automotive
6 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Law
7 1 (1.72%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (15.52%) Analyst
2 8 (13.79%) Developer
3 7 (12.07%) Senior
4 6 (10.34%) Applications Developer
4 6 (10.34%) Report Developer
5 5 (8.62%) Applications Specialist
5 5 (8.62%) Report Specialist
6 4 (6.90%) Consultant
7 3 (5.17%) Architect
7 3 (5.17%) Service Analyst
7 3 (5.17%) Service Desk Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Deployment Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Specialist
8 2 (3.45%) IT Support Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Linux Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Senior Data Warehouse Specialist
8 2 (3.45%) Senior Infrastructure Specialist
8 2 (3.45%) Senior Linux Engineer
8 2 (3.45%) Technical Analyst
8 2 (3.45%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (12.07%) REST
2 3 (5.17%) Terraform
3 2 (3.45%) .NET
3 2 (3.45%) SailPoint
4 1 (1.72%) JSON
4 1 (1.72%) LangChain
4 1 (1.72%) LangGraph
4 1 (1.72%) LDAP
4 1 (1.72%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (1.72%) OAuth
4 1 (1.72%) SOAP
4 1 (1.72%) Web Services
4 1 (1.72%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 20 (34.48%) CMDB
2 11 (18.97%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.90%) AI Agents
3 4 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.17%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (5.17%) Low-Code
4 3 (5.17%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.45%) BYOD
5 2 (3.45%) CUDA
5 2 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.45%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.72%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.72%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.72%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.72%) Legacy Applications
6 1 (1.72%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.72%) PKI
6 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 11 (18.97%) Windows
2 7 (12.07%) Linux
3 4 (6.90%) Windows 10
4 3 (5.17%) Android
4 3 (5.17%) Mac OS
4 3 (5.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.45%) Apple iOS
5 2 (3.45%) Check Point GAiA
5 2 (3.45%) Unix
6 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (62.07%) ITSM
2 19 (32.76%) Stakeholder Management
3 17 (29.31%) Service Management
4 15 (25.86%) ITIL
5 14 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
6 12 (20.69%) Data Modelling
6 12 (20.69%) Mentoring
7 10 (17.24%) Continuous Improvement
8 9 (15.52%) Asset Management
8 9 (15.52%) Customer Service
8 9 (15.52%) Migration
8 9 (15.52%) Service Delivery
9 8 (13.79%) Business Intelligence
9 8 (13.79%) Knowledge Transfer
10 7 (12.07%) Agile
10 7 (12.07%) Configuration Management
10 7 (12.07%) Data Governance
11 6 (10.34%) Analytics
11 6 (10.34%) DevOps
11 6 (10.34%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 10 (17.24%) SQL
2 8 (13.79%) JavaScript
2 8 (13.79%) Python
3 4 (6.90%) Google Apps Script
4 3 (5.17%) PowerShell
5 2 (3.45%) C#
5 2 (3.45%) X++
6 1 (1.72%) BeanShell
6 1 (1.72%) Java
Qualifications
1 22 (37.93%) Security Cleared
2 21 (36.21%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.07%) Degree
4 3 (5.17%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (3.45%) RHCE
5 2 (3.45%) RHCSA
6 1 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
6 1 (1.72%) CBAP
6 1 (1.72%) CCIE
6 1 (1.72%) CCNA
6 1 (1.72%) CCNP
6 1 (1.72%) CCSP
6 1 (1.72%) CISSP
6 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.72%) JNCIP
6 1 (1.72%) JNCIS
6 1 (1.72%) MCSE
6 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.72%) PMI Certification
6 1 (1.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (15.52%) SLA
2 6 (10.34%) Data Quality
3 2 (3.45%) GRC
4 1 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.72%) Cyber Essentials
4 1 (1.72%) NCSC
4 1 (1.72%) QA
System Software
1 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
1 3 (5.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
2 2 (3.45%) Docker
3 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (8.62%) Ansible
2 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.72%) Grafana
3 1 (1.72%) SCCM
Vendors
1 24 (41.38%) Microsoft
2 13 (22.41%) Remedy
3 6 (10.34%) BMC
3 6 (10.34%) Google
4 5 (8.62%) SAP
5 3 (5.17%) Cisco
5 3 (5.17%) Freshdesk
5 3 (5.17%) Infoblox
5 3 (5.17%) Red Hat
6 2 (3.45%) Apple
6 2 (3.45%) CheckPoint
6 2 (3.45%) CyberArk
6 2 (3.45%) Dynatrace
6 2 (3.45%) OpenAI
6 2 (3.45%) Salesforce
7 1 (1.72%) Dell
7 1 (1.72%) Juniper
7 1 (1.72%) MuleSoft
7 1 (1.72%) Palo Alto
7 1 (1.72%) VMware
46 ServiceNow jobs in the East of England