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 14 August 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
14 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 54 21 50
Rank change year-on-year -33 +29 +27
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 58 85 55
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.67% 6.73% 3.44%
As % of the Vendors category 7.44% 13.24% 8.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 32 14
10th Percentile £193 £189 £240
25th Percentile £406 £225 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -7.69% +155.24%
75th Percentile £675 £554 £606
90th Percentile £735 £600 £750
England median daily rate £501 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.47% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 22 34
10th Percentile - - £14.16
25th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £17.12 £16.30 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +5.03% - +5.16%
75th Percentile £18.23 £20.69 £21.37
90th Percentile £18.26 £21.92 -
England median hourly rate £26.66 £18.82 £16.25
% change year-on-year +41.66% +15.82% -21.04%

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 780 642 623
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 35.91% 50.83% 38.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 382 319 267
10th Percentile £193 £213 £220
25th Percentile £363 £419 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £528 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.98% +5.60% +11.11%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
England median daily rate £513 £510 £525
% change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 110 208
10th Percentile £14.98 £14.99 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.12 £16.30 £15.00
Median hourly rate £31.96 £22.53 £16.23
Median % change year-on-year +41.87% +38.82% -32.86%
75th Percentile £65.00 £60.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £71.00 £67.50 £75.00
England median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +35.15% -16.17% -20.00%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 -14 27 £550 +4.17% 5
Cambridgeshire -19 13 £510 +13.33% 8
Bedfordshire +9 10 £220 -27.27% 1
Suffolk -10 6 £724 +99.59%
East Anglia - 1 - - 1
Norfolk - 1 - - 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%) SharePoint
2 1 (1.72%) Confluence
Applications
1 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.72%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (13.79%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (3.45%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.41%) Microsoft 365
2 10 (17.24%) Azure
3 6 (10.34%) Power Platform
4 5 (8.62%) Power Automate
5 4 (6.90%) AWS
5 4 (6.90%) Microsoft Copilot
5 4 (6.90%) OneDrive
6 3 (5.17%) Azure DevOps
6 3 (5.17%) Azure Logic Apps
7 2 (3.45%) Azure Service Bus
7 2 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (3.45%) Entra ID
7 2 (3.45%) PowerApps
7 2 (3.45%) SaaS
8 1 (1.72%) Amazon Bedrock
8 1 (1.72%) Copilot Studio
8 1 (1.72%) GCP
8 1 (1.72%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.72%) Serverless
8 1 (1.72%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.62%) Firewall
1 5 (8.62%) Network Security
2 4 (6.90%) VPN
3 2 (3.45%) DHCP
3 2 (3.45%) DNS
3 2 (3.45%) SSL
3 2 (3.45%) TCP/IP
3 2 (3.45%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.72%) Intranet
4 1 (1.72%) LAN
4 1 (1.72%) VLAN
4 1 (1.72%) WAN
4 1 (1.72%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.90%) Power BI
2 2 (3.45%) Power Query
2 2 (3.45%) PowerPivot
2 2 (3.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (1.72%) Metadata
Development Applications
1 9 (15.52%) JIRA
2 3 (5.17%) Git
3 2 (3.45%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.72%) MSI
General
1 19 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
3 6 (10.34%) Finance
4 4 (6.90%) Documentation Skills
4 4 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (3.45%) Automotive
5 2 (3.45%) Legal
5 2 (3.45%) Retail
5 2 (3.45%) Telecoms
6 1 (1.72%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.72%) Law
6 1 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
6 1 (1.72%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 8 (13.79%) Analyst
2 5 (8.62%) Consultant
2 5 (8.62%) Senior
3 4 (6.90%) Administrator
4 3 (5.17%) Project Manager
4 3 (5.17%) Service Analyst
4 3 (5.17%) Service Desk Analyst
4 3 (5.17%) Support Engineer
5 2 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
5 2 (3.45%) Developer
5 2 (3.45%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 2 (3.45%) IT Administrator
5 2 (3.45%) IT Support Engineer
5 2 (3.45%) Service Delivery Manager
5 2 (3.45%) Service Manager
5 2 (3.45%) Support Analyst
5 2 (3.45%) Support Specialist
5 2 (3.45%) Technical Analyst
5 2 (3.45%) Technical Support
5 2 (3.45%) Technical Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.45%) .NET
1 2 (3.45%) ADO
1 2 (3.45%) REST
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.72%) Middleware
2 1 (1.72%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.72%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 14 (24.14%) CMDB
2 9 (15.52%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (5.17%) AI Agents
4 3 (5.17%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.45%) BYOD
5 2 (3.45%) Clustering
5 2 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.45%) Linux Command Line
5 2 (3.45%) Operational Technology
5 2 (3.45%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.45%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.72%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.72%) PKI
6 1 (1.72%) Taxonomies
6 1 (1.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 12 (20.69%) Windows
2 6 (10.34%) Linux
3 4 (6.90%) Windows 10
4 3 (5.17%) Android
5 2 (3.45%) Check Point GAiA
5 2 (3.45%) Mac OS
5 2 (3.45%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
5 2 (3.45%) Unix
6 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
6 1 (1.72%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 28 (48.28%) ITSM
2 14 (24.14%) Problem-Solving
3 13 (22.41%) ITIL
4 12 (20.69%) Mentoring
4 12 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (17.24%) Customer Service
5 10 (17.24%) Service Delivery
6 9 (15.52%) Migration
6 9 (15.52%) Service Management
7 8 (13.79%) Agile
7 8 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 8 (13.79%) Data Modelling
8 6 (10.34%) Disaster Recovery
8 6 (10.34%) Knowledge Transfer
9 5 (8.62%) AI
9 5 (8.62%) Change Management
10 4 (6.90%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (6.90%) Incident Management
10 4 (6.90%) Logistics
10 4 (6.90%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 6 (10.34%) SQL
2 4 (6.90%) Python
3 3 (5.17%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.45%) C#
4 2 (3.45%) X++
5 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (32.76%) Security Cleared
2 18 (31.03%) SC Cleared
3 7 (12.07%) Degree
4 2 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
4 2 (3.45%) CISSP
4 2 (3.45%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (1.72%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (1.72%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.72%) CBAP
5 1 (1.72%) CCNA
5 1 (1.72%) CCSP
5 1 (1.72%) CISM
5 1 (1.72%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.72%) CRISC
5 1 (1.72%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (1.72%) MCSE
5 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 1 (1.72%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.72%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.34%) Data Quality
2 5 (8.62%) SLA
3 2 (3.45%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.45%) QA
4 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.72%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.72%) GLP
4 1 (1.72%) GMP
4 1 (1.72%) GRC
4 1 (1.72%) GxP
4 1 (1.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.72%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (5.17%) Active Directory
2 2 (3.45%) Slurm Workload Manager
3 1 (1.72%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 3 (5.17%) Microsoft Intune
2 2 (3.45%) Ansible
2 2 (3.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 19 (32.76%) Microsoft
2 8 (13.79%) Remedy
3 6 (10.34%) BMC
3 6 (10.34%) SAP
4 3 (5.17%) Dynatrace
4 3 (5.17%) Freshdesk
5 2 (3.45%) CheckPoint
5 2 (3.45%) Cisco
5 2 (3.45%) Databricks
5 2 (3.45%) Google
5 2 (3.45%) Infoblox
5 2 (3.45%) OpenAI
5 2 (3.45%) Red Hat
5 2 (3.45%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.72%) Apple
6 1 (1.72%) Barracuda Networks
6 1 (1.72%) Dell
6 1 (1.72%) Juniper
6 1 (1.72%) Pega
6 1 (1.72%) VMware