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 4 June 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
4 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 24 52
Rank change year-on-year -33 +28 +16
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 62 74 62
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 2.80% 7.61% 3.24%
As % of the Vendors category 7.12% 14.29% 9.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 20 14
10th Percentile £193 - £198
25th Percentile £463 £225 £286
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £447 £575
Median % change year-on-year +17.58% -22.35% +186.78%
75th Percentile £675 £531 £750
90th Percentile £735 £600 -
England median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 25 41
10th Percentile £16.89 - £14.16
25th Percentile £17.41 £14.99 £14.48
Median hourly rate £17.69 £16.05 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +10.25% -1.56% +5.16%
75th Percentile £17.69 £20.69 £21.37
90th Percentile £17.70 £21.92 -
England median hourly rate £26.66 £18.82 £16.30
% change year-on-year +41.66% +15.46% -35.95%

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 871 518 689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 39.34% 53.24% 36.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 475 270 342
10th Percentile £191 £231 £200
25th Percentile £356 £413 £345
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £582
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
England median daily rate £505 £520 £515
% change year-on-year -2.88% +0.97% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 199 94 222
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.99 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £15.62 £14.48
Median hourly rate £20.75 £18.85 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +10.08% +15.64% -24.20%
75th Percentile £35.96 £60.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £83.50 £75.25
England median hourly rate £32.50 £27.38 £23.80
% change year-on-year +18.72% +15.02% -39.01%

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 4 June 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 4 June 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 34 £550 +8.70% 19
Cambridgeshire -12 13 £525 +16.67% 3
Bedfordshire -1 11 £475 - 1
Suffolk -10 2 £724 +221.56% 2
East Anglia - 2 - - 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 3 (4.84%) SharePoint
Applications
1 6 (9.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (3.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (1.61%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 8 (12.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 2 (3.23%) Dynamics GP
2 2 (3.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
2 6 (9.68%) Azure
2 6 (9.68%) Power Platform
3 5 (8.06%) Dynamics 365
3 5 (8.06%) Power Automate
4 4 (6.45%) OneDrive
5 3 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (4.84%) Azure Logic Apps
5 3 (4.84%) Entra ID
5 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Copilot
6 2 (3.23%) AWS
6 2 (3.23%) Azure Service Bus
6 2 (3.23%) PowerApps
6 2 (3.23%) SaaS
7 1 (1.61%) Amazon Bedrock
7 1 (1.61%) Copilot Studio
7 1 (1.61%) Google Gemini
7 1 (1.61%) Serverless
7 1 (1.61%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 7 (11.29%) Firewall
1 7 (11.29%) VPN
2 6 (9.68%) Network Security
3 2 (3.23%) DHCP
3 2 (3.23%) DNS
3 2 (3.23%) LAN
3 2 (3.23%) SSL
3 2 (3.23%) WAN
3 2 (3.23%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (1.61%) Intranet
4 1 (1.61%) VLAN
4 1 (1.61%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.45%) Power BI
2 2 (3.23%) Power Query
2 2 (3.23%) PowerPivot
2 2 (3.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 5 (8.06%) JIRA
2 3 (4.84%) Git
3 2 (3.23%) Visual Studio
4 1 (1.61%) MSI
General
1 19 (30.65%) Social Skills
2 10 (16.13%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (14.52%) Finance
4 5 (8.06%) Organisational Skills
5 3 (4.84%) Documentation Skills
6 2 (3.23%) Automotive
6 2 (3.23%) Legal
6 2 (3.23%) Retail
6 2 (3.23%) Telecoms
7 1 (1.61%) Aerospace
7 1 (1.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.61%) Law
7 1 (1.61%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (1.61%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (11.29%) Administrator
1 7 (11.29%) Analyst
1 7 (11.29%) Consultant
2 5 (8.06%) IT Support
2 5 (8.06%) Project Manager
2 5 (8.06%) Risk Manager
2 5 (8.06%) ServiceNow Manager
3 4 (6.45%) 3rd Line Support
3 4 (6.45%) Senior
3 4 (6.45%) ServiceNow Consultant
4 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Engineer
4 3 (4.84%) Service Analyst
4 3 (4.84%) Service Desk Analyst
4 3 (4.84%) Support Analyst
5 2 (3.23%) Data Engineer
5 2 (3.23%) ITSM Consultant
5 2 (3.23%) Procurement Administrator
5 2 (3.23%) SAP Administrator
5 2 (3.23%) SAP Manager
5 2 (3.23%) Senior Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.23%) .NET
1 2 (3.23%) ADO
2 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Graph
2 1 (1.61%) Middleware
2 1 (1.61%) REST
2 1 (1.61%) SailPoint
2 1 (1.61%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 9 (14.52%) CMDB
2 5 (8.06%) Onboarding
3 4 (6.45%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (4.84%) Low-Code
5 2 (3.23%) AI Agents
5 2 (3.23%) BYOD
5 2 (3.23%) Clustering
5 2 (3.23%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.23%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.23%) Operational Technology
5 2 (3.23%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.61%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.61%) PKI
6 1 (1.61%) Product Ownership
6 1 (1.61%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 16 (25.81%) Windows
2 9 (14.52%) Linux
3 6 (9.68%) Windows 10
4 5 (8.06%) Windows Server
5 3 (4.84%) Android
6 2 (3.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
7 1 (1.61%) Apple iOS
7 1 (1.61%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.00%) ITSM
2 12 (19.35%) ITIL
3 11 (17.74%) Migration
3 11 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (16.13%) Mentoring
5 9 (14.52%) Service Management
6 7 (11.29%) Customer Service
6 7 (11.29%) Data Modelling
6 7 (11.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (9.68%) Agile
7 6 (9.68%) Disaster Recovery
7 6 (9.68%) ERP
7 6 (9.68%) Information Security
7 6 (9.68%) Network Segmentation
8 5 (8.06%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (8.06%) Incident Management
8 5 (8.06%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 5 (8.06%) Logistics
8 5 (8.06%) Portfolio Management
8 5 (8.06%) Service Delivery
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.68%) SQL
2 3 (4.84%) JavaScript
2 3 (4.84%) Python
3 2 (3.23%) C#
3 2 (3.23%) X++
4 1 (1.61%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 22 (35.48%) Security Cleared
2 21 (33.87%) SC Cleared
3 7 (11.29%) Degree
4 4 (6.45%) CISSP
4 4 (6.45%) ITIL Certification
5 3 (4.84%) CISM
5 3 (4.84%) CRISC
6 2 (3.23%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
7 1 (1.61%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.61%) CCNA
7 1 (1.61%) CCSP
7 1 (1.61%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (1.61%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
7 1 (1.61%) MCSE
7 1 (1.61%) Microsoft Certification
7 1 (1.61%) PMI Certification
7 1 (1.61%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (11.29%) SLA
2 6 (9.68%) Cyber Essentials
3 5 (8.06%) GRC
4 3 (4.84%) Data Quality
5 2 (3.23%) GLP
5 2 (3.23%) GMP
5 2 (3.23%) QA
6 1 (1.61%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.61%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (1.61%) GxP
6 1 (1.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
System Software
1 4 (6.45%) Active Directory
1 4 (6.45%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (3.23%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 2 (3.23%) Ansible
1 2 (3.23%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (3.23%) Terraform
2 1 (1.61%) TeamSite
Vendors
1 14 (22.58%) Microsoft
2 11 (17.74%) SAP
3 8 (12.90%) Remedy
4 6 (9.68%) BMC
5 5 (8.06%) Barracuda Networks
5 5 (8.06%) Cisco
5 5 (8.06%) Palo Alto
5 5 (8.06%) VMware
6 3 (4.84%) Freshdesk
7 2 (3.23%) Databricks
7 2 (3.23%) Dell
7 2 (3.23%) Dynatrace
7 2 (3.23%) HP
7 2 (3.23%) Infoblox
7 2 (3.23%) Red Hat
8 1 (1.61%) Apple
8 1 (1.61%) Google
8 1 (1.61%) Juniper
8 1 (1.61%) Pega
8 1 (1.61%) Salesforce