ServiceNow Contract Job Trends in England

ServiceNow
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in 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 25 January 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
25 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 65 69
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 +56
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,125 889 1,107
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.47% 3.33% 2.94%
As % of the Vendors category 7.52% 7.23% 6.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 784 491 724
10th Percentile £204 £200 £165
25th Percentile £350 £356 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.95% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £620
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £485 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -2.02% -1.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 38
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.06 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.00 £16.26
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.46 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +11.48% +19.79%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.40 £28.44
90th Percentile £58.05 £29.70 £63.25
UK median hourly rate £19.25 £22.09 £17.72
% change year-on-year -12.86% +24.66% +14.32%

All Vendors
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 14,960 12,296 16,406
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.16% 46.12% 43.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,830 7,401 10,612
10th Percentile £300 £288 £250
25th Percentile £411 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.38% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £713 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 712 356 785
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £13.15
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -12.36% +6.14%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £59.95
90th Percentile £71.95 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £34.00
% change year-on-year -13.36% -19.12% +15.25%

ServiceNow
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

ServiceNow job vacancy trend in England

ServiceNow
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ServiceNow

ServiceNow
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ServiceNow in England over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ServiceNow in England

ServiceNow
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing ServiceNow

ServiceNow
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ServiceNow in England over the 6 months to 25 January 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for ServiceNow in England

ServiceNow
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 25 January 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
London -40 446 £483 -8.10% 110
North of England 0 217 £500 +23.46% 59
South East +44 164 £420 -6.67% 70
Midlands +6 147 £475 +9.20% 26
North West +4 125 £475 +18.75% 35
West Midlands +2 119 £480 +1.05% 18
Yorkshire +3 85 £528 -1.86% 20
East of England +4 74 £528 +0.57% 10
South West +14 67 £725 +52.63% 9
East Midlands -8 27 £425 +19.38% 7
North East -12 7 £350 +133.33% 5
ServiceNow
UK

ServiceNow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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 71 (6.31%) SharePoint
2 68 (6.04%) Confluence
3 52 (4.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.89%) Skype for Business
5 8 (0.71%) nginx
6 6 (0.53%) Apache
6 6 (0.53%) Appian
6 6 (0.53%) Camunda
7 4 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.27%) CICS
8 3 (0.27%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.18%) JBoss
10 1 (0.089%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.089%) CMS
10 1 (0.089%) IIS
10 1 (0.089%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.089%) WebSphere
Applications
1 71 (6.31%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (4.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (4.71%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.87%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.60%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.71%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.36%) Autodesk Inventor
8 4 (0.36%) Trello
9 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 32 (2.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.71%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.62%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 7 (0.62%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.27%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.089%) Actimize
8 1 (0.089%) assyst
8 1 (0.089%) Maximo
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle HRMS
8 1 (0.089%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.089%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.089%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 237 (21.07%) Azure
2 181 (16.09%) Microsoft 365
3 139 (12.36%) AWS
4 86 (7.64%) Entra ID
5 65 (5.78%) SaaS
6 64 (5.69%) Power Platform
7 56 (4.98%) Azure DevOps
8 55 (4.89%) GCP
9 33 (2.93%) OneDrive
10 22 (1.96%) GitHub
11 18 (1.60%) Power Automate
12 15 (1.33%) AWS KMS
13 14 (1.24%) Amazon S3
13 14 (1.24%) Sauce Labs
14 13 (1.16%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (1.16%) Amazon ELB
14 13 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (1.16%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (0.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 72 (6.40%) DNS
2 48 (4.27%) VPN
3 40 (3.56%) DHCP
4 38 (3.38%) Firewall
5 36 (3.20%) Wi-Fi
5 36 (3.20%) Wireless
6 26 (2.31%) LAN
6 26 (2.31%) WAN
7 19 (1.69%) FTP
8 17 (1.51%) Network Security
8 17 (1.51%) TCP/IP
9 16 (1.42%) HTTP
10 14 (1.24%) SSH
11 12 (1.07%) BGP
11 12 (1.07%) SMTP
12 11 (0.98%) VLAN
13 10 (0.89%) Cisco Wireless
13 10 (0.89%) Skype
14 9 (0.80%) 4G
14 9 (0.80%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (4.00%) Power BI
2 22 (1.96%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.87%) Relational Database
4 20 (1.78%) MySQL
5 18 (1.60%) Metadata
6 17 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (1.33%) Tableau
8 12 (1.07%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.71%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.53%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.53%) DB2
12 6 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.36%) Metadata Repository
13 4 (0.36%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.36%) Redis
14 2 (0.18%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 192 (17.07%) JIRA
2 51 (4.53%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.47%) Git
4 25 (2.22%) GitLab
5 15 (1.33%) Browser DevTools
6 14 (1.24%) Android Studio
6 14 (1.24%) Eclipse
6 14 (1.24%) Selenium
6 14 (1.24%) Xcode
7 12 (1.07%) Postman
7 12 (1.07%) REST Assured
7 12 (1.07%) Vagrant
8 10 (0.89%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.62%) TestRail
10 4 (0.36%) Gatling
10 4 (0.36%) JMeter
10 4 (0.36%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.36%) Metasploit
10 4 (0.36%) NeoLoad
11 3 (0.27%) Burp Suite
General
1 442 (39.29%) Social Skills
2 227 (20.18%) Finance
3 171 (15.20%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (9.24%) Public Sector
5 51 (4.53%) Banking
6 45 (4.00%) Military
7 41 (3.64%) Legal
7 41 (3.64%) Telecoms
8 40 (3.56%) Documentation Skills
9 25 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
10 21 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (1.78%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 18 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.42%) Law
14 12 (1.07%) Manufacturing
15 11 (0.98%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.80%) Billing
16 9 (0.80%) Financial Institution
16 9 (0.80%) Marketing
16 9 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 185 (16.44%) Architect
2 171 (15.20%) Analyst
3 102 (9.07%) ServiceNow Architect
4 92 (8.18%) Developer
5 91 (8.09%) Support Engineer
6 79 (7.02%) ServiceNow Developer
7 76 (6.76%) IT Support
8 67 (5.96%) Consultant
9 58 (5.16%) Lead
10 42 (3.73%) IT Engineer
11 39 (3.47%) Senior
12 38 (3.38%) Service Analyst
13 35 (3.11%) IT Support Engineer
14 34 (3.02%) Business Analyst
15 33 (2.93%) ServiceNow Manager
16 32 (2.84%) Project Manager
16 32 (2.84%) Service Architect
17 31 (2.76%) Technical Architect
18 29 (2.58%) Solutions Architect
19 28 (2.49%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 114 (10.13%) REST
2 89 (7.91%) SOAP
3 31 (2.76%) SailPoint
4 30 (2.67%) CSS
5 28 (2.49%) LDAP
6 27 (2.40%) AngularJS
7 20 (1.78%) Ajax
8 19 (1.69%) Flash
8 19 (1.69%) OpenID
9 18 (1.60%) React
10 15 (1.33%) GraphQL
11 14 (1.24%) HTML
11 14 (1.24%) JSON
12 11 (0.98%) XML
13 9 (0.80%) .NET
13 9 (0.80%) ADO
13 9 (0.80%) OAuth
14 8 (0.71%) Kafka
15 7 (0.62%) SAML
15 7 (0.62%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 138 (12.27%) CMDB
2 72 (6.40%) Onboarding
3 60 (5.33%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.47%) Replication
5 30 (2.67%) Data Centre
6 27 (2.40%) Management Information System
7 23 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
8 19 (1.69%) Mobile App
9 17 (1.51%) Security Posture
9 17 (1.51%) Video Conferencing
10 16 (1.42%) Smartphone
11 14 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.24%) Cloud Native
11 14 (1.24%) Driving Licence
12 13 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (0.80%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.71%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.62%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 240 (21.33%) Windows
2 101 (8.98%) Windows 10
3 70 (6.22%) Linux
4 38 (3.38%) Mac OS
5 35 (3.11%) Android
6 30 (2.67%) Unix
7 21 (1.87%) Windows Server
8 18 (1.60%) Apple iOS
9 13 (1.16%) VMS
10 12 (1.07%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.80%) Windows 7
12 8 (0.71%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.44%) zOS
14 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.089%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.089%) Kali Linux
15 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (33.78%) ITSM
2 279 (24.80%) ITIL
3 258 (22.93%) Agile
4 203 (18.04%) Service Management
5 194 (17.24%) Problem-Solving
6 155 (13.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 147 (13.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 137 (12.18%) DevOps
9 120 (10.67%) Customer Service
10 118 (10.49%) Change Management
11 113 (10.04%) Continuous Improvement
12 101 (8.98%) CI/CD
13 80 (7.11%) Roadmaps
14 75 (6.67%) Service Delivery
14 75 (6.67%) User Acceptance Testing
15 73 (6.49%) Workflow
16 72 (6.40%) Project Management
17 71 (6.31%) Data Modelling
18 68 (6.04%) Migration
19 67 (5.96%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 103 (9.16%) Python
2 97 (8.62%) JavaScript
3 71 (6.31%) PowerShell
4 70 (6.22%) SQL
5 61 (5.42%) Java
6 32 (2.84%) Perl
7 17 (1.51%) Groovy
8 15 (1.33%) Bash
9 12 (1.07%) Shell Script
10 11 (0.98%) VB
11 10 (0.89%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.80%) VBScript
13 7 (0.62%) ABAP
13 7 (0.62%) Go
13 7 (0.62%) Lisp
14 6 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.44%) BeanShell
15 5 (0.44%) PHP
15 5 (0.44%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.44%) REXX
Qualifications
1 308 (27.38%) Security Cleared
2 248 (22.04%) SC Cleared
3 112 (9.96%) Degree
4 31 (2.76%) TOGAF Certification
5 22 (1.96%) DV Cleared
6 18 (1.60%) ITIL Certification
7 15 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.24%) CCNP
8 14 (1.24%) CISSP
8 14 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.07%) PMI Certification
10 11 (0.98%) Azure Certification
11 10 (0.89%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.89%) ISTQB
11 10 (0.89%) PMP
12 9 (0.80%) ACSP
12 9 (0.80%) ACTC
12 9 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.80%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (4.89%) QA
2 53 (4.71%) SLA
3 42 (3.73%) GRC
4 38 (3.38%) GDPR
5 37 (3.29%) Data Quality
6 22 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.60%) NIST
7 18 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 16 (1.42%) PMO
9 12 (1.07%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.80%) Accessibility
11 7 (0.62%) COBIT
11 7 (0.62%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 19770
13 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.27%) NCSC
14 3 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 153 (13.60%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (2.22%) Docker
4 19 (1.69%) GPFS
4 19 (1.69%) NFS
5 17 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (1.51%) vSphere
6 12 (1.07%) DFS Replication
7 10 (0.89%) BitLocker
8 8 (0.71%) Dovecot
8 8 (0.71%) Postfix
8 8 (0.71%) Squid
9 5 (0.44%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 2 (0.18%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.089%) Firmware
11 1 (0.089%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.089%) RACF
11 1 (0.089%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 58 (5.16%) SCCM
2 47 (4.18%) Terraform
3 42 (3.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.67%) OPNET
5 26 (2.31%) Grafana
6 24 (2.13%) Ansible
7 18 (1.60%) Prometheus
8 17 (1.51%) Jamf Pro
8 17 (1.51%) vRealize
9 12 (1.07%) Kubernetes
10 11 (0.98%) Nessus
10 11 (0.98%) RSA Archer
11 9 (0.80%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.71%) Proxmox
13 7 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.36%) Pingdom
14 4 (0.36%) Rancher
15 3 (0.27%) Nmap
15 3 (0.27%) OMEGAMON
15 3 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 242 (21.51%) Microsoft
2 83 (7.38%) Remedy
3 61 (5.42%) Oracle
4 59 (5.24%) Cisco
4 59 (5.24%) SAP
5 40 (3.56%) Salesforce
6 38 (3.38%) Splunk
7 34 (3.02%) VMware
8 33 (2.93%) Apple
8 33 (2.93%) Atlassian
9 31 (2.76%) IBM
9 31 (2.76%) Workday
10 22 (1.96%) Snow
11 15 (1.33%) HP
12 14 (1.24%) Citrix
13 13 (1.16%) BMC
13 13 (1.16%) Zscaler
14 12 (1.07%) Google
15 11 (0.98%) Palo Alto
16 10 (0.89%) Dynatrace