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 1 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
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 70 67
Rank change year-on-year +2 -3 +65
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,127 914 1,181
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.55% 3.25% 3.25%
As % of the Vendors category 7.54% 7.06% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 776 513 777
10th Percentile £204 £205 £165
25th Percentile £340 £360 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -0.50% -4.29%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £638
90th Percentile £688 £650 £714
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £520
% change year-on-year -5.00% -3.85% +0.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 26 40
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.11 £15.93
25th Percentile £16.28 £16.00 £16.99
Median hourly rate £19.25 £21.46 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +11.48% +24.19%
75th Percentile £28.75 £23.14 £26.81
90th Percentile £89.63 £29.50 £65.36
UK median hourly rate £19.25 £22.05 £18.97
% change year-on-year -12.68% +16.24% +22.35%

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 14,956 12,945 16,000
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.18% 46.05% 44.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,753 7,849 10,411
10th Percentile £300 £291 £250
25th Percentile £409 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £713 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 699 372 613
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.28 £14.18
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.06 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £46.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% -34.78% +70.37%
75th Percentile £47.63 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £73.85 £80.54 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.24 £45.94
% change year-on-year -12.53% -40.71% +76.69%

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 1 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 1 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 1 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 -38 438 £475 -9.52% 225
North of England 0 211 £500 +21.21% 143
South East +36 166 £414 -11.02% 180
Midlands +8 144 £475 +13.10% 119
North West +3 125 £475 +16.71% 67
West Midlands +9 118 £475 +2.70% 79
South West +38 85 £606 +20.65% 59
Yorkshire -9 77 £500 -6.98% 68
East of England +8 72 £527 +0.29% 77
East Midlands -3 25 £425 +19.38% 35
North East -5 9 £350 +133.33% 9
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 81 (7.19%) Confluence
2 73 (6.48%) SharePoint
3 45 (3.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.89%) nginx
5 6 (0.53%) Appian
5 6 (0.53%) Camunda
5 6 (0.53%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.44%) Apache
7 4 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.27%) CICS
8 3 (0.27%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.18%) IIS
9 2 (0.18%) JBoss
10 1 (0.089%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.089%) CMS
10 1 (0.089%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.089%) WebSphere
Applications
1 71 (6.30%) Microsoft Office
2 58 (5.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (4.88%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (2.13%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.35%) Autodesk Inventor
8 4 (0.35%) Trello
9 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 46 (4.08%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.15%) 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%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.62%) SAP MM
5 3 (0.27%) SAP GRC
5 3 (0.27%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.089%) Actimize
7 1 (0.089%) assyst
7 1 (0.089%) Maximo
7 1 (0.089%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.089%) Oracle HRMS
7 1 (0.089%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.089%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.089%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.089%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 237 (21.03%) Azure
2 180 (15.97%) Microsoft 365
3 134 (11.89%) AWS
4 81 (7.19%) Entra ID
5 64 (5.68%) SaaS
6 63 (5.59%) Power Platform
7 59 (5.24%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (3.99%) GCP
9 34 (3.02%) OneDrive
10 24 (2.13%) GitHub
10 24 (2.13%) Power Automate
11 20 (1.77%) AWS KMS
12 19 (1.69%) Amazon S3
13 18 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 18 (1.60%) Amazon EC2
13 18 (1.60%) Amazon ELB
13 18 (1.60%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 17 (1.51%) Sauce Labs
15 13 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
16 11 (0.98%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (6.48%) DNS
2 48 (4.26%) VPN
3 47 (4.17%) Firewall
4 43 (3.82%) Wireless
5 38 (3.37%) DHCP
6 32 (2.84%) Wi-Fi
7 26 (2.31%) HTTP
8 22 (1.95%) FTP
8 22 (1.95%) TCP/IP
9 20 (1.77%) LAN
9 20 (1.77%) WAN
10 19 (1.69%) SSH
11 18 (1.60%) SMTP
12 16 (1.42%) Network Security
13 14 (1.24%) SSL
14 13 (1.15%) BGP
15 10 (0.89%) Cisco Wireless
15 10 (0.89%) IMAP
15 10 (0.89%) OpenLDAP
16 9 (0.80%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (3.82%) Power BI
2 29 (2.57%) Relational Database
3 23 (2.04%) MySQL
4 22 (1.95%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (1.77%) SQL Server
6 19 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (1.51%) Metadata
8 16 (1.42%) Tableau
9 14 (1.24%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.71%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.53%) DB2
12 6 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.44%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.35%) Metadata Repository
14 4 (0.35%) Redis
15 3 (0.27%) Oracle ODI
16 2 (0.18%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 211 (18.72%) JIRA
2 50 (4.44%) Git
2 50 (4.44%) Jenkins
3 18 (1.60%) Browser DevTools
3 18 (1.60%) GitLab
4 17 (1.51%) Android Studio
4 17 (1.51%) Eclipse
4 17 (1.51%) Vagrant
4 17 (1.51%) Xcode
5 10 (0.89%) Selenium
6 9 (0.80%) REST Assured
7 8 (0.71%) Postman
8 7 (0.62%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.62%) TestRail
9 4 (0.35%) Metasploit
10 3 (0.27%) Burp Suite
10 3 (0.27%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
11 2 (0.18%) sqlmap
11 2 (0.18%) Zephyr
General
1 461 (40.91%) Social Skills
2 227 (20.14%) Finance
3 174 (15.44%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 49 (4.35%) Banking
6 44 (3.90%) Military
6 44 (3.90%) Telecoms
7 38 (3.37%) Legal
8 37 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
9 34 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
10 21 (1.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (1.77%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (1.51%) Law
13 13 (1.15%) Aerospace
13 13 (1.15%) Manufacturing
14 9 (0.80%) Billing
14 9 (0.80%) Financial Institution
14 9 (0.80%) Marketing
15 7 (0.62%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 179 (15.88%) Architect
2 165 (14.64%) Analyst
3 101 (8.96%) ServiceNow Architect
4 94 (8.34%) Support Engineer
5 93 (8.25%) Developer
6 78 (6.92%) ServiceNow Developer
7 76 (6.74%) IT Support
8 64 (5.68%) Consultant
9 50 (4.44%) Lead
10 45 (3.99%) Senior
11 41 (3.64%) IT Engineer
12 39 (3.46%) Service Analyst
13 36 (3.19%) Project Manager
14 34 (3.02%) ServiceNow Manager
15 33 (2.93%) IT Support Engineer
16 32 (2.84%) Service Architect
17 31 (2.75%) Business Analyst
17 31 (2.75%) DevOps Engineer
18 29 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
19 28 (2.48%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (9.05%) REST
2 88 (7.81%) SOAP
3 46 (4.08%) AngularJS
4 34 (3.02%) CSS
5 33 (2.93%) LDAP
6 26 (2.31%) React
7 25 (2.22%) JSON
8 24 (2.13%) HTML
9 22 (1.95%) Ajax
9 22 (1.95%) SailPoint
10 19 (1.69%) Web Services
11 18 (1.60%) GraphQL
12 15 (1.33%) Flash
13 14 (1.24%) SAML
13 14 (1.24%) XML
14 10 (0.89%) .NET
14 10 (0.89%) HTML5
14 10 (0.89%) ODBC
14 10 (0.89%) OpenID
15 9 (0.80%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 141 (12.51%) CMDB
2 69 (6.12%) Onboarding
3 59 (5.24%) Product Ownership
4 40 (3.55%) Replication
5 31 (2.75%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (2.04%) Mobile App
7 22 (1.95%) Management Information System
7 22 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (1.69%) Driving Licence
9 17 (1.51%) Video Conferencing
10 16 (1.42%) Security Posture
10 16 (1.42%) Smartphone
11 15 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
12 13 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
12 13 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (0.80%) Cloud Native
13 9 (0.80%) Low-Code
13 9 (0.80%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 243 (21.56%) Windows
2 92 (8.16%) Windows 10
3 74 (6.57%) Linux
4 43 (3.82%) Mac OS
5 38 (3.37%) Android
6 33 (2.93%) Unix
7 19 (1.69%) VMS
8 17 (1.51%) Amazon Linux
8 17 (1.51%) Apple iOS
9 15 (1.33%) Windows Server
10 11 (0.98%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.44%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.44%) zOS
12 4 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.089%) CentOS
13 1 (0.089%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.089%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.089%) Mac OS X
13 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (33.10%) ITSM
2 293 (26.00%) ITIL
3 249 (22.09%) Agile
4 210 (18.63%) Service Management
5 200 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
6 154 (13.66%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 150 (13.31%) Stakeholder Management
8 148 (13.13%) DevOps
9 132 (11.71%) Change Management
10 122 (10.83%) Customer Service
11 102 (9.05%) Continuous Improvement
12 96 (8.52%) CI/CD
13 84 (7.45%) Roadmaps
14 81 (7.19%) Service Delivery
15 74 (6.57%) User Experience
16 70 (6.21%) Configuration Management
17 69 (6.12%) Project Management
17 69 (6.12%) Scrum
18 68 (6.03%) Migration
19 67 (5.94%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 111 (9.85%) Python
2 103 (9.14%) JavaScript
3 76 (6.74%) PowerShell
4 71 (6.30%) SQL
5 55 (4.88%) Java
6 37 (3.28%) Perl
7 22 (1.95%) Groovy
8 18 (1.60%) Bash
9 12 (1.06%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.62%) ABAP
10 7 (0.62%) Lisp
10 7 (0.62%) VB
11 6 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (0.53%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.44%) BeanShell
12 5 (0.44%) Go
12 5 (0.44%) JCL
12 5 (0.44%) PHP
12 5 (0.44%) REXX
12 5 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 330 (29.28%) Security Cleared
2 270 (23.96%) SC Cleared
3 118 (10.47%) Degree
4 31 (2.75%) TOGAF Certification
5 19 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (1.60%) DV Cleared
7 17 (1.51%) CISSP
8 16 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (1.33%) CCNP
9 15 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
10 13 (1.15%) A+ Certification
10 13 (1.15%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.15%) Azure Certification
11 12 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (0.98%) PMI Certification
13 10 (0.89%) CISM
14 9 (0.80%) ACSP
14 9 (0.80%) ACTC
14 9 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (4.88%) QA
2 49 (4.35%) SLA
3 38 (3.37%) GDPR
4 35 (3.11%) GRC
5 34 (3.02%) Data Quality
6 19 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.69%) NIST
7 15 (1.33%) PMO
7 15 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (0.98%) Accessibility
8 11 (0.98%) PCI DSS
9 6 (0.53%) COBIT
9 6 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 5 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
10 5 (0.44%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
11 3 (0.27%) ISO 22301
11 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
11 3 (0.27%) NIST 800
11 3 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 152 (13.49%) Active Directory
2 31 (2.75%) Docker
3 24 (2.13%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.51%) DFS Replication
5 16 (1.42%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (1.33%) GPFS
6 15 (1.33%) NFS
7 13 (1.15%) vSphere
8 10 (0.89%) Dovecot
8 10 (0.89%) Postfix
8 10 (0.89%) Squid
9 6 (0.53%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.18%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 1 (0.089%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 1 (0.089%) Firmware
12 1 (0.089%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.089%) RACF
12 1 (0.089%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.089%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (4.61%) SCCM
2 49 (4.35%) Terraform
3 42 (3.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.66%) Grafana
4 30 (2.66%) OPNET
5 29 (2.57%) Ansible
6 22 (1.95%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.60%) Jamf Pro
7 18 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.33%) Nessus
9 13 (1.15%) vRealize
10 12 (1.06%) Kubernetes
11 11 (0.98%) RSA Archer
12 10 (0.89%) Proxmox
13 9 (0.80%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.35%) Pingdom
14 4 (0.35%) Rancher
15 3 (0.27%) Control-M
15 3 (0.27%) Nmap
15 3 (0.27%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 256 (22.72%) Microsoft
2 96 (8.52%) Remedy
3 63 (5.59%) Oracle
4 62 (5.50%) SAP
5 57 (5.06%) Cisco
6 45 (3.99%) Salesforce
7 43 (3.82%) Splunk
8 35 (3.11%) Apple
9 33 (2.93%) Atlassian
10 30 (2.66%) IBM
10 30 (2.66%) VMware
10 30 (2.66%) Workday
11 25 (2.22%) HP
12 21 (1.86%) Snow
13 20 (1.77%) BMC
14 16 (1.42%) Citrix
15 13 (1.15%) Palo Alto
15 13 (1.15%) Zscaler
16 10 (0.89%) CrowdStrike
16 10 (0.89%) CyberArk