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 18 May 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
18 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 64 81
Rank change year-on-year -1 +17 +25
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,395 888 952
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.40% 3.63% 2.61%
As % of the Vendors category 8.28% 7.62% 6.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 962 561 553
10th Percentile £213 £200 £165
25th Percentile £400 £313 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £712
UK median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 55 107
10th Percentile £16.08 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £14.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £25.91 £17.00 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +52.38% +4.29% -11.51%
75th Percentile £81.98 £21.69 £21.37
90th Percentile £97.25 £37.50 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £25.91 £17.45 £16.30
% change year-on-year +48.50% +7.02% -11.51%

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 16,858 11,650 15,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.14% 47.61% 41.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,910 7,504 9,729
10th Percentile £313 £278 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% -3.36%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £635
90th Percentile £710 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 892 466 1,006
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.84 £12.06
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.46 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.39 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +23.14% +17.30% -40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £58.75 £57.33
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.00
% change year-on-year +27.45% +15.91% -48.24%

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 18 May 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 18 May 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 18 May 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 +1 605 £515 -3.29% 138
North of England -9 269 £515 +28.75% 81
South East -3 209 £500 +42.86% 75
Midlands +8 162 £425 -22.87% 39
North West +1 140 £453 -4.03% 49
West Midlands -7 122 £450 -18.33% 22
Yorkshire -18 118 £540 +35.00% 28
South West -10 59 £538 +128.72% 9
East of England -28 57 £525 +51.52% 27
East Midlands -1 33 £300 -41.46% 16
North East -10 15 £450 +50.00% 4
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 90 (6.45%) Confluence
2 54 (3.87%) SharePoint
3 47 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.72%) Skype for Business
5 8 (0.57%) Apache
6 4 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.29%) CMS
7 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.22%) Appian
7 3 (0.22%) SAS
8 2 (0.14%) Camunda
8 2 (0.14%) CICS
8 2 (0.14%) IIS
8 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.14%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.072%) Drupal
9 1 (0.072%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
Applications
1 71 (5.09%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (3.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 46 (3.30%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (1.65%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.65%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.22%) Revit
7 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.072%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.072%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 48 (3.44%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.22%) Maximo
6 2 (0.14%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.14%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.14%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.072%) Dynamics GP
7 1 (0.072%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.072%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.072%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.072%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 284 (20.36%) Azure
2 205 (14.70%) AWS
3 145 (10.39%) Microsoft 365
4 114 (8.17%) Entra ID
5 96 (6.88%) Power Platform
6 66 (4.73%) GCP
6 66 (4.73%) SaaS
7 59 (4.23%) Azure DevOps
8 26 (1.86%) OneDrive
9 20 (1.43%) Power Automate
10 16 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
11 15 (1.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (1.08%) Amazon S3
12 14 (1.00%) AWS KMS
12 14 (1.00%) GitHub
13 13 (0.93%) Datadog
13 13 (0.93%) Slack
13 13 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (0.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 70 (5.02%) DNS
2 60 (4.30%) Firewall
3 59 (4.23%) DHCP
4 50 (3.58%) VPN
5 35 (2.51%) Wireless
6 31 (2.22%) Network Security
7 30 (2.15%) WAN
8 29 (2.08%) LAN
9 23 (1.65%) Wi-Fi
10 21 (1.51%) TCP/IP
11 18 (1.29%) VLAN
12 16 (1.15%) SAN
13 15 (1.08%) NAS
13 15 (1.08%) SD-WAN
14 14 (1.00%) Internet
15 13 (0.93%) SSL
16 11 (0.79%) Cisco IOS
16 11 (0.79%) NX-OS
16 11 (0.79%) Structured Cabling
17 10 (0.72%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (5.59%) Power BI
2 38 (2.72%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.58%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 15 (1.08%) Metadata
8 13 (0.93%) Tableau
9 10 (0.72%) Power Query
10 9 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (0.65%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (0.50%) MySQL
13 6 (0.43%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.43%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
14 5 (0.36%) DB2
15 4 (0.29%) PowerPivot
15 4 (0.29%) Redis
15 4 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 251 (17.99%) JIRA
2 67 (4.80%) Git
3 39 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 33 (2.37%) GitLab
5 17 (1.22%) Selenium
6 14 (1.00%) REST Assured
7 13 (0.93%) Postman
8 12 (0.86%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.57%) TestRail
10 5 (0.36%) JMeter
10 5 (0.36%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.29%) Gatling
11 4 (0.29%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.22%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.22%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.22%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.22%) Flyway
12 3 (0.22%) JUnit
13 2 (0.14%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 426 (30.54%) Social Skills
2 274 (19.64%) Finance
3 174 (12.47%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (8.32%) Public Sector
5 83 (5.95%) Banking
6 54 (3.87%) Organisational Skills
7 53 (3.80%) Military
7 53 (3.80%) Telecoms
8 48 (3.44%) Legal
9 46 (3.30%) Documentation Skills
10 20 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (1.15%) Billing
13 15 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
13 15 (1.08%) Retail
14 13 (0.93%) Financial Institution
15 10 (0.72%) Law
16 8 (0.57%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.57%) French Language
17 7 (0.50%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 275 (19.71%) Architect
2 181 (12.97%) Analyst
3 154 (11.04%) ServiceNow Architect
4 123 (8.82%) Developer
5 102 (7.31%) ServiceNow Developer
6 81 (5.81%) Senior
7 77 (5.52%) Lead
8 73 (5.23%) Support Engineer
9 71 (5.09%) IT Support
10 62 (4.44%) Consultant
11 60 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
12 52 (3.73%) Business Analyst
13 48 (3.44%) Project Manager
14 46 (3.30%) IT Engineer
15 45 (3.23%) ServiceNow Manager
16 43 (3.08%) IT Support Engineer
16 43 (3.08%) Service Analyst
17 39 (2.80%) Technical Architect
18 37 (2.65%) Delivery Manager
19 36 (2.58%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 173 (12.40%) REST
2 103 (7.38%) SOAP
3 40 (2.87%) SailPoint
4 38 (2.72%) LDAP
5 30 (2.15%) Middleware
6 29 (2.08%) CSS
6 29 (2.08%) OpenID
7 28 (2.01%) HTML
8 25 (1.79%) JSON
9 23 (1.65%) Web Services
10 22 (1.58%) AngularJS
10 22 (1.58%) Flash
11 21 (1.51%) OAuth
12 19 (1.36%) XML
13 18 (1.29%) .NET
14 16 (1.15%) SAML
15 12 (0.86%) Kafka
16 11 (0.79%) JDBC
17 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Graph
18 9 (0.65%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 170 (12.19%) CMDB
2 110 (7.89%) Onboarding
3 95 (6.81%) Product Ownership
4 40 (2.87%) Data Centre
5 35 (2.51%) Management Information System
5 35 (2.51%) Replication
6 26 (1.86%) Cloud Native
7 25 (1.79%) Security Posture
8 22 (1.58%) Linux Command Line
9 20 (1.43%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (1.22%) PKI
12 16 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (1.15%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.08%) Virtual Team
14 13 (0.93%) AI Agents
15 12 (0.86%) Clustering
16 10 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
17 9 (0.65%) Mainframe
17 9 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 216 (15.48%) Windows
2 81 (5.81%) Windows 10
3 75 (5.38%) Linux
4 37 (2.65%) Mac OS
5 36 (2.58%) Windows Server
6 28 (2.01%) Unix
7 21 (1.51%) Apple iOS
8 19 (1.36%) Android
9 10 (0.72%) Windows 7
10 7 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (0.43%) zOS
12 4 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.072%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.072%) MVS
13 1 (0.072%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.072%) VMS
13 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 482 (34.55%) ITSM
2 380 (27.24%) ITIL
3 324 (23.23%) Agile
4 258 (18.49%) Service Management
5 202 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
6 194 (13.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 193 (13.84%) Stakeholder Management
8 172 (12.33%) Change Management
9 164 (11.76%) DevOps
10 159 (11.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 128 (9.18%) Migration
12 127 (9.10%) Customer Service
12 127 (9.10%) Service Delivery
13 124 (8.89%) CI/CD
14 120 (8.60%) Data Modelling
14 120 (8.60%) Roadmaps
15 118 (8.46%) AI
16 116 (8.32%) Workflow
17 100 (7.17%) Project Management
18 97 (6.95%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 130 (9.32%) SQL
2 99 (7.10%) JavaScript
3 89 (6.38%) Python
4 81 (5.81%) PowerShell
5 71 (5.09%) Java
6 28 (2.01%) C#
7 12 (0.86%) Bash
8 11 (0.79%) VB
9 10 (0.72%) PL/SQL
9 10 (0.72%) TypeScript
9 10 (0.72%) VBScript
10 9 (0.65%) Groovy
11 7 (0.50%) Perl
12 6 (0.43%) BeanShell
12 6 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.43%) JCL
12 6 (0.43%) REXX
12 6 (0.43%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.36%) Go
13 5 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 373 (26.74%) Security Cleared
2 275 (19.71%) SC Cleared
3 113 (8.10%) Degree
4 64 (4.59%) DV Cleared
5 37 (2.65%) Cisco Certification
6 33 (2.37%) PMP
7 29 (2.08%) PMI Certification
8 28 (2.01%) CCNP
8 28 (2.01%) CISSP
8 28 (2.01%) ITIL Certification
9 22 (1.58%) CISM
9 22 (1.58%) TOGAF Certification
10 19 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
11 16 (1.15%) CCNA
12 14 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
13 11 (0.79%) Server+ Certification
14 10 (0.72%) AWS Certification
14 10 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (5.38%) SLA
2 61 (4.37%) Data Quality
3 50 (3.58%) QA
4 42 (3.01%) GDPR
4 42 (3.01%) GRC
5 27 (1.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (1.86%) NIST
7 23 (1.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 17 (1.22%) PMO
9 11 (0.79%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.57%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.50%) PCI DSS
12 4 (0.29%) GxP
13 3 (0.22%) COBIT
13 3 (0.22%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.22%) NCSC
13 3 (0.22%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.14%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 159 (11.40%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.65%) NFS
4 22 (1.58%) GPFS
5 18 (1.29%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (1.29%) vSphere
6 17 (1.22%) Docker
7 10 (0.72%) BitLocker
8 7 (0.50%) Firmware
9 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.29%) IAG
10 4 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (0.22%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 2 (0.14%) RACF
12 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.072%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 56 (4.01%) Terraform
2 44 (3.15%) SCCM
3 36 (2.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (2.37%) Ansible
5 25 (1.79%) Grafana
6 21 (1.51%) OPNET
7 20 (1.43%) Prometheus
8 19 (1.36%) Kubernetes
9 18 (1.29%) vRealize
10 13 (0.93%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
12 8 (0.57%) VxRail
13 7 (0.50%) CASB
13 7 (0.50%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.50%) WMI
14 5 (0.36%) QRadar
14 5 (0.36%) Salt
15 4 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.29%) Control-M
15 4 (0.29%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 240 (17.20%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.67%) Cisco
3 84 (6.02%) Remedy
4 66 (4.73%) SAP
5 52 (3.73%) Oracle
6 50 (3.58%) Splunk
7 43 (3.08%) VMware
8 38 (2.72%) Workday
9 37 (2.65%) Salesforce
10 33 (2.37%) IBM
11 30 (2.15%) Atlassian
12 27 (1.94%) Fortinet
12 27 (1.94%) Palo Alto
13 26 (1.86%) Apple
14 23 (1.65%) CyberArk
14 23 (1.65%) F5
14 23 (1.65%) Google
15 22 (1.58%) BMC
16 19 (1.36%) Zscaler
17 18 (1.29%) Snow