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 20 March 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
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 61 73
Rank change year-on-year -6 +12 +32
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,294 897 1,025
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.48% 3.67% 2.72%
As % of the Vendors category 7.92% 7.77% 6.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 882 516 604
10th Percentile £209 £200 £163
25th Percentile £375 £345 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% - -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £690 £688 £710
UK median daily rate £489 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -0.96% -1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 38 89
10th Percentile £15.65 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £16.31 £16.06 £16.06
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% +15.46% -6.86%
75th Percentile £28.75 £22.83 £21.46
90th Percentile £95.00 £29.30 £30.25
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £21.46 £16.30
% change year-on-year -9.13% +31.66% -6.86%

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 16,331 11,539 16,056
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.96% 47.21% 42.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,660 7,401 10,280
10th Percentile £309 £293 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.28%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £513
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.49% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 870 399 942
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.26 £12.14
25th Percentile £18.50 £20.93 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.40 £24.75
Median % change year-on-year -17.76% +22.82% -29.28%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £52.78
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -13.28% +18.37% -31.94%

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 20 March 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 20 March 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 20 March 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 -27 553 £500 -4.76% 120
North of England -11 214 £488 +21.88% 47
South East +20 201 £448 +27.86% 85
Midlands +2 170 £425 -21.30% 29
West Midlands -11 131 £444 -19.46% 20
North West -12 121 £450 +12.50% 27
Yorkshire -6 83 £525 +23.53% 18
East of England -7 72 £525 +5.00% 16
South West +3 60 £725 +38.10% 10
East Midlands -14 34 £400 +12.36% 9
North East -14 10 £425 +41.67% 2
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 76 (5.87%) Confluence
2 68 (5.26%) SharePoint
3 56 (4.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.70%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.54%) Apache
6 6 (0.46%) Appian
6 6 (0.46%) Camunda
7 5 (0.39%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (0.23%) CICS
10 2 (0.15%) CMS
10 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.15%) IIS
10 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) SAS
11 1 (0.077%) JBoss
11 1 (0.077%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.077%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.077%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
Applications
1 70 (5.41%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 59 (4.56%) Microsoft Project
3 21 (1.62%) MS Visio
4 17 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 5 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.31%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.23%) Trello
8 2 (0.15%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.077%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 39 (3.01%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.70%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 9 (0.70%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.54%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.31%) Maximo
7 3 (0.23%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.15%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.077%) Actimize
9 1 (0.077%) assyst
9 1 (0.077%) Dynamics CRM
9 1 (0.077%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.077%) SAP CS
9 1 (0.077%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.077%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 253 (19.55%) Azure
2 174 (13.45%) Microsoft 365
3 150 (11.59%) AWS
4 96 (7.42%) Entra ID
5 80 (6.18%) Power Platform
6 66 (5.10%) Azure DevOps
7 61 (4.71%) SaaS
8 58 (4.48%) GCP
9 32 (2.47%) OneDrive
10 19 (1.47%) GitHub
11 18 (1.39%) Power Automate
12 16 (1.24%) Azure Logic Apps
13 15 (1.16%) Serverless
14 13 (1.00%) Amazon S3
15 11 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (0.85%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (0.77%) AWS KMS
16 10 (0.77%) Azure Monitor
17 9 (0.70%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 63 (4.87%) DNS
2 48 (3.71%) VPN
3 46 (3.55%) DHCP
4 43 (3.32%) Firewall
5 39 (3.01%) Wireless
6 36 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
7 35 (2.70%) LAN
7 35 (2.70%) WAN
8 27 (2.09%) Network Security
9 18 (1.39%) TCP/IP
10 13 (1.00%) BGP
10 13 (1.00%) VLAN
11 12 (0.93%) Internet
11 12 (0.93%) SD-WAN
12 10 (0.77%) BIG-IP
12 10 (0.77%) Cisco ISE
12 10 (0.77%) NX-OS
13 9 (0.70%) 4G
13 9 (0.70%) Skype
14 8 (0.62%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (4.87%) Power BI
2 34 (2.63%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.62%) Metadata
4 18 (1.39%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (1.39%) Tableau
5 15 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (1.08%) MySQL
7 13 (1.00%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (0.85%) Relational Database
9 10 (0.77%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.54%) DB2
12 6 (0.46%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (0.39%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.39%) Redis
14 4 (0.31%) Metadata Repository
14 4 (0.31%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 224 (17.31%) JIRA
2 50 (3.86%) Git
3 42 (3.25%) Jenkins
4 30 (2.32%) GitLab
5 17 (1.31%) Selenium
6 14 (1.08%) REST Assured
7 13 (1.00%) Postman
8 12 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.62%) TestRail
10 7 (0.54%) Android Studio
10 7 (0.54%) Browser DevTools
10 7 (0.54%) Eclipse
10 7 (0.54%) Xcode
11 5 (0.39%) JMeter
11 5 (0.39%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.31%) Gatling
12 4 (0.31%) JUnit
12 4 (0.31%) NeoLoad
13 3 (0.23%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 443 (34.23%) Social Skills
2 262 (20.25%) Finance
3 190 (14.68%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (8.73%) Public Sector
5 72 (5.56%) Banking
6 58 (4.48%) Military
7 48 (3.71%) Legal
7 48 (3.71%) Organisational Skills
8 47 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
8 47 (3.63%) Telecoms
9 20 (1.55%) Influencing Skills
10 18 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 17 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (1.24%) Billing
13 13 (1.00%) Law
13 13 (1.00%) Retail
14 12 (0.93%) Aerospace
14 12 (0.93%) Manufacturing
15 11 (0.85%) Financial Institution
16 8 (0.62%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 220 (17.00%) Architect
2 187 (14.45%) Analyst
3 123 (9.51%) ServiceNow Architect
4 104 (8.04%) Developer
5 90 (6.96%) Support Engineer
6 87 (6.72%) ServiceNow Developer
7 82 (6.34%) IT Support
8 74 (5.72%) Consultant
9 73 (5.64%) Lead
10 56 (4.33%) Senior
11 53 (4.10%) IT Engineer
12 51 (3.94%) Project Manager
13 49 (3.79%) Business Analyst
13 49 (3.79%) ServiceNow Manager
14 47 (3.63%) IT Support Engineer
15 43 (3.32%) Service Analyst
16 37 (2.86%) Administrator
17 35 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
17 35 (2.70%) Technical Architect
18 34 (2.63%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (10.59%) REST
2 93 (7.19%) SOAP
3 37 (2.86%) SailPoint
4 27 (2.09%) CSS
5 23 (1.78%) LDAP
6 21 (1.62%) OpenID
7 20 (1.55%) AngularJS
8 19 (1.47%) Flash
9 18 (1.39%) JSON
10 16 (1.24%) HTML
10 16 (1.24%) Web Services
11 15 (1.16%) Middleware
12 14 (1.08%) .NET
12 14 (1.08%) OAuth
13 13 (1.00%) Kafka
13 13 (1.00%) XML
14 12 (0.93%) Ajax
15 10 (0.77%) ADO
16 9 (0.70%) Microsoft Graph
16 9 (0.70%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 164 (12.67%) CMDB
2 92 (7.11%) Onboarding
3 86 (6.65%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.70%) Data Centre
5 31 (2.40%) Management Information System
5 31 (2.40%) Replication
6 24 (1.85%) Security Posture
7 23 (1.78%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
9 18 (1.39%) Cloud Native
10 17 (1.31%) Data Protection Act
11 14 (1.08%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (1.00%) Virtual Team
13 10 (0.77%) Data Structures
13 10 (0.77%) Mainframe
13 10 (0.77%) Video Conferencing
14 9 (0.70%) Driving Licence
14 9 (0.70%) Public Cloud
14 9 (0.70%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 228 (17.62%) Windows
2 105 (8.11%) Windows 10
3 60 (4.64%) Linux
4 29 (2.24%) Unix
5 28 (2.16%) Android
5 28 (2.16%) Windows Server
6 27 (2.09%) Mac OS
7 15 (1.16%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.70%) Windows 7
9 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.39%) zOS
11 4 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.077%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.077%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.077%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.077%) VMS
12 1 (0.077%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.077%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 439 (33.93%) ITSM
2 339 (26.20%) ITIL
3 302 (23.34%) Agile
4 235 (18.16%) Service Management
5 199 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
6 197 (15.22%) Stakeholder Management
7 161 (12.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 151 (11.67%) Change Management
9 145 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 142 (10.97%) DevOps
11 127 (9.81%) Customer Service
12 113 (8.73%) Migration
13 108 (8.35%) Data Modelling
14 107 (8.27%) Service Delivery
15 105 (8.11%) CI/CD
16 100 (7.73%) Workflow
17 95 (7.34%) Project Management
17 95 (7.34%) Roadmaps
18 90 (6.96%) User Acceptance Testing
19 84 (6.49%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 107 (8.27%) SQL
2 95 (7.34%) JavaScript
3 88 (6.80%) Python
4 71 (5.49%) PowerShell
5 64 (4.95%) Java
6 21 (1.62%) C#
7 13 (1.00%) Perl
8 12 (0.93%) Bash
8 12 (0.93%) TypeScript
9 11 (0.85%) PL/SQL
9 11 (0.85%) VB
10 9 (0.70%) VBScript
11 8 (0.62%) ABAP
11 8 (0.62%) BeanShell
11 8 (0.62%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.46%) Groovy
13 6 (0.46%) Lisp
14 5 (0.39%) PHP
14 5 (0.39%) REXX
Qualifications
1 366 (28.28%) Security Cleared
2 278 (21.48%) SC Cleared
3 116 (8.96%) Degree
4 46 (3.55%) DV Cleared
5 30 (2.32%) TOGAF Certification
6 28 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
6 28 (2.16%) PMP
7 27 (2.09%) ITIL Certification
8 26 (2.01%) PMI Certification
9 20 (1.55%) CCNP
9 20 (1.55%) CISSP
10 17 (1.31%) CISM
11 16 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (1.08%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (0.93%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.62%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 8 (0.62%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 7 (0.54%) CCNA
16 6 (0.46%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (4.87%) SLA
2 58 (4.48%) Data Quality
3 53 (4.10%) QA
4 44 (3.40%) GRC
5 39 (3.01%) GDPR
6 31 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (1.85%) NIST
8 19 (1.47%) PMO
9 16 (1.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.85%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.70%) Accessibility
11 9 (0.70%) Cyber Essentials
12 4 (0.31%) COBIT
12 4 (0.31%) GxP
12 4 (0.31%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.23%) NCSC
13 3 (0.23%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.15%) Actionable Recommendations
14 2 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 166 (12.83%) Active Directory
2 36 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.47%) GPFS
3 19 (1.47%) NFS
4 17 (1.31%) vSphere
5 16 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (1.16%) Docker
7 9 (0.70%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.23%) Firmware
9 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.15%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 2 (0.15%) RACF
10 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.077%) IAG
11 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.077%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 62 (4.79%) SCCM
2 46 (3.55%) Terraform
3 38 (2.94%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.32%) OPNET
5 27 (2.09%) Ansible
6 22 (1.70%) Grafana
7 17 (1.31%) Kubernetes
8 16 (1.24%) Prometheus
8 16 (1.24%) vRealize
9 11 (0.85%) Jamf Pro
9 11 (0.85%) RSA Archer
10 9 (0.70%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.54%) CASB
12 5 (0.39%) Rancher
12 5 (0.39%) Salt
12 5 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.31%) Pingdom
13 4 (0.31%) QRadar
13 4 (0.31%) VxRail
14 3 (0.23%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 237 (18.32%) Microsoft
2 92 (7.11%) Remedy
3 81 (6.26%) Cisco
4 64 (4.95%) SAP
5 49 (3.79%) Oracle
6 41 (3.17%) VMware
7 37 (2.86%) Salesforce
8 35 (2.70%) Splunk
9 34 (2.63%) Atlassian
10 33 (2.55%) IBM
11 29 (2.24%) Workday
12 22 (1.70%) Apple
12 22 (1.70%) Zscaler
13 21 (1.62%) Fortinet
14 20 (1.55%) Palo Alto
15 18 (1.39%) Google
16 17 (1.31%) BMC
16 17 (1.31%) F5
17 16 (1.24%) Bomgar
17 16 (1.24%) NetApp