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 29 August 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
29 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 67 84
Rank change year-on-year +10 +17 -6
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,763 1,013 869
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.84% 3.65% 2.64%
As % of the Vendors category 9.23% 7.75% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,121 638 542
10th Percentile £218 £213 £220
25th Percentile £400 £315 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £475 £505
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% -5.94% +1.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £505
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.94% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 87 46
10th Percentile £16.06 £13.00 £14.02
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.50 £14.16
Median hourly rate £26.00 £18.82 £16.65
Median % change year-on-year +38.15% +13.03% -18.50%
75th Percentile £63.75 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.43 £63.16 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £25.75 £17.94 £17.00
% change year-on-year +43.57% +5.50% -16.79%

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 19,097 13,075 14,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.61% 47.12% 43.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,953 8,297 9,045
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £618 £615 £630
90th Percentile £705 £705 £733
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,044 622 661
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.46 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.11 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.68% -16.17% -28.53%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £28.50
% change year-on-year +19.13% -11.75% -33.72%

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 29 August 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 29 August 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 29 August 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 +25 771 £525 +5.00% 397
North of England -3 359 £450 -10.00% 86
South East +19 344 £538 +53.57% 115
North West +1 232 £375 -26.66% 66
Midlands +5 140 £425 -10.53% 46
Yorkshire -22 116 £500 +3.36% 14
West Midlands -1 114 £450 -5.26% 38
South West -47 56 £463 +40.15% 48
East of England -38 54 £510 +0.79% 20
East Midlands -4 21 £413 - 9
North East -25 17 £500 +42.86% 6
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
1 110 (6.24%) SharePoint
2 86 (4.88%) Confluence
3 48 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.91%) Skype for Business
5 11 (0.62%) nginx
6 8 (0.45%) Apache
7 4 (0.23%) CMS
8 3 (0.17%) IIS
8 3 (0.17%) Mendix
9 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.11%) SAS
9 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.057%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.057%) Appian
10 1 (0.057%) Drupal
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.057%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 80 (4.54%) Microsoft Office
2 79 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (1.13%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.57%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.57%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.45%) Revit
8 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.057%) LaTeX
9 1 (0.057%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 62 (3.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.11%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.11%) Maximo
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.11%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.057%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.057%) Cloudability
8 1 (0.057%) iTrent
8 1 (0.057%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.057%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 368 (20.87%) Azure
2 242 (13.73%) Microsoft 365
3 236 (13.39%) AWS
4 136 (7.71%) Power Platform
5 134 (7.60%) Entra ID
6 104 (5.90%) SaaS
7 53 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
8 49 (2.78%) GCP
9 43 (2.44%) GitHub
9 43 (2.44%) OneDrive
10 31 (1.76%) Microsoft Copilot
11 29 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
11 29 (1.64%) Datadog
12 24 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 24 (1.36%) Power Automate
13 20 (1.13%) Serverless
14 19 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (1.02%) Amazon S3
16 17 (0.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 16 (0.91%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 90 (5.10%) DNS
2 78 (4.42%) DHCP
3 63 (3.57%) Firewall
4 62 (3.52%) VPN
5 50 (2.84%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.70%) Wireless
7 28 (1.59%) Network Security
7 28 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
8 26 (1.47%) SSL
8 26 (1.47%) VLAN
8 26 (1.47%) WAN
9 23 (1.30%) LAN
10 18 (1.02%) NX-OS
10 18 (1.02%) SSH
11 17 (0.96%) SAN
11 17 (0.96%) Skype
12 16 (0.91%) BGP
13 15 (0.85%) NAS
14 13 (0.74%) Cisco IOS
14 13 (0.74%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (5.73%) Power BI
2 50 (2.84%) SQL Server
3 32 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (0.74%) MySQL
6 13 (0.74%) Power Query
7 12 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (0.68%) Metadata
8 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (0.28%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.28%) Redis
9 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (0.23%) PowerPivot
10 4 (0.23%) Tableau
11 3 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.17%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 251 (14.24%) JIRA
2 71 (4.03%) Git
3 27 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 25 (1.42%) GitLab
5 8 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.17%) Flyway
7 3 (0.17%) MSI
8 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.11%) Tricentis qTest
8 2 (0.11%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.057%) Gatling
9 1 (0.057%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.057%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.057%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.057%) Robot Framework
9 1 (0.057%) TeamCity
General
1 569 (32.27%) Social Skills
2 336 (19.06%) Finance
3 236 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (8.62%) Public Sector
5 90 (5.10%) Banking
6 83 (4.71%) Telecoms
7 50 (2.84%) Legal
8 48 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
9 47 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (1.47%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (1.13%) Military
14 19 (1.08%) Spanish Language
15 18 (1.02%) French Language
15 18 (1.02%) Italian Language
15 18 (1.02%) Police
16 16 (0.91%) Law
16 16 (0.91%) Retail
17 14 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 257 (14.58%) Analyst
2 252 (14.29%) Architect
3 181 (10.27%) Developer
4 161 (9.13%) ServiceNow Developer
5 151 (8.56%) ServiceNow Architect
6 121 (6.86%) Senior
7 109 (6.18%) Consultant
8 105 (5.96%) Support Engineer
9 92 (5.22%) IT Support
9 92 (5.22%) Lead
10 73 (4.14%) Service Analyst
11 71 (4.03%) Business Analyst
12 68 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
13 67 (3.80%) IT Engineer
14 61 (3.46%) Project Manager
15 58 (3.29%) IT Support Engineer
16 56 (3.18%) ServiceNow Consultant
17 40 (2.27%) Technical Architect
18 38 (2.16%) Service Desk Analyst
18 38 (2.16%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (11.29%) REST
2 116 (6.58%) SOAP
3 73 (4.14%) Terraform
4 43 (2.44%) JSON
5 35 (1.99%) HTML
6 34 (1.93%) SailPoint
7 32 (1.82%) OAuth
8 31 (1.76%) CSS
9 30 (1.70%) LDAP
9 30 (1.70%) XML
10 25 (1.42%) Web Services
11 24 (1.36%) Middleware
12 19 (1.08%) .NET
13 17 (0.96%) AngularJS
14 16 (0.91%) Ajax
15 14 (0.79%) SAML
16 13 (0.74%) JDBC
16 13 (0.74%) OpenID
17 11 (0.62%) Microsoft Graph
17 11 (0.62%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 287 (16.28%) CMDB
2 177 (10.04%) Onboarding
3 65 (3.69%) Product Ownership
4 62 (3.52%) Enterprise Software
5 52 (2.95%) Data Centre
6 45 (2.55%) Management Information System
7 40 (2.27%) Cloud Native
8 36 (2.04%) Replication
9 26 (1.47%) PKI
9 26 (1.47%) Security Posture
10 24 (1.36%) AI Agents
10 24 (1.36%) Video Conferencing
11 22 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.19%) Clustering
12 21 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
13 20 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
14 18 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (0.96%) Data Structures
15 17 (0.96%) iPhone
16 15 (0.85%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 332 (18.83%) Windows
2 111 (6.30%) Windows 10
3 107 (6.07%) Linux
4 51 (2.89%) Windows Server
5 49 (2.78%) Mac OS
6 35 (1.99%) Apple iOS
7 24 (1.36%) Android
8 20 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 19 (1.08%) Unix
10 16 (0.91%) Windows 7
11 9 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.23%) VMS
12 4 (0.23%) zOS
13 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.057%) CentOS
15 1 (0.057%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 697 (39.53%) ITSM
2 558 (31.65%) ITIL
3 386 (21.89%) Service Management
4 330 (18.72%) Agile
4 330 (18.72%) Stakeholder Management
5 325 (18.43%) Problem-Solving
6 272 (15.43%) Continuous Improvement
7 212 (12.02%) AI
8 211 (11.97%) Customer Service
9 203 (11.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 191 (10.83%) Change Management
11 189 (10.72%) Service Delivery
12 183 (10.38%) DevOps
13 180 (10.21%) Roadmaps
14 153 (8.68%) Workflow
15 139 (7.88%) Migration
16 131 (7.43%) Incident Management
17 127 (7.20%) Asset Management
18 124 (7.03%) CI/CD
19 119 (6.75%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 142 (8.05%) PowerShell
2 115 (6.52%) JavaScript
3 113 (6.41%) Python
4 96 (5.45%) SQL
5 47 (2.67%) Java
6 23 (1.30%) Bash
7 20 (1.13%) C#
8 18 (1.02%) VBScript
9 16 (0.91%) Groovy
10 15 (0.85%) VB
11 11 (0.62%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.51%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.40%) BeanShell
13 7 (0.40%) Perl
14 6 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.34%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.28%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.23%) C++
17 3 (0.17%) JCL
17 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 471 (26.72%) Security Cleared
2 342 (19.40%) SC Cleared
3 135 (7.66%) Degree
4 91 (5.16%) DV Cleared
5 44 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
5 44 (2.50%) PMP
6 39 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
7 37 (2.10%) PMI Certification
8 32 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
9 29 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
10 25 (1.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 23 (1.30%) CISSP
12 22 (1.25%) Azure Certification
12 22 (1.25%) CCNP
13 20 (1.13%) A+ Certification
14 19 (1.08%) CCNA
15 17 (0.96%) CISM
16 16 (0.91%) AWS Certification
17 14 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
17 14 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (5.96%) SLA
2 91 (5.16%) Data Quality
3 60 (3.40%) GRC
4 56 (3.18%) QA
5 45 (2.55%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (2.38%) NIST
6 42 (2.38%) PMO
7 29 (1.64%) GDPR
8 17 (0.96%) COBIT
8 17 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (0.85%) NCSC
10 14 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (0.74%) Accessibility
12 12 (0.68%) ISO 9001
13 11 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 8 (0.45%) GxP
15 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.34%) HIPAA
16 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
16 3 (0.17%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 230 (13.05%) Active Directory
2 43 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (1.99%) Docker
4 20 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.96%) BitLocker
5 17 (0.96%) IAG
5 17 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.68%) NFS
8 11 (0.62%) vSphere
9 10 (0.57%) GPFS
10 8 (0.45%) Firmware
11 7 (0.40%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.28%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.11%) Dovecot
13 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 2 (0.11%) Postfix
13 2 (0.11%) RACF
13 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.11%) Squid
Systems Management
1 77 (4.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 68 (3.86%) SCCM
3 56 (3.18%) Ansible
4 36 (2.04%) Kubernetes
5 30 (1.70%) Grafana
6 24 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
7 20 (1.13%) Prometheus
8 18 (1.02%) SCOM
9 11 (0.62%) WMI
10 9 (0.51%) vCenter Server
10 9 (0.51%) vRealize
11 6 (0.34%) CASB
11 6 (0.34%) Packer
11 6 (0.34%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.28%) VxRail
13 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.23%) Kibana
13 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.23%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 467 (26.49%) Microsoft
2 84 (4.76%) Cisco
3 71 (4.03%) Oracle
4 70 (3.97%) Remedy
5 67 (3.80%) SAP
6 64 (3.63%) Splunk
7 62 (3.52%) VMware
8 50 (2.84%) CyberArk
8 50 (2.84%) Salesforce
9 36 (2.04%) Dynatrace
10 31 (1.76%) BMC
10 31 (1.76%) Workday
11 30 (1.70%) Snow
12 29 (1.64%) Apple
13 24 (1.36%) Adobe
13 24 (1.36%) SolarWinds
14 23 (1.30%) Google
15 21 (1.19%) iManage
16 20 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
16 20 (1.13%) Palo Alto