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 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
20 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 67 69
Rank change year-on-year -6 +2 +54
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,110 887 1,106
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.47% 3.35% 3.00%
As % of the Vendors category 7.51% 7.29% 6.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 781 489 725
10th Percentile £204 £200 £165
25th Percentile £350 £356 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £630
90th Percentile £688 £657 £700
UK median daily rate £479 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -3.24% -1.10% -3.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 24 37
10th Percentile £15.52 £15.06 £15.43
25th Percentile £16.05 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.46 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +12.95% +18.23%
75th Percentile £26.06 £23.40 £23.75
90th Percentile £67.36 £29.70 £63.50
UK median hourly rate £19.25 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -14.44% +26.98% +12.26%

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 14,789 12,163 16,106
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.30% 45.94% 43.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,725 7,325 10,418
10th Percentile £300 £290 £250
25th Percentile £410 £410 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £708 £715 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 695 351 721
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.62 £13.19
25th Percentile £17.99 £18.20 £16.67
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% -17.81% +13.18%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.43 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £80.75 £71.90
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £27.50 £35.98
% change year-on-year -12.73% -23.56% +18.93%

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 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 20 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 20 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 -39 440 £479 -8.81% 96
North of England -1 211 £500 +22.25% 57
South East +35 158 £413 -8.33% 66
Midlands +5 146 £475 +13.10% 27
North West +4 124 £481 +19.57% 30
West Midlands +6 120 £475 +2.70% 17
Yorkshire -3 80 £525 -2.33% 23
South West +27 73 £600 +19.40% 13
East of England -1 72 £527 +0.29% 18
East Midlands -11 25 £425 +19.38% 9
North East -11 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 74 (6.67%) Confluence
2 73 (6.58%) SharePoint
3 50 (4.50%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.90%) Skype for Business
5 9 (0.81%) nginx
6 6 (0.54%) Apache
6 6 (0.54%) Appian
6 6 (0.54%) 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%) IIS
9 2 (0.18%) JBoss
10 1 (0.090%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.090%) CMS
10 1 (0.090%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.090%) WebSphere
Applications
1 71 (6.40%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (5.05%) Microsoft Excel
3 52 (4.68%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (2.25%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.81%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.36%) Autodesk Inventor
8 4 (0.36%) Trello
9 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.090%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 37 (3.33%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.72%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.63%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 7 (0.63%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.54%) 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 (0.090%) Actimize
8 1 (0.090%) assyst
8 1 (0.090%) Maximo
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle HRMS
8 1 (0.090%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.090%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.090%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 236 (21.26%) Azure
2 178 (16.04%) Microsoft 365
3 140 (12.61%) AWS
4 84 (7.57%) Entra ID
5 66 (5.95%) SaaS
6 63 (5.68%) Power Platform
7 57 (5.14%) Azure DevOps
8 51 (4.59%) GCP
9 32 (2.88%) OneDrive
10 22 (1.98%) GitHub
11 18 (1.62%) Power Automate
12 17 (1.53%) AWS KMS
13 16 (1.44%) Amazon S3
14 15 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 15 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (1.35%) Amazon ELB
14 15 (1.35%) Sauce Labs
14 15 (1.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
16 10 (0.90%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (6.49%) DNS
2 50 (4.50%) VPN
3 44 (3.96%) Firewall
4 39 (3.51%) DHCP
5 38 (3.42%) Wireless
6 35 (3.15%) Wi-Fi
7 28 (2.52%) WAN
8 27 (2.43%) LAN
9 21 (1.89%) FTP
10 18 (1.62%) HTTP
10 18 (1.62%) Network Security
10 18 (1.62%) TCP/IP
11 16 (1.44%) SSH
12 15 (1.35%) BGP
12 15 (1.35%) SMTP
13 11 (0.99%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.99%) VLAN
14 10 (0.90%) Cisco Wireless
14 10 (0.90%) Skype
15 9 (0.81%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (3.96%) Power BI
2 23 (2.07%) Relational Database
3 22 (1.98%) SQL Server
4 21 (1.89%) MySQL
5 19 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (1.53%) Metadata
8 16 (1.44%) Tableau
9 13 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
10 9 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
11 8 (0.72%) MongoDB
12 7 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
13 6 (0.54%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.54%) DB2
13 6 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.36%) Metadata Repository
14 4 (0.36%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.36%) Redis
15 2 (0.18%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 197 (17.75%) JIRA
2 53 (4.77%) Jenkins
3 41 (3.69%) Git
4 25 (2.25%) GitLab
5 16 (1.44%) Browser DevTools
6 15 (1.35%) Android Studio
6 15 (1.35%) Eclipse
6 15 (1.35%) Xcode
7 14 (1.26%) Selenium
7 14 (1.26%) Vagrant
8 12 (1.08%) Postman
8 12 (1.08%) REST Assured
9 10 (0.90%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.63%) TestRail
11 4 (0.36%) Gatling
11 4 (0.36%) JMeter
11 4 (0.36%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.36%) Metasploit
11 4 (0.36%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.27%) Burp Suite
General
1 443 (39.91%) Social Skills
2 221 (19.91%) Finance
3 169 (15.23%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (9.73%) Public Sector
5 51 (4.59%) Banking
6 43 (3.87%) Military
7 42 (3.78%) Telecoms
8 39 (3.51%) Documentation Skills
8 39 (3.51%) Legal
9 26 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
10 21 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 18 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.44%) Law
14 12 (1.08%) Manufacturing
15 11 (0.99%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.81%) Billing
16 9 (0.81%) Marketing
17 8 (0.72%) Financial Institution
17 8 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 180 (16.22%) Architect
2 169 (15.23%) Analyst
3 95 (8.56%) ServiceNow Architect
4 93 (8.38%) Developer
5 89 (8.02%) Support Engineer
6 81 (7.30%) ServiceNow Developer
7 76 (6.85%) IT Support
8 62 (5.59%) Consultant
9 56 (5.05%) Lead
10 41 (3.69%) IT Engineer
11 40 (3.60%) Senior
12 37 (3.33%) Service Analyst
13 34 (3.06%) IT Support Engineer
14 33 (2.97%) Business Analyst
15 32 (2.88%) Service Architect
15 32 (2.88%) ServiceNow Manager
15 32 (2.88%) Solutions Architect
16 31 (2.79%) Project Manager
17 30 (2.70%) Technical Architect
18 27 (2.43%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (10.00%) REST
2 86 (7.75%) SOAP
3 33 (2.97%) CSS
3 33 (2.97%) LDAP
4 32 (2.88%) AngularJS
5 31 (2.79%) SailPoint
6 21 (1.89%) Ajax
7 19 (1.71%) Flash
7 19 (1.71%) HTML
7 19 (1.71%) React
8 18 (1.62%) OpenID
9 17 (1.53%) JSON
10 16 (1.44%) GraphQL
11 11 (0.99%) Web Services
11 11 (0.99%) XML
12 9 (0.81%) .NET
12 9 (0.81%) ADO
12 9 (0.81%) SAML
13 8 (0.72%) Kafka
13 8 (0.72%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 134 (12.07%) CMDB
2 70 (6.31%) Onboarding
3 57 (5.14%) Product Ownership
4 41 (3.69%) Replication
5 30 (2.70%) Data Centre
6 28 (2.52%) Management Information System
7 23 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (2.07%) Self-Motivation
8 20 (1.80%) Mobile App
9 19 (1.71%) Linux Command Line
10 17 (1.53%) Security Posture
10 17 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
11 16 (1.44%) Smartphone
12 14 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.26%) Driving Licence
13 13 (1.17%) Cloud Native
14 12 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
15 9 (0.81%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.72%) Low-Code
17 7 (0.63%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 243 (21.89%) Windows
2 99 (8.92%) Windows 10
3 74 (6.67%) Linux
4 38 (3.42%) Mac OS
5 36 (3.24%) Android
6 32 (2.88%) Unix
7 20 (1.80%) Windows Server
8 18 (1.62%) Apple iOS
9 16 (1.44%) VMS
10 14 (1.26%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.81%) Ubuntu
11 9 (0.81%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.45%) zOS
13 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
14 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.090%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.090%) Kali Linux
15 1 (0.090%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 375 (33.78%) ITSM
2 282 (25.41%) ITIL
3 252 (22.70%) Agile
4 207 (18.65%) Service Management
5 193 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
6 151 (13.60%) Stakeholder Management
7 146 (13.15%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 142 (12.79%) DevOps
9 124 (11.17%) Change Management
10 120 (10.81%) Customer Service
11 109 (9.82%) Continuous Improvement
12 101 (9.10%) CI/CD
13 79 (7.12%) Roadmaps
14 77 (6.94%) Service Delivery
15 72 (6.49%) User Acceptance Testing
15 72 (6.49%) Workflow
16 70 (6.31%) Project Management
17 69 (6.22%) Migration
18 68 (6.13%) User Experience
19 67 (6.04%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 107 (9.64%) Python
2 99 (8.92%) JavaScript
3 72 (6.49%) PowerShell
4 71 (6.40%) SQL
5 62 (5.59%) Java
6 34 (3.06%) Perl
7 19 (1.71%) Groovy
8 15 (1.35%) Bash
9 12 (1.08%) Shell Script
10 11 (0.99%) VB
11 10 (0.90%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.81%) VBScript
13 7 (0.63%) ABAP
13 7 (0.63%) Lisp
14 6 (0.54%) Go
14 6 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.45%) BeanShell
15 5 (0.45%) PHP
15 5 (0.45%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.45%) REXX
Qualifications
1 314 (28.29%) Security Cleared
2 255 (22.97%) SC Cleared
3 110 (9.91%) Degree
4 31 (2.79%) TOGAF Certification
5 21 (1.89%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
7 17 (1.53%) CCNP
7 17 (1.53%) ITIL Certification
8 16 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.26%) CISSP
10 13 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (1.08%) Azure Certification
12 11 (0.99%) AWS Certification
13 10 (0.90%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.81%) A+ Certification
14 9 (0.81%) ACSP
14 9 (0.81%) ACTC
14 9 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
14 9 (0.81%) CISM
14 9 (0.81%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (4.86%) QA
2 53 (4.77%) SLA
3 36 (3.24%) Data Quality
3 36 (3.24%) GRC
4 34 (3.06%) GDPR
5 21 (1.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.62%) NIST
7 17 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 16 (1.44%) PMO
9 12 (1.08%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.90%) Accessibility
11 7 (0.63%) COBIT
12 6 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.54%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 19770
13 3 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.27%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.27%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 153 (13.78%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (2.43%) Docker
4 19 (1.71%) GPFS
4 19 (1.71%) NFS
5 17 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (1.53%) vSphere
6 14 (1.26%) DFS Replication
7 10 (0.90%) BitLocker
8 9 (0.81%) Dovecot
8 9 (0.81%) Postfix
8 9 (0.81%) Squid
9 5 (0.45%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 2 (0.18%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.090%) Firmware
11 1 (0.090%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.090%) RACF
11 1 (0.090%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.090%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 58 (5.23%) SCCM
2 49 (4.41%) Terraform
3 41 (3.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.70%) OPNET
5 28 (2.52%) Ansible
5 28 (2.52%) Grafana
6 20 (1.80%) Prometheus
7 17 (1.53%) Jamf Pro
7 17 (1.53%) vRealize
8 13 (1.17%) Nessus
9 11 (0.99%) Kubernetes
9 11 (0.99%) RSA Archer
9 11 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.81%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.81%) Proxmox
11 4 (0.36%) Pingdom
11 4 (0.36%) Rancher
12 3 (0.27%) Control-M
12 3 (0.27%) Nmap
12 3 (0.27%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 242 (21.80%) Microsoft
2 91 (8.20%) Remedy
3 63 (5.68%) Oracle
4 62 (5.59%) Cisco
5 59 (5.32%) SAP
6 40 (3.60%) Salesforce
6 40 (3.60%) Splunk
7 35 (3.15%) VMware
8 34 (3.06%) Apple
9 33 (2.97%) Atlassian
10 31 (2.79%) IBM
11 29 (2.61%) Workday
12 21 (1.89%) Snow
13 18 (1.62%) HP
14 17 (1.53%) BMC
15 15 (1.35%) Zscaler
16 14 (1.26%) Citrix
17 11 (0.99%) CyberArk
17 11 (0.99%) F5
17 11 (0.99%) Palo Alto