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 30 November 2025, 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
30 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 72 65
Rank change year-on-year +5 -7 +77
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,132 962 1,267
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.71% 3.12% 3.26%
As % of the Vendors category 7.78% 6.87% 7.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 771 548 833
10th Percentile £204 £210 £169
25th Percentile £350 £360 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £638
90th Percentile £678 £638 £715
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £503
% change year-on-year -5.00% -0.50% -4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 57 22 49
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.30 £15.67
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.80 £16.70
Median hourly rate £18.82 £21.46 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.30% +7.30% +29.03%
75th Percentile £28.79 £24.07 £36.00
90th Percentile £89.63 £29.90 £65.73
UK median hourly rate £18.82 £22.09 £20.00
% change year-on-year -14.80% +10.45% +29.03%

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 14,552 13,996 17,413
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.64% 45.39% 44.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,410 8,440 11,415
10th Percentile £285 £300 £250
25th Percentile £405 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 706 435 613
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.24 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.45 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -26.15% -26.97% +71.15%
75th Percentile £47.09 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £75.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.67% -32.58% +73.08%

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025.

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 30 November 2025. 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 -29 429 £488 -7.14% 136
North of England +8 218 £500 - 33
South East +30 164 £413 -9.84% 108
Midlands +8 139 £475 +12.43% 20
North West +10 131 £463 +2.78% 22
West Midlands +9 114 £475 +5.56% 17
East of England +30 85 £511 -2.67% 19
South West +49 83 £600 +20.00% 20
Yorkshire -5 79 £519 -2.40% 8
East Midlands -8 25 £425 +1.49% 3
North East -5 8 £350 +133.33% 3
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 95 (8.39%) Confluence
2 64 (5.65%) SharePoint
3 39 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.06%) nginx
5 8 (0.71%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.53%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.44%) SAS
8 4 (0.35%) Apache
8 4 (0.35%) Appian
8 4 (0.35%) Camunda
9 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
9 3 (0.27%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.18%) CICS
10 2 (0.18%) IIS
10 2 (0.18%) JBoss
11 1 (0.088%) CMS
11 1 (0.088%) OpenStack
11 1 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.088%) Tuxedo
11 1 (0.088%) WebLogic
Applications
1 74 (6.54%) Microsoft Office
2 65 (5.74%) Microsoft Excel
3 49 (4.33%) Microsoft Project
4 32 (2.83%) MS Visio
5 19 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (1.06%) 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 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 52 (4.59%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
4 9 (0.80%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.62%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 7 (0.62%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.53%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.53%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.27%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.18%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.088%) Actimize
9 1 (0.088%) assyst
9 1 (0.088%) Maximo
9 1 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.088%) Oracle HRMS
9 1 (0.088%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.088%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 202 (17.84%) Azure
2 166 (14.66%) Microsoft 365
3 141 (12.46%) AWS
4 72 (6.36%) Entra ID
5 71 (6.27%) SaaS
6 59 (5.21%) Power Platform
7 58 (5.12%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (2.65%) OneDrive
9 29 (2.56%) GCP
10 27 (2.39%) Amazon S3
11 26 (2.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 25 (2.21%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (2.12%) Amazon ELB
13 24 (2.12%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 23 (2.03%) AWS KMS
14 23 (2.03%) Power Automate
15 18 (1.59%) Sauce Labs
16 17 (1.50%) GitHub
17 16 (1.41%) Amazon ECS
18 14 (1.24%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 77 (6.80%) DNS
2 41 (3.62%) Firewall
3 39 (3.45%) Wireless
4 38 (3.36%) VPN
5 37 (3.27%) DHCP
6 33 (2.92%) Wi-Fi
7 31 (2.74%) HTTP
8 24 (2.12%) FTP
8 24 (2.12%) SMTP
9 23 (2.03%) SSH
10 20 (1.77%) TCP/IP
11 19 (1.68%) LAN
12 18 (1.59%) SSL
12 18 (1.59%) WAN
13 12 (1.06%) BGP
13 12 (1.06%) IMAP
13 12 (1.06%) OpenLDAP
14 11 (0.97%) Network Security
15 10 (0.88%) Cisco Wireless
16 9 (0.80%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (3.45%) Power BI
2 34 (3.00%) Relational Database
3 29 (2.56%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (1.77%) MySQL
4 20 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
5 17 (1.50%) Tableau
6 16 (1.41%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (1.15%) Metadata
8 8 (0.71%) Oracle ODI
8 8 (0.71%) SQL Server
9 6 (0.53%) DB2
10 5 (0.44%) DynamoDB
11 4 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.35%) Redis
12 3 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.27%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.27%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.18%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.088%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 228 (20.14%) JIRA
2 49 (4.33%) Git
3 42 (3.71%) Jenkins
4 23 (2.03%) Vagrant
5 19 (1.68%) Browser DevTools
6 18 (1.59%) Android Studio
6 18 (1.59%) Eclipse
6 18 (1.59%) Xcode
7 9 (0.80%) GitLab
8 4 (0.35%) JUnit
8 4 (0.35%) Metasploit
9 3 (0.27%) AdminStudio
9 3 (0.27%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.27%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.18%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.18%) IBM UrbanCode
10 2 (0.18%) Maven
10 2 (0.18%) Snyk
10 2 (0.18%) sqlmap
11 1 (0.088%) ScriptRunner
General
1 471 (41.61%) Social Skills
2 234 (20.67%) Finance
3 200 (17.67%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (9.81%) Public Sector
5 44 (3.89%) Banking
6 41 (3.62%) Telecoms
7 38 (3.36%) Military
8 36 (3.18%) Documentation Skills
9 32 (2.83%) Legal
10 30 (2.65%) Organisational Skills
11 27 (2.39%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (2.12%) Influencing Skills
13 17 (1.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 17 (1.50%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.15%) Law
15 11 (0.97%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.80%) Financial Institution
17 8 (0.71%) Pharmaceutical
18 7 (0.62%) Investment Banking
18 7 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 170 (15.02%) Analyst
2 166 (14.66%) Architect
3 101 (8.92%) Developer
3 101 (8.92%) Support Engineer
4 85 (7.51%) ServiceNow Architect
5 80 (7.07%) ServiceNow Developer
6 70 (6.18%) Consultant
7 69 (6.10%) IT Support
8 49 (4.33%) Senior
9 47 (4.15%) Lead
10 41 (3.62%) Business Analyst
11 40 (3.53%) IT Engineer
12 38 (3.36%) Service Analyst
13 37 (3.27%) Solutions Architect
14 34 (3.00%) DevOps Engineer
15 33 (2.92%) IT Support Engineer
16 32 (2.83%) Service Manager
17 28 (2.47%) Administrator
18 27 (2.39%) Desktop Support
18 27 (2.39%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 99 (8.75%) REST
2 88 (7.77%) SOAP
3 62 (5.48%) AngularJS
4 37 (3.27%) CSS
4 37 (3.27%) React
5 35 (3.09%) LDAP
6 32 (2.83%) Web Services
7 30 (2.65%) HTML
8 28 (2.47%) JSON
9 21 (1.86%) Ajax
10 19 (1.68%) GraphQL
10 19 (1.68%) SAML
11 18 (1.59%) .NET
11 18 (1.59%) SailPoint
12 14 (1.24%) HTML5
12 14 (1.24%) jQuery
12 14 (1.24%) ODBC
12 14 (1.24%) XML
13 13 (1.15%) JDBC
13 13 (1.15%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 123 (10.87%) CMDB
2 51 (4.51%) Onboarding
3 46 (4.06%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.45%) Replication
5 33 (2.92%) Data Centre
6 27 (2.39%) Management Information System
7 25 (2.21%) Mobile App
8 24 (2.12%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (1.94%) Driving Licence
10 20 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.50%) Security Posture
11 17 (1.50%) Video Conferencing
12 15 (1.33%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (1.15%) iPhone
14 13 (1.15%) Smartphone
15 12 (1.06%) Cloud Native
15 12 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
16 11 (0.97%) Virtual Team
17 9 (0.80%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 239 (21.11%) Windows
2 80 (7.07%) Windows 10
3 71 (6.27%) Linux
4 42 (3.71%) Mac OS
5 37 (3.27%) Android
6 28 (2.47%) Unix
7 27 (2.39%) Apple iOS
8 25 (2.21%) VMS
9 23 (2.03%) Amazon Linux
10 12 (1.06%) Ubuntu
11 9 (0.80%) Windows Server
12 5 (0.44%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (0.35%) zOS
14 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.18%) CentOS
16 1 (0.088%) Data ONTAP
16 1 (0.088%) Kali Linux
16 1 (0.088%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 401 (35.42%) ITSM
2 295 (26.06%) ITIL
3 269 (23.76%) Agile
4 228 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
5 217 (19.17%) Service Management
6 154 (13.60%) DevOps
7 148 (13.07%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 142 (12.54%) Stakeholder Management
9 132 (11.66%) Change Management
10 127 (11.22%) Customer Service
11 96 (8.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 90 (7.95%) Scrum
13 88 (7.77%) CI/CD
14 84 (7.42%) Service Delivery
15 79 (6.98%) Roadmaps
16 74 (6.54%) Configuration Management
17 72 (6.36%) Project Management
18 71 (6.27%) Analytics
19 67 (5.92%) User Acceptance Testing
20 66 (5.83%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 124 (10.95%) Python
2 102 (9.01%) JavaScript
3 76 (6.71%) PowerShell
4 68 (6.01%) Java
5 59 (5.21%) SQL
6 40 (3.53%) Perl
7 27 (2.39%) Groovy
8 20 (1.77%) Bash
9 18 (1.59%) TypeScript
10 14 (1.24%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.62%) ABAP
11 7 (0.62%) Lisp
12 6 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.44%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.44%) VB
13 5 (0.44%) VBScript
14 4 (0.35%) BeanShell
14 4 (0.35%) Go
14 4 (0.35%) JCL
14 4 (0.35%) REXX
Qualifications
1 323 (28.53%) Security Cleared
2 274 (24.20%) SC Cleared
3 127 (11.22%) Degree
4 25 (2.21%) TOGAF Certification
5 24 (2.12%) CISSP
6 23 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 22 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
8 20 (1.77%) ITIL Certification
8 20 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (1.50%) CISM
10 16 (1.41%) DV Cleared
11 15 (1.33%) A+ Certification
11 15 (1.33%) CCNP
12 13 (1.15%) ACSP
12 13 (1.15%) ACTC
12 13 (1.15%) AWS Certification
12 13 (1.15%) CISA
13 12 (1.06%) Azure Certification
13 12 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (0.97%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (4.68%) QA
2 49 (4.33%) GDPR
3 35 (3.09%) SLA
4 32 (2.83%) GRC
5 26 (2.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 25 (2.21%) NIST
7 24 (2.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 21 (1.86%) Data Quality
9 17 (1.50%) COBIT
10 15 (1.33%) Accessibility
11 14 (1.24%) PCI DSS
12 13 (1.15%) PMO
13 8 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 19770
13 8 (0.71%) NIST 800
14 7 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.53%) HIPAA
16 4 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
17 3 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 3 (0.27%) WCAG
18 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 155 (13.69%) Active Directory
2 36 (3.18%) Docker
3 21 (1.86%) DFS Replication
4 17 (1.50%) VMware Infrastructure
5 14 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (1.06%) Dovecot
6 12 (1.06%) Postfix
6 12 (1.06%) Squid
6 12 (1.06%) vSphere
7 11 (0.97%) GPFS
7 11 (0.97%) NFS
8 6 (0.53%) BitLocker
8 6 (0.53%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.18%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 2 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.088%) Firmware
10 1 (0.088%) RACF
10 1 (0.088%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 55 (4.86%) SCCM
2 47 (4.15%) Terraform
3 36 (3.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.65%) Grafana
5 28 (2.47%) Ansible
6 27 (2.39%) Jamf Pro
6 27 (2.39%) Prometheus
6 27 (2.39%) Single Sign-On
7 24 (2.12%) OPNET
8 17 (1.50%) Nessus
8 17 (1.50%) RSA Archer
9 11 (0.97%) vRealize
10 10 (0.88%) Proxmox
11 9 (0.80%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.71%) Kubernetes
13 4 (0.35%) Rancher
14 3 (0.27%) Nmap
14 3 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
15 2 (0.18%) BMC PATROL
15 2 (0.18%) Control-M
Vendors
1 278 (24.56%) Microsoft
2 95 (8.39%) Remedy
3 63 (5.57%) Oracle
4 62 (5.48%) SAP
5 53 (4.68%) Cisco
6 45 (3.98%) Splunk
7 43 (3.80%) Salesforce
8 32 (2.83%) Apple
9 29 (2.56%) Workday
10 27 (2.39%) Atlassian
11 26 (2.30%) HP
12 23 (2.03%) BMC
13 22 (1.94%) IBM
13 22 (1.94%) VMware
14 19 (1.68%) Snow
15 16 (1.41%) Google
16 15 (1.33%) Citrix
17 14 (1.24%) Rapid7
18 13 (1.15%) Ivanti
19 12 (1.06%) Jaspersoft