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 27 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
27 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 67 71
Rank change year-on-year -2 +4 +51
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,130 866 1,094
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.47% 3.29% 2.90%
As % of the Vendors category 7.52% 7.14% 6.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 789 474 708
10th Percentile £203 £200 £165
25th Percentile £350 £351 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.02% -1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £620
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 42
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.06 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.46 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +11.48% +19.79%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.40 £24.69
90th Percentile £58.05 £29.70 £61.75
UK median hourly rate £19.25 £22.09 £17.72
% change year-on-year -12.86% +24.66% +14.32%

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 15,018 12,121 16,421
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.13% 46.11% 43.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,858 7,282 10,622
10th Percentile £300 £285 £250
25th Percentile £411 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £711 £713 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.42% -0.36% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 713 352 798
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £13.05
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £32.41
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -7.44% -0.28%
75th Percentile £50.00 £63.84 £59.82
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £32.12
% change year-on-year -13.36% -14.37% +6.17%

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 27 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 27 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 27 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 -37 448 £483 -8.10% 109
North of England 0 218 £500 +23.46% 62
South East +45 164 £420 -6.67% 74
Midlands +5 149 £475 +9.20% 28
North West +2 123 £475 +18.75% 36
West Midlands +5 121 £480 +1.05% 18
Yorkshire +7 86 £530 -1.40% 24
East of England +2 74 £528 +3.02% 11
South West +16 67 £725 +123.08% 8
East Midlands -7 27 £425 +19.38% 9
North East -12 9 £200 +33.33% 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 72 (6.37%) SharePoint
2 68 (6.02%) Confluence
3 54 (4.78%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.88%) Skype for Business
5 8 (0.71%) nginx
6 6 (0.53%) Apache
6 6 (0.53%) Appian
6 6 (0.53%) Camunda
7 4 (0.35%) 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%) JBoss
10 1 (0.088%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.088%) CMS
10 1 (0.088%) IIS
10 1 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.088%) WebSphere
Applications
1 72 (6.37%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (4.87%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (4.69%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.86%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.71%) 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 32 (2.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.71%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.62%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 7 (0.62%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.27%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.088%) Actimize
8 1 (0.088%) assyst
8 1 (0.088%) Maximo
8 1 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.088%) Oracle HRMS
8 1 (0.088%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.088%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.088%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 239 (21.15%) Azure
2 181 (16.02%) Microsoft 365
3 139 (12.30%) AWS
4 88 (7.79%) Entra ID
5 64 (5.66%) Power Platform
6 63 (5.58%) SaaS
7 56 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
8 54 (4.78%) GCP
9 34 (3.01%) OneDrive
10 22 (1.95%) GitHub
11 18 (1.59%) Power Automate
12 15 (1.33%) AWS KMS
13 14 (1.24%) Amazon S3
14 13 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (1.15%) Amazon ELB
14 13 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (1.15%) Sauce Labs
14 13 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (0.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 73 (6.46%) DNS
2 48 (4.25%) VPN
3 41 (3.63%) DHCP
4 38 (3.36%) Firewall
5 36 (3.19%) Wi-Fi
6 35 (3.10%) Wireless
7 26 (2.30%) LAN
7 26 (2.30%) WAN
8 19 (1.68%) FTP
9 18 (1.59%) TCP/IP
10 17 (1.50%) Network Security
11 16 (1.42%) HTTP
12 14 (1.24%) SSH
13 12 (1.06%) BGP
13 12 (1.06%) SMTP
14 11 (0.97%) VLAN
15 10 (0.88%) Cisco Wireless
15 10 (0.88%) Skype
16 9 (0.80%) 4G
16 9 (0.80%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (3.98%) Power BI
2 23 (2.04%) SQL Server
3 20 (1.77%) Relational Database
4 19 (1.68%) Metadata
4 19 (1.68%) MySQL
5 17 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (1.50%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (1.33%) Tableau
7 12 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.71%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.53%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.53%) DB2
11 6 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.35%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (0.35%) Neo4j
12 4 (0.35%) Redis
13 2 (0.18%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 193 (17.08%) JIRA
2 51 (4.51%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.45%) Git
4 25 (2.21%) GitLab
5 14 (1.24%) Browser DevTools
5 14 (1.24%) Selenium
6 13 (1.15%) Android Studio
6 13 (1.15%) Eclipse
6 13 (1.15%) Xcode
7 12 (1.06%) Postman
7 12 (1.06%) REST Assured
7 12 (1.06%) Vagrant
8 10 (0.88%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.62%) TestRail
10 4 (0.35%) Gatling
10 4 (0.35%) JMeter
10 4 (0.35%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.35%) Metasploit
10 4 (0.35%) NeoLoad
11 3 (0.27%) Burp Suite
General
1 439 (38.85%) Social Skills
2 227 (20.09%) Finance
3 172 (15.22%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (9.03%) Public Sector
5 51 (4.51%) Banking
6 44 (3.89%) Military
7 42 (3.72%) Telecoms
8 41 (3.63%) Legal
9 40 (3.54%) Documentation Skills
10 24 (2.12%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 18 (1.59%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.42%) Law
15 12 (1.06%) Manufacturing
16 11 (0.97%) Aerospace
17 10 (0.88%) Retail
18 9 (0.80%) Billing
18 9 (0.80%) Financial Institution
18 9 (0.80%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 186 (16.46%) Architect
2 173 (15.31%) Analyst
3 103 (9.12%) ServiceNow Architect
4 93 (8.23%) Developer
5 89 (7.88%) Support Engineer
6 80 (7.08%) ServiceNow Developer
7 76 (6.73%) IT Support
8 67 (5.93%) Consultant
9 59 (5.22%) Lead
10 42 (3.72%) IT Engineer
11 39 (3.45%) Service Analyst
12 37 (3.27%) Senior
13 35 (3.10%) IT Support Engineer
14 34 (3.01%) Business Analyst
14 34 (3.01%) ServiceNow Manager
15 32 (2.83%) Project Manager
15 32 (2.83%) Service Architect
15 32 (2.83%) Technical Architect
16 29 (2.57%) Solutions Architect
17 28 (2.48%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 115 (10.18%) REST
2 89 (7.88%) SOAP
3 32 (2.83%) SailPoint
4 30 (2.65%) CSS
5 29 (2.57%) LDAP
6 26 (2.30%) AngularJS
7 19 (1.68%) Ajax
7 19 (1.68%) Flash
7 19 (1.68%) OpenID
8 17 (1.50%) React
9 15 (1.33%) HTML
10 14 (1.24%) GraphQL
10 14 (1.24%) JSON
11 11 (0.97%) XML
12 9 (0.80%) .NET
12 9 (0.80%) ADO
12 9 (0.80%) OAuth
13 8 (0.71%) Kafka
13 8 (0.71%) SAML
13 8 (0.71%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 139 (12.30%) CMDB
2 74 (6.55%) Onboarding
3 60 (5.31%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.45%) Replication
5 30 (2.65%) Data Centre
6 28 (2.48%) Management Information System
7 23 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
9 18 (1.59%) Mobile App
10 17 (1.50%) Security Posture
10 17 (1.50%) Video Conferencing
11 16 (1.42%) Smartphone
12 14 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.24%) Cloud Native
13 13 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.15%) Driving Licence
14 9 (0.80%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.71%) Low-Code
16 7 (0.62%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 239 (21.15%) Windows
2 101 (8.94%) Windows 10
3 69 (6.11%) Linux
4 38 (3.36%) Mac OS
5 35 (3.10%) Android
6 29 (2.57%) Unix
7 21 (1.86%) Windows Server
8 18 (1.59%) Apple iOS
9 13 (1.15%) VMS
10 12 (1.06%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.80%) Windows 7
12 8 (0.71%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.44%) zOS
14 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.088%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.088%) Kali Linux
15 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 383 (33.89%) ITSM
2 281 (24.87%) ITIL
3 258 (22.83%) Agile
4 205 (18.14%) Service Management
5 195 (17.26%) Problem-Solving
6 157 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
7 147 (13.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 137 (12.12%) DevOps
9 120 (10.62%) Customer Service
10 119 (10.53%) Change Management
11 114 (10.09%) Continuous Improvement
12 101 (8.94%) CI/CD
13 79 (6.99%) Roadmaps
14 75 (6.64%) User Acceptance Testing
14 75 (6.64%) Workflow
15 74 (6.55%) Service Delivery
16 73 (6.46%) Project Management
17 71 (6.28%) Data Modelling
18 67 (5.93%) Migration
19 66 (5.84%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 103 (9.12%) Python
2 97 (8.58%) JavaScript
3 72 (6.37%) PowerShell
4 70 (6.19%) SQL
5 60 (5.31%) Java
6 31 (2.74%) Perl
7 17 (1.50%) Groovy
8 15 (1.33%) Bash
9 12 (1.06%) Shell Script
10 11 (0.97%) VB
11 10 (0.88%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.80%) VBScript
13 7 (0.62%) ABAP
13 7 (0.62%) Go
13 7 (0.62%) Lisp
14 6 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.44%) BeanShell
15 5 (0.44%) PHP
15 5 (0.44%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.44%) REXX
Qualifications
1 306 (27.08%) Security Cleared
2 247 (21.86%) SC Cleared
3 112 (9.91%) Degree
4 31 (2.74%) TOGAF Certification
5 22 (1.95%) DV Cleared
6 18 (1.59%) ITIL Certification
7 15 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.24%) CCNP
8 14 (1.24%) CISSP
8 14 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
9 12 (1.06%) PMI Certification
10 11 (0.97%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.97%) ISTQB
11 10 (0.88%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.88%) PMP
12 9 (0.80%) ACSP
12 9 (0.80%) ACTC
12 9 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.80%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (4.96%) QA
2 53 (4.69%) SLA
3 42 (3.72%) GRC
4 38 (3.36%) GDPR
5 37 (3.27%) Data Quality
6 22 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.59%) NIST
7 18 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 16 (1.42%) PMO
9 12 (1.06%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.80%) Accessibility
11 7 (0.62%) COBIT
11 7 (0.62%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 19770
13 4 (0.35%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.27%) NCSC
14 3 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 156 (13.81%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (2.21%) Docker
4 19 (1.68%) GPFS
4 19 (1.68%) NFS
5 17 (1.50%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (1.50%) vSphere
6 12 (1.06%) DFS Replication
7 10 (0.88%) BitLocker
8 8 (0.71%) Dovecot
8 8 (0.71%) Postfix
8 8 (0.71%) Squid
9 5 (0.44%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 2 (0.18%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.088%) Firmware
11 1 (0.088%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.088%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.088%) RACF
11 1 (0.088%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 58 (5.13%) SCCM
2 47 (4.16%) Terraform
3 42 (3.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.65%) OPNET
5 26 (2.30%) Grafana
6 24 (2.12%) Ansible
7 18 (1.59%) Prometheus
8 17 (1.50%) Jamf Pro
8 17 (1.50%) vRealize
9 12 (1.06%) Kubernetes
10 11 (0.97%) Nessus
10 11 (0.97%) RSA Archer
11 9 (0.80%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.71%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.35%) Pingdom
13 4 (0.35%) Rancher
14 3 (0.27%) Nmap
14 3 (0.27%) OMEGAMON
14 3 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 244 (21.59%) Microsoft
2 83 (7.35%) Remedy
3 61 (5.40%) Oracle
4 60 (5.31%) SAP
5 59 (5.22%) Cisco
6 40 (3.54%) Salesforce
7 37 (3.27%) Splunk
8 34 (3.01%) VMware
9 33 (2.92%) Apple
9 33 (2.92%) Atlassian
10 31 (2.74%) IBM
10 31 (2.74%) Workday
11 22 (1.95%) Snow
12 15 (1.33%) HP
13 14 (1.24%) Citrix
14 13 (1.15%) BMC
14 13 (1.15%) Zscaler
15 12 (1.06%) Google
16 11 (0.97%) Palo Alto
17 10 (0.88%) Dynatrace