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 31 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
31 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 70 72
Rank change year-on-year +2 +2 +53
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,153 877 1,088
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.49% 3.31% 2.86%
As % of the Vendors category 7.59% 7.13% 6.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 808 479 704
10th Percentile £200 £199 £165
25th Percentile £350 £338 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.46% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £616
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £485 £484 £500
% change year-on-year +0.26% -3.25% -2.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 26 43
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.11 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.58 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.46 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +7.30% +23.30%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.14 £27.50
90th Percentile £58.05 £29.50 £61.00
UK median hourly rate £19.25 £22.09 £17.72
% change year-on-year -12.86% +24.66% +10.27%

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 15,197 12,293 16,536
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 45.96% 46.34% 43.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,971 7,396 10,705
10th Percentile £300 £285 £250
25th Percentile £410 £410 £400
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 £716 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 725 354 819
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.53 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.50 £15.88
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £30.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -1.64% -6.15%
75th Percentile £50.00 £63.75 £57.99
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £28.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -14.91% -6.67% +1.69%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 -37 465 £488 -7.14% 107
North of England -3 220 £500 +23.46% 55
South East +44 168 £413 +4.43% 82
Midlands +13 151 £475 +9.20% 28
North West -8 123 £475 +18.75% 37
West Midlands +4 121 £475 - 19
Yorkshire +6 88 £535 +11.17% 15
East of England +2 73 £528 +3.02% 13
South West +12 66 £725 +123.08% 11
East Midlands -2 29 £425 +19.38% 9
North East -14 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 71 (6.16%) SharePoint
2 66 (5.72%) Confluence
3 53 (4.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.87%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.61%) nginx
6 6 (0.52%) Apache
6 6 (0.52%) Appian
6 6 (0.52%) Camunda
7 4 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.26%) CICS
8 3 (0.26%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.26%) SAS
9 2 (0.17%) CMS
9 2 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.087%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.087%) IIS
10 1 (0.087%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.087%) WebSphere
Applications
1 73 (6.33%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (4.60%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.82%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.61%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 7 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.35%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (0.35%) Trello
8 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 32 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.78%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.69%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 7 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.61%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.26%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.17%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.17%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.17%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.17%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.087%) Actimize
9 1 (0.087%) assyst
9 1 (0.087%) Maximo
9 1 (0.087%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.087%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 243 (21.08%) Azure
2 184 (15.96%) Microsoft 365
3 140 (12.14%) AWS
4 90 (7.81%) Entra ID
5 64 (5.55%) Power Platform
6 63 (5.46%) SaaS
7 56 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
8 54 (4.68%) GCP
9 34 (2.95%) OneDrive
10 21 (1.82%) GitHub
11 18 (1.56%) Power Automate
12 13 (1.13%) AWS KMS
12 13 (1.13%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (1.13%) Sauce Labs
13 12 (1.04%) Amazon S3
14 11 (0.95%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (0.95%) Amazon ELB
14 11 (0.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 73 (6.33%) DNS
2 49 (4.25%) VPN
3 44 (3.82%) DHCP
4 37 (3.21%) Wi-Fi
5 36 (3.12%) Firewall
6 35 (3.04%) Wireless
7 28 (2.43%) LAN
8 26 (2.25%) WAN
9 20 (1.73%) TCP/IP
10 18 (1.56%) FTP
11 17 (1.47%) Network Security
12 14 (1.21%) HTTP
13 12 (1.04%) BGP
13 12 (1.04%) SSH
14 11 (0.95%) VLAN
15 10 (0.87%) Cisco Wireless
15 10 (0.87%) Skype
15 10 (0.87%) SMTP
16 9 (0.78%) 4G
16 9 (0.78%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (3.90%) Power BI
2 23 (1.99%) SQL Server
3 20 (1.73%) Metadata
3 20 (1.73%) Relational Database
4 19 (1.65%) MySQL
5 16 (1.39%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (1.30%) Tableau
7 11 (0.95%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.69%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.52%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.52%) DB2
11 6 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.35%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (0.35%) Neo4j
12 4 (0.35%) Redis
13 2 (0.17%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 196 (17.00%) JIRA
2 49 (4.25%) Jenkins
3 37 (3.21%) Git
4 25 (2.17%) GitLab
5 14 (1.21%) Browser DevTools
5 14 (1.21%) Selenium
6 13 (1.13%) Android Studio
6 13 (1.13%) Eclipse
6 13 (1.13%) Xcode
7 12 (1.04%) Postman
7 12 (1.04%) REST Assured
8 10 (0.87%) Cucumber
8 10 (0.87%) Vagrant
9 7 (0.61%) 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 (0.26%) Burp Suite
General
1 447 (38.77%) Social Skills
2 235 (20.38%) Finance
3 176 (15.26%) Analytical Skills
4 101 (8.76%) Public Sector
5 52 (4.51%) Banking
6 45 (3.90%) Military
7 43 (3.73%) Telecoms
8 42 (3.64%) Legal
9 40 (3.47%) Documentation Skills
10 28 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (1.65%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 17 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.39%) Law
15 12 (1.04%) Manufacturing
16 11 (0.95%) Aerospace
16 11 (0.95%) Retail
17 9 (0.78%) Billing
17 9 (0.78%) Financial Institution
17 9 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 188 (16.31%) Architect
2 177 (15.35%) Analyst
3 106 (9.19%) ServiceNow Architect
4 97 (8.41%) Developer
5 92 (7.98%) Support Engineer
6 84 (7.29%) ServiceNow Developer
7 78 (6.76%) IT Support
8 68 (5.90%) Consultant
9 61 (5.29%) Lead
10 44 (3.82%) IT Engineer
11 39 (3.38%) Service Analyst
12 38 (3.30%) Senior
13 37 (3.21%) IT Support Engineer
13 37 (3.21%) ServiceNow Manager
14 35 (3.04%) Project Manager
15 34 (2.95%) Business Analyst
16 33 (2.86%) Technical Architect
17 32 (2.78%) Service Architect
18 30 (2.60%) Administrator
18 30 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (10.23%) REST
2 92 (7.98%) SOAP
3 32 (2.78%) CSS
3 32 (2.78%) SailPoint
4 28 (2.43%) LDAP
5 26 (2.25%) AngularJS
6 19 (1.65%) Ajax
6 19 (1.65%) Flash
6 19 (1.65%) OpenID
7 17 (1.47%) React
8 15 (1.30%) HTML
9 14 (1.21%) GraphQL
9 14 (1.21%) JSON
10 11 (0.95%) XML
11 9 (0.78%) .NET
11 9 (0.78%) ADO
11 9 (0.78%) Middleware
11 9 (0.78%) OAuth
12 8 (0.69%) Kafka
12 8 (0.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 142 (12.32%) CMDB
2 76 (6.59%) Onboarding
3 60 (5.20%) Product Ownership
4 37 (3.21%) Replication
5 31 (2.69%) Data Centre
6 28 (2.43%) Management Information System
7 24 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
9 19 (1.65%) Security Posture
10 18 (1.56%) Mobile App
10 18 (1.56%) Video Conferencing
11 16 (1.39%) Smartphone
12 14 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.21%) Cloud Native
12 14 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
13 13 (1.13%) Driving Licence
14 10 (0.87%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.69%) Low-Code
16 7 (0.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 244 (21.16%) Windows
2 104 (9.02%) Windows 10
3 68 (5.90%) Linux
4 40 (3.47%) Mac OS
5 36 (3.12%) Android
6 29 (2.52%) Unix
7 21 (1.82%) Windows Server
8 19 (1.65%) Apple iOS
9 11 (0.95%) VMS
10 10 (0.87%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.78%) Windows 7
12 7 (0.61%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.43%) zOS
14 3 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.087%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.087%) Kali Linux
15 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 390 (33.82%) ITSM
2 281 (24.37%) ITIL
3 267 (23.16%) Agile
4 212 (18.39%) Service Management
5 199 (17.26%) Problem-Solving
6 161 (13.96%) Stakeholder Management
7 148 (12.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 137 (11.88%) DevOps
9 127 (11.01%) Customer Service
10 120 (10.41%) Change Management
11 119 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 99 (8.59%) CI/CD
13 80 (6.94%) Roadmaps
14 78 (6.76%) Project Management
14 78 (6.76%) Service Delivery
15 77 (6.68%) User Acceptance Testing
16 74 (6.42%) Data Modelling
17 73 (6.33%) Migration
17 73 (6.33%) Workflow
18 67 (5.81%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 101 (8.76%) Python
2 98 (8.50%) JavaScript
3 70 (6.07%) SQL
4 69 (5.98%) PowerShell
5 59 (5.12%) Java
6 30 (2.60%) Perl
7 15 (1.30%) Bash
7 15 (1.30%) Groovy
8 12 (1.04%) Shell Script
9 11 (0.95%) VB
10 10 (0.87%) TypeScript
11 9 (0.78%) VBScript
12 8 (0.69%) ABAP
13 7 (0.61%) Go
13 7 (0.61%) Lisp
14 6 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.43%) BeanShell
15 5 (0.43%) PHP
15 5 (0.43%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.43%) REXX
Qualifications
1 308 (26.71%) Security Cleared
2 248 (21.51%) SC Cleared
3 111 (9.63%) Degree
4 31 (2.69%) TOGAF Certification
5 23 (1.99%) DV Cleared
6 17 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
7 15 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.21%) CCNP
8 14 (1.21%) CISSP
8 14 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 14 (1.21%) PMI Certification
8 14 (1.21%) PMP
9 11 (0.95%) ISTQB
10 10 (0.87%) Azure Certification
10 10 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (0.78%) ACSP
11 9 (0.78%) ACTC
11 9 (0.78%) AWS Certification
11 9 (0.78%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (4.86%) QA
2 54 (4.68%) SLA
3 43 (3.73%) GRC
4 38 (3.30%) Data Quality
4 38 (3.30%) GDPR
5 22 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (1.73%) NIST
7 18 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 16 (1.39%) PMO
9 12 (1.04%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.78%) Accessibility
11 7 (0.61%) COBIT
11 7 (0.61%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 19770
13 4 (0.35%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.26%) NCSC
14 3 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 159 (13.79%) Active Directory
2 32 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.99%) Docker
4 19 (1.65%) GPFS
4 19 (1.65%) NFS
5 18 (1.56%) vSphere
6 17 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.87%) BitLocker
7 10 (0.87%) DFS Replication
8 7 (0.61%) Dovecot
8 7 (0.61%) Postfix
8 7 (0.61%) Squid
9 5 (0.43%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 2 (0.17%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.087%) Firmware
11 1 (0.087%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.087%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.087%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 58 (5.03%) SCCM
2 44 (3.82%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (3.82%) Terraform
3 30 (2.60%) OPNET
4 24 (2.08%) Ansible
4 24 (2.08%) Grafana
5 17 (1.47%) Jamf Pro
5 17 (1.47%) vRealize
6 16 (1.39%) Prometheus
7 12 (1.04%) Kubernetes
8 11 (0.95%) RSA Archer
9 10 (0.87%) Nessus
10 9 (0.78%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.61%) Proxmox
11 7 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.35%) Pingdom
12 4 (0.35%) Rancher
13 3 (0.26%) Nmap
13 3 (0.26%) OMEGAMON
13 3 (0.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 249 (21.60%) Microsoft
2 84 (7.29%) Remedy
3 61 (5.29%) Oracle
3 61 (5.29%) SAP
4 60 (5.20%) Cisco
5 40 (3.47%) Salesforce
6 37 (3.21%) Splunk
7 36 (3.12%) VMware
8 34 (2.95%) Apple
9 33 (2.86%) Atlassian
10 32 (2.78%) Workday
11 31 (2.69%) IBM
12 22 (1.91%) Snow
13 15 (1.30%) Citrix
13 15 (1.30%) HP
14 14 (1.21%) Google
15 13 (1.13%) BMC
15 13 (1.13%) Zscaler
16 11 (0.95%) Palo Alto
17 10 (0.87%) Dynatrace