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 5 February 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
5 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 71 70
Rank change year-on-year +4 -1 +54
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,187 868 1,085
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.55% 3.30% 2.87%
As % of the Vendors category 7.77% 7.14% 6.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 831 477 695
10th Percentile £204 £197 £163
25th Percentile £350 £325 £302
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £477 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.20% -4.60% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £606
90th Percentile £690 £675 £703
UK median daily rate £485 £476 £500
% change year-on-year +1.89% -4.80% -2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 26 46
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.11 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.58 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +21.11% +8.25%
75th Percentile £26.51 £23.14 £24.69
90th Percentile £95.00 £29.50 £58.75
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 15,286 12,159 16,395
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 45.76% 46.27% 43.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,031 7,351 10,618
10th Percentile £300 £281 £250
25th Percentile £410 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £703 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 744 351 844
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £12.90
25th Percentile £17.88 £19.47 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.41 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.65% +1.37% -6.25%
75th Percentile £52.87 £63.93 £57.50
90th Percentile £71.05 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £28.60 £30.00
% change year-on-year -16.70% -4.67% +4.53%

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 5 February 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 5 February 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 5 February 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 -27 484 £490 -6.67% 143
North of England +1 223 £500 +24.22% 60
South East +43 175 £423 +6.96% 97
Midlands +6 156 £475 +5.56% 38
West Midlands +6 124 £475 -9.52% 26
North West 0 123 £466 +16.38% 33
Yorkshire -1 91 £533 +10.65% 20
East of England -3 74 £528 +3.02% 16
South West +21 68 £725 +222.22% 10
East Midlands -1 31 £425 +19.38% 12
North East -11 9 £200 -11.11% 7
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 (6.07%) SharePoint
2 66 (5.56%) Confluence
3 54 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.84%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.59%) nginx
6 6 (0.51%) Apache
6 6 (0.51%) Appian
6 6 (0.51%) Camunda
7 4 (0.34%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.25%) CICS
8 3 (0.25%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.25%) SAS
9 2 (0.17%) CMS
9 2 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.084%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.084%) IIS
10 1 (0.084%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.084%) WebSphere
Applications
1 74 (6.23%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (4.97%) Microsoft Excel
3 57 (4.80%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.77%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.59%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 7 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.34%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (0.34%) Trello
8 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 33 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.76%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.67%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 7 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.59%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.25%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.17%) Maximo
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 (0.084%) Actimize
9 1 (0.084%) assyst
9 1 (0.084%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.084%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 251 (21.15%) Azure
2 186 (15.67%) Microsoft 365
3 146 (12.30%) AWS
4 94 (7.92%) Entra ID
5 66 (5.56%) Power Platform
6 62 (5.22%) SaaS
7 60 (5.05%) GCP
8 58 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (2.86%) OneDrive
10 21 (1.77%) GitHub
11 16 (1.35%) Power Automate
12 13 (1.10%) AWS KMS
12 13 (1.10%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (1.01%) Amazon S3
13 12 (1.01%) Sauce Labs
14 11 (0.93%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (0.93%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (0.93%) Amazon ELB
14 11 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (0.84%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 73 (6.15%) DNS
2 50 (4.21%) VPN
3 44 (3.71%) DHCP
4 37 (3.12%) Firewall
4 37 (3.12%) Wi-Fi
5 34 (2.86%) Wireless
6 29 (2.44%) LAN
7 27 (2.27%) WAN
8 20 (1.68%) TCP/IP
9 18 (1.52%) FTP
10 17 (1.43%) Network Security
11 12 (1.01%) BGP
11 12 (1.01%) HTTP
11 12 (1.01%) SSH
12 11 (0.93%) VLAN
13 10 (0.84%) Cisco Wireless
13 10 (0.84%) Skype
13 10 (0.84%) SMTP
14 9 (0.76%) 4G
14 9 (0.76%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (3.96%) Power BI
2 23 (1.94%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.77%) Metadata
4 18 (1.52%) MySQL
5 17 (1.43%) Relational Database
6 16 (1.35%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (1.26%) Amazon RDS
7 15 (1.26%) Tableau
8 11 (0.93%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.67%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.51%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.51%) DB2
12 6 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.34%) Metadata Repository
13 4 (0.34%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.34%) Redis
14 2 (0.17%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 198 (16.68%) JIRA
2 50 (4.21%) Jenkins
3 35 (2.95%) Git
4 26 (2.19%) GitLab
5 16 (1.35%) Selenium
6 13 (1.10%) Browser DevTools
6 13 (1.10%) REST Assured
7 12 (1.01%) Android Studio
7 12 (1.01%) Eclipse
7 12 (1.01%) Postman
7 12 (1.01%) Xcode
8 11 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.84%) Vagrant
10 8 (0.67%) TestRail
11 4 (0.34%) Gatling
11 4 (0.34%) JMeter
11 4 (0.34%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.34%) Metasploit
11 4 (0.34%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.25%) Cypress.io
General
1 453 (38.16%) Social Skills
2 244 (20.56%) Finance
3 180 (15.16%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (9.01%) Public Sector
5 52 (4.38%) Banking
6 50 (4.21%) Military
7 44 (3.71%) Documentation Skills
7 44 (3.71%) Legal
8 43 (3.62%) Telecoms
9 29 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
10 21 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (1.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 17 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.35%) Law
14 13 (1.10%) Aerospace
15 12 (1.01%) Retail
16 11 (0.93%) Manufacturing
17 9 (0.76%) Billing
17 9 (0.76%) Financial Institution
17 9 (0.76%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 194 (16.34%) Architect
2 183 (15.42%) Analyst
3 111 (9.35%) ServiceNow Architect
4 100 (8.42%) Developer
5 92 (7.75%) Support Engineer
6 89 (7.50%) ServiceNow Developer
7 79 (6.66%) IT Support
8 67 (5.64%) Consultant
9 63 (5.31%) Lead
10 47 (3.96%) IT Engineer
11 41 (3.45%) Service Analyst
12 40 (3.37%) Senior
13 39 (3.29%) IT Support Engineer
14 38 (3.20%) ServiceNow Manager
15 36 (3.03%) Business Analyst
15 36 (3.03%) Project Manager
16 34 (2.86%) Technical Architect
17 33 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
18 32 (2.70%) Service Architect
19 31 (2.61%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (10.19%) REST
2 92 (7.75%) SOAP
3 34 (2.86%) SailPoint
4 32 (2.70%) CSS
5 29 (2.44%) LDAP
6 24 (2.02%) AngularJS
7 20 (1.68%) Flash
7 20 (1.68%) OpenID
8 18 (1.52%) Ajax
9 16 (1.35%) HTML
10 14 (1.18%) JSON
10 14 (1.18%) React
11 13 (1.10%) GraphQL
12 9 (0.76%) .NET
12 9 (0.76%) ADO
12 9 (0.76%) Middleware
12 9 (0.76%) OAuth
12 9 (0.76%) XML
13 8 (0.67%) SAML
13 8 (0.67%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 148 (12.47%) CMDB
2 82 (6.91%) Onboarding
3 63 (5.31%) Product Ownership
4 38 (3.20%) Replication
5 31 (2.61%) Data Centre
6 29 (2.44%) Management Information System
7 24 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
10 19 (1.60%) Security Posture
11 18 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
12 17 (1.43%) Mobile App
13 16 (1.35%) Smartphone
14 15 (1.26%) Cloud Native
15 14 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
15 14 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
16 12 (1.01%) Driving Licence
17 10 (0.84%) Virtual Team
18 8 (0.67%) Low-Code
19 7 (0.59%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 244 (20.56%) Windows
2 106 (8.93%) Windows 10
3 69 (5.81%) Linux
4 41 (3.45%) Mac OS
5 36 (3.03%) Android
6 29 (2.44%) Unix
7 22 (1.85%) Windows Server
8 19 (1.60%) Apple iOS
9 12 (1.01%) VMS
10 10 (0.84%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.76%) Windows 7
12 7 (0.59%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.42%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.42%) zOS
14 3 (0.25%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.084%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.084%) Kali Linux
15 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.084%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 406 (34.20%) ITSM
2 292 (24.60%) ITIL
3 273 (23.00%) Agile
4 223 (18.79%) Service Management
5 202 (17.02%) Problem-Solving
6 171 (14.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 150 (12.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 143 (12.05%) DevOps
9 130 (10.95%) Customer Service
10 127 (10.70%) Change Management
11 125 (10.53%) Continuous Improvement
12 104 (8.76%) CI/CD
13 83 (6.99%) Roadmaps
14 82 (6.91%) Project Management
14 82 (6.91%) User Acceptance Testing
15 81 (6.82%) Data Modelling
15 81 (6.82%) Service Delivery
16 79 (6.66%) Workflow
17 78 (6.57%) Migration
18 68 (5.73%) AI
Programming Languages
1 100 (8.42%) Python
2 99 (8.34%) JavaScript
3 71 (5.98%) SQL
4 69 (5.81%) PowerShell
5 59 (4.97%) Java
6 29 (2.44%) Perl
7 15 (1.26%) Bash
7 15 (1.26%) Groovy
8 12 (1.01%) Shell Script
9 11 (0.93%) VB
10 10 (0.84%) TypeScript
11 9 (0.76%) VBScript
12 8 (0.67%) ABAP
13 7 (0.59%) Go
13 7 (0.59%) Lisp
14 6 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.42%) BeanShell
15 5 (0.42%) PHP
15 5 (0.42%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.42%) REXX
Qualifications
1 319 (26.87%) Security Cleared
2 253 (21.31%) SC Cleared
3 112 (9.44%) Degree
4 31 (2.61%) TOGAF Certification
5 28 (2.36%) DV Cleared
6 18 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
7 15 (1.26%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (1.26%) Computer Science Degree
7 15 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
7 15 (1.26%) PMI Certification
7 15 (1.26%) PMP
8 14 (1.18%) CCNP
8 14 (1.18%) CISSP
9 11 (0.93%) ISTQB
10 10 (0.84%) Azure Certification
10 10 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
11 9 (0.76%) ACSP
11 9 (0.76%) ACTC
11 9 (0.76%) AWS Certification
11 9 (0.76%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 59 (4.97%) QA
2 55 (4.63%) SLA
3 44 (3.71%) GRC
4 40 (3.37%) Data Quality
5 39 (3.29%) GDPR
6 22 (1.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.68%) NIST
8 18 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (1.35%) PMO
10 12 (1.01%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.76%) Accessibility
12 7 (0.59%) COBIT
12 7 (0.59%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 19770
14 4 (0.34%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.25%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.25%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.25%) NCSC
15 3 (0.25%) NIST 800
System Software
1 162 (13.65%) Active Directory
2 32 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.94%) Docker
4 20 (1.68%) GPFS
4 20 (1.68%) NFS
5 18 (1.52%) vSphere
6 17 (1.43%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.84%) BitLocker
7 10 (0.84%) DFS Replication
8 7 (0.59%) Dovecot
8 7 (0.59%) Postfix
8 7 (0.59%) Squid
9 5 (0.42%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 2 (0.17%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.084%) Firmware
11 1 (0.084%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.084%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.084%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 61 (5.14%) SCCM
2 44 (3.71%) Microsoft Intune
2 44 (3.71%) Terraform
3 30 (2.53%) OPNET
4 24 (2.02%) Ansible
4 24 (2.02%) Grafana
5 17 (1.43%) Jamf Pro
5 17 (1.43%) vRealize
6 16 (1.35%) Prometheus
7 12 (1.01%) Kubernetes
7 12 (1.01%) RSA Archer
8 10 (0.84%) FortiGate
8 10 (0.84%) Nessus
9 7 (0.59%) Proxmox
9 7 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
10 4 (0.34%) Pingdom
10 4 (0.34%) Rancher
11 3 (0.25%) Nmap
11 3 (0.25%) OMEGAMON
11 3 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 251 (21.15%) Microsoft
2 85 (7.16%) Remedy
3 65 (5.48%) SAP
4 61 (5.14%) Oracle
5 60 (5.05%) Cisco
6 41 (3.45%) Salesforce
7 37 (3.12%) Splunk
8 36 (3.03%) VMware
9 34 (2.86%) Apple
10 33 (2.78%) Atlassian
10 33 (2.78%) IBM
10 33 (2.78%) Workday
11 21 (1.77%) Snow
12 16 (1.35%) Google
12 16 (1.35%) HP
13 15 (1.26%) Citrix
14 13 (1.10%) Zscaler
15 12 (1.01%) BMC
16 11 (0.93%) CyberArk
16 11 (0.93%) NetApp