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 August 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 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 69 76
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 +8
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,738 1,005 954
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.83% 3.64% 2.85%
As % of the Vendors category 9.28% 7.74% 6.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 624 575
10th Percentile £218 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £325 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £580
90th Percentile £675 £662 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 82 88
10th Percentile £17.25 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £26.66 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +41.66% +15.46% -20.80%
75th Percentile £67.47 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.70 £63.36 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £26.33 £17.87 £16.30
% change year-on-year +47.34% +9.63% -20.80%

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 18,731 12,992 14,593
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.24% 47.06% 43.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,783 8,236 9,318
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £413 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £512 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.38% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £621 £627
90th Percentile £700 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £506 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.20% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,013 626 772
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.44 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% -13.28% -26.77%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.20 £71.13
UK median hourly rate £34.97 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +39.05% -10.18% -33.85%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +26 748 £525 +5.00% 243
South East +14 351 £550 +35.72% 77
North of England -1 326 £475 - 72
North West -2 204 £388 -24.21% 55
Midlands +8 161 £425 -10.53% 31
West Midlands -7 126 £455 -4.32% 24
Yorkshire -18 111 £513 +28.31% 14
East of England -24 61 £525 +16.67% 10
South West -53 52 £419 +30.35% 23
East Midlands +7 29 £381 -7.58% 8
North East -27 17 £500 +66.67% 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
1 103 (5.93%) SharePoint
2 95 (5.47%) Confluence
3 39 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.52%) Apache
4 9 (0.52%) nginx
4 9 (0.52%) Skype for Business
5 3 (0.17%) CMS
5 3 (0.17%) IIS
6 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.12%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.12%) SAS
6 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.058%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.058%) Appian
7 1 (0.058%) Drupal
7 1 (0.058%) Mendix
7 1 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 76 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (1.50%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.92%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.58%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.46%) Revit
8 7 (0.40%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.058%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.058%) LaTeX
10 1 (0.058%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.058%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 69 (3.97%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.52%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.12%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.12%) Maximo
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.12%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.12%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.058%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.058%) iTrent
7 1 (0.058%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.058%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 361 (20.77%) Azure
2 235 (13.52%) AWS
3 221 (12.72%) Microsoft 365
4 130 (7.48%) Entra ID
5 128 (7.36%) Power Platform
6 97 (5.58%) SaaS
7 63 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (2.59%) GCP
9 36 (2.07%) OneDrive
10 29 (1.67%) GitHub
11 27 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 27 (1.55%) Datadog
12 26 (1.50%) Azure Monitor
12 26 (1.50%) Microsoft Copilot
13 25 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
14 24 (1.38%) Amazon S3
15 22 (1.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 20 (1.15%) Serverless
17 19 (1.09%) Power Automate
18 14 (0.81%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 85 (4.89%) DNS
2 77 (4.43%) DHCP
3 68 (3.91%) Firewall
4 56 (3.22%) VPN
5 46 (2.65%) TCP/IP
6 39 (2.24%) Wireless
7 32 (1.84%) Network Security
8 26 (1.50%) SSL
9 23 (1.32%) WAN
9 23 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (1.27%) VLAN
11 20 (1.15%) LAN
11 20 (1.15%) SAN
12 19 (1.09%) NAS
13 17 (0.98%) Cisco IOS
14 16 (0.92%) SSH
15 15 (0.86%) NX-OS
15 15 (0.86%) Structured Cabling
16 14 (0.81%) SNMP
17 13 (0.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (5.58%) Power BI
2 52 (2.99%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (0.81%) MySQL
7 13 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (0.63%) Power Query
9 8 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.35%) Tableau
12 5 (0.29%) Metadata
12 5 (0.29%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.29%) Redis
13 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 4 (0.23%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 269 (15.48%) JIRA
2 80 (4.60%) Git
3 24 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.15%) GitLab
5 7 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.23%) Flyway
8 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.12%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.12%) JMeter
9 2 (0.12%) JUnit
9 2 (0.12%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.12%) MSI
9 2 (0.12%) Postman
9 2 (0.12%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.058%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.058%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (0.058%) SonarQube
General
1 563 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 322 (18.53%) Finance
3 239 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
4 142 (8.17%) Public Sector
5 95 (5.47%) Banking
6 76 (4.37%) Telecoms
7 55 (3.16%) Organisational Skills
8 54 (3.11%) Legal
9 47 (2.70%) Documentation Skills
10 27 (1.55%) Military
11 25 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
12 23 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (1.32%) Manufacturing
13 18 (1.04%) French Language
13 18 (1.04%) Police
13 18 (1.04%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (0.92%) Spanish Language
15 15 (0.86%) Law
16 14 (0.81%) Italian Language
16 14 (0.81%) Retail
Job Titles
1 249 (14.33%) Architect
2 230 (13.23%) Analyst
3 175 (10.07%) Developer
4 154 (8.86%) ServiceNow Architect
5 150 (8.63%) ServiceNow Developer
6 124 (7.13%) Senior
7 105 (6.04%) Consultant
8 102 (5.87%) Support Engineer
9 94 (5.41%) IT Support
10 91 (5.24%) Lead
11 72 (4.14%) Service Analyst
12 68 (3.91%) Business Analyst
12 68 (3.91%) IT Engineer
12 68 (3.91%) Solutions Architect
13 63 (3.62%) Project Manager
13 63 (3.62%) ServiceNow Consultant
14 60 (3.45%) IT Support Engineer
15 41 (2.36%) Delivery Manager
15 41 (2.36%) Technical Architect
16 39 (2.24%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (10.99%) REST
2 113 (6.50%) SOAP
3 37 (2.13%) JSON
4 33 (1.90%) OAuth
5 32 (1.84%) HTML
5 32 (1.84%) SailPoint
6 31 (1.78%) XML
7 29 (1.67%) CSS
7 29 (1.67%) Web Services
8 28 (1.61%) Middleware
9 25 (1.44%) LDAP
10 21 (1.21%) .NET
11 20 (1.15%) AngularJS
12 16 (0.92%) Ajax
12 16 (0.92%) SAML
13 14 (0.81%) OpenID
14 11 (0.63%) Flash
14 11 (0.63%) JDBC
14 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Graph
14 11 (0.63%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 256 (14.73%) CMDB
2 165 (9.49%) Onboarding
3 68 (3.91%) Product Ownership
4 53 (3.05%) Enterprise Software
5 48 (2.76%) Data Centre
6 42 (2.42%) Cloud Native
7 41 (2.36%) Management Information System
8 32 (1.84%) Replication
9 27 (1.55%) PKI
9 27 (1.55%) Security Posture
10 24 (1.38%) AI Agents
10 24 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.27%) Clustering
12 21 (1.21%) Linux Command Line
13 20 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
14 19 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
16 16 (0.92%) Data Structures
16 16 (0.92%) iPhone
17 15 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 303 (17.43%) Windows
2 104 (5.98%) Windows 10
3 101 (5.81%) Linux
4 50 (2.88%) Windows Server
5 45 (2.59%) Mac OS
6 34 (1.96%) Apple iOS
7 24 (1.38%) Unix
8 22 (1.27%) Android
9 19 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.52%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.23%) zOS
13 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.17%) VMS
14 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.058%) CentOS
15 1 (0.058%) MVS
15 1 (0.058%) SUSE
15 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 667 (38.38%) ITSM
2 547 (31.47%) ITIL
3 351 (20.20%) Service Management
4 333 (19.16%) Agile
5 317 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
6 306 (17.61%) Stakeholder Management
7 268 (15.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 207 (11.91%) Change Management
9 199 (11.45%) Customer Service
10 198 (11.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 195 (11.22%) AI
12 189 (10.87%) Service Delivery
13 188 (10.82%) DevOps
14 157 (9.03%) Roadmaps
15 146 (8.40%) Workflow
16 145 (8.34%) Migration
17 128 (7.36%) Incident Management
18 122 (7.02%) CI/CD
18 122 (7.02%) Data Modelling
19 120 (6.90%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 131 (7.54%) PowerShell
2 122 (7.02%) SQL
3 115 (6.62%) JavaScript
4 109 (6.27%) Python
5 52 (2.99%) Java
6 31 (1.78%) C#
7 21 (1.21%) Bash
8 12 (0.69%) Groovy
9 11 (0.63%) T-SQL
9 11 (0.63%) VBScript
10 10 (0.58%) PL/SQL
11 8 (0.46%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.46%) VB
12 7 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.35%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.29%) Perl
15 4 (0.23%) BeanShell
15 4 (0.23%) Bicep
15 4 (0.23%) C++
16 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 493 (28.37%) Security Cleared
2 349 (20.08%) SC Cleared
3 138 (7.94%) Degree
4 104 (5.98%) DV Cleared
5 44 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
6 43 (2.47%) PMP
7 41 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (2.13%) BPSS Clearance
8 37 (2.13%) PMI Certification
9 33 (1.90%) CISSP
10 29 (1.67%) Microsoft Certification
11 28 (1.61%) CCNP
12 26 (1.50%) CISM
13 23 (1.32%) CCNA
14 21 (1.21%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 19 (1.09%) A+ Certification
16 18 (1.04%) Azure Certification
16 18 (1.04%) Network+ Certification
17 15 (0.86%) Server+ Certification
18 14 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 96 (5.52%) SLA
2 75 (4.32%) Data Quality
3 54 (3.11%) GRC
4 47 (2.70%) QA
5 46 (2.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (2.13%) NIST
7 35 (2.01%) PMO
8 33 (1.90%) GDPR
9 18 (1.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 16 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.81%) COBIT
12 13 (0.75%) NCSC
13 12 (0.69%) Accessibility
13 12 (0.69%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.46%) GxP
14 8 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 6 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.35%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.29%) PCI DSS
17 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 219 (12.60%) Active Directory
2 33 (1.90%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (1.55%) Docker
4 20 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (1.04%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (0.86%) IAG
7 12 (0.69%) NFS
7 12 (0.69%) vSphere
8 11 (0.63%) GPFS
9 10 (0.58%) BitLocker
9 10 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.40%) Firmware
11 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 2 (0.12%) RACF
13 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.058%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 74 (4.26%) Terraform
2 71 (4.09%) Microsoft Intune
3 56 (3.22%) SCCM
4 47 (2.70%) Ansible
5 34 (1.96%) Kubernetes
6 30 (1.73%) Grafana
7 23 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.21%) Prometheus
9 19 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
10 13 (0.75%) SCOM
11 12 (0.69%) WMI
12 10 (0.58%) vRealize
13 9 (0.52%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.40%) CASB
14 7 (0.40%) RSA Archer
15 6 (0.35%) Packer
15 6 (0.35%) VxRail
16 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 4 (0.23%) CA Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 421 (24.22%) Microsoft
2 89 (5.12%) Cisco
3 78 (4.49%) Remedy
4 69 (3.97%) Splunk
5 65 (3.74%) SAP
6 64 (3.68%) Oracle
7 48 (2.76%) VMware
8 46 (2.65%) Salesforce
9 39 (2.24%) CyberArk
10 33 (1.90%) Dynatrace
11 31 (1.78%) BMC
12 30 (1.73%) Workday
13 28 (1.61%) Apple
14 27 (1.55%) Palo Alto
15 23 (1.32%) SolarWinds
16 22 (1.27%) Fortinet
16 22 (1.27%) Snow
17 21 (1.21%) iManage
18 19 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
18 19 (1.09%) F5