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 11 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
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 68 71
Rank change year-on-year +2 +3 +51
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,194 872 1,076
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.52% 3.36% 2.84%
As % of the Vendors category 7.76% 7.26% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 835 483 679
10th Percentile £200 £200 £165
25th Percentile £350 £350 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £489 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.20% -2.30% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £594 £611
90th Percentile £690 £688 £716
UK median daily rate £485 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +1.04% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 26 51
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.11 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.58 £16.13
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.46 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +16.00% +11.87%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.14 £24.38
90th Percentile £95.00 £29.50 £36.00
UK median hourly rate £19.25 £22.09 £17.72
% change year-on-year -12.86% +24.66% +9.25%

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 15,379 12,005 16,399
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 45.40% 46.32% 43.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,100 7,309 10,577
10th Percentile £300 £280 £250
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.71% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £705 £721 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 766 344 846
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £12.93
25th Percentile £17.91 £20.00 £15.33
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.62 £26.72
Median % change year-on-year -22.18% +14.58% -17.78%
75th Percentile £56.64 £65.00 £56.49
90th Percentile £72.00 £81.98 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.91 £29.00 £26.72
% change year-on-year -17.54% +8.53% -16.26%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 -30 491 £493 -6.19% 126
North of England -2 218 £500 +25.00% 55
South East +40 179 £420 +52.73% 94
Midlands +9 163 £450 - 38
West Midlands 0 125 £475 -13.64% 29
North West -4 119 £456 +14.00% 37
Yorkshire +1 90 £528 +24.12% 14
East of England -8 69 £525 +5.00% 13
South West +11 65 £725 +222.22% 8
East Midlands +3 36 £419 +17.63% 9
North East -13 9 £200 -23.81% 5
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 73 (6.11%) SharePoint
2 65 (5.44%) Confluence
3 54 (4.52%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.84%) Skype for Business
5 6 (0.50%) Apache
5 6 (0.50%) Appian
5 6 (0.50%) Camunda
5 6 (0.50%) nginx
6 4 (0.34%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.25%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.25%) CICS
7 3 (0.25%) HCL Notes
7 3 (0.25%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.25%) SAS
8 2 (0.17%) CMS
8 2 (0.17%) JBoss
9 1 (0.084%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.084%) IIS
9 1 (0.084%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.084%) WebSphere
Applications
1 76 (6.37%) Microsoft Office
2 60 (5.03%) Microsoft Excel
3 58 (4.86%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.76%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.59%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.50%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 4 (0.34%) Autodesk Inventor
8 4 (0.34%) Trello
9 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.084%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 34 (2.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.09%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.75%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.67%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 7 (0.59%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.50%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.42%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (0.25%) SAP GRC
9 2 (0.17%) Maximo
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.17%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.17%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.17%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.084%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.084%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.084%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.084%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 1 (0.084%) SAP MDG
10 1 (0.084%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 254 (21.27%) Azure
2 190 (15.91%) Microsoft 365
3 145 (12.14%) AWS
4 97 (8.12%) Entra ID
5 67 (5.61%) Power Platform
6 62 (5.19%) SaaS
7 61 (5.11%) GCP
8 58 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
9 34 (2.85%) OneDrive
10 21 (1.76%) GitHub
11 16 (1.34%) Power Automate
12 13 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (1.01%) Sauce Labs
14 11 (0.92%) AWS KMS
15 10 (0.84%) Amazon S3
15 10 (0.84%) Serverless
16 9 (0.75%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 9 (0.75%) Amazon ELB
16 9 (0.75%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (0.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 72 (6.03%) DNS
2 50 (4.19%) VPN
3 45 (3.77%) DHCP
4 37 (3.10%) Firewall
4 37 (3.10%) Wi-Fi
5 34 (2.85%) Wireless
6 30 (2.51%) LAN
7 27 (2.26%) WAN
8 20 (1.68%) TCP/IP
9 17 (1.42%) Network Security
10 16 (1.34%) FTP
11 12 (1.01%) BGP
12 11 (0.92%) VLAN
13 10 (0.84%) Cisco Wireless
13 10 (0.84%) HTTP
13 10 (0.84%) Skype
13 10 (0.84%) SSH
14 9 (0.75%) 4G
14 9 (0.75%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.75%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (4.02%) Power BI
2 24 (2.01%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.76%) Metadata
4 18 (1.51%) MySQL
5 17 (1.42%) Relational Database
6 15 (1.26%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (1.26%) Tableau
7 13 (1.09%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.84%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.67%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.59%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.50%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.50%) DB2
12 6 (0.50%) 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
1 200 (16.75%) JIRA
2 49 (4.10%) Jenkins
3 34 (2.85%) Git
4 26 (2.18%) GitLab
5 17 (1.42%) Selenium
6 14 (1.17%) REST Assured
7 13 (1.09%) Browser DevTools
7 13 (1.09%) Postman
8 12 (1.01%) Android Studio
8 12 (1.01%) Cucumber
8 12 (1.01%) Eclipse
8 12 (1.01%) Xcode
9 8 (0.67%) TestRail
9 8 (0.67%) Vagrant
10 5 (0.42%) JMeter
10 5 (0.42%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.34%) Gatling
11 4 (0.34%) Metasploit
11 4 (0.34%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.25%) Artifactory
General
1 451 (37.77%) Social Skills
2 243 (20.35%) Finance
3 182 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (8.88%) Public Sector
5 54 (4.52%) Military
6 52 (4.36%) Banking
7 46 (3.85%) Documentation Skills
8 44 (3.69%) Telecoms
9 42 (3.52%) Legal
10 30 (2.51%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (1.34%) Law
13 16 (1.34%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.01%) Retail
15 11 (0.92%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.75%) Billing
16 9 (0.75%) Financial Institution
16 9 (0.75%) Marketing
17 7 (0.59%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 195 (16.33%) Architect
2 185 (15.49%) Analyst
3 113 (9.46%) ServiceNow Architect
4 97 (8.12%) Developer
5 89 (7.45%) Support Engineer
6 86 (7.20%) ServiceNow Developer
7 79 (6.62%) IT Support
8 66 (5.53%) Lead
9 65 (5.44%) Consultant
10 47 (3.94%) IT Engineer
11 43 (3.60%) ServiceNow Manager
12 42 (3.52%) Service Analyst
13 39 (3.27%) IT Support Engineer
13 39 (3.27%) Project Manager
13 39 (3.27%) Senior
14 36 (3.02%) Business Analyst
15 34 (2.85%) Technical Architect
16 33 (2.76%) Solutions Architect
17 32 (2.68%) Administrator
17 32 (2.68%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 122 (10.22%) REST
2 92 (7.71%) SOAP
3 34 (2.85%) SailPoint
4 33 (2.76%) CSS
5 28 (2.35%) LDAP
6 24 (2.01%) AngularJS
7 20 (1.68%) OpenID
8 19 (1.59%) Flash
9 18 (1.51%) Ajax
10 16 (1.34%) HTML
11 14 (1.17%) JSON
11 14 (1.17%) React
12 13 (1.09%) GraphQL
13 11 (0.92%) .NET
14 10 (0.84%) Middleware
15 9 (0.75%) ADO
15 9 (0.75%) OAuth
15 9 (0.75%) XML
16 8 (0.67%) Kafka
16 8 (0.67%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 149 (12.48%) CMDB
2 84 (7.04%) Onboarding
3 62 (5.19%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.93%) Replication
5 31 (2.60%) Data Centre
6 29 (2.43%) Management Information System
7 24 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (1.93%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
9 19 (1.59%) Security Posture
9 19 (1.59%) Video Conferencing
10 17 (1.42%) Mobile App
11 16 (1.34%) Smartphone
12 15 (1.26%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (1.26%) Cloud Native
12 15 (1.26%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.01%) Virtual Team
14 11 (0.92%) Driving Licence
15 8 (0.67%) Low-Code
16 7 (0.59%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 245 (20.52%) Windows
2 108 (9.05%) Windows 10
3 66 (5.53%) Linux
4 41 (3.43%) Mac OS
5 36 (3.02%) Android
6 29 (2.43%) Unix
7 23 (1.93%) Windows Server
8 19 (1.59%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.84%) VMS
10 9 (0.75%) Windows 7
11 8 (0.67%) Amazon Linux
12 6 (0.50%) 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
1 414 (34.67%) ITSM
2 297 (24.87%) ITIL
3 276 (23.12%) Agile
4 224 (18.76%) Service Management
5 206 (17.25%) Problem-Solving
6 176 (14.74%) Stakeholder Management
7 152 (12.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 141 (11.81%) DevOps
9 130 (10.89%) Customer Service
10 125 (10.47%) Change Management
11 122 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 105 (8.79%) CI/CD
13 84 (7.04%) Project Management
13 84 (7.04%) Roadmaps
13 84 (7.04%) Service Delivery
14 83 (6.95%) Data Modelling
15 82 (6.87%) User Acceptance Testing
16 81 (6.78%) Migration
16 81 (6.78%) Workflow
17 71 (5.95%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (8.38%) JavaScript
2 99 (8.29%) Python
3 72 (6.03%) SQL
4 68 (5.70%) PowerShell
5 59 (4.94%) Java
6 28 (2.35%) Perl
7 15 (1.26%) Bash
8 13 (1.09%) Groovy
9 12 (1.01%) Shell Script
10 11 (0.92%) VB
11 10 (0.84%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.75%) VBScript
13 8 (0.67%) ABAP
14 7 (0.59%) Go
14 7 (0.59%) Lisp
15 6 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.42%) BeanShell
16 5 (0.42%) JCL
16 5 (0.42%) PHP
16 5 (0.42%) REXX
Qualifications
1 320 (26.80%) Security Cleared
2 248 (20.77%) SC Cleared
3 111 (9.30%) Degree
4 33 (2.76%) DV Cleared
5 31 (2.60%) TOGAF Certification
6 20 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
7 16 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (1.34%) CISSP
7 16 (1.34%) PMI Certification
7 16 (1.34%) PMP
8 15 (1.26%) CCNP
8 15 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
9 13 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (0.92%) CISM
10 11 (0.92%) ISTQB
11 9 (0.75%) ACSP
11 9 (0.75%) ACTC
11 9 (0.75%) Azure Certification
11 9 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.67%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (5.11%) QA
2 52 (4.36%) SLA
3 45 (3.77%) GRC
4 41 (3.43%) Data Quality
5 40 (3.35%) GDPR
6 22 (1.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.68%) NIST
8 18 (1.51%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (1.34%) PMO
10 12 (1.01%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.75%) Accessibility
12 7 (0.59%) COBIT
12 7 (0.59%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.50%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.50%) 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
1 166 (13.90%) Active Directory
2 31 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.84%) Docker
4 19 (1.59%) GPFS
4 19 (1.59%) NFS
5 17 (1.42%) vSphere
6 16 (1.34%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.84%) BitLocker
8 8 (0.67%) DFS Replication
9 6 (0.50%) Dovecot
9 6 (0.50%) Postfix
9 6 (0.50%) Squid
10 5 (0.42%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 2 (0.17%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.084%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.084%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.084%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.084%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.084%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 61 (5.11%) SCCM
2 44 (3.69%) Microsoft Intune
3 43 (3.60%) Terraform
4 30 (2.51%) OPNET
5 25 (2.09%) Ansible
6 20 (1.68%) Grafana
7 17 (1.42%) Jamf Pro
8 16 (1.34%) vRealize
9 14 (1.17%) Prometheus
10 13 (1.09%) Kubernetes
11 12 (1.01%) RSA Archer
12 10 (0.84%) FortiGate
13 9 (0.75%) Nessus
14 7 (0.59%) Single Sign-On
15 6 (0.50%) Proxmox
16 4 (0.34%) Pingdom
16 4 (0.34%) Rancher
17 3 (0.25%) Control-M
17 3 (0.25%) Nmap
17 3 (0.25%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 255 (21.36%) Microsoft
2 86 (7.20%) Remedy
3 62 (5.19%) SAP
4 60 (5.03%) Cisco
5 58 (4.86%) Oracle
6 37 (3.10%) Salesforce
6 37 (3.10%) Splunk
7 35 (2.93%) VMware
8 34 (2.85%) Apple
9 33 (2.76%) Atlassian
9 33 (2.76%) Workday
10 32 (2.68%) IBM
11 20 (1.68%) Snow
12 17 (1.42%) Google
13 16 (1.34%) HP
14 15 (1.26%) BMC
14 15 (1.26%) Citrix
14 15 (1.26%) NetApp
15 13 (1.09%) Fortinet
15 13 (1.09%) Zscaler