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 13 June 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
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 66 79
Rank change year-on-year -2 +13 +19
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,477 912 970
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.46% 3.71% 2.59%
As % of the Vendors category 8.52% 7.83% 6.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 998 560 559
10th Percentile £213 £213 £185
25th Percentile £400 £306 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £584 £591
90th Percentile £675 £688 £676
UK median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.32% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 74 106
10th Percentile £17.35 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £14.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £25.91 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +37.65% +15.46% -35.38%
75th Percentile £37.17 £31.19 £21.37
90th Percentile £86.08 £58.38 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £25.91 £17.45 £16.30
% change year-on-year +48.50% +7.02% -35.95%

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 17,337 11,653 15,725
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.60% 47.38% 41.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,121 7,399 9,964
10th Percentile £313 £276 £268
25th Percentile £413 £404 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £518
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -0.52% -1.49%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £503 £515
% change year-on-year -0.60% -2.33% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 930 515 1,047
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.84 £12.26
25th Percentile £19.03 £17.79 £14.48
Median hourly rate £33.99 £27.21 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +24.92% +13.38% -37.66%
75th Percentile £60.75 £54.38 £59.75
90th Percentile £79.56 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £26.32 £23.80
% change year-on-year +23.48% +10.59% -44.00%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +13 653 £525 +0.48% 151
North of England -12 279 £513 +28.13% 66
South East +3 244 £513 +46.43% 108
Midlands +5 167 £425 -22.02% 43
North West -7 148 £450 -4.66% 46
West Midlands -12 121 £461 -16.23% 29
Yorkshire -17 118 £540 +35.00% 17
East of England -35 59 £525 +18.51% 18
East Midlands +14 40 £340 -33.66% 14
South West -31 40 £310 +23.80% 14
North East -23 17 £450 +50.00% 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 78 (5.28%) Confluence
2 62 (4.20%) SharePoint
3 50 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.81%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.47%) Apache
6 3 (0.20%) CMS
6 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.14%) IIS
7 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.14%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.14%) SAS
7 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.068%) Appian
8 1 (0.068%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.068%) Drupal
8 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
Applications
1 65 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.62%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.81%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.47%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.47%) Revit
7 5 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.068%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.068%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 60 (4.06%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.20%) Maximo
6 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.14%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.14%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.14%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.14%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.068%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 302 (20.45%) Azure
2 203 (13.74%) AWS
3 163 (11.04%) Microsoft 365
4 119 (8.06%) Entra ID
5 100 (6.77%) Power Platform
6 71 (4.81%) SaaS
7 56 (3.79%) GCP
8 54 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (2.23%) OneDrive
10 20 (1.35%) GitHub
10 20 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
11 19 (1.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (1.29%) Amazon S3
12 18 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (1.08%) Power Automate
14 15 (1.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 14 (0.95%) AWS KMS
15 14 (0.95%) Serverless
15 14 (0.95%) Slack
16 13 (0.88%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 82 (5.55%) DNS
2 73 (4.94%) DHCP
3 66 (4.47%) Firewall
4 52 (3.52%) VPN
5 38 (2.57%) Wireless
6 34 (2.30%) Network Security
7 32 (2.17%) LAN
8 31 (2.10%) TCP/IP
9 30 (2.03%) WAN
10 26 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (1.49%) VLAN
12 20 (1.35%) SAN
13 19 (1.29%) NAS
14 16 (1.08%) SSL
15 15 (1.02%) Cisco IOS
15 15 (1.02%) NX-OS
15 15 (1.02%) Structured Cabling
16 14 (0.95%) Internet
17 13 (0.88%) SD-WAN
18 12 (0.81%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (5.62%) Power BI
2 40 (2.71%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (0.95%) Metadata
8 11 (0.74%) Power Query
9 9 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (0.61%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (0.41%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.41%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.41%) Tableau
13 5 (0.34%) MySQL
13 5 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.27%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.27%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 255 (17.26%) JIRA
2 74 (5.01%) Git
3 29 (1.96%) GitLab
3 29 (1.96%) Jenkins
4 9 (0.61%) Selenium
5 7 (0.47%) Cucumber
5 7 (0.47%) REST Assured
6 6 (0.41%) Postman
7 5 (0.34%) JMeter
7 5 (0.34%) LoadRunner
8 4 (0.27%) Flyway
8 4 (0.27%) Gatling
8 4 (0.27%) NeoLoad
9 3 (0.20%) CircleCI
10 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
10 2 (0.14%) Cypress.io
10 2 (0.14%) JUnit
10 2 (0.14%) Robot Framework
10 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
10 2 (0.14%) TestRail
General
1 458 (31.01%) Social Skills
2 281 (19.03%) Finance
3 173 (11.71%) Analytical Skills
4 117 (7.92%) Public Sector
5 86 (5.82%) Banking
6 60 (4.06%) Telecoms
7 53 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
8 49 (3.32%) Documentation Skills
9 41 (2.78%) Legal
10 32 (2.17%) Military
11 22 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.35%) Retail
13 18 (1.22%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (1.15%) French Language
15 15 (1.02%) Manufacturing
16 14 (0.95%) Billing
17 12 (0.81%) Financial Institution
17 12 (0.81%) Spanish Language
18 11 (0.74%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 251 (16.99%) Architect
2 205 (13.88%) Analyst
3 150 (10.16%) ServiceNow Architect
4 135 (9.14%) Developer
5 111 (7.52%) ServiceNow Developer
6 94 (6.36%) Senior
7 80 (5.42%) IT Support
8 79 (5.35%) Support Engineer
9 77 (5.21%) Consultant
10 70 (4.74%) Lead
11 69 (4.67%) Solutions Architect
12 60 (4.06%) Project Manager
13 58 (3.93%) Business Analyst
14 54 (3.66%) Service Analyst
15 52 (3.52%) IT Engineer
16 51 (3.45%) ServiceNow Consultant
17 48 (3.25%) IT Support Engineer
18 42 (2.84%) ServiceNow Manager
19 41 (2.78%) Technical Architect
20 40 (2.71%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (11.78%) REST
2 105 (7.11%) SOAP
3 34 (2.30%) SailPoint
4 33 (2.23%) LDAP
5 32 (2.17%) CSS
5 32 (2.17%) HTML
5 32 (2.17%) Middleware
6 29 (1.96%) JSON
7 26 (1.76%) OpenID
8 25 (1.69%) OAuth
8 25 (1.69%) Web Services
9 23 (1.56%) XML
10 22 (1.49%) AngularJS
11 19 (1.29%) Flash
11 19 (1.29%) SAML
12 14 (0.95%) .NET
13 13 (0.88%) Ajax
14 11 (0.74%) Kafka
14 11 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
14 11 (0.74%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 198 (13.41%) CMDB
2 109 (7.38%) Onboarding
3 67 (4.54%) Product Ownership
4 49 (3.32%) Data Centre
5 40 (2.71%) Management Information System
6 36 (2.44%) Cloud Native
7 33 (2.23%) Replication
8 31 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
9 25 (1.69%) Security Posture
10 22 (1.49%) PKI
10 22 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 21 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
12 20 (1.35%) Virtual Team
13 16 (1.08%) Data Structures
14 15 (1.02%) AI Agents
15 14 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.88%) Clustering
16 13 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
17 9 (0.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 235 (15.91%) Windows
2 85 (5.75%) Linux
3 82 (5.55%) Windows 10
4 43 (2.91%) Windows Server
5 39 (2.64%) Mac OS
6 31 (2.10%) Apple iOS
7 29 (1.96%) Unix
8 21 (1.42%) Android
9 12 (0.81%) Windows 7
10 11 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.20%) VMS
12 3 (0.20%) zOS
13 2 (0.14%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.068%) CentOS
14 1 (0.068%) Check Point GAiA
14 1 (0.068%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 527 (35.68%) ITSM
2 408 (27.62%) ITIL
3 310 (20.99%) Agile
4 280 (18.96%) Service Management
5 248 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
6 237 (16.05%) Stakeholder Management
7 206 (13.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 170 (11.51%) Change Management
9 168 (11.37%) DevOps
9 168 (11.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 155 (10.49%) Customer Service
11 144 (9.75%) Service Delivery
12 142 (9.61%) Migration
13 136 (9.21%) AI
14 127 (8.60%) Roadmaps
15 126 (8.53%) CI/CD
16 123 (8.33%) Workflow
17 121 (8.19%) Data Modelling
18 105 (7.11%) Asset Management
19 102 (6.91%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 126 (8.53%) SQL
2 101 (6.84%) JavaScript
3 98 (6.64%) PowerShell
4 91 (6.16%) Python
5 65 (4.40%) Java
6 30 (2.03%) C#
7 14 (0.95%) VBScript
8 13 (0.88%) Bash
8 13 (0.88%) VB
9 11 (0.74%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.68%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.61%) Groovy
12 7 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (0.47%) Perl
13 6 (0.41%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.34%) Go
15 4 (0.27%) BeanShell
15 4 (0.27%) Bicep
15 4 (0.27%) Cypher
15 4 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 385 (26.07%) Security Cleared
2 276 (18.69%) SC Cleared
3 106 (7.18%) Degree
4 75 (5.08%) DV Cleared
5 41 (2.78%) Cisco Certification
6 39 (2.64%) ITIL Certification
7 35 (2.37%) PMP
8 31 (2.10%) CISSP
9 30 (2.03%) CCNP
10 29 (1.96%) PMI Certification
11 24 (1.62%) CISM
12 20 (1.35%) CCNA
13 19 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
15 15 (1.02%) Server+ Certification
16 12 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
17 11 (0.74%) AWS Certification
17 11 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 9 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (5.15%) SLA
2 67 (4.54%) Data Quality
3 52 (3.52%) GRC
4 44 (2.98%) QA
5 39 (2.64%) GDPR
6 38 (2.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 35 (2.37%) NIST
8 27 (1.83%) PMO
9 21 (1.42%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.81%) COBIT
12 11 (0.74%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.54%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.47%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.34%) SOC 2
16 4 (0.27%) GxP
16 4 (0.27%) NCSC
17 3 (0.20%) NIST 800
18 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
18 2 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 171 (11.58%) Active Directory
2 40 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.49%) Docker
4 20 (1.35%) NFS
5 19 (1.29%) GPFS
6 18 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (1.22%) vSphere
7 13 (0.88%) BitLocker
8 10 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.47%) Firmware
10 6 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 4 (0.27%) IAG
11 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.14%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 2 (0.14%) RACF
13 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.068%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 59 (3.99%) Terraform
2 54 (3.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 49 (3.32%) SCCM
4 28 (1.90%) Ansible
4 28 (1.90%) Grafana
5 23 (1.56%) Kubernetes
6 19 (1.29%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
9 15 (1.02%) vRealize
10 8 (0.54%) WMI
11 7 (0.47%) CASB
11 7 (0.47%) RSA Archer
11 7 (0.47%) VxRail
12 5 (0.34%) Salt
12 5 (0.34%) SCOM
13 4 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.27%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.27%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 304 (20.58%) Microsoft
2 94 (6.36%) Cisco
3 74 (5.01%) Remedy
4 62 (4.20%) Splunk
5 60 (4.06%) SAP
6 59 (3.99%) Oracle
7 46 (3.11%) VMware
8 39 (2.64%) Salesforce
9 37 (2.51%) Workday
10 31 (2.10%) BMC
11 29 (1.96%) Palo Alto
12 28 (1.90%) CyberArk
13 27 (1.83%) Fortinet
13 27 (1.83%) Google
13 27 (1.83%) IBM
14 24 (1.62%) Apple
14 24 (1.62%) F5
15 22 (1.49%) SolarWinds
16 20 (1.35%) Snow
17 19 (1.29%) Dynatrace