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 15 September 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
15 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 67 83
Rank change year-on-year +9 +16 -3
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,765 1,003 869
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.82% 3.67% 2.67%
As % of the Vendors category 9.18% 7.79% 6.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,121 645 531
10th Percentile £218 £213 £220
25th Percentile £400 £315 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £601 £575 £580
90th Percentile £700 £644 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.37% -5.05% +0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 79 40
10th Percentile £16.03 £13.00 £14.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.50 £14.16
Median hourly rate £26.66 £18.82 £16.65
Median % change year-on-year +41.66% +13.03% -15.70%
75th Percentile £64.68 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.47 £63.40 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £17.87 £18.13
% change year-on-year +45.50% -1.43% -8.20%

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 19,235 12,874 14,401
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.60% 47.05% 44.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,984 8,164 8,822
10th Percentile £312 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £620 £615 £630
90th Percentile £710 £700 £731
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,111 601 601
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.75 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.79 £15.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% -17.65%
75th Percentile £65.00 £46.18 £64.25
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.65 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.90 £25.15 £30.21
% change year-on-year +6.96% -16.74% -30.36%

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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +28 780 £525 +7.03% 561
North of England -5 359 £450 -10.00% 128
South East +14 339 £538 +34.38% 146
North West +7 236 £375 -26.66% 76
Midlands -8 138 £425 -10.53% 62
West Midlands -7 115 £445 -6.32% 47
Yorkshire -22 113 £500 - 44
East of England -42 54 £510 +2.00% 49
South West -56 53 £488 +50.00% 41
East Midlands -8 19 £413 -12.00% 15
North East -28 16 £525 +50.00% 10
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
1 114 (6.46%) SharePoint
2 86 (4.87%) Confluence
3 48 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.91%) Skype for Business
5 11 (0.62%) nginx
6 9 (0.51%) Apache
7 5 (0.28%) CMS
8 3 (0.17%) Mendix
9 2 (0.11%) SAS
9 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.057%) Appian
10 1 (0.057%) Drupal
10 1 (0.057%) IIS
10 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.057%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 81 (4.59%) Microsoft Office
2 79 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.36%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (1.19%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.62%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.57%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.45%) Revit
9 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.057%) LaTeX
10 1 (0.057%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 60 (3.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 15 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.34%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.11%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.11%) Maximo
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.11%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.057%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.057%) Cloudability
8 1 (0.057%) iTrent
8 1 (0.057%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.057%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 374 (21.19%) Azure
2 251 (14.22%) Microsoft 365
3 232 (13.14%) AWS
4 142 (8.05%) Power Platform
5 134 (7.59%) Entra ID
6 101 (5.72%) SaaS
7 55 (3.12%) Azure DevOps
8 51 (2.89%) GCP
9 45 (2.55%) GitHub
10 43 (2.44%) OneDrive
11 37 (2.10%) Microsoft Copilot
12 36 (2.04%) Azure Monitor
13 32 (1.81%) Datadog
14 25 (1.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 25 (1.42%) Power Automate
15 22 (1.25%) Serverless
16 20 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
17 18 (1.02%) Amazon S3
18 17 (0.96%) PowerApps
18 17 (0.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 87 (4.93%) DNS
2 76 (4.31%) DHCP
3 62 (3.51%) VPN
4 57 (3.23%) Firewall
5 50 (2.83%) TCP/IP
6 28 (1.59%) Wireless
7 27 (1.53%) SSL
7 27 (1.53%) VLAN
8 24 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (1.30%) Network Security
10 20 (1.13%) WAN
11 18 (1.02%) LAN
11 18 (1.02%) NX-OS
11 18 (1.02%) SSH
12 17 (0.96%) Skype
13 14 (0.79%) BGP
13 14 (0.79%) SAN
14 13 (0.74%) Cisco IOS
15 12 (0.68%) NAS
16 11 (0.62%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (5.84%) Power BI
2 51 (2.89%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (0.91%) MySQL
5 16 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (0.79%) Metadata
7 13 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (0.74%) Power Query
8 10 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.34%) Redis
11 4 (0.23%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 4 (0.23%) PowerPivot
12 3 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.17%) Pentaho
12 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.11%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 244 (13.82%) JIRA
2 69 (3.91%) Git
3 25 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.19%) GitLab
5 8 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.17%) MSI
8 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.11%) Tricentis qTest
8 2 (0.11%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.057%) Flyway
9 1 (0.057%) Gatling
9 1 (0.057%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.057%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.057%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.057%) Postman
9 1 (0.057%) TeamCity
General
1 568 (32.18%) Social Skills
2 329 (18.64%) Finance
3 236 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (8.78%) Public Sector
5 90 (5.10%) Banking
6 80 (4.53%) Telecoms
7 53 (3.00%) Legal
8 46 (2.61%) Documentation Skills
9 45 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
11 25 (1.42%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 23 (1.30%) Military
14 19 (1.08%) Spanish Language
15 18 (1.02%) French Language
15 18 (1.02%) Italian Language
16 17 (0.96%) Police
17 16 (0.91%) Law
17 16 (0.91%) Retail
18 14 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 257 (14.56%) Architect
2 251 (14.22%) Analyst
3 185 (10.48%) Developer
4 164 (9.29%) ServiceNow Developer
5 151 (8.56%) ServiceNow Architect
6 124 (7.03%) Senior
7 109 (6.18%) Consultant
8 99 (5.61%) Support Engineer
9 94 (5.33%) Lead
10 89 (5.04%) IT Support
11 74 (4.19%) Solutions Architect
12 70 (3.97%) Service Analyst
13 65 (3.68%) Business Analyst
13 65 (3.68%) Project Manager
14 64 (3.63%) IT Engineer
15 56 (3.17%) IT Support Engineer
16 53 (3.00%) ServiceNow Consultant
17 45 (2.55%) Technical Architect
18 42 (2.38%) Service Manager
19 39 (2.21%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (10.99%) REST
2 108 (6.12%) SOAP
3 73 (4.14%) Terraform
4 45 (2.55%) JSON
5 36 (2.04%) HTML
6 35 (1.98%) SailPoint
7 33 (1.87%) CSS
7 33 (1.87%) LDAP
7 33 (1.87%) OAuth
8 30 (1.70%) XML
9 25 (1.42%) Middleware
10 20 (1.13%) Web Services
11 19 (1.08%) .NET
12 16 (0.91%) Ajax
12 16 (0.91%) AngularJS
13 14 (0.79%) SAML
14 13 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
14 13 (0.74%) OpenID
15 12 (0.68%) JDBC
15 12 (0.68%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 287 (16.26%) CMDB
2 189 (10.71%) Onboarding
3 71 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
4 56 (3.17%) Data Centre
5 55 (3.12%) Product Ownership
6 51 (2.89%) Management Information System
7 39 (2.21%) Cloud Native
8 37 (2.10%) Replication
9 27 (1.53%) AI Agents
10 25 (1.42%) Clustering
10 25 (1.42%) PKI
11 24 (1.36%) Video Conferencing
12 21 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
14 19 (1.08%) Security Posture
15 18 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
16 16 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
16 16 (0.91%) iPhone
17 15 (0.85%) Data Structures
18 14 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 333 (18.87%) Windows
2 112 (6.35%) Windows 10
3 106 (6.01%) Linux
4 54 (3.06%) Windows Server
5 48 (2.72%) Mac OS
6 36 (2.04%) Apple iOS
7 24 (1.36%) Android
8 20 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 18 (1.02%) Unix
10 16 (0.91%) Windows 7
11 9 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.23%) VMS
12 4 (0.23%) zOS
13 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.057%) AIX
14 1 (0.057%) SUSE
14 1 (0.057%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 696 (39.43%) ITSM
2 555 (31.44%) ITIL
3 401 (22.72%) Service Management
4 345 (19.55%) Stakeholder Management
5 331 (18.75%) Agile
6 324 (18.36%) Problem-Solving
7 270 (15.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 217 (12.29%) AI
9 207 (11.73%) Customer Service
10 201 (11.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 192 (10.88%) DevOps
12 188 (10.65%) Service Delivery
13 184 (10.42%) Roadmaps
14 183 (10.37%) Change Management
15 147 (8.33%) Workflow
16 137 (7.76%) Migration
17 131 (7.42%) Incident Management
18 129 (7.31%) Asset Management
19 124 (7.03%) CI/CD
20 119 (6.74%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 149 (8.44%) PowerShell
2 115 (6.52%) JavaScript
3 110 (6.23%) Python
4 88 (4.99%) SQL
5 46 (2.61%) Java
6 22 (1.25%) Bash
7 18 (1.02%) VBScript
8 17 (0.96%) Groovy
9 16 (0.91%) C#
10 15 (0.85%) T-SQL
10 15 (0.85%) VB
11 7 (0.40%) BeanShell
11 7 (0.40%) Perl
11 7 (0.40%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.28%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.17%) C++
14 3 (0.17%) JCL
14 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 471 (26.69%) Security Cleared
2 344 (19.49%) SC Cleared
3 135 (7.65%) Degree
4 85 (4.82%) DV Cleared
5 44 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
5 44 (2.49%) PMP
6 42 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
7 37 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
7 37 (2.10%) PMI Certification
8 32 (1.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 30 (1.70%) Azure Certification
10 29 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
11 23 (1.30%) CCNP
12 21 (1.19%) A+ Certification
12 21 (1.19%) CISSP
13 20 (1.13%) CCNA
14 16 (0.91%) AWS Certification
15 15 (0.85%) CISM
16 14 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
17 12 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (5.50%) SLA
2 93 (5.27%) Data Quality
3 65 (3.68%) GRC
4 60 (3.40%) QA
5 46 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (2.61%) PMO
6 37 (2.10%) NIST
7 28 (1.59%) GDPR
8 18 (1.02%) NCSC
9 17 (0.96%) COBIT
9 17 (0.96%) Cyber Essentials
9 17 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (0.85%) Accessibility
11 12 (0.68%) ISO 9001
11 12 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 9 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.40%) GxP
14 6 (0.34%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 19770
15 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 229 (12.97%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.15%) VMware Infrastructure
3 37 (2.10%) Docker
4 23 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.96%) BitLocker
5 17 (0.96%) IAG
6 15 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.57%) NFS
9 9 (0.51%) vSphere
10 8 (0.45%) GPFS
11 7 (0.40%) VMware NSX
12 6 (0.34%) Firmware
13 5 (0.28%) Hyper-V
14 3 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.11%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.11%) Dovecot
15 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
15 2 (0.11%) Postfix
15 2 (0.11%) Squid
Systems Management
1 84 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
2 68 (3.85%) SCCM
3 55 (3.12%) Ansible
4 37 (2.10%) Kubernetes
5 31 (1.76%) Grafana
6 25 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (1.30%) SCOM
8 19 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
9 17 (0.96%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.57%) WMI
11 9 (0.51%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.40%) vRealize
13 6 (0.34%) Packer
13 6 (0.34%) RSA Archer
14 5 (0.28%) PowerCLI
15 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.23%) Nessus
15 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
15 4 (0.23%) Rancher
15 4 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 484 (27.42%) Microsoft
2 77 (4.36%) Cisco
3 68 (3.85%) Oracle
3 68 (3.85%) Remedy
3 68 (3.85%) SAP
4 65 (3.68%) Splunk
5 57 (3.23%) VMware
6 54 (3.06%) CyberArk
7 51 (2.89%) Salesforce
8 41 (2.32%) Dynatrace
9 33 (1.87%) Workday
10 31 (1.76%) BMC
11 30 (1.70%) Snow
12 28 (1.59%) Apple
13 26 (1.47%) Google
14 25 (1.42%) SolarWinds
15 24 (1.36%) Adobe
16 21 (1.19%) iManage
17 19 (1.08%) Okta
17 19 (1.08%) Red Hat