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 28 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
28 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 69 79
Rank change year-on-year +9 +10 -7
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,739 1,017 897
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.77% 3.67% 2.75%
As % of the Vendors category 9.09% 7.71% 6.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,095 662 536
10th Percentile £219 £205 £217
25th Percentile £400 £301 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £610 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 77 32
10th Percentile £16.03 £13.00 -
25th Percentile £18.63 £15.50 £14.16
Median hourly rate £26.33 £18.82 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.90% +10.71% -10.53%
75th Percentile £63.75 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.14 £63.40 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £25.88 £17.75 £18.13
% change year-on-year +45.77% -2.10% -4.58%

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 19,123 13,193 14,518
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.45% 47.56% 44.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,798 8,404 8,716
10th Percentile £309 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.33% -3.38% -
75th Percentile £623 £620 £630
90th Percentile £713 £703 £731
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,181 631 560
10th Percentile £14.04 £14.84 £14.55
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.96 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.37 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.83% -28.14% -20.27%
75th Percentile £62.50 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £31.25
% change year-on-year +2.39% -19.52% -28.75%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +29 761 £525 +5.00% 391
North of England -10 343 £460 -8.00% 106
South East +16 340 £538 +43.33% 95
North West +2 224 £375 -25.00% 63
Midlands -15 138 £425 -10.53% 66
West Midlands -10 119 £450 -5.26% 47
Yorkshire -29 112 £500 - 33
East of England -30 59 £510 +2.00% 39
South West -50 53 £500 +62.60% 32
East Midlands -19 16 £350 -27.27% 18
North East -31 13 £550 +57.14% 11
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
1 116 (6.67%) SharePoint
2 82 (4.72%) Confluence
3 45 (2.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.92%) Skype for Business
5 11 (0.63%) nginx
6 9 (0.52%) Apache
7 4 (0.23%) CMS
7 4 (0.23%) Mendix
8 3 (0.17%) CICS
9 2 (0.12%) Appian
9 2 (0.12%) SAS
9 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.058%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.058%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.058%) Drupal
10 1 (0.058%) IIS
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.058%) SharePoint Server
Applications
1 78 (4.49%) Microsoft Office
2 77 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (2.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (1.09%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.63%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.58%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.46%) Revit
9 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.058%) LaTeX
10 1 (0.058%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.058%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 63 (3.62%) Remedy ITSM
2 16 (0.92%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.35%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.12%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.12%) Maximo
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.058%) Actimize
8 1 (0.058%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.058%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.058%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.058%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.058%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 367 (21.10%) Azure
2 251 (14.43%) Microsoft 365
3 222 (12.77%) AWS
4 141 (8.11%) Power Platform
5 125 (7.19%) Entra ID
6 95 (5.46%) SaaS
7 62 (3.57%) GCP
8 55 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
9 50 (2.88%) GitHub
10 42 (2.42%) Azure Monitor
10 42 (2.42%) OneDrive
11 35 (2.01%) Microsoft Copilot
12 29 (1.67%) Datadog
13 24 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 22 (1.27%) Power Automate
14 22 (1.27%) Serverless
15 20 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (1.04%) Amazon S3
16 18 (1.04%) PowerApps
17 17 (0.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 86 (4.95%) DNS
2 75 (4.31%) DHCP
3 62 (3.57%) VPN
4 56 (3.22%) Firewall
5 50 (2.88%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.73%) VLAN
7 25 (1.44%) Wi-Fi
7 25 (1.44%) Wireless
8 24 (1.38%) SSL
9 23 (1.32%) Network Security
10 22 (1.27%) NX-OS
11 21 (1.21%) WAN
12 19 (1.09%) LAN
13 18 (1.04%) BGP
13 18 (1.04%) SSH
14 17 (0.98%) Skype
15 13 (0.75%) Cisco IOS
15 13 (0.75%) SAN
16 12 (0.69%) VXLAN
17 11 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (5.64%) Power BI
2 48 (2.76%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (0.92%) MySQL
5 16 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
6 13 (0.75%) Metadata
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
7 7 (0.40%) Power Query
8 6 (0.35%) BigQuery
8 6 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
8 6 (0.35%) Looker
8 6 (0.35%) Redis
9 4 (0.23%) Db2
9 4 (0.23%) MongoDB
9 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 3 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
10 3 (0.17%) Pentaho
10 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 222 (12.77%) JIRA
2 72 (4.14%) Git
3 25 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.38%) GitLab
5 8 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.17%) MSI
7 3 (0.17%) Postman
7 3 (0.17%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.12%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.12%) Tricentis qTest
8 2 (0.12%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.058%) Flyway
9 1 (0.058%) Gatling
9 1 (0.058%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.058%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.058%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.058%) TeamCity
General
1 572 (32.89%) Social Skills
2 324 (18.63%) Finance
3 234 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (8.86%) Public Sector
5 86 (4.95%) Banking
6 77 (4.43%) Telecoms
7 52 (2.99%) Legal
8 46 (2.65%) Documentation Skills
9 42 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (1.78%) Influencing Skills
11 28 (1.61%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (1.32%) Military
13 17 (0.98%) Police
13 17 (0.98%) Spanish Language
14 16 (0.92%) French Language
14 16 (0.92%) Italian Language
14 16 (0.92%) Law
15 13 (0.75%) Local Government
15 13 (0.75%) Retail
Job Titles
1 256 (14.72%) Architect
2 243 (13.97%) Analyst
3 184 (10.58%) Developer
4 159 (9.14%) ServiceNow Developer
5 149 (8.57%) ServiceNow Architect
6 129 (7.42%) Senior
7 115 (6.61%) Consultant
8 98 (5.64%) Support Engineer
9 96 (5.52%) Lead
10 88 (5.06%) IT Support
11 73 (4.20%) Solutions Architect
12 67 (3.85%) Service Analyst
13 65 (3.74%) IT Engineer
14 59 (3.39%) Business Analyst
14 59 (3.39%) Project Manager
15 57 (3.28%) IT Support Engineer
16 55 (3.16%) ServiceNow Consultant
17 47 (2.70%) Technical Architect
18 43 (2.47%) Service Manager
19 40 (2.30%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (11.21%) REST
2 100 (5.75%) SOAP
3 77 (4.43%) Terraform
4 51 (2.93%) JSON
5 36 (2.07%) HTML
6 35 (2.01%) OAuth
7 33 (1.90%) CSS
7 33 (1.90%) XML
8 32 (1.84%) Middleware
9 31 (1.78%) SailPoint
10 28 (1.61%) LDAP
11 19 (1.09%) Web Services
12 17 (0.98%) .NET
12 17 (0.98%) Ajax
13 16 (0.92%) OAuth2
14 15 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
14 15 (0.86%) YAML
15 14 (0.81%) AngularJS
15 14 (0.81%) SAML
16 13 (0.75%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 297 (17.08%) CMDB
2 183 (10.52%) Onboarding
3 73 (4.20%) Enterprise Software
4 60 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 52 (2.99%) Management Information System
6 51 (2.93%) Product Ownership
7 44 (2.53%) Cloud Native
8 36 (2.07%) Replication
9 29 (1.67%) AI Agents
10 26 (1.50%) PKI
11 24 (1.38%) Video Conferencing
12 22 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (1.15%) Clustering
13 20 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
15 17 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
16 16 (0.92%) Data Structures
16 16 (0.92%) iPhone
17 15 (0.86%) Low-Code
17 15 (0.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 328 (18.86%) Windows
2 110 (6.33%) Windows 10
3 106 (6.10%) Linux
4 53 (3.05%) Mac OS
5 51 (2.93%) Windows Server
6 36 (2.07%) Apple iOS
7 25 (1.44%) Android
8 20 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 19 (1.09%) Unix
10 16 (0.92%) Windows 7
11 9 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
12 7 (0.40%) zOS
13 4 (0.23%) VMS
14 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
14 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.058%) CentOS
15 1 (0.058%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 709 (40.77%) ITSM
2 559 (32.14%) ITIL
3 407 (23.40%) Service Management
4 361 (20.76%) Stakeholder Management
5 320 (18.40%) Agile
6 313 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
7 264 (15.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 219 (12.59%) AI
9 198 (11.39%) Customer Service
10 195 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 189 (10.87%) Service Delivery
12 188 (10.81%) DevOps
13 185 (10.64%) Roadmaps
14 176 (10.12%) Change Management
15 153 (8.80%) Workflow
16 134 (7.71%) Asset Management
16 134 (7.71%) Migration
17 128 (7.36%) Incident Management
18 125 (7.19%) CI/CD
19 121 (6.96%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 150 (8.63%) PowerShell
2 122 (7.02%) Python
3 120 (6.90%) JavaScript
4 85 (4.89%) SQL
5 39 (2.24%) Java
6 25 (1.44%) Bash
7 18 (1.04%) VBScript
8 17 (0.98%) Groovy
9 15 (0.86%) T-SQL
9 15 (0.86%) VB
10 14 (0.81%) C#
11 8 (0.46%) Perl
12 6 (0.35%) BeanShell
12 6 (0.35%) JCL
12 6 (0.35%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.35%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.29%) Go
13 5 (0.29%) Google Apps Script
13 5 (0.29%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 471 (27.08%) Security Cleared
2 352 (20.24%) SC Cleared
3 133 (7.65%) Degree
4 78 (4.49%) DV Cleared
5 44 (2.53%) BPSS Clearance
6 41 (2.36%) PMP
7 39 (2.24%) ITIL Certification
8 38 (2.19%) Microsoft Certification
9 35 (2.01%) PMI Certification
10 32 (1.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 29 (1.67%) Azure Certification
12 25 (1.44%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (1.21%) A+ Certification
14 20 (1.15%) CCNP
15 18 (1.04%) CISSP
15 18 (1.04%) Computer Science Degree
16 17 (0.98%) CCNA
17 16 (0.92%) AWS Certification
18 14 (0.81%) Network+ Certification
19 12 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (5.75%) SLA
2 97 (5.58%) Data Quality
3 61 (3.51%) GRC
4 59 (3.39%) QA
5 50 (2.88%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (2.36%) PMO
7 37 (2.13%) NIST
8 23 (1.32%) GDPR
9 18 (1.04%) NCSC
10 17 (0.98%) COBIT
11 16 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.81%) Accessibility
13 12 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 12 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.63%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.40%) GxP
16 7 (0.40%) HIPAA
17 6 (0.35%) PCI DSS
17 6 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 212 (12.19%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.36%) Docker
2 41 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.98%) BitLocker
5 15 (0.86%) IAG
5 15 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.58%) NFS
6 10 (0.58%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.52%) vSphere
8 8 (0.46%) GPFS
9 6 (0.35%) Firmware
10 5 (0.29%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.12%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.12%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 2 (0.12%) Postfix
12 2 (0.12%) Squid
Systems Management
1 89 (5.12%) Microsoft Intune
2 69 (3.97%) SCCM
3 57 (3.28%) Ansible
4 43 (2.47%) Kubernetes
5 33 (1.90%) Grafana
6 22 (1.27%) SCOM
6 22 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
8 16 (0.92%) Prometheus
9 10 (0.58%) WMI
10 9 (0.52%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.40%) vRealize
12 6 (0.35%) Control-M
12 6 (0.35%) Packer
13 5 (0.29%) PowerCLI
14 4 (0.23%) Kibana
14 4 (0.23%) Nessus
14 4 (0.23%) Rancher
14 4 (0.23%) SELinux
14 4 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 495 (28.46%) Microsoft
2 76 (4.37%) Cisco
3 70 (4.03%) Remedy
4 67 (3.85%) Oracle
5 65 (3.74%) Splunk
6 64 (3.68%) SAP
7 59 (3.39%) VMware
8 53 (3.05%) Salesforce
9 46 (2.65%) Dynatrace
10 44 (2.53%) CyberArk
11 36 (2.07%) Google
12 31 (1.78%) Apple
13 30 (1.73%) BMC
13 30 (1.73%) SolarWinds
14 29 (1.67%) Snow
15 23 (1.32%) Adobe
15 23 (1.32%) Okta
15 23 (1.32%) Workday
16 22 (1.27%) IBM
16 22 (1.27%) Red Hat