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 7 December 2025, 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
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 62 71 65
Rank change year-on-year +9 -6 +76
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,151 947 1,246
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.72% 3.12% 3.23%
As % of the Vendors category 7.82% 6.85% 7.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 793 541 814
10th Percentile £204 £210 £165
25th Percentile £350 £360 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £484 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year -3.20% -0.25% -4.52%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £638
90th Percentile £688 £650 £715
UK median daily rate £478 £500 £503
% change year-on-year -4.50% -0.50% -4.29%
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 22 49
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.30 £15.87
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.06 £16.70
Median hourly rate £18.82 £21.46 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.30% +10.05% +25.81%
75th Percentile £26.97 £23.92 £23.75
90th Percentile £89.63 £29.90 £65.73
UK median hourly rate £18.00 £22.09 £19.00
% change year-on-year -18.52% +16.26% +22.58%

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 14,722 13,832 17,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.54% 45.62% 44.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,552 8,396 11,261
10th Percentile £288 £300 £252
25th Percentile £406 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 720 418 620
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.00 £20.45
Median hourly rate £23.83 £31.63 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -24.68% -28.92% +71.15%
75th Percentile £45.14 £65.00 £64.55
90th Percentile £73.80 £75.08 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £29.39 £44.50
% change year-on-year -18.33% -33.97% +73.08%

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025.

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 7 December 2025. 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 -33 434 £493 -6.19% 156
North of England +6 224 £500 +1.01% 64
South East +30 168 £413 -8.33% 123
Midlands +5 141 £475 +13.10% 31
North West +17 136 £475 +8.57% 34
West Midlands +4 116 £475 +5.56% 29
South West +35 87 £614 +22.75% 16
East of England +21 81 £510 -2.86% 18
Yorkshire -8 80 £507 -3.43% 26
East Midlands -5 25 £425 +9.89% 2
North East -1 8 £350 +133.33% 4
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 97 (8.43%) Confluence
2 70 (6.08%) SharePoint
3 40 (3.48%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.96%) nginx
5 8 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.52%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.43%) Appian
7 5 (0.43%) Camunda
7 5 (0.43%) SAS
8 3 (0.26%) Apache
8 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.26%) CICS
8 3 (0.26%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.17%) BizTalk Server
9 2 (0.17%) IIS
9 2 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.087%) CMS
10 1 (0.087%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.087%) Tuxedo
10 1 (0.087%) WebLogic
Applications
1 77 (6.69%) Microsoft Office
2 65 (5.65%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (4.78%) Microsoft Project
4 33 (2.87%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.96%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.35%) Autodesk Inventor
8 4 (0.35%) Trello
9 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 51 (4.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.87%) Salesforce CRM
4 9 (0.78%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.61%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 7 (0.61%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.52%) Dynamics CRM
6 6 (0.52%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.26%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.17%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.17%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.17%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.087%) Actimize
9 1 (0.087%) assyst
9 1 (0.087%) Maximo
9 1 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.087%) Oracle HRMS
9 1 (0.087%) SAP SD
9 1 (0.087%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 212 (18.42%) Azure
2 169 (14.68%) Microsoft 365
3 143 (12.42%) AWS
4 74 (6.43%) Entra ID
5 70 (6.08%) SaaS
6 62 (5.39%) Power Platform
7 59 (5.13%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (2.95%) GCP
9 30 (2.61%) OneDrive
10 25 (2.17%) Amazon S3
10 25 (2.17%) Power Automate
11 24 (2.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 23 (2.00%) Amazon EC2
13 22 (1.91%) Amazon ELB
13 22 (1.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 21 (1.82%) AWS KMS
15 18 (1.56%) Sauce Labs
16 16 (1.39%) GitHub
17 15 (1.30%) Amazon ECS
18 14 (1.22%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 74 (6.43%) DNS
2 42 (3.65%) Firewall
3 40 (3.48%) Wireless
4 38 (3.30%) VPN
5 36 (3.13%) DHCP
6 32 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
7 30 (2.61%) HTTP
8 23 (2.00%) FTP
9 22 (1.91%) SMTP
9 22 (1.91%) SSH
10 19 (1.65%) LAN
10 19 (1.65%) TCP/IP
11 18 (1.56%) SSL
11 18 (1.56%) WAN
12 13 (1.13%) BGP
13 11 (0.96%) IMAP
13 11 (0.96%) Network Security
13 11 (0.96%) OpenLDAP
14 10 (0.87%) Cisco Wireless
15 9 (0.78%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (3.65%) Power BI
2 34 (2.95%) Relational Database
3 27 (2.35%) Amazon RDS
4 20 (1.74%) Tableau
5 19 (1.65%) MySQL
5 19 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (1.30%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (1.13%) Metadata
8 8 (0.70%) DB2
8 8 (0.70%) Oracle ODI
8 8 (0.70%) SQL Server
9 5 (0.43%) DynamoDB
9 5 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.35%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.35%) Redis
11 3 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.26%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.17%) Data Lake
13 1 (0.087%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 228 (19.81%) JIRA
2 47 (4.08%) Git
3 43 (3.74%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.82%) Vagrant
5 19 (1.65%) Browser DevTools
6 18 (1.56%) Android Studio
6 18 (1.56%) Eclipse
6 18 (1.56%) Xcode
7 11 (0.96%) GitLab
8 4 (0.35%) JUnit
8 4 (0.35%) Metasploit
9 3 (0.26%) Burp Suite
9 3 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
9 3 (0.26%) TeamCity
10 2 (0.17%) Bitbucket
10 2 (0.17%) Cucumber
10 2 (0.17%) Postman
10 2 (0.17%) REST Assured
10 2 (0.17%) Selenium
10 2 (0.17%) sqlmap
General
1 472 (41.01%) Social Skills
2 241 (20.94%) Finance
3 198 (17.20%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (9.99%) Public Sector
5 46 (4.00%) Banking
6 44 (3.82%) Military
7 43 (3.74%) Telecoms
8 35 (3.04%) Documentation Skills
9 34 (2.95%) Legal
10 31 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
11 26 (2.26%) Presentation Skills
12 24 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (1.39%) Manufacturing
15 13 (1.13%) Law
16 11 (0.96%) Aerospace
17 9 (0.78%) Financial Institution
18 8 (0.70%) Pharmaceutical
19 7 (0.61%) Investment Banking
19 7 (0.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 180 (15.64%) Architect
2 172 (14.94%) Analyst
3 99 (8.60%) Developer
4 98 (8.51%) Support Engineer
5 93 (8.08%) ServiceNow Architect
6 79 (6.86%) ServiceNow Developer
7 68 (5.91%) IT Support
8 66 (5.73%) Consultant
9 51 (4.43%) Lead
10 49 (4.26%) Senior
11 41 (3.56%) Business Analyst
12 40 (3.48%) Service Analyst
13 38 (3.30%) IT Engineer
14 35 (3.04%) DevOps Engineer
15 34 (2.95%) Solutions Architect
16 31 (2.69%) IT Support Engineer
16 31 (2.69%) Service Architect
17 30 (2.61%) Service Manager
18 28 (2.43%) Administrator
19 27 (2.35%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (8.86%) REST
2 93 (8.08%) SOAP
3 58 (5.04%) AngularJS
4 37 (3.21%) CSS
5 34 (2.95%) LDAP
6 33 (2.87%) React
7 32 (2.78%) Web Services
8 30 (2.61%) HTML
9 29 (2.52%) JSON
10 21 (1.82%) Ajax
11 19 (1.65%) GraphQL
11 19 (1.65%) SailPoint
11 19 (1.65%) SAML
12 14 (1.22%) .NET
12 14 (1.22%) HTML5
12 14 (1.22%) jQuery
12 14 (1.22%) ODBC
13 13 (1.13%) JDBC
13 13 (1.13%) RabbitMQ
13 13 (1.13%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 130 (11.29%) CMDB
2 56 (4.87%) Onboarding
3 54 (4.69%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.39%) Replication
5 34 (2.95%) Data Centre
6 26 (2.26%) Management Information System
7 25 (2.17%) Mobile App
8 23 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (1.91%) Driving Licence
10 20 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.48%) Security Posture
11 17 (1.48%) Video Conferencing
12 15 (1.30%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (1.22%) Smartphone
14 13 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
15 11 (0.96%) Cloud Native
15 11 (0.96%) iPhone
16 10 (0.87%) Virtual Team
17 9 (0.78%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 239 (20.76%) Windows
2 83 (7.21%) Windows 10
3 70 (6.08%) Linux
4 43 (3.74%) Mac OS
5 37 (3.21%) Android
6 29 (2.52%) Unix
7 24 (2.09%) Apple iOS
8 23 (2.00%) VMS
9 21 (1.82%) Amazon Linux
10 12 (1.04%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.70%) Windows Server
12 5 (0.43%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.43%) zOS
13 4 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 4 (0.35%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.17%) CentOS
15 1 (0.087%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.087%) Kali Linux
15 1 (0.087%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 404 (35.10%) ITSM
2 302 (26.24%) ITIL
3 272 (23.63%) Agile
4 226 (19.64%) Problem-Solving
5 219 (19.03%) Service Management
6 153 (13.29%) DevOps
7 147 (12.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 139 (12.08%) Stakeholder Management
9 132 (11.47%) Change Management
10 124 (10.77%) Customer Service
11 100 (8.69%) Continuous Improvement
12 92 (7.99%) CI/CD
13 86 (7.47%) Scrum
14 85 (7.38%) Service Delivery
15 81 (7.04%) Roadmaps
16 74 (6.43%) Analytics
17 73 (6.34%) Configuration Management
18 69 (5.99%) Project Management
19 66 (5.73%) Migration
20 65 (5.65%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 122 (10.60%) Python
2 107 (9.30%) JavaScript
3 76 (6.60%) PowerShell
4 65 (5.65%) Java
5 61 (5.30%) SQL
6 39 (3.39%) Perl
7 26 (2.26%) Groovy
8 18 (1.56%) Bash
9 14 (1.22%) Shell Script
9 14 (1.22%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.61%) ABAP
10 7 (0.61%) Lisp
11 6 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.43%) BeanShell
12 5 (0.43%) JCL
12 5 (0.43%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.43%) REXX
12 5 (0.43%) VB
12 5 (0.43%) VBScript
13 4 (0.35%) R
Qualifications
1 334 (29.02%) Security Cleared
2 279 (24.24%) SC Cleared
3 132 (11.47%) Degree
4 31 (2.69%) TOGAF Certification
5 24 (2.09%) CISSP
6 23 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
7 21 (1.82%) Cisco Certification
8 18 (1.56%) Microsoft Certification
9 17 (1.48%) CISM
9 17 (1.48%) DV Cleared
9 17 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
10 15 (1.30%) CCNP
11 14 (1.22%) A+ Certification
12 13 (1.13%) ACSP
12 13 (1.13%) ACTC
12 13 (1.13%) AWS Certification
13 12 (1.04%) Azure Certification
13 12 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
13 12 (1.04%) CISA
14 11 (0.96%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 53 (4.60%) QA
2 50 (4.34%) GDPR
3 35 (3.04%) SLA
4 33 (2.87%) GRC
5 26 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 26 (2.26%) NIST
6 24 (2.09%) Data Quality
6 24 (2.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (1.48%) COBIT
8 15 (1.30%) Accessibility
9 14 (1.22%) PCI DSS
10 13 (1.13%) PMO
11 8 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 19770
11 8 (0.70%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 6 (0.52%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.26%) WCAG
16 2 (0.17%) ISO 9001
16 2 (0.17%) MiFID
System Software
1 157 (13.64%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.95%) Docker
3 20 (1.74%) DFS Replication
4 18 (1.56%) VMware Infrastructure
5 15 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (1.04%) GPFS
6 12 (1.04%) NFS
6 12 (1.04%) vSphere
7 11 (0.96%) Dovecot
7 11 (0.96%) Postfix
7 11 (0.96%) Squid
8 6 (0.52%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.17%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.17%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 2 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.087%) Firmware
11 1 (0.087%) RACF
11 1 (0.087%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 54 (4.69%) SCCM
2 50 (4.34%) Terraform
3 34 (2.95%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (2.69%) Ansible
5 30 (2.61%) OPNET
6 29 (2.52%) Grafana
7 27 (2.35%) Single Sign-On
8 26 (2.26%) Jamf Pro
9 25 (2.17%) Prometheus
10 17 (1.48%) RSA Archer
11 16 (1.39%) Nessus
12 12 (1.04%) vRealize
13 10 (0.87%) Proxmox
14 9 (0.78%) FortiGate
15 8 (0.70%) Kubernetes
16 4 (0.35%) Rancher
17 3 (0.26%) Nmap
17 3 (0.26%) OMEGAMON
17 3 (0.26%) Progress Chef
17 3 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 271 (23.54%) Microsoft
2 102 (8.86%) Remedy
3 65 (5.65%) Oracle
4 62 (5.39%) SAP
5 53 (4.60%) Cisco
6 45 (3.91%) Salesforce
7 44 (3.82%) Splunk
8 35 (3.04%) Apple
9 33 (2.87%) Atlassian
10 30 (2.61%) Workday
11 27 (2.35%) HP
12 24 (2.09%) BMC
12 24 (2.09%) IBM
12 24 (2.09%) VMware
13 21 (1.82%) Snow
14 14 (1.22%) Citrix
15 13 (1.13%) Google
15 13 (1.13%) Ivanti
15 13 (1.13%) Rapid7
16 12 (1.04%) Zscaler