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 14 March 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
14 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 63 70
Rank change year-on-year 0 +7 +35
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,309 888 1,066
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.56% 3.59% 2.81%
As % of the Vendors category 8.02% 7.61% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 894 511 636
10th Percentile £206 £200 £161
25th Percentile £371 £353 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.35% - -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £701
UK median daily rate £490 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -0.81% -1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 35 85
10th Percentile £15.55 £15.08 £15.40
25th Percentile £16.06 £16.12 £16.06
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% +15.46% -7.44%
75th Percentile £28.75 £23.14 £21.46
90th Percentile £95.00 £29.60 £30.25
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £21.46 £16.30
% change year-on-year -9.13% +31.66% -6.86%

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 16,314 11,670 16,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.31% 47.23% 42.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,611 7,430 10,399
10th Percentile £306 £289 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.29% +1.94% -4.63%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £518 £515
% change year-on-year -3.38% +0.49% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 877 393 940
10th Percentile £15.56 £15.44 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.05 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.90% +21.80% -28.57%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year -13.28% +17.65% -30.13%

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 14 March 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 14 March 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 14 March 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 -22 548 £500 -4.76% 105
North of England -4 219 £500 +25.00% 46
South East +36 208 £450 +21.21% 91
Midlands +1 179 £438 -19.72% 35
West Midlands -9 139 £468 -15.06% 22
North West -9 122 £450 +13.21% 25
Yorkshire +5 90 £540 +27.06% 15
East of England -14 72 £525 +5.00% 29
South West +5 64 £725 +52.63% 21
East Midlands -6 36 £411 +15.52% 13
North East -16 7 £200 -33.33% 7
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 (5.58%) Confluence
2 71 (5.42%) SharePoint
3 55 (4.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.69%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.53%) Apache
6 6 (0.46%) Appian
6 6 (0.46%) Camunda
7 5 (0.38%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (0.23%) CICS
10 2 (0.15%) CMS
10 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.15%) IIS
10 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) SAS
11 1 (0.076%) JBoss
11 1 (0.076%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.076%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.076%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.076%) WebSphere
Applications
1 73 (5.58%) Microsoft Office
2 64 (4.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 60 (4.58%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.60%) MS Visio
5 17 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 6 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.23%) Autodesk Inventor
7 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.23%) Trello
8 1 (0.076%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.076%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 40 (3.06%) Remedy ITSM
2 15 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.69%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 9 (0.69%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.53%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.31%) Maximo
7 3 (0.23%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.15%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.076%) Actimize
9 1 (0.076%) assyst
9 1 (0.076%) Dynamics CRM
9 1 (0.076%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.076%) SAP CS
9 1 (0.076%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.076%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 260 (19.86%) Azure
2 178 (13.60%) Microsoft 365
3 158 (12.07%) AWS
4 98 (7.49%) Entra ID
5 79 (6.04%) Power Platform
6 65 (4.97%) GCP
7 63 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
8 61 (4.66%) SaaS
9 33 (2.52%) OneDrive
10 19 (1.45%) GitHub
11 17 (1.30%) Power Automate
12 15 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (0.99%) Amazon S3
13 13 (0.99%) Serverless
14 11 (0.84%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (0.84%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (0.76%) AWS KMS
15 10 (0.76%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (0.69%) AWS CloudFormation
Communications & Networking
1 68 (5.19%) DNS
2 51 (3.90%) VPN
3 50 (3.82%) DHCP
4 43 (3.28%) Firewall
5 41 (3.13%) Wireless
6 37 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
7 36 (2.75%) LAN
7 36 (2.75%) WAN
8 27 (2.06%) Network Security
9 21 (1.60%) TCP/IP
10 14 (1.07%) BGP
11 13 (0.99%) Internet
11 13 (0.99%) VLAN
12 12 (0.92%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.84%) Cisco ISE
13 11 (0.84%) NX-OS
14 9 (0.69%) 4G
14 9 (0.69%) BIG-IP
14 9 (0.69%) Cisco Wireless
14 9 (0.69%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (4.66%) Power BI
2 32 (2.44%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.60%) Metadata
4 19 (1.45%) Tableau
5 17 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (1.15%) MySQL
6 15 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (0.99%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (0.99%) Relational Database
8 12 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (0.76%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.53%) DB2
12 6 (0.46%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.38%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.31%) Metadata Repository
14 4 (0.31%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.31%) Redis
Development Applications
1 218 (16.65%) JIRA
2 47 (3.59%) Git
3 42 (3.21%) Jenkins
4 31 (2.37%) GitLab
5 17 (1.30%) Selenium
6 14 (1.07%) REST Assured
7 13 (0.99%) Postman
8 12 (0.92%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.61%) Android Studio
9 8 (0.61%) Browser DevTools
9 8 (0.61%) Eclipse
9 8 (0.61%) TestRail
9 8 (0.61%) Xcode
10 5 (0.38%) JMeter
10 5 (0.38%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.31%) Gatling
11 4 (0.31%) JUnit
11 4 (0.31%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.23%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 453 (34.61%) Social Skills
2 266 (20.32%) Finance
3 191 (14.59%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (8.56%) Public Sector
5 69 (5.27%) Banking
6 58 (4.43%) Military
7 48 (3.67%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (3.67%) Legal
8 47 (3.59%) Telecoms
9 45 (3.44%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 16 (1.22%) Billing
12 16 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
13 14 (1.07%) Aerospace
13 14 (1.07%) Law
14 13 (0.99%) Retail
15 12 (0.92%) Manufacturing
16 11 (0.84%) Financial Institution
17 8 (0.61%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 229 (17.49%) Architect
2 185 (14.13%) Analyst
3 131 (10.01%) ServiceNow Architect
4 102 (7.79%) Developer
5 96 (7.33%) Support Engineer
6 88 (6.72%) IT Support
7 85 (6.49%) ServiceNow Developer
8 73 (5.58%) Consultant
9 71 (5.42%) Lead
10 58 (4.43%) Senior
11 56 (4.28%) IT Engineer
12 51 (3.90%) ServiceNow Manager
13 50 (3.82%) IT Support Engineer
14 48 (3.67%) Business Analyst
14 48 (3.67%) Project Manager
15 42 (3.21%) Service Analyst
16 37 (2.83%) Solutions Architect
16 37 (2.83%) Technical Architect
17 35 (2.67%) Administrator
18 34 (2.60%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 139 (10.62%) REST
2 96 (7.33%) SOAP
3 38 (2.90%) SailPoint
4 29 (2.22%) CSS
5 23 (1.76%) AngularJS
5 23 (1.76%) LDAP
6 21 (1.60%) OpenID
7 19 (1.45%) Flash
8 18 (1.38%) JSON
9 17 (1.30%) HTML
9 17 (1.30%) Web Services
10 15 (1.15%) Middleware
10 15 (1.15%) OAuth
11 14 (1.07%) .NET
11 14 (1.07%) XML
12 13 (0.99%) Ajax
13 12 (0.92%) Kafka
14 10 (0.76%) GraphQL
14 10 (0.76%) React
15 9 (0.69%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 166 (12.68%) CMDB
2 98 (7.49%) Onboarding
3 85 (6.49%) Product Ownership
4 40 (3.06%) Data Centre
5 32 (2.44%) Management Information System
6 29 (2.22%) Replication
7 26 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (1.76%) Security Posture
9 21 (1.60%) Cloud Native
10 19 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
11 18 (1.38%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.15%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (1.07%) Smartphone
14 13 (0.99%) Video Conferencing
14 13 (0.99%) Virtual Team
15 12 (0.92%) Public Cloud
16 10 (0.76%) Driving Licence
16 10 (0.76%) Mainframe
17 9 (0.69%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 232 (17.72%) Windows
2 108 (8.25%) Windows 10
3 60 (4.58%) Linux
4 31 (2.37%) Android
5 30 (2.29%) Mac OS
5 30 (2.29%) Unix
6 28 (2.14%) Windows Server
7 17 (1.30%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.69%) Windows 7
9 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.38%) zOS
11 4 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.076%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.076%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.076%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.076%) VMS
12 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (35.06%) ITSM
2 346 (26.43%) ITIL
3 312 (23.83%) Agile
4 237 (18.11%) Service Management
5 202 (15.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 201 (15.36%) Problem-Solving
7 163 (12.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 152 (11.61%) Change Management
9 147 (11.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 144 (11.00%) DevOps
11 130 (9.93%) Customer Service
12 111 (8.48%) Migration
13 109 (8.33%) CI/CD
13 109 (8.33%) Service Delivery
14 104 (7.94%) Data Modelling
15 101 (7.72%) Roadmaps
16 97 (7.41%) Project Management
16 97 (7.41%) Workflow
17 94 (7.18%) User Acceptance Testing
18 83 (6.34%) AI
Programming Languages
1 106 (8.10%) SQL
2 96 (7.33%) JavaScript
3 90 (6.88%) Python
4 69 (5.27%) PowerShell
5 64 (4.89%) Java
6 20 (1.53%) C#
7 16 (1.22%) Perl
8 12 (0.92%) TypeScript
9 11 (0.84%) Bash
9 11 (0.84%) PL/SQL
9 11 (0.84%) VB
10 10 (0.76%) Shell Script
11 9 (0.69%) VBScript
12 8 (0.61%) ABAP
13 7 (0.53%) BeanShell
13 7 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (0.53%) Lisp
14 5 (0.38%) Go
14 5 (0.38%) Groovy
14 5 (0.38%) JCL
Qualifications
1 378 (28.88%) Security Cleared
2 290 (22.15%) SC Cleared
3 116 (8.86%) Degree
4 46 (3.51%) DV Cleared
5 31 (2.37%) TOGAF Certification
6 28 (2.14%) Cisco Certification
7 27 (2.06%) ITIL Certification
8 26 (1.99%) PMP
9 25 (1.91%) PMI Certification
10 23 (1.76%) CISSP
11 20 (1.53%) CCNP
12 19 (1.45%) CISM
13 16 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
14 14 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
15 11 (0.84%) ISTQB
16 10 (0.76%) BPSS Clearance
17 8 (0.61%) A+ Certification
17 8 (0.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
17 8 (0.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
18 7 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 62 (4.74%) SLA
2 59 (4.51%) QA
3 56 (4.28%) Data Quality
4 43 (3.28%) GRC
5 42 (3.21%) GDPR
6 31 (2.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (1.91%) NIST
8 17 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (1.22%) PMO
10 11 (0.84%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.69%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.46%) COBIT
14 5 (0.38%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.31%) GxP
15 4 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 3 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
16 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
16 3 (0.23%) NCSC
16 3 (0.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 167 (12.76%) Active Directory
2 36 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.45%) GPFS
3 19 (1.45%) NFS
4 17 (1.30%) vSphere
5 16 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (1.07%) Docker
7 10 (0.76%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.38%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.23%) Firmware
9 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.15%) Hyper-V
10 2 (0.15%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 2 (0.15%) RACF
10 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.076%) IAG
11 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.076%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.076%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.076%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 64 (4.89%) SCCM
2 43 (3.28%) Terraform
3 37 (2.83%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.29%) OPNET
5 28 (2.14%) Ansible
6 21 (1.60%) Grafana
7 16 (1.22%) Kubernetes
7 16 (1.22%) vRealize
8 15 (1.15%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.84%) RSA Archer
10 10 (0.76%) FortiGate
10 10 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.53%) CASB
12 5 (0.38%) Salt
12 5 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.31%) Pingdom
13 4 (0.31%) Rancher
13 4 (0.31%) VxRail
14 3 (0.23%) HP ALM
14 3 (0.23%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 245 (18.72%) Microsoft
2 93 (7.10%) Remedy
3 79 (6.04%) Cisco
4 70 (5.35%) SAP
5 49 (3.74%) Oracle
6 41 (3.13%) VMware
7 38 (2.90%) Splunk
8 37 (2.83%) Salesforce
9 33 (2.52%) Atlassian
9 33 (2.52%) IBM
10 30 (2.29%) Workday
11 24 (1.83%) Apple
11 24 (1.83%) Zscaler
12 21 (1.60%) Fortinet
13 19 (1.45%) Palo Alto
14 18 (1.38%) Google
15 17 (1.30%) BMC
16 16 (1.22%) Citrix
16 16 (1.22%) F5
16 16 (1.22%) NetApp