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 31 July 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
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 67 75
Rank change year-on-year +10 +8 +10
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,740 1,015 961
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.84% 3.69% 2.83%
As % of the Vendors category 9.34% 7.83% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,136 631 580
10th Percentile £219 £223 £213
25th Percentile £400 £325 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £678 £663 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 76 82 91
10th Percentile £17.72 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £26.66 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +41.66% +15.46% -20.80%
75th Percentile £71.23 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £88.00 £63.36 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £17.45 £16.30
% change year-on-year +52.82% +7.02% -20.80%

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 18,626 12,961 14,739
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.10% 47.10% 43.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,755 8,217 9,445
10th Percentile £313 £280 £298
25th Percentile £413 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £620 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £503 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +0.50% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,000 626 805
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.50 £17.51 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% -10.18% -27.32%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.38 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.83 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.94 £25.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year +38.93% -8.55% -33.97%

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 31 July 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 31 July 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 31 July 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 +22 751 £525 +4.43% 179
South East +13 354 £544 +32.95% 73
North of England -1 326 £475 - 63
North West -6 199 £375 -26.66% 50
Midlands +7 165 £425 -10.53% 22
West Midlands -12 127 £450 -5.26% 18
Yorkshire -18 116 £514 +28.50% 10
East of England -29 59 £525 +16.67% 13
South West -53 48 £353 +10.96% 23
East Midlands +8 32 £381 -7.58% 4
North East -33 17 £500 +53.85% 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
1 101 (5.80%) SharePoint
2 93 (5.34%) Confluence
3 38 (2.18%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.52%) Skype for Business
5 8 (0.46%) Apache
5 8 (0.46%) nginx
6 3 (0.17%) IIS
7 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.11%) CMS
7 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.11%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.11%) SAS
7 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.057%) Appian
8 1 (0.057%) Drupal
8 1 (0.057%) Mendix
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 76 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.67%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.92%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.57%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.46%) Revit
8 7 (0.40%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.057%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.057%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 70 (4.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.17%) Maximo
4 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.11%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.11%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
5 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.057%) Loan IQ
6 1 (0.057%) Oracle Applications
6 1 (0.057%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.057%) SAP FI/CO
6 1 (0.057%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.057%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 362 (20.80%) Azure
2 237 (13.62%) AWS
3 214 (12.30%) Microsoft 365
4 133 (7.64%) Entra ID
5 124 (7.13%) Power Platform
6 95 (5.46%) SaaS
7 64 (3.68%) Azure DevOps
8 51 (2.93%) GCP
9 35 (2.01%) OneDrive
10 28 (1.61%) GitHub
11 26 (1.49%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 26 (1.49%) Datadog
12 25 (1.44%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (1.38%) Amazon S3
13 24 (1.38%) Azure Monitor
14 23 (1.32%) Microsoft Copilot
15 22 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 20 (1.15%) Serverless
17 19 (1.09%) Power Automate
18 15 (0.86%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 83 (4.77%) DNS
2 76 (4.37%) DHCP
3 66 (3.79%) Firewall
4 55 (3.16%) VPN
5 46 (2.64%) TCP/IP
6 39 (2.24%) Wireless
7 32 (1.84%) Network Security
8 24 (1.38%) WAN
9 23 (1.32%) SSL
9 23 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (1.26%) VLAN
11 21 (1.21%) LAN
12 20 (1.15%) SAN
13 19 (1.09%) NAS
14 17 (0.98%) Cisco IOS
15 15 (0.86%) NX-OS
15 15 (0.86%) Structured Cabling
16 14 (0.80%) SNMP
16 14 (0.80%) SSH
17 13 (0.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (5.52%) Power BI
2 51 (2.93%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (0.98%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (0.69%) MySQL
8 11 (0.63%) Power Query
9 8 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (0.34%) Metadata
10 6 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.34%) Tableau
11 5 (0.29%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.29%) Redis
12 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.23%) PowerPivot
13 3 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 267 (15.34%) JIRA
2 80 (4.60%) Git
3 25 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 21 (1.21%) GitLab
5 6 (0.34%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.23%) Flyway
7 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.17%) Selenium
8 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.11%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.11%) JMeter
8 2 (0.11%) JUnit
8 2 (0.11%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.11%) Postman
8 2 (0.11%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.11%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.11%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.057%) Serenity BDD
General
1 561 (32.24%) Social Skills
2 323 (18.56%) Finance
3 236 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 141 (8.10%) Public Sector
5 94 (5.40%) Banking
6 76 (4.37%) Telecoms
7 56 (3.22%) Organisational Skills
8 53 (3.05%) Legal
9 49 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
10 30 (1.72%) Military
11 25 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
12 23 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (1.21%) Manufacturing
14 18 (1.03%) French Language
14 18 (1.03%) Police
14 18 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (0.92%) Spanish Language
16 15 (0.86%) Retail
17 14 (0.80%) Italian Language
17 14 (0.80%) Law
Job Titles
1 251 (14.43%) Architect
2 231 (13.28%) Analyst
3 179 (10.29%) Developer
4 158 (9.08%) ServiceNow Architect
5 154 (8.85%) ServiceNow Developer
6 125 (7.18%) Senior
7 100 (5.75%) Consultant
7 100 (5.75%) Support Engineer
8 94 (5.40%) IT Support
9 90 (5.17%) Lead
10 73 (4.20%) Service Analyst
11 69 (3.97%) IT Engineer
11 69 (3.97%) Solutions Architect
12 68 (3.91%) Business Analyst
13 63 (3.62%) ServiceNow Consultant
14 62 (3.56%) Project Manager
15 60 (3.45%) IT Support Engineer
16 43 (2.47%) Delivery Manager
17 42 (2.41%) IT Manager
18 41 (2.36%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (11.15%) REST
2 116 (6.67%) SOAP
3 36 (2.07%) JSON
4 34 (1.95%) SailPoint
5 33 (1.90%) HTML
5 33 (1.90%) OAuth
6 30 (1.72%) XML
7 29 (1.67%) CSS
7 29 (1.67%) Web Services
8 28 (1.61%) Middleware
9 26 (1.49%) LDAP
10 21 (1.21%) .NET
10 21 (1.21%) AngularJS
11 16 (0.92%) Ajax
11 16 (0.92%) SAML
12 15 (0.86%) OpenID
13 12 (0.69%) Flash
14 11 (0.63%) JDBC
14 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Graph
14 11 (0.63%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 257 (14.77%) CMDB
2 156 (8.97%) Onboarding
3 69 (3.97%) Product Ownership
4 50 (2.87%) Enterprise Software
5 48 (2.76%) Data Centre
6 42 (2.41%) Cloud Native
7 41 (2.36%) Management Information System
8 32 (1.84%) Replication
9 27 (1.55%) Security Posture
10 25 (1.44%) PKI
11 24 (1.38%) AI Agents
11 24 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
12 22 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
13 21 (1.21%) Clustering
14 20 (1.15%) Video Conferencing
15 19 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
16 17 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
17 16 (0.92%) Data Structures
18 15 (0.86%) iPhone
19 14 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 294 (16.90%) Windows
2 102 (5.86%) Windows 10
3 99 (5.69%) Linux
4 48 (2.76%) Windows Server
5 45 (2.59%) Mac OS
6 33 (1.90%) Apple iOS
7 25 (1.44%) Unix
8 21 (1.21%) Android
9 18 (1.03%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.52%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.23%) VMS
12 4 (0.23%) zOS
13 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
14 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.057%) CentOS
15 1 (0.057%) MVS
15 1 (0.057%) SUSE
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 668 (38.39%) ITSM
2 544 (31.26%) ITIL
3 352 (20.23%) Service Management
4 336 (19.31%) Agile
5 314 (18.05%) Problem-Solving
6 309 (17.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 269 (15.46%) Continuous Improvement
8 206 (11.84%) Change Management
9 198 (11.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 196 (11.26%) AI
10 196 (11.26%) Customer Service
11 190 (10.92%) DevOps
12 179 (10.29%) Service Delivery
13 155 (8.91%) Roadmaps
14 150 (8.62%) Workflow
15 149 (8.56%) Migration
16 132 (7.59%) Incident Management
17 127 (7.30%) Data Modelling
18 126 (7.24%) Asset Management
18 126 (7.24%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 126 (7.24%) PowerShell
2 122 (7.01%) SQL
3 118 (6.78%) JavaScript
4 107 (6.15%) Python
5 53 (3.05%) Java
6 33 (1.90%) C#
7 21 (1.21%) Bash
8 11 (0.63%) Groovy
8 11 (0.63%) VBScript
9 10 (0.57%) PL/SQL
9 10 (0.57%) T-SQL
10 8 (0.46%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.46%) VB
11 7 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.34%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.29%) Perl
14 4 (0.23%) BeanShell
14 4 (0.23%) Bicep
14 4 (0.23%) C++
15 3 (0.17%) JCL
Qualifications
1 494 (28.39%) Security Cleared
2 347 (19.94%) SC Cleared
3 135 (7.76%) Degree
4 107 (6.15%) DV Cleared
5 44 (2.53%) PMP
6 43 (2.47%) ITIL Certification
7 40 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (2.13%) PMI Certification
9 36 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
10 33 (1.90%) CISSP
11 28 (1.61%) CCNP
12 27 (1.55%) Microsoft Certification
13 26 (1.49%) CISM
14 22 (1.26%) CCNA
15 20 (1.15%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 18 (1.03%) A+ Certification
16 18 (1.03%) Network+ Certification
17 16 (0.92%) Azure Certification
18 15 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
18 15 (0.86%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 94 (5.40%) SLA
2 75 (4.31%) Data Quality
3 54 (3.10%) GRC
4 51 (2.93%) QA
5 44 (2.53%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 36 (2.07%) NIST
7 34 (1.95%) GDPR
8 32 (1.84%) PMO
9 17 (0.98%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.80%) COBIT
11 13 (0.75%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.69%) Accessibility
12 12 (0.69%) ISO 9001
12 12 (0.69%) NCSC
13 8 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 7 (0.40%) GxP
15 6 (0.34%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.29%) PCI DSS
17 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 217 (12.47%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (1.55%) Docker
4 19 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.98%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.80%) IAG
7 13 (0.75%) NFS
8 12 (0.69%) GPFS
8 12 (0.69%) vSphere
9 10 (0.57%) BitLocker
10 9 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.40%) Firmware
12 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
14 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
14 2 (0.11%) RACF
14 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.057%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 72 (4.14%) Terraform
2 70 (4.02%) Microsoft Intune
3 58 (3.33%) SCCM
4 45 (2.59%) Ansible
5 33 (1.90%) Kubernetes
6 30 (1.72%) Grafana
7 23 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.21%) Prometheus
9 19 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (0.69%) SCOM
10 12 (0.69%) WMI
11 10 (0.57%) vRealize
12 8 (0.46%) RSA Archer
12 8 (0.46%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.40%) CASB
14 6 (0.34%) VxRail
15 5 (0.29%) Packer
16 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
16 4 (0.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 414 (23.79%) Microsoft
2 88 (5.06%) Cisco
3 79 (4.54%) Remedy
4 69 (3.97%) SAP
5 68 (3.91%) Splunk
6 62 (3.56%) Oracle
7 47 (2.70%) Salesforce
8 45 (2.59%) VMware
9 40 (2.30%) CyberArk
10 31 (1.78%) BMC
10 31 (1.78%) Dynatrace
11 30 (1.72%) Workday
12 28 (1.61%) Apple
13 27 (1.55%) Fortinet
14 25 (1.44%) Palo Alto
15 23 (1.32%) SolarWinds
16 21 (1.21%) Snow
17 20 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
17 20 (1.15%) Google
17 20 (1.15%) iManage