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 23 April 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
23 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 68 82
Rank change year-on-year +1 +14 +23
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,384 853 984
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.49% 3.47% 2.64%
As % of the Vendors category 8.22% 7.31% 6.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 948 534 576
10th Percentile £213 £201 £164
25th Percentile £400 £331 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £505
Median % change year-on-year - -0.99% +1.00%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £616
90th Percentile £702 £688 £720
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £510
% change year-on-year - -1.96% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 45 105
10th Percentile £15.54 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £17.69 £15.22 £16.06
Median hourly rate £21.48 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +14.12% +15.46% -11.70%
75th Percentile £84.69 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile £97.88 £31.77 £28.00
UK median hourly rate £21.35 £18.82 £16.30
% change year-on-year +13.42% +15.46% -11.51%

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 16,845 11,663 15,710
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.43% 47.45% 42.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,978 7,542 10,033
10th Percentile £313 £290 £255
25th Percentile £413 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £631
90th Percentile £706 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £514 £515
% change year-on-year -2.72% -0.19% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 885 450 988
10th Percentile £15.35 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £18.13 £14.16
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.08 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +6.86% +24.78% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.50 £55.40
90th Percentile £78.75 £77.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.49 £27.35 £22.50
% change year-on-year +11.48% +21.56% -48.86%

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 23 April 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 23 April 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 23 April 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 +2 601 £500 -9.09% 105
North of England -6 240 £525 +31.25% 51
South East +7 203 £484 +38.14% 68
Midlands +2 168 £425 -22.80% 26
North West -2 129 £480 +17.24% 26
West Midlands -6 128 £425 -22.87% 21
Yorkshire -4 100 £545 +36.25% 21
South West -5 68 £600 +26.32% 16
East of England -12 66 £525 +57.19% 11
East Midlands -7 33 £300 -41.46% 4
North East -11 14 £425 +41.67% 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 96 (6.94%) Confluence
2 59 (4.26%) SharePoint
3 50 (3.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.65%) Skype for Business
5 6 (0.43%) Apache
6 5 (0.36%) Appian
7 4 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.29%) Camunda
7 4 (0.29%) SAS
8 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.22%) CICS
8 3 (0.22%) CMS
9 2 (0.14%) IIS
9 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.14%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.072%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.072%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
Applications
1 80 (5.78%) Microsoft Office
2 58 (4.19%) Microsoft Project
3 57 (4.12%) Microsoft Excel
4 21 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 14 (1.01%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.14%) Revit
7 2 (0.14%) Trello
8 1 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.072%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 45 (3.25%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.65%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 8 (0.58%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.51%) SAP MM
6 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.29%) Maximo
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
8 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
8 2 (0.14%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.072%) Eloqua
9 1 (0.072%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 1 (0.072%) Payment Gateway
9 1 (0.072%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 271 (19.58%) Azure
2 184 (13.29%) AWS
3 150 (10.84%) Microsoft 365
4 122 (8.82%) Entra ID
5 91 (6.58%) Power Platform
6 71 (5.13%) SaaS
7 61 (4.41%) GCP
8 56 (4.05%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (1.59%) Power Automate
10 18 (1.30%) GitHub
10 18 (1.30%) OneDrive
11 14 (1.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (1.01%) Amazon S3
12 13 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
12 13 (0.94%) AWS KMS
12 13 (0.94%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (0.94%) Microsoft Copilot
13 12 (0.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 11 (0.79%) Serverless
15 10 (0.72%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 66 (4.77%) DNS
2 52 (3.76%) DHCP
2 52 (3.76%) Firewall
3 49 (3.54%) VPN
4 39 (2.82%) Wireless
5 32 (2.31%) WAN
6 31 (2.24%) LAN
7 29 (2.10%) Network Security
8 23 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
9 20 (1.45%) TCP/IP
10 17 (1.23%) VLAN
11 14 (1.01%) Internet
12 12 (0.87%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.87%) SSL
13 10 (0.72%) BIG-IP
13 10 (0.72%) NAS
13 10 (0.72%) SAN
14 9 (0.65%) Cisco ISE
14 9 (0.65%) Ethernet
14 9 (0.65%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (5.56%) Power BI
2 37 (2.67%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.59%) Metadata
4 21 (1.52%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (1.45%) Amazon RDS
6 19 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (1.16%) Tableau
8 10 (0.72%) Power Query
9 9 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (0.65%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.65%) MySQL
10 8 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.43%) DB2
12 6 (0.43%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.36%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.36%) Redis
14 4 (0.29%) Metadata Repository
14 4 (0.29%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 255 (18.42%) JIRA
2 61 (4.41%) Git
3 40 (2.89%) Jenkins
4 31 (2.24%) GitLab
5 17 (1.23%) Selenium
6 14 (1.01%) REST Assured
7 12 (0.87%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.87%) Postman
8 8 (0.58%) TestRail
9 5 (0.36%) JMeter
9 5 (0.36%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.29%) Gatling
10 4 (0.29%) NeoLoad
11 3 (0.22%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.22%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.22%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.22%) Flyway
11 3 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
11 3 (0.22%) JUnit
12 2 (0.14%) Eclipse
General
1 433 (31.29%) Social Skills
2 280 (20.23%) Finance
3 187 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (7.95%) Public Sector
5 81 (5.85%) Banking
6 63 (4.55%) Military
7 54 (3.90%) Organisational Skills
8 51 (3.68%) Telecoms
9 47 (3.40%) Legal
10 45 (3.25%) Documentation Skills
11 21 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.30%) Retail
14 15 (1.08%) Billing
15 13 (0.94%) Law
15 13 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (0.87%) Financial Institution
17 8 (0.58%) Aerospace
17 8 (0.58%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.36%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 274 (19.80%) Architect
2 183 (13.22%) Analyst
3 151 (10.91%) ServiceNow Architect
4 117 (8.45%) Developer
5 94 (6.79%) ServiceNow Developer
6 79 (5.71%) Senior
7 77 (5.56%) Lead
8 76 (5.49%) Consultant
9 74 (5.35%) Support Engineer
10 70 (5.06%) IT Support
11 54 (3.90%) Business Analyst
12 50 (3.61%) Project Manager
13 49 (3.54%) Solutions Architect
14 44 (3.18%) IT Engineer
14 44 (3.18%) ServiceNow Manager
15 41 (2.96%) IT Support Engineer
16 37 (2.67%) Service Analyst
16 37 (2.67%) ServiceNow Consultant
16 37 (2.67%) Technical Architect
17 34 (2.46%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (11.49%) REST
2 101 (7.30%) SOAP
3 42 (3.03%) SailPoint
4 35 (2.53%) LDAP
5 30 (2.17%) OpenID
6 26 (1.88%) CSS
7 25 (1.81%) Middleware
8 24 (1.73%) AngularJS
9 23 (1.66%) JSON
10 22 (1.59%) HTML
10 22 (1.59%) OAuth
11 19 (1.37%) Web Services
12 18 (1.30%) .NET
12 18 (1.30%) XML
13 17 (1.23%) Flash
13 17 (1.23%) SAML
14 12 (0.87%) Kafka
14 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
15 11 (0.79%) JDBC
16 10 (0.72%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 170 (12.28%) CMDB
2 108 (7.80%) Onboarding
3 99 (7.15%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.53%) Data Centre
4 35 (2.53%) Management Information System
5 32 (2.31%) Replication
6 25 (1.81%) Security Posture
7 23 (1.66%) Cloud Native
8 20 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (1.23%) Data Structures
9 17 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
9 17 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
10 16 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.08%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.01%) PKI
13 13 (0.94%) Mainframe
14 12 (0.87%) Driving Licence
15 11 (0.79%) Clustering
16 9 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
16 9 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 205 (14.81%) Windows
2 81 (5.85%) Windows 10
3 64 (4.62%) Linux
4 36 (2.60%) Windows Server
5 25 (1.81%) Unix
6 24 (1.73%) Mac OS
7 22 (1.59%) Android
8 16 (1.16%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.65%) Windows 7
10 8 (0.58%) zOS
11 7 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.072%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.072%) MVS
14 1 (0.072%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.072%) VMS
14 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (33.24%) ITSM
2 374 (27.02%) ITIL
3 334 (24.13%) Agile
4 256 (18.50%) Service Management
5 202 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
6 199 (14.38%) Stakeholder Management
7 196 (14.16%) Continuous Improvement
8 170 (12.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 168 (12.14%) Change Management
10 158 (11.42%) DevOps
11 126 (9.10%) Migration
12 121 (8.74%) CI/CD
13 119 (8.60%) Customer Service
13 119 (8.60%) Data Modelling
13 119 (8.60%) Service Delivery
14 116 (8.38%) Roadmaps
15 110 (7.95%) Project Management
16 108 (7.80%) Workflow
17 103 (7.44%) AI
18 98 (7.08%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 123 (8.89%) SQL
2 97 (7.01%) JavaScript
3 86 (6.21%) Python
4 81 (5.85%) PowerShell
5 74 (5.35%) Java
6 27 (1.95%) C#
7 12 (0.87%) Bash
7 12 (0.87%) TypeScript
8 11 (0.79%) PL/SQL
8 11 (0.79%) VB
9 10 (0.72%) Perl
10 9 (0.65%) Groovy
10 9 (0.65%) VBScript
11 8 (0.58%) ABAP
11 8 (0.58%) BeanShell
11 8 (0.58%) JCL
11 8 (0.58%) REXX
12 6 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 382 (27.60%) Security Cleared
2 285 (20.59%) SC Cleared
3 125 (9.03%) Degree
4 59 (4.26%) DV Cleared
5 34 (2.46%) PMP
6 33 (2.38%) Cisco Certification
7 31 (2.24%) PMI Certification
8 30 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
8 30 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
9 27 (1.95%) CISSP
10 24 (1.73%) CCNP
10 24 (1.73%) CISM
11 18 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
13 13 (0.94%) CCNA
14 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (0.65%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 8 (0.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 8 (0.58%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.77%) SLA
2 60 (4.34%) Data Quality
3 51 (3.68%) QA
4 50 (3.61%) GDPR
5 48 (3.47%) GRC
6 33 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (1.88%) NIST
8 25 (1.81%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 21 (1.52%) PMO
10 10 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.58%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.58%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.29%) GxP
13 3 (0.22%) COBIT
13 3 (0.22%) NCSC
13 3 (0.22%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.14%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 167 (12.07%) Active Directory
2 36 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.23%) GPFS
3 17 (1.23%) NFS
4 15 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (1.08%) vSphere
5 14 (1.01%) Docker
6 9 (0.65%) BitLocker
7 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.29%) IAG
8 4 (0.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 3 (0.22%) Firmware
9 3 (0.22%) RACF
9 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.072%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 54 (3.90%) Terraform
2 46 (3.32%) SCCM
3 33 (2.38%) Ansible
4 30 (2.17%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.17%) OPNET
5 25 (1.81%) Grafana
6 20 (1.45%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.30%) Kubernetes
8 15 (1.08%) vRealize
9 12 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.65%) RSA Archer
11 7 (0.51%) CASB
12 6 (0.43%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.36%) Control-M
13 5 (0.36%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.36%) QRadar
13 5 (0.36%) Rancher
13 5 (0.36%) Salt
13 5 (0.36%) VxRail
14 4 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 232 (16.76%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.65%) Remedy
3 80 (5.78%) Cisco
4 71 (5.13%) SAP
5 52 (3.76%) Oracle
6 43 (3.11%) Workday
7 42 (3.03%) VMware
8 40 (2.89%) Splunk
9 39 (2.82%) Atlassian
10 37 (2.67%) Salesforce
11 30 (2.17%) IBM
12 24 (1.73%) CyberArk
13 22 (1.59%) Apple
13 22 (1.59%) Fortinet
13 22 (1.59%) Google
14 21 (1.52%) Palo Alto
14 21 (1.52%) Snow
15 20 (1.45%) BMC
16 19 (1.37%) Zscaler
17 18 (1.30%) Dynatrace