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 17 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
17 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 62 69
Rank change year-on-year -3 +7 +37
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,298 887 1,056
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.52% 3.61% 2.79%
As % of the Vendors category 7.99% 7.63% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 886 511 628
10th Percentile £209 £200 £163
25th Percentile £372 £350 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.53% - -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £701
UK median daily rate £488 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -1.42% -1.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 37 88
10th Percentile £15.65 £15.13 £15.07
25th Percentile £16.31 £16.23 £16.06
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% +15.46% -6.86%
75th Percentile £28.75 £23.14 £21.46
90th Percentile £95.00 £29.40 £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 16,243 11,621 16,189
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.09% 47.30% 42.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,578 7,434 10,365
10th Percentile £306 £295 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +1.94% -4.19%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £513
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.46% -2.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 872 398 946
10th Percentile £15.60 £15.39 £12.19
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.00 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.43 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.83% +21.70% -28.57%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £52.35
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% -31.53%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 -18 551 £500 -4.76% 117
North of England -5 217 £500 +25.00% 50
South East +34 204 £448 +24.74% 86
Midlands +2 168 £425 -22.02% 32
West Midlands -11 130 £444 -19.46% 22
North West -11 121 £450 +13.21% 24
Yorkshire +1 89 £535 +25.88% 22
East of England -17 69 £525 +5.00% 23
South West +8 65 £725 +45.00% 15
East Midlands -9 34 £405 +13.76% 10
North East -14 7 £200 -33.33% 5
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 75 (5.78%) Confluence
2 70 (5.39%) SharePoint
3 55 (4.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.69%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.54%) Apache
6 6 (0.46%) Appian
6 6 (0.46%) Camunda
7 5 (0.39%) 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 (0.077%) JBoss
11 1 (0.077%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.077%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.077%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
Applications
1 72 (5.55%) Microsoft Office
2 62 (4.78%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (4.24%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.62%) MS Visio
5 17 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.31%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.23%) Trello
9 2 (0.15%) Autodesk Inventor
10 1 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.077%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 39 (3.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (1.08%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.69%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 9 (0.69%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.54%) 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 (0.077%) Actimize
9 1 (0.077%) assyst
9 1 (0.077%) Dynamics CRM
9 1 (0.077%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.077%) SAP CS
9 1 (0.077%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.077%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 251 (19.34%) Azure
2 174 (13.41%) Microsoft 365
3 150 (11.56%) AWS
4 96 (7.40%) Entra ID
5 78 (6.01%) Power Platform
6 64 (4.93%) Azure DevOps
7 59 (4.55%) SaaS
8 58 (4.47%) GCP
9 32 (2.47%) OneDrive
10 19 (1.46%) GitHub
11 18 (1.39%) Power Automate
12 15 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (1.00%) Amazon S3
13 13 (1.00%) Serverless
14 11 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (0.77%) AWS KMS
15 10 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (0.77%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (0.69%) Microsoft Copilot
Communications & Networking
1 66 (5.08%) DNS
2 50 (3.85%) VPN
3 49 (3.78%) DHCP
4 43 (3.31%) Firewall
5 40 (3.08%) Wireless
6 36 (2.77%) LAN
6 36 (2.77%) WAN
6 36 (2.77%) Wi-Fi
7 27 (2.08%) Network Security
8 20 (1.54%) TCP/IP
9 14 (1.08%) BGP
10 13 (1.00%) VLAN
11 12 (0.92%) Internet
11 12 (0.92%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.85%) Cisco ISE
12 11 (0.85%) NX-OS
13 9 (0.69%) 4G
13 9 (0.69%) BIG-IP
13 9 (0.69%) Cisco Wireless
13 9 (0.69%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 61 (4.70%) Power BI
2 33 (2.54%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.62%) Metadata
4 19 (1.46%) Tableau
5 17 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (1.08%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (1.08%) MySQL
8 12 (0.92%) PostgreSQL
8 12 (0.92%) Relational Database
9 10 (0.77%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.54%) DB2
12 6 (0.46%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.39%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.39%) 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
1 221 (17.03%) JIRA
2 47 (3.62%) Git
3 41 (3.16%) Jenkins
4 30 (2.31%) GitLab
5 17 (1.31%) Selenium
6 14 (1.08%) REST Assured
7 13 (1.00%) Postman
8 12 (0.92%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.62%) TestRail
10 7 (0.54%) Android Studio
10 7 (0.54%) Browser DevTools
10 7 (0.54%) Eclipse
10 7 (0.54%) Xcode
11 5 (0.39%) JMeter
11 5 (0.39%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.31%) Gatling
12 4 (0.31%) JUnit
12 4 (0.31%) NeoLoad
13 3 (0.23%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 449 (34.59%) Social Skills
2 261 (20.11%) Finance
3 193 (14.87%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (8.86%) Public Sector
5 70 (5.39%) Banking
6 59 (4.55%) Military
7 49 (3.78%) Legal
8 48 (3.70%) Documentation Skills
9 47 (3.62%) Telecoms
10 45 (3.47%) Organisational Skills
11 22 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (1.23%) Billing
13 16 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
14 14 (1.08%) Aerospace
15 13 (1.00%) Law
15 13 (1.00%) Retail
16 12 (0.92%) Manufacturing
17 11 (0.85%) Financial Institution
18 8 (0.62%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 224 (17.26%) Architect
2 184 (14.18%) Analyst
3 127 (9.78%) ServiceNow Architect
4 106 (8.17%) Developer
5 93 (7.16%) Support Engineer
6 88 (6.78%) ServiceNow Developer
7 84 (6.47%) IT Support
8 74 (5.70%) Consultant
9 71 (5.47%) Lead
10 55 (4.24%) IT Engineer
10 55 (4.24%) Senior
11 50 (3.85%) ServiceNow Manager
12 49 (3.78%) IT Support Engineer
13 47 (3.62%) Project Manager
14 46 (3.54%) Business Analyst
15 42 (3.24%) Service Analyst
16 36 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
16 36 (2.77%) Technical Architect
17 35 (2.70%) Administrator
18 34 (2.62%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 138 (10.63%) REST
2 96 (7.40%) SOAP
3 38 (2.93%) SailPoint
4 28 (2.16%) CSS
5 22 (1.69%) AngularJS
5 22 (1.69%) LDAP
6 21 (1.62%) OpenID
7 19 (1.46%) Flash
8 18 (1.39%) JSON
9 17 (1.31%) HTML
10 16 (1.23%) Web Services
11 15 (1.16%) Middleware
12 14 (1.08%) .NET
12 14 (1.08%) OAuth
12 14 (1.08%) XML
13 12 (0.92%) Ajax
13 12 (0.92%) Kafka
14 9 (0.69%) ADO
14 9 (0.69%) React
14 9 (0.69%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 165 (12.71%) CMDB
2 93 (7.16%) Onboarding
3 86 (6.63%) Product Ownership
4 37 (2.85%) Data Centre
5 31 (2.39%) Management Information System
6 29 (2.23%) Replication
7 26 (2.00%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (1.69%) Security Posture
9 19 (1.46%) Cloud Native
9 19 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
10 18 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (1.08%) Smartphone
14 13 (1.00%) Virtual Team
15 10 (0.77%) Data Structures
15 10 (0.77%) Driving Licence
15 10 (0.77%) Mainframe
15 10 (0.77%) Public Cloud
16 9 (0.69%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 228 (17.57%) Windows
2 108 (8.32%) Windows 10
3 59 (4.55%) Linux
4 30 (2.31%) Android
5 29 (2.23%) Unix
6 28 (2.16%) Mac OS
6 28 (2.16%) Windows Server
7 16 (1.23%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.69%) Windows 7
9 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.39%) zOS
11 4 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.077%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.077%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.077%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.077%) VMS
12 1 (0.077%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.077%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (34.75%) ITSM
2 342 (26.35%) ITIL
3 309 (23.81%) Agile
4 233 (17.95%) Service Management
5 202 (15.56%) Problem-Solving
6 200 (15.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 166 (12.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 150 (11.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 148 (11.40%) Change Management
10 137 (10.55%) DevOps
11 128 (9.86%) Customer Service
12 111 (8.55%) Service Delivery
13 108 (8.32%) Migration
14 107 (8.24%) Data Modelling
15 103 (7.94%) CI/CD
16 99 (7.63%) Workflow
17 98 (7.55%) Roadmaps
18 94 (7.24%) Project Management
19 90 (6.93%) User Acceptance Testing
20 83 (6.39%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 107 (8.24%) SQL
2 95 (7.32%) JavaScript
3 87 (6.70%) Python
4 68 (5.24%) PowerShell
5 63 (4.85%) Java
6 20 (1.54%) C#
7 13 (1.00%) Perl
8 12 (0.92%) TypeScript
9 11 (0.85%) Bash
9 11 (0.85%) PL/SQL
9 11 (0.85%) VB
10 9 (0.69%) VBScript
11 8 (0.62%) ABAP
11 8 (0.62%) Shell Script
12 7 (0.54%) BeanShell
12 7 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (0.54%) Lisp
13 5 (0.39%) Go
13 5 (0.39%) Groovy
13 5 (0.39%) JCL
Qualifications
1 373 (28.74%) Security Cleared
2 283 (21.80%) SC Cleared
3 116 (8.94%) Degree
4 46 (3.54%) DV Cleared
5 30 (2.31%) TOGAF Certification
6 28 (2.16%) Cisco Certification
6 28 (2.16%) ITIL Certification
7 27 (2.08%) PMP
8 26 (2.00%) PMI Certification
9 22 (1.69%) CISSP
10 20 (1.54%) CCNP
11 19 (1.46%) CISM
12 16 (1.23%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
14 11 (0.85%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.62%) A+ Certification
15 8 (0.62%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 8 (0.62%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 7 (0.54%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 63 (4.85%) SLA
2 58 (4.47%) Data Quality
3 53 (4.08%) QA
4 45 (3.47%) GRC
5 41 (3.16%) GDPR
6 32 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (2.00%) NIST
8 17 (1.31%) PMO
9 16 (1.23%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.85%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.69%) Accessibility
11 9 (0.69%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.46%) COBIT
13 4 (0.31%) GxP
13 4 (0.31%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.23%) NCSC
14 3 (0.23%) NIST 800
System Software
1 164 (12.63%) Active Directory
2 36 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.46%) GPFS
3 19 (1.46%) NFS
4 17 (1.31%) vSphere
5 16 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (1.08%) Docker
7 10 (0.77%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.39%) 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 (0.077%) IAG
11 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.077%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 62 (4.78%) SCCM
2 43 (3.31%) Terraform
3 35 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.31%) OPNET
5 27 (2.08%) Ansible
6 21 (1.62%) Grafana
7 16 (1.23%) Kubernetes
7 16 (1.23%) vRealize
8 15 (1.16%) Prometheus
9 12 (0.92%) RSA Archer
10 10 (0.77%) FortiGate
10 10 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.54%) CASB
12 5 (0.39%) Salt
12 5 (0.39%) 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
1 234 (18.03%) Microsoft
2 92 (7.09%) Remedy
3 79 (6.09%) Cisco
4 62 (4.78%) SAP
5 48 (3.70%) Oracle
6 41 (3.16%) VMware
7 37 (2.85%) Salesforce
8 35 (2.70%) Splunk
9 34 (2.62%) Atlassian
10 33 (2.54%) IBM
11 30 (2.31%) Workday
12 23 (1.77%) Apple
12 23 (1.77%) Zscaler
13 21 (1.62%) Fortinet
14 19 (1.46%) Palo Alto
15 18 (1.39%) Google
16 17 (1.31%) BMC
17 16 (1.23%) Citrix
17 16 (1.23%) F5
17 16 (1.23%) NetApp