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 13 August 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
13 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 69 72
Rank change year-on-year +11 +3 +10
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,752 1,013 950
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.85% 3.66% 2.85%
As % of the Vendors category 9.28% 7.76% 6.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,135 632 578
10th Percentile £219 £219 £213
25th Percentile £400 £315 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £579
90th Percentile £685 £660 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.05% +0.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 84 80
10th Percentile £17.25 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.50 £16.05
Median hourly rate £26.66 £18.82 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.66% +15.82% -21.04%
75th Percentile £67.47 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.70 £63.28 £24.26
UK median hourly rate £26.33 £17.87 £16.30
% change year-on-year +47.34% +9.63% -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 18,888 13,059 14,555
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.45% 47.24% 43.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,887 8,266 9,264
10th Percentile £313 £277 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £622 £628
90th Percentile £700 £719 £735
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +2.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,024 636 758
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.73 £17.49 £15.62
Median hourly rate £34.00 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.17% -16.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £63.45
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -28.95%

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 13 August 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 13 August 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 13 August 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 +19 764 £525 +5.00% 402
South East +18 351 £550 +37.50% 127
North of England -2 343 £455 -7.62% 106
North West +1 224 £388 -24.24% 84
Midlands +6 148 £425 -10.53% 44
West Midlands +3 120 £448 -5.79% 38
Yorkshire -21 108 £513 +28.13% 17
East of England -32 59 £525 +16.67% 16
South West -46 52 £419 +28.85% 44
East Midlands -6 23 £413 - 7
North East -30 17 £500 +25.00% 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
1 106 (6.05%) SharePoint
2 86 (4.91%) Confluence
3 45 (2.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.91%) Skype for Business
5 9 (0.51%) Apache
5 9 (0.51%) nginx
6 4 (0.23%) CMS
7 3 (0.17%) IIS
7 3 (0.17%) Mendix
8 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.11%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.11%) SAS
8 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.057%) Drupal
9 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.057%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 81 (4.62%) Microsoft Office
2 77 (4.39%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.97%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.57%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.46%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.46%) Revit
8 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.057%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.057%) LaTeX
9 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.057%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 67 (3.82%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.11%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
7 2 (0.11%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.057%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.057%) Cloudability
8 1 (0.057%) iTrent
8 1 (0.057%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.057%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 370 (21.12%) Azure
2 235 (13.41%) AWS
3 230 (13.13%) Microsoft 365
4 134 (7.65%) Entra ID
4 134 (7.65%) Power Platform
5 100 (5.71%) SaaS
6 64 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
7 51 (2.91%) GCP
8 40 (2.28%) OneDrive
9 36 (2.05%) GitHub
10 28 (1.60%) Datadog
10 28 (1.60%) Microsoft Copilot
11 27 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
12 22 (1.26%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 22 (1.26%) Power Automate
13 21 (1.20%) Serverless
14 19 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (1.03%) Amazon S3
16 16 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 14 (0.80%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 89 (5.08%) DNS
2 80 (4.57%) DHCP
3 67 (3.82%) Firewall
4 58 (3.31%) VPN
5 47 (2.68%) TCP/IP
6 36 (2.05%) Wireless
7 32 (1.83%) Network Security
8 28 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
9 27 (1.54%) VLAN
10 26 (1.48%) SSL
10 26 (1.48%) WAN
11 23 (1.31%) LAN
12 19 (1.08%) SAN
13 18 (1.03%) NAS
14 17 (0.97%) NX-OS
14 17 (0.97%) Skype
14 17 (0.97%) SSH
15 16 (0.91%) Cisco IOS
16 14 (0.80%) SNMP
16 14 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (5.76%) Power BI
2 51 (2.91%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (0.80%) MySQL
7 13 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (0.63%) Power Query
9 9 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.34%) Tableau
12 5 (0.29%) Metadata
12 5 (0.29%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.29%) Redis
13 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 4 (0.23%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 260 (14.84%) JIRA
2 75 (4.28%) Git
3 24 (1.37%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.31%) GitLab
5 7 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.23%) Flyway
8 3 (0.17%) MSI
9 2 (0.11%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.11%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.057%) Gatling
10 1 (0.057%) JUnit
10 1 (0.057%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.057%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.057%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.057%) Postman
10 1 (0.057%) TeamCity
General
1 567 (32.36%) Social Skills
2 337 (19.24%) Finance
3 244 (13.93%) Analytical Skills
4 141 (8.05%) Public Sector
5 95 (5.42%) Banking
6 81 (4.62%) Telecoms
7 52 (2.97%) Legal
8 51 (2.91%) Organisational Skills
9 46 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
10 28 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
11 27 (1.54%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 22 (1.26%) Military
13 19 (1.08%) Spanish Language
14 18 (1.03%) Police
15 17 (0.97%) French Language
15 17 (0.97%) Italian Language
15 17 (0.97%) Retail
16 16 (0.91%) Law
17 14 (0.80%) Billing
Job Titles
1 253 (14.44%) Architect
2 238 (13.58%) Analyst
3 185 (10.56%) Developer
4 159 (9.08%) ServiceNow Developer
5 151 (8.62%) ServiceNow Architect
6 126 (7.19%) Senior
7 109 (6.22%) Consultant
8 105 (5.99%) Support Engineer
9 96 (5.48%) IT Support
10 92 (5.25%) Lead
11 74 (4.22%) Service Analyst
12 71 (4.05%) Business Analyst
13 68 (3.88%) IT Engineer
14 67 (3.82%) Solutions Architect
15 62 (3.54%) Project Manager
16 60 (3.42%) IT Support Engineer
16 60 (3.42%) ServiceNow Consultant
17 43 (2.45%) Technical Architect
18 40 (2.28%) IT Manager
19 38 (2.17%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (11.36%) REST
2 116 (6.62%) SOAP
3 42 (2.40%) JSON
4 34 (1.94%) HTML
4 34 (1.94%) OAuth
4 34 (1.94%) SailPoint
5 32 (1.83%) XML
6 30 (1.71%) CSS
7 29 (1.66%) Web Services
8 27 (1.54%) Middleware
9 26 (1.48%) LDAP
10 21 (1.20%) .NET
11 20 (1.14%) AngularJS
12 16 (0.91%) Ajax
12 16 (0.91%) SAML
13 14 (0.80%) OpenID
14 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
15 11 (0.63%) Flash
15 11 (0.63%) JDBC
15 11 (0.63%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 267 (15.24%) CMDB
2 167 (9.53%) Onboarding
3 70 (4.00%) Product Ownership
4 57 (3.25%) Enterprise Software
5 52 (2.97%) Data Centre
6 43 (2.45%) Cloud Native
7 42 (2.40%) Management Information System
8 34 (1.94%) Replication
9 27 (1.54%) Security Posture
10 26 (1.48%) PKI
11 24 (1.37%) AI Agents
12 23 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (1.26%) Clustering
13 22 (1.26%) Video Conferencing
14 21 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
15 20 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
16 18 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
16 18 (1.03%) Data Structures
17 17 (0.97%) iPhone
18 15 (0.86%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 319 (18.21%) Windows
2 109 (6.22%) Windows 10
3 103 (5.88%) Linux
4 50 (2.85%) Windows Server
5 48 (2.74%) Mac OS
6 36 (2.05%) Apple iOS
7 23 (1.31%) Android
8 21 (1.20%) Unix
9 20 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 16 (0.91%) Windows 7
11 6 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.23%) zOS
13 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.17%) VMS
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 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 686 (39.16%) ITSM
2 558 (31.85%) ITIL
3 370 (21.12%) Service Management
4 329 (18.78%) Agile
5 324 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
6 311 (17.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 270 (15.41%) Continuous Improvement
8 206 (11.76%) Customer Service
9 199 (11.36%) Change Management
10 198 (11.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 197 (11.24%) AI
12 193 (11.02%) DevOps
13 190 (10.84%) Service Delivery
14 170 (9.70%) Roadmaps
15 150 (8.56%) Workflow
16 146 (8.33%) Migration
17 127 (7.25%) CI/CD
17 127 (7.25%) Incident Management
18 123 (7.02%) Data Modelling
19 121 (6.91%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 142 (8.11%) PowerShell
2 117 (6.68%) JavaScript
2 117 (6.68%) SQL
3 114 (6.51%) Python
4 54 (3.08%) Java
5 29 (1.66%) C#
6 21 (1.20%) Bash
7 18 (1.03%) VBScript
8 15 (0.86%) VB
9 13 (0.74%) Groovy
10 11 (0.63%) T-SQL
11 10 (0.57%) PL/SQL
12 9 (0.51%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.34%) Perl
14 6 (0.34%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.29%) BeanShell
15 5 (0.29%) C++
16 4 (0.23%) Bicep
17 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 485 (27.68%) Security Cleared
2 345 (19.69%) SC Cleared
3 140 (7.99%) Degree
4 98 (5.59%) DV Cleared
5 45 (2.57%) ITIL Certification
6 44 (2.51%) PMP
7 38 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 37 (2.11%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (2.11%) PMI Certification
9 31 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (1.66%) CISSP
11 26 (1.48%) CCNP
12 22 (1.26%) CCNA
12 22 (1.26%) CISM
13 21 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 20 (1.14%) A+ Certification
15 19 (1.08%) Azure Certification
16 17 (0.97%) Network+ Certification
17 14 (0.80%) AWS Certification
17 14 (0.80%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (5.59%) SLA
2 80 (4.57%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.97%) GRC
4 48 (2.74%) QA
5 47 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (2.28%) NIST
6 40 (2.28%) PMO
7 31 (1.77%) GDPR
8 19 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
10 15 (0.86%) COBIT
11 13 (0.74%) Accessibility
11 13 (0.74%) NCSC
12 12 (0.68%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.46%) GxP
13 8 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.34%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.29%) PCI DSS
16 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 221 (12.61%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (1.66%) Docker
4 19 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (0.97%) BitLocker
7 16 (0.91%) IAG
8 12 (0.68%) NFS
8 12 (0.68%) vSphere
9 11 (0.63%) GPFS
9 11 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.40%) Firmware
11 6 (0.34%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 2 (0.11%) RACF
13 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.057%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 76 (4.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 75 (4.28%) Terraform
3 65 (3.71%) SCCM
4 48 (2.74%) Ansible
5 34 (1.94%) Kubernetes
6 28 (1.60%) Grafana
7 24 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
8 19 (1.08%) Prometheus
9 14 (0.80%) SCOM
10 12 (0.68%) WMI
11 10 (0.57%) vRealize
12 9 (0.51%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.40%) CASB
13 7 (0.40%) RSA Archer
14 6 (0.34%) Packer
14 6 (0.34%) VxRail
15 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.23%) CA Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 448 (25.57%) Microsoft
2 90 (5.14%) Cisco
3 77 (4.39%) Remedy
4 69 (3.94%) SAP
5 68 (3.88%) Splunk
6 66 (3.77%) Oracle
7 59 (3.37%) VMware
8 48 (2.74%) Salesforce
9 46 (2.63%) CyberArk
10 34 (1.94%) Dynatrace
11 31 (1.77%) Workday
12 30 (1.71%) BMC
13 29 (1.66%) Apple
14 28 (1.60%) Snow
15 23 (1.31%) Palo Alto
15 23 (1.31%) SolarWinds
16 21 (1.20%) iManage
17 20 (1.14%) Adobe
17 20 (1.14%) Google
17 20 (1.14%) IBM