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 18 September 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
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 66 83
Rank change year-on-year +6 +17 -8
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,767 1,030 877
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.83% 3.70% 2.66%
As % of the Vendors category 9.20% 7.81% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,126 669 535
10th Percentile £218 £212 £219
25th Percentile £400 £313 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £601 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 80 36
10th Percentile £16.03 £13.00 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.50 £14.16
Median hourly rate £26.66 £18.82 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.66% +10.71% -15.00%
75th Percentile £64.68 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.47 £63.40 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £17.87 £18.13
% change year-on-year +45.50% -1.43% -9.35%

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 19,212 13,190 14,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.61% 47.42% 44.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,931 8,376 8,896
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £620 £619 £630
90th Percentile £711 £712 £734
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,131 615 595
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.75 £14.33
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.88 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.13% -24.93% -23.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.86 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +6.00% -16.17% -32.58%

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 18 September 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 18 September 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 18 September 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 +27 781 £525 +5.00% 465
North of England -6 356 £450 -10.00% 90
South East +12 342 £550 +35.80% 131
North West +5 233 £375 -26.66% 56
Midlands -9 141 £425 -10.53% 42
West Midlands -8 120 £445 -6.32% 31
Yorkshire -25 115 £500 - 25
South West -49 54 £488 +53.24% 25
East of England -45 52 £510 +2.00% 41
East Midlands -15 18 £413 -20.48% 11
North East -38 14 £525 +50.00% 10
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
1 113 (6.40%) SharePoint
2 85 (4.81%) Confluence
3 48 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.91%) Skype for Business
5 11 (0.62%) nginx
6 9 (0.51%) Apache
7 5 (0.28%) CMS
8 4 (0.23%) Mendix
9 2 (0.11%) Appian
9 2 (0.11%) SAS
9 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.057%) Drupal
10 1 (0.057%) IIS
10 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.057%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 81 (4.58%) Microsoft Office
2 79 (4.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (1.30%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (1.08%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.57%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.57%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.45%) Revit
8 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.057%) LaTeX
9 1 (0.057%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 60 (3.40%) Remedy ITSM
2 15 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.34%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.11%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.11%) Maximo
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.057%) Actimize
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.057%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.057%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 378 (21.39%) Azure
2 251 (14.20%) Microsoft 365
3 234 (13.24%) AWS
4 139 (7.87%) Power Platform
5 136 (7.70%) Entra ID
6 99 (5.60%) SaaS
7 56 (3.17%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (3.00%) GCP
9 48 (2.72%) GitHub
10 42 (2.38%) OneDrive
11 41 (2.32%) Azure Monitor
12 36 (2.04%) Microsoft Copilot
13 33 (1.87%) Datadog
14 25 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 24 (1.36%) Power Automate
16 22 (1.25%) Serverless
17 20 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
18 18 (1.02%) Amazon S3
19 17 (0.96%) PowerApps
19 17 (0.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 87 (4.92%) DNS
2 76 (4.30%) DHCP
3 62 (3.51%) VPN
4 57 (3.23%) Firewall
5 51 (2.89%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.70%) VLAN
7 29 (1.64%) Wireless
8 27 (1.53%) SSL
9 25 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
10 24 (1.36%) Network Security
11 21 (1.19%) NX-OS
11 21 (1.19%) WAN
12 19 (1.08%) LAN
13 18 (1.02%) SSH
14 17 (0.96%) BGP
14 17 (0.96%) Skype
15 14 (0.79%) SAN
16 13 (0.74%) Cisco IOS
17 12 (0.68%) NAS
18 11 (0.62%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 100 (5.66%) Power BI
2 50 (2.83%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (0.91%) Metadata
5 16 (0.91%) MySQL
5 16 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (0.68%) Power Query
8 9 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.34%) Redis
11 4 (0.23%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 4 (0.23%) PowerPivot
12 3 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.17%) Pentaho
12 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.11%) Elasticsearch
13 2 (0.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 240 (13.58%) JIRA
2 74 (4.19%) Git
3 25 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.30%) GitLab
5 8 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.17%) MSI
7 3 (0.17%) Postman
8 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.11%) Tricentis qTest
8 2 (0.11%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.057%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.057%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.057%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.057%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.057%) TeamCity
General
1 568 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 330 (18.68%) Finance
3 237 (13.41%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (8.60%) Public Sector
5 89 (5.04%) Banking
6 80 (4.53%) Telecoms
7 53 (3.00%) Legal
8 47 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
9 43 (2.43%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
11 28 (1.58%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 22 (1.25%) Military
14 19 (1.08%) Spanish Language
15 18 (1.02%) French Language
15 18 (1.02%) Italian Language
16 17 (0.96%) Police
17 16 (0.91%) Law
17 16 (0.91%) Retail
18 14 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 265 (15.00%) Architect
2 246 (13.92%) Analyst
3 185 (10.47%) Developer
4 163 (9.22%) ServiceNow Developer
5 151 (8.55%) ServiceNow Architect
6 126 (7.13%) Senior
7 111 (6.28%) Consultant
8 99 (5.60%) Support Engineer
9 94 (5.32%) Lead
10 89 (5.04%) IT Support
11 76 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
12 70 (3.96%) Service Analyst
13 65 (3.68%) IT Engineer
14 63 (3.57%) Project Manager
15 62 (3.51%) Business Analyst
16 57 (3.23%) IT Support Engineer
17 53 (3.00%) ServiceNow Consultant
18 47 (2.66%) Technical Architect
19 44 (2.49%) Service Manager
20 39 (2.21%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (11.21%) REST
2 107 (6.06%) SOAP
3 76 (4.30%) Terraform
4 50 (2.83%) JSON
5 37 (2.09%) HTML
5 37 (2.09%) OAuth
6 34 (1.92%) CSS
6 34 (1.92%) SailPoint
7 32 (1.81%) LDAP
8 31 (1.75%) XML
9 29 (1.64%) Middleware
10 21 (1.19%) Web Services
11 19 (1.08%) .NET
12 17 (0.96%) Ajax
12 17 (0.96%) AngularJS
13 16 (0.91%) OAuth2
13 16 (0.91%) SAML
14 15 (0.85%) OpenID
15 13 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
15 13 (0.74%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 291 (16.47%) CMDB
2 190 (10.75%) Onboarding
3 71 (4.02%) Enterprise Software
4 59 (3.34%) Data Centre
5 54 (3.06%) Product Ownership
6 51 (2.89%) Management Information System
7 42 (2.38%) Cloud Native
8 37 (2.09%) Replication
9 27 (1.53%) AI Agents
10 26 (1.47%) PKI
11 25 (1.41%) Clustering
12 24 (1.36%) Video Conferencing
13 23 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
14 20 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
15 19 (1.08%) Security Posture
16 18 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
17 16 (0.91%) Analytical Mindset
17 16 (0.91%) Data Structures
17 16 (0.91%) iPhone
18 15 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 337 (19.07%) Windows
2 113 (6.40%) Windows 10
3 106 (6.00%) Linux
4 54 (3.06%) Windows Server
5 49 (2.77%) Mac OS
6 37 (2.09%) Apple iOS
7 26 (1.47%) Android
8 20 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 18 (1.02%) Unix
10 16 (0.91%) Windows 7
11 9 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.23%) VMS
12 4 (0.23%) zOS
13 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.057%) AIX
14 1 (0.057%) SUSE
14 1 (0.057%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 700 (39.62%) ITSM
2 561 (31.75%) ITIL
3 404 (22.86%) Service Management
4 349 (19.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 330 (18.68%) Agile
6 323 (18.28%) Problem-Solving
7 272 (15.39%) Continuous Improvement
8 217 (12.28%) AI
9 206 (11.66%) Customer Service
10 198 (11.21%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 195 (11.04%) DevOps
12 189 (10.70%) Service Delivery
13 188 (10.64%) Roadmaps
14 182 (10.30%) Change Management
15 149 (8.43%) Workflow
16 132 (7.47%) Incident Management
16 132 (7.47%) Migration
17 130 (7.36%) CI/CD
18 129 (7.30%) Asset Management
19 119 (6.73%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 150 (8.49%) PowerShell
2 117 (6.62%) Python
3 116 (6.56%) JavaScript
4 86 (4.87%) SQL
5 46 (2.60%) Java
6 22 (1.25%) Bash
7 18 (1.02%) VBScript
8 17 (0.96%) Groovy
9 16 (0.91%) C#
10 15 (0.85%) T-SQL
10 15 (0.85%) VB
11 8 (0.45%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.40%) Perl
13 6 (0.34%) BeanShell
14 5 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.28%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.28%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.17%) C++
15 3 (0.17%) JCL
15 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 472 (26.71%) Security Cleared
2 348 (19.69%) SC Cleared
3 137 (7.75%) Degree
4 85 (4.81%) DV Cleared
5 43 (2.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 43 (2.43%) PMP
6 42 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
7 38 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (2.04%) PMI Certification
9 32 (1.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 30 (1.70%) Azure Certification
11 29 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (1.30%) CCNP
13 22 (1.25%) CISSP
14 21 (1.19%) A+ Certification
15 20 (1.13%) CCNA
16 16 (0.91%) AWS Certification
16 16 (0.91%) CISM
17 14 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
17 14 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (5.49%) SLA
2 95 (5.38%) Data Quality
3 63 (3.57%) GRC
4 59 (3.34%) QA
5 47 (2.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (2.55%) PMO
7 39 (2.21%) NIST
8 29 (1.64%) GDPR
9 18 (1.02%) NCSC
10 17 (0.96%) COBIT
10 17 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 16 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
12 15 (0.85%) Accessibility
13 12 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 11 (0.62%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 8 (0.45%) HIPAA
16 7 (0.40%) GxP
17 4 (0.23%) SOC 2
18 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 228 (12.90%) Active Directory
2 40 (2.26%) VMware Infrastructure
3 39 (2.21%) Docker
4 23 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.96%) BitLocker
5 17 (0.96%) IAG
6 15 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
6 15 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.57%) NFS
8 9 (0.51%) VMware NSX
8 9 (0.51%) vSphere
9 8 (0.45%) GPFS
10 7 (0.40%) Firmware
11 5 (0.28%) Hyper-V
12 3 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.11%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.11%) Dovecot
13 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 2 (0.11%) Postfix
13 2 (0.11%) Squid
Systems Management
1 85 (4.81%) Microsoft Intune
2 68 (3.85%) SCCM
3 59 (3.34%) Ansible
4 39 (2.21%) Kubernetes
5 33 (1.87%) Grafana
6 25 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (1.30%) SCOM
8 18 (1.02%) Jamf Pro
9 17 (0.96%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.57%) WMI
11 9 (0.51%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.40%) vRealize
13 6 (0.34%) Packer
14 5 (0.28%) PowerCLI
14 5 (0.28%) RSA Archer
15 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.23%) Nessus
15 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
15 4 (0.23%) Rancher
15 4 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 489 (27.67%) Microsoft
2 80 (4.53%) Cisco
3 69 (3.90%) SAP
4 68 (3.85%) Oracle
4 68 (3.85%) Splunk
5 67 (3.79%) Remedy
6 59 (3.34%) VMware
7 53 (3.00%) CyberArk
8 52 (2.94%) Salesforce
9 43 (2.43%) Dynatrace
10 31 (1.75%) BMC
10 31 (1.75%) Workday
11 30 (1.70%) Snow
12 29 (1.64%) Apple
13 28 (1.58%) Google
13 28 (1.58%) SolarWinds
14 24 (1.36%) Adobe
15 21 (1.19%) iManage
15 21 (1.19%) Okta
15 21 (1.19%) Red Hat