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 9 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
9 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 63 69
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 +37
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,288 894 1,082
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.58% 3.59% 2.84%
As % of the Vendors category 8.06% 7.62% 6.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 881 515 653
10th Percentile £204 £200 £163
25th Percentile £363 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £594 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 32 85
10th Percentile £15.55 £15.22 £15.40
25th Percentile £16.06 £16.17 £16.06
Median hourly rate £19.34 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +2.76% +15.46% -6.86%
75th Percentile £28.75 £23.14 £21.46
90th Percentile £95.00 £29.90 £30.25
UK median hourly rate £19.34 £22.09 £16.30
% change year-on-year -12.45% +35.52% -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 15,974 11,737 16,313
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.37% 47.13% 42.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,419 7,455 10,437
10th Percentile £305 £290 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £517
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +1.55% -3.90%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £736
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £515
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.97% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 846 390 948
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.62 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.05 £14.48
Median hourly rate £25.00 £30.62 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.34% +22.46% -28.57%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £51.25
90th Percentile £74.47 £82.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £29.00 £24.65
% change year-on-year -13.79% +17.65% -29.57%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -23 544 £500 -4.76% 84
North of England -1 216 £500 +25.79% 54
South East +36 203 £445 +19.87% 97
Midlands -1 175 £438 -16.67% 37
West Midlands -8 135 £468 -14.99% 25
North West -5 121 £450 +25.00% 34
Yorkshire +1 88 £540 +27.06% 15
East of England -18 69 £525 +5.00% 31
South West +1 64 £725 +114.81% 20
East Midlands -8 37 £411 +15.52% 12
North East -14 7 £176 -41.33% 6
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 73 (5.67%) Confluence
2 71 (5.51%) SharePoint
3 55 (4.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.70%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.54%) Apache
6 6 (0.47%) Appian
6 6 (0.47%) Camunda
7 4 (0.31%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.23%) CICS
9 2 (0.16%) CMS
9 2 (0.16%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.16%) IIS
9 2 (0.16%) SAS
10 1 (0.078%) JBoss
10 1 (0.078%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.078%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.078%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.078%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.078%) WebSphere
Applications
1 73 (5.67%) Microsoft Office
2 60 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 56 (4.35%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.63%) MS Visio
5 17 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.31%) Autodesk Inventor
8 3 (0.23%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.23%) Trello
9 1 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.078%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 38 (2.95%) Remedy ITSM
2 15 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.70%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 9 (0.70%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.54%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.31%) Maximo
7 3 (0.23%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.16%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.16%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.078%) Actimize
9 1 (0.078%) assyst
9 1 (0.078%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.078%) SAP CS
9 1 (0.078%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.078%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 259 (20.11%) Azure
2 179 (13.90%) Microsoft 365
3 151 (11.72%) AWS
4 97 (7.53%) Entra ID
5 76 (5.90%) Power Platform
6 66 (5.12%) GCP
7 63 (4.89%) Azure DevOps
8 57 (4.43%) SaaS
9 32 (2.48%) OneDrive
10 19 (1.48%) GitHub
11 17 (1.32%) Power Automate
12 15 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (0.93%) Amazon S3
14 11 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
14 11 (0.85%) Serverless
15 10 (0.78%) AWS KMS
15 10 (0.78%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (0.70%) Azure Data Factory
16 9 (0.70%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 67 (5.20%) DNS
2 51 (3.96%) VPN
3 49 (3.80%) DHCP
4 40 (3.11%) Wireless
5 39 (3.03%) Firewall
6 33 (2.56%) Wi-Fi
7 30 (2.33%) LAN
8 29 (2.25%) WAN
9 24 (1.86%) Network Security
10 19 (1.48%) TCP/IP
11 14 (1.09%) VLAN
12 11 (0.85%) BGP
12 11 (0.85%) NX-OS
13 10 (0.78%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.70%) 4G
14 9 (0.70%) Cisco ISE
14 9 (0.70%) Cisco Wireless
14 9 (0.70%) Skype
15 8 (0.62%) Internet
15 8 (0.62%) PABX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.50%) Power BI
2 29 (2.25%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.63%) Metadata
4 19 (1.48%) Tableau
5 15 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (1.16%) MySQL
6 14 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
6 14 (1.09%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 10 (0.78%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.70%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (0.54%) DB2
11 6 (0.47%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.39%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.31%) Metadata Repository
13 4 (0.31%) Neo4j
14 3 (0.23%) Amazon Aurora
14 3 (0.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 214 (16.61%) JIRA
2 46 (3.57%) Git
3 41 (3.18%) Jenkins
4 30 (2.33%) GitLab
5 17 (1.32%) Selenium
6 14 (1.09%) REST Assured
7 13 (1.01%) Postman
8 12 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.70%) Android Studio
9 9 (0.70%) Browser DevTools
9 9 (0.70%) Eclipse
9 9 (0.70%) Xcode
10 8 (0.62%) TestRail
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
1 455 (35.33%) Social Skills
2 266 (20.65%) Finance
3 187 (14.52%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (8.46%) Public Sector
5 69 (5.36%) Banking
6 58 (4.50%) Military
7 49 (3.80%) Legal
8 47 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
9 43 (3.34%) Telecoms
10 42 (3.26%) Organisational Skills
11 25 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (1.32%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (1.16%) Law
15 14 (1.09%) Aerospace
15 14 (1.09%) Billing
16 13 (1.01%) Retail
17 11 (0.85%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.85%) Manufacturing
18 8 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 222 (17.24%) Architect
2 184 (14.29%) Analyst
3 127 (9.86%) ServiceNow Architect
4 103 (8.00%) Developer
5 95 (7.38%) Support Engineer
6 88 (6.83%) IT Support
7 86 (6.68%) ServiceNow Developer
8 70 (5.43%) Consultant
8 70 (5.43%) Lead
9 56 (4.35%) IT Engineer
10 54 (4.19%) Senior
11 53 (4.11%) ServiceNow Manager
12 48 (3.73%) Business Analyst
12 48 (3.73%) IT Support Engineer
13 46 (3.57%) Project Manager
14 40 (3.11%) Service Analyst
15 37 (2.87%) Technical Architect
16 35 (2.72%) Solutions Architect
17 34 (2.64%) Administrator
18 32 (2.48%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 133 (10.33%) REST
2 93 (7.22%) SOAP
3 37 (2.87%) SailPoint
4 30 (2.33%) CSS
5 24 (1.86%) AngularJS
6 23 (1.79%) LDAP
7 21 (1.63%) OpenID
8 20 (1.55%) JSON
9 19 (1.48%) Flash
10 17 (1.32%) HTML
11 15 (1.16%) Middleware
11 15 (1.16%) OAuth
12 14 (1.09%) .NET
12 14 (1.09%) Ajax
12 14 (1.09%) Web Services
12 14 (1.09%) XML
13 11 (0.85%) React
14 10 (0.78%) GraphQL
14 10 (0.78%) Kafka
15 9 (0.70%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 155 (12.03%) CMDB
2 92 (7.14%) Onboarding
3 77 (5.98%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 33 (2.56%) Management Information System
6 26 (2.02%) Replication
7 25 (1.94%) Self-Motivation
8 21 (1.63%) Cloud Native
9 20 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
10 19 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
10 19 (1.48%) Security Posture
11 18 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
13 15 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
14 14 (1.09%) Smartphone
15 13 (1.01%) Virtual Team
16 12 (0.93%) Public Cloud
17 10 (0.78%) Driving Licence
17 10 (0.78%) Mobile App
18 9 (0.70%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 227 (17.62%) Windows
2 110 (8.54%) Windows 10
3 60 (4.66%) Linux
4 32 (2.48%) Android
5 31 (2.41%) Unix
6 30 (2.33%) Mac OS
7 27 (2.10%) Windows Server
8 17 (1.32%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.70%) Windows 7
10 6 (0.47%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.39%) zOS
12 4 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.078%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.078%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.078%) VMS
13 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 451 (35.02%) ITSM
2 332 (25.78%) ITIL
3 312 (24.22%) Agile
4 235 (18.25%) Service Management
5 206 (15.99%) Problem-Solving
6 195 (15.14%) Stakeholder Management
7 158 (12.27%) Continuous Improvement
8 145 (11.26%) DevOps
8 145 (11.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 144 (11.18%) Change Management
10 132 (10.25%) Customer Service
11 109 (8.46%) CI/CD
12 108 (8.39%) Migration
13 105 (8.15%) Service Delivery
14 101 (7.84%) Data Modelling
15 94 (7.30%) Project Management
16 93 (7.22%) Roadmaps
16 93 (7.22%) User Acceptance Testing
17 91 (7.07%) Workflow
18 84 (6.52%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 100 (7.76%) SQL
2 99 (7.69%) JavaScript
3 92 (7.14%) Python
4 67 (5.20%) PowerShell
5 63 (4.89%) Java
6 18 (1.40%) C#
7 17 (1.32%) Perl
8 13 (1.01%) Bash
9 12 (0.93%) TypeScript
10 11 (0.85%) PL/SQL
10 11 (0.85%) VB
11 10 (0.78%) Shell Script
12 9 (0.70%) VBScript
13 8 (0.62%) ABAP
14 7 (0.54%) Go
14 7 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
14 7 (0.54%) Lisp
15 6 (0.47%) BeanShell
16 5 (0.39%) PHP
16 5 (0.39%) REXX
Qualifications
1 361 (28.03%) Security Cleared
2 276 (21.43%) SC Cleared
3 111 (8.62%) Degree
4 42 (3.26%) DV Cleared
5 31 (2.41%) TOGAF Certification
6 28 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
7 27 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
8 23 (1.79%) CISSP
8 23 (1.79%) PMP
9 22 (1.71%) PMI Certification
10 20 (1.55%) CCNP
11 19 (1.48%) CISM
12 15 (1.16%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (0.85%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (0.62%) A+ Certification
16 8 (0.62%) CISA
16 8 (0.62%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 8 (0.62%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (4.66%) QA
2 55 (4.27%) SLA
3 52 (4.04%) Data Quality
4 44 (3.42%) GRC
5 42 (3.26%) GDPR
6 29 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 23 (1.79%) NIST
8 18 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (1.24%) PMO
10 11 (0.85%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.70%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.47%) COBIT
13 6 (0.47%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.23%) GxP
15 3 (0.23%) NCSC
15 3 (0.23%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 165 (12.81%) Active Directory
2 33 (2.56%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.48%) GPFS
3 19 (1.48%) NFS
4 17 (1.32%) vSphere
5 16 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (1.16%) Docker
7 10 (0.78%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.23%) Firmware
9 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.16%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 2 (0.16%) RACF
10 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.078%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.078%) IAG
11 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.078%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 63 (4.89%) SCCM
2 42 (3.26%) Terraform
3 37 (2.87%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.33%) Ansible
4 30 (2.33%) OPNET
5 18 (1.40%) Grafana
6 17 (1.32%) Kubernetes
7 16 (1.24%) vRealize
8 13 (1.01%) Prometheus
9 12 (0.93%) RSA Archer
10 10 (0.78%) FortiGate
10 10 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.39%) Salt
11 5 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.31%) Pingdom
12 4 (0.31%) VxRail
13 3 (0.23%) Control-M
13 3 (0.23%) HP ALM
13 3 (0.23%) OMEGAMON
13 3 (0.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 244 (18.94%) Microsoft
2 92 (7.14%) Remedy
3 77 (5.98%) Cisco
4 71 (5.51%) SAP
5 51 (3.96%) Oracle
6 39 (3.03%) Splunk
7 38 (2.95%) VMware
8 37 (2.87%) Salesforce
9 33 (2.56%) Atlassian
10 32 (2.48%) IBM
11 31 (2.41%) Workday
12 24 (1.86%) Apple
13 21 (1.63%) Fortinet
14 19 (1.48%) Zscaler
15 18 (1.40%) Google
16 17 (1.32%) Palo Alto
17 16 (1.24%) BMC
17 16 (1.24%) Citrix
17 16 (1.24%) HP
18 15 (1.16%) NetApp