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 27 May 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
27 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 64 83
Rank change year-on-year -2 +19 +22
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,423 874 926
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.42% 3.68% 2.53%
As % of the Vendors category 8.32% 7.71% 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 984 543 537
10th Percentile £213 £211 £165
25th Percentile £400 £313 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £598
90th Percentile £679 £688 £692
UK median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 62 106
10th Percentile £16.31 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £14.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.48 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +36.13% +13.34% -25.91%
75th Percentile £44.86 £24.14 £21.37
90th Percentile £85.80 £46.50 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £17.45 £16.30
% change year-on-year +44.17% +7.02% -34.80%

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 17,103 11,330 15,285
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.05% 47.66% 41.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,040 7,281 9,756
10th Percentile £313 £280 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +1.94% -3.56%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 466 1,015
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.44 £14.34
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.40 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.95% +12.89% -41.56%
75th Percentile £58.98 £55.19 £57.41
90th Percentile £77.43 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.00 £22.30
% change year-on-year +30.00% +12.11% -47.53%

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 27 May 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 27 May 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 27 May 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 +3 627 £520 -0.95% 149
North of England -6 280 £514 +28.50% 75
South East +3 212 £500 +42.86% 85
Midlands +2 166 £420 -23.64% 37
North West 0 145 £459 -7.65% 45
Yorkshire -8 124 £525 +31.25% 26
West Midlands -14 118 £425 -22.80% 23
East of England -27 60 £538 +55.12% 25
South West -31 47 £500 +100.00% 14
East Midlands +3 41 £350 -31.71% 14
North East -15 15 £450 +50.00% 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 79 (5.55%) Confluence
2 53 (3.72%) SharePoint
3 48 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.84%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.49%) Apache
6 4 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.28%) CMS
7 3 (0.21%) Appian
7 3 (0.21%) SAS
7 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.14%) Camunda
8 2 (0.14%) IIS
8 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.070%) CICS
9 1 (0.070%) Drupal
9 1 (0.070%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.070%) Tomcat
Applications
1 68 (4.78%) Microsoft Office
2 60 (4.22%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (2.46%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.70%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.28%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.28%) Revit
8 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.070%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.070%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 55 (3.87%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.21%) Maximo
5 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.14%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.14%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.070%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.070%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.070%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.070%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.070%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.070%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 291 (20.45%) Azure
2 206 (14.48%) AWS
3 147 (10.33%) Microsoft 365
4 112 (7.87%) Entra ID
5 94 (6.61%) Power Platform
6 67 (4.71%) GCP
7 63 (4.43%) SaaS
8 61 (4.29%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (1.90%) OneDrive
10 18 (1.26%) Microsoft Copilot
11 16 (1.12%) Power Automate
12 15 (1.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (1.05%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (1.05%) Amazon S3
12 15 (1.05%) GitHub
12 15 (1.05%) Slack
13 14 (0.98%) AWS KMS
14 13 (0.91%) Datadog
14 13 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (0.84%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 73 (5.13%) DNS
2 64 (4.50%) DHCP
2 64 (4.50%) Firewall
3 49 (3.44%) VPN
4 39 (2.74%) Wireless
5 32 (2.25%) LAN
6 31 (2.18%) WAN
7 30 (2.11%) Network Security
8 23 (1.62%) TCP/IP
8 23 (1.62%) Wi-Fi
9 22 (1.55%) VLAN
10 20 (1.41%) SAN
11 19 (1.34%) NAS
12 15 (1.05%) Cisco IOS
12 15 (1.05%) NX-OS
12 15 (1.05%) SD-WAN
12 15 (1.05%) Structured Cabling
13 14 (0.98%) Internet
13 14 (0.98%) SSL
14 12 (0.84%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (5.48%) Power BI
2 38 (2.67%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (0.98%) Metadata
7 12 (0.84%) Tableau
8 10 (0.70%) MongoDB
8 10 (0.70%) Power Query
9 9 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (0.49%) MySQL
10 7 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.42%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.42%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.28%) DB2
13 4 (0.28%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.28%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 247 (17.36%) JIRA
2 68 (4.78%) Git
3 39 (2.74%) Jenkins
4 35 (2.46%) GitLab
5 16 (1.12%) Selenium
6 14 (0.98%) REST Assured
7 13 (0.91%) Postman
8 12 (0.84%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.49%) TestRail
10 5 (0.35%) JMeter
10 5 (0.35%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.28%) Flyway
11 4 (0.28%) Gatling
11 4 (0.28%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.21%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.21%) JUnit
13 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.14%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 428 (30.08%) Social Skills
2 280 (19.68%) Finance
3 164 (11.52%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (8.01%) Public Sector
5 84 (5.90%) Banking
6 57 (4.01%) Telecoms
7 52 (3.65%) Organisational Skills
8 45 (3.16%) Legal
9 41 (2.88%) Military
10 40 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
11 19 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (1.34%) Retail
12 18 (1.26%) Influencing Skills
13 16 (1.12%) Billing
13 16 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
14 13 (0.91%) Financial Institution
14 13 (0.91%) French Language
15 11 (0.77%) Manufacturing
16 9 (0.63%) Italian Language
16 9 (0.63%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 269 (18.90%) Architect
2 183 (12.86%) Analyst
3 158 (11.10%) ServiceNow Architect
4 127 (8.92%) Developer
5 106 (7.45%) ServiceNow Developer
6 86 (6.04%) Senior
7 77 (5.41%) Support Engineer
8 75 (5.27%) IT Support
9 72 (5.06%) Lead
10 65 (4.57%) Consultant
11 64 (4.50%) Solutions Architect
12 53 (3.72%) Project Manager
13 51 (3.58%) Business Analyst
14 48 (3.37%) IT Engineer
15 45 (3.16%) IT Support Engineer
15 45 (3.16%) ServiceNow Manager
16 43 (3.02%) Service Analyst
17 40 (2.81%) Technical Architect
18 39 (2.74%) ServiceNow Consultant
19 35 (2.46%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 180 (12.65%) REST
2 105 (7.38%) SOAP
3 39 (2.74%) SailPoint
4 38 (2.67%) LDAP
5 31 (2.18%) Middleware
6 30 (2.11%) CSS
7 29 (2.04%) HTML
7 29 (2.04%) OpenID
8 25 (1.76%) JSON
9 23 (1.62%) Web Services
10 22 (1.55%) AngularJS
10 22 (1.55%) OAuth
11 20 (1.41%) Flash
12 19 (1.34%) .NET
12 19 (1.34%) XML
13 16 (1.12%) SAML
14 11 (0.77%) JDBC
14 11 (0.77%) Kafka
14 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Graph
15 10 (0.70%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 182 (12.79%) CMDB
2 112 (7.87%) Onboarding
3 80 (5.62%) Product Ownership
4 43 (3.02%) Data Centre
5 37 (2.60%) Management Information System
6 32 (2.25%) Replication
7 27 (1.90%) Cloud Native
8 24 (1.69%) Security Posture
9 22 (1.55%) Enterprise Software
10 20 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
11 18 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (1.19%) Data Structures
12 17 (1.19%) Virtual Team
13 16 (1.12%) PKI
14 15 (1.05%) AI Agents
15 14 (0.98%) Data Protection Act
16 13 (0.91%) Clustering
16 13 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
17 10 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
18 8 (0.56%) Cloud Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 222 (15.60%) Windows
2 85 (5.97%) Windows 10
3 75 (5.27%) Linux
4 37 (2.60%) Mac OS
5 36 (2.53%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.97%) Unix
7 22 (1.55%) Apple iOS
8 18 (1.26%) Android
9 12 (0.84%) Windows 7
10 8 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 5 (0.35%) zOS
12 4 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.070%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.070%) MVS
13 1 (0.070%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.070%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.070%) VMS
13 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 499 (35.07%) ITSM
2 386 (27.13%) ITIL
3 313 (22.00%) Agile
4 249 (17.50%) Service Management
5 212 (14.90%) Problem-Solving
6 207 (14.55%) Stakeholder Management
7 196 (13.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 175 (12.30%) Change Management
9 168 (11.81%) DevOps
10 157 (11.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 137 (9.63%) Customer Service
12 134 (9.42%) Migration
13 128 (9.00%) CI/CD
14 127 (8.92%) Service Delivery
15 125 (8.78%) AI
15 125 (8.78%) Roadmaps
16 119 (8.36%) Workflow
17 118 (8.29%) Data Modelling
18 103 (7.24%) Asset Management
19 102 (7.17%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 132 (9.28%) SQL
2 104 (7.31%) JavaScript
3 88 (6.18%) Python
4 85 (5.97%) PowerShell
5 74 (5.20%) Java
6 30 (2.11%) C#
7 13 (0.91%) VB
7 13 (0.91%) VBScript
8 11 (0.77%) Bash
8 11 (0.77%) TypeScript
9 10 (0.70%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.56%) Groovy
11 7 (0.49%) Perl
12 6 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.42%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.35%) BeanShell
13 5 (0.35%) Go
13 5 (0.35%) JCL
13 5 (0.35%) PHP
13 5 (0.35%) REXX
Qualifications
1 372 (26.14%) Security Cleared
2 271 (19.04%) SC Cleared
3 108 (7.59%) Degree
4 67 (4.71%) DV Cleared
5 40 (2.81%) Cisco Certification
6 34 (2.39%) PMP
7 32 (2.25%) ITIL Certification
8 31 (2.18%) CCNP
9 30 (2.11%) PMI Certification
10 27 (1.90%) CISSP
11 21 (1.48%) CISM
12 20 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
12 20 (1.41%) CCNA
13 15 (1.05%) Network+ Certification
13 15 (1.05%) Server+ Certification
14 13 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
15 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (0.70%) AWS Certification
16 10 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 10 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (5.48%) SLA
2 66 (4.64%) Data Quality
3 50 (3.51%) QA
4 43 (3.02%) GRC
5 42 (2.95%) GDPR
6 31 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (1.97%) NIST
8 26 (1.83%) PMO
9 23 (1.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.77%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.56%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.56%) PCI DSS
13 6 (0.42%) COBIT
14 4 (0.28%) GxP
14 4 (0.28%) NCSC
15 3 (0.21%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.21%) SOC 2
16 2 (0.14%) Government Security Classifications
16 2 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 161 (11.31%) Active Directory
2 34 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.48%) NFS
4 20 (1.41%) GPFS
5 19 (1.34%) Docker
6 16 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (1.12%) vSphere
7 12 (0.84%) BitLocker
8 7 (0.49%) Firmware
9 5 (0.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.28%) IAG
10 4 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (0.21%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.14%) RACF
12 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.14%) Virtual Desktop
12 2 (0.14%) VMware NSX
12 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 57 (4.01%) Terraform
2 46 (3.23%) SCCM
3 38 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (2.32%) Ansible
5 25 (1.76%) Grafana
6 21 (1.48%) Kubernetes
7 19 (1.34%) Prometheus
8 16 (1.12%) vRealize
9 14 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
10 11 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
11 9 (0.63%) OPNET
12 8 (0.56%) VxRail
13 7 (0.49%) CASB
13 7 (0.49%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.49%) WMI
14 5 (0.35%) QRadar
14 5 (0.35%) Salt
15 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.28%) Pingdom
15 4 (0.28%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 263 (18.48%) Microsoft
2 94 (6.61%) Cisco
3 80 (5.62%) Remedy
4 62 (4.36%) SAP
5 52 (3.65%) Splunk
6 51 (3.58%) Oracle
7 41 (2.88%) VMware
8 39 (2.74%) Salesforce
9 37 (2.60%) Workday
10 31 (2.18%) BMC
10 31 (2.18%) IBM
11 27 (1.90%) Fortinet
12 26 (1.83%) Palo Alto
13 25 (1.76%) Apple
14 24 (1.69%) Google
15 23 (1.62%) CyberArk
15 23 (1.62%) F5
16 20 (1.41%) Zscaler
17 19 (1.34%) Snow
18 17 (1.19%) iManage