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 21 February 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
21 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 66 72
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 +44
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,243 896 1,074
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.56% 3.47% 2.83%
As % of the Vendors category 7.92% 7.43% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 857 511 665
10th Percentile £204 £200 £163
25th Percentile £353 £356 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £715
UK median daily rate £486 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -1.92% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 63
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.86 £16.06
Median hourly rate £19.25 £21.46 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +21.11% +2.72%
75th Percentile £28.75 £23.40 £23.00
90th Percentile £95.00 £29.70 £35.10
UK median hourly rate £19.34 £22.69 £17.50
% change year-on-year -14.75% +29.64% +2.94%

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 15,694 12,053 16,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.91% 46.62% 43.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,240 7,417 10,508
10th Percentile £303 £281 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £704 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £523
% change year-on-year -4.40% +0.10% -1.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 803 352 872
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.15 £20.27 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.89 £27.76
Median % change year-on-year -22.87% +11.29% -18.46%
75th Percentile £58.70 £65.00 £56.49
90th Percentile £74.16 £82.33 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £29.00 £27.33
% change year-on-year -17.24% +6.10% -21.44%

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 21 February 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 21 February 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 21 February 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 -25 515 £500 -4.76% 110
North of England -1 217 £500 +25.00% 52
South East +43 190 £425 +0.35% 101
Midlands +5 178 £456 -8.75% 35
West Midlands -1 137 £475 -13.64% 23
North West -10 113 £450 +19.21% 35
Yorkshire -1 97 £530 +21.14% 15
East of England -6 68 £525 +5.00% 9
South West +7 61 £725 +222.22% 11
East Midlands +4 38 £413 +15.87% 12
North East -22 7 £176 -41.33% 3
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 76 (6.11%) Confluence
2 73 (5.87%) SharePoint
3 50 (4.02%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.72%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.56%) Apache
6 6 (0.48%) Appian
6 6 (0.48%) Camunda
7 4 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.32%) nginx
8 3 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.24%) CICS
8 3 (0.24%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.24%) SAS
9 2 (0.16%) CMS
9 2 (0.16%) JBoss
10 1 (0.080%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.080%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.080%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.080%) WebSphere
Applications
1 75 (6.03%) Microsoft Office
2 62 (4.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 57 (4.59%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.69%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.61%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.56%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.32%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (0.32%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 4 (0.32%) Trello
8 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.080%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.080%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 35 (2.82%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.72%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.64%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 7 (0.56%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.24%) Maximo
7 3 (0.24%) SAP GRC
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 (0.080%) assyst
9 1 (0.080%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.080%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.080%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 1 (0.080%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.080%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.080%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 254 (20.43%) Azure
2 182 (14.64%) Microsoft 365
3 155 (12.47%) AWS
4 96 (7.72%) Entra ID
5 67 (5.39%) Power Platform
6 64 (5.15%) GCP
7 60 (4.83%) SaaS
8 55 (4.42%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (2.57%) OneDrive
10 19 (1.53%) GitHub
11 18 (1.45%) Amazon S3
12 17 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 17 (1.37%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (1.29%) AWS KMS
13 16 (1.29%) Power Automate
13 16 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 15 (1.21%) Amazon ELB
15 14 (1.13%) Azure Logic Apps
16 11 (0.88%) Sauce Labs
16 11 (0.88%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 70 (5.63%) DNS
2 54 (4.34%) VPN
3 44 (3.54%) DHCP
4 38 (3.06%) Firewall
4 38 (3.06%) Wi-Fi
4 38 (3.06%) Wireless
5 31 (2.49%) LAN
6 29 (2.33%) WAN
7 20 (1.61%) TCP/IP
8 18 (1.45%) Network Security
9 14 (1.13%) FTP
10 12 (0.97%) BGP
10 12 (0.97%) VLAN
11 10 (0.80%) Internet
11 10 (0.80%) SD-WAN
12 9 (0.72%) 4G
12 9 (0.72%) Cisco ISE
12 9 (0.72%) Cisco Wireless
12 9 (0.72%) Skype
12 9 (0.72%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (3.86%) Power BI
2 26 (2.09%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.69%) Metadata
4 20 (1.61%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (1.29%) MySQL
5 16 (1.29%) Relational Database
6 15 (1.21%) Tableau
7 13 (1.05%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (0.72%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (0.64%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.56%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (0.56%) DB2
11 6 (0.48%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.32%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (0.32%) Neo4j
12 4 (0.32%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 206 (16.57%) JIRA
2 48 (3.86%) Jenkins
3 44 (3.54%) Git
4 29 (2.33%) GitLab
5 17 (1.37%) Selenium
6 14 (1.13%) REST Assured
7 13 (1.05%) Postman
8 12 (0.97%) Cucumber
9 11 (0.88%) Android Studio
9 11 (0.88%) Browser DevTools
9 11 (0.88%) Eclipse
9 11 (0.88%) Xcode
10 8 (0.64%) TestRail
11 6 (0.48%) Vagrant
12 5 (0.40%) JMeter
12 5 (0.40%) LoadRunner
13 4 (0.32%) Gatling
13 4 (0.32%) JUnit
13 4 (0.32%) Metasploit
13 4 (0.32%) NeoLoad
General
1 452 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 256 (20.60%) Finance
3 185 (14.88%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (8.45%) Public Sector
5 58 (4.67%) Banking
6 57 (4.59%) Military
7 45 (3.62%) Documentation Skills
8 43 (3.46%) Legal
8 43 (3.46%) Telecoms
9 39 (3.14%) Organisational Skills
10 23 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (1.53%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (1.29%) Law
13 13 (1.05%) Aerospace
14 12 (0.97%) Retail
15 11 (0.88%) Billing
16 9 (0.72%) Financial Institution
16 9 (0.72%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.64%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 208 (16.73%) Architect
2 181 (14.56%) Analyst
3 122 (9.81%) ServiceNow Architect
4 94 (7.56%) Developer
5 91 (7.32%) Support Engineer
6 82 (6.60%) IT Support
7 79 (6.36%) ServiceNow Developer
8 67 (5.39%) Lead
9 66 (5.31%) Consultant
10 50 (4.02%) IT Engineer
11 48 (3.86%) ServiceNow Manager
12 42 (3.38%) IT Support Engineer
12 42 (3.38%) Project Manager
12 42 (3.38%) Senior
13 41 (3.30%) Service Analyst
14 40 (3.22%) Business Analyst
15 35 (2.82%) Solutions Architect
15 35 (2.82%) Technical Architect
16 34 (2.74%) Administrator
17 32 (2.57%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 119 (9.57%) REST
2 86 (6.92%) SOAP
3 35 (2.82%) SailPoint
4 31 (2.49%) CSS
5 26 (2.09%) LDAP
6 22 (1.77%) AngularJS
7 20 (1.61%) OpenID
8 18 (1.45%) Flash
9 16 (1.29%) Ajax
9 16 (1.29%) HTML
9 16 (1.29%) JSON
10 13 (1.05%) React
11 12 (0.97%) .NET
11 12 (0.97%) Middleware
12 11 (0.88%) GraphQL
12 11 (0.88%) OAuth
13 10 (0.80%) XML
14 9 (0.72%) ADO
15 8 (0.64%) SAML
15 8 (0.64%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 147 (11.83%) CMDB
2 86 (6.92%) Onboarding
3 69 (5.55%) Product Ownership
4 37 (2.98%) Data Centre
5 32 (2.57%) Management Information System
6 31 (2.49%) Replication
7 23 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (1.77%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.61%) Security Posture
10 19 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
11 18 (1.45%) Cloud Native
11 18 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (1.29%) Smartphone
13 15 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
14 14 (1.13%) Mobile App
15 13 (1.05%) Virtual Team
16 11 (0.88%) Driving Licence
16 11 (0.88%) Public Cloud
17 9 (0.72%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 235 (18.91%) Windows
2 105 (8.45%) Windows 10
3 69 (5.55%) Linux
4 37 (2.98%) Mac OS
5 34 (2.74%) Android
6 32 (2.57%) Unix
7 23 (1.85%) Windows Server
8 17 (1.37%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.72%) Windows 7
10 7 (0.56%) VMS
11 6 (0.48%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (0.40%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.40%) zOS
13 4 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.080%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.080%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.080%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 428 (34.43%) ITSM
2 307 (24.70%) ITIL
3 293 (23.57%) Agile
4 226 (18.18%) Service Management
5 200 (16.09%) Problem-Solving
6 188 (15.12%) Stakeholder Management
7 148 (11.91%) Continuous Improvement
7 148 (11.91%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 139 (11.18%) Change Management
9 137 (11.02%) DevOps
10 131 (10.54%) Customer Service
11 106 (8.53%) CI/CD
12 95 (7.64%) Service Delivery
13 94 (7.56%) Migration
14 91 (7.32%) Project Management
15 89 (7.16%) Data Modelling
16 85 (6.84%) Roadmaps
17 80 (6.44%) Asset Management
18 78 (6.28%) User Acceptance Testing
19 76 (6.11%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 95 (7.64%) Python
2 94 (7.56%) JavaScript
3 86 (6.92%) SQL
4 66 (5.31%) PowerShell
5 65 (5.23%) Java
6 22 (1.77%) Perl
7 13 (1.05%) Bash
8 11 (0.88%) PL/SQL
8 11 (0.88%) Shell Script
8 11 (0.88%) TypeScript
8 11 (0.88%) VB
9 10 (0.80%) Groovy
10 9 (0.72%) C#
10 9 (0.72%) VBScript
11 8 (0.64%) ABAP
12 7 (0.56%) Go
12 7 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (0.56%) Lisp
13 5 (0.40%) BeanShell
13 5 (0.40%) REXX
Qualifications
1 350 (28.16%) Security Cleared
2 274 (22.04%) SC Cleared
3 110 (8.85%) Degree
4 39 (3.14%) DV Cleared
5 31 (2.49%) TOGAF Certification
6 23 (1.85%) ITIL Certification
7 21 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (1.69%) PMI Certification
7 21 (1.69%) PMP
8 20 (1.61%) CISSP
9 16 (1.29%) CCNP
9 16 (1.29%) CISM
9 16 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (0.88%) ISTQB
12 9 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.64%) A+ Certification
13 8 (0.64%) Azure Certification
13 8 (0.64%) CISA
14 7 (0.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (4.67%) QA
2 52 (4.18%) SLA
3 45 (3.62%) Data Quality
3 45 (3.62%) GRC
4 44 (3.54%) GDPR
5 28 (2.25%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (1.61%) NIST
7 18 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 14 (1.13%) PMO
9 11 (0.88%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.72%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.64%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.56%) COBIT
13 6 (0.48%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 19770
15 4 (0.32%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
16 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 3 (0.24%) NCSC
16 3 (0.24%) NIST 800
System Software
1 162 (13.03%) Active Directory
2 29 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.69%) Docker
4 18 (1.45%) GPFS
4 18 (1.45%) NFS
5 16 (1.29%) vSphere
6 15 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.80%) BitLocker
8 6 (0.48%) DFS Replication
9 5 (0.40%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.32%) Dovecot
10 4 (0.32%) Postfix
10 4 (0.32%) Squid
11 2 (0.16%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 2 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.080%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.080%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.080%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.080%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.080%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 61 (4.91%) SCCM
2 43 (3.46%) Terraform
3 41 (3.30%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.41%) OPNET
5 29 (2.33%) Ansible
6 22 (1.77%) Grafana
7 16 (1.29%) Jamf Pro
8 15 (1.21%) Prometheus
8 15 (1.21%) vRealize
9 14 (1.13%) Kubernetes
10 11 (0.88%) RSA Archer
11 10 (0.80%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.64%) Nessus
13 6 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
14 5 (0.40%) Salt
15 4 (0.32%) Pingdom
15 4 (0.32%) Proxmox
16 3 (0.24%) HP ALM
16 3 (0.24%) Nmap
16 3 (0.24%) Rancher
Vendors
1 247 (19.87%) Microsoft
2 89 (7.16%) Remedy
3 64 (5.15%) Cisco
3 64 (5.15%) SAP
4 55 (4.42%) Oracle
5 37 (2.98%) Splunk
6 34 (2.74%) Salesforce
6 34 (2.74%) VMware
7 33 (2.65%) Atlassian
8 31 (2.49%) Apple
8 31 (2.49%) IBM
8 31 (2.49%) Workday
9 19 (1.53%) Snow
10 17 (1.37%) Google
11 16 (1.29%) HP
11 16 (1.29%) Palo Alto
12 15 (1.21%) Citrix
12 15 (1.21%) Fortinet
12 15 (1.21%) NetApp
13 14 (1.13%) BMC