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 10 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
10 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 64 70
Rank change year-on-year -1 +6 +38
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,295 886 1,082
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.58% 3.58% 2.84%
As % of the Vendors category 8.07% 7.59% 6.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 884 512 653
10th Percentile £204 £200 £163
25th Percentile £363 £325 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £499 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% -0.30% -
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% -7.44%
75th Percentile £28.75 £23.14 £21.46
90th Percentile £95.00 £29.90 £30.25
UK median hourly rate £19.34 £21.78 £16.30
% change year-on-year -11.18% +33.59% -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 16,054 11,668 16,319
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.36% 47.13% 42.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,476 7,412 10,439
10th Percentile £306 £290 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £517
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +1.55% -4.26%
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 845 388 949
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.62 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.04 £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 £74.68 £83.25 £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 10 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 10 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 10 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 -21 549 £500 -4.76% 84
North of England -1 217 £500 +25.79% 38
South East +41 204 £435 +17.17% 87
Midlands -2 175 £431 -19.69% 30
West Midlands -13 136 £464 -15.79% 22
North West -6 122 £450 +25.00% 25
Yorkshire +1 87 £538 +26.47% 8
East of England -17 69 £525 +5.00% 30
South West +3 64 £725 +114.81% 16
East Midlands -9 35 £411 +15.52% 8
North East -15 8 £200 -33.33% 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 (5.64%) Confluence
2 71 (5.48%) SharePoint
3 55 (4.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.69%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.54%) Apache
6 6 (0.46%) Appian
6 6 (0.46%) Camunda
7 4 (0.31%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.23%) CICS
9 2 (0.15%) CMS
9 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.15%) IIS
9 2 (0.15%) SAS
10 1 (0.077%) JBoss
10 1 (0.077%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.077%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.077%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.077%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.077%) WebSphere
Applications
1 74 (5.71%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (4.71%) Microsoft Excel
3 56 (4.32%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.62%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.39%) 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 (0.077%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.077%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 38 (2.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 15 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.69%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 9 (0.69%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.54%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.31%) Maximo
7 3 (0.23%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.15%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.077%) Actimize
9 1 (0.077%) assyst
9 1 (0.077%) Dynamics CRM
9 1 (0.077%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.077%) SAP CS
9 1 (0.077%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.077%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 254 (19.61%) Azure
2 183 (14.13%) Microsoft 365
3 150 (11.58%) AWS
4 96 (7.41%) Entra ID
5 77 (5.95%) Power Platform
6 63 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
6 63 (4.86%) GCP
7 57 (4.40%) SaaS
8 33 (2.55%) OneDrive
9 19 (1.47%) GitHub
10 17 (1.31%) Power Automate
11 15 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
12 13 (1.00%) Amazon S3
13 12 (0.93%) Serverless
14 11 (0.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 11 (0.85%) Amazon EC2
15 10 (0.77%) AWS KMS
15 10 (0.77%) AWS Lambda
15 10 (0.77%) Azure Monitor
16 9 (0.69%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 67 (5.17%) DNS
2 51 (3.94%) VPN
3 49 (3.78%) DHCP
4 40 (3.09%) Firewall
4 40 (3.09%) Wireless
5 37 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
6 34 (2.63%) LAN
7 33 (2.55%) WAN
8 25 (1.93%) Network Security
9 19 (1.47%) TCP/IP
10 13 (1.00%) VLAN
11 12 (0.93%) BGP
12 11 (0.85%) NX-OS
12 11 (0.85%) SD-WAN
13 9 (0.69%) 4G
13 9 (0.69%) Cisco ISE
13 9 (0.69%) Cisco Wireless
13 9 (0.69%) Skype
14 8 (0.62%) Internet
14 8 (0.62%) PABX
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.48%) Power BI
2 29 (2.24%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.62%) Metadata
4 19 (1.47%) Tableau
5 16 (1.24%) Amazon RDS
6 15 (1.16%) MySQL
7 14 (1.08%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 13 (1.00%) Data Warehouse
9 10 (0.77%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (0.69%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.54%) DB2
12 6 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.39%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.39%) NoSQL
14 4 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.31%) Metadata Repository
14 4 (0.31%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.31%) Redis
Development Applications
1 213 (16.45%) JIRA
2 47 (3.63%) Git
3 41 (3.17%) Jenkins
4 29 (2.24%) GitLab
5 17 (1.31%) Selenium
6 14 (1.08%) REST Assured
7 13 (1.00%) Postman
8 12 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 9 (0.69%) Android Studio
9 9 (0.69%) Browser DevTools
9 9 (0.69%) Eclipse
9 9 (0.69%) 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
1 457 (35.29%) Social Skills
2 265 (20.46%) Finance
3 189 (14.59%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 68 (5.25%) Banking
6 58 (4.48%) Military
7 49 (3.78%) Legal
8 47 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
9 46 (3.55%) Telecoms
10 42 (3.24%) Organisational Skills
11 25 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (1.31%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (1.16%) Law
15 14 (1.08%) Aerospace
15 14 (1.08%) Billing
16 13 (1.00%) Retail
17 11 (0.85%) Financial Institution
17 11 (0.85%) Manufacturing
18 8 (0.62%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 224 (17.30%) Architect
2 183 (14.13%) Analyst
3 129 (9.96%) ServiceNow Architect
4 103 (7.95%) Developer
5 98 (7.57%) Support Engineer
6 91 (7.03%) IT Support
7 86 (6.64%) ServiceNow Developer
8 73 (5.64%) Consultant
9 69 (5.33%) Lead
10 59 (4.56%) IT Engineer
11 55 (4.25%) Senior
12 52 (4.02%) ServiceNow Manager
13 51 (3.94%) IT Support Engineer
14 48 (3.71%) Business Analyst
15 46 (3.55%) Project Manager
16 40 (3.09%) Service Analyst
17 37 (2.86%) Technical Architect
18 35 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
19 34 (2.63%) Administrator
19 34 (2.63%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 137 (10.58%) REST
2 97 (7.49%) SOAP
3 37 (2.86%) SailPoint
4 30 (2.32%) CSS
5 24 (1.85%) AngularJS
6 23 (1.78%) LDAP
7 21 (1.62%) OpenID
8 19 (1.47%) Flash
8 19 (1.47%) JSON
9 18 (1.39%) Web Services
10 17 (1.31%) HTML
11 15 (1.16%) Middleware
11 15 (1.16%) OAuth
12 14 (1.08%) .NET
12 14 (1.08%) Ajax
12 14 (1.08%) XML
13 11 (0.85%) Kafka
13 11 (0.85%) React
14 10 (0.77%) GraphQL
15 9 (0.69%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 161 (12.43%) CMDB
2 96 (7.41%) Onboarding
3 84 (6.49%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.01%) Data Centre
5 33 (2.55%) Management Information System
6 27 (2.08%) Replication
7 25 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (1.47%) Cloud Native
8 19 (1.47%) Enterprise Software
8 19 (1.47%) Linux Command Line
9 18 (1.39%) Data Protection Act
9 18 (1.39%) Security Posture
10 15 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
10 15 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
11 14 (1.08%) Smartphone
12 13 (1.00%) Virtual Team
13 12 (0.93%) Public Cloud
14 10 (0.77%) Driving Licence
14 10 (0.77%) Mobile App
15 9 (0.69%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 231 (17.84%) Windows
2 111 (8.57%) Windows 10
3 59 (4.56%) Linux
4 32 (2.47%) Android
5 31 (2.39%) Mac OS
5 31 (2.39%) Unix
6 27 (2.08%) Windows Server
7 17 (1.31%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.69%) Windows 7
9 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.39%) zOS
11 4 (0.31%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.077%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.077%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.077%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.077%) VMS
12 1 (0.077%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.077%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (35.14%) ITSM
2 340 (26.25%) ITIL
3 312 (24.09%) Agile
4 237 (18.30%) Service Management
5 204 (15.75%) Problem-Solving
6 195 (15.06%) Stakeholder Management
7 159 (12.28%) Continuous Improvement
8 148 (11.43%) Change Management
9 146 (11.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 143 (11.04%) DevOps
11 134 (10.35%) Customer Service
12 108 (8.34%) CI/CD
13 107 (8.26%) Migration
13 107 (8.26%) Service Delivery
14 101 (7.80%) Data Modelling
15 96 (7.41%) Roadmaps
15 96 (7.41%) Workflow
16 94 (7.26%) Project Management
17 93 (7.18%) User Acceptance Testing
18 84 (6.49%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 99 (7.64%) JavaScript
2 98 (7.57%) SQL
3 89 (6.87%) Python
4 66 (5.10%) PowerShell
5 63 (4.86%) Java
6 18 (1.39%) C#
7 17 (1.31%) Perl
8 12 (0.93%) TypeScript
9 11 (0.85%) Bash
9 11 (0.85%) PL/SQL
9 11 (0.85%) VB
10 10 (0.77%) Shell Script
11 9 (0.69%) VBScript
12 8 (0.62%) ABAP
13 7 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (0.54%) Lisp
14 6 (0.46%) BeanShell
15 5 (0.39%) Go
15 5 (0.39%) Groovy
15 5 (0.39%) REXX
Qualifications
1 367 (28.34%) Security Cleared
2 281 (21.70%) SC Cleared
3 112 (8.65%) Degree
4 44 (3.40%) DV Cleared
5 31 (2.39%) TOGAF Certification
6 28 (2.16%) ITIL Certification
7 27 (2.08%) Cisco Certification
8 23 (1.78%) CISSP
8 23 (1.78%) PMP
9 22 (1.70%) PMI Certification
10 20 (1.54%) CCNP
11 19 (1.47%) CISM
12 16 (1.24%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (1.00%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (0.85%) ISTQB
15 10 (0.77%) 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 62 (4.79%) SLA
2 60 (4.63%) QA
3 55 (4.25%) Data Quality
4 43 (3.32%) GRC
5 41 (3.17%) GDPR
6 28 (2.16%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 22 (1.70%) NIST
8 17 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (1.24%) PMO
10 11 (0.85%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.69%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.46%) COBIT
14 5 (0.39%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.31%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 3 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
16 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
16 3 (0.23%) NCSC
16 3 (0.23%) NIST 800
16 3 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 165 (12.74%) Active Directory
2 33 (2.55%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.47%) GPFS
3 19 (1.47%) NFS
4 17 (1.31%) vSphere
5 16 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (1.08%) Docker
7 10 (0.77%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 3 (0.23%) Firmware
9 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.15%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 2 (0.15%) RACF
10 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.077%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.077%) IAG
11 1 (0.077%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.077%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.077%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.077%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 64 (4.94%) SCCM
2 42 (3.24%) Terraform
3 37 (2.86%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.32%) OPNET
5 28 (2.16%) Ansible
6 20 (1.54%) Grafana
7 16 (1.24%) Kubernetes
7 16 (1.24%) vRealize
8 14 (1.08%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.85%) RSA Archer
10 10 (0.77%) FortiGate
10 10 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
11 5 (0.39%) Salt
11 5 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
12 4 (0.31%) Pingdom
12 4 (0.31%) Rancher
12 4 (0.31%) VxRail
13 3 (0.23%) Control-M
13 3 (0.23%) HP ALM
13 3 (0.23%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 247 (19.07%) Microsoft
2 92 (7.10%) Remedy
3 78 (6.02%) Cisco
4 70 (5.41%) SAP
5 50 (3.86%) Oracle
6 39 (3.01%) Splunk
7 38 (2.93%) VMware
8 36 (2.78%) Salesforce
9 33 (2.55%) Atlassian
10 32 (2.47%) IBM
11 30 (2.32%) Workday
12 25 (1.93%) Apple
13 21 (1.62%) Fortinet
14 19 (1.47%) Zscaler
15 18 (1.39%) Google
16 17 (1.31%) Palo Alto
17 16 (1.24%) BMC
17 16 (1.24%) Citrix
17 16 (1.24%) HP
18 15 (1.16%) NetApp