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 15 July 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
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 64 80
Rank change year-on-year +4 +16 +13
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,670 1,004 966
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.73% 3.70% 2.63%
As % of the Vendors category 9.12% 7.80% 6.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,103 619 567
10th Percentile £218 £213 £200
25th Percentile £400 £323 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £575
90th Percentile £676 £681 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 78 102
10th Percentile £17.01 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.44 £16.06
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +32.84% +15.46% -24.33%
75th Percentile £67.47 £32.13 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.80 £59.09 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £23.50 £17.45 £16.30
% change year-on-year +34.71% +7.02% -20.80%

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 18,321 12,873 15,748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.95% 47.45% 42.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,609 8,141 10,027
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £403 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 982 608 1,021
10th Percentile £16.19 £14.84 £12.53
25th Percentile £19.85 £17.59 £15.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% -0.40% -29.86%
75th Percentile £65.58 £51.20 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +39.17% +0.60% -38.27%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +17 719 £525 +1.94% 134
South East +14 331 £525 +31.25% 79
North of England -6 312 £485 +4.86% 81
North West -6 181 £402 -19.60% 54
Midlands +14 168 £425 -10.53% 36
West Midlands -9 126 £448 -5.79% 27
Yorkshire -21 120 £525 +31.25% 18
East of England -39 56 £525 +16.67% 22
South West -40 48 £425 +52.88% 23
East Midlands +13 36 £345 -26.40% 9
North East -28 16 £450 +38.46% 13
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 94 (5.63%) SharePoint
2 93 (5.57%) Confluence
3 40 (2.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.60%) Skype for Business
5 6 (0.36%) Apache
6 5 (0.30%) nginx
7 3 (0.18%) CMS
8 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.12%) IIS
8 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.12%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.12%) SAS
8 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.060%) Appian
9 1 (0.060%) Drupal
9 1 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.060%) Tomcat
Applications
1 75 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (4.37%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (1.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.62%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (1.08%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.60%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.48%) Revit
8 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.12%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.060%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.060%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 63 (3.77%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.18%) Maximo
6 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.12%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.12%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.12%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.12%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.12%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.12%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.060%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle Applications
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.060%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.060%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 342 (20.48%) Azure
2 226 (13.53%) AWS
3 194 (11.62%) Microsoft 365
4 130 (7.78%) Entra ID
5 114 (6.83%) Power Platform
6 85 (5.09%) SaaS
7 58 (3.47%) Azure DevOps
8 50 (2.99%) GCP
9 33 (1.98%) OneDrive
10 25 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 23 (1.38%) Amazon EC2
11 23 (1.38%) Amazon S3
12 22 (1.32%) Azure Monitor
12 22 (1.32%) Datadog
13 20 (1.20%) GitHub
13 20 (1.20%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 19 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
15 17 (1.02%) Power Automate
15 17 (1.02%) Serverless
16 15 (0.90%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 80 (4.79%) DNS
2 75 (4.49%) DHCP
3 62 (3.71%) Firewall
4 49 (2.93%) VPN
5 42 (2.51%) TCP/IP
6 38 (2.28%) Wireless
7 33 (1.98%) Network Security
8 29 (1.74%) LAN
8 29 (1.74%) WAN
9 26 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
10 21 (1.26%) SSL
11 20 (1.20%) SAN
11 20 (1.20%) VLAN
12 19 (1.14%) NAS
13 15 (0.90%) Cisco IOS
13 15 (0.90%) NX-OS
13 15 (0.90%) Structured Cabling
14 14 (0.84%) Internet
15 13 (0.78%) SD-WAN
16 12 (0.72%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (5.57%) Power BI
2 48 (2.87%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (0.66%) MySQL
7 11 (0.66%) Power Query
8 8 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (0.48%) Metadata
9 6 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.36%) Tableau
10 4 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.24%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.24%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.24%) PowerPivot
10 4 (0.24%) Redis
11 3 (0.18%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 264 (15.81%) JIRA
2 76 (4.55%) Git
3 21 (1.26%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.08%) GitLab
5 5 (0.30%) Selenium
6 4 (0.24%) Flyway
7 3 (0.18%) Bitbucket
7 3 (0.18%) Cucumber
7 3 (0.18%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 2 (0.12%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.12%) JUnit
8 2 (0.12%) Postman
8 2 (0.12%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.060%) Chocolatey
9 1 (0.060%) Claude Code
9 1 (0.060%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.060%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.060%) TestRail
General
1 529 (31.68%) Social Skills
2 309 (18.50%) Finance
3 218 (13.05%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (7.84%) Public Sector
5 89 (5.33%) Banking
6 73 (4.37%) Telecoms
7 56 (3.35%) Organisational Skills
8 48 (2.87%) Legal
9 47 (2.81%) Documentation Skills
10 33 (1.98%) Military
11 23 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
12 22 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 19 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.08%) French Language
14 18 (1.08%) Retail
15 17 (1.02%) Manufacturing
16 15 (0.90%) Police
17 14 (0.84%) Spanish Language
18 13 (0.78%) Italian Language
19 12 (0.72%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 254 (15.21%) Architect
2 232 (13.89%) Analyst
3 165 (9.88%) Developer
4 158 (9.46%) ServiceNow Architect
5 140 (8.38%) ServiceNow Developer
6 112 (6.71%) Senior
7 99 (5.93%) Consultant
8 93 (5.57%) Support Engineer
9 88 (5.27%) IT Support
10 85 (5.09%) Lead
11 70 (4.19%) Business Analyst
12 69 (4.13%) Service Analyst
13 68 (4.07%) ServiceNow Consultant
14 65 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
15 62 (3.71%) IT Engineer
16 57 (3.41%) Project Manager
17 55 (3.29%) IT Support Engineer
18 49 (2.93%) Technical Architect
19 42 (2.51%) Delivery Manager
20 41 (2.46%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (11.14%) REST
2 116 (6.95%) SOAP
3 33 (1.98%) SailPoint
4 32 (1.92%) JSON
4 32 (1.92%) OAuth
5 31 (1.86%) HTML
6 30 (1.80%) LDAP
6 30 (1.80%) Middleware
7 29 (1.74%) CSS
8 27 (1.62%) Web Services
9 25 (1.50%) XML
10 21 (1.26%) AngularJS
11 18 (1.08%) SAML
12 17 (1.02%) .NET
12 17 (1.02%) OpenID
13 14 (0.84%) Flash
14 13 (0.78%) Ajax
15 12 (0.72%) OAuth2
16 11 (0.66%) JDBC
16 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 240 (14.37%) CMDB
2 138 (8.26%) Onboarding
3 66 (3.95%) Product Ownership
4 49 (2.93%) Data Centre
5 42 (2.51%) Enterprise Software
5 42 (2.51%) Management Information System
6 41 (2.46%) Cloud Native
7 33 (1.98%) Replication
8 27 (1.62%) Security Posture
9 25 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
10 24 (1.44%) PKI
11 23 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
12 19 (1.14%) AI Agents
12 19 (1.14%) Clustering
13 18 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
14 17 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (1.02%) Video Conferencing
15 16 (0.96%) Data Structures
15 16 (0.96%) Virtual Team
16 14 (0.84%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 262 (15.69%) Windows
2 94 (5.63%) Windows 10
3 88 (5.27%) Linux
4 44 (2.63%) Mac OS
5 41 (2.46%) Windows Server
6 34 (2.04%) Apple iOS
7 25 (1.50%) Unix
8 23 (1.38%) Android
9 16 (0.96%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 10 (0.60%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.24%) VMS
13 3 (0.18%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.18%) zOS
14 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.060%) CentOS
15 1 (0.060%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 635 (38.02%) ITSM
2 510 (30.54%) ITIL
3 331 (19.82%) Service Management
4 329 (19.70%) Agile
5 300 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
6 285 (17.07%) Stakeholder Management
7 246 (14.73%) Continuous Improvement
8 198 (11.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 194 (11.62%) Change Management
10 181 (10.84%) DevOps
11 179 (10.72%) AI
12 178 (10.66%) Customer Service
13 168 (10.06%) Service Delivery
14 151 (9.04%) Migration
15 149 (8.92%) Roadmaps
16 143 (8.56%) Workflow
17 126 (7.54%) Data Modelling
18 123 (7.37%) Incident Management
19 116 (6.95%) CI/CD
20 111 (6.65%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (7.31%) SQL
2 115 (6.89%) PowerShell
3 114 (6.83%) JavaScript
4 102 (6.11%) Python
5 53 (3.17%) Java
6 32 (1.92%) C#
7 16 (0.96%) Bash
8 12 (0.72%) VBScript
9 10 (0.60%) Groovy
10 9 (0.54%) PL/SQL
10 9 (0.54%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.54%) VB
11 7 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 7 (0.42%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.30%) Perl
12 5 (0.30%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.24%) BeanShell
13 4 (0.24%) Bicep
14 3 (0.18%) C++
14 3 (0.18%) JCL
Qualifications
1 471 (28.20%) Security Cleared
2 335 (20.06%) SC Cleared
3 129 (7.72%) Degree
4 100 (5.99%) DV Cleared
5 46 (2.75%) ITIL Certification
5 46 (2.75%) PMP
6 39 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
7 38 (2.28%) PMI Certification
8 33 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 32 (1.92%) CISSP
10 29 (1.74%) CCNP
11 25 (1.50%) CISM
12 23 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (1.20%) CCNA
14 17 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
15 15 (0.90%) Azure Certification
15 15 (0.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 15 (0.90%) Server+ Certification
16 13 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
17 12 (0.72%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (5.09%) SLA
2 71 (4.25%) Data Quality
3 59 (3.53%) GRC
4 45 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 45 (2.69%) QA
5 37 (2.22%) GDPR
5 37 (2.22%) NIST
6 32 (1.92%) PMO
7 17 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 13 (0.78%) Accessibility
8 13 (0.78%) NCSC
9 12 (0.72%) COBIT
9 12 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.66%) ISO 9001
11 7 (0.42%) HIPAA
11 7 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 5 (0.30%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.24%) GxP
13 4 (0.24%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 203 (12.16%) Active Directory
2 33 (1.98%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.26%) Docker
4 18 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (0.90%) NFS
6 15 (0.90%) vSphere
7 14 (0.84%) GPFS
8 12 (0.72%) IAG
9 11 (0.66%) BitLocker
10 7 (0.42%) Firmware
10 7 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 2 (0.12%) RACF
13 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.12%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.060%) Microsoft Virtual Server
14 1 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 67 (4.01%) Terraform
2 62 (3.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 52 (3.11%) SCCM
4 39 (2.34%) Ansible
5 28 (1.68%) Grafana
6 26 (1.56%) Kubernetes
7 24 (1.44%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
8 19 (1.14%) Prometheus
9 12 (0.72%) vRealize
10 11 (0.66%) SCOM
10 11 (0.66%) WMI
11 9 (0.54%) RSA Archer
12 7 (0.42%) CASB
13 6 (0.36%) vCenter Server
13 6 (0.36%) VxRail
14 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.24%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.24%) PingFederate
14 4 (0.24%) QRadar
Vendors
1 370 (22.16%) Microsoft
2 88 (5.27%) Cisco
3 75 (4.49%) Remedy
4 68 (4.07%) SAP
5 66 (3.95%) Splunk
6 56 (3.35%) Oracle
7 44 (2.63%) Salesforce
8 43 (2.57%) VMware
9 37 (2.22%) CyberArk
10 32 (1.92%) Workday
11 30 (1.80%) BMC
12 29 (1.74%) Apple
13 28 (1.68%) Fortinet
14 25 (1.50%) Dynatrace
15 23 (1.38%) Palo Alto
16 21 (1.26%) F5
16 21 (1.26%) Google
16 21 (1.26%) Snow
16 21 (1.26%) SolarWinds
17 20 (1.20%) IBM