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 28 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
28 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 66 78
Rank change year-on-year +9 +12 +8
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,721 1,019 960
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.82% 3.71% 2.80%
As % of the Vendors category 9.30% 7.86% 6.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,126 631 579
10th Percentile £218 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £319 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.32% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £580
90th Percentile £680 £671 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 84 94
10th Percentile £17.72 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.44 £16.06
Median hourly rate £26.66 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +41.66% +15.46% -20.80%
75th Percentile £74.99 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £88.00 £63.28 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £26.33 £17.45 £16.30
% change year-on-year +50.93% +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 18,497 12,959 14,864
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.03% 47.23% 43.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,698 8,202 9,541
10th Percentile £313 £280 £290
25th Percentile £413 £401 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £610 £622 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +0.10% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 977 624 828
10th Percentile £16.44 £14.75 £13.44
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.49 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.91 £25.15 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +42.78% -8.55% -30.47%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.13 £61.33
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.90 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.11 £25.15 £27.00
% change year-on-year +39.60% -6.85% -35.41%

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 28 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 28 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 28 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 +15 745 £525 +3.96% 147
South East +14 349 £531 +31.99% 67
North of England -11 319 £475 +1.33% 66
North West -5 195 £400 -21.67% 52
Midlands +14 165 £425 -10.53% 23
West Midlands -4 125 £459 -3.37% 20
Yorkshire -15 115 £515 +28.63% 11
East of England -30 58 £525 +16.67% 16
South West -48 48 £353 +10.96% 25
East Midlands +9 34 £350 -15.15% 3
North East -32 16 £525 +61.54% 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
1 100 (5.81%) SharePoint
2 92 (5.35%) Confluence
3 38 (2.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.52%) Skype for Business
5 8 (0.46%) Apache
5 8 (0.46%) nginx
6 3 (0.17%) CMS
6 3 (0.17%) IIS
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.12%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.12%) SAS
7 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.058%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.058%) Appian
8 1 (0.058%) Drupal
8 1 (0.058%) Mendix
8 1 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 77 (4.47%) Microsoft Excel
2 73 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.58%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.46%) Revit
8 7 (0.41%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.058%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.058%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 68 (3.95%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.17%) Maximo
4 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.12%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.12%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
5 2 (0.12%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.058%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.058%) iTrent
6 1 (0.058%) Oracle Financials
6 1 (0.058%) SAP FI
6 1 (0.058%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.058%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 360 (20.92%) Azure
2 235 (13.65%) AWS
3 211 (12.26%) Microsoft 365
4 134 (7.79%) Entra ID
5 123 (7.15%) Power Platform
6 94 (5.46%) SaaS
7 63 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
8 49 (2.85%) GCP
9 35 (2.03%) OneDrive
10 27 (1.57%) GitHub
11 26 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 26 (1.51%) Datadog
12 25 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (1.39%) Amazon S3
13 24 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
14 23 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
15 22 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 20 (1.16%) Serverless
17 19 (1.10%) Power Automate
18 15 (0.87%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 82 (4.76%) DNS
2 77 (4.47%) DHCP
3 64 (3.72%) Firewall
4 55 (3.20%) VPN
5 48 (2.79%) TCP/IP
6 39 (2.27%) Wireless
7 32 (1.86%) Network Security
8 24 (1.39%) WAN
8 24 (1.39%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (1.34%) LAN
9 23 (1.34%) SSL
10 20 (1.16%) SAN
10 20 (1.16%) VLAN
11 19 (1.10%) NAS
12 15 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
12 15 (0.87%) NX-OS
12 15 (0.87%) Structured Cabling
13 14 (0.81%) SSH
14 13 (0.76%) Internet
15 12 (0.70%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (5.58%) Power BI
2 51 (2.96%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (0.70%) MySQL
8 11 (0.64%) Power Query
9 8 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (0.41%) Metadata
11 6 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.35%) Tableau
12 5 (0.29%) Redis
13 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.23%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.23%) PowerPivot
14 3 (0.17%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 269 (15.63%) JIRA
2 80 (4.65%) Git
3 22 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.10%) GitLab
5 6 (0.35%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.23%) Flyway
7 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.17%) Selenium
8 2 (0.12%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.12%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.12%) JMeter
8 2 (0.12%) JUnit
8 2 (0.12%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.12%) Postman
8 2 (0.12%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.12%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.058%) MSI
General
1 556 (32.31%) Social Skills
2 314 (18.25%) Finance
3 230 (13.36%) Analytical Skills
4 141 (8.19%) Public Sector
5 92 (5.35%) Banking
6 74 (4.30%) Telecoms
7 58 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
8 52 (3.02%) Legal
9 50 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
10 31 (1.80%) Military
11 24 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
12 23 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (1.16%) Manufacturing
14 18 (1.05%) French Language
14 18 (1.05%) Police
14 18 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (0.93%) Retail
15 16 (0.93%) Spanish Language
16 14 (0.81%) Italian Language
16 14 (0.81%) Law
Job Titles
1 252 (14.64%) Architect
2 228 (13.25%) Analyst
3 177 (10.28%) Developer
4 160 (9.30%) ServiceNow Architect
5 152 (8.83%) ServiceNow Developer
6 120 (6.97%) Senior
7 99 (5.75%) Support Engineer
8 98 (5.69%) Consultant
9 93 (5.40%) IT Support
10 89 (5.17%) Lead
11 69 (4.01%) IT Engineer
11 69 (4.01%) Service Analyst
12 68 (3.95%) Business Analyst
12 68 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
13 64 (3.72%) Project Manager
14 63 (3.66%) ServiceNow Consultant
15 60 (3.49%) IT Support Engineer
16 43 (2.50%) Delivery Manager
17 42 (2.44%) IT Manager
17 42 (2.44%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (11.27%) REST
2 116 (6.74%) SOAP
3 35 (2.03%) JSON
4 33 (1.92%) OAuth
4 33 (1.92%) SailPoint
5 32 (1.86%) HTML
6 30 (1.74%) CSS
7 29 (1.69%) Middleware
8 28 (1.63%) Web Services
8 28 (1.63%) XML
9 27 (1.57%) LDAP
10 21 (1.22%) AngularJS
11 20 (1.16%) .NET
12 16 (0.93%) SAML
13 15 (0.87%) Ajax
13 15 (0.87%) OpenID
14 12 (0.70%) Flash
15 11 (0.64%) JDBC
15 11 (0.64%) Microsoft Graph
15 11 (0.64%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 250 (14.53%) CMDB
2 151 (8.77%) Onboarding
3 69 (4.01%) Product Ownership
4 48 (2.79%) Data Centre
5 47 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
6 41 (2.38%) Cloud Native
6 41 (2.38%) Management Information System
7 32 (1.86%) Replication
8 27 (1.57%) Security Posture
9 25 (1.45%) PKI
9 25 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
10 22 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
11 21 (1.22%) AI Agents
11 21 (1.22%) Clustering
12 19 (1.10%) Video Conferencing
13 18 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
13 18 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
14 17 (0.99%) Data Structures
15 15 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (0.87%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 288 (16.73%) Windows
2 102 (5.93%) Windows 10
3 95 (5.52%) Linux
4 47 (2.73%) Windows Server
5 46 (2.67%) Mac OS
6 35 (2.03%) Apple iOS
7 25 (1.45%) Unix
8 23 (1.34%) Android
9 18 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.52%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.23%) VMS
12 4 (0.23%) zOS
13 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
14 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.058%) MVS
15 1 (0.058%) SUSE
15 1 (0.058%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 655 (38.06%) ITSM
2 534 (31.03%) ITIL
3 350 (20.34%) Service Management
4 339 (19.70%) Agile
5 313 (18.19%) Problem-Solving
6 304 (17.66%) Stakeholder Management
7 260 (15.11%) Continuous Improvement
8 203 (11.80%) Change Management
9 199 (11.56%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 195 (11.33%) Customer Service
11 190 (11.04%) AI
12 188 (10.92%) DevOps
13 178 (10.34%) Service Delivery
14 155 (9.01%) Roadmaps
15 150 (8.72%) Migration
16 147 (8.54%) Workflow
17 130 (7.55%) Data Modelling
17 130 (7.55%) Incident Management
18 123 (7.15%) Asset Management
18 123 (7.15%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 125 (7.26%) PowerShell
2 123 (7.15%) SQL
3 118 (6.86%) JavaScript
4 105 (6.10%) Python
5 53 (3.08%) Java
6 34 (1.98%) C#
7 19 (1.10%) Bash
8 11 (0.64%) Groovy
8 11 (0.64%) VBScript
9 10 (0.58%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.52%) PL/SQL
11 8 (0.46%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.46%) VB
12 7 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.29%) Perl
13 5 (0.29%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.23%) BeanShell
14 4 (0.23%) Bicep
15 3 (0.17%) JCL
15 3 (0.17%) Korn
Qualifications
1 488 (28.36%) Security Cleared
2 345 (20.05%) SC Cleared
3 131 (7.61%) Degree
4 108 (6.28%) DV Cleared
5 47 (2.73%) PMP
6 43 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
7 38 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
7 38 (2.21%) PMI Certification
8 34 (1.98%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (1.92%) CISSP
10 28 (1.63%) CCNP
11 26 (1.51%) CISM
11 26 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (1.16%) CCNA
13 18 (1.05%) Network+ Certification
14 16 (0.93%) A+ Certification
14 16 (0.93%) Azure Certification
14 16 (0.93%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 15 (0.87%) Server+ Certification
16 14 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (5.17%) SLA
2 75 (4.36%) Data Quality
3 55 (3.20%) GRC
4 50 (2.91%) QA
5 44 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 36 (2.09%) NIST
7 34 (1.98%) GDPR
8 32 (1.86%) PMO
9 17 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.81%) COBIT
11 13 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.70%) Accessibility
12 12 (0.70%) ISO 9001
12 12 (0.70%) NCSC
13 8 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 7 (0.41%) GxP
15 6 (0.35%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.29%) PCI DSS
17 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 219 (12.73%) Active Directory
2 32 (1.86%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (1.45%) Docker
4 19 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.81%) IAG
7 13 (0.76%) NFS
7 13 (0.76%) vSphere
8 12 (0.70%) GPFS
9 10 (0.58%) BitLocker
10 7 (0.41%) Firmware
10 7 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.17%) 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
Systems Management
1 71 (4.13%) Microsoft Intune
2 70 (4.07%) Terraform
3 58 (3.37%) SCCM
4 42 (2.44%) Ansible
5 31 (1.80%) Kubernetes
6 30 (1.74%) Grafana
7 24 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.22%) Prometheus
9 19 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (0.70%) SCOM
10 12 (0.70%) WMI
11 10 (0.58%) vRealize
12 8 (0.46%) RSA Archer
12 8 (0.46%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.41%) CASB
14 6 (0.35%) VxRail
15 5 (0.29%) Packer
16 4 (0.23%) CA Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.23%) QRadar
16 4 (0.23%) SELinux
Vendors
1 401 (23.30%) Microsoft
2 87 (5.06%) Cisco
3 78 (4.53%) Remedy
4 68 (3.95%) SAP
4 68 (3.95%) Splunk
5 60 (3.49%) Oracle
6 46 (2.67%) Salesforce
7 44 (2.56%) VMware
8 39 (2.27%) CyberArk
9 31 (1.80%) BMC
10 30 (1.74%) Workday
11 29 (1.69%) Apple
12 28 (1.63%) Dynatrace
12 28 (1.63%) Fortinet
13 25 (1.45%) Palo Alto
14 21 (1.22%) SolarWinds
15 20 (1.16%) CrowdStrike
15 20 (1.16%) iManage
15 20 (1.16%) Snow
16 19 (1.10%) F5