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 August 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 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 65 80
Rank change year-on-year +8 +15 -2
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,755 1,008 883
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.83% 3.66% 2.66%
As % of the Vendors category 9.23% 7.76% 6.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,116 635 548
10th Percentile £218 £213 £219
25th Percentile £400 £315 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £475 £503
Median % change year-on-year +6.47% -5.52% +0.55%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £505
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.94% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 87 48
10th Percentile £16.06 £13.00 £14.07
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.50 £14.16
Median hourly rate £26.00 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +38.15% +15.46% -20.80%
75th Percentile £63.75 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.43 £63.16 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £25.75 £17.87 £16.65
% change year-on-year +44.10% +7.33% -19.10%

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 19,023 12,987 14,515
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.56% 47.14% 43.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,913 8,225 9,106
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £618 £616 £627
90th Percentile £703 £713 £731
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,037 625 685
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.50 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.23 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% -13.28% -30.12%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £70.75
UK median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £27.86
% change year-on-year +19.13% -9.73% -35.21%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +22 765 £525 +5.00% 382
North of England -6 359 £450 -10.00% 80
South East +19 342 £538 +53.57% 111
North West +1 232 £375 -26.67% 64
Midlands +6 140 £425 -10.53% 45
Yorkshire -20 116 £500 +5.26% 10
West Midlands -5 114 £450 -5.26% 37
South West -36 56 £463 +40.15% 45
East of England -36 54 £510 +0.79% 17
East Midlands -7 21 £413 - 9
North East -27 17 £500 +42.86% 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
1 109 (6.21%) SharePoint
2 86 (4.90%) Confluence
3 48 (2.74%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.91%) Skype for Business
5 11 (0.63%) nginx
6 8 (0.46%) Apache
7 4 (0.23%) CMS
8 3 (0.17%) IIS
8 3 (0.17%) Mendix
9 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.11%) SAS
9 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.057%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.057%) Drupal
10 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.057%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 79 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 79 (4.50%) Microsoft Office
2 36 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 26 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.14%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.57%) AutoCAD
6 9 (0.51%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.46%) Revit
8 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.057%) LaTeX
9 1 (0.057%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 62 (3.53%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.28%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.11%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.11%) Maximo
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.11%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.057%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.057%) Cloudability
8 1 (0.057%) iTrent
8 1 (0.057%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.057%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 367 (20.91%) Azure
2 242 (13.79%) Microsoft 365
3 236 (13.45%) AWS
4 135 (7.69%) Power Platform
5 133 (7.58%) Entra ID
6 103 (5.87%) SaaS
7 52 (2.96%) Azure DevOps
8 49 (2.79%) GCP
9 43 (2.45%) GitHub
9 43 (2.45%) OneDrive
10 30 (1.71%) Microsoft Copilot
11 29 (1.65%) Azure Monitor
11 29 (1.65%) Datadog
12 24 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 24 (1.37%) Power Automate
13 20 (1.14%) Serverless
14 19 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (1.03%) Amazon S3
16 17 (0.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 16 (0.91%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 90 (5.13%) DNS
2 78 (4.44%) DHCP
3 63 (3.59%) Firewall
4 62 (3.53%) VPN
5 50 (2.85%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.71%) Wireless
7 28 (1.60%) Network Security
7 28 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
8 26 (1.48%) SSL
8 26 (1.48%) VLAN
8 26 (1.48%) WAN
9 23 (1.31%) LAN
10 18 (1.03%) NX-OS
10 18 (1.03%) SSH
11 17 (0.97%) SAN
11 17 (0.97%) Skype
12 16 (0.91%) BGP
13 15 (0.85%) NAS
14 13 (0.74%) Cisco IOS
14 13 (0.74%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (5.75%) Power BI
2 50 (2.85%) SQL Server
3 32 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (0.74%) MySQL
6 13 (0.74%) Power Query
7 12 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (0.68%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (0.68%) Metadata
8 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
9 5 (0.28%) MongoDB
9 5 (0.28%) Redis
9 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (0.23%) PowerPivot
10 4 (0.23%) Tableau
11 3 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.17%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 250 (14.25%) JIRA
2 71 (4.05%) Git
3 27 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 25 (1.42%) GitLab
5 8 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.17%) Flyway
7 3 (0.17%) MSI
8 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.11%) Tricentis qTest
8 2 (0.11%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.057%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.057%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.057%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.057%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.057%) TeamCity
General
1 565 (32.19%) Social Skills
2 332 (18.92%) Finance
3 235 (13.39%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (8.60%) Public Sector
5 88 (5.01%) Banking
6 82 (4.67%) Telecoms
7 50 (2.85%) Legal
8 48 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
9 47 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
10 28 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (1.48%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (1.14%) Military
14 19 (1.08%) Spanish Language
15 18 (1.03%) French Language
15 18 (1.03%) Italian Language
15 18 (1.03%) Police
16 16 (0.91%) Law
16 16 (0.91%) Retail
17 14 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 256 (14.59%) Analyst
2 252 (14.36%) Architect
3 181 (10.31%) Developer
4 161 (9.17%) ServiceNow Developer
5 151 (8.60%) ServiceNow Architect
6 120 (6.84%) Senior
7 108 (6.15%) Consultant
8 105 (5.98%) Support Engineer
9 92 (5.24%) IT Support
10 91 (5.19%) Lead
11 73 (4.16%) Service Analyst
12 71 (4.05%) Business Analyst
13 68 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
14 67 (3.82%) IT Engineer
15 58 (3.30%) IT Support Engineer
15 58 (3.30%) Project Manager
16 55 (3.13%) ServiceNow Consultant
17 40 (2.28%) Technical Architect
18 38 (2.17%) Service Desk Analyst
18 38 (2.17%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (11.34%) REST
2 116 (6.61%) SOAP
3 73 (4.16%) Terraform
4 43 (2.45%) JSON
5 35 (1.99%) HTML
6 34 (1.94%) SailPoint
7 32 (1.82%) OAuth
8 31 (1.77%) CSS
9 30 (1.71%) LDAP
9 30 (1.71%) XML
10 25 (1.42%) Web Services
11 24 (1.37%) Middleware
12 19 (1.08%) .NET
13 17 (0.97%) AngularJS
14 16 (0.91%) Ajax
15 14 (0.80%) SAML
16 13 (0.74%) JDBC
16 13 (0.74%) OpenID
17 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Graph
17 11 (0.63%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 286 (16.30%) CMDB
2 177 (10.09%) Onboarding
3 63 (3.59%) Product Ownership
4 62 (3.53%) Enterprise Software
5 52 (2.96%) Data Centre
6 44 (2.51%) Management Information System
7 40 (2.28%) Cloud Native
8 36 (2.05%) Replication
9 26 (1.48%) PKI
9 26 (1.48%) Security Posture
10 24 (1.37%) AI Agents
10 24 (1.37%) Video Conferencing
11 22 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.20%) Clustering
12 21 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
13 20 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
14 18 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (0.97%) Data Structures
15 17 (0.97%) iPhone
16 15 (0.85%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 331 (18.86%) Windows
2 110 (6.27%) Windows 10
3 107 (6.10%) Linux
4 51 (2.91%) Windows Server
5 49 (2.79%) Mac OS
6 35 (1.99%) Apple iOS
7 24 (1.37%) Android
8 20 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 19 (1.08%) Unix
10 16 (0.91%) Windows 7
11 9 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.23%) VMS
12 4 (0.23%) zOS
13 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.057%) MVS
15 1 (0.057%) SUSE
15 1 (0.057%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 695 (39.60%) ITSM
2 556 (31.68%) ITIL
3 381 (21.71%) Service Management
4 328 (18.69%) Stakeholder Management
5 326 (18.58%) Agile
6 324 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
7 269 (15.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 210 (11.97%) Customer Service
9 208 (11.85%) AI
10 202 (11.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 188 (10.71%) Change Management
12 186 (10.60%) Service Delivery
13 182 (10.37%) DevOps
14 178 (10.14%) Roadmaps
15 151 (8.60%) Workflow
16 139 (7.92%) Migration
17 130 (7.41%) Incident Management
18 127 (7.24%) Asset Management
19 124 (7.07%) CI/CD
20 119 (6.78%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 142 (8.09%) PowerShell
2 115 (6.55%) JavaScript
3 113 (6.44%) Python
4 96 (5.47%) SQL
5 47 (2.68%) Java
6 23 (1.31%) Bash
7 20 (1.14%) C#
8 18 (1.03%) VBScript
9 16 (0.91%) Groovy
10 15 (0.85%) VB
11 11 (0.63%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.51%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.40%) BeanShell
13 7 (0.40%) Perl
14 6 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.34%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.28%) PL/SQL
16 4 (0.23%) C++
17 3 (0.17%) JCL
17 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 471 (26.84%) Security Cleared
2 342 (19.49%) SC Cleared
3 135 (7.69%) Degree
4 91 (5.19%) DV Cleared
5 43 (2.45%) ITIL Certification
6 41 (2.34%) PMP
7 39 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 34 (1.94%) PMI Certification
9 32 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (1.65%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (1.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 23 (1.31%) CISSP
13 22 (1.25%) Azure Certification
13 22 (1.25%) CCNP
14 20 (1.14%) A+ Certification
15 19 (1.08%) CCNA
16 17 (0.97%) CISM
17 16 (0.91%) AWS Certification
18 14 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
18 14 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (5.98%) SLA
2 91 (5.19%) Data Quality
3 60 (3.42%) GRC
4 56 (3.19%) QA
5 45 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (2.39%) NIST
7 41 (2.34%) PMO
8 29 (1.65%) GDPR
9 17 (0.97%) COBIT
9 17 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 15 (0.85%) NCSC
11 14 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.74%) Accessibility
13 12 (0.68%) ISO 9001
14 11 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 8 (0.46%) GxP
16 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.34%) HIPAA
17 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 19770
17 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 230 (13.11%) Active Directory
2 43 (2.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (1.99%) Docker
4 20 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.97%) BitLocker
5 17 (0.97%) IAG
5 17 (0.97%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
7 12 (0.68%) NFS
8 11 (0.63%) vSphere
9 10 (0.57%) GPFS
10 8 (0.46%) Firmware
11 7 (0.40%) VMware NSX
12 5 (0.28%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.11%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.11%) Dovecot
13 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 2 (0.11%) Postfix
13 2 (0.11%) RACF
13 2 (0.11%) Squid
Systems Management
1 77 (4.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 68 (3.87%) SCCM
3 56 (3.19%) Ansible
4 36 (2.05%) Kubernetes
5 30 (1.71%) Grafana
6 24 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
7 20 (1.14%) Prometheus
8 18 (1.03%) SCOM
9 11 (0.63%) WMI
10 9 (0.51%) vCenter Server
10 9 (0.51%) vRealize
11 6 (0.34%) CASB
11 6 (0.34%) Packer
11 6 (0.34%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.28%) VxRail
13 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.23%) PowerCLI
13 4 (0.23%) SELinux
Vendors
1 465 (26.50%) Microsoft
2 84 (4.79%) Cisco
3 70 (3.99%) Oracle
3 70 (3.99%) Remedy
4 67 (3.82%) SAP
5 64 (3.65%) Splunk
6 62 (3.53%) VMware
7 50 (2.85%) CyberArk
8 49 (2.79%) Salesforce
9 35 (1.99%) Dynatrace
10 31 (1.77%) BMC
11 30 (1.71%) Snow
11 30 (1.71%) Workday
12 29 (1.65%) Apple
13 24 (1.37%) Adobe
13 24 (1.37%) SolarWinds
14 23 (1.31%) Google
15 21 (1.20%) iManage
16 20 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
16 20 (1.14%) Palo Alto