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 7 January 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
7 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 69 68
Rank change year-on-year -1 -1 +61
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,112 900 1,147
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.51% 3.29% 3.18%
As % of the Vendors category 7.51% 7.16% 7.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 765 504 748
10th Percentile £204 £205 £168
25th Percentile £340 £360 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £626
90th Percentile £688 £650 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £511
% change year-on-year -5.00% -2.20% -0.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 25 39
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.08 £15.87
25th Percentile £16.28 £16.00 £16.84
Median hourly rate £19.25 £21.46 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +12.95% +18.23%
75th Percentile £28.75 £23.14 £23.75
90th Percentile £89.63 £29.60 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £19.25 £22.09 £18.72
% change year-on-year -12.86% +18.03% +20.74%

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 14,807 12,572 15,795
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.79% 45.97% 43.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,693 7,610 10,273
10th Percentile £300 £291 £250
25th Percentile £410 £412 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.19% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £709 £725 £731
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 683 357 611
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.40 £14.00
25th Percentile £18.15 £17.08 £19.04
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% -32.58% +50.85%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £63.52
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.75 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.35 £44.50
% change year-on-year -12.89% -38.54% +63.30%

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 7 January 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 7 January 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 7 January 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 -38 438 £475 -9.52% 101
North of England +2 204 £500 +21.21% 43
South East +34 167 £413 -11.29% 58
Midlands +9 144 £475 +13.10% 40
North West -3 124 £463 +13.64% 21
West Midlands +9 118 £475 +5.56% 35
South West +40 78 £613 +21.29% 5
East of England +8 74 £527 +0.29% 10
Yorkshire -12 71 £500 -6.98% 21
East Midlands -10 25 £425 +19.38% 5
North East -10 9 £350 +133.33% 1
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 79 (7.10%) Confluence
2 72 (6.47%) SharePoint
3 46 (4.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.90%) nginx
5 6 (0.54%) Apache
5 6 (0.54%) Appian
5 6 (0.54%) Camunda
5 6 (0.54%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.27%) CICS
7 3 (0.27%) HCL Notes
7 3 (0.27%) SAS
8 2 (0.18%) IIS
8 2 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.090%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.090%) CMS
9 1 (0.090%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.090%) WebSphere
Applications
1 71 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (5.13%) Microsoft Excel
3 54 (4.86%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (2.07%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.80%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.90%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.36%) Autodesk Inventor
8 4 (0.36%) Trello
9 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.090%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 45 (4.05%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.72%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.63%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 7 (0.63%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.27%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.090%) Actimize
8 1 (0.090%) assyst
8 1 (0.090%) Maximo
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle HRMS
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.090%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.090%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.090%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 229 (20.59%) Azure
2 181 (16.28%) Microsoft 365
3 133 (11.96%) AWS
4 79 (7.10%) Entra ID
5 64 (5.76%) SaaS
6 63 (5.67%) Power Platform
7 58 (5.22%) Azure DevOps
8 44 (3.96%) GCP
9 34 (3.06%) OneDrive
10 24 (2.16%) GitHub
11 19 (1.71%) AWS KMS
11 19 (1.71%) Power Automate
12 18 (1.62%) Amazon S3
13 17 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 17 (1.53%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (1.53%) Amazon ELB
13 17 (1.53%) Sauce Labs
13 17 (1.53%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 13 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (0.99%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (6.38%) DNS
2 48 (4.32%) Firewall
2 48 (4.32%) VPN
3 43 (3.87%) Wireless
4 37 (3.33%) DHCP
5 31 (2.79%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (1.98%) TCP/IP
7 21 (1.89%) FTP
7 21 (1.89%) WAN
8 20 (1.80%) HTTP
9 19 (1.71%) LAN
10 18 (1.62%) SSH
11 17 (1.53%) SMTP
12 16 (1.44%) Network Security
13 14 (1.26%) SSL
14 12 (1.08%) BGP
15 10 (0.90%) Cisco Wireless
15 10 (0.90%) IMAP
15 10 (0.90%) OpenLDAP
16 9 (0.81%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (3.87%) Power BI
2 24 (2.16%) Relational Database
3 23 (2.07%) MySQL
4 21 (1.89%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (1.89%) SQL Server
5 19 (1.71%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (1.53%) Metadata
7 16 (1.44%) Tableau
8 14 (1.26%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (0.72%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.72%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.54%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.54%) DB2
11 6 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.45%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.36%) Metadata Repository
13 4 (0.36%) Redis
14 3 (0.27%) Oracle ODI
15 2 (0.18%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 206 (18.53%) JIRA
2 49 (4.41%) Jenkins
3 43 (3.87%) Git
4 18 (1.62%) Browser DevTools
4 18 (1.62%) GitLab
5 17 (1.53%) Android Studio
5 17 (1.53%) Eclipse
5 17 (1.53%) Xcode
6 16 (1.44%) Vagrant
7 10 (0.90%) Selenium
8 9 (0.81%) REST Assured
9 8 (0.72%) Postman
10 7 (0.63%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.63%) TestRail
11 4 (0.36%) Metasploit
12 3 (0.27%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.27%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
13 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
13 2 (0.18%) sqlmap
General
1 454 (40.83%) Social Skills
2 222 (19.96%) Finance
3 173 (15.56%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (9.80%) Public Sector
5 49 (4.41%) Banking
6 44 (3.96%) Military
6 44 (3.96%) Telecoms
7 38 (3.42%) Legal
8 37 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
9 33 (2.97%) Organisational Skills
10 21 (1.89%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (1.53%) Law
13 13 (1.17%) Aerospace
14 12 (1.08%) Manufacturing
15 10 (0.90%) Billing
16 9 (0.81%) Marketing
17 8 (0.72%) Financial Institution
18 7 (0.63%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 173 (15.56%) Architect
2 166 (14.93%) Analyst
3 99 (8.90%) ServiceNow Architect
4 94 (8.45%) Support Engineer
5 88 (7.91%) Developer
6 77 (6.92%) IT Support
6 77 (6.92%) ServiceNow Developer
7 62 (5.58%) Consultant
8 50 (4.50%) Lead
9 45 (4.05%) Senior
10 41 (3.69%) IT Engineer
11 39 (3.51%) Service Analyst
12 35 (3.15%) Project Manager
13 33 (2.97%) IT Support Engineer
13 33 (2.97%) ServiceNow Manager
14 32 (2.88%) Service Architect
15 31 (2.79%) Business Analyst
16 30 (2.70%) DevOps Engineer
17 29 (2.61%) Support Analyst
17 29 (2.61%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (9.26%) REST
2 85 (7.64%) SOAP
3 41 (3.69%) AngularJS
4 34 (3.06%) CSS
5 33 (2.97%) LDAP
6 24 (2.16%) HTML
7 23 (2.07%) JSON
8 22 (1.98%) Ajax
8 22 (1.98%) SailPoint
9 21 (1.89%) React
10 18 (1.62%) GraphQL
10 18 (1.62%) Web Services
11 16 (1.44%) Flash
12 14 (1.26%) SAML
13 10 (0.90%) HTML5
13 10 (0.90%) ODBC
13 10 (0.90%) OpenID
14 9 (0.81%) Apache Camel
14 9 (0.81%) jQuery
14 9 (0.81%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 136 (12.23%) CMDB
2 69 (6.21%) Onboarding
3 59 (5.31%) Product Ownership
4 40 (3.60%) Replication
5 30 (2.70%) Data Centre
6 24 (2.16%) Management Information System
7 23 (2.07%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (2.07%) Mobile App
8 22 (1.98%) Self-Motivation
9 18 (1.62%) Driving Licence
10 17 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
11 16 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (1.44%) Security Posture
11 16 (1.44%) Smartphone
12 13 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (0.81%) Low-Code
15 8 (0.72%) Cloud Native
15 8 (0.72%) Public Cloud
15 8 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 244 (21.94%) Windows
2 92 (8.27%) Windows 10
3 73 (6.56%) Linux
4 42 (3.78%) Mac OS
5 38 (3.42%) Android
6 33 (2.97%) Unix
7 18 (1.62%) VMS
8 17 (1.53%) Apple iOS
8 17 (1.53%) Windows Server
9 16 (1.44%) Amazon Linux
10 10 (0.90%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.45%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.45%) zOS
12 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.090%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.090%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.090%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 372 (33.45%) ITSM
2 288 (25.90%) ITIL
3 245 (22.03%) Agile
4 207 (18.62%) Service Management
5 199 (17.90%) Problem-Solving
6 152 (13.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 149 (13.40%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 145 (13.04%) DevOps
9 129 (11.60%) Change Management
10 121 (10.88%) Customer Service
11 103 (9.26%) Continuous Improvement
12 94 (8.45%) CI/CD
13 84 (7.55%) Roadmaps
14 81 (7.28%) Service Delivery
15 74 (6.65%) User Experience
16 70 (6.29%) Project Management
17 68 (6.12%) Configuration Management
18 67 (6.03%) Analytics
18 67 (6.03%) Migration
18 67 (6.03%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 105 (9.44%) Python
2 102 (9.17%) JavaScript
3 71 (6.38%) PowerShell
4 67 (6.03%) SQL
5 55 (4.95%) Java
6 36 (3.24%) Perl
7 21 (1.89%) Groovy
8 15 (1.35%) Bash
9 12 (1.08%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.63%) ABAP
10 7 (0.63%) Lisp
10 7 (0.63%) VB
11 6 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (0.54%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.45%) BeanShell
12 5 (0.45%) Go
12 5 (0.45%) JCL
12 5 (0.45%) PHP
12 5 (0.45%) REXX
12 5 (0.45%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 323 (29.05%) Security Cleared
2 262 (23.56%) SC Cleared
3 113 (10.16%) Degree
4 31 (2.79%) TOGAF Certification
5 19 (1.71%) DV Cleared
5 19 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (1.35%) CISSP
7 15 (1.35%) ITIL Certification
8 14 (1.26%) CCNP
9 13 (1.17%) A+ Certification
9 13 (1.17%) AWS Certification
9 13 (1.17%) Azure Certification
9 13 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 10 (0.90%) BPSS Clearance
10 10 (0.90%) CISM
10 10 (0.90%) PMI Certification
11 9 (0.81%) ACSP
11 9 (0.81%) ACTC
12 8 (0.72%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (4.59%) QA
2 50 (4.50%) SLA
3 37 (3.33%) GDPR
3 37 (3.33%) GRC
4 34 (3.06%) Data Quality
5 18 (1.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 18 (1.62%) NIST
6 15 (1.35%) PMO
6 15 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 10 (0.90%) Accessibility
7 10 (0.90%) PCI DSS
8 6 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
8 6 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 19770
9 5 (0.45%) COBIT
9 5 (0.45%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
10 3 (0.27%) ISO 22301
10 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
10 3 (0.27%) NIST 800
10 3 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 151 (13.58%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.70%) Docker
3 26 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (1.44%) DFS Replication
5 16 (1.44%) GPFS
5 16 (1.44%) NFS
6 14 (1.26%) vSphere
7 10 (0.90%) Dovecot
7 10 (0.90%) Postfix
7 10 (0.90%) Squid
8 6 (0.54%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.18%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 1 (0.090%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.090%) Firmware
11 1 (0.090%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.090%) RACF
11 1 (0.090%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.090%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (4.59%) SCCM
2 48 (4.32%) Terraform
3 42 (3.78%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.70%) OPNET
5 29 (2.61%) Grafana
6 27 (2.43%) Ansible
7 21 (1.89%) Prometheus
8 18 (1.62%) Jamf Pro
8 18 (1.62%) Single Sign-On
9 14 (1.26%) Nessus
9 14 (1.26%) vRealize
10 12 (1.08%) Kubernetes
11 11 (0.99%) RSA Archer
12 10 (0.90%) Proxmox
13 9 (0.81%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.36%) Pingdom
14 4 (0.36%) Rancher
15 3 (0.27%) Control-M
15 3 (0.27%) Nmap
15 3 (0.27%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 250 (22.48%) Microsoft
2 96 (8.63%) Remedy
3 63 (5.67%) Oracle
4 60 (5.40%) Cisco
4 60 (5.40%) SAP
5 43 (3.87%) Salesforce
6 41 (3.69%) Splunk
7 35 (3.15%) Apple
8 33 (2.97%) Atlassian
9 31 (2.79%) VMware
10 29 (2.61%) IBM
10 29 (2.61%) Workday
11 25 (2.25%) HP
12 21 (1.89%) Snow
13 20 (1.80%) BMC
14 15 (1.35%) Citrix
15 13 (1.17%) Palo Alto
15 13 (1.17%) Zscaler
16 10 (0.90%) CyberArk
16 10 (0.90%) Jaspersoft