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 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
15 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 66 68
Rank change year-on-year -4 +2 +55
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,116 891 1,124
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.51% 3.30% 3.14%
As % of the Vendors category 7.55% 7.19% 7.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 775 495 730
10th Percentile £204 £202 £165
25th Percentile £340 £356 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% -1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £636
90th Percentile £688 £654 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 25 38
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.08 £15.45
25th Percentile £16.05 £16.00 £16.32
Median hourly rate £19.25 £21.46 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +11.48% +19.79%
75th Percentile £27.86 £23.14 £28.44
90th Percentile £89.63 £29.60 £63.25
UK median hourly rate £19.25 £22.09 £18.11
% change year-on-year -12.86% +21.98% +14.73%

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 14,779 12,397 15,689
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.53% 45.98% 43.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,697 7,489 10,179
10th Percentile £300 £290 £250
25th Percentile £409 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £708 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 686 351 628
10th Percentile £15.44 £15.49 £13.91
25th Percentile £17.96 £18.13 £18.00
Median hourly rate £23.75 £30.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -20.83% -31.57% +35.93%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.93 £63.29
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.75 £76.33
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.13 £43.50
% change year-on-year -12.17% -37.64% +50.00%

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 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 15 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 15 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 -35 436 £478 -9.05% 76
North of England +6 210 £500 +22.85% 55
South East +36 166 £413 -11.29% 63
Midlands +11 148 £475 +13.10% 27
North West +10 123 £481 +20.31% 25
West Midlands +11 120 £475 - 18
Yorkshire 0 78 £525 -2.33% 27
South West +16 75 £613 +21.89% 12
East of England +3 72 £527 +0.29% 17
East Midlands -10 27 £425 +19.38% 9
North East -8 9 £350 +133.33% 3
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 (6.54%) Confluence
2 71 (6.36%) SharePoint
3 48 (4.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.81%) nginx
5 8 (0.72%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.54%) Apache
6 6 (0.54%) Appian
6 6 (0.54%) Camunda
7 4 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.27%) CICS
8 3 (0.27%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.18%) IIS
9 2 (0.18%) JBoss
10 1 (0.090%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.090%) CMS
10 1 (0.090%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.090%) WebSphere
Applications
1 70 (6.27%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (5.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 52 (4.66%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (2.06%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.81%) 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 39 (3.49%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.16%) 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 Applications
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle HRMS
8 1 (0.090%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.090%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.090%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 240 (21.51%) Azure
2 178 (15.95%) Microsoft 365
3 141 (12.63%) AWS
4 85 (7.62%) Entra ID
5 66 (5.91%) SaaS
6 63 (5.65%) Power Platform
7 58 (5.20%) Azure DevOps
8 51 (4.57%) GCP
9 33 (2.96%) OneDrive
10 25 (2.24%) GitHub
11 19 (1.70%) Power Automate
12 18 (1.61%) AWS KMS
13 17 (1.52%) Amazon S3
14 16 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 16 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
14 16 (1.43%) Amazon ELB
14 16 (1.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 15 (1.34%) Sauce Labs
16 13 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
17 11 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 74 (6.63%) DNS
2 50 (4.48%) VPN
3 46 (4.12%) Firewall
4 41 (3.67%) Wireless
5 40 (3.58%) DHCP
6 33 (2.96%) Wi-Fi
7 24 (2.15%) LAN
7 24 (2.15%) WAN
8 22 (1.97%) FTP
9 21 (1.88%) TCP/IP
10 19 (1.70%) HTTP
11 17 (1.52%) SSH
12 16 (1.43%) Network Security
12 16 (1.43%) SMTP
13 13 (1.16%) BGP
14 10 (0.90%) Cisco Wireless
15 9 (0.81%) 4G
15 9 (0.81%) Cisco ISE
15 9 (0.81%) OpenLDAP
15 9 (0.81%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (3.85%) Power BI
2 23 (2.06%) Relational Database
3 22 (1.97%) SQL Server
4 21 (1.88%) MySQL
5 20 (1.79%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (1.61%) Metadata
6 18 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (1.43%) Tableau
8 13 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.72%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.54%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.54%) DB2
12 6 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.36%) Metadata Repository
13 4 (0.36%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.36%) Redis
14 2 (0.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 203 (18.19%) JIRA
2 53 (4.75%) Jenkins
3 42 (3.76%) Git
4 24 (2.15%) GitLab
5 16 (1.43%) Browser DevTools
6 15 (1.34%) Android Studio
6 15 (1.34%) Eclipse
6 15 (1.34%) Vagrant
6 15 (1.34%) Xcode
7 12 (1.08%) Postman
7 12 (1.08%) Selenium
8 11 (0.99%) REST Assured
9 9 (0.81%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.63%) TestRail
11 4 (0.36%) Gatling
11 4 (0.36%) JMeter
11 4 (0.36%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.36%) Metasploit
11 4 (0.36%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.27%) Burp Suite
General
1 451 (40.41%) Social Skills
2 224 (20.07%) Finance
3 171 (15.32%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (9.41%) Public Sector
5 51 (4.57%) Banking
6 44 (3.94%) Military
7 43 (3.85%) Telecoms
8 39 (3.49%) Legal
9 38 (3.41%) Documentation Skills
10 31 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (1.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.88%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.61%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.43%) Law
14 13 (1.16%) Aerospace
15 12 (1.08%) Manufacturing
16 10 (0.90%) Billing
17 9 (0.81%) Marketing
18 8 (0.72%) Financial Institution
18 8 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 177 (15.86%) Architect
2 167 (14.96%) Analyst
3 94 (8.42%) ServiceNow Architect
4 93 (8.33%) Developer
5 92 (8.24%) Support Engineer
6 81 (7.26%) ServiceNow Developer
7 78 (6.99%) IT Support
8 63 (5.65%) Consultant
9 55 (4.93%) Lead
10 42 (3.76%) IT Engineer
11 40 (3.58%) Senior
12 37 (3.32%) Service Analyst
13 35 (3.14%) IT Support Engineer
14 32 (2.87%) Business Analyst
14 32 (2.87%) Service Architect
14 32 (2.87%) ServiceNow Manager
15 31 (2.78%) Project Manager
16 30 (2.69%) Solutions Architect
17 29 (2.60%) DevOps Engineer
18 28 (2.51%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 110 (9.86%) REST
2 86 (7.71%) SOAP
3 34 (3.05%) AngularJS
3 34 (3.05%) CSS
4 33 (2.96%) LDAP
5 28 (2.51%) SailPoint
6 21 (1.88%) Ajax
6 21 (1.88%) HTML
7 19 (1.70%) React
8 18 (1.61%) JSON
9 17 (1.52%) Flash
9 17 (1.52%) OpenID
10 16 (1.43%) GraphQL
11 13 (1.16%) Web Services
12 11 (0.99%) XML
13 10 (0.90%) SAML
14 9 (0.81%) .NET
14 9 (0.81%) ADO
15 8 (0.72%) Kafka
15 8 (0.72%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 139 (12.46%) CMDB
2 69 (6.18%) Onboarding
3 59 (5.29%) Product Ownership
4 40 (3.58%) Replication
5 31 (2.78%) Data Centre
6 27 (2.42%) Management Information System
7 23 (2.06%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (2.06%) Self-Motivation
8 21 (1.88%) Mobile App
9 17 (1.52%) Linux Command Line
9 17 (1.52%) Security Posture
9 17 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
10 16 (1.43%) Smartphone
11 15 (1.34%) Driving Licence
12 14 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
13 12 (1.08%) Cloud Native
13 12 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
14 10 (0.90%) Virtual Team
15 9 (0.81%) Low-Code
16 8 (0.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 247 (22.13%) Windows
2 96 (8.60%) Windows 10
3 73 (6.54%) Linux
4 41 (3.67%) Mac OS
5 36 (3.23%) Android
6 32 (2.87%) Unix
7 20 (1.79%) Windows Server
8 18 (1.61%) Apple iOS
9 17 (1.52%) VMS
10 15 (1.34%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.81%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.63%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.45%) zOS
14 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
15 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.090%) Data ONTAP
16 1 (0.090%) Kali Linux
16 1 (0.090%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (33.96%) ITSM
2 293 (26.25%) ITIL
3 254 (22.76%) Agile
4 210 (18.82%) Service Management
5 198 (17.74%) Problem-Solving
6 155 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
7 150 (13.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 148 (13.26%) DevOps
9 131 (11.74%) Change Management
10 123 (11.02%) Customer Service
11 111 (9.95%) Continuous Improvement
12 104 (9.32%) CI/CD
13 85 (7.62%) Roadmaps
14 83 (7.44%) Service Delivery
15 72 (6.45%) Workflow
16 71 (6.36%) Configuration Management
16 71 (6.36%) Project Management
16 71 (6.36%) User Acceptance Testing
17 69 (6.18%) User Experience
18 68 (6.09%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 107 (9.59%) Python
2 101 (9.05%) JavaScript
3 73 (6.54%) PowerShell
4 70 (6.27%) SQL
5 61 (5.47%) Java
6 35 (3.14%) Perl
7 20 (1.79%) Groovy
8 15 (1.34%) Bash
9 12 (1.08%) Shell Script
10 10 (0.90%) TypeScript
11 9 (0.81%) VB
12 7 (0.63%) ABAP
12 7 (0.63%) Lisp
12 7 (0.63%) VBScript
13 6 (0.54%) Go
13 6 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.45%) BeanShell
14 5 (0.45%) JCL
14 5 (0.45%) PHP
14 5 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 313 (28.05%) Security Cleared
2 253 (22.67%) SC Cleared
3 113 (10.13%) Degree
4 31 (2.78%) TOGAF Certification
5 21 (1.88%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (1.52%) ITIL Certification
8 16 (1.43%) CCNP
9 14 (1.25%) CISSP
10 13 (1.16%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (1.08%) A+ Certification
11 12 (1.08%) AWS Certification
11 12 (1.08%) Azure Certification
12 9 (0.81%) ACSP
12 9 (0.81%) ACTC
12 9 (0.81%) CISM
12 9 (0.81%) ISTQB
12 9 (0.81%) PMI Certification
13 8 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (4.93%) QA
2 51 (4.57%) SLA
3 38 (3.41%) GDPR
3 38 (3.41%) GRC
4 37 (3.32%) Data Quality
5 20 (1.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.61%) NIST
7 17 (1.52%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 15 (1.34%) PMO
9 12 (1.08%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.72%) Accessibility
11 7 (0.63%) COBIT
12 6 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.54%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 19770
13 3 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.27%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.27%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 155 (13.89%) Active Directory
2 29 (2.60%) Docker
2 29 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 17 (1.52%) GPFS
3 17 (1.52%) NFS
3 17 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (1.34%) DFS Replication
4 15 (1.34%) vSphere
5 9 (0.81%) Dovecot
5 9 (0.81%) Postfix
5 9 (0.81%) Squid
6 8 (0.72%) BitLocker
7 5 (0.45%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.18%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 1 (0.090%) Firmware
10 1 (0.090%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.090%) RACF
10 1 (0.090%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 1 (0.090%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (5.02%) SCCM
2 49 (4.39%) Terraform
3 43 (3.85%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.69%) OPNET
5 29 (2.60%) Grafana
6 28 (2.51%) Ansible
7 21 (1.88%) Prometheus
8 18 (1.61%) Jamf Pro
9 15 (1.34%) vRealize
10 13 (1.16%) Kubernetes
10 13 (1.16%) Nessus
11 12 (1.08%) Single Sign-On
12 11 (0.99%) RSA Archer
13 9 (0.81%) FortiGate
13 9 (0.81%) Proxmox
14 4 (0.36%) Pingdom
14 4 (0.36%) Rancher
15 3 (0.27%) Nmap
15 3 (0.27%) OMEGAMON
15 3 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 246 (22.04%) Microsoft
2 91 (8.15%) Remedy
3 63 (5.65%) Oracle
4 62 (5.56%) Cisco
5 60 (5.38%) SAP
6 44 (3.94%) Salesforce
7 40 (3.58%) Splunk
8 34 (3.05%) Apple
8 34 (3.05%) VMware
9 33 (2.96%) Atlassian
10 30 (2.69%) IBM
11 29 (2.60%) Workday
12 21 (1.88%) Snow
13 19 (1.70%) HP
14 18 (1.61%) BMC
15 15 (1.34%) Citrix
16 14 (1.25%) Palo Alto
16 14 (1.25%) Zscaler
17 10 (0.90%) CyberArk
17 10 (0.90%) Dell