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 23 June 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
23 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 64 82
Rank change year-on-year -1 +18 +16
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,533 928 959
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.54% 3.72% 2.56%
As % of the Vendors category 8.72% 7.83% 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,028 569 559
10th Percentile £220 £213 £200
25th Percentile £400 £308 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £584 £589
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £505 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.32% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 74 106
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £14.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £20.47 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +15.46% -34.80%
75th Percentile £35.22 £31.19 £21.37
90th Percentile £85.53 £58.38 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £19.93 £17.45 £16.30
% change year-on-year +14.24% +7.02% -34.80%

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 17,589 11,849 15,821
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.59% 47.44% 42.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,252 7,532 10,018
10th Percentile £313 £280 £273
25th Percentile £413 £404 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £518
% change year-on-year - -3.38% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 945 535 1,070
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.28
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.50 £14.50
Median hourly rate £34.23 £27.13 £24.14
Median % change year-on-year +26.19% +12.37% -35.63%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.63 £59.95
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.86 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.50 £24.05
% change year-on-year +33.29% +6.03% -43.18%

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 23 June 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 23 June 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 23 June 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 +11 676 £525 +3.19% 125
North of England -8 285 £506 +25.64% 60
South East +6 260 £523 +42.66% 92
Midlands +14 172 £425 -21.08% 25
North West -8 152 £439 -11.72% 36
West Midlands -12 127 £450 -16.67% 16
Yorkshire -11 121 £545 +36.25% 18
East of England -36 60 £525 +110.00% 9
South West -37 45 £347 +38.80% 12
East Midlands +12 39 £340 -33.66% 9
North East -25 16 £450 +50.00% 7
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 82 (5.35%) Confluence
2 71 (4.63%) SharePoint
3 48 (3.13%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.78%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.46%) Apache
6 3 (0.20%) CMS
6 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.13%) IIS
7 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.13%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.13%) SAS
7 2 (0.13%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.065%) Appian
8 1 (0.065%) Drupal
8 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
Applications
1 68 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (4.17%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
5 13 (0.85%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.59%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.52%) Revit
8 5 (0.33%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.065%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.065%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 60 (3.91%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.20%) Maximo
6 2 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.13%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.13%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.13%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.13%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.13%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.065%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.065%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 311 (20.29%) Azure
2 213 (13.89%) AWS
3 164 (10.70%) Microsoft 365
4 124 (8.09%) Entra ID
5 102 (6.65%) Power Platform
6 77 (5.02%) SaaS
7 54 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
7 54 (3.52%) GCP
8 34 (2.22%) OneDrive
9 21 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (1.30%) Microsoft Copilot
11 19 (1.24%) Amazon S3
11 19 (1.24%) GitHub
12 18 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (1.04%) Power Automate
14 15 (0.98%) Datadog
14 15 (0.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 14 (0.91%) Serverless
15 14 (0.91%) SuccessFactors
16 13 (0.85%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 76 (4.96%) DNS
2 70 (4.57%) DHCP
3 63 (4.11%) Firewall
4 47 (3.07%) VPN
5 37 (2.41%) Wireless
6 34 (2.22%) Network Security
7 32 (2.09%) LAN
8 30 (1.96%) TCP/IP
8 30 (1.96%) WAN
9 26 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (1.44%) VLAN
11 20 (1.30%) SAN
12 19 (1.24%) NAS
13 16 (1.04%) SSL
14 15 (0.98%) Cisco IOS
14 15 (0.98%) NX-OS
14 15 (0.98%) Structured Cabling
15 14 (0.91%) Internet
16 13 (0.85%) SD-WAN
17 12 (0.78%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (5.48%) Power BI
2 43 (2.80%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (1.30%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (0.85%) Metadata
8 11 (0.72%) Power Query
9 9 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.39%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.39%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.39%) MySQL
11 6 (0.39%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.39%) Tableau
12 5 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.26%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.26%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 263 (17.16%) JIRA
2 72 (4.70%) Git
3 24 (1.57%) GitLab
3 24 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.46%) Selenium
5 6 (0.39%) Postman
6 5 (0.33%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.33%) JMeter
6 5 (0.33%) LoadRunner
6 5 (0.33%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.26%) Flyway
7 4 (0.26%) Gatling
7 4 (0.26%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.13%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.13%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.13%) JUnit
8 2 (0.13%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.13%) TestRail
8 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 474 (30.92%) Social Skills
2 294 (19.18%) Finance
3 182 (11.87%) Analytical Skills
4 123 (8.02%) Public Sector
5 86 (5.61%) Banking
6 65 (4.24%) Telecoms
7 55 (3.59%) Organisational Skills
8 46 (3.00%) Documentation Skills
9 39 (2.54%) Legal
10 34 (2.22%) Military
11 21 (1.37%) Retail
12 20 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.24%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.17%) French Language
15 16 (1.04%) Manufacturing
16 15 (0.98%) Billing
17 13 (0.85%) Spanish Language
18 12 (0.78%) Italian Language
18 12 (0.78%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 251 (16.37%) Architect
2 214 (13.96%) Analyst
3 148 (9.65%) ServiceNow Architect
4 143 (9.33%) Developer
5 117 (7.63%) ServiceNow Developer
6 104 (6.78%) Senior
7 82 (5.35%) Consultant
8 81 (5.28%) IT Support
9 78 (5.09%) Support Engineer
10 74 (4.83%) Lead
11 67 (4.37%) Solutions Architect
12 63 (4.11%) Business Analyst
13 59 (3.85%) Project Manager
14 57 (3.72%) ServiceNow Consultant
15 56 (3.65%) Service Analyst
16 53 (3.46%) IT Engineer
17 48 (3.13%) IT Support Engineer
18 44 (2.87%) Technical Architect
19 42 (2.74%) Delivery Manager
20 41 (2.67%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (11.35%) REST
2 103 (6.72%) SOAP
3 38 (2.48%) SailPoint
4 33 (2.15%) LDAP
5 32 (2.09%) Middleware
6 31 (2.02%) HTML
7 30 (1.96%) CSS
7 30 (1.96%) JSON
8 27 (1.76%) OAuth
9 25 (1.63%) Web Services
9 25 (1.63%) XML
10 24 (1.57%) OpenID
11 21 (1.37%) AngularJS
12 19 (1.24%) Flash
12 19 (1.24%) SAML
13 14 (0.91%) .NET
14 12 (0.78%) Ajax
15 11 (0.72%) JDBC
15 11 (0.72%) Microsoft Graph
15 11 (0.72%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 208 (13.57%) CMDB
2 117 (7.63%) Onboarding
3 71 (4.63%) Product Ownership
4 49 (3.20%) Data Centre
5 42 (2.74%) Management Information System
6 40 (2.61%) Cloud Native
7 38 (2.48%) Enterprise Software
8 33 (2.15%) Replication
9 25 (1.63%) Security Posture
9 25 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
10 24 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
11 22 (1.44%) PKI
12 20 (1.30%) Virtual Team
13 17 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (1.04%) Data Structures
15 15 (0.98%) AI Agents
16 14 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
17 13 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
17 13 (0.85%) Clustering
18 9 (0.59%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 231 (15.07%) Windows
2 84 (5.48%) Linux
3 78 (5.09%) Windows 10
4 41 (2.67%) Windows Server
5 37 (2.41%) Mac OS
6 31 (2.02%) Apple iOS
7 28 (1.83%) Unix
8 18 (1.17%) Android
9 12 (0.78%) Windows 7
10 11 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.20%) Check Point GAiA
12 3 (0.20%) VMS
12 3 (0.20%) zOS
13 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.065%) CentOS
14 1 (0.065%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 551 (35.94%) ITSM
2 424 (27.66%) ITIL
3 318 (20.74%) Agile
4 290 (18.92%) Service Management
5 263 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
6 250 (16.31%) Stakeholder Management
7 221 (14.42%) Continuous Improvement
8 173 (11.29%) DevOps
9 172 (11.22%) Change Management
9 172 (11.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 155 (10.11%) Customer Service
11 146 (9.52%) Migration
12 145 (9.46%) Service Delivery
13 142 (9.26%) AI
14 135 (8.81%) Roadmaps
15 128 (8.35%) CI/CD
15 128 (8.35%) Workflow
16 123 (8.02%) Data Modelling
17 102 (6.65%) Asset Management
17 102 (6.65%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 123 (8.02%) SQL
2 103 (6.72%) JavaScript
3 102 (6.65%) PowerShell
4 93 (6.07%) Python
5 61 (3.98%) Java
6 30 (1.96%) C#
7 14 (0.91%) VBScript
8 13 (0.85%) VB
9 11 (0.72%) Bash
9 11 (0.72%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.65%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.59%) Groovy
12 7 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.33%) Perl
14 4 (0.26%) BeanShell
14 4 (0.26%) Bicep
14 4 (0.26%) Cypher
14 4 (0.26%) Scala
14 4 (0.26%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.20%) JCL
Qualifications
1 405 (26.42%) Security Cleared
2 287 (18.72%) SC Cleared
3 112 (7.31%) Degree
4 83 (5.41%) DV Cleared
5 43 (2.80%) ITIL Certification
6 40 (2.61%) Cisco Certification
7 35 (2.28%) PMP
8 32 (2.09%) CISSP
9 30 (1.96%) CCNP
10 29 (1.89%) PMI Certification
11 25 (1.63%) CISM
12 20 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (1.24%) CCNA
14 18 (1.17%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (0.98%) Network+ Certification
15 15 (0.98%) Server+ Certification
16 12 (0.78%) Computer Science Degree
17 11 (0.72%) AWS Certification
17 11 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 9 (0.59%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 73 (4.76%) Data Quality
1 73 (4.76%) SLA
2 55 (3.59%) GRC
3 47 (3.07%) QA
4 41 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 40 (2.61%) GDPR
6 36 (2.35%) NIST
7 28 (1.83%) PMO
8 20 (1.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (0.78%) Accessibility
10 12 (0.78%) COBIT
11 8 (0.52%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.52%) NCSC
12 7 (0.46%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.33%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.26%) GxP
15 3 (0.20%) NIST 800
16 2 (0.13%) ISO 20022
16 2 (0.13%) ITGC
System Software
1 175 (11.42%) Active Directory
2 39 (2.54%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.30%) Docker
3 20 (1.30%) NFS
4 19 (1.24%) GPFS
5 18 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (1.17%) vSphere
6 13 (0.85%) BitLocker
7 12 (0.78%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.46%) Firmware
9 6 (0.39%) IAG
9 6 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.26%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.13%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 2 (0.13%) RACF
12 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.13%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.065%) Microsoft Virtual Server
Systems Management
1 59 (3.85%) Terraform
2 53 (3.46%) Microsoft Intune
3 49 (3.20%) SCCM
4 28 (1.83%) Ansible
5 25 (1.63%) Grafana
6 23 (1.50%) Kubernetes
7 20 (1.30%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (1.17%) Prometheus
9 16 (1.04%) Jamf Pro
10 15 (0.98%) vRealize
11 11 (0.72%) WMI
12 9 (0.59%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.46%) CASB
13 7 (0.46%) VxRail
14 5 (0.33%) SCOM
15 4 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.26%) CA Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.26%) PingFederate
15 4 (0.26%) QRadar
15 4 (0.26%) Salt
Vendors
1 312 (20.35%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.00%) Cisco
3 74 (4.83%) Remedy
4 63 (4.11%) SAP
5 61 (3.98%) Splunk
6 60 (3.91%) Oracle
7 44 (2.87%) VMware
8 41 (2.67%) Salesforce
9 37 (2.41%) Workday
10 34 (2.22%) CyberArk
11 30 (1.96%) BMC
12 28 (1.83%) Fortinet
13 27 (1.76%) Google
13 27 (1.76%) Palo Alto
14 26 (1.70%) IBM
15 25 (1.63%) Apple
16 24 (1.57%) F5
17 22 (1.44%) Dynatrace
18 21 (1.37%) Snow
18 21 (1.37%) SolarWinds