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 8 October 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
8 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 67 74
Rank change year-on-year +3 +7 -4
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,698 1,037 937
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.67% 3.71% 2.90%
As % of the Vendors category 8.84% 7.75% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 674 543
10th Percentile £218 £204 £213
25th Percentile £400 £287 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.05% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £610 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +8.42% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 80 28
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.39 £15.50 £15.81
Median hourly rate £26.00 £18.82 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +38.15% +3.81% -7.03%
75th Percentile £63.59 £33.75 £23.86
90th Percentile £87.19 £63.40 £33.78
UK median hourly rate £25.38 £17.87 £19.64
% change year-on-year +42.00% -9.02% +0.73%

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 19,215 13,375 14,382
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.54% 47.80% 44.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,767 8,496 8,616
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £519 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.37% -3.43% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £628
90th Percentile £714 £700 £727
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,244 643 524
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.87 £14.89
25th Percentile £16.62 £18.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.41% -28.16% -20.16%
75th Percentile £60.98 £43.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.69 £69.65 £72.65
UK median hourly rate £24.19 £25.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -3.24% -21.88% -26.01%

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 8 October 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 8 October 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 8 October 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 +19 750 £525 +5.00% 489
North of England -10 334 £450 -10.00% 112
South East +16 332 £538 +55.80% 155
North West -2 219 £365 -25.66% 70
Midlands -25 132 £441 -7.16% 81
West Midlands -12 114 £463 -2.63% 59
Yorkshire -27 106 £494 -1.25% 35
East of England -42 58 £550 +8.70% 40
South West -60 49 £500 +57.17% 51
East Midlands -15 17 £413 -8.33% 20
North East -31 14 £500 +42.86% 8
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
1 111 (6.54%) SharePoint
2 78 (4.59%) Confluence
3 46 (2.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.94%) Skype for Business
5 14 (0.82%) nginx
6 8 (0.47%) Apache
7 4 (0.24%) CICS
7 4 (0.24%) CMS
7 4 (0.24%) Mendix
8 2 (0.12%) Appian
8 2 (0.12%) IIS
8 2 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.059%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.059%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.059%) Documentum
9 1 (0.059%) Drupal
9 1 (0.059%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.059%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.059%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.059%) WebSphere
Applications
1 76 (4.48%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (4.42%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (2.12%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.71%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.53%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.41%) Revit
9 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.18%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.059%) LaTeX
11 1 (0.059%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.059%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 60 (3.53%) Remedy ITSM
2 18 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.47%) Workday HCM
5 5 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.12%) Maximo
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
9 1 (0.059%) Aladdin
9 1 (0.059%) Cloudability
9 1 (0.059%) iTrent
9 1 (0.059%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.059%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.059%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 365 (21.50%) Azure
2 253 (14.90%) Microsoft 365
3 217 (12.78%) AWS
4 136 (8.01%) Power Platform
5 124 (7.30%) Entra ID
6 91 (5.36%) SaaS
7 64 (3.77%) GCP
8 57 (3.36%) Azure DevOps
9 51 (3.00%) GitHub
10 43 (2.53%) Azure Monitor
11 40 (2.36%) OneDrive
12 35 (2.06%) Microsoft Copilot
13 29 (1.71%) Datadog
14 24 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 23 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (1.30%) Serverless
17 21 (1.24%) Power Automate
18 18 (1.06%) Amazon S3
18 18 (1.06%) PowerApps
19 17 (1.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 81 (4.77%) DNS
2 68 (4.00%) DHCP
3 63 (3.71%) VPN
4 54 (3.18%) Firewall
5 52 (3.06%) TCP/IP
6 27 (1.59%) VLAN
7 25 (1.47%) Network Security
7 25 (1.47%) Wi-Fi
8 23 (1.35%) SSL
8 23 (1.35%) Wireless
9 21 (1.24%) WAN
10 20 (1.18%) NX-OS
10 20 (1.18%) SSH
11 19 (1.12%) BGP
11 19 (1.12%) LAN
12 17 (1.00%) Skype
13 12 (0.71%) VXLAN
14 11 (0.65%) Cisco IOS
14 11 (0.65%) Ethernet VPN
14 11 (0.65%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 91 (5.36%) Power BI
2 45 (2.65%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (0.94%) MySQL
6 15 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (0.82%) Metadata
8 13 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (0.47%) BigQuery
9 8 (0.47%) Looker
10 6 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.35%) Power Query
10 6 (0.35%) Redis
11 4 (0.24%) Data Mart
11 4 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.24%) Db2
11 4 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.18%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.18%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 212 (12.49%) JIRA
2 71 (4.18%) Git
3 28 (1.65%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.59%) GitLab
5 8 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.24%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.24%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.18%) Postman
8 3 (0.18%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.12%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.12%) MSBuild
9 2 (0.12%) MSI
9 2 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.12%) Tricentis qTest
9 2 (0.12%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.059%) Flyway
10 1 (0.059%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.059%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 565 (33.27%) Social Skills
2 320 (18.85%) Finance
3 236 (13.90%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (8.95%) Public Sector
5 88 (5.18%) Banking
6 76 (4.48%) Telecoms
7 54 (3.18%) Legal
8 44 (2.59%) Documentation Skills
9 39 (2.30%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
11 30 (1.77%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (1.18%) Military
13 20 (1.18%) Police
14 19 (1.12%) Law
15 17 (1.00%) Spanish Language
16 16 (0.94%) French Language
16 16 (0.94%) Italian Language
17 13 (0.77%) Local Government
17 13 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 239 (14.08%) Analyst
2 235 (13.84%) Architect
3 176 (10.37%) Developer
4 151 (8.89%) ServiceNow Developer
5 135 (7.95%) ServiceNow Architect
6 126 (7.42%) Senior
7 113 (6.65%) Consultant
8 101 (5.95%) Support Engineer
9 96 (5.65%) Lead
10 85 (5.01%) IT Support
11 69 (4.06%) Solutions Architect
12 66 (3.89%) Service Analyst
13 64 (3.77%) IT Engineer
14 59 (3.47%) Project Manager
15 57 (3.36%) Business Analyst
16 56 (3.30%) IT Support Engineer
17 53 (3.12%) ServiceNow Consultant
18 44 (2.59%) Service Manager
18 44 (2.59%) Technical Architect
19 41 (2.41%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (10.95%) REST
2 92 (5.42%) SOAP
3 81 (4.77%) Terraform
4 46 (2.71%) JSON
5 34 (2.00%) OAuth
6 32 (1.88%) HTML
7 30 (1.77%) Middleware
8 29 (1.71%) CSS
8 29 (1.71%) SailPoint
8 29 (1.71%) XML
9 27 (1.59%) LDAP
10 19 (1.12%) .NET
10 19 (1.12%) Web Services
11 17 (1.00%) Ajax
12 15 (0.88%) OAuth2
12 15 (0.88%) YAML
13 14 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
14 13 (0.77%) SAML
15 12 (0.71%) OpenID
16 10 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 289 (17.02%) CMDB
2 188 (11.07%) Onboarding
3 74 (4.36%) Enterprise Software
4 56 (3.30%) Data Centre
4 56 (3.30%) Management Information System
5 50 (2.94%) Product Ownership
6 45 (2.65%) Cloud Native
7 35 (2.06%) Replication
8 29 (1.71%) AI Agents
9 25 (1.47%) Video Conferencing
10 23 (1.35%) PKI
11 22 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
13 18 (1.06%) Clustering
13 18 (1.06%) iPhone
13 18 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
14 17 (1.00%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (1.00%) Low-Code
14 17 (1.00%) Security Posture
15 15 (0.88%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 336 (19.79%) Windows
2 114 (6.71%) Linux
3 109 (6.42%) Windows 10
4 53 (3.12%) Mac OS
4 53 (3.12%) Windows Server
5 35 (2.06%) Apple iOS
6 25 (1.47%) Android
7 22 (1.30%) Unix
8 20 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 16 (0.94%) Windows 7
10 9 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
11 6 (0.35%) zOS
12 4 (0.24%) VMS
13 3 (0.18%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.12%) AIX
15 1 (0.059%) MVS
15 1 (0.059%) Solaris
15 1 (0.059%) SUSE
15 1 (0.059%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 691 (40.69%) ITSM
2 552 (32.51%) ITIL
3 404 (23.79%) Service Management
4 372 (21.91%) Stakeholder Management
5 307 (18.08%) Problem-Solving
6 305 (17.96%) Agile
7 260 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
8 223 (13.13%) AI
9 202 (11.90%) Customer Service
10 190 (11.19%) Roadmaps
11 189 (11.13%) Service Delivery
12 187 (11.01%) DevOps
13 186 (10.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 171 (10.07%) Change Management
15 154 (9.07%) Workflow
16 136 (8.01%) Migration
17 133 (7.83%) Asset Management
18 128 (7.54%) Incident Management
19 124 (7.30%) CI/CD
20 120 (7.07%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 151 (8.89%) PowerShell
2 128 (7.54%) Python
3 116 (6.83%) JavaScript
4 86 (5.06%) SQL
5 36 (2.12%) Java
6 31 (1.83%) Bash
7 20 (1.18%) Groovy
8 18 (1.06%) VBScript
9 17 (1.00%) C#
10 15 (0.88%) T-SQL
10 15 (0.88%) VB
11 8 (0.47%) Perl
12 7 (0.41%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.35%) BeanShell
14 5 (0.29%) Go
14 5 (0.29%) Google Apps Script
14 5 (0.29%) JCL
14 5 (0.29%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.29%) TypeScript
15 4 (0.24%) C++
Qualifications
1 456 (26.86%) Security Cleared
2 344 (20.26%) SC Cleared
3 130 (7.66%) Degree
4 74 (4.36%) DV Cleared
5 42 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 41 (2.41%) PMP
7 38 (2.24%) ITIL Certification
7 38 (2.24%) Microsoft Certification
8 35 (2.06%) PMI Certification
9 31 (1.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 28 (1.65%) Azure Certification
11 24 (1.41%) Cisco Certification
12 21 (1.24%) A+ Certification
12 21 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
13 19 (1.12%) CCNP
14 18 (1.06%) CISSP
15 16 (0.94%) CCNA
16 15 (0.88%) AWS Certification
17 13 (0.77%) CISM
18 12 (0.71%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (6.01%) Data Quality
2 99 (5.83%) SLA
3 59 (3.47%) GRC
4 58 (3.42%) QA
5 51 (3.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (2.30%) NIST
7 38 (2.24%) PMO
8 23 (1.35%) GDPR
9 18 (1.06%) NCSC
10 17 (1.00%) COBIT
11 16 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.71%) Accessibility
12 12 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 12 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.65%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 8 (0.47%) GxP
15 7 (0.41%) HIPAA
15 7 (0.41%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 213 (12.54%) Active Directory
2 45 (2.65%) Docker
3 40 (2.36%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (1.00%) BitLocker
7 15 (0.88%) IAG
8 14 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
9 10 (0.59%) VMware NSX
10 9 (0.53%) NFS
11 8 (0.47%) vSphere
12 7 (0.41%) GPFS
13 6 (0.35%) Firmware
14 5 (0.29%) Hyper-V
15 3 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
16 2 (0.12%) DFS Replication
16 2 (0.12%) Dovecot
16 2 (0.12%) Postfix
16 2 (0.12%) Squid
17 1 (0.059%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 86 (5.06%) Microsoft Intune
2 70 (4.12%) SCCM
3 58 (3.42%) Ansible
4 44 (2.59%) Kubernetes
5 34 (2.00%) Grafana
6 23 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (1.30%) SCOM
8 19 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
9 16 (0.94%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.59%) WMI
11 9 (0.53%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.41%) Control-M
12 7 (0.41%) Kibana
13 6 (0.35%) Packer
13 6 (0.35%) vRealize
14 5 (0.29%) PowerCLI
15 4 (0.24%) Rancher
15 4 (0.24%) SCOrch
16 3 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
16 3 (0.18%) Nessus
Vendors
1 494 (29.09%) Microsoft
2 76 (4.48%) Cisco
3 68 (4.00%) Remedy
4 65 (3.83%) Splunk
5 64 (3.77%) SAP
6 63 (3.71%) Oracle
7 58 (3.42%) VMware
8 50 (2.94%) Salesforce
9 48 (2.83%) Dynatrace
10 45 (2.65%) CyberArk
11 34 (2.00%) Google
12 31 (1.83%) Apple
12 31 (1.83%) SolarWinds
13 28 (1.65%) BMC
13 28 (1.65%) Snow
14 24 (1.41%) Workday
15 23 (1.35%) Adobe
15 23 (1.35%) Okta
16 22 (1.30%) IBM
16 22 (1.30%) Red Hat