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 24 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
24 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 72 64 70
Rank change year-on-year -8 +6 +55
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,128 893 1,108
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.47% 3.34% 2.96%
As % of the Vendors category 7.50% 7.26% 6.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 788 491 725
10th Percentile £204 £200 £165
25th Percentile £350 £358 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.70% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £623
90th Percentile £688 £663 £700
UK median daily rate £485 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -2.02% -1.00% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 37
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.06 £15.43
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.46 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +10.05% +21.34%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.40 £30.00
90th Percentile £58.05 £29.70 £63.50
UK median hourly rate £19.25 £22.09 £17.72
% change year-on-year -12.86% +24.66% +14.32%

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 15,033 12,308 16,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.24% 46.05% 43.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,872 7,418 10,563
10th Percentile £300 £288 £250
25th Percentile £411 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £711 £715 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 712 357 771
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £13.15
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £34.23
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -12.36% +5.32%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £59.98
90th Percentile £71.95 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.79 £27.50 £33.44
% change year-on-year -13.50% -17.76% +7.61%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 -37 447 £486 -7.38% 106
North of England +2 218 £500 +23.46% 63
South East +42 164 £420 -6.67% 70
Midlands +6 147 £475 +9.20% 26
North West +3 125 £475 +18.75% 37
West Midlands 0 119 £480 +1.05% 18
Yorkshire -4 86 £525 -2.33% 22
East of England +4 74 £528 +0.57% 10
South West +13 68 £669 +33.08% 9
East Midlands -8 27 £425 +19.38% 7
North East -12 7 £350 +133.33% 5
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 72 (6.38%) Confluence
1 72 (6.38%) SharePoint
2 52 (4.61%) Microsoft Exchange
3 10 (0.89%) Skype for Business
4 8 (0.71%) nginx
5 6 (0.53%) Apache
5 6 (0.53%) Appian
5 6 (0.53%) Camunda
6 4 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.27%) CICS
7 3 (0.27%) HCL Notes
7 3 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.27%) SAS
8 2 (0.18%) IIS
8 2 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.089%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.089%) CMS
9 1 (0.089%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.089%) WebSphere
Applications
1 72 (6.38%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (4.88%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (4.70%) Microsoft Project
4 22 (1.95%) MS Visio
5 19 (1.68%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.71%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.35%) Autodesk Inventor
8 4 (0.35%) Trello
9 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 35 (3.10%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.71%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.62%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 7 (0.62%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.53%) 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 (0.089%) Actimize
8 1 (0.089%) assyst
8 1 (0.089%) Maximo
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle HRMS
8 1 (0.089%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.089%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.089%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 237 (21.01%) Azure
2 181 (16.05%) Microsoft 365
3 139 (12.32%) AWS
4 86 (7.62%) Entra ID
5 65 (5.76%) SaaS
6 64 (5.67%) Power Platform
7 56 (4.96%) Azure DevOps
8 55 (4.88%) GCP
9 33 (2.93%) OneDrive
10 22 (1.95%) GitHub
11 18 (1.60%) Power Automate
12 15 (1.33%) AWS KMS
13 14 (1.24%) Amazon S3
13 14 (1.24%) Sauce Labs
14 13 (1.15%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (1.15%) Amazon ELB
14 13 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (1.15%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (0.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 72 (6.38%) DNS
2 49 (4.34%) VPN
3 40 (3.55%) DHCP
4 39 (3.46%) Firewall
5 36 (3.19%) Wi-Fi
5 36 (3.19%) Wireless
6 27 (2.39%) LAN
6 27 (2.39%) WAN
7 19 (1.68%) FTP
8 18 (1.60%) Network Security
9 17 (1.51%) TCP/IP
10 16 (1.42%) HTTP
11 14 (1.24%) SSH
12 13 (1.15%) BGP
13 12 (1.06%) SMTP
14 11 (0.98%) VLAN
15 10 (0.89%) Cisco Wireless
15 10 (0.89%) Skype
16 9 (0.80%) 4G
16 9 (0.80%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (3.99%) Power BI
2 22 (1.95%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.86%) Relational Database
4 20 (1.77%) MySQL
5 18 (1.60%) Metadata
6 17 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (1.51%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (1.42%) Tableau
8 12 (1.06%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.71%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.53%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.53%) DB2
12 6 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.35%) Metadata Repository
13 4 (0.35%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.35%) Redis
14 2 (0.18%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 195 (17.29%) JIRA
2 51 (4.52%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.46%) Git
4 25 (2.22%) GitLab
5 15 (1.33%) Browser DevTools
6 14 (1.24%) Android Studio
6 14 (1.24%) Eclipse
6 14 (1.24%) Selenium
6 14 (1.24%) Xcode
7 12 (1.06%) Postman
7 12 (1.06%) REST Assured
7 12 (1.06%) Vagrant
8 10 (0.89%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.62%) TestRail
10 4 (0.35%) Gatling
10 4 (0.35%) JMeter
10 4 (0.35%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.35%) Metasploit
10 4 (0.35%) NeoLoad
11 3 (0.27%) Burp Suite
General
1 443 (39.27%) Social Skills
2 227 (20.12%) Finance
3 171 (15.16%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (9.40%) Public Sector
5 52 (4.61%) Banking
6 45 (3.99%) Military
7 42 (3.72%) Telecoms
8 41 (3.63%) Legal
9 40 (3.55%) Documentation Skills
10 25 (2.22%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (1.77%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 18 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.42%) Law
15 12 (1.06%) Manufacturing
16 11 (0.98%) Aerospace
17 9 (0.80%) Billing
17 9 (0.80%) Financial Institution
17 9 (0.80%) Marketing
17 9 (0.80%) Retail
Job Titles
1 186 (16.49%) Architect
2 172 (15.25%) Analyst
3 102 (9.04%) ServiceNow Architect
4 93 (8.24%) Developer
5 91 (8.07%) Support Engineer
6 80 (7.09%) ServiceNow Developer
7 76 (6.74%) IT Support
8 66 (5.85%) Consultant
9 58 (5.14%) Lead
10 42 (3.72%) IT Engineer
10 42 (3.72%) Senior
11 39 (3.46%) Service Analyst
12 35 (3.10%) IT Support Engineer
13 34 (3.01%) Business Analyst
14 33 (2.93%) ServiceNow Manager
15 32 (2.84%) Project Manager
15 32 (2.84%) Service Architect
16 31 (2.75%) Technical Architect
17 30 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
18 28 (2.48%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 117 (10.37%) REST
2 92 (8.16%) SOAP
3 31 (2.75%) LDAP
3 31 (2.75%) SailPoint
4 30 (2.66%) AngularJS
4 30 (2.66%) CSS
5 20 (1.77%) Ajax
6 19 (1.68%) Flash
6 19 (1.68%) OpenID
7 18 (1.60%) React
8 17 (1.51%) HTML
8 17 (1.51%) JSON
9 15 (1.33%) GraphQL
10 11 (0.98%) XML
11 10 (0.89%) SAML
11 10 (0.89%) Web Services
12 9 (0.80%) .NET
12 9 (0.80%) ADO
12 9 (0.80%) OAuth
13 8 (0.71%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 138 (12.23%) CMDB
2 72 (6.38%) Onboarding
3 60 (5.32%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.46%) Replication
5 30 (2.66%) Data Centre
6 27 (2.39%) Management Information System
7 23 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (1.68%) Linux Command Line
8 19 (1.68%) Mobile App
9 17 (1.51%) Security Posture
9 17 (1.51%) Video Conferencing
10 16 (1.42%) Smartphone
11 14 (1.24%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.24%) Cloud Native
11 14 (1.24%) Driving Licence
12 13 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
13 10 (0.89%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.71%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.62%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 241 (21.37%) Windows
2 101 (8.95%) Windows 10
3 70 (6.21%) Linux
4 38 (3.37%) Mac OS
5 35 (3.10%) Android
6 30 (2.66%) Unix
7 21 (1.86%) Windows Server
8 18 (1.60%) Apple iOS
9 13 (1.15%) VMS
10 12 (1.06%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.80%) Windows 7
12 8 (0.71%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.44%) zOS
14 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.089%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.089%) Kali Linux
15 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 385 (34.13%) ITSM
2 282 (25.00%) ITIL
3 260 (23.05%) Agile
4 204 (18.09%) Service Management
5 194 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
6 155 (13.74%) Stakeholder Management
7 146 (12.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 140 (12.41%) DevOps
9 121 (10.73%) Change Management
9 121 (10.73%) Customer Service
10 113 (10.02%) Continuous Improvement
11 101 (8.95%) CI/CD
12 81 (7.18%) Roadmaps
13 77 (6.83%) Service Delivery
14 75 (6.65%) User Acceptance Testing
15 73 (6.47%) Workflow
16 71 (6.29%) Data Modelling
16 71 (6.29%) Project Management
17 69 (6.12%) Migration
18 67 (5.94%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 104 (9.22%) Python
2 100 (8.87%) JavaScript
3 71 (6.29%) PowerShell
4 70 (6.21%) SQL
5 61 (5.41%) Java
6 32 (2.84%) Perl
7 17 (1.51%) Groovy
8 15 (1.33%) Bash
9 12 (1.06%) Shell Script
10 11 (0.98%) VB
11 10 (0.89%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.80%) VBScript
13 7 (0.62%) ABAP
13 7 (0.62%) Go
13 7 (0.62%) Lisp
14 6 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.44%) BeanShell
15 5 (0.44%) PHP
15 5 (0.44%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.44%) REXX
Qualifications
1 311 (27.57%) Security Cleared
2 251 (22.25%) SC Cleared
3 113 (10.02%) Degree
4 31 (2.75%) TOGAF Certification
5 22 (1.95%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.68%) ITIL Certification
7 16 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (1.33%) CCNP
8 15 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.24%) CISSP
9 14 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.06%) PMI Certification
11 11 (0.98%) Azure Certification
12 10 (0.89%) AWS Certification
12 10 (0.89%) ISTQB
12 10 (0.89%) PMP
13 9 (0.80%) ACSP
13 9 (0.80%) ACTC
13 9 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.80%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (4.88%) QA
2 54 (4.79%) SLA
3 42 (3.72%) GRC
4 38 (3.37%) GDPR
5 37 (3.28%) Data Quality
6 22 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.60%) NIST
7 18 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 16 (1.42%) PMO
9 12 (1.06%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.80%) Accessibility
11 7 (0.62%) COBIT
11 7 (0.62%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 19770
13 4 (0.35%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.27%) NCSC
14 3 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 153 (13.56%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (2.22%) Docker
4 19 (1.68%) GPFS
4 19 (1.68%) NFS
5 17 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (1.51%) vSphere
6 12 (1.06%) DFS Replication
7 10 (0.89%) BitLocker
8 8 (0.71%) Dovecot
8 8 (0.71%) Postfix
8 8 (0.71%) Squid
9 5 (0.44%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 2 (0.18%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.089%) Firmware
11 1 (0.089%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.089%) RACF
11 1 (0.089%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 58 (5.14%) SCCM
2 48 (4.26%) Terraform
3 42 (3.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.66%) OPNET
5 26 (2.30%) Grafana
6 25 (2.22%) Ansible
7 18 (1.60%) Prometheus
8 17 (1.51%) Jamf Pro
8 17 (1.51%) vRealize
9 12 (1.06%) Kubernetes
9 12 (1.06%) RSA Archer
10 11 (0.98%) Nessus
11 10 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
12 9 (0.80%) FortiGate
13 8 (0.71%) Proxmox
14 4 (0.35%) Pingdom
14 4 (0.35%) Rancher
15 3 (0.27%) Control-M
15 3 (0.27%) Nmap
15 3 (0.27%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 243 (21.54%) Microsoft
2 87 (7.71%) Remedy
3 61 (5.41%) Oracle
4 60 (5.32%) Cisco
5 59 (5.23%) SAP
6 40 (3.55%) Salesforce
7 38 (3.37%) Splunk
8 34 (3.01%) VMware
9 33 (2.93%) Apple
9 33 (2.93%) Atlassian
10 31 (2.75%) IBM
10 31 (2.75%) Workday
11 22 (1.95%) Snow
12 18 (1.60%) HP
13 16 (1.42%) BMC
14 14 (1.24%) Citrix
14 14 (1.24%) Zscaler
15 12 (1.06%) Google
16 11 (0.98%) Palo Alto
17 10 (0.89%) Dynatrace