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 19 September 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
19 Sep 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 66 83
Rank change year-on-year +7 +17 -8
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,777 1,030 877
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.82% 3.70% 2.66%
As % of the Vendors category 9.18% 7.81% 6.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 669 535
10th Percentile £218 £212 £219
25th Percentile £400 £313 £357
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £601 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £511 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.63% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 80 36
10th Percentile £16.03 £13.00 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.50 £14.16
Median hourly rate £26.66 £18.82 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.66% +10.71% -15.00%
75th Percentile £64.68 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.47 £63.40 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £17.87 £18.13
% change year-on-year +45.50% -1.43% -9.35%

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 19,365 13,190 14,592
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.60% 47.42% 44.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,031 8,376 8,896
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £620 £619 £630
90th Percentile £713 £712 £734
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,145 615 595
10th Percentile £14.04 £14.75 £14.33
25th Percentile £16.95 £17.88 £15.62
Median hourly rate £29.96 £25.15 £33.50
Median % change year-on-year +19.13% -24.93% -23.62%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.31 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.86 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +6.00% -16.17% -32.58%

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 19 September 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 19 September 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 19 September 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 +27 788 £525 +5.00% 478
North of England -7 356 £450 -10.00% 94
South East +13 343 £550 +35.80% 137
North West +4 233 £375 -26.66% 59
Midlands -10 141 £425 -10.53% 42
West Midlands -10 120 £445 -6.32% 31
Yorkshire -24 115 £500 - 26
South West -49 54 £488 +53.24% 28
East of England -40 53 £510 +2.00% 41
East Midlands -14 18 £413 -20.48% 11
North East -42 14 £525 +50.00% 10
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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
1 114 (6.42%) SharePoint
2 85 (4.78%) Confluence
3 48 (2.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.90%) Skype for Business
5 11 (0.62%) nginx
6 9 (0.51%) Apache
7 5 (0.28%) CMS
8 4 (0.23%) Mendix
9 2 (0.11%) Appian
9 2 (0.11%) SAS
9 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.056%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.056%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.056%) IIS
10 1 (0.056%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.056%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.056%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.056%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.056%) Tomcat
Applications
1 81 (4.56%) Microsoft Office
2 80 (4.50%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.35%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (1.07%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.56%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.56%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.45%) Revit
8 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.056%) LaTeX
9 1 (0.056%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.056%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 62 (3.49%) Remedy ITSM
2 15 (0.84%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.34%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.11%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.11%) Maximo
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.056%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.056%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.056%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 381 (21.44%) Azure
2 253 (14.24%) Microsoft 365
3 235 (13.22%) AWS
4 142 (7.99%) Power Platform
5 136 (7.65%) Entra ID
6 99 (5.57%) SaaS
7 57 (3.21%) Azure DevOps
8 55 (3.10%) GCP
9 48 (2.70%) GitHub
10 42 (2.36%) Azure Monitor
10 42 (2.36%) OneDrive
11 37 (2.08%) Microsoft Copilot
12 33 (1.86%) Datadog
13 25 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 24 (1.35%) Power Automate
15 23 (1.29%) Serverless
16 20 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
17 18 (1.01%) Amazon S3
18 17 (0.96%) PowerApps
18 17 (0.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 87 (4.90%) DNS
2 76 (4.28%) DHCP
3 62 (3.49%) VPN
4 57 (3.21%) Firewall
5 51 (2.87%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.69%) VLAN
7 29 (1.63%) Wireless
8 27 (1.52%) SSL
9 25 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
10 24 (1.35%) Network Security
11 21 (1.18%) NX-OS
11 21 (1.18%) WAN
12 19 (1.07%) LAN
13 18 (1.01%) SSH
14 17 (0.96%) BGP
14 17 (0.96%) Skype
15 14 (0.79%) SAN
16 13 (0.73%) Cisco IOS
17 12 (0.68%) NAS
18 11 (0.62%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (5.74%) Power BI
2 50 (2.81%) SQL Server
3 32 (1.80%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (0.90%) Metadata
5 16 (0.90%) MySQL
5 16 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (0.79%) Amazon Aurora
7 12 (0.68%) Power Query
8 9 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
9 7 (0.39%) Redis
10 4 (0.23%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
10 4 (0.23%) PowerPivot
11 3 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.17%) Pentaho
11 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 2 (0.11%) BigQuery
12 2 (0.11%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 240 (13.51%) JIRA
2 75 (4.22%) Git
3 26 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.29%) GitLab
5 8 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.17%) MSI
7 3 (0.17%) Postman
8 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.11%) Tricentis qTest
8 2 (0.11%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.056%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.056%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.056%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.056%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.056%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.056%) TeamCity
General
1 572 (32.19%) Social Skills
2 332 (18.68%) Finance
3 239 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
4 152 (8.55%) Public Sector
5 90 (5.06%) Banking
6 80 (4.50%) Telecoms
7 53 (2.98%) Legal
8 47 (2.64%) Documentation Skills
9 43 (2.42%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (1.74%) Influencing Skills
11 28 (1.58%) Manufacturing
12 25 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 22 (1.24%) Military
14 19 (1.07%) Spanish Language
15 18 (1.01%) French Language
15 18 (1.01%) Italian Language
16 17 (0.96%) Police
17 16 (0.90%) Law
17 16 (0.90%) Retail
18 14 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 266 (14.97%) Architect
2 247 (13.90%) Analyst
3 187 (10.52%) Developer
4 163 (9.17%) ServiceNow Developer
5 152 (8.55%) ServiceNow Architect
6 126 (7.09%) Senior
7 112 (6.30%) Consultant
8 99 (5.57%) Support Engineer
9 96 (5.40%) Lead
10 89 (5.01%) IT Support
11 76 (4.28%) Solutions Architect
12 70 (3.94%) Service Analyst
13 65 (3.66%) IT Engineer
14 64 (3.60%) Project Manager
15 62 (3.49%) Business Analyst
16 57 (3.21%) IT Support Engineer
17 54 (3.04%) ServiceNow Consultant
18 47 (2.64%) Technical Architect
19 44 (2.48%) Service Manager
20 39 (2.19%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 201 (11.31%) REST
2 108 (6.08%) SOAP
3 77 (4.33%) Terraform
4 50 (2.81%) JSON
5 37 (2.08%) HTML
5 37 (2.08%) OAuth
6 34 (1.91%) CSS
6 34 (1.91%) SailPoint
7 32 (1.80%) LDAP
8 31 (1.74%) XML
9 29 (1.63%) Middleware
10 21 (1.18%) Web Services
11 19 (1.07%) .NET
12 17 (0.96%) Ajax
12 17 (0.96%) AngularJS
13 16 (0.90%) OAuth2
13 16 (0.90%) SAML
14 15 (0.84%) OpenID
15 14 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
16 13 (0.73%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 295 (16.60%) CMDB
2 190 (10.69%) Onboarding
3 72 (4.05%) Enterprise Software
4 59 (3.32%) Data Centre
5 54 (3.04%) Product Ownership
6 51 (2.87%) Management Information System
7 42 (2.36%) Cloud Native
8 38 (2.14%) Replication
9 28 (1.58%) AI Agents
10 26 (1.46%) PKI
11 25 (1.41%) Clustering
12 24 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
13 23 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
14 20 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
15 19 (1.07%) Security Posture
16 18 (1.01%) Linux Command Line
17 17 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
18 16 (0.90%) Data Structures
18 16 (0.90%) iPhone
19 15 (0.84%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 337 (18.96%) Windows
2 113 (6.36%) Windows 10
3 106 (5.97%) Linux
4 54 (3.04%) Windows Server
5 49 (2.76%) Mac OS
6 37 (2.08%) Apple iOS
7 26 (1.46%) Android
8 20 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 18 (1.01%) Unix
10 16 (0.90%) Windows 7
11 9 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.23%) VMS
12 4 (0.23%) zOS
13 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.056%) AIX
14 1 (0.056%) MVS
14 1 (0.056%) Solaris
14 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 704 (39.62%) ITSM
2 565 (31.80%) ITIL
3 407 (22.90%) Service Management
4 353 (19.86%) Stakeholder Management
5 332 (18.68%) Agile
6 324 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
7 273 (15.36%) Continuous Improvement
8 218 (12.27%) AI
9 206 (11.59%) Customer Service
10 198 (11.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 197 (11.09%) DevOps
12 190 (10.69%) Service Delivery
13 189 (10.64%) Roadmaps
14 183 (10.30%) Change Management
15 149 (8.38%) Workflow
16 133 (7.48%) Incident Management
17 132 (7.43%) Asset Management
17 132 (7.43%) Migration
18 131 (7.37%) CI/CD
19 122 (6.87%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 150 (8.44%) PowerShell
2 121 (6.81%) Python
3 118 (6.64%) JavaScript
4 88 (4.95%) SQL
5 46 (2.59%) Java
6 23 (1.29%) Bash
7 18 (1.01%) Groovy
7 18 (1.01%) VBScript
8 16 (0.90%) C#
9 15 (0.84%) T-SQL
9 15 (0.84%) VB
10 8 (0.45%) Perl
10 8 (0.45%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.34%) BeanShell
12 5 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.28%) PL/SQL
12 5 (0.28%) Shell Script
13 3 (0.17%) C++
13 3 (0.17%) JCL
13 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 475 (26.73%) Security Cleared
2 350 (19.70%) SC Cleared
3 138 (7.77%) Degree
4 85 (4.78%) DV Cleared
5 44 (2.48%) PMP
6 43 (2.42%) BPSS Clearance
7 42 (2.36%) ITIL Certification
8 38 (2.14%) Microsoft Certification
9 37 (2.08%) PMI Certification
10 32 (1.80%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 30 (1.69%) Azure Certification
12 29 (1.63%) Cisco Certification
13 23 (1.29%) CCNP
14 22 (1.24%) CISSP
15 21 (1.18%) A+ Certification
16 20 (1.13%) CCNA
17 16 (0.90%) AWS Certification
17 16 (0.90%) CISM
18 14 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
18 14 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (5.57%) SLA
2 96 (5.40%) Data Quality
3 63 (3.55%) GRC
4 59 (3.32%) QA
5 47 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 45 (2.53%) PMO
7 39 (2.19%) NIST
8 29 (1.63%) GDPR
9 18 (1.01%) NCSC
10 17 (0.96%) COBIT
10 17 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 16 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
12 15 (0.84%) Accessibility
13 12 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 11 (0.62%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 8 (0.45%) HIPAA
16 7 (0.39%) GxP
17 4 (0.23%) SOC 2
18 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 228 (12.83%) Active Directory
2 40 (2.25%) Docker
2 40 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.96%) BitLocker
4 17 (0.96%) IAG
5 15 (0.84%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.84%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.56%) NFS
7 9 (0.51%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.51%) vSphere
8 8 (0.45%) GPFS
9 7 (0.39%) Firmware
10 5 (0.28%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.11%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.11%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 2 (0.11%) Postfix
12 2 (0.11%) Squid
Systems Management
1 85 (4.78%) Microsoft Intune
2 68 (3.83%) SCCM
3 59 (3.32%) Ansible
4 40 (2.25%) Kubernetes
5 34 (1.91%) Grafana
6 25 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (1.29%) SCOM
8 18 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
8 18 (1.01%) Prometheus
9 10 (0.56%) WMI
10 9 (0.51%) vCenter Server
11 7 (0.39%) vRealize
12 6 (0.34%) Packer
13 5 (0.28%) PowerCLI
13 5 (0.28%) Rancher
13 5 (0.28%) RSA Archer
14 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.23%) Nessus
14 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
14 4 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 493 (27.74%) Microsoft
2 80 (4.50%) Cisco
3 69 (3.88%) Remedy
3 69 (3.88%) SAP
3 69 (3.88%) Splunk
4 68 (3.83%) Oracle
5 59 (3.32%) VMware
6 53 (2.98%) CyberArk
6 53 (2.98%) Salesforce
7 45 (2.53%) Dynatrace
8 31 (1.74%) BMC
8 31 (1.74%) Workday
9 30 (1.69%) Google
9 30 (1.69%) Snow
10 29 (1.63%) Apple
10 29 (1.63%) SolarWinds
11 24 (1.35%) Adobe
12 21 (1.18%) iManage
12 21 (1.18%) Okta
12 21 (1.18%) Red Hat
803 ServiceNow jobs in England