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 20 November 2025, 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
20 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 69 66
Rank change year-on-year -2 -3 +71
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,099 952 1,243
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.61% 3.07% 3.18%
As % of the Vendors category 7.58% 6.80% 7.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 726 531 825
10th Percentile £204 £213 £170
25th Percentile £325 £360 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £658 £638 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 22 47
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £15.58
25th Percentile £16.00 £19.14 £16.70
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.78 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.34% +8.88% +29.03%
75th Percentile £31.93 £27.61 £31.09
90th Percentile £85.65 £29.90 £64.95
UK median hourly rate £18.82 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.36% +12.50% +29.03%

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 14,502 13,998 17,539
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.59% 45.07% 44.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,331 8,427 11,527
10th Percentile £285 £300 £255
25th Percentile £405 £413 £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 £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.59%
Number of hourly rates quoted 729 430 614
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.75
Median % change year-on-year -28.16% -21.79% +72.12%
75th Percentile £47.00 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.45
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.17% -32.58% +73.08%

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025.

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 20 November 2025. 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 -34 421 £491 -6.57% 249
North of England +4 211 £500 - 53
South East +24 155 £409 -12.04% 102
Midlands +9 140 £475 +8.57% 40
North West +7 127 £475 +2.70% 33
West Midlands +9 118 £475 +2.70% 31
East of England +23 86 £512 -2.48% 29
Yorkshire -17 75 £533 -0.93% 16
South West +36 71 £500 -0.99% 26
East Midlands -11 22 £425 +1.49% 9
North East -6 9 £350 +133.33% 4
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 83 (7.55%) Confluence
2 62 (5.64%) SharePoint
3 39 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.09%) nginx
5 9 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.55%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.36%) Appian
7 4 (0.36%) Camunda
7 4 (0.36%) SAS
8 3 (0.27%) Apache
8 3 (0.27%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.18%) IIS
9 2 (0.18%) JBoss
10 1 (0.091%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.091%) CICS
10 1 (0.091%) OpenStack
10 1 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.091%) Tuxedo
10 1 (0.091%) WebLogic
Applications
1 69 (6.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 67 (6.10%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (3.09%) Microsoft Project
4 33 (3.00%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (1.09%) 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 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 51 (4.64%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.91%) Salesforce CRM
4 9 (0.82%) SAP FI
5 8 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
6 7 (0.64%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 7 (0.64%) SAP MM
7 6 (0.55%) Workday HCM
8 3 (0.27%) assyst
9 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
9 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.18%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
10 1 (0.091%) Maximo
10 1 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.091%) Oracle HRMS
10 1 (0.091%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
10 1 (0.091%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 1 (0.091%) SAP GRC
10 1 (0.091%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 191 (17.38%) Azure
2 168 (15.29%) Microsoft 365
3 136 (12.37%) AWS
4 71 (6.46%) SaaS
5 69 (6.28%) Entra ID
6 59 (5.37%) Power Platform
7 53 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (2.73%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 30 (2.73%) Amazon S3
8 30 (2.73%) OneDrive
9 28 (2.55%) Amazon EC2
10 25 (2.27%) Amazon ELB
10 25 (2.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 24 (2.18%) AWS KMS
12 22 (2.00%) GCP
12 22 (2.00%) Power Automate
13 19 (1.73%) Amazon ECS
14 18 (1.64%) Sauce Labs
14 18 (1.64%) Serverless
15 17 (1.55%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 76 (6.92%) DNS
2 50 (4.55%) Firewall
3 39 (3.55%) Wireless
4 36 (3.28%) DHCP
5 35 (3.18%) VPN
6 32 (2.91%) HTTP
6 32 (2.91%) Wi-Fi
7 25 (2.27%) SMTP
8 24 (2.18%) SSH
9 23 (2.09%) FTP
10 19 (1.73%) LAN
10 19 (1.73%) TCP/IP
10 19 (1.73%) WAN
11 18 (1.64%) SSL
12 14 (1.27%) BGP
12 14 (1.27%) Cisco ISE
13 12 (1.09%) IMAP
13 12 (1.09%) Network Security
13 12 (1.09%) OpenLDAP
14 10 (0.91%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 39 (3.55%) Power BI
2 34 (3.09%) Relational Database
3 32 (2.91%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (2.09%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (1.82%) MySQL
6 16 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (1.18%) Tableau
8 12 (1.09%) Metadata
9 8 (0.73%) DynamoDB
9 8 (0.73%) Oracle ODI
9 8 (0.73%) SQL Server
10 5 (0.45%) DB2
11 4 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.36%) Redis
12 3 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.27%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.27%) RDBMS
12 3 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 225 (20.47%) JIRA
2 50 (4.55%) Git
3 39 (3.55%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.18%) Vagrant
5 19 (1.73%) Browser DevTools
6 18 (1.64%) Android Studio
6 18 (1.64%) Eclipse
6 18 (1.64%) Xcode
7 7 (0.64%) GitLab
7 7 (0.64%) JUnit
8 5 (0.45%) Cucumber
8 5 (0.45%) Maven
9 4 (0.36%) Metasploit
10 3 (0.27%) AdminStudio
10 3 (0.27%) Burp Suite
10 3 (0.27%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.18%) Snyk
11 2 (0.18%) sqlmap
12 1 (0.091%) Postman
12 1 (0.091%) ScriptRunner
General
1 450 (40.95%) Social Skills
2 225 (20.47%) Finance
3 186 (16.92%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (9.74%) Public Sector
5 40 (3.64%) Banking
6 36 (3.28%) Documentation Skills
6 36 (3.28%) Telecoms
7 31 (2.82%) Legal
7 31 (2.82%) Organisational Skills
8 27 (2.46%) Presentation Skills
9 25 (2.27%) Military
10 21 (1.91%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (1.82%) Manufacturing
12 15 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.09%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.09%) Law
14 10 (0.91%) Marketing
15 9 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.64%) Electronics
16 7 (0.64%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 168 (15.29%) Analyst
2 139 (12.65%) Architect
3 106 (9.65%) Developer
4 101 (9.19%) Support Engineer
5 81 (7.37%) ServiceNow Developer
6 73 (6.64%) Consultant
6 73 (6.64%) ServiceNow Architect
7 71 (6.46%) IT Support
8 49 (4.46%) Senior
9 43 (3.91%) Business Analyst
10 41 (3.73%) Lead
11 39 (3.55%) IT Engineer
12 36 (3.28%) Service Analyst
13 33 (3.00%) DevOps Engineer
14 32 (2.91%) IT Support Engineer
14 32 (2.91%) Solutions Architect
15 31 (2.82%) Service Manager
16 30 (2.73%) ServiceNow Consultant
17 29 (2.64%) Desktop Support
18 26 (2.37%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 93 (8.46%) REST
2 82 (7.46%) SOAP
3 61 (5.55%) AngularJS
4 37 (3.37%) React
5 35 (3.18%) CSS
5 35 (3.18%) LDAP
6 32 (2.91%) Web Services
7 28 (2.55%) HTML
7 28 (2.55%) JSON
8 21 (1.91%) Ajax
9 19 (1.73%) GraphQL
9 19 (1.73%) SAML
10 18 (1.64%) SailPoint
11 17 (1.55%) .NET
12 15 (1.36%) XML
13 14 (1.27%) HTML5
13 14 (1.27%) jQuery
13 14 (1.27%) ODBC
14 13 (1.18%) Apache Camel
14 13 (1.18%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 108 (9.83%) CMDB
2 48 (4.37%) Onboarding
3 38 (3.46%) Replication
4 31 (2.82%) Data Centre
5 30 (2.73%) Product Ownership
6 27 (2.46%) Management Information System
7 25 (2.27%) Mobile App
8 24 (2.18%) Self-Motivation
9 22 (2.00%) Driving Licence
10 21 (1.91%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (1.64%) Security Posture
12 17 (1.55%) Video Conferencing
13 15 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
13 15 (1.36%) iPhone
14 13 (1.18%) Smartphone
15 12 (1.09%) Cloud Native
15 12 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
15 12 (1.09%) Virtual Team
16 11 (1.00%) iPad
16 11 (1.00%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 235 (21.38%) Windows
2 79 (7.19%) Windows 10
3 74 (6.73%) Linux
4 37 (3.37%) Mac OS
5 36 (3.28%) Android
6 29 (2.64%) Apple iOS
6 29 (2.64%) Unix
7 26 (2.37%) VMS
8 24 (2.18%) Amazon Linux
9 12 (1.09%) Ubuntu
10 8 (0.73%) Windows Server
11 5 (0.45%) Windows 7
12 4 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.18%) CentOS
14 2 (0.18%) zOS
15 1 (0.091%) Kali Linux
15 1 (0.091%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (34.58%) ITSM
2 270 (24.57%) ITIL
3 254 (23.11%) Agile
4 228 (20.75%) Problem-Solving
5 198 (18.02%) Service Management
6 148 (13.47%) DevOps
7 141 (12.83%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 135 (12.28%) Stakeholder Management
9 132 (12.01%) Customer Service
10 118 (10.74%) Change Management
11 87 (7.92%) Scrum
12 86 (7.83%) Continuous Improvement
13 83 (7.55%) CI/CD
13 83 (7.55%) Service Delivery
14 73 (6.64%) Roadmaps
15 70 (6.37%) Project Management
16 67 (6.10%) Analytics
16 67 (6.10%) Configuration Management
16 67 (6.10%) Migration
17 64 (5.82%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 130 (11.83%) Python
2 99 (9.01%) JavaScript
3 87 (7.92%) PowerShell
4 72 (6.55%) Java
5 57 (5.19%) SQL
6 41 (3.73%) Perl
7 28 (2.55%) Groovy
8 23 (2.09%) Bash
9 21 (1.91%) TypeScript
10 14 (1.27%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.64%) ABAP
11 7 (0.64%) Lisp
12 6 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.55%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.45%) VB
13 5 (0.45%) VBScript
14 4 (0.36%) BeanShell
14 4 (0.36%) Go
14 4 (0.36%) R
15 3 (0.27%) C
Qualifications
1 303 (27.57%) Security Cleared
2 257 (23.38%) SC Cleared
3 121 (11.01%) Degree
4 24 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
4 24 (2.18%) CISSP
5 23 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.09%) ITIL Certification
6 22 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
7 17 (1.55%) CISM
8 15 (1.36%) A+ Certification
8 15 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
8 15 (1.36%) DV Cleared
9 14 (1.27%) AWS Certification
9 14 (1.27%) CCNP
10 13 (1.18%) ACSP
10 13 (1.18%) ACTC
10 13 (1.18%) CISA
10 13 (1.18%) TOGAF Certification
11 12 (1.09%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.00%) CCNA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (4.55%) QA
2 48 (4.37%) GDPR
3 36 (3.28%) SLA
4 29 (2.64%) GRC
5 27 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (2.46%) NIST
6 23 (2.09%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (1.55%) COBIT
8 15 (1.36%) Accessibility
9 14 (1.27%) Data Quality
10 13 (1.18%) PMO
11 12 (1.09%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 19770
12 8 (0.73%) NIST 800
13 7 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.55%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.36%) Actionable Recommendations
16 3 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
16 3 (0.27%) WCAG
17 2 (0.18%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 156 (14.19%) Active Directory
2 40 (3.64%) Docker
3 22 (2.00%) DFS Replication
4 14 (1.27%) VMware Infrastructure
5 13 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (1.09%) Dovecot
6 12 (1.09%) Postfix
6 12 (1.09%) Squid
7 11 (1.00%) vSphere
8 10 (0.91%) GPFS
8 10 (0.91%) NFS
9 6 (0.55%) BitLocker
9 6 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
10 3 (0.27%) Firmware
11 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.091%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 1 (0.091%) RACF
12 1 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 50 (4.55%) SCCM
2 47 (4.28%) Terraform
3 35 (3.18%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (2.91%) Grafana
5 31 (2.82%) Ansible
6 29 (2.64%) Prometheus
7 27 (2.46%) Jamf Pro
7 27 (2.46%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (1.55%) Nessus
8 17 (1.55%) RSA Archer
9 12 (1.09%) OPNET
10 10 (0.91%) Proxmox
10 10 (0.91%) vRealize
11 9 (0.82%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.82%) Kubernetes
12 4 (0.36%) Rancher
13 3 (0.27%) Nmap
13 3 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 3 (0.27%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.18%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 290 (26.39%) Microsoft
2 83 (7.55%) Remedy
3 65 (5.91%) Oracle
4 61 (5.55%) Cisco
5 58 (5.28%) SAP
6 43 (3.91%) Splunk
7 39 (3.55%) Salesforce
8 31 (2.82%) Workday
9 29 (2.64%) Apple
10 22 (2.00%) BMC
10 22 (2.00%) HP
11 21 (1.91%) IBM
11 21 (1.91%) Snow
11 21 (1.91%) VMware
12 20 (1.82%) Google
13 16 (1.46%) Atlassian
14 15 (1.36%) Citrix
15 14 (1.27%) CheckPoint
15 14 (1.27%) Rapid7
16 13 (1.18%) Ivanti