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 14 April 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
14 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 72 77
Rank change year-on-year +6 +5 +33
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,369 822 987
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.50% 3.37% 2.66%
As % of the Vendors category 8.17% 7.12% 6.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 938 511 576
10th Percentile £213 £206 £163
25th Percentile £400 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year - -0.25% +0.25%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £615
90th Percentile £700 £688 £715
UK median daily rate £500 £495 £510
% change year-on-year +1.01% -2.94% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 42 100
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £17.69 £15.44 £16.06
Median hourly rate £20.35 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +8.13% +15.46% -11.70%
75th Percentile £84.69 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile £98.38 £30.61 £25.50
UK median hourly rate £20.35 £21.46 £16.30
% change year-on-year -5.17% +31.66% -11.51%

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 16,765 11,539 15,646
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.90% 47.32% 42.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,947 7,494 10,004
10th Percentile £313 £296 £255
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.50% -1.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 874 435 970
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.52 £18.20 £14.16
Median hourly rate £27.80 £28.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -3.32% +27.78% -41.56%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.88 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.60 £80.39 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £28.24 £27.99 £22.29
% change year-on-year +0.88% +25.59% -47.56%

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 14 April 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 14 April 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 14 April 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 -1 590 £500 -4.76% 136
North of England +5 232 £521 +30.31% 55
South East +14 205 £475 +12.16% 84
Midlands +3 174 £424 -21.57% 28
West Midlands -7 133 £425 -22.87% 21
North West 0 125 £456 +12.59% 35
Yorkshire -3 98 £545 +35.40% 15
East of England -12 68 £525 +68.00% 14
South West +2 67 £663 +20.45% 23
East Midlands -11 34 £400 -4.48% 7
North East -12 12 £450 +50.00% 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 92 (6.72%) Confluence
2 63 (4.60%) SharePoint
3 52 (3.80%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.66%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.51%) Apache
6 6 (0.44%) Appian
6 6 (0.44%) Camunda
7 4 (0.29%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.29%) SAS
8 3 (0.22%) CICS
8 3 (0.22%) CMS
9 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.15%) IIS
9 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.073%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
Applications
1 77 (5.62%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (4.46%) Microsoft Project
3 18 (1.31%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.29%) Chatbot
5 4 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 2 (0.15%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.15%) Revit
6 2 (0.15%) Trello
7 1 (0.073%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.073%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 44 (3.21%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.66%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 9 (0.66%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.51%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.29%) Maximo
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.22%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.15%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.073%) Actimize
9 1 (0.073%) assyst
9 1 (0.073%) SAP CS
9 1 (0.073%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 267 (19.50%) Azure
2 182 (13.29%) AWS
3 160 (11.69%) Microsoft 365
4 118 (8.62%) Entra ID
5 91 (6.65%) Power Platform
6 71 (5.19%) SaaS
7 60 (4.38%) GCP
8 54 (3.94%) Azure DevOps
9 23 (1.68%) OneDrive
10 22 (1.61%) Power Automate
11 19 (1.39%) GitHub
12 15 (1.10%) Serverless
13 14 (1.02%) Microsoft Copilot
14 13 (0.95%) Amazon S3
14 13 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
15 12 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
17 10 (0.73%) AWS KMS
17 10 (0.73%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 62 (4.53%) DNS
2 49 (3.58%) DHCP
2 49 (3.58%) Firewall
2 49 (3.58%) VPN
3 39 (2.85%) Wireless
4 33 (2.41%) WAN
5 32 (2.34%) LAN
6 29 (2.12%) Network Security
7 25 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
8 17 (1.24%) TCP/IP
9 16 (1.17%) VLAN
10 14 (1.02%) Internet
11 12 (0.88%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.80%) SSL
13 10 (0.73%) BGP
13 10 (0.73%) BIG-IP
13 10 (0.73%) NAS
13 10 (0.73%) SAN
14 9 (0.66%) Ethernet
14 9 (0.66%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (5.77%) Power BI
2 39 (2.85%) SQL Server
3 23 (1.68%) Metadata
4 19 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (1.24%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (1.24%) Tableau
7 16 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 10 (0.73%) MySQL
9 9 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (0.66%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.66%) Power Query
10 7 (0.51%) DB2
10 7 (0.51%) Relational Database
11 6 (0.44%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.37%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.37%) Redis
13 4 (0.29%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 255 (18.63%) JIRA
2 57 (4.16%) Git
3 37 (2.70%) Jenkins
4 30 (2.19%) GitLab
5 17 (1.24%) Selenium
6 14 (1.02%) REST Assured
7 13 (0.95%) Postman
8 12 (0.88%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.58%) TestRail
10 5 (0.37%) JMeter
10 5 (0.37%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.29%) Gatling
11 4 (0.29%) JUnit
11 4 (0.29%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.22%) Android Studio
12 3 (0.22%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.22%) Browser DevTools
12 3 (0.22%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.22%) Flyway
12 3 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 434 (31.70%) Social Skills
2 281 (20.53%) Finance
3 184 (13.44%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (8.04%) Public Sector
5 82 (5.99%) Banking
6 63 (4.60%) Military
7 55 (4.02%) Organisational Skills
8 48 (3.51%) Telecoms
9 45 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
9 45 (3.29%) Legal
10 21 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (1.39%) Retail
12 17 (1.24%) Billing
13 13 (0.95%) Financial Institution
13 13 (0.95%) Law
13 13 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
14 10 (0.73%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.66%) Aerospace
16 6 (0.44%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 258 (18.85%) Architect
2 189 (13.81%) Analyst
3 140 (10.23%) ServiceNow Architect
4 116 (8.47%) Developer
5 91 (6.65%) ServiceNow Developer
6 79 (5.77%) Lead
7 78 (5.70%) Consultant
8 77 (5.62%) IT Support
8 77 (5.62%) Support Engineer
9 70 (5.11%) Senior
10 52 (3.80%) Business Analyst
11 50 (3.65%) Project Manager
12 47 (3.43%) IT Engineer
13 44 (3.21%) IT Support Engineer
13 44 (3.21%) ServiceNow Manager
14 42 (3.07%) Solutions Architect
15 37 (2.70%) Administrator
15 37 (2.70%) Service Analyst
15 37 (2.70%) Technical Architect
16 36 (2.63%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (10.96%) REST
2 97 (7.09%) SOAP
3 43 (3.14%) SailPoint
4 31 (2.26%) LDAP
5 27 (1.97%) OpenID
6 25 (1.83%) CSS
7 23 (1.68%) AngularJS
8 21 (1.53%) Middleware
9 20 (1.46%) Flash
9 20 (1.46%) OAuth
10 19 (1.39%) .NET
10 19 (1.39%) HTML
10 19 (1.39%) JSON
11 16 (1.17%) XML
12 15 (1.10%) Web Services
13 14 (1.02%) SAML
14 13 (0.95%) Kafka
15 12 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
16 9 (0.66%) ADO
16 9 (0.66%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 164 (11.98%) CMDB
2 107 (7.82%) Onboarding
3 97 (7.09%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.56%) Data Centre
5 33 (2.41%) Management Information System
6 32 (2.34%) Replication
7 25 (1.83%) Security Posture
8 24 (1.75%) Cloud Native
9 22 (1.61%) Self-Motivation
10 20 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
11 16 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (1.17%) Virtual Team
12 15 (1.10%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.10%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (0.95%) Mainframe
13 13 (0.95%) PKI
14 10 (0.73%) Driving Licence
15 9 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
15 9 (0.66%) Clustering
15 9 (0.66%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 216 (15.78%) Windows
2 88 (6.43%) Windows 10
3 60 (4.38%) Linux
4 34 (2.48%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.97%) Mac OS
6 24 (1.75%) Android
6 24 (1.75%) Unix
7 19 (1.39%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.66%) Windows 7
9 8 (0.58%) zOS
10 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 1 (0.073%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.073%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.073%) MVS
12 1 (0.073%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.073%) VMS
12 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (33.16%) ITSM
2 366 (26.73%) ITIL
3 328 (23.96%) Agile
4 254 (18.55%) Service Management
5 200 (14.61%) Problem-Solving
6 197 (14.39%) Stakeholder Management
7 186 (13.59%) Continuous Improvement
8 165 (12.05%) Change Management
8 165 (12.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 149 (10.88%) DevOps
10 125 (9.13%) Migration
11 123 (8.98%) Customer Service
12 122 (8.91%) CI/CD
13 117 (8.55%) Data Modelling
14 116 (8.47%) Service Delivery
15 111 (8.11%) Roadmaps
16 109 (7.96%) Project Management
17 102 (7.45%) Workflow
18 97 (7.09%) AI
19 92 (6.72%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (8.91%) SQL
2 92 (6.72%) JavaScript
3 85 (6.21%) Python
4 71 (5.19%) PowerShell
5 68 (4.97%) Java
6 24 (1.75%) C#
7 15 (1.10%) TypeScript
8 12 (0.88%) Bash
9 11 (0.80%) PL/SQL
9 11 (0.80%) VB
10 9 (0.66%) VBScript
11 8 (0.58%) ABAP
11 8 (0.58%) JCL
11 8 (0.58%) Perl
11 8 (0.58%) REXX
12 7 (0.51%) BeanShell
12 7 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.44%) Groovy
13 6 (0.44%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 373 (27.25%) Security Cleared
2 274 (20.01%) SC Cleared
3 125 (9.13%) Degree
4 58 (4.24%) DV Cleared
5 32 (2.34%) PMP
6 31 (2.26%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (2.19%) TOGAF Certification
8 29 (2.12%) ITIL Certification
8 29 (2.12%) PMI Certification
9 26 (1.90%) CISSP
10 22 (1.61%) CCNP
10 22 (1.61%) CISM
11 17 (1.24%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (0.88%) CCNA
13 12 (0.88%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 8 (0.58%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (4.67%) SLA
2 60 (4.38%) Data Quality
3 52 (3.80%) QA
4 49 (3.58%) GRC
5 48 (3.51%) GDPR
6 34 (2.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (2.12%) NIST
8 23 (1.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 20 (1.46%) PMO
10 10 (0.73%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.73%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.44%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.29%) GxP
12 4 (0.29%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.22%) COBIT
13 3 (0.22%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.22%) NCSC
13 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.15%) MiFID
System Software
1 170 (12.42%) Active Directory
2 36 (2.63%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.46%) GPFS
3 20 (1.46%) NFS
4 18 (1.31%) vSphere
5 17 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (0.80%) Docker
7 9 (0.66%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.37%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.29%) Firmware
9 4 (0.29%) IAG
9 4 (0.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 3 (0.22%) RACF
10 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.073%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 52 (3.80%) Terraform
2 48 (3.51%) SCCM
3 35 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (2.26%) Ansible
5 30 (2.19%) OPNET
6 22 (1.61%) Grafana
7 18 (1.31%) Kubernetes
8 17 (1.24%) Prometheus
8 17 (1.24%) vRealize
9 12 (0.88%) RSA Archer
9 12 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.51%) CASB
12 6 (0.44%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.37%) Control-M
13 5 (0.37%) QRadar
13 5 (0.37%) Rancher
13 5 (0.37%) Salt
13 5 (0.37%) VxRail
14 4 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
Vendors
1 233 (17.02%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.72%) Remedy
3 83 (6.06%) Cisco
4 66 (4.82%) SAP
5 54 (3.94%) Oracle
6 43 (3.14%) Splunk
7 42 (3.07%) VMware
8 41 (2.99%) Salesforce
9 39 (2.85%) Atlassian
10 38 (2.78%) Workday
11 34 (2.48%) IBM
12 24 (1.75%) CyberArk
13 22 (1.61%) Apple
13 22 (1.61%) Google
13 22 (1.61%) Zscaler
14 21 (1.53%) Fortinet
15 20 (1.46%) BMC
15 20 (1.46%) Palo Alto
16 19 (1.39%) Snow
17 17 (1.24%) iManage