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 15 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
15 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 66 72
Rank change year-on-year +1 +6 -2
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,710 1,053 953
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.65% 3.74% 2.97%
As % of the Vendors category 8.76% 7.82% 6.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,066 678 538
10th Percentile £213 £204 £213
25th Percentile £400 £279 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £608 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 84 25
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.51 £15.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £26.00 £18.82 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.15% -0.95% -5.00%
75th Percentile £60.74 £31.02 £24.18
90th Percentile £87.16 £63.40 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £25.38 £17.87 £21.37
% change year-on-year +42.00% -16.38% +6.85%

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 19,526 13,473 14,325
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.68% 47.86% 44.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,932 8,580 8,572
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £517 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.90% -3.38% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £626
90th Percentile £715 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,295 652 502
10th Percentile £13.91 £15.00 £15.00
25th Percentile £16.56 £18.00 £16.00
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.04 £35.18
Median % change year-on-year +2.85% -28.83% -20.94%
75th Percentile £60.00 £42.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £69.96 £71.13
UK median hourly rate £24.19 £24.81 £33.00
% change year-on-year -2.50% -24.82% -24.83%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +23 765 £525 +5.00% 85
South East +11 332 £538 +73.39% 53
North of England -13 331 £447 -10.60% 44
North West -1 220 £365 -25.81% 25
Midlands -28 130 £445 -6.32% 29
West Midlands -24 113 £463 -2.63% 17
Yorkshire -30 104 £485 -3.00% 18
East of England -44 58 £575 +12.30% 10
South West -54 49 £500 +58.73% 27
East Midlands -16 16 £381 -20.78% 10
North East -34 10 £463 +32.14% 1
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 (6.49%) SharePoint
2 79 (4.62%) Confluence
3 47 (2.75%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.94%) Skype for Business
5 14 (0.82%) nginx
6 8 (0.47%) Apache
7 4 (0.23%) CICS
7 4 (0.23%) CMS
7 4 (0.23%) Mendix
8 2 (0.12%) Appian
8 2 (0.12%) IIS
8 2 (0.12%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.058%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.058%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.058%) Documentum
9 1 (0.058%) Drupal
9 1 (0.058%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.058%) SAS
9 1 (0.058%) WebSphere
Applications
1 73 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
2 71 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
3 33 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.29%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.05%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.70%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.53%) AutoCAD
8 6 (0.35%) Revit
9 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.18%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.058%) LaTeX
11 1 (0.058%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.058%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 59 (3.45%) Remedy ITSM
2 15 (0.88%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
4 9 (0.53%) Oracle ERP
4 9 (0.53%) Workday HCM
5 6 (0.35%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle General Ledger
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle Financials
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.12%) Maximo
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Assets
8 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
9 1 (0.058%) Cloudability
9 1 (0.058%) Eloqua
9 1 (0.058%) iTrent
9 1 (0.058%) Salesforce CRM
9 1 (0.058%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 362 (21.17%) Azure
2 262 (15.32%) Microsoft 365
3 208 (12.16%) AWS
4 135 (7.89%) Power Platform
5 129 (7.54%) Entra ID
6 86 (5.03%) SaaS
7 68 (3.98%) GCP
8 56 (3.27%) Azure DevOps
9 53 (3.10%) GitHub
10 43 (2.51%) Azure Monitor
11 41 (2.40%) OneDrive
12 36 (2.11%) Microsoft Copilot
13 28 (1.64%) Datadog
14 24 (1.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 23 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (1.29%) Serverless
17 20 (1.17%) Power Automate
18 18 (1.05%) Amazon S3
18 18 (1.05%) PowerApps
19 17 (0.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 82 (4.80%) DNS
2 69 (4.04%) VPN
3 68 (3.98%) DHCP
4 58 (3.39%) Firewall
5 55 (3.22%) TCP/IP
6 32 (1.87%) VLAN
7 28 (1.64%) Network Security
8 25 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
8 25 (1.46%) Wireless
9 24 (1.40%) SSL
10 23 (1.35%) BGP
10 23 (1.35%) WAN
11 21 (1.23%) LAN
11 21 (1.23%) SSH
12 20 (1.17%) NX-OS
13 17 (0.99%) Skype
14 13 (0.76%) OSPF
15 12 (0.70%) SAN
15 12 (0.70%) SD-WAN
15 12 (0.70%) VXLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 88 (5.15%) Power BI
2 46 (2.69%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.75%) 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 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
9 10 (0.58%) BigQuery
10 9 (0.53%) Looker
11 6 (0.35%) Redis
12 5 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.29%) Power Query
13 4 (0.23%) Data Mart
13 4 (0.23%) Data Warehouse
13 4 (0.23%) Db2
13 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 3 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
14 3 (0.18%) Pentaho
14 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 204 (11.93%) JIRA
2 68 (3.98%) Git
3 30 (1.75%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.52%) GitLab
5 9 (0.53%) Bitbucket
6 7 (0.41%) Artifactory
7 5 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 4 (0.23%) Octopus Deploy
8 4 (0.23%) TeamCity
8 4 (0.23%) Zephyr
9 3 (0.18%) Postman
9 3 (0.18%) Visual Studio
10 2 (0.12%) Claude Code
10 2 (0.12%) MSBuild
10 2 (0.12%) MSI
10 2 (0.12%) Tricentis qTest
10 2 (0.12%) Vagrant
11 1 (0.058%) Flyway
11 1 (0.058%) NeoLoad
11 1 (0.058%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 569 (33.27%) Social Skills
2 321 (18.77%) Finance
3 238 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
4 157 (9.18%) Public Sector
5 94 (5.50%) Banking
6 74 (4.33%) Telecoms
7 53 (3.10%) Legal
8 45 (2.63%) Documentation Skills
9 37 (2.16%) Organisational Skills
10 33 (1.93%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (1.70%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (1.23%) Military
14 20 (1.17%) Police
15 19 (1.11%) Law
16 16 (0.94%) Spanish Language
17 15 (0.88%) French Language
17 15 (0.88%) Italian Language
18 13 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
19 12 (0.70%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 240 (14.04%) Analyst
2 235 (13.74%) Architect
3 177 (10.35%) Developer
4 152 (8.89%) ServiceNow Developer
5 131 (7.66%) ServiceNow Architect
6 125 (7.31%) Senior
7 116 (6.78%) Consultant
8 104 (6.08%) Support Engineer
9 98 (5.73%) Lead
10 86 (5.03%) IT Support
11 71 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
12 66 (3.86%) Service Analyst
13 64 (3.74%) IT Engineer
14 61 (3.57%) Project Manager
15 56 (3.27%) IT Support Engineer
16 55 (3.22%) Business Analyst
17 54 (3.16%) ServiceNow Consultant
18 47 (2.75%) Service Manager
19 44 (2.57%) Technical Architect
20 42 (2.46%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 187 (10.94%) REST
2 91 (5.32%) SOAP
3 75 (4.39%) Terraform
4 48 (2.81%) JSON
5 34 (1.99%) OAuth
6 31 (1.81%) HTML
7 28 (1.64%) CSS
7 28 (1.64%) LDAP
7 28 (1.64%) SailPoint
8 27 (1.58%) Middleware
9 26 (1.52%) XML
10 21 (1.23%) .NET
11 20 (1.17%) Web Services
12 18 (1.05%) Ajax
13 15 (0.88%) OAuth2
13 15 (0.88%) YAML
14 14 (0.82%) SAML
15 12 (0.70%) Microsoft Graph
15 12 (0.70%) OpenID
16 10 (0.58%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 293 (17.13%) CMDB
2 189 (11.05%) Onboarding
3 71 (4.15%) Enterprise Software
4 56 (3.27%) Data Centre
5 55 (3.22%) Management Information System
6 50 (2.92%) Product Ownership
7 41 (2.40%) Cloud Native
8 35 (2.05%) Replication
9 30 (1.75%) AI Agents
10 27 (1.58%) Video Conferencing
11 23 (1.35%) PKI
12 20 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
12 20 (1.17%) Self-Motivation
13 19 (1.11%) iPhone
14 18 (1.05%) Clustering
14 18 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
15 17 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (0.99%) Low-Code
15 17 (0.99%) Security Posture
16 16 (0.94%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 346 (20.23%) Windows
2 115 (6.73%) Linux
3 111 (6.49%) Windows 10
4 54 (3.16%) macOS
5 53 (3.10%) Windows Server
6 34 (1.99%) Apple iOS
7 25 (1.46%) Android
8 22 (1.29%) Unix
9 19 (1.11%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 16 (0.94%) Windows 7
11 9 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (0.29%) zOS
13 4 (0.23%) VMS
14 3 (0.18%) Check Point GAiA
14 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.12%) AIX
16 1 (0.058%) CentOS
16 1 (0.058%) Solaris
16 1 (0.058%) SUSE
16 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 709 (41.46%) ITSM
2 553 (32.34%) ITIL
3 416 (24.33%) Service Management
4 383 (22.40%) Stakeholder Management
5 301 (17.60%) Problem-Solving
6 291 (17.02%) Agile
7 254 (14.85%) Continuous Improvement
8 221 (12.92%) AI
9 207 (12.11%) Customer Service
10 192 (11.23%) Roadmaps
11 189 (11.05%) Service Delivery
12 179 (10.47%) DevOps
13 177 (10.35%) Change Management
13 177 (10.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 154 (9.01%) Workflow
15 138 (8.07%) Asset Management
16 132 (7.72%) Incident Management
17 131 (7.66%) Migration
18 122 (7.13%) CI/CD
19 119 (6.96%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 156 (9.12%) PowerShell
2 138 (8.07%) Python
3 117 (6.84%) JavaScript
4 87 (5.09%) SQL
5 39 (2.28%) Java
6 34 (1.99%) Bash
7 20 (1.17%) Groovy
8 18 (1.05%) VBScript
9 15 (0.88%) C#
9 15 (0.88%) T-SQL
9 15 (0.88%) VB
10 8 (0.47%) Perl
11 7 (0.41%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.35%) BeanShell
12 6 (0.35%) Go
12 6 (0.35%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.29%) Google Apps Script
13 5 (0.29%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.23%) C++
14 4 (0.23%) JCL
Qualifications
1 456 (26.67%) Security Cleared
2 343 (20.06%) SC Cleared
3 127 (7.43%) Degree
4 73 (4.27%) DV Cleared
5 41 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
6 40 (2.34%) ITIL Certification
6 40 (2.34%) PMP
7 38 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 34 (1.99%) PMI Certification
9 31 (1.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 28 (1.64%) Azure Certification
11 24 (1.40%) Cisco Certification
12 22 (1.29%) Computer Science Degree
13 21 (1.23%) A+ Certification
14 19 (1.11%) CCNP
15 17 (0.99%) CISSP
16 16 (0.94%) CCNA
17 14 (0.82%) AWS Certification
18 13 (0.76%) CISM
18 13 (0.76%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 106 (6.20%) SLA
2 104 (6.08%) Data Quality
3 58 (3.39%) GRC
4 57 (3.33%) QA
5 53 (3.10%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (2.34%) NIST
7 37 (2.16%) PMO
8 22 (1.29%) GDPR
9 18 (1.05%) NCSC
10 17 (0.99%) COBIT
11 16 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.70%) Accessibility
12 12 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 11 (0.64%) ISO 9001
13 11 (0.64%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 9 (0.53%) PCI DSS
15 8 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 8 (0.47%) GxP
16 7 (0.41%) HIPAA
17 6 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 220 (12.87%) Active Directory
2 46 (2.69%) Docker
3 40 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
5 19 (1.11%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (0.99%) BitLocker
7 14 (0.82%) IAG
7 14 (0.82%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.58%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.53%) NFS
10 8 (0.47%) vSphere
11 7 (0.41%) GPFS
12 6 (0.35%) Firmware
13 5 (0.29%) Hyper-V
14 3 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.12%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.12%) Dovecot
15 2 (0.12%) Postfix
15 2 (0.12%) Squid
16 1 (0.058%) Oracle RAC
Systems Management
1 88 (5.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 71 (4.15%) SCCM
3 60 (3.51%) Ansible
4 45 (2.63%) Kubernetes
5 35 (2.05%) Grafana
6 24 (1.40%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (1.29%) SCOM
8 20 (1.17%) Jamf Pro
9 16 (0.94%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.58%) WMI
11 9 (0.53%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.41%) Kibana
13 6 (0.35%) Control-M
13 6 (0.35%) vRealize
14 5 (0.29%) Packer
14 5 (0.29%) PowerCLI
15 4 (0.23%) ITRS Geneos
15 4 (0.23%) Rancher
15 4 (0.23%) SCOrch
16 3 (0.18%) Nessus
Vendors
1 500 (29.24%) Microsoft
2 82 (4.80%) Cisco
3 68 (3.98%) Splunk
4 67 (3.92%) Remedy
5 63 (3.68%) Oracle
6 60 (3.51%) SAP
7 58 (3.39%) VMware
8 52 (3.04%) Dynatrace
9 50 (2.92%) Salesforce
10 44 (2.57%) CyberArk
11 33 (1.93%) Apple
11 33 (1.93%) Google
12 31 (1.81%) SolarWinds
13 27 (1.58%) BMC
14 26 (1.52%) Palo Alto
14 26 (1.52%) Snow
15 23 (1.35%) Adobe
15 23 (1.35%) Okta
15 23 (1.35%) Workday
16 22 (1.29%) IBM