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 29 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
29 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 67 82
Rank change year-on-year 0 +15 +25
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,380 851 973
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.43% 3.50% 2.63%
As % of the Vendors category 8.14% 7.37% 6.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 953 536 569
10th Percentile £214 £200 £165
25th Percentile £400 £316 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £600 £603
90th Percentile £700 £688 £720
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 47 105
10th Percentile £15.54 £14.99 £14.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £15.11 £16.06
Median hourly rate £21.48 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +14.12% +15.46% -11.51%
75th Percentile £84.69 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile £97.88 £33.00 £28.00
UK median hourly rate £21.35 £18.82 £16.30
% change year-on-year +13.42% +15.46% -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 16,951 11,540 15,543
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.12% 47.48% 42.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,059 7,456 9,886
10th Percentile £313 £288 £256
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 £609 £625 £631
90th Percentile £709 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £518
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.48% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 891 458 986
10th Percentile £15.34 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £18.13 £14.16
Median hourly rate £30.49 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.87% +22.22% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.50 £55.08
90th Percentile £79.50 £76.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +12.44% +20.56% -48.86%

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 29 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 29 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 29 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 0 606 £500 -9.09% 90
North of England -12 241 £525 +30.43% 47
South East -2 202 £500 +42.86% 69
Midlands +3 167 £425 -22.87% 22
North West -5 127 £475 +16.14% 30
West Midlands -6 127 £425 -22.87% 18
Yorkshire -15 103 £550 +37.50% 15
South West -1 70 £600 +75.18% 17
East of England -27 59 £525 +57.19% 11
East Midlands -12 33 £300 -41.46% 3
North East -7 14 £425 +41.67% 2
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 97 (7.03%) Confluence
2 56 (4.06%) SharePoint
3 49 (3.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.65%) Skype for Business
5 6 (0.43%) Apache
6 5 (0.36%) Appian
7 4 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.29%) Camunda
7 4 (0.29%) CMS
7 4 (0.29%) SAS
8 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.22%) CICS
9 2 (0.14%) IIS
9 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.14%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.072%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.072%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
Applications
1 81 (5.87%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (4.06%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (4.06%) Microsoft Project
3 21 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 12 (0.87%) MS Visio
5 6 (0.43%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.14%) Revit
7 2 (0.14%) Trello
8 1 (0.072%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.072%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 43 (3.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.29%) Maximo
4 4 (0.29%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 4 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.22%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.14%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.14%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.14%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.072%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.072%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.072%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.072%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 269 (19.49%) Azure
2 186 (13.48%) AWS
3 145 (10.51%) Microsoft 365
4 121 (8.77%) Entra ID
5 90 (6.52%) Power Platform
6 71 (5.14%) SaaS
7 61 (4.42%) GCP
8 57 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (1.59%) Power Automate
10 18 (1.30%) OneDrive
11 17 (1.23%) GitHub
12 15 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
13 14 (1.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (1.01%) Amazon S3
14 13 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (0.94%) AWS KMS
14 13 (0.94%) Azure Logic Apps
15 12 (0.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 10 (0.72%) Datadog
16 10 (0.72%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.86%) DNS
2 54 (3.91%) DHCP
3 51 (3.70%) Firewall
4 50 (3.62%) VPN
5 34 (2.46%) Wireless
6 32 (2.32%) WAN
7 31 (2.25%) LAN
8 30 (2.17%) Network Security
9 21 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
10 19 (1.38%) TCP/IP
11 17 (1.23%) VLAN
12 14 (1.01%) Internet
13 13 (0.94%) SSL
14 12 (0.87%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.72%) BIG-IP
15 10 (0.72%) NAS
15 10 (0.72%) SAN
16 9 (0.65%) Ethernet
16 9 (0.65%) Skype
17 8 (0.58%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (5.58%) Power BI
2 36 (2.61%) SQL Server
3 20 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (1.23%) Metadata
6 16 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 16 (1.16%) Tableau
7 10 (0.72%) Power Query
8 9 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (0.65%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.58%) MySQL
10 7 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.43%) DB2
11 6 (0.43%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.36%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.29%) Metadata Repository
13 4 (0.29%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.29%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 255 (18.48%) JIRA
2 61 (4.42%) Git
3 39 (2.83%) Jenkins
4 31 (2.25%) GitLab
5 17 (1.23%) Selenium
6 14 (1.01%) REST Assured
7 12 (0.87%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.87%) Postman
8 8 (0.58%) TestRail
9 5 (0.36%) JMeter
9 5 (0.36%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.29%) Gatling
10 4 (0.29%) NeoLoad
11 3 (0.22%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.22%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.22%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.22%) Flyway
11 3 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
11 3 (0.22%) JUnit
12 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 427 (30.94%) Social Skills
2 272 (19.71%) Finance
3 183 (13.26%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (7.83%) Public Sector
5 80 (5.80%) Banking
6 64 (4.64%) Military
7 55 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
8 51 (3.70%) Telecoms
9 47 (3.41%) Legal
10 43 (3.12%) Documentation Skills
11 21 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.30%) Retail
14 15 (1.09%) Billing
15 13 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (0.87%) Financial Institution
16 12 (0.87%) Law
17 8 (0.58%) Aerospace
17 8 (0.58%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.36%) French Language
Job Titles
1 279 (20.22%) Architect
2 187 (13.55%) Analyst
3 155 (11.23%) ServiceNow Architect
4 118 (8.55%) Developer
5 95 (6.88%) ServiceNow Developer
6 80 (5.80%) Senior
7 74 (5.36%) Lead
8 71 (5.14%) Support Engineer
9 69 (5.00%) Consultant
10 67 (4.86%) IT Support
11 55 (3.99%) Business Analyst
12 52 (3.77%) Solutions Architect
13 49 (3.55%) Project Manager
14 45 (3.26%) ServiceNow Manager
15 43 (3.12%) IT Engineer
16 40 (2.90%) IT Support Engineer
16 40 (2.90%) Service Analyst
17 39 (2.83%) Technical Architect
18 37 (2.68%) ServiceNow Consultant
19 34 (2.46%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (11.52%) REST
2 101 (7.32%) SOAP
3 41 (2.97%) SailPoint
4 34 (2.46%) LDAP
5 29 (2.10%) OpenID
6 26 (1.88%) CSS
6 26 (1.88%) Middleware
7 23 (1.67%) AngularJS
7 23 (1.67%) HTML
7 23 (1.67%) JSON
8 22 (1.59%) OAuth
9 20 (1.45%) Flash
10 19 (1.38%) Web Services
11 18 (1.30%) .NET
11 18 (1.30%) XML
12 17 (1.23%) SAML
13 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
14 11 (0.80%) JDBC
14 11 (0.80%) Kafka
15 10 (0.72%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 171 (12.39%) CMDB
2 109 (7.90%) Onboarding
3 102 (7.39%) Product Ownership
4 34 (2.46%) Management Information System
4 34 (2.46%) Replication
5 30 (2.17%) Data Centre
6 26 (1.88%) Security Posture
7 23 (1.67%) Cloud Native
8 20 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
8 20 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
9 17 (1.23%) Data Structures
9 17 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
10 15 (1.09%) PKI
10 15 (1.09%) Virtual Team
11 13 (0.94%) Mainframe
12 12 (0.87%) Driving Licence
13 11 (0.80%) AI Agents
13 11 (0.80%) Clustering
14 9 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 201 (14.57%) Windows
2 79 (5.72%) Windows 10
3 67 (4.86%) Linux
4 35 (2.54%) Windows Server
5 25 (1.81%) Unix
6 24 (1.74%) Mac OS
7 21 (1.52%) Android
8 16 (1.16%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.65%) Windows 7
10 8 (0.58%) zOS
11 7 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.072%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.072%) MVS
14 1 (0.072%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.072%) VMS
14 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 455 (32.97%) ITSM
2 370 (26.81%) ITIL
3 333 (24.13%) Agile
4 255 (18.48%) Service Management
5 203 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
6 197 (14.28%) Continuous Improvement
6 197 (14.28%) Stakeholder Management
7 161 (11.67%) Change Management
8 159 (11.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 158 (11.45%) DevOps
10 128 (9.28%) Migration
11 121 (8.77%) Service Delivery
12 120 (8.70%) CI/CD
12 120 (8.70%) Data Modelling
13 118 (8.55%) Customer Service
14 115 (8.33%) Roadmaps
15 108 (7.83%) AI
16 107 (7.75%) Workflow
17 104 (7.54%) Project Management
18 97 (7.03%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (8.84%) SQL
2 94 (6.81%) JavaScript
3 85 (6.16%) Python
4 81 (5.87%) PowerShell
5 73 (5.29%) Java
6 27 (1.96%) C#
7 12 (0.87%) TypeScript
8 11 (0.80%) Bash
8 11 (0.80%) PL/SQL
8 11 (0.80%) VB
9 9 (0.65%) Perl
9 9 (0.65%) VBScript
10 8 (0.58%) BeanShell
10 8 (0.58%) Groovy
10 8 (0.58%) JCL
10 8 (0.58%) REXX
11 6 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (0.43%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (0.43%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 381 (27.61%) Security Cleared
2 284 (20.58%) SC Cleared
3 124 (8.99%) Degree
4 60 (4.35%) DV Cleared
5 32 (2.32%) PMP
6 30 (2.17%) Cisco Certification
6 30 (2.17%) ITIL Certification
6 30 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
7 29 (2.10%) PMI Certification
8 27 (1.96%) CISSP
9 24 (1.74%) CISM
10 21 (1.52%) CCNP
11 16 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.80%) CCNA
13 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 8 (0.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 8 (0.58%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (4.93%) SLA
2 60 (4.35%) Data Quality
3 50 (3.62%) QA
4 49 (3.55%) GDPR
5 48 (3.48%) GRC
6 33 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 27 (1.96%) NIST
8 24 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 20 (1.45%) PMO
10 11 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.72%) Accessibility
11 10 (0.72%) PCI DSS
12 8 (0.58%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.29%) GxP
14 3 (0.22%) COBIT
14 3 (0.22%) NCSC
14 3 (0.22%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.14%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 162 (11.74%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.45%) GPFS
3 20 (1.45%) NFS
4 16 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (1.16%) vSphere
5 13 (0.94%) Docker
6 9 (0.65%) BitLocker
7 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.29%) IAG
8 4 (0.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 3 (0.22%) Firmware
9 3 (0.22%) RACF
9 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.072%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.072%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 53 (3.84%) Terraform
2 43 (3.12%) SCCM
3 33 (2.39%) Ansible
4 31 (2.25%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (2.17%) OPNET
6 24 (1.74%) Grafana
7 19 (1.38%) Prometheus
8 17 (1.23%) Kubernetes
9 16 (1.16%) vRealize
10 11 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.65%) RSA Archer
12 7 (0.51%) CASB
13 6 (0.43%) VxRail
14 5 (0.36%) Control-M
14 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.36%) QRadar
14 5 (0.36%) Salt
15 4 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.29%) Pingdom
15 4 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 230 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 89 (6.45%) Remedy
3 77 (5.58%) Cisco
4 67 (4.86%) SAP
5 51 (3.70%) Oracle
6 44 (3.19%) VMware
7 41 (2.97%) Splunk
7 41 (2.97%) Workday
8 39 (2.83%) Atlassian
9 36 (2.61%) Salesforce
10 33 (2.39%) IBM
11 22 (1.59%) CyberArk
11 22 (1.59%) Fortinet
11 22 (1.59%) Google
11 22 (1.59%) Palo Alto
12 21 (1.52%) Apple
13 20 (1.45%) BMC
14 19 (1.38%) Zscaler
15 18 (1.30%) F5
15 18 (1.30%) Snow