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 July 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 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 64 76
Rank change year-on-year +7 +12 +11
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,721 1,016 962
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.84% 3.69% 2.82%
As % of the Vendors category 9.34% 7.84% 6.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,126 629 580
10th Percentile £220 £214 £213
25th Percentile £400 £325 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £576
90th Percentile £680 £670 £650
UK median daily rate £503 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.79% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 84 92
10th Percentile £17.72 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.44 £16.06
Median hourly rate £26.00 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +38.15% +15.46% -20.80%
75th Percentile £67.47 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £88.00 £63.28 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £17.45 £16.30
% change year-on-year +49.04% +7.02% -20.80%

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 18,422 12,956 14,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.09% 47.11% 43.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,642 8,207 9,455
10th Percentile £313 £278 £292
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.49% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £613 £620 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 982 622 806
10th Percentile £16.10 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.46 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.71 £25.15 £28.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.99% -10.18% -29.20%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.17% -8.55% -34.21%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +22 746 £525 +4.90% 163
South East +14 348 £550 +35.80% 67
North of England -9 321 £475 +1.33% 71
North West -7 196 £400 -21.67% 53
Midlands +5 162 £428 -10.00% 22
West Midlands -10 124 £461 -3.00% 19
Yorkshire -13 116 £514 +28.50% 13
East of England -29 59 £525 +16.67% 16
South West -50 48 £353 +10.96% 24
East Midlands +8 32 £381 -7.58% 3
North East -37 16 £525 +61.54% 6
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
1 101 (5.87%) SharePoint
2 92 (5.35%) Confluence
3 37 (2.15%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.52%) Skype for Business
5 8 (0.46%) Apache
5 8 (0.46%) nginx
6 3 (0.17%) CMS
6 3 (0.17%) IIS
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.12%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.12%) SAS
7 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.058%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.058%) Appian
8 1 (0.058%) Drupal
8 1 (0.058%) Mendix
8 1 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
Applications
1 76 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (4.18%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 29 (1.69%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.93%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.58%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.46%) Revit
8 7 (0.41%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
10 2 (0.12%) Spreadsheet
11 1 (0.058%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.058%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 68 (3.95%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.17%) Maximo
4 3 (0.17%) Oracle Payables
4 3 (0.17%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.12%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.12%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
5 2 (0.12%) Workday HCM
6 1 (0.058%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.058%) iTrent
6 1 (0.058%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.058%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.058%) SAP SD
6 1 (0.058%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 360 (20.92%) Azure
2 235 (13.65%) AWS
3 210 (12.20%) Microsoft 365
4 132 (7.67%) Entra ID
5 124 (7.21%) Power Platform
6 94 (5.46%) SaaS
7 63 (3.66%) Azure DevOps
8 49 (2.85%) GCP
9 35 (2.03%) OneDrive
10 27 (1.57%) GitHub
11 26 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 26 (1.51%) Datadog
12 25 (1.45%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (1.39%) Amazon S3
13 24 (1.39%) Azure Monitor
14 23 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
15 22 (1.28%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 20 (1.16%) Serverless
17 19 (1.10%) Power Automate
18 15 (0.87%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 79 (4.59%) DNS
2 74 (4.30%) DHCP
3 64 (3.72%) Firewall
4 53 (3.08%) VPN
5 46 (2.67%) TCP/IP
6 39 (2.27%) Wireless
7 32 (1.86%) Network Security
8 24 (1.39%) WAN
9 23 (1.34%) SSL
9 23 (1.34%) Wi-Fi
10 21 (1.22%) LAN
11 20 (1.16%) SAN
11 20 (1.16%) VLAN
12 19 (1.10%) NAS
13 15 (0.87%) Cisco IOS
13 15 (0.87%) NX-OS
13 15 (0.87%) Structured Cabling
14 14 (0.81%) SSH
15 13 (0.76%) Internet
16 12 (0.70%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (5.58%) Power BI
2 51 (2.96%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (0.99%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (0.70%) MySQL
8 11 (0.64%) Power Query
9 8 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (0.35%) Metadata
10 6 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.35%) Tableau
11 5 (0.29%) Redis
12 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.23%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.23%) PowerPivot
13 3 (0.17%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 268 (15.57%) JIRA
2 80 (4.65%) Git
3 22 (1.28%) Jenkins
4 19 (1.10%) GitLab
5 6 (0.35%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.23%) Flyway
7 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.17%) Selenium
8 2 (0.12%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.12%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.12%) JMeter
8 2 (0.12%) JUnit
8 2 (0.12%) LoadRunner
8 2 (0.12%) Postman
8 2 (0.12%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.12%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.058%) Serenity BDD
General
1 556 (32.31%) Social Skills
2 317 (18.42%) Finance
3 231 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
4 141 (8.19%) Public Sector
5 92 (5.35%) Banking
6 74 (4.30%) Telecoms
7 57 (3.31%) Organisational Skills
8 52 (3.02%) Legal
9 50 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
10 30 (1.74%) Military
11 25 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
12 23 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (1.16%) Manufacturing
14 18 (1.05%) French Language
14 18 (1.05%) Police
14 18 (1.05%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (0.93%) Retail
15 16 (0.93%) Spanish Language
16 14 (0.81%) Italian Language
16 14 (0.81%) Law
Job Titles
1 251 (14.58%) Architect
2 228 (13.25%) Analyst
3 176 (10.23%) Developer
4 159 (9.24%) ServiceNow Architect
5 151 (8.77%) ServiceNow Developer
6 123 (7.15%) Senior
7 98 (5.69%) Consultant
7 98 (5.69%) Support Engineer
8 93 (5.40%) IT Support
9 91 (5.29%) Lead
10 71 (4.13%) Service Analyst
11 69 (4.01%) IT Engineer
12 68 (3.95%) Business Analyst
12 68 (3.95%) Solutions Architect
13 63 (3.66%) Project Manager
14 62 (3.60%) ServiceNow Consultant
15 60 (3.49%) IT Support Engineer
16 43 (2.50%) Delivery Manager
17 42 (2.44%) IT Manager
17 42 (2.44%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (11.27%) REST
2 116 (6.74%) SOAP
3 35 (2.03%) JSON
4 33 (1.92%) HTML
4 33 (1.92%) OAuth
4 33 (1.92%) SailPoint
5 30 (1.74%) CSS
6 29 (1.69%) Middleware
6 29 (1.69%) Web Services
6 29 (1.69%) XML
7 27 (1.57%) LDAP
8 21 (1.22%) AngularJS
9 20 (1.16%) .NET
10 16 (0.93%) Ajax
10 16 (0.93%) SAML
11 15 (0.87%) OpenID
12 12 (0.70%) Flash
13 11 (0.64%) JDBC
13 11 (0.64%) Microsoft Graph
13 11 (0.64%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 251 (14.58%) CMDB
2 151 (8.77%) Onboarding
3 69 (4.01%) Product Ownership
4 48 (2.79%) Data Centre
5 47 (2.73%) Enterprise Software
6 41 (2.38%) Cloud Native
6 41 (2.38%) Management Information System
7 32 (1.86%) Replication
8 27 (1.57%) Security Posture
9 25 (1.45%) PKI
9 25 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
10 22 (1.28%) Linux Command Line
11 21 (1.22%) AI Agents
11 21 (1.22%) Clustering
12 20 (1.16%) Video Conferencing
13 18 (1.05%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
14 17 (0.99%) Data Structures
15 15 (0.87%) Greenfield Project
15 15 (0.87%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 287 (16.68%) Windows
2 101 (5.87%) Windows 10
3 94 (5.46%) Linux
4 46 (2.67%) Windows Server
5 44 (2.56%) Mac OS
6 33 (1.92%) Apple iOS
7 25 (1.45%) Unix
8 21 (1.22%) Android
9 18 (1.05%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.52%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.23%) VMS
12 4 (0.23%) zOS
13 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
14 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.058%) MVS
15 1 (0.058%) SUSE
15 1 (0.058%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 658 (38.23%) ITSM
2 536 (31.14%) ITIL
3 349 (20.28%) Service Management
4 338 (19.64%) Agile
5 311 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
6 306 (17.78%) Stakeholder Management
7 264 (15.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 202 (11.74%) Change Management
9 197 (11.45%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 193 (11.21%) Customer Service
11 190 (11.04%) AI
12 188 (10.92%) DevOps
13 178 (10.34%) Service Delivery
14 155 (9.01%) Roadmaps
15 151 (8.77%) Migration
16 147 (8.54%) Workflow
17 128 (7.44%) Incident Management
18 127 (7.38%) Data Modelling
19 124 (7.21%) Asset Management
20 123 (7.15%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 124 (7.21%) PowerShell
2 123 (7.15%) SQL
3 118 (6.86%) JavaScript
4 104 (6.04%) Python
5 53 (3.08%) Java
6 34 (1.98%) C#
7 19 (1.10%) Bash
8 11 (0.64%) Groovy
8 11 (0.64%) VBScript
9 10 (0.58%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.52%) PL/SQL
11 8 (0.46%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.46%) VB
12 7 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.29%) Perl
13 5 (0.29%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.23%) BeanShell
14 4 (0.23%) Bicep
15 3 (0.17%) C++
15 3 (0.17%) JCL
Qualifications
1 489 (28.41%) Security Cleared
2 344 (19.99%) SC Cleared
3 131 (7.61%) Degree
4 107 (6.22%) DV Cleared
5 44 (2.56%) PMP
6 43 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
7 38 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (2.15%) PMI Certification
9 36 (2.09%) BPSS Clearance
10 33 (1.92%) CISSP
11 28 (1.63%) CCNP
12 26 (1.51%) CISM
12 26 (1.51%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (1.16%) CCNA
14 18 (1.05%) A+ Certification
14 18 (1.05%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 18 (1.05%) Network+ Certification
15 16 (0.93%) Azure Certification
16 15 (0.87%) Server+ Certification
17 14 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 91 (5.29%) SLA
2 75 (4.36%) Data Quality
3 54 (3.14%) GRC
4 50 (2.91%) QA
5 44 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 36 (2.09%) NIST
7 34 (1.98%) GDPR
8 32 (1.86%) PMO
9 17 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 14 (0.81%) COBIT
11 13 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
12 12 (0.70%) Accessibility
12 12 (0.70%) ISO 9001
12 12 (0.70%) NCSC
13 8 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 7 (0.41%) GxP
15 6 (0.35%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.29%) PCI DSS
17 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 214 (12.43%) Active Directory
2 30 (1.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (1.45%) Docker
4 19 (1.10%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.99%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.81%) IAG
7 13 (0.76%) NFS
8 12 (0.70%) GPFS
8 12 (0.70%) vSphere
9 10 (0.58%) BitLocker
10 9 (0.52%) Virtual Desktop
11 7 (0.41%) Firmware
12 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
14 2 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
14 2 (0.12%) RACF
14 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.058%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 70 (4.07%) Terraform
2 69 (4.01%) Microsoft Intune
3 58 (3.37%) SCCM
4 42 (2.44%) Ansible
5 31 (1.80%) Kubernetes
6 30 (1.74%) Grafana
7 24 (1.39%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.22%) Prometheus
9 19 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (0.70%) SCOM
10 12 (0.70%) WMI
11 10 (0.58%) vRealize
12 8 (0.46%) RSA Archer
12 8 (0.46%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.41%) CASB
14 6 (0.35%) VxRail
15 5 (0.29%) Packer
16 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
16 4 (0.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 404 (23.47%) Microsoft
2 86 (5.00%) Cisco
3 77 (4.47%) Remedy
4 69 (4.01%) SAP
5 68 (3.95%) Splunk
6 60 (3.49%) Oracle
7 46 (2.67%) Salesforce
8 42 (2.44%) VMware
9 39 (2.27%) CyberArk
10 31 (1.80%) BMC
11 30 (1.74%) Workday
12 28 (1.63%) Apple
12 28 (1.63%) Dynatrace
13 27 (1.57%) Fortinet
14 25 (1.45%) Palo Alto
15 21 (1.22%) Snow
15 21 (1.22%) SolarWinds
16 20 (1.16%) CrowdStrike
16 20 (1.16%) iManage
17 19 (1.10%) F5