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 12 June 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
12 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 68 79
Rank change year-on-year 0 +11 +19
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,472 910 968
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.45% 3.71% 2.58%
As % of the Vendors category 8.50% 7.82% 6.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 995 557 564
10th Percentile £213 £213 £192
25th Percentile £400 £306 £354
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £582 £596
90th Percentile £675 £683 £681
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 74 105
10th Percentile £17.35 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £14.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £25.91 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +37.65% +15.46% -34.80%
75th Percentile £37.17 £31.19 £21.37
90th Percentile £86.08 £58.38 £27.25
UK median hourly rate £25.91 £17.45 £16.30
% change year-on-year +48.50% +7.02% -35.38%

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 17,318 11,635 15,729
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.61% 47.46% 41.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,118 7,380 9,989
10th Percentile £313 £276 £270
25th Percentile £413 £404 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £515
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -0.04% -2.24%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £503 £515
% change year-on-year -0.50% -2.43% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 927 512 1,043
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £19.03 £17.79 £14.48
Median hourly rate £33.99 £27.17 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +25.11% +14.15% -37.37%
75th Percentile £60.75 £54.06 £59.50
90th Percentile £79.72 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £26.32 £23.50
% change year-on-year +23.48% +12.00% -44.71%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +13 646 £525 +0.48% 125
North of England -7 284 £513 +28.13% 60
South East +3 240 £513 +46.43% 99
Midlands +3 167 £425 -22.02% 32
North West -2 149 £450 -4.66% 41
Yorkshire -14 122 £530 +32.50% 16
West Midlands -14 120 £459 -16.55% 20
East of England -30 61 £525 +18.51% 15
East Midlands +11 40 £340 -33.66% 12
South West -34 40 £310 +23.80% 12
North East -23 17 £450 +50.00% 3
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 78 (5.30%) Confluence
2 58 (3.94%) SharePoint
3 50 (3.40%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.82%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.48%) Apache
6 3 (0.20%) CMS
6 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.14%) IIS
7 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.14%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.14%) SAS
7 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.068%) Appian
8 1 (0.068%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.068%) Drupal
8 1 (0.068%) Tomcat
Applications
1 65 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (4.28%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.63%) Microsoft Project
5 10 (0.68%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.48%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.48%) Revit
7 5 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.068%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.068%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 60 (4.08%) Remedy ITSM
2 11 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.61%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.20%) Maximo
6 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.14%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.14%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
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 CO
6 2 (0.14%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.068%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.068%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 305 (20.72%) Azure
2 207 (14.06%) AWS
3 158 (10.73%) Microsoft 365
4 119 (8.08%) Entra ID
5 98 (6.66%) Power Platform
6 76 (5.16%) SaaS
7 61 (4.14%) GCP
8 54 (3.67%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (2.24%) OneDrive
10 20 (1.36%) GitHub
10 20 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
11 19 (1.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (1.29%) Amazon S3
12 18 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (1.02%) Power Automate
13 15 (1.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (0.95%) AWS KMS
14 14 (0.95%) Serverless
14 14 (0.95%) Slack
15 13 (0.88%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 82 (5.57%) DNS
2 73 (4.96%) DHCP
3 66 (4.48%) Firewall
4 52 (3.53%) VPN
5 38 (2.58%) Wireless
6 33 (2.24%) Network Security
7 32 (2.17%) LAN
8 31 (2.11%) WAN
9 30 (2.04%) TCP/IP
10 27 (1.83%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (1.49%) VLAN
12 20 (1.36%) SAN
13 19 (1.29%) NAS
14 16 (1.09%) SSL
15 15 (1.02%) Cisco IOS
15 15 (1.02%) Internet
15 15 (1.02%) NX-OS
15 15 (1.02%) Structured Cabling
16 14 (0.95%) SD-WAN
17 12 (0.82%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 81 (5.50%) Power BI
2 44 (2.99%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.09%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (0.95%) Metadata
8 11 (0.75%) Power Query
9 9 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (0.61%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.61%) MySQL
10 8 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (0.41%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.41%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.41%) Tableau
13 5 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.27%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.27%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 258 (17.53%) JIRA
2 74 (5.03%) Git
3 34 (2.31%) Jenkins
4 33 (2.24%) GitLab
5 14 (0.95%) Selenium
6 11 (0.75%) Cucumber
6 11 (0.75%) Postman
6 11 (0.75%) REST Assured
7 6 (0.41%) TestRail
8 5 (0.34%) JMeter
8 5 (0.34%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.27%) Flyway
9 4 (0.27%) Gatling
9 4 (0.27%) NeoLoad
10 3 (0.20%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.20%) JUnit
11 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.14%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 459 (31.18%) Social Skills
2 279 (18.95%) Finance
3 169 (11.48%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (7.88%) Public Sector
5 86 (5.84%) Banking
6 59 (4.01%) Telecoms
7 52 (3.53%) Organisational Skills
8 49 (3.33%) Documentation Skills
9 41 (2.79%) Legal
10 32 (2.17%) Military
11 21 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.36%) Retail
13 19 (1.29%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (1.15%) French Language
15 14 (0.95%) Billing
16 13 (0.88%) Manufacturing
17 12 (0.82%) Financial Institution
17 12 (0.82%) Spanish Language
18 11 (0.75%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 250 (16.98%) Architect
2 203 (13.79%) Analyst
3 149 (10.12%) ServiceNow Architect
4 134 (9.10%) Developer
5 111 (7.54%) ServiceNow Developer
6 94 (6.39%) Senior
7 79 (5.37%) IT Support
7 79 (5.37%) Support Engineer
8 75 (5.10%) Consultant
9 72 (4.89%) Lead
10 69 (4.69%) Solutions Architect
11 59 (4.01%) Project Manager
12 56 (3.80%) Business Analyst
13 54 (3.67%) Service Analyst
14 52 (3.53%) IT Engineer
15 49 (3.33%) ServiceNow Consultant
16 48 (3.26%) IT Support Engineer
17 42 (2.85%) ServiceNow Manager
18 40 (2.72%) Technical Architect
19 39 (2.65%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (12.16%) REST
2 105 (7.13%) SOAP
3 39 (2.65%) SailPoint
4 38 (2.58%) LDAP
5 32 (2.17%) CSS
5 32 (2.17%) HTML
5 32 (2.17%) Middleware
6 31 (2.11%) OpenID
7 29 (1.97%) JSON
8 25 (1.70%) OAuth
8 25 (1.70%) Web Services
9 23 (1.56%) XML
10 22 (1.49%) AngularJS
11 19 (1.29%) Flash
11 19 (1.29%) SAML
12 18 (1.22%) .NET
13 13 (0.88%) Ajax
14 11 (0.75%) JDBC
14 11 (0.75%) Kafka
14 11 (0.75%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 196 (13.32%) CMDB
2 108 (7.34%) Onboarding
3 69 (4.69%) Product Ownership
4 49 (3.33%) Data Centre
5 39 (2.65%) Management Information System
6 35 (2.38%) Cloud Native
7 33 (2.24%) Replication
8 31 (2.11%) Enterprise Software
9 25 (1.70%) Security Posture
10 22 (1.49%) PKI
10 22 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
11 20 (1.36%) Linux Command Line
11 20 (1.36%) Virtual Team
12 16 (1.09%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.02%) AI Agents
14 14 (0.95%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (0.88%) Clustering
15 13 (0.88%) Data Protection Act
16 9 (0.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 235 (15.96%) Windows
2 84 (5.71%) Linux
3 82 (5.57%) Windows 10
4 43 (2.92%) Windows Server
5 39 (2.65%) Mac OS
6 31 (2.11%) Apple iOS
7 28 (1.90%) Unix
8 21 (1.43%) Android
9 12 (0.82%) Windows 7
10 11 (0.75%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.20%) VMS
12 3 (0.20%) zOS
13 2 (0.14%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.068%) MVS
14 1 (0.068%) SUSE
14 1 (0.068%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.068%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (35.67%) ITSM
2 404 (27.45%) ITIL
3 311 (21.13%) Agile
4 275 (18.68%) Service Management
5 244 (16.58%) Problem-Solving
6 231 (15.69%) Stakeholder Management
7 205 (13.93%) Continuous Improvement
8 172 (11.68%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 169 (11.48%) Change Management
9 169 (11.48%) DevOps
10 155 (10.53%) Customer Service
11 141 (9.58%) Service Delivery
12 140 (9.51%) Migration
13 134 (9.10%) AI
14 129 (8.76%) CI/CD
14 129 (8.76%) Roadmaps
15 122 (8.29%) Workflow
16 120 (8.15%) Data Modelling
17 105 (7.13%) Asset Management
18 100 (6.79%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 130 (8.83%) SQL
2 105 (7.13%) JavaScript
3 97 (6.59%) PowerShell
4 93 (6.32%) Python
5 70 (4.76%) Java
6 30 (2.04%) C#
7 14 (0.95%) VBScript
8 13 (0.88%) VB
9 12 (0.82%) Bash
10 11 (0.75%) TypeScript
11 10 (0.68%) PL/SQL
12 9 (0.61%) Groovy
13 7 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (0.48%) Perl
14 6 (0.41%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.34%) Go
16 4 (0.27%) BeanShell
16 4 (0.27%) Cypher
16 4 (0.27%) PHP
16 4 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 380 (25.82%) Security Cleared
2 274 (18.61%) SC Cleared
3 105 (7.13%) Degree
4 72 (4.89%) DV Cleared
5 41 (2.79%) Cisco Certification
6 38 (2.58%) ITIL Certification
7 34 (2.31%) PMP
8 31 (2.11%) CISSP
9 30 (2.04%) CCNP
10 29 (1.97%) PMI Certification
11 24 (1.63%) CISM
12 20 (1.36%) CCNA
13 19 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
14 16 (1.09%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
15 15 (1.02%) Server+ Certification
16 12 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
17 11 (0.75%) AWS Certification
17 11 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 9 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (5.10%) SLA
2 66 (4.48%) Data Quality
3 52 (3.53%) GRC
4 48 (3.26%) QA
5 37 (2.51%) GDPR
5 37 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 35 (2.38%) NIST
7 26 (1.77%) PMO
8 21 (1.43%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
10 11 (0.75%) Accessibility
10 11 (0.75%) COBIT
11 8 (0.54%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.48%) PCI DSS
13 5 (0.34%) NCSC
13 5 (0.34%) SOC 2
14 4 (0.27%) GxP
15 3 (0.20%) NIST 800
16 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
16 2 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 169 (11.48%) Active Directory
2 40 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.43%) Docker
4 20 (1.36%) NFS
5 19 (1.29%) GPFS
6 18 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
6 18 (1.22%) vSphere
7 13 (0.88%) BitLocker
8 10 (0.68%) Virtual Machines
9 7 (0.48%) Firmware
10 6 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
11 5 (0.34%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 4 (0.27%) IAG
12 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
14 2 (0.14%) Job Entry Subsystem
14 2 (0.14%) RACF
14 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.068%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 58 (3.94%) Terraform
2 54 (3.67%) Microsoft Intune
3 49 (3.33%) SCCM
4 28 (1.90%) Ansible
5 27 (1.83%) Grafana
6 22 (1.49%) Kubernetes
7 19 (1.29%) Prometheus
8 18 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
10 15 (1.02%) vRealize
11 8 (0.54%) WMI
12 7 (0.48%) CASB
12 7 (0.48%) RSA Archer
12 7 (0.48%) VxRail
13 5 (0.34%) Salt
13 5 (0.34%) SCOM
14 4 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.27%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.27%) PingFederate
14 4 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 300 (20.38%) Microsoft
2 94 (6.39%) Cisco
3 74 (5.03%) Remedy
4 62 (4.21%) SAP
5 61 (4.14%) Splunk
6 59 (4.01%) Oracle
7 46 (3.13%) VMware
8 39 (2.65%) Salesforce
9 37 (2.51%) Workday
10 31 (2.11%) BMC
11 29 (1.97%) Palo Alto
12 28 (1.90%) CyberArk
13 27 (1.83%) Fortinet
13 27 (1.83%) Google
13 27 (1.83%) IBM
14 24 (1.63%) Apple
15 23 (1.56%) F5
16 21 (1.43%) SolarWinds
17 20 (1.36%) Snow
18 18 (1.22%) Zscaler