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 22 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
22 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 67 80
Rank change year-on-year +9 +13 +11
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,694 1,012 962
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.78% 3.71% 2.72%
As % of the Vendors category 9.20% 7.82% 6.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,109 622 570
10th Percentile £218 £213 £203
25th Percentile £400 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £584 £575
90th Percentile £680 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 83 100
10th Percentile £17.60 £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% -24.33%
75th Percentile £78.74 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £88.08 £63.32 £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 18,404 12,933 15,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.02% 47.38% 43.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,655 8,177 9,796
10th Percentile £313 £280 £281
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -1.92% -0.95%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 965 610 890
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.75 £12.99
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.44 £15.22
Median hourly rate £35.53 £25.15 £26.21
Median % change year-on-year +41.27% -4.04% -30.11%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.38 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £26.00
% change year-on-year +39.17% -3.27% -36.65%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 +17 739 £525 +3.70% 156
South East +14 341 £525 +29.63% 66
North of England -7 314 £485 +4.30% 66
North West -5 183 £401 -19.96% 56
Midlands +10 162 £425 -10.53% 32
West Midlands -9 122 £450 -5.26% 26
Yorkshire -14 118 £525 +31.25% 8
East of England -36 54 £525 +16.67% 22
South West -48 47 £375 +34.89% 16
East Midlands +10 34 £350 -15.15% 6
North East -25 18 £488 +50.00% 4
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 98 (5.79%) SharePoint
2 90 (5.31%) Confluence
3 39 (2.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.47%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.41%) Apache
5 7 (0.41%) nginx
6 3 (0.18%) CMS
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.12%) IIS
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 (0.059%) Appian
8 1 (0.059%) Drupal
8 1 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 75 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 71 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.94%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.59%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.47%) Revit
8 7 (0.41%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.12%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.059%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.059%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 67 (3.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 11 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.18%) Maximo
6 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.12%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.12%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.12%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.12%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.12%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.12%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 356 (21.02%) Azure
2 232 (13.70%) AWS
3 201 (11.87%) Microsoft 365
4 134 (7.91%) Entra ID
5 117 (6.91%) Power Platform
6 91 (5.37%) SaaS
7 60 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
8 48 (2.83%) GCP
9 35 (2.07%) OneDrive
10 26 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 25 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
11 25 (1.48%) Datadog
12 24 (1.42%) Amazon S3
12 24 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
12 24 (1.42%) GitHub
13 22 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 20 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
15 18 (1.06%) Serverless
16 17 (1.00%) Power Automate
17 15 (0.89%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 83 (4.90%) DNS
2 77 (4.55%) DHCP
3 62 (3.66%) Firewall
4 51 (3.01%) VPN
5 48 (2.83%) TCP/IP
6 38 (2.24%) Wireless
7 31 (1.83%) Network Security
8 25 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
9 24 (1.42%) WAN
10 23 (1.36%) LAN
11 22 (1.30%) SSL
12 20 (1.18%) SAN
12 20 (1.18%) VLAN
13 19 (1.12%) NAS
14 15 (0.89%) Cisco IOS
14 15 (0.89%) NX-OS
14 15 (0.89%) Structured Cabling
15 14 (0.83%) Internet
16 13 (0.77%) SSH
17 12 (0.71%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (5.55%) Power BI
2 50 (2.95%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (0.71%) MySQL
8 11 (0.65%) Power Query
9 8 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (0.41%) Metadata
11 6 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.35%) Tableau
12 5 (0.30%) Redis
13 4 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.24%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.24%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.24%) PowerPivot
14 3 (0.18%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 263 (15.53%) JIRA
2 79 (4.66%) Git
3 22 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.06%) GitLab
5 5 (0.30%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.24%) Flyway
7 3 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.18%) Selenium
8 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.12%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.12%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.12%) JUnit
8 2 (0.12%) Postman
8 2 (0.12%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.12%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.059%) Chocolatey
9 1 (0.059%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.059%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.059%) TestRail
General
1 545 (32.17%) Social Skills
2 311 (18.36%) Finance
3 227 (13.40%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (7.62%) Public Sector
5 91 (5.37%) Banking
6 76 (4.49%) Telecoms
7 57 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
8 50 (2.95%) Legal
9 46 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
10 32 (1.89%) Military
11 24 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (1.06%) French Language
13 18 (1.06%) Manufacturing
13 18 (1.06%) Police
13 18 (1.06%) Retail
14 15 (0.89%) Spanish Language
15 14 (0.83%) Italian Language
16 12 (0.71%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 254 (14.99%) Architect
2 229 (13.52%) Analyst
3 172 (10.15%) Developer
4 161 (9.50%) ServiceNow Architect
5 148 (8.74%) ServiceNow Developer
6 113 (6.67%) Senior
7 96 (5.67%) Consultant
8 94 (5.55%) Support Engineer
9 90 (5.31%) Lead
10 89 (5.25%) IT Support
11 70 (4.13%) Service Analyst
12 67 (3.96%) Business Analyst
13 66 (3.90%) ServiceNow Consultant
14 65 (3.84%) Solutions Architect
15 63 (3.72%) IT Engineer
16 57 (3.36%) Project Manager
17 56 (3.31%) IT Support Engineer
18 44 (2.60%) Technical Architect
19 41 (2.42%) Delivery Manager
20 40 (2.36%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (11.33%) REST
2 118 (6.97%) SOAP
3 33 (1.95%) HTML
3 33 (1.95%) JSON
3 33 (1.95%) OAuth
3 33 (1.95%) SailPoint
4 31 (1.83%) CSS
5 29 (1.71%) LDAP
5 29 (1.71%) Middleware
5 29 (1.71%) Web Services
6 28 (1.65%) XML
7 21 (1.24%) AngularJS
8 18 (1.06%) .NET
9 17 (1.00%) SAML
10 15 (0.89%) Ajax
10 15 (0.89%) OpenID
11 12 (0.71%) Flash
12 11 (0.65%) JDBC
12 11 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
12 11 (0.65%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 244 (14.40%) CMDB
2 142 (8.38%) Onboarding
3 70 (4.13%) Product Ownership
4 49 (2.89%) Data Centre
5 43 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
6 42 (2.48%) Management Information System
7 40 (2.36%) Cloud Native
8 32 (1.89%) Replication
9 29 (1.71%) Security Posture
10 25 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (1.42%) PKI
12 22 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
13 20 (1.18%) AI Agents
13 20 (1.18%) Clustering
14 19 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
14 19 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
15 18 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
16 17 (1.00%) Data Structures
17 15 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
17 15 (0.89%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 273 (16.12%) Windows
2 97 (5.73%) Windows 10
3 91 (5.37%) Linux
4 45 (2.66%) Mac OS
4 45 (2.66%) Windows Server
5 34 (2.01%) Apple iOS
6 25 (1.48%) Unix
7 24 (1.42%) Android
8 18 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 8 (0.47%) Windows 7
10 5 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.24%) VMS
12 3 (0.18%) Check Point GAiA
12 3 (0.18%) zOS
13 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.059%) MVS
14 1 (0.059%) SUSE
14 1 (0.059%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 648 (38.25%) ITSM
2 524 (30.93%) ITIL
3 341 (20.13%) Service Management
4 328 (19.36%) Agile
5 309 (18.24%) Problem-Solving
6 291 (17.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 257 (15.17%) Continuous Improvement
8 204 (12.04%) Change Management
9 197 (11.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 186 (10.98%) AI
10 186 (10.98%) Customer Service
10 186 (10.98%) DevOps
11 174 (10.27%) Service Delivery
12 152 (8.97%) Roadmaps
13 150 (8.85%) Migration
14 147 (8.68%) Workflow
15 130 (7.67%) Incident Management
16 126 (7.44%) Data Modelling
17 119 (7.02%) CI/CD
18 117 (6.91%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (7.20%) SQL
2 120 (7.08%) PowerShell
3 117 (6.91%) JavaScript
4 103 (6.08%) Python
5 52 (3.07%) Java
6 32 (1.89%) C#
7 19 (1.12%) Bash
8 10 (0.59%) Groovy
8 10 (0.59%) T-SQL
8 10 (0.59%) VBScript
9 9 (0.53%) PL/SQL
10 7 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.41%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.41%) VB
11 5 (0.30%) Perl
11 5 (0.30%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.24%) BeanShell
12 4 (0.24%) Bicep
13 3 (0.18%) C++
13 3 (0.18%) JCL
Qualifications
1 474 (27.98%) Security Cleared
2 334 (19.72%) SC Cleared
3 129 (7.62%) Degree
4 100 (5.90%) DV Cleared
5 47 (2.77%) PMP
6 43 (2.54%) ITIL Certification
7 39 (2.30%) PMI Certification
8 38 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
9 35 (2.07%) BPSS Clearance
10 33 (1.95%) CISSP
11 28 (1.65%) CCNP
12 26 (1.53%) CISM
13 25 (1.48%) Microsoft Certification
14 20 (1.18%) CCNA
15 18 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
16 16 (0.94%) Azure Certification
16 16 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
17 15 (0.89%) A+ Certification
17 15 (0.89%) Server+ Certification
18 14 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 89 (5.25%) SLA
2 74 (4.37%) Data Quality
3 56 (3.31%) GRC
4 47 (2.77%) QA
5 44 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (2.18%) NIST
7 34 (2.01%) GDPR
8 32 (1.89%) PMO
9 17 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.77%) NCSC
11 12 (0.71%) COBIT
11 12 (0.71%) ISO 9001
12 11 (0.65%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.35%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.30%) GxP
15 5 (0.30%) PCI DSS
16 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 3 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 212 (12.51%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.36%) Docker
4 19 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.83%) IAG
7 13 (0.77%) NFS
7 13 (0.77%) vSphere
8 12 (0.71%) GPFS
9 9 (0.53%) BitLocker
10 7 (0.41%) Firmware
10 7 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 2 (0.12%) RACF
13 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 68 (4.01%) Terraform
2 66 (3.90%) Microsoft Intune
3 52 (3.07%) SCCM
4 42 (2.48%) Ansible
5 31 (1.83%) Grafana
6 28 (1.65%) Kubernetes
7 26 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.24%) Prometheus
9 19 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (0.71%) SCOM
10 12 (0.71%) WMI
11 10 (0.59%) vRealize
12 8 (0.47%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.41%) CASB
13 7 (0.41%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.35%) VxRail
15 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.24%) Packer
15 4 (0.24%) PingFederate
15 4 (0.24%) QRadar
Vendors
1 386 (22.79%) Microsoft
2 85 (5.02%) Cisco
3 77 (4.55%) Remedy
4 70 (4.13%) SAP
5 68 (4.01%) Splunk
6 58 (3.42%) Oracle
7 44 (2.60%) Salesforce
8 42 (2.48%) VMware
9 36 (2.13%) CyberArk
10 32 (1.89%) Workday
11 30 (1.77%) BMC
12 29 (1.71%) Apple
12 29 (1.71%) Fortinet
13 28 (1.65%) Dynatrace
14 25 (1.48%) Palo Alto
15 21 (1.24%) Snow
15 21 (1.24%) SolarWinds
16 20 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
17 19 (1.12%) F5
17 19 (1.12%) Qualys