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 26 August 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
26 Aug 2026		 Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 70 82
Rank change year-on-year +14 +12 -3
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,755 1,008 887
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.84% 3.66% 2.67%
As % of the Vendors category 9.25% 7.76% 6.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 635 550
10th Percentile £218 £213 £220
25th Percentile £400 £315 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £475 £505
Median % change year-on-year +6.00% -5.94% +1.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £694 £652 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £510
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 89 51
10th Percentile £16.06 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.50 £14.32
Median hourly rate £26.00 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +38.15% +15.46% -20.80%
75th Percentile £63.75 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.43 £63.08 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £25.75 £17.94 £16.30
% change year-on-year +43.57% +10.03% -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 18,972 12,987 14,487
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.53% 47.14% 43.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,900 8,220 9,114
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.35% -4.62% -
75th Percentile £615 £615 £628
90th Percentile £700 £713 £733
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,035 640 692
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.75 £13.50
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.49 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £29.39
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -14.41% -29.19%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.50 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -10.18% -36.00%

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 26 August 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 26 August 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 26 August 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 +26 769 £525 +5.00% 145
North of England -6 360 £450 -10.00% 38
South East +17 343 £538 +50.35% 30
North West 0 234 £400 -21.88% 29
Midlands +6 137 £425 -10.53% 29
Yorkshire -17 115 £500 +5.26% 7
West Midlands -14 110 £425 -10.53% 25
South West -52 55 £463 +38.06% 23
East of England -44 54 £510 +2.00% 7
East Midlands -3 22 £413 - 5
North East -29 17 £500 +42.86% 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
1 108 (6.15%) SharePoint
2 88 (5.01%) Confluence
3 45 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.91%) Skype for Business
5 11 (0.63%) nginx
6 8 (0.46%) Apache
7 4 (0.23%) CMS
8 3 (0.17%) IIS
8 3 (0.17%) Mendix
9 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.11%) SAS
9 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.057%) Drupal
10 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.057%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 80 (4.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 79 (4.50%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (1.48%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (1.14%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.57%) AutoCAD
7 9 (0.51%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.46%) Revit
9 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.057%) LaTeX
10 1 (0.057%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 62 (3.53%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
3 8 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
4 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
4 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
5 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.11%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
5 2 (0.11%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
6 1 (0.057%) Aladdin
6 1 (0.057%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.057%) iTrent
6 1 (0.057%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 1 (0.057%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.057%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 371 (21.14%) Azure
2 241 (13.73%) AWS
3 240 (13.68%) Microsoft 365
4 137 (7.81%) Power Platform
5 129 (7.35%) Entra ID
6 103 (5.87%) SaaS
7 57 (3.25%) Azure DevOps
8 54 (3.08%) GCP
9 43 (2.45%) GitHub
10 41 (2.34%) OneDrive
11 29 (1.65%) Datadog
11 29 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
12 28 (1.60%) Azure Monitor
13 24 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 23 (1.31%) Power Automate
15 20 (1.14%) Serverless
16 19 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
17 18 (1.03%) Amazon S3
18 17 (0.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
19 16 (0.91%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 89 (5.07%) DNS
2 78 (4.44%) DHCP
3 66 (3.76%) Firewall
4 62 (3.53%) VPN
5 49 (2.79%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.77%) Network Security
7 30 (1.71%) Wireless
8 28 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
9 27 (1.54%) WAN
10 26 (1.48%) SSL
10 26 (1.48%) VLAN
11 23 (1.31%) LAN
12 18 (1.03%) NX-OS
12 18 (1.03%) SSH
13 17 (0.97%) Skype
14 16 (0.91%) BGP
14 16 (0.91%) SAN
15 15 (0.85%) NAS
16 13 (0.74%) Cisco IOS
16 13 (0.74%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (5.87%) Power BI
2 48 (2.74%) SQL Server
3 33 (1.88%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 15 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (0.80%) MySQL
8 13 (0.74%) Power Query
9 12 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
10 10 (0.57%) Metadata
11 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.34%) MongoDB
13 5 (0.28%) Redis
13 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 5 (0.28%) Tableau
14 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
14 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
14 4 (0.23%) PowerPivot
15 3 (0.17%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 258 (14.70%) JIRA
2 74 (4.22%) Git
3 27 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.48%) GitLab
5 8 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.17%) Flyway
7 3 (0.17%) MSI
8 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.11%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.11%) Tricentis qTest
8 2 (0.11%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.057%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.057%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.057%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.057%) TeamCity
General
1 565 (32.19%) Social Skills
2 333 (18.97%) Finance
3 236 (13.45%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (8.21%) Public Sector
5 93 (5.30%) Banking
6 83 (4.73%) Telecoms
7 50 (2.85%) Organisational Skills
8 48 (2.74%) Documentation Skills
8 48 (2.74%) Legal
9 27 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (1.48%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (1.08%) Military
12 19 (1.08%) Spanish Language
13 18 (1.03%) French Language
13 18 (1.03%) Italian Language
13 18 (1.03%) Police
14 17 (0.97%) Retail
15 16 (0.91%) Law
16 14 (0.80%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 256 (14.59%) Analyst
2 249 (14.19%) Architect
3 181 (10.31%) Developer
4 159 (9.06%) ServiceNow Developer
5 150 (8.55%) ServiceNow Architect
6 122 (6.95%) Senior
7 108 (6.15%) Support Engineer
8 107 (6.10%) Consultant
9 94 (5.36%) IT Support
10 91 (5.19%) Lead
11 73 (4.16%) Business Analyst
11 73 (4.16%) Service Analyst
12 69 (3.93%) IT Engineer
13 66 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
14 60 (3.42%) IT Support Engineer
15 57 (3.25%) Project Manager
16 53 (3.02%) ServiceNow Consultant
17 41 (2.34%) Technical Architect
18 38 (2.17%) Service Desk Analyst
19 37 (2.11%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (11.17%) REST
2 114 (6.50%) SOAP
3 75 (4.27%) Terraform
4 44 (2.51%) JSON
5 35 (1.99%) HTML
6 34 (1.94%) SailPoint
7 33 (1.88%) OAuth
8 31 (1.77%) CSS
8 31 (1.77%) XML
9 29 (1.65%) LDAP
10 26 (1.48%) Middleware
11 25 (1.42%) Web Services
12 21 (1.20%) .NET
13 17 (0.97%) AngularJS
14 16 (0.91%) Ajax
15 15 (0.85%) SAML
16 13 (0.74%) JDBC
16 13 (0.74%) OpenID
17 12 (0.68%) OAuth2
18 11 (0.63%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 286 (16.30%) CMDB
2 177 (10.09%) Onboarding
3 66 (3.76%) Product Ownership
4 61 (3.48%) Enterprise Software
5 49 (2.79%) Data Centre
6 44 (2.51%) Cloud Native
7 43 (2.45%) Management Information System
8 37 (2.11%) Replication
9 26 (1.48%) PKI
9 26 (1.48%) Security Posture
10 25 (1.42%) AI Agents
11 23 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
11 23 (1.31%) Video Conferencing
12 21 (1.20%) Clustering
12 21 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
12 21 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
13 18 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (0.97%) Data Structures
14 17 (0.97%) iPhone
15 15 (0.85%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 327 (18.63%) Windows
2 110 (6.27%) Windows 10
3 106 (6.04%) Linux
4 50 (2.85%) Windows Server
5 48 (2.74%) Mac OS
6 35 (1.99%) Apple iOS
7 24 (1.37%) Android
8 19 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 18 (1.03%) Unix
10 16 (0.91%) Windows 7
11 9 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.23%) VMS
12 4 (0.23%) zOS
13 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.057%) MVS
15 1 (0.057%) SUSE
15 1 (0.057%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 691 (39.37%) ITSM
2 553 (31.51%) ITIL
3 375 (21.37%) Service Management
4 327 (18.63%) Agile
5 324 (18.46%) Stakeholder Management
6 323 (18.40%) Problem-Solving
7 270 (15.38%) Continuous Improvement
8 209 (11.91%) Customer Service
9 208 (11.85%) AI
10 197 (11.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 192 (10.94%) Service Delivery
12 190 (10.83%) Change Management
13 189 (10.77%) DevOps
14 177 (10.09%) Roadmaps
15 149 (8.49%) Workflow
16 139 (7.92%) Migration
17 133 (7.58%) Incident Management
18 127 (7.24%) CI/CD
19 124 (7.07%) Asset Management
20 123 (7.01%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 141 (8.03%) PowerShell
2 118 (6.72%) Python
3 113 (6.44%) JavaScript
4 101 (5.75%) SQL
5 50 (2.85%) Java
6 23 (1.31%) Bash
7 22 (1.25%) C#
8 18 (1.03%) VBScript
9 16 (0.91%) Groovy
10 15 (0.85%) VB
11 11 (0.63%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.51%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.40%) BeanShell
13 7 (0.40%) Perl
14 6 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.28%) C++
15 5 (0.28%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.28%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.17%) JCL
16 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 464 (26.44%) Security Cleared
2 332 (18.92%) SC Cleared
3 137 (7.81%) Degree
4 91 (5.19%) DV Cleared
5 43 (2.45%) ITIL Certification
6 42 (2.39%) PMP
7 39 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 34 (1.94%) PMI Certification
9 31 (1.77%) Cisco Certification
9 31 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 25 (1.42%) CISSP
10 25 (1.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 22 (1.25%) CCNP
12 21 (1.20%) Azure Certification
13 20 (1.14%) A+ Certification
14 19 (1.08%) CCNA
14 19 (1.08%) CISM
15 16 (0.91%) AWS Certification
16 14 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
16 14 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (5.75%) SLA
2 92 (5.24%) Data Quality
3 61 (3.48%) GRC
4 56 (3.19%) QA
5 47 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (2.51%) NIST
7 43 (2.45%) PMO
8 30 (1.71%) GDPR
9 19 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 17 (0.97%) COBIT
11 15 (0.85%) NCSC
12 14 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.74%) Accessibility
14 12 (0.68%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.46%) GxP
15 8 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.34%) HIPAA
17 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 19770
17 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 224 (12.76%) Active Directory
2 42 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (1.94%) Docker
4 20 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (0.97%) BitLocker
6 17 (0.97%) IAG
7 14 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.68%) NFS
8 12 (0.68%) vSphere
9 11 (0.63%) GPFS
10 8 (0.46%) Firmware
11 7 (0.40%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.11%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.11%) Dovecot
13 2 (0.11%) Postfix
13 2 (0.11%) RACF
13 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.11%) Squid
Systems Management
1 77 (4.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 68 (3.87%) SCCM
3 55 (3.13%) Ansible
4 38 (2.17%) Kubernetes
5 30 (1.71%) Grafana
6 24 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (1.20%) Prometheus
8 20 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
9 14 (0.80%) SCOM
10 12 (0.68%) WMI
11 10 (0.57%) vRealize
12 9 (0.51%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.40%) RSA Archer
14 6 (0.34%) CASB
14 6 (0.34%) Packer
14 6 (0.34%) VxRail
15 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.23%) CA Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.23%) Nessus
15 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 461 (26.27%) Microsoft
2 88 (5.01%) Cisco
3 70 (3.99%) Remedy
4 69 (3.93%) Oracle
4 69 (3.93%) SAP
5 66 (3.76%) Splunk
6 61 (3.48%) VMware
7 51 (2.91%) Salesforce
8 49 (2.79%) CyberArk
9 37 (2.11%) Dynatrace
10 31 (1.77%) BMC
10 31 (1.77%) Snow
11 29 (1.65%) Apple
11 29 (1.65%) Workday
12 24 (1.37%) Google
13 23 (1.31%) Adobe
14 22 (1.25%) IBM
14 22 (1.25%) SolarWinds
15 21 (1.20%) iManage
16 20 (1.14%) Palo Alto
267 ServiceNow jobs in England