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 10 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
10 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 66 80
Rank change year-on-year +5 +14 +13
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,665 1,008 962
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.72% 3.73% 2.60%
As % of the Vendors category 9.06% 7.87% 6.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,107 621 561
10th Percentile £218 £214 £200
25th Percentile £400 £325 £338
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £575
90th Percentile £675 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 74 105
10th Percentile £16.55 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.27 £15.10 £16.06
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +16.90% +15.46% -27.56%
75th Percentile £63.10 £26.69 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.00 £58.38 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £21.50 £17.30 £16.30
% change year-on-year +24.28% +6.13% -24.33%

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 18,368 12,813 15,918
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.98% 47.40% 42.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,656 8,119 10,107
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £403 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £513
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% - -2.38%
75th Percentile £609 £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 988 596 1,041
10th Percentile £16.07 £14.84 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.67 £17.58 £15.00
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% +0.60% -31.51%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.41 £61.25
90th Percentile £83.25 £68.38 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.61 £25.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +37.62% +0.60% -38.34%

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 10 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 10 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 10 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 +14 711 £525 +0.96% 129
South East +14 326 £525 +31.25% 78
North of England -6 318 £488 +5.41% 56
North West +1 181 £405 -19.00% 35
Midlands +10 172 £425 -10.53% 27
West Midlands -10 128 £455 -4.32% 22
Yorkshire -13 126 £535 +33.75% 11
East of England -44 57 £525 +16.67% 17
South West -46 47 £425 +52.88% 12
East Midlands +12 38 £340 -27.47% 5
North East -26 16 £450 +38.46% 11
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 90 (5.41%) Confluence
2 86 (5.17%) SharePoint
3 43 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.72%) Skype for Business
5 6 (0.36%) Apache
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%) nginx
7 2 (0.12%) SAS
7 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.060%) Appian
8 1 (0.060%) Drupal
8 1 (0.060%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.060%) Tomcat
Applications
1 71 (4.26%) Microsoft Excel
1 71 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
2 29 (1.74%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 26 (1.56%) Microsoft Project
4 18 (1.08%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.60%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.48%) Revit
7 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.060%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.060%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.060%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 63 (3.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (0.60%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.36%) 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 Applications
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
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%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.060%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.060%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.060%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 347 (20.84%) Azure
2 227 (13.63%) AWS
3 186 (11.17%) Microsoft 365
4 133 (7.99%) Entra ID
5 114 (6.85%) Power Platform
6 86 (5.17%) SaaS
7 58 (3.48%) Azure DevOps
8 54 (3.24%) GCP
9 31 (1.86%) OneDrive
10 25 (1.50%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 23 (1.38%) Amazon S3
12 22 (1.32%) Datadog
13 21 (1.26%) Azure Monitor
14 20 (1.20%) Amazon EC2
15 19 (1.14%) Microsoft Copilot
16 18 (1.08%) GitHub
17 17 (1.02%) Power Automate
17 17 (1.02%) Serverless
17 17 (1.02%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 15 (0.90%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 84 (5.05%) DNS
2 78 (4.68%) DHCP
3 62 (3.72%) Firewall
4 50 (3.00%) VPN
5 38 (2.28%) TCP/IP
5 38 (2.28%) Wireless
6 33 (1.98%) LAN
7 32 (1.92%) Network Security
8 31 (1.86%) WAN
9 28 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (1.32%) VLAN
11 21 (1.26%) SSL
12 20 (1.20%) SAN
13 19 (1.14%) NAS
14 15 (0.90%) Cisco IOS
14 15 (0.90%) NX-OS
14 15 (0.90%) Structured Cabling
15 14 (0.84%) Internet
16 13 (0.78%) SD-WAN
16 13 (0.78%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (5.59%) Power BI
2 48 (2.88%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (1.56%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (0.66%) MySQL
7 11 (0.66%) Power Query
8 9 (0.54%) Metadata
9 8 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.36%) Tableau
11 5 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.24%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.24%) Neo4j
12 4 (0.24%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.24%) PowerPivot
12 4 (0.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 268 (16.10%) JIRA
2 73 (4.38%) Git
3 24 (1.44%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.32%) GitLab
5 6 (0.36%) Postman
6 5 (0.30%) JMeter
6 5 (0.30%) LoadRunner
6 5 (0.30%) Selenium
7 4 (0.24%) Flyway
7 4 (0.24%) Gatling
7 4 (0.24%) NeoLoad
8 3 (0.18%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.18%) Cucumber
8 3 (0.18%) REST Assured
9 2 (0.12%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 2 (0.12%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.12%) JUnit
9 2 (0.12%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.060%) MSI
General
1 518 (31.11%) Social Skills
2 314 (18.86%) Finance
3 217 (13.03%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (7.87%) Public Sector
5 91 (5.47%) Banking
6 68 (4.08%) Telecoms
7 56 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
8 48 (2.88%) Documentation Skills
9 44 (2.64%) Legal
10 32 (1.92%) Military
11 24 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
12 22 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (1.26%) Retail
14 19 (1.14%) Presentation Skills
15 18 (1.08%) French Language
16 17 (1.02%) Manufacturing
17 14 (0.84%) Police
17 14 (0.84%) Spanish Language
18 13 (0.78%) Italian Language
19 12 (0.72%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 256 (15.38%) Architect
2 233 (13.99%) Analyst
3 167 (10.03%) Developer
4 154 (9.25%) ServiceNow Architect
5 142 (8.53%) ServiceNow Developer
6 110 (6.61%) Senior
7 98 (5.89%) Consultant
8 91 (5.47%) Support Engineer
9 87 (5.23%) Lead
10 86 (5.17%) IT Support
11 71 (4.26%) Business Analyst
12 68 (4.08%) Service Analyst
13 67 (4.02%) ServiceNow Consultant
14 66 (3.96%) Solutions Architect
15 62 (3.72%) IT Engineer
16 57 (3.42%) Project Manager
17 55 (3.30%) IT Support Engineer
18 49 (2.94%) Technical Architect
19 42 (2.52%) Delivery Manager
19 42 (2.52%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 189 (11.35%) REST
2 117 (7.03%) SOAP
3 37 (2.22%) SailPoint
4 34 (2.04%) LDAP
4 34 (2.04%) Middleware
5 33 (1.98%) OAuth
6 32 (1.92%) HTML
6 32 (1.92%) JSON
7 30 (1.80%) CSS
8 26 (1.56%) XML
9 25 (1.50%) Web Services
10 22 (1.32%) OpenID
11 21 (1.26%) AngularJS
12 19 (1.14%) SAML
13 17 (1.02%) .NET
14 15 (0.90%) Flash
15 13 (0.78%) Ajax
15 13 (0.78%) OAuth2
16 11 (0.66%) JDBC
16 11 (0.66%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 243 (14.59%) CMDB
2 135 (8.11%) Onboarding
3 65 (3.90%) Product Ownership
4 50 (3.00%) Data Centre
5 45 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 44 (2.64%) Cloud Native
7 42 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
8 34 (2.04%) Replication
9 28 (1.68%) Security Posture
10 26 (1.56%) Self-Motivation
11 23 (1.38%) PKI
12 21 (1.26%) Linux Command Line
13 19 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (1.08%) AI Agents
14 18 (1.08%) Clustering
14 18 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.08%) Data Structures
14 18 (1.08%) Virtual Team
15 14 (0.84%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 260 (15.62%) Windows
2 94 (5.65%) Windows 10
3 88 (5.29%) Linux
4 43 (2.58%) Windows Server
5 41 (2.46%) Mac OS
6 32 (1.92%) Apple iOS
7 26 (1.56%) Unix
8 24 (1.44%) Android
9 14 (0.84%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (0.72%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.24%) VMS
13 3 (0.18%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.18%) zOS
14 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.060%) CentOS
15 1 (0.060%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 625 (37.54%) ITSM
2 502 (30.15%) ITIL
3 334 (20.06%) Agile
4 322 (19.34%) Service Management
5 299 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
6 281 (16.88%) Stakeholder Management
7 246 (14.77%) Continuous Improvement
8 199 (11.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 190 (11.41%) Change Management
10 185 (11.11%) DevOps
11 178 (10.69%) AI
12 175 (10.51%) Customer Service
13 166 (9.97%) Service Delivery
14 150 (9.01%) Migration
15 149 (8.95%) Roadmaps
16 143 (8.59%) Workflow
17 129 (7.75%) Data Modelling
18 124 (7.45%) CI/CD
19 119 (7.15%) Incident Management
20 109 (6.55%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 124 (7.45%) SQL
2 116 (6.97%) JavaScript
3 115 (6.91%) PowerShell
4 108 (6.49%) Python
5 57 (3.42%) Java
6 32 (1.92%) C#
7 16 (0.96%) Bash
8 14 (0.84%) VBScript
9 11 (0.66%) TypeScript
9 11 (0.66%) VB
10 10 (0.60%) Groovy
10 10 (0.60%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.54%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.36%) Perl
14 5 (0.30%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.24%) BeanShell
15 4 (0.24%) Bicep
15 4 (0.24%) Cypher
15 4 (0.24%) Scala
Qualifications
1 463 (27.81%) Security Cleared
2 329 (19.76%) SC Cleared
3 128 (7.69%) Degree
4 99 (5.95%) DV Cleared
5 46 (2.76%) ITIL Certification
6 44 (2.64%) PMP
7 40 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
8 36 (2.16%) PMI Certification
9 32 (1.92%) CISSP
10 31 (1.86%) BPSS Clearance
11 30 (1.80%) CCNP
12 25 (1.50%) CISM
13 23 (1.38%) Microsoft Certification
14 20 (1.20%) CCNA
15 17 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
16 15 (0.90%) Azure Certification
16 15 (0.90%) Server+ Certification
17 14 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
18 13 (0.78%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
19 12 (0.72%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 85 (5.11%) SLA
2 74 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 57 (3.42%) GRC
4 49 (2.94%) QA
5 47 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (2.34%) GDPR
7 38 (2.28%) NIST
8 30 (1.80%) PMO
9 19 (1.14%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.72%) Accessibility
10 12 (0.72%) COBIT
10 12 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.60%) ISO 9001
11 10 (0.60%) NCSC
12 8 (0.48%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.36%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.30%) SOC 2
16 4 (0.24%) GxP
17 3 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 202 (12.13%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.10%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.26%) Docker
4 18 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
4 18 (1.08%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (0.96%) NFS
5 16 (0.96%) vSphere
6 15 (0.90%) GPFS
7 13 (0.78%) BitLocker
8 11 (0.66%) IAG
9 7 (0.42%) Firmware
10 6 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
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
14 1 (0.060%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 65 (3.90%) Terraform
2 61 (3.66%) Microsoft Intune
3 55 (3.30%) SCCM
4 37 (2.22%) Ansible
5 29 (1.74%) Grafana
6 27 (1.62%) Kubernetes
7 21 (1.26%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (1.20%) Prometheus
9 18 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
10 13 (0.78%) vRealize
11 11 (0.66%) SCOM
11 11 (0.66%) WMI
12 9 (0.54%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.42%) CASB
13 7 (0.42%) VxRail
14 6 (0.36%) vCenter Server
15 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.24%) CA Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.24%) PingFederate
15 4 (0.24%) QRadar
Vendors
1 356 (21.38%) Microsoft
2 90 (5.41%) Cisco
3 75 (4.50%) Remedy
4 67 (4.02%) SAP
4 67 (4.02%) Splunk
5 58 (3.48%) Oracle
6 45 (2.70%) VMware
7 44 (2.64%) Salesforce
8 37 (2.22%) CyberArk
9 33 (1.98%) Workday
10 32 (1.92%) BMC
11 28 (1.68%) Fortinet
12 27 (1.62%) Dynatrace
13 26 (1.56%) Apple
14 25 (1.50%) Palo Alto
15 24 (1.44%) Google
16 23 (1.38%) F5
16 23 (1.38%) SolarWinds
17 21 (1.26%) IBM
17 21 (1.26%) Snow