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 20 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
20 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 64 80
Rank change year-on-year -3 +16 +16
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,527 925 960
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.53% 3.71% 2.54%
As % of the Vendors category 8.72% 7.82% 6.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,019 568 558
10th Percentile £220 £213 £200
25th Percentile £400 £307 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £582 £593
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 74 106
10th Percentile £16.44 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £14.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £21.00 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% +15.46% -34.80%
75th Percentile £35.22 £31.19 £21.37
90th Percentile £85.80 £58.38 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £20.47 £17.45 £16.30
% change year-on-year +17.31% +7.02% -28.48%

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 17,517 11,831 15,898
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.55% 47.51% 42.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,216 7,519 10,058
10th Percentile £313 £280 £270
25th Percentile £413 £404 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £517
% change year-on-year - -3.29% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 935 530 1,067
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.28
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.50 £14.50
Median hourly rate £34.94 £27.13 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.81% +13.02% -39.36%
75th Percentile £63.75 £53.75 £59.76
90th Percentile £81.25 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.23 £23.80
% change year-on-year +34.75% +5.99% -44.65%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 +12 671 £525 +3.19% 131
North of England -12 285 £510 +27.34% 57
South East +1 259 £520 +41.98% 89
Midlands +7 173 £425 -21.08% 31
North West -11 152 £435 -12.47% 36
West Midlands -9 128 £444 -17.87% 22
Yorkshire -15 121 £545 +36.25% 16
East of England -39 60 £525 +110.00% 8
South West -34 44 £319 +27.60% 12
East Midlands +14 39 £340 -33.66% 9
North East -25 16 £450 +50.00% 5
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 82 (5.37%) Confluence
2 69 (4.52%) SharePoint
3 48 (3.14%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.79%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.46%) Apache
6 3 (0.20%) CMS
6 3 (0.20%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.13%) IIS
7 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.13%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.13%) SAS
7 2 (0.13%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.065%) Appian
8 1 (0.065%) Drupal
8 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
Applications
1 68 (4.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (4.19%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.79%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.59%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.52%) Revit
8 5 (0.33%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.065%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.065%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 60 (3.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.20%) Maximo
6 2 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.13%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.13%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.13%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.13%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.13%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.065%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.065%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 308 (20.17%) Azure
2 210 (13.75%) AWS
3 162 (10.61%) Microsoft 365
4 124 (8.12%) Entra ID
5 102 (6.68%) Power Platform
6 76 (4.98%) SaaS
7 54 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
7 54 (3.54%) GCP
8 33 (2.16%) OneDrive
9 21 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 20 (1.31%) Microsoft Copilot
11 19 (1.24%) Amazon S3
11 19 (1.24%) GitHub
12 18 (1.18%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (1.05%) Power Automate
14 15 (0.98%) Datadog
14 15 (0.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 14 (0.92%) Serverless
15 14 (0.92%) SuccessFactors
16 13 (0.85%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 76 (4.98%) DNS
2 70 (4.58%) DHCP
3 63 (4.13%) Firewall
4 48 (3.14%) VPN
5 37 (2.42%) Wireless
6 34 (2.23%) Network Security
7 32 (2.10%) LAN
8 30 (1.96%) TCP/IP
8 30 (1.96%) WAN
9 26 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (1.44%) VLAN
11 20 (1.31%) SAN
12 19 (1.24%) NAS
13 16 (1.05%) SSL
14 15 (0.98%) Cisco IOS
14 15 (0.98%) NX-OS
14 15 (0.98%) Structured Cabling
15 14 (0.92%) Internet
16 13 (0.85%) SD-WAN
17 12 (0.79%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 84 (5.50%) Power BI
2 43 (2.82%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.44%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.05%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (0.85%) Metadata
8 11 (0.72%) Power Query
9 9 (0.59%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.39%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.39%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.39%) MySQL
11 6 (0.39%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.39%) Tableau
12 5 (0.33%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.26%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.26%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 260 (17.03%) JIRA
2 72 (4.72%) Git
3 24 (1.57%) GitLab
3 24 (1.57%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.46%) Selenium
5 6 (0.39%) Postman
6 5 (0.33%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.33%) JMeter
6 5 (0.33%) LoadRunner
6 5 (0.33%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.26%) Flyway
7 4 (0.26%) Gatling
7 4 (0.26%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.13%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.13%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.13%) JUnit
8 2 (0.13%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.13%) TestRail
8 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 473 (30.98%) Social Skills
2 291 (19.06%) Finance
3 180 (11.79%) Analytical Skills
4 121 (7.92%) Public Sector
5 84 (5.50%) Banking
6 64 (4.19%) Telecoms
7 55 (3.60%) Organisational Skills
8 48 (3.14%) Documentation Skills
9 39 (2.55%) Legal
10 34 (2.23%) Military
11 21 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.38%) Retail
12 20 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.24%) French Language
14 18 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
15 16 (1.05%) Manufacturing
16 15 (0.98%) Billing
17 14 (0.92%) Spanish Language
18 13 (0.85%) Italian Language
18 13 (0.85%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 253 (16.57%) Architect
2 214 (14.01%) Analyst
3 149 (9.76%) ServiceNow Architect
4 143 (9.36%) Developer
5 117 (7.66%) ServiceNow Developer
6 104 (6.81%) Senior
7 81 (5.30%) Consultant
7 81 (5.30%) IT Support
8 77 (5.04%) Support Engineer
9 73 (4.78%) Lead
10 68 (4.45%) Solutions Architect
11 62 (4.06%) Business Analyst
12 59 (3.86%) Project Manager
13 56 (3.67%) Service Analyst
13 56 (3.67%) ServiceNow Consultant
14 52 (3.41%) IT Engineer
15 47 (3.08%) IT Support Engineer
16 43 (2.82%) Technical Architect
17 41 (2.69%) Delivery Manager
17 41 (2.69%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (11.39%) REST
2 105 (6.88%) SOAP
3 38 (2.49%) SailPoint
4 32 (2.10%) HTML
4 32 (2.10%) Middleware
5 31 (2.03%) CSS
5 31 (2.03%) LDAP
6 30 (1.96%) JSON
7 27 (1.77%) OAuth
8 25 (1.64%) Web Services
8 25 (1.64%) XML
9 24 (1.57%) OpenID
10 22 (1.44%) AngularJS
11 19 (1.24%) Flash
11 19 (1.24%) SAML
12 14 (0.92%) .NET
13 12 (0.79%) Ajax
14 11 (0.72%) JDBC
14 11 (0.72%) Microsoft Graph
14 11 (0.72%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 210 (13.75%) CMDB
2 114 (7.47%) Onboarding
3 71 (4.65%) Product Ownership
4 49 (3.21%) Data Centre
5 42 (2.75%) Management Information System
6 39 (2.55%) Cloud Native
7 38 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
8 33 (2.16%) Replication
9 25 (1.64%) Security Posture
9 25 (1.64%) Self-Motivation
10 24 (1.57%) Linux Command Line
11 22 (1.44%) PKI
12 20 (1.31%) Virtual Team
13 16 (1.05%) Data Protection Act
13 16 (1.05%) Data Structures
14 15 (0.98%) AI Agents
15 14 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (0.85%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.85%) Clustering
17 9 (0.59%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 229 (15.00%) Windows
2 83 (5.44%) Linux
3 78 (5.11%) Windows 10
4 41 (2.69%) Windows Server
5 37 (2.42%) Mac OS
6 30 (1.96%) Apple iOS
7 28 (1.83%) Unix
8 18 (1.18%) Android
9 12 (0.79%) Windows 7
10 11 (0.72%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.20%) Check Point GAiA
12 3 (0.20%) VMS
12 3 (0.20%) zOS
13 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.065%) MVS
14 1 (0.065%) SUSE
14 1 (0.065%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 546 (35.76%) ITSM
2 423 (27.70%) ITIL
3 317 (20.76%) Agile
4 288 (18.86%) Service Management
5 262 (17.16%) Problem-Solving
6 249 (16.31%) Stakeholder Management
7 221 (14.47%) Continuous Improvement
8 174 (11.39%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 172 (11.26%) DevOps
10 171 (11.20%) Change Management
11 157 (10.28%) Customer Service
12 144 (9.43%) Migration
12 144 (9.43%) Service Delivery
13 142 (9.30%) AI
14 136 (8.91%) Roadmaps
15 128 (8.38%) Workflow
16 127 (8.32%) CI/CD
17 123 (8.06%) Data Modelling
18 103 (6.75%) Asset Management
19 101 (6.61%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 123 (8.06%) SQL
2 104 (6.81%) JavaScript
3 100 (6.55%) PowerShell
4 92 (6.02%) Python
5 61 (3.99%) Java
6 30 (1.96%) C#
7 14 (0.92%) VBScript
8 13 (0.85%) VB
9 11 (0.72%) Bash
9 11 (0.72%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.65%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.59%) Groovy
12 7 (0.46%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.33%) Perl
14 4 (0.26%) BeanShell
14 4 (0.26%) Bicep
14 4 (0.26%) Cypher
14 4 (0.26%) Scala
14 4 (0.26%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.20%) JCL
Qualifications
1 397 (26.00%) Security Cleared
2 282 (18.47%) SC Cleared
3 109 (7.14%) Degree
4 81 (5.30%) DV Cleared
5 43 (2.82%) ITIL Certification
6 40 (2.62%) Cisco Certification
7 35 (2.29%) PMP
8 32 (2.10%) CISSP
9 30 (1.96%) CCNP
10 29 (1.90%) PMI Certification
11 25 (1.64%) CISM
12 20 (1.31%) BPSS Clearance
13 19 (1.24%) CCNA
14 17 (1.11%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (0.98%) Network+ Certification
15 15 (0.98%) Server+ Certification
16 12 (0.79%) Computer Science Degree
17 11 (0.72%) AWS Certification
17 11 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 9 (0.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (4.85%) Data Quality
2 73 (4.78%) SLA
3 54 (3.54%) GRC
4 47 (3.08%) QA
5 41 (2.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (2.62%) GDPR
7 35 (2.29%) NIST
8 28 (1.83%) PMO
9 20 (1.31%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.79%) Accessibility
11 12 (0.79%) COBIT
12 8 (0.52%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.52%) NCSC
13 7 (0.46%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.33%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.26%) GxP
16 3 (0.20%) NIST 800
17 2 (0.13%) ISO 20022
17 2 (0.13%) ITGC
System Software
1 173 (11.33%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.49%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.31%) NFS
4 19 (1.24%) Docker
4 19 (1.24%) GPFS
5 18 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (1.18%) vSphere
6 13 (0.85%) BitLocker
7 12 (0.79%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.46%) Firmware
9 6 (0.39%) IAG
9 6 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.26%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.13%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 2 (0.13%) RACF
12 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.13%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 58 (3.80%) Terraform
2 52 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
3 49 (3.21%) SCCM
4 28 (1.83%) Ansible
5 24 (1.57%) Grafana
6 22 (1.44%) Kubernetes
7 18 (1.18%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.18%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (1.05%) Jamf Pro
9 15 (0.98%) vRealize
10 11 (0.72%) WMI
11 9 (0.59%) RSA Archer
12 7 (0.46%) CASB
12 7 (0.46%) VxRail
13 5 (0.33%) SCOM
14 4 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.26%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.26%) PingFederate
14 4 (0.26%) QRadar
14 4 (0.26%) Salt
Vendors
1 307 (20.10%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.02%) Cisco
3 74 (4.85%) Remedy
4 63 (4.13%) SAP
5 60 (3.93%) Splunk
6 59 (3.86%) Oracle
7 43 (2.82%) VMware
8 40 (2.62%) Salesforce
9 37 (2.42%) Workday
10 32 (2.10%) CyberArk
11 30 (1.96%) BMC
12 28 (1.83%) Fortinet
13 27 (1.77%) Google
13 27 (1.77%) Palo Alto
14 26 (1.70%) IBM
15 25 (1.64%) Apple
16 24 (1.57%) F5
17 21 (1.38%) Dynatrace
17 21 (1.38%) Snow
17 21 (1.38%) SolarWinds