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 11 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
11 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 64 81
Rank change year-on-year -4 +17 +18
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,458 909 973
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.42% 3.72% 2.60%
As % of the Vendors category 8.43% 7.83% 6.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 987 556 567
10th Percentile £213 £213 £188
25th Percentile £400 £306 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £584 £597
90th Percentile £675 £684 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 74 105
10th Percentile £17.24 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £14.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +33.63% +15.46% -34.80%
75th Percentile £35.22 £31.19 £21.37
90th Percentile £85.10 £58.38 £27.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £17.45 £16.30
% change year-on-year +44.17% +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 17,286 11,610 15,734
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.59% 47.45% 41.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,100 7,370 9,982
10th Percentile £313 £276 £267
25th Percentile £413 £404 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £515 £518
Median % change year-on-year -1.94% -0.61% -1.67%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £501 £515
% change year-on-year -0.20% -2.72% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 922 510 1,045
10th Percentile £15.99 £14.84 £12.26
25th Percentile £19.01 £17.81 £14.48
Median hourly rate £33.99 £27.13 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +25.31% +13.97% -39.82%
75th Percentile £60.54 £53.75 £59.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £23.50
% change year-on-year +27.45% +8.51% -45.35%

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 11 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 11 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 11 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 +8 638 £525 - 153
North of England -9 284 £513 +28.13% 71
South East +4 237 £513 +46.43% 108
Midlands -1 167 £425 -22.02% 35
North West -7 148 £450 -4.05% 46
Yorkshire -10 123 £525 +31.25% 21
West Midlands -14 120 £459 -16.55% 23
East of England -31 61 £525 +18.51% 12
East Midlands +6 40 £340 -33.66% 12
South West -36 38 £310 +23.80% 15
North East -17 17 £450 +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 76 (5.21%) Confluence
2 56 (3.84%) SharePoint
3 50 (3.43%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.82%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.48%) Apache
6 3 (0.21%) CMS
6 3 (0.21%) 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 (0.069%) Appian
8 1 (0.069%) BizTalk Server
8 1 (0.069%) Drupal
8 1 (0.069%) Tomcat
Applications
1 65 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 63 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.62%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.48%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.48%) Revit
7 5 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.069%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.069%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 60 (4.12%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.62%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.21%) Maximo
5 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.14%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.14%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle EBS
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.14%) SAP CO
5 2 (0.14%) SAP FI
5 2 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
5 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.069%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.069%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 302 (20.71%) Azure
2 206 (14.13%) AWS
3 159 (10.91%) Microsoft 365
4 118 (8.09%) Entra ID
5 96 (6.58%) Power Platform
6 75 (5.14%) SaaS
7 61 (4.18%) GCP
8 54 (3.70%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (2.26%) OneDrive
10 20 (1.37%) Microsoft Copilot
11 19 (1.30%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (1.30%) Amazon S3
11 19 (1.30%) GitHub
12 18 (1.23%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (1.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (0.96%) AWS KMS
14 14 (0.96%) Power Automate
14 14 (0.96%) Serverless
14 14 (0.96%) Slack
15 13 (0.89%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 82 (5.62%) DNS
2 73 (5.01%) DHCP
3 66 (4.53%) Firewall
4 51 (3.50%) VPN
5 38 (2.61%) Wireless
6 33 (2.26%) Network Security
7 32 (2.19%) LAN
8 31 (2.13%) WAN
9 30 (2.06%) TCP/IP
10 27 (1.85%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (1.51%) VLAN
12 20 (1.37%) SAN
13 19 (1.30%) NAS
14 16 (1.10%) SSL
15 15 (1.03%) Cisco IOS
15 15 (1.03%) Internet
15 15 (1.03%) NX-OS
15 15 (1.03%) Structured Cabling
16 14 (0.96%) SD-WAN
17 12 (0.82%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 80 (5.49%) Power BI
2 45 (3.09%) SQL Server
3 24 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.10%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (0.96%) Metadata
8 11 (0.75%) Power Query
9 10 (0.69%) MySQL
10 9 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (0.62%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
12 7 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
13 6 (0.41%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.41%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.41%) Tableau
14 5 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
15 4 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
15 4 (0.27%) Neo4j
15 4 (0.27%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 257 (17.63%) JIRA
2 73 (5.01%) Git
3 35 (2.40%) Jenkins
4 34 (2.33%) GitLab
5 15 (1.03%) Selenium
6 12 (0.82%) Cucumber
6 12 (0.82%) Postman
6 12 (0.82%) REST Assured
7 7 (0.48%) 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 (0.21%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.21%) 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
1 452 (31.00%) Social Skills
2 276 (18.93%) Finance
3 167 (11.45%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (7.75%) Public Sector
5 83 (5.69%) Banking
6 58 (3.98%) Telecoms
7 52 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
8 48 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
9 42 (2.88%) Legal
10 32 (2.19%) Military
11 21 (1.44%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.37%) Retail
13 19 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.23%) Influencing Skills
15 17 (1.17%) French Language
16 14 (0.96%) Billing
17 13 (0.89%) Manufacturing
18 12 (0.82%) Spanish Language
19 11 (0.75%) Italian Language
19 11 (0.75%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 247 (16.94%) Architect
2 201 (13.79%) Analyst
3 148 (10.15%) ServiceNow Architect
4 131 (8.98%) Developer
5 108 (7.41%) ServiceNow Developer
6 94 (6.45%) Senior
7 78 (5.35%) IT Support
8 77 (5.28%) Support Engineer
9 72 (4.94%) Consultant
10 70 (4.80%) Lead
11 68 (4.66%) Solutions Architect
12 58 (3.98%) Project Manager
13 55 (3.77%) Business Analyst
14 54 (3.70%) Service Analyst
15 51 (3.50%) IT Engineer
16 47 (3.22%) IT Support Engineer
17 46 (3.16%) ServiceNow Consultant
18 42 (2.88%) ServiceNow Manager
19 39 (2.67%) Delivery Manager
19 39 (2.67%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 176 (12.07%) REST
2 102 (7.00%) SOAP
3 39 (2.67%) SailPoint
4 38 (2.61%) LDAP
5 31 (2.13%) CSS
5 31 (2.13%) HTML
5 31 (2.13%) Middleware
5 31 (2.13%) OpenID
6 26 (1.78%) JSON
7 25 (1.71%) Web Services
8 24 (1.65%) OAuth
9 22 (1.51%) XML
10 21 (1.44%) AngularJS
11 19 (1.30%) Flash
12 18 (1.23%) .NET
12 18 (1.23%) SAML
13 13 (0.89%) Ajax
14 11 (0.75%) JDBC
14 11 (0.75%) Kafka
14 11 (0.75%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 195 (13.37%) CMDB
2 107 (7.34%) Onboarding
3 71 (4.87%) Product Ownership
4 48 (3.29%) Data Centre
5 38 (2.61%) Management Information System
6 33 (2.26%) Cloud Native
6 33 (2.26%) Replication
7 29 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (1.71%) Security Posture
9 22 (1.51%) PKI
9 22 (1.51%) Self-Motivation
10 20 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
11 19 (1.30%) Virtual Team
12 16 (1.10%) Data Structures
13 14 (0.96%) AI Agents
13 14 (0.96%) Legacy Systems
14 13 (0.89%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (0.89%) Clustering
14 13 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
15 9 (0.62%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 234 (16.05%) Windows
2 82 (5.62%) Linux
2 82 (5.62%) Windows 10
3 42 (2.88%) Windows Server
4 39 (2.67%) Mac OS
5 31 (2.13%) Apple iOS
6 27 (1.85%) Unix
7 21 (1.44%) Android
8 12 (0.82%) Windows 7
9 10 (0.69%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 4 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.21%) VMS
11 3 (0.21%) zOS
12 2 (0.14%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.069%) MVS
13 1 (0.069%) SUSE
13 1 (0.069%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.069%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.069%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 517 (35.46%) ITSM
2 400 (27.43%) ITIL
3 306 (20.99%) Agile
4 269 (18.45%) Service Management
5 238 (16.32%) Problem-Solving
6 222 (15.23%) Stakeholder Management
7 201 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
8 171 (11.73%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 169 (11.59%) Change Management
10 167 (11.45%) DevOps
11 152 (10.43%) Customer Service
12 141 (9.67%) Service Delivery
13 138 (9.47%) Migration
14 131 (8.98%) AI
15 130 (8.92%) Roadmaps
16 127 (8.71%) CI/CD
17 121 (8.30%) Workflow
18 119 (8.16%) Data Modelling
19 106 (7.27%) Asset Management
20 99 (6.79%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 131 (8.98%) SQL
2 105 (7.20%) JavaScript
3 95 (6.52%) PowerShell
4 91 (6.24%) Python
5 71 (4.87%) Java
6 30 (2.06%) C#
7 14 (0.96%) VBScript
8 13 (0.89%) VB
9 12 (0.82%) Bash
10 11 (0.75%) TypeScript
11 10 (0.69%) PL/SQL
12 9 (0.62%) Groovy
13 7 (0.48%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 7 (0.48%) Perl
14 6 (0.41%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.34%) Go
15 5 (0.34%) PHP
16 4 (0.27%) BeanShell
16 4 (0.27%) Cypher
16 4 (0.27%) Scala
Qualifications
1 377 (25.86%) Security Cleared
2 272 (18.66%) SC Cleared
3 103 (7.06%) Degree
4 71 (4.87%) DV Cleared
5 41 (2.81%) Cisco Certification
6 38 (2.61%) ITIL Certification
7 34 (2.33%) PMP
8 30 (2.06%) CCNP
8 30 (2.06%) CISSP
9 29 (1.99%) PMI Certification
10 23 (1.58%) CISM
11 20 (1.37%) CCNA
12 19 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
13 15 (1.03%) Microsoft Certification
13 15 (1.03%) Network+ Certification
13 15 (1.03%) Server+ Certification
14 11 (0.75%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 10 (0.69%) AWS Certification
16 9 (0.62%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (5.14%) SLA
2 65 (4.46%) Data Quality
3 51 (3.50%) GRC
4 47 (3.22%) QA
5 37 (2.54%) GDPR
6 36 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (2.26%) NIST
8 26 (1.78%) PMO
9 21 (1.44%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.75%) Accessibility
11 11 (0.75%) COBIT
12 8 (0.55%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.41%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.34%) NCSC
15 4 (0.27%) GxP
15 4 (0.27%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.21%) NIST 800
17 2 (0.14%) ISO 20022
17 2 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 168 (11.52%) Active Directory
2 40 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.37%) NFS
4 19 (1.30%) Docker
4 19 (1.30%) GPFS
5 18 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (1.23%) vSphere
6 13 (0.89%) BitLocker
7 10 (0.69%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.48%) Firmware
9 6 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
10 5 (0.34%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 4 (0.27%) IAG
11 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.14%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 2 (0.14%) RACF
13 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.069%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 56 (3.84%) Terraform
2 54 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
3 49 (3.36%) SCCM
4 27 (1.85%) Ansible
5 26 (1.78%) Grafana
6 20 (1.37%) Kubernetes
7 19 (1.30%) Prometheus
8 18 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
10 15 (1.03%) vRealize
11 8 (0.55%) 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
1 296 (20.30%) Microsoft
2 94 (6.45%) Cisco
3 74 (5.08%) Remedy
4 62 (4.25%) SAP
5 59 (4.05%) Oracle
5 59 (4.05%) Splunk
6 46 (3.16%) VMware
7 37 (2.54%) Salesforce
7 37 (2.54%) Workday
8 31 (2.13%) BMC
9 29 (1.99%) Palo Alto
10 27 (1.85%) CyberArk
10 27 (1.85%) Fortinet
10 27 (1.85%) IBM
11 26 (1.78%) Google
12 24 (1.65%) Apple
13 23 (1.58%) F5
14 21 (1.44%) SolarWinds
15 20 (1.37%) Snow
16 18 (1.23%) Zscaler