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 January 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 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 69 67
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 +64
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,094 890 1,144
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.49% 3.29% 3.15%
As % of the Vendors category 7.48% 7.15% 7.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 758 496 748
10th Percentile £204 £203 £177
25th Percentile £336 £356 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £623
90th Percentile £688 £653 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £495 £503
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.49% -1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 25 39
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.08 £15.87
25th Percentile £16.28 £16.00 £16.84
Median hourly rate £19.25 £21.46 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +12.95% +18.23%
75th Percentile £28.75 £23.14 £23.75
90th Percentile £89.63 £29.60 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £19.25 £22.09 £18.72
% change year-on-year -12.86% +18.03% +20.74%

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 14,617 12,440 15,901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.69% 45.99% 43.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,563 7,513 10,339
10th Percentile £300 £291 £250
25th Percentile £410 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £712 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 683 352 622
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.49 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.99 £18.13 £18.93
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.20 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.11% -32.13% +53.45%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.81 £63.29
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.75 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.43 £44.50
% change year-on-year -13.13% -38.37% +63.30%

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 January 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 January 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 January 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 -37 431 £475 -9.52% 90
North of England 0 200 £500 +22.25% 52
South East +34 163 £413 -11.29% 68
Midlands +5 144 £475 +13.10% 34
North West 0 120 £463 +14.20% 24
West Midlands +7 118 £475 +5.56% 24
South West +26 76 £613 +21.29% 12
East of England -1 73 £528 +0.57% 17
Yorkshire -8 71 £513 -4.65% 25
East Midlands -5 25 £425 +19.38% 10
North East -4 9 £350 +133.33% 3
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 79 (7.22%) Confluence
2 73 (6.67%) SharePoint
3 46 (4.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.91%) nginx
5 6 (0.55%) Apache
5 6 (0.55%) Appian
5 6 (0.55%) Camunda
5 6 (0.55%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.27%) CICS
7 3 (0.27%) HCL Notes
7 3 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.27%) SAS
8 2 (0.18%) IIS
8 2 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.091%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.091%) CMS
9 1 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.091%) WebSphere
Applications
1 70 (6.40%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (5.12%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (4.84%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (2.10%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.91%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.37%) Autodesk Inventor
8 4 (0.37%) Trello
9 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 44 (4.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.73%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.64%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 7 (0.64%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.27%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.091%) Actimize
8 1 (0.091%) assyst
8 1 (0.091%) Maximo
8 1 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.091%) Oracle HRMS
8 1 (0.091%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.091%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.091%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.091%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 232 (21.21%) Azure
2 181 (16.54%) Microsoft 365
3 135 (12.34%) AWS
4 79 (7.22%) Entra ID
5 62 (5.67%) Power Platform
5 62 (5.67%) SaaS
6 58 (5.30%) Azure DevOps
7 46 (4.20%) GCP
8 34 (3.11%) OneDrive
9 24 (2.19%) GitHub
10 19 (1.74%) AWS KMS
10 19 (1.74%) Power Automate
11 18 (1.65%) Amazon S3
12 17 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 17 (1.55%) Amazon EC2
12 17 (1.55%) Amazon ELB
12 17 (1.55%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 16 (1.46%) Sauce Labs
14 13 (1.19%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (1.01%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 71 (6.49%) DNS
2 48 (4.39%) Firewall
2 48 (4.39%) VPN
3 42 (3.84%) Wireless
4 37 (3.38%) DHCP
5 31 (2.83%) Wi-Fi
6 22 (2.01%) TCP/IP
6 22 (2.01%) WAN
7 21 (1.92%) FTP
8 20 (1.83%) HTTP
8 20 (1.83%) LAN
9 18 (1.65%) SSH
10 17 (1.55%) SMTP
11 16 (1.46%) Network Security
12 13 (1.19%) BGP
12 13 (1.19%) SSL
13 10 (0.91%) Cisco Wireless
13 10 (0.91%) IMAP
13 10 (0.91%) OpenLDAP
14 9 (0.82%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (3.84%) Power BI
2 23 (2.10%) Relational Database
3 22 (2.01%) MySQL
4 21 (1.92%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (1.92%) SQL Server
5 19 (1.74%) PostgreSQL
6 17 (1.55%) Metadata
7 16 (1.46%) Tableau
8 14 (1.28%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.73%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.64%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
11 6 (0.55%) DB2
11 6 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.46%) Data Lake
13 4 (0.37%) Metadata Repository
13 4 (0.37%) Redis
14 2 (0.18%) DynamoDB
14 2 (0.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 203 (18.56%) JIRA
2 51 (4.66%) Jenkins
3 43 (3.93%) Git
4 20 (1.83%) GitLab
5 17 (1.55%) Browser DevTools
6 16 (1.46%) Android Studio
6 16 (1.46%) Eclipse
6 16 (1.46%) Vagrant
6 16 (1.46%) Xcode
7 12 (1.10%) Selenium
8 11 (1.01%) REST Assured
9 9 (0.82%) Cucumber
10 8 (0.73%) Postman
11 7 (0.64%) TestRail
12 4 (0.37%) Metasploit
13 3 (0.27%) Burp Suite
13 3 (0.27%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
14 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
14 2 (0.18%) sqlmap
General
1 449 (41.04%) Social Skills
2 218 (19.93%) Finance
3 167 (15.27%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (9.69%) Public Sector
5 49 (4.48%) Banking
6 44 (4.02%) Military
7 43 (3.93%) Telecoms
8 38 (3.47%) Legal
9 37 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
10 32 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (1.92%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.74%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (1.55%) Law
15 13 (1.19%) Aerospace
16 12 (1.10%) Manufacturing
17 10 (0.91%) Billing
18 9 (0.82%) Marketing
19 8 (0.73%) Financial Institution
20 7 (0.64%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 171 (15.63%) Architect
2 161 (14.72%) Analyst
3 96 (8.78%) ServiceNow Architect
4 93 (8.50%) Support Engineer
5 86 (7.86%) Developer
6 77 (7.04%) IT Support
7 75 (6.86%) ServiceNow Developer
8 61 (5.58%) Consultant
9 49 (4.48%) Lead
10 42 (3.84%) Senior
11 41 (3.75%) IT Engineer
12 37 (3.38%) Service Analyst
13 33 (3.02%) IT Support Engineer
13 33 (3.02%) ServiceNow Manager
14 32 (2.93%) Project Manager
14 32 (2.93%) Service Architect
15 30 (2.74%) Business Analyst
15 30 (2.74%) DevOps Engineer
16 29 (2.65%) Support Analyst
17 28 (2.56%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 105 (9.60%) REST
2 85 (7.77%) SOAP
3 39 (3.56%) AngularJS
4 34 (3.11%) LDAP
5 33 (3.02%) CSS
6 24 (2.19%) SailPoint
7 23 (2.10%) HTML
8 22 (2.01%) JSON
9 21 (1.92%) Ajax
10 20 (1.83%) React
11 17 (1.55%) GraphQL
11 17 (1.55%) Web Services
12 16 (1.46%) Flash
13 13 (1.19%) SAML
14 12 (1.10%) OpenID
15 9 (0.82%) .NET
15 9 (0.82%) ADO
15 9 (0.82%) HTML5
15 9 (0.82%) ODBC
15 9 (0.82%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 132 (12.07%) CMDB
2 67 (6.12%) Onboarding
3 59 (5.39%) Product Ownership
4 40 (3.66%) Replication
5 30 (2.74%) Data Centre
6 24 (2.19%) Management Information System
7 23 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (2.01%) Mobile App
8 22 (2.01%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (1.55%) Video Conferencing
10 16 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
10 16 (1.46%) Security Posture
10 16 (1.46%) Smartphone
11 15 (1.37%) Driving Licence
12 12 (1.10%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (0.82%) Cloud Native
13 9 (0.82%) Low-Code
14 8 (0.73%) Public Cloud
14 8 (0.73%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 243 (22.21%) Windows
2 92 (8.41%) Windows 10
3 72 (6.58%) Linux
4 42 (3.84%) Mac OS
5 37 (3.38%) Android
6 32 (2.93%) Unix
7 18 (1.65%) VMS
8 17 (1.55%) Apple iOS
8 17 (1.55%) Windows Server
9 16 (1.46%) Amazon Linux
10 10 (0.91%) Ubuntu
11 5 (0.46%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.46%) zOS
12 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.091%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.091%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.091%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 367 (33.55%) ITSM
2 288 (26.33%) ITIL
3 247 (22.58%) Agile
4 203 (18.56%) Service Management
5 194 (17.73%) Problem-Solving
6 152 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
7 146 (13.35%) DevOps
7 146 (13.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 131 (11.97%) Change Management
9 120 (10.97%) Customer Service
10 103 (9.41%) Continuous Improvement
11 97 (8.87%) CI/CD
12 83 (7.59%) Roadmaps
13 80 (7.31%) Service Delivery
14 70 (6.40%) User Experience
15 69 (6.31%) Project Management
16 68 (6.22%) Configuration Management
17 67 (6.12%) Migration
18 66 (6.03%) Scrum
18 66 (6.03%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 104 (9.51%) Python
2 99 (9.05%) JavaScript
3 71 (6.49%) PowerShell
4 69 (6.31%) SQL
5 55 (5.03%) Java
6 35 (3.20%) Perl
7 21 (1.92%) Groovy
8 15 (1.37%) Bash
9 12 (1.10%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.64%) ABAP
10 7 (0.64%) Lisp
10 7 (0.64%) VB
11 6 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (0.55%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.46%) BeanShell
12 5 (0.46%) Go
12 5 (0.46%) JCL
12 5 (0.46%) PHP
12 5 (0.46%) REXX
12 5 (0.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 315 (28.79%) Security Cleared
2 256 (23.40%) SC Cleared
3 113 (10.33%) Degree
4 31 (2.83%) TOGAF Certification
5 19 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (1.74%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (1.65%) DV Cleared
7 16 (1.46%) ITIL Certification
8 15 (1.37%) CCNP
9 14 (1.28%) CISSP
10 13 (1.19%) A+ Certification
10 13 (1.19%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.19%) Azure Certification
11 12 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
12 9 (0.82%) ACSP
12 9 (0.82%) ACTC
12 9 (0.82%) CISM
12 9 (0.82%) PMI Certification
13 8 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.73%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (4.57%) QA
2 49 (4.48%) SLA
3 37 (3.38%) GDPR
3 37 (3.38%) GRC
4 33 (3.02%) Data Quality
5 18 (1.65%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 17 (1.55%) NIST
7 15 (1.37%) PMO
7 15 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (1.01%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.91%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.55%) COBIT
10 6 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
10 6 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 19770
11 5 (0.46%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.27%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.27%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 151 (13.80%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.74%) Docker
3 26 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.55%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (1.46%) DFS Replication
5 16 (1.46%) GPFS
5 16 (1.46%) NFS
6 14 (1.28%) vSphere
7 10 (0.91%) Dovecot
7 10 (0.91%) Postfix
7 10 (0.91%) Squid
8 6 (0.55%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.18%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 1 (0.091%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.091%) Firmware
11 1 (0.091%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.091%) RACF
11 1 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.091%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (4.66%) SCCM
2 49 (4.48%) Terraform
3 42 (3.84%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.74%) OPNET
5 29 (2.65%) Grafana
6 28 (2.56%) Ansible
7 21 (1.92%) Prometheus
8 18 (1.65%) Jamf Pro
9 17 (1.55%) Single Sign-On
10 14 (1.28%) Nessus
10 14 (1.28%) vRealize
11 12 (1.10%) Kubernetes
12 11 (1.01%) RSA Archer
13 10 (0.91%) Proxmox
14 9 (0.82%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.37%) Pingdom
15 4 (0.37%) Rancher
16 3 (0.27%) Nmap
16 3 (0.27%) OMEGAMON
16 3 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 249 (22.76%) Microsoft
2 96 (8.78%) Remedy
3 62 (5.67%) Oracle
4 61 (5.58%) Cisco
4 61 (5.58%) SAP
5 44 (4.02%) Salesforce
6 40 (3.66%) Splunk
7 35 (3.20%) Apple
8 33 (3.02%) Atlassian
9 31 (2.83%) VMware
10 29 (2.65%) IBM
10 29 (2.65%) Workday
11 24 (2.19%) HP
12 21 (1.92%) Snow
13 19 (1.74%) BMC
14 14 (1.28%) Citrix
14 14 (1.28%) Zscaler
15 13 (1.19%) Palo Alto
16 10 (0.91%) CyberArk
16 10 (0.91%) Jaspersoft