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 9 April 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
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 68 76
Rank change year-on-year +3 +8 +32
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,387 835 997
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.55% 3.43% 2.66%
As % of the Vendors category 8.21% 7.24% 6.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 944 509 579
10th Percentile £213 £203 £163
25th Percentile £400 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £715
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £503
% change year-on-year - -0.50% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 41 97
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £17.69 £15.44 £16.06
Median hourly rate £19.76 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +4.97% +15.46% -11.89%
75th Percentile £81.98 £21.92 £21.37
90th Percentile £97.88 £30.68 £30.10
UK median hourly rate £19.76 £21.46 £16.30
% change year-on-year -7.95% +31.66% -11.70%

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 16,892 11,528 15,835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.19% 47.34% 42.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,030 7,496 10,128
10th Percentile £313 £296 £255
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £706 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 880 426 969
10th Percentile £15.37 £15.00 £12.10
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £14.27
Median hourly rate £27.50 £29.00 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -5.17% +24.92% -38.91%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £56.25
90th Percentile £77.58 £80.67 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.72 £28.68 £22.54
% change year-on-year -3.35% +27.22% -46.08%

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 9 April 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 9 April 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 9 April 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 -6 596 £500 -4.76% 126
North of England +6 239 £518 +29.38% 43
South East +14 209 £475 +13.30% 92
Midlands +4 177 £424 -21.22% 29
West Midlands -1 136 £425 -22.87% 17
North West +4 129 £453 +11.85% 24
Yorkshire +2 99 £545 +28.24% 17
East of England -18 70 £525 +18.51% 14
South West +6 65 £725 +31.82% 14
East Midlands -11 34 £400 -4.19% 12
North East -8 14 £450 +50.00% 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 93 (6.71%) Confluence
2 66 (4.76%) SharePoint
3 55 (3.97%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.65%) Skype for Business
5 8 (0.58%) Apache
6 6 (0.43%) Appian
6 6 (0.43%) Camunda
7 5 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.29%) SAS
9 3 (0.22%) CICS
9 3 (0.22%) CMS
10 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.14%) IIS
10 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.14%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.072%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
Applications
1 76 (5.48%) Microsoft Office
2 62 (4.47%) Microsoft Project
3 61 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
4 16 (1.15%) MS Visio
5 15 (1.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 4 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.22%) Trello
8 1 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.072%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.072%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.072%) Revit
Business Applications
1 45 (3.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.65%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 9 (0.65%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.50%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.29%) Maximo
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.22%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.14%) Actimize
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.14%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.072%) assyst
9 1 (0.072%) SAP CS
9 1 (0.072%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 266 (19.18%) Azure
2 179 (12.91%) AWS
3 165 (11.90%) Microsoft 365
4 120 (8.65%) Entra ID
5 90 (6.49%) Power Platform
6 70 (5.05%) SaaS
7 60 (4.33%) GCP
8 54 (3.89%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (1.87%) OneDrive
10 21 (1.51%) Power Automate
11 19 (1.37%) GitHub
12 15 (1.08%) Serverless
13 14 (1.01%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
14 13 (0.94%) Amazon S3
15 12 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
17 10 (0.72%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (4.61%) DNS
2 51 (3.68%) DHCP
3 49 (3.53%) Firewall
3 49 (3.53%) VPN
4 41 (2.96%) Wireless
5 33 (2.38%) WAN
6 32 (2.31%) LAN
7 29 (2.09%) Network Security
8 26 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
9 18 (1.30%) TCP/IP
10 16 (1.15%) VLAN
11 14 (1.01%) Internet
12 12 (0.87%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.79%) BGP
13 11 (0.79%) SSL
14 10 (0.72%) BIG-IP
14 10 (0.72%) NAS
14 10 (0.72%) NX-OS
14 10 (0.72%) SAN
15 9 (0.65%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (5.62%) Power BI
2 39 (2.81%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.80%) Metadata
4 19 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (1.30%) Tableau
6 16 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (0.79%) MySQL
8 9 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (0.65%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.58%) Power Query
9 8 (0.58%) Relational Database
10 7 (0.50%) DB2
11 6 (0.43%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.36%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.36%) Redis
13 4 (0.29%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 250 (18.02%) JIRA
2 54 (3.89%) Git
3 37 (2.67%) Jenkins
4 30 (2.16%) GitLab
5 17 (1.23%) Selenium
6 14 (1.01%) REST Assured
7 13 (0.94%) Postman
8 12 (0.87%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.58%) TestRail
10 5 (0.36%) JMeter
10 5 (0.36%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.29%) Android Studio
11 4 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
11 4 (0.29%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.29%) Gatling
11 4 (0.29%) JUnit
11 4 (0.29%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.29%) Xcode
12 3 (0.22%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.22%) Flyway
General
1 439 (31.65%) Social Skills
2 282 (20.33%) Finance
3 190 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (8.00%) Public Sector
5 85 (6.13%) Banking
6 62 (4.47%) Military
7 53 (3.82%) Organisational Skills
8 49 (3.53%) Telecoms
9 45 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
10 44 (3.17%) Legal
11 21 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.30%) Retail
13 17 (1.23%) Billing
14 14 (1.01%) Financial Institution
15 13 (0.94%) Law
15 13 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (0.72%) Aerospace
16 10 (0.72%) Manufacturing
17 7 (0.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 260 (18.75%) Architect
2 189 (13.63%) Analyst
3 140 (10.09%) ServiceNow Architect
4 117 (8.44%) Developer
5 93 (6.71%) ServiceNow Developer
6 82 (5.91%) Lead
7 80 (5.77%) IT Support
8 79 (5.70%) Consultant
8 79 (5.70%) Support Engineer
9 69 (4.97%) Senior
10 51 (3.68%) Business Analyst
10 51 (3.68%) Project Manager
11 48 (3.46%) IT Engineer
12 44 (3.17%) IT Support Engineer
12 44 (3.17%) ServiceNow Manager
13 42 (3.03%) Solutions Architect
14 38 (2.74%) Service Analyst
15 37 (2.67%) Administrator
15 37 (2.67%) Technical Architect
16 36 (2.60%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (10.81%) REST
2 97 (6.99%) SOAP
3 44 (3.17%) SailPoint
4 31 (2.24%) LDAP
5 27 (1.95%) OpenID
6 26 (1.87%) CSS
7 24 (1.73%) AngularJS
8 20 (1.44%) Flash
8 20 (1.44%) Middleware
8 20 (1.44%) OAuth
9 19 (1.37%) HTML
9 19 (1.37%) JSON
10 18 (1.30%) .NET
11 16 (1.15%) XML
12 15 (1.08%) Web Services
13 14 (1.01%) SAML
14 13 (0.94%) Kafka
15 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
16 10 (0.72%) ADO
17 9 (0.65%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 166 (11.97%) CMDB
2 107 (7.71%) Onboarding
3 98 (7.07%) Product Ownership
4 36 (2.60%) Data Centre
5 33 (2.38%) Management Information System
6 32 (2.31%) Replication
7 25 (1.80%) Security Posture
8 23 (1.66%) Cloud Native
9 22 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
10 20 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
11 17 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (1.15%) Virtual Team
13 14 (1.01%) Data Structures
14 13 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (0.94%) Mainframe
14 13 (0.94%) PKI
15 9 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
15 9 (0.65%) Clustering
15 9 (0.65%) Driving Licence
15 9 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 220 (15.86%) Windows
2 91 (6.56%) Windows 10
3 61 (4.40%) Linux
4 34 (2.45%) Windows Server
5 28 (2.02%) Mac OS
6 27 (1.95%) Android
7 25 (1.80%) Unix
8 20 (1.44%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.65%) Windows 7
10 8 (0.58%) zOS
11 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.072%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.072%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.072%) MVS
13 1 (0.072%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.072%) VMS
13 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 460 (33.17%) ITSM
2 363 (26.17%) ITIL
3 328 (23.65%) Agile
4 256 (18.46%) Service Management
5 204 (14.71%) Problem-Solving
6 200 (14.42%) Stakeholder Management
7 190 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 165 (11.90%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 164 (11.82%) Change Management
10 147 (10.60%) DevOps
11 127 (9.16%) Customer Service
12 126 (9.08%) Migration
13 119 (8.58%) CI/CD
14 118 (8.51%) Data Modelling
15 115 (8.29%) Service Delivery
16 110 (7.93%) Roadmaps
17 108 (7.79%) Project Management
18 102 (7.35%) Workflow
19 96 (6.92%) AI
20 94 (6.78%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 120 (8.65%) SQL
2 93 (6.71%) JavaScript
3 86 (6.20%) Python
4 72 (5.19%) PowerShell
5 69 (4.97%) Java
6 23 (1.66%) C#
7 15 (1.08%) TypeScript
8 12 (0.87%) Bash
9 11 (0.79%) PL/SQL
9 11 (0.79%) VB
10 9 (0.65%) Perl
10 9 (0.65%) VBScript
11 8 (0.58%) ABAP
11 8 (0.58%) JCL
11 8 (0.58%) REXX
12 7 (0.50%) BeanShell
12 7 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.43%) Groovy
13 6 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 377 (27.18%) Security Cleared
2 278 (20.04%) SC Cleared
3 122 (8.80%) Degree
4 58 (4.18%) DV Cleared
5 32 (2.31%) Cisco Certification
5 32 (2.31%) PMP
6 30 (2.16%) TOGAF Certification
7 29 (2.09%) ITIL Certification
7 29 (2.09%) PMI Certification
8 26 (1.87%) CISSP
9 23 (1.66%) CCNP
10 22 (1.59%) CISM
11 17 (1.23%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (0.87%) CCNA
13 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 8 (0.58%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (4.61%) SLA
2 62 (4.47%) Data Quality
3 52 (3.75%) QA
4 49 (3.53%) GRC
5 47 (3.39%) GDPR
6 34 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (2.09%) NIST
8 22 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 20 (1.44%) PMO
10 11 (0.79%) Accessibility
11 10 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.72%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.43%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.29%) GxP
13 4 (0.29%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.22%) COBIT
14 3 (0.22%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.22%) NCSC
14 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 173 (12.47%) Active Directory
2 36 (2.60%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.44%) GPFS
3 20 (1.44%) NFS
4 18 (1.30%) vSphere
5 17 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (0.79%) Docker
7 9 (0.65%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.29%) Firmware
9 4 (0.29%) IAG
9 4 (0.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 3 (0.22%) RACF
10 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.072%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 51 (3.68%) Terraform
2 49 (3.53%) SCCM
3 36 (2.60%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (2.24%) Ansible
5 30 (2.16%) OPNET
6 22 (1.59%) Grafana
7 18 (1.30%) Kubernetes
8 17 (1.23%) Prometheus
8 17 (1.23%) vRealize
9 13 (0.94%) RSA Archer
10 12 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.50%) CASB
12 7 (0.50%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.36%) Control-M
13 5 (0.36%) QRadar
13 5 (0.36%) Rancher
13 5 (0.36%) Salt
13 5 (0.36%) VxRail
14 4 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 241 (17.38%) Microsoft
2 94 (6.78%) Remedy
3 85 (6.13%) Cisco
4 64 (4.61%) SAP
5 54 (3.89%) Oracle
6 44 (3.17%) Splunk
7 42 (3.03%) VMware
8 40 (2.88%) Salesforce
9 39 (2.81%) Atlassian
10 38 (2.74%) Workday
11 35 (2.52%) IBM
12 25 (1.80%) CyberArk
13 23 (1.66%) Apple
14 22 (1.59%) Google
14 22 (1.59%) Zscaler
15 21 (1.51%) Fortinet
16 20 (1.44%) BMC
16 20 (1.44%) Palo Alto
17 18 (1.30%) Snow
18 17 (1.23%) Dynatrace