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 25 September 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
25 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 66 86
Rank change year-on-year +6 +20 -10
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,768 1,032 876
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.80% 3.71% 2.67%
As % of the Vendors category 9.16% 7.79% 6.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,115 672 529
10th Percentile £218 £206 £217
25th Percentile £400 £311 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £608 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 79 32
10th Percentile £16.06 £13.00 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.50 £14.16
Median hourly rate £26.66 £18.82 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.66% +10.71% -10.53%
75th Percentile £63.75 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.43 £63.40 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £17.87 £18.13
% change year-on-year +45.50% -1.43% -4.58%

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 19,298 13,249 14,557
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.47% 47.57% 44.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,940 8,427 8,791
10th Percentile £309 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £622 £620 £630
90th Percentile £713 £710 £731
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,159 632 568
10th Percentile £14.03 £14.84 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.75 £17.99 £15.62
Median hourly rate £27.50 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.34% -28.14% -20.27%
75th Percentile £63.75 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £32.50
% change year-on-year +2.39% -22.62% -25.97%

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 25 September 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 25 September 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 25 September 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 +27 778 £525 +5.00% 464
North of England -8 347 £450 -10.00% 111
South East +12 343 £544 +35.94% 140
North West +3 229 £375 -26.66% 66
Midlands -17 141 £425 -10.53% 56
West Midlands -4 122 £448 -5.79% 39
Yorkshire -26 111 £500 - 37
East of England -41 60 £510 +2.00% 42
South West -50 53 £500 +58.73% 31
East Midlands -15 16 £350 -27.27% 16
North East -36 13 £550 +57.14% 10
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
1 116 (6.56%) SharePoint
2 91 (5.15%) Confluence
3 47 (2.66%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.90%) Skype for Business
5 11 (0.62%) nginx
6 9 (0.51%) Apache
7 5 (0.28%) CMS
8 4 (0.23%) Mendix
9 3 (0.17%) CICS
10 2 (0.11%) Appian
10 2 (0.11%) SAS
10 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.057%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.057%) Drupal
11 1 (0.057%) IIS
11 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.057%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 82 (4.64%) Microsoft Office
2 81 (4.58%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (1.07%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.62%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.57%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.45%) Revit
9 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.057%) LaTeX
10 1 (0.057%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 63 (3.56%) Remedy ITSM
2 15 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.34%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.11%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.11%) Maximo
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.057%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.057%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.057%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 373 (21.10%) Azure
2 253 (14.31%) Microsoft 365
3 228 (12.90%) AWS
4 145 (8.20%) Power Platform
5 127 (7.18%) Entra ID
6 97 (5.49%) SaaS
7 63 (3.56%) GCP
8 55 (3.11%) Azure DevOps
9 51 (2.88%) GitHub
10 43 (2.43%) Azure Monitor
11 42 (2.38%) OneDrive
12 37 (2.09%) Microsoft Copilot
13 30 (1.70%) Datadog
14 25 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 24 (1.36%) Power Automate
16 22 (1.24%) Serverless
17 20 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
18 18 (1.02%) Amazon S3
18 18 (1.02%) PowerApps
19 17 (0.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 86 (4.86%) DNS
2 75 (4.24%) DHCP
3 62 (3.51%) VPN
4 57 (3.22%) Firewall
5 50 (2.83%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.70%) VLAN
7 29 (1.64%) Wireless
8 27 (1.53%) SSL
9 25 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
10 24 (1.36%) Network Security
11 22 (1.24%) NX-OS
12 21 (1.19%) WAN
13 19 (1.07%) LAN
14 18 (1.02%) BGP
14 18 (1.02%) SSH
15 17 (0.96%) Skype
16 13 (0.74%) Cisco IOS
16 13 (0.74%) SAN
17 12 (0.68%) VXLAN
18 11 (0.62%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (5.83%) Power BI
2 48 (2.71%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (0.90%) Metadata
5 16 (0.90%) MySQL
5 16 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (0.57%) Power Query
8 9 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.34%) Redis
11 5 (0.28%) BigQuery
11 5 (0.28%) Looker
12 4 (0.23%) Db2
12 4 (0.23%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 3 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.17%) Pentaho
13 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 238 (13.46%) JIRA
2 73 (4.13%) Git
3 25 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.36%) GitLab
5 8 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.17%) MSI
7 3 (0.17%) Postman
7 3 (0.17%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.11%) Tricentis qTest
8 2 (0.11%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.057%) Eclipse
9 1 (0.057%) JMeter
9 1 (0.057%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.057%) Subversion
9 1 (0.057%) TeamCity
General
1 577 (32.64%) Social Skills
2 332 (18.78%) Finance
3 242 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (8.71%) Public Sector
5 92 (5.20%) Banking
6 80 (4.52%) Telecoms
7 53 (3.00%) Legal
8 46 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
9 42 (2.38%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
11 28 (1.58%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 23 (1.30%) Military
14 17 (0.96%) Police
14 17 (0.96%) Retail
14 17 (0.96%) Spanish Language
15 16 (0.90%) French Language
15 16 (0.90%) Italian Language
15 16 (0.90%) Law
16 13 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 260 (14.71%) Architect
2 245 (13.86%) Analyst
3 188 (10.63%) Developer
4 160 (9.05%) ServiceNow Developer
5 151 (8.54%) ServiceNow Architect
6 129 (7.30%) Senior
7 115 (6.50%) Consultant
8 98 (5.54%) Lead
8 98 (5.54%) Support Engineer
9 88 (4.98%) IT Support
10 76 (4.30%) Solutions Architect
11 68 (3.85%) Service Analyst
12 64 (3.62%) IT Engineer
13 62 (3.51%) Project Manager
14 60 (3.39%) Business Analyst
15 56 (3.17%) IT Support Engineer
16 55 (3.11%) ServiceNow Consultant
17 47 (2.66%) Technical Architect
18 44 (2.49%) Service Manager
19 39 (2.21%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 199 (11.26%) REST
2 102 (5.77%) SOAP
3 77 (4.36%) Terraform
4 51 (2.88%) JSON
5 38 (2.15%) OAuth
6 37 (2.09%) HTML
7 34 (1.92%) CSS
7 34 (1.92%) Middleware
8 33 (1.87%) XML
9 30 (1.70%) LDAP
9 30 (1.70%) SailPoint
10 19 (1.07%) .NET
10 19 (1.07%) OAuth2
10 19 (1.07%) Web Services
11 17 (0.96%) Ajax
11 17 (0.96%) AngularJS
11 17 (0.96%) SAML
12 16 (0.90%) OpenID
13 15 (0.85%) YAML
14 14 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 301 (17.02%) CMDB
2 187 (10.58%) Onboarding
3 72 (4.07%) Enterprise Software
4 61 (3.45%) Data Centre
5 53 (3.00%) Management Information System
6 50 (2.83%) Product Ownership
7 45 (2.55%) Cloud Native
8 36 (2.04%) Replication
9 29 (1.64%) AI Agents
10 27 (1.53%) PKI
11 24 (1.36%) Video Conferencing
12 23 (1.30%) Clustering
12 23 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
15 17 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (0.96%) iPhone
16 16 (0.90%) Data Structures
17 15 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
17 15 (0.85%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 331 (18.72%) Windows
2 112 (6.33%) Windows 10
3 107 (6.05%) Linux
4 53 (3.00%) Mac OS
5 52 (2.94%) Windows Server
6 37 (2.09%) Apple iOS
7 26 (1.47%) Android
8 20 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 20 (1.13%) Unix
9 16 (0.90%) Windows 7
10 9 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
11 7 (0.40%) zOS
12 4 (0.23%) VMS
13 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.057%) MVS
14 1 (0.057%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 717 (40.55%) ITSM
2 572 (32.35%) ITIL
3 415 (23.47%) Service Management
4 361 (20.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 327 (18.50%) Agile
6 324 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
7 269 (15.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 223 (12.61%) AI
9 203 (11.48%) Customer Service
10 199 (11.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 193 (10.92%) DevOps
12 192 (10.86%) Service Delivery
13 186 (10.52%) Roadmaps
14 181 (10.24%) Change Management
15 155 (8.77%) Workflow
16 137 (7.75%) Migration
17 136 (7.69%) Asset Management
18 132 (7.47%) Incident Management
19 128 (7.24%) CI/CD
20 124 (7.01%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 150 (8.48%) PowerShell
2 124 (7.01%) Python
3 121 (6.84%) JavaScript
4 89 (5.03%) SQL
5 44 (2.49%) Java
6 25 (1.41%) Bash
7 18 (1.02%) VBScript
8 17 (0.96%) Groovy
9 15 (0.85%) T-SQL
9 15 (0.85%) VB
10 14 (0.79%) C#
11 8 (0.45%) Perl
11 8 (0.45%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.34%) BeanShell
12 6 (0.34%) JCL
12 6 (0.34%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.28%) Go
13 5 (0.28%) Google Apps Script
13 5 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 474 (26.81%) Security Cleared
2 351 (19.85%) SC Cleared
3 139 (7.86%) Degree
4 82 (4.64%) DV Cleared
5 44 (2.49%) BPSS Clearance
6 43 (2.43%) PMP
7 41 (2.32%) ITIL Certification
8 39 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
9 37 (2.09%) PMI Certification
10 32 (1.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 29 (1.64%) Azure Certification
11 29 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (1.30%) CCNP
13 21 (1.19%) A+ Certification
14 20 (1.13%) CCNA
14 20 (1.13%) CISSP
15 18 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
16 16 (0.90%) AWS Certification
17 14 (0.79%) CISM
17 14 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (5.71%) SLA
2 97 (5.49%) Data Quality
3 64 (3.62%) GRC
4 59 (3.34%) QA
5 49 (2.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (2.38%) PMO
7 36 (2.04%) NIST
8 26 (1.47%) GDPR
9 18 (1.02%) NCSC
10 17 (0.96%) COBIT
11 16 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.79%) Accessibility
13 12 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 12 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.62%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.40%) GxP
16 7 (0.40%) HIPAA
17 6 (0.34%) SOC 2
18 4 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 217 (12.27%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.32%) Docker
2 41 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.96%) BitLocker
4 17 (0.96%) IAG
5 15 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.57%) NFS
6 10 (0.57%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.51%) vSphere
8 8 (0.45%) GPFS
9 6 (0.34%) Firmware
10 5 (0.28%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.11%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.11%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 2 (0.11%) Postfix
12 2 (0.11%) Squid
Systems Management
1 88 (4.98%) Microsoft Intune
2 70 (3.96%) SCCM
3 61 (3.45%) Ansible
4 44 (2.49%) Kubernetes
5 33 (1.87%) Grafana
6 25 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (1.30%) SCOM
8 19 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
9 16 (0.90%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.57%) WMI
11 9 (0.51%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.40%) vRealize
13 6 (0.34%) Control-M
13 6 (0.34%) Packer
14 5 (0.28%) PowerCLI
15 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
15 4 (0.23%) Rancher
15 4 (0.23%) SELinux
15 4 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 496 (28.05%) Microsoft
2 78 (4.41%) Cisco
3 70 (3.96%) Remedy
4 66 (3.73%) Oracle
4 66 (3.73%) Splunk
5 65 (3.68%) SAP
6 60 (3.39%) VMware
7 52 (2.94%) Salesforce
8 47 (2.66%) CyberArk
8 47 (2.66%) Dynatrace
9 36 (2.04%) Google
10 32 (1.81%) Apple
11 30 (1.70%) BMC
11 30 (1.70%) Snow
11 30 (1.70%) SolarWinds
12 25 (1.41%) Workday
13 23 (1.30%) Adobe
13 23 (1.30%) Okta
14 22 (1.24%) IBM
14 22 (1.24%) Red Hat