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 8 July 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
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 64 84
Rank change year-on-year +4 +20 +6
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,649 1,002 952
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.71% 3.76% 2.57%
As % of the Vendors category 9.06% 7.91% 5.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,100 620 555
10th Percentile £217 £214 £200
25th Percentile £400 £315 £329
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £576
90th Percentile £675 £675 £662
UK median daily rate £513 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 59 74 105
10th Percentile £16.44 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.26 £15.10 £16.06
Median hourly rate £21.00 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% +15.46% -27.56%
75th Percentile £48.75 £26.69 £21.37
90th Percentile £85.60 £58.38 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £21.00 £17.37 £16.30
% change year-on-year +20.88% +6.58% -24.33%

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 18,199 12,666 15,889
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.94% 47.47% 42.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,547 8,024 10,078
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £607 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +0.10% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 976 586 1,046
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.84 £12.50
25th Percentile £19.49 £17.66 £14.99
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.23 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +38.75% +0.90% -30.56%
75th Percentile £65.00 £51.98 £61.20
90th Percentile £81.81 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +35.15% +0.60% -38.27%

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 8 July 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 8 July 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 8 July 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 +12 708 £525 +0.96% 139
North of England -5 319 £489 +6.37% 55
South East +7 312 £525 +35.48% 87
North West -2 180 £405 -19.00% 37
Midlands +13 172 £425 -10.53% 31
West Midlands -4 128 £455 -4.32% 23
Yorkshire -12 128 £535 +33.75% 12
East of England -36 57 £525 +18.51% 18
South West -48 47 £425 +52.88% 12
East Midlands +15 38 £340 -27.47% 8
North East -26 16 £450 +38.46% 7
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 88 (5.34%) Confluence
2 84 (5.09%) SharePoint
3 43 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.73%) Skype for Business
5 5 (0.30%) Apache
6 3 (0.18%) CMS
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.12%) IIS
7 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.12%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.12%) SAS
7 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.061%) Appian
8 1 (0.061%) Drupal
8 1 (0.061%) nginx
8 1 (0.061%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.061%) Tomcat
Applications
1 71 (4.31%) Microsoft Excel
1 71 (4.31%) Microsoft Office
2 30 (1.82%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 26 (1.58%) Microsoft Project
4 19 (1.15%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.61%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.49%) Revit
7 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.061%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.061%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.061%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 62 (3.76%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.49%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.18%) Maximo
6 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.12%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.12%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.12%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.12%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.12%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.12%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.061%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.061%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.061%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.061%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 344 (20.86%) Azure
2 227 (13.77%) AWS
3 185 (11.22%) Microsoft 365
4 130 (7.88%) Entra ID
5 113 (6.85%) Power Platform
6 85 (5.15%) SaaS
7 58 (3.52%) Azure DevOps
8 56 (3.40%) GCP
9 31 (1.88%) OneDrive
10 24 (1.46%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 23 (1.39%) Amazon S3
12 21 (1.27%) Datadog
13 20 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
13 20 (1.21%) Azure Monitor
14 19 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
15 17 (1.03%) GitHub
15 17 (1.03%) Power Automate
15 17 (1.03%) Serverless
15 17 (1.03%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 15 (0.91%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 82 (4.97%) DNS
2 76 (4.61%) DHCP
3 62 (3.76%) Firewall
4 51 (3.09%) VPN
5 38 (2.30%) Wireless
6 37 (2.24%) TCP/IP
7 34 (2.06%) LAN
8 33 (2.00%) Network Security
9 32 (1.94%) WAN
10 28 (1.70%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (1.33%) VLAN
12 21 (1.27%) SSL
13 20 (1.21%) SAN
14 19 (1.15%) NAS
15 15 (0.91%) Cisco IOS
15 15 (0.91%) NX-OS
15 15 (0.91%) Structured Cabling
16 14 (0.85%) Internet
16 14 (0.85%) SD-WAN
17 13 (0.79%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (5.58%) Power BI
2 46 (2.79%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.70%) PostgreSQL
4 26 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (0.67%) MySQL
7 11 (0.67%) Power Query
8 9 (0.55%) Metadata
9 8 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.36%) Tableau
11 5 (0.30%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.24%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.24%) Neo4j
12 4 (0.24%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.24%) PowerPivot
12 4 (0.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 266 (16.13%) JIRA
2 72 (4.37%) Git
3 25 (1.52%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.46%) GitLab
5 7 (0.42%) Selenium
6 6 (0.36%) Postman
7 5 (0.30%) Cucumber
7 5 (0.30%) JMeter
7 5 (0.30%) LoadRunner
7 5 (0.30%) REST Assured
8 4 (0.24%) Flyway
8 4 (0.24%) Gatling
8 4 (0.24%) NeoLoad
9 2 (0.12%) Bitbucket
9 2 (0.12%) Cypress.io
9 2 (0.12%) JUnit
9 2 (0.12%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.061%) MSI
10 1 (0.061%) Subversion
General
1 514 (31.17%) Social Skills
2 313 (18.98%) Finance
3 213 (12.92%) Analytical Skills
4 130 (7.88%) Public Sector
5 92 (5.58%) Banking
6 67 (4.06%) Telecoms
7 56 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
8 46 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
9 43 (2.61%) Legal
10 32 (1.94%) Military
11 22 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (1.27%) Retail
13 19 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
14 18 (1.09%) French Language
15 17 (1.03%) Manufacturing
16 13 (0.79%) Spanish Language
17 12 (0.73%) Billing
17 12 (0.73%) Italian Language
17 12 (0.73%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 257 (15.59%) Architect
2 230 (13.95%) Analyst
3 164 (9.95%) Developer
4 154 (9.34%) ServiceNow Architect
5 139 (8.43%) ServiceNow Developer
6 110 (6.67%) Senior
7 96 (5.82%) Consultant
8 89 (5.40%) Support Engineer
9 86 (5.22%) Lead
10 85 (5.15%) IT Support
11 70 (4.24%) Business Analyst
12 67 (4.06%) ServiceNow Consultant
13 66 (4.00%) Service Analyst
13 66 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
14 61 (3.70%) IT Engineer
15 57 (3.46%) Project Manager
16 54 (3.27%) IT Support Engineer
17 49 (2.97%) Technical Architect
18 42 (2.55%) Delivery Manager
18 42 (2.55%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (11.52%) REST
2 117 (7.10%) SOAP
3 39 (2.37%) SailPoint
4 35 (2.12%) LDAP
5 34 (2.06%) Middleware
6 33 (2.00%) OAuth
7 32 (1.94%) HTML
7 32 (1.94%) JSON
8 30 (1.82%) CSS
9 26 (1.58%) XML
10 25 (1.52%) Web Services
11 24 (1.46%) OpenID
12 21 (1.27%) AngularJS
13 19 (1.15%) SAML
14 17 (1.03%) .NET
15 15 (0.91%) Flash
16 13 (0.79%) Ajax
16 13 (0.79%) OAuth2
17 11 (0.67%) JDBC
17 11 (0.67%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 239 (14.49%) CMDB
2 134 (8.13%) Onboarding
3 64 (3.88%) Product Ownership
4 50 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 45 (2.73%) Management Information System
6 44 (2.67%) Cloud Native
7 41 (2.49%) Enterprise Software
8 34 (2.06%) Replication
9 28 (1.70%) Security Posture
10 24 (1.46%) Self-Motivation
11 23 (1.39%) PKI
12 21 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
13 18 (1.09%) AI Agents
13 18 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
13 18 (1.09%) Clustering
13 18 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
13 18 (1.09%) Data Structures
13 18 (1.09%) Virtual Team
14 14 (0.85%) Legacy Systems
15 12 (0.73%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 258 (15.65%) Windows
2 92 (5.58%) Windows 10
3 85 (5.15%) Linux
4 42 (2.55%) Windows Server
5 41 (2.49%) Mac OS
6 32 (1.94%) Apple iOS
7 26 (1.58%) Unix
8 23 (1.39%) Android
9 14 (0.85%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (0.73%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.24%) VMS
13 3 (0.18%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.18%) zOS
14 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.061%) CentOS
15 1 (0.061%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 617 (37.42%) ITSM
2 497 (30.14%) ITIL
3 335 (20.32%) Agile
4 320 (19.41%) Service Management
5 296 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
6 278 (16.86%) Stakeholder Management
7 246 (14.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 197 (11.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 188 (11.40%) Change Management
10 186 (11.28%) DevOps
11 175 (10.61%) AI
12 174 (10.55%) Customer Service
13 164 (9.95%) Service Delivery
14 150 (9.10%) Migration
15 146 (8.85%) Roadmaps
16 142 (8.61%) Workflow
17 127 (7.70%) CI/CD
17 127 (7.70%) Data Modelling
18 118 (7.16%) Incident Management
19 108 (6.55%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 124 (7.52%) SQL
2 116 (7.03%) JavaScript
3 111 (6.73%) PowerShell
4 106 (6.43%) Python
5 59 (3.58%) Java
6 32 (1.94%) C#
7 15 (0.91%) Bash
8 14 (0.85%) VBScript
9 11 (0.67%) TypeScript
9 11 (0.67%) VB
10 10 (0.61%) Groovy
10 10 (0.61%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.55%) T-SQL
12 7 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.36%) Perl
14 4 (0.24%) BeanShell
14 4 (0.24%) Bicep
14 4 (0.24%) Cypher
14 4 (0.24%) Scala
14 4 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 458 (27.77%) Security Cleared
2 324 (19.65%) SC Cleared
3 128 (7.76%) Degree
4 99 (6.00%) DV Cleared
5 45 (2.73%) ITIL Certification
6 43 (2.61%) PMP
7 41 (2.49%) Cisco Certification
8 35 (2.12%) PMI Certification
9 32 (1.94%) CISSP
10 31 (1.88%) BPSS Clearance
10 31 (1.88%) CCNP
11 25 (1.52%) CISM
12 22 (1.33%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (1.21%) CCNA
14 16 (0.97%) Network+ Certification
15 15 (0.91%) Azure Certification
15 15 (0.91%) Server+ Certification
16 14 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
17 13 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
18 12 (0.73%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 84 (5.09%) SLA
2 71 (4.31%) Data Quality
3 57 (3.46%) GRC
4 49 (2.97%) QA
5 48 (2.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (2.37%) GDPR
7 38 (2.30%) NIST
8 30 (1.82%) PMO
9 20 (1.21%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (0.79%) COBIT
11 12 (0.73%) Accessibility
11 12 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
12 10 (0.61%) NCSC
13 9 (0.55%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.49%) HIPAA
15 7 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 7 (0.42%) PCI DSS
16 5 (0.30%) SOC 2
17 4 (0.24%) GxP
18 3 (0.18%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 197 (11.95%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.12%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.27%) Docker
4 18 (1.09%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (0.97%) NFS
6 16 (0.97%) vSphere
7 15 (0.91%) GPFS
8 13 (0.79%) BitLocker
9 10 (0.61%) IAG
10 7 (0.42%) Firmware
11 6 (0.36%) Virtual Desktop
12 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
14 2 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
14 2 (0.12%) RACF
14 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.12%) XenDesktop
15 1 (0.061%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 65 (3.94%) Terraform
2 60 (3.64%) Microsoft Intune
3 54 (3.27%) SCCM
4 36 (2.18%) Ansible
5 29 (1.76%) Grafana
6 26 (1.58%) Kubernetes
7 21 (1.27%) Single Sign-On
8 20 (1.21%) Prometheus
9 18 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
10 13 (0.79%) vRealize
11 11 (0.67%) WMI
12 10 (0.61%) SCOM
13 9 (0.55%) RSA Archer
14 7 (0.42%) CASB
14 7 (0.42%) VxRail
15 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.24%) PingFederate
15 4 (0.24%) QRadar
15 4 (0.24%) Salt
15 4 (0.24%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 352 (21.35%) Microsoft
2 91 (5.52%) Cisco
3 75 (4.55%) Remedy
4 67 (4.06%) SAP
5 65 (3.94%) Splunk
6 58 (3.52%) Oracle
7 43 (2.61%) Salesforce
8 42 (2.55%) VMware
9 36 (2.18%) CyberArk
10 33 (2.00%) Workday
11 31 (1.88%) BMC
12 28 (1.70%) Fortinet
13 26 (1.58%) Apple
13 26 (1.58%) Dynatrace
14 25 (1.52%) Google
14 25 (1.52%) Palo Alto
15 24 (1.46%) F5
16 22 (1.33%) SolarWinds
17 21 (1.27%) IBM
17 21 (1.27%) Snow