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 7 August 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
7 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 68 74
Rank change year-on-year +11 +6 +7
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,754 1,009 951
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.84% 3.66% 2.85%
As % of the Vendors category 9.30% 7.74% 6.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,142 628 575
10th Percentile £218 £224 £213
25th Percentile £400 £324 £359
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £474 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.27% -5.24% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £580
90th Percentile £676 £660 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 82 86
10th Percentile £17.25 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £26.66 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +41.66% +15.46% -20.80%
75th Percentile £67.47 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.70 £63.36 £24.59
UK median hourly rate £26.33 £17.87 £16.30
% change year-on-year +47.34% +9.63% -20.80%

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 18,861 13,033 14,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.33% 47.24% 43.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,851 8,252 9,267
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £620 £627
90th Percentile £700 £719 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,036 627 766
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.25 £17.48 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £29.39
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% -14.41% -25.80%
75th Percentile £67.12 £50.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.79 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +35.15% -10.18% -33.58%

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 7 August 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 7 August 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 7 August 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 +22 761 £525 +5.00% 241
South East +13 353 £550 +35.64% 85
North of England -3 328 £461 -3.00% 79
North West -2 206 £375 -26.56% 62
Midlands +8 161 £425 -10.53% 27
West Midlands -6 126 £455 -4.32% 22
Yorkshire -17 111 £514 +28.50% 15
East of England -29 61 £525 +16.67% 10
South West -45 52 £419 +30.35% 29
East Midlands +3 29 £381 -7.58% 6
North East -30 17 £500 +66.67% 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
1 104 (5.93%) SharePoint
2 95 (5.42%) Confluence
3 39 (2.22%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.51%) Apache
4 9 (0.51%) nginx
4 9 (0.51%) Skype for Business
5 3 (0.17%) CMS
5 3 (0.17%) IIS
6 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.11%) Mendix
6 2 (0.11%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.11%) SAS
6 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.057%) Appian
7 1 (0.057%) Drupal
7 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 75 (4.28%) Microsoft Excel
1 75 (4.28%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 25 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (0.97%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.57%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.46%) Revit
7 7 (0.40%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.057%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.057%) LaTeX
9 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.057%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 69 (3.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.11%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.11%) Maximo
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.11%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.057%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.057%) iTrent
7 1 (0.057%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.057%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 364 (20.75%) Azure
2 234 (13.34%) AWS
3 225 (12.83%) Microsoft 365
4 133 (7.58%) Entra ID
5 130 (7.41%) Power Platform
6 97 (5.53%) SaaS
7 64 (3.65%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (2.62%) GCP
9 37 (2.11%) OneDrive
10 30 (1.71%) GitHub
11 27 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 27 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
11 27 (1.54%) Datadog
12 26 (1.48%) Microsoft Copilot
13 25 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
14 24 (1.37%) Amazon S3
15 22 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 20 (1.14%) Power Automate
16 20 (1.14%) Serverless
17 14 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 85 (4.85%) DNS
2 77 (4.39%) DHCP
3 66 (3.76%) Firewall
4 56 (3.19%) VPN
5 47 (2.68%) TCP/IP
6 39 (2.22%) Wireless
7 32 (1.82%) Network Security
8 26 (1.48%) SSL
9 24 (1.37%) Wi-Fi
10 23 (1.31%) WAN
11 22 (1.25%) VLAN
12 20 (1.14%) LAN
12 20 (1.14%) SAN
13 19 (1.08%) NAS
14 17 (0.97%) Cisco IOS
15 16 (0.91%) SSH
16 15 (0.86%) NX-OS
16 15 (0.86%) Structured Cabling
17 14 (0.80%) SNMP
18 13 (0.74%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (5.59%) Power BI
2 52 (2.96%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (0.80%) MySQL
7 13 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (0.63%) Power Query
9 8 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.34%) Tableau
12 5 (0.29%) Metadata
12 5 (0.29%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.29%) Redis
13 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 4 (0.23%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 270 (15.39%) JIRA
2 81 (4.62%) Git
3 23 (1.31%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.14%) GitLab
5 7 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.23%) Flyway
8 2 (0.11%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.11%) MSI
8 2 (0.11%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.057%) JMeter
9 1 (0.057%) JUnit
9 1 (0.057%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.057%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.057%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.057%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.057%) Subversion
General
1 568 (32.38%) Social Skills
2 326 (18.59%) Finance
3 241 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
4 144 (8.21%) Public Sector
5 96 (5.47%) Banking
6 81 (4.62%) Telecoms
7 54 (3.08%) Legal
7 54 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
8 47 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
9 27 (1.54%) Military
10 26 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (1.37%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 18 (1.03%) Police
13 18 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (0.97%) French Language
15 16 (0.91%) Retail
15 16 (0.91%) Spanish Language
16 15 (0.86%) Law
17 14 (0.80%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 251 (14.31%) Architect
2 234 (13.34%) Analyst
3 179 (10.21%) Developer
4 154 (8.78%) ServiceNow Architect
4 154 (8.78%) ServiceNow Developer
5 127 (7.24%) Senior
6 107 (6.10%) Consultant
7 106 (6.04%) Support Engineer
8 95 (5.42%) IT Support
9 93 (5.30%) Lead
10 73 (4.16%) Service Analyst
11 71 (4.05%) Business Analyst
12 69 (3.93%) IT Engineer
13 68 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
14 63 (3.59%) ServiceNow Consultant
15 62 (3.53%) Project Manager
16 61 (3.48%) IT Support Engineer
17 41 (2.34%) Delivery Manager
17 41 (2.34%) Technical Architect
18 40 (2.28%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 194 (11.06%) REST
2 115 (6.56%) SOAP
3 38 (2.17%) JSON
4 33 (1.88%) OAuth
4 33 (1.88%) SailPoint
5 32 (1.82%) HTML
5 32 (1.82%) XML
6 29 (1.65%) Middleware
6 29 (1.65%) Web Services
7 28 (1.60%) CSS
8 25 (1.43%) LDAP
9 23 (1.31%) .NET
10 20 (1.14%) AngularJS
11 16 (0.91%) Ajax
11 16 (0.91%) SAML
12 14 (0.80%) OpenID
13 11 (0.63%) Flash
13 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Graph
13 11 (0.63%) OAuth2
14 10 (0.57%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 258 (14.71%) CMDB
2 166 (9.46%) Onboarding
3 69 (3.93%) Product Ownership
4 54 (3.08%) Enterprise Software
5 48 (2.74%) Data Centre
6 42 (2.39%) Cloud Native
6 42 (2.39%) Management Information System
7 32 (1.82%) Replication
8 27 (1.54%) PKI
8 27 (1.54%) Security Posture
9 24 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
10 23 (1.31%) AI Agents
11 22 (1.25%) Clustering
12 21 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
13 20 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
14 18 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
15 17 (0.97%) iPhone
16 16 (0.91%) Data Structures
17 15 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 310 (17.67%) Windows
2 104 (5.93%) Linux
2 104 (5.93%) Windows 10
3 51 (2.91%) Windows Server
4 48 (2.74%) Mac OS
5 35 (2.00%) Apple iOS
6 24 (1.37%) Unix
7 22 (1.25%) Android
8 20 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.51%) Windows 7
10 5 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.23%) zOS
12 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
12 3 (0.17%) VMS
13 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.057%) CentOS
14 1 (0.057%) MVS
14 1 (0.057%) SUSE
14 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 677 (38.60%) ITSM
2 554 (31.58%) ITIL
3 359 (20.47%) Service Management
4 332 (18.93%) Agile
5 317 (18.07%) Problem-Solving
6 307 (17.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 271 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 206 (11.74%) Change Management
9 203 (11.57%) Customer Service
10 197 (11.23%) AI
10 197 (11.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 190 (10.83%) DevOps
11 190 (10.83%) Service Delivery
12 161 (9.18%) Roadmaps
13 149 (8.49%) Workflow
14 146 (8.32%) Migration
15 129 (7.35%) Incident Management
16 124 (7.07%) CI/CD
17 123 (7.01%) Data Modelling
18 121 (6.90%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 132 (7.53%) PowerShell
2 122 (6.96%) SQL
3 117 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 110 (6.27%) Python
5 52 (2.96%) Java
6 33 (1.88%) C#
7 21 (1.20%) Bash
8 12 (0.68%) Groovy
9 11 (0.63%) T-SQL
9 11 (0.63%) VBScript
10 10 (0.57%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.51%) TypeScript
12 8 (0.46%) VB
13 7 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.34%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.29%) C++
15 5 (0.29%) Perl
16 4 (0.23%) BeanShell
16 4 (0.23%) Bicep
17 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 496 (28.28%) Security Cleared
2 352 (20.07%) SC Cleared
3 137 (7.81%) Degree
4 105 (5.99%) DV Cleared
5 43 (2.45%) ITIL Certification
5 43 (2.45%) PMP
6 41 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
7 37 (2.11%) BPSS Clearance
7 37 (2.11%) PMI Certification
8 33 (1.88%) CISSP
9 30 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
10 28 (1.60%) CCNP
11 26 (1.48%) CISM
12 23 (1.31%) CCNA
13 21 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 19 (1.08%) A+ Certification
15 18 (1.03%) Azure Certification
15 18 (1.03%) Network+ Certification
16 15 (0.86%) Server+ Certification
17 14 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (5.59%) SLA
2 75 (4.28%) Data Quality
3 54 (3.08%) GRC
4 46 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 46 (2.62%) QA
5 37 (2.11%) NIST
5 37 (2.11%) PMO
6 32 (1.82%) GDPR
7 18 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 16 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
9 14 (0.80%) COBIT
10 13 (0.74%) NCSC
11 12 (0.68%) Accessibility
11 12 (0.68%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.46%) GxP
12 8 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.34%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.29%) PCI DSS
15 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 222 (12.66%) Active Directory
2 34 (1.94%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (1.60%) Docker
4 20 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (0.86%) IAG
7 12 (0.68%) NFS
7 12 (0.68%) vSphere
8 11 (0.63%) GPFS
9 10 (0.57%) BitLocker
9 10 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.40%) Firmware
11 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 2 (0.11%) RACF
13 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.057%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 74 (4.22%) Terraform
2 73 (4.16%) Microsoft Intune
3 57 (3.25%) SCCM
4 47 (2.68%) Ansible
5 35 (2.00%) Kubernetes
6 30 (1.71%) Grafana
7 23 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.20%) Prometheus
9 20 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
10 14 (0.80%) SCOM
11 12 (0.68%) WMI
12 10 (0.57%) vRealize
13 9 (0.51%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.40%) CASB
14 7 (0.40%) RSA Archer
15 6 (0.34%) Packer
15 6 (0.34%) VxRail
16 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 4 (0.23%) CA Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 429 (24.46%) Microsoft
2 90 (5.13%) Cisco
3 78 (4.45%) Remedy
4 69 (3.93%) Splunk
5 66 (3.76%) SAP
6 64 (3.65%) Oracle
7 49 (2.79%) VMware
8 46 (2.62%) Salesforce
9 39 (2.22%) CyberArk
10 33 (1.88%) Dynatrace
11 31 (1.77%) BMC
12 30 (1.71%) Apple
12 30 (1.71%) Workday
13 27 (1.54%) Palo Alto
14 24 (1.37%) Snow
15 23 (1.31%) SolarWinds
16 22 (1.25%) Fortinet
16 22 (1.25%) iManage
17 19 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
17 19 (1.08%) F5