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 14 December 2025, 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
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 70 66
Rank change year-on-year +3 -4 +73
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,139 912 1,227
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.66% 3.11% 3.25%
As % of the Vendors category 7.70% 6.79% 7.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 785 518 811
10th Percentile £204 £207 £165
25th Percentile £350 £358 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £638
90th Percentile £688 £650 £719
UK median daily rate £479 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -4.15% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 21 46
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.66
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.00 £17.14
Median hourly rate £18.85 £21.46 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.19% +7.30% +26.70%
75th Percentile £26.97 £23.14 £32.94
90th Percentile £89.63 £29.00 £66.82
UK median hourly rate £18.82 £22.09 £19.25
% change year-on-year -14.80% +14.75% +24.19%

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 14,798 13,441 16,835
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.60% 45.83% 44.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,602 8,181 11,016
10th Percentile £293 £300 £251
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.05% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £626 £638
90th Percentile £704 £725 £728
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 731 397 607
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.24 £14.62
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.00 £20.27
Median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.15% -31.11% +73.08%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £78.50 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -17.84% -34.83% +73.08%

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025.

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 14 December 2025. 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 -36 437 £491 -6.57% 143
North of England +13 211 £500 +17.65% 50
South East +43 173 £414 -8.06% 119
Midlands +8 141 £475 +13.10% 35
North West +12 128 £491 +19.54% 29
West Midlands +1 115 £475 +5.56% 34
South West +38 83 £619 +23.70% 11
East of England +11 78 £525 - 13
Yorkshire -5 75 £533 +7.85% 19
East Midlands -4 25 £425 +19.38% 1
North East -8 8 £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 91 (7.99%) Confluence
2 71 (6.23%) SharePoint
3 41 (3.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.97%) nginx
5 8 (0.70%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.53%) Appian
6 6 (0.53%) Camunda
6 6 (0.53%) Skype for Business
7 5 (0.44%) SAS
8 3 (0.26%) Apache
8 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.26%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.26%) CICS
8 3 (0.26%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.18%) IIS
9 2 (0.18%) JBoss
10 1 (0.088%) CMS
10 1 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.088%) Tuxedo
10 1 (0.088%) WebLogic
Applications
1 73 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (5.18%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (4.83%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (2.11%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.97%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.35%) Autodesk Inventor
8 4 (0.35%) Trello
9 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 51 (4.48%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (1.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 10 (0.88%) Salesforce CRM
4 9 (0.79%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.61%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 7 (0.61%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.53%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.26%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.18%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.088%) Actimize
9 1 (0.088%) assyst
9 1 (0.088%) Maximo
9 1 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.088%) Oracle HRMS
9 1 (0.088%) SAP MDG
9 1 (0.088%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 228 (20.02%) Azure
2 171 (15.01%) Microsoft 365
3 152 (13.35%) AWS
4 78 (6.85%) Entra ID
5 72 (6.32%) SaaS
6 60 (5.27%) Power Platform
7 59 (5.18%) Azure DevOps
8 40 (3.51%) GCP
9 30 (2.63%) OneDrive
10 24 (2.11%) Amazon S3
10 24 (2.11%) Power Automate
11 23 (2.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 22 (1.93%) Amazon EC2
13 21 (1.84%) Amazon ELB
13 21 (1.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 20 (1.76%) AWS KMS
15 18 (1.58%) Sauce Labs
16 16 (1.40%) GitHub
17 15 (1.32%) Amazon ECS
18 13 (1.14%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 74 (6.50%) DNS
2 43 (3.78%) Firewall
3 42 (3.69%) VPN
4 40 (3.51%) Wireless
5 37 (3.25%) DHCP
6 32 (2.81%) Wi-Fi
7 28 (2.46%) HTTP
8 23 (2.02%) FTP
9 21 (1.84%) SMTP
9 21 (1.84%) SSH
10 20 (1.76%) LAN
10 20 (1.76%) TCP/IP
10 20 (1.76%) WAN
11 18 (1.58%) SSL
12 13 (1.14%) BGP
13 12 (1.05%) Network Security
14 11 (0.97%) IMAP
14 11 (0.97%) OpenLDAP
15 10 (0.88%) Cisco Wireless
16 9 (0.79%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (3.51%) Power BI
2 34 (2.99%) Relational Database
3 26 (2.28%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (2.11%) MySQL
5 20 (1.76%) Tableau
6 19 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
7 15 (1.32%) Amazon Aurora
8 13 (1.14%) Metadata
8 13 (1.14%) SQL Server
9 8 (0.70%) DB2
9 8 (0.70%) Oracle ODI
10 5 (0.44%) DynamoDB
10 5 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.35%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.35%) Redis
12 3 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
12 3 (0.26%) RDBMS
13 2 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
13 2 (0.18%) Data Lake
14 1 (0.088%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 226 (19.84%) JIRA
2 48 (4.21%) Jenkins
3 46 (4.04%) Git
4 20 (1.76%) Vagrant
5 19 (1.67%) Browser DevTools
6 18 (1.58%) Android Studio
6 18 (1.58%) Eclipse
6 18 (1.58%) Xcode
7 16 (1.40%) GitLab
8 8 (0.70%) Postman
8 8 (0.70%) Selenium
9 7 (0.61%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.61%) REST Assured
10 6 (0.53%) TestRail
11 5 (0.44%) JUnit
12 4 (0.35%) Metasploit
13 3 (0.26%) Burp Suite
13 3 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
13 3 (0.26%) Maven
13 3 (0.26%) TeamCity
General
1 458 (40.21%) Social Skills
2 233 (20.46%) Finance
3 185 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (9.83%) Public Sector
5 47 (4.13%) Banking
6 43 (3.78%) Telecoms
7 42 (3.69%) Military
8 36 (3.16%) Legal
9 34 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
10 33 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
11 24 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
11 24 (2.11%) Presentation Skills
12 19 (1.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.32%) Manufacturing
14 13 (1.14%) Law
15 11 (0.97%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.79%) Financial Institution
17 7 (0.61%) Billing
17 7 (0.61%) Investment Banking
17 7 (0.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 184 (16.15%) Architect
2 160 (14.05%) Analyst
3 98 (8.60%) Support Engineer
4 96 (8.43%) Developer
5 93 (8.17%) ServiceNow Architect
6 78 (6.85%) ServiceNow Developer
7 70 (6.15%) IT Support
8 65 (5.71%) Consultant
9 52 (4.57%) Lead
10 51 (4.48%) Senior
11 39 (3.42%) IT Engineer
12 37 (3.25%) Business Analyst
13 36 (3.16%) Service Analyst
14 34 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
15 32 (2.81%) Service Architect
15 32 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
16 31 (2.72%) IT Support Engineer
17 29 (2.55%) Project Manager
18 28 (2.46%) ServiceNow Manager
19 27 (2.37%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (9.04%) REST
2 90 (7.90%) SOAP
3 52 (4.57%) AngularJS
4 37 (3.25%) LDAP
5 32 (2.81%) CSS
6 31 (2.72%) React
7 29 (2.55%) JSON
8 27 (2.37%) Web Services
9 25 (2.19%) HTML
9 25 (2.19%) SailPoint
10 21 (1.84%) Ajax
11 19 (1.67%) GraphQL
11 19 (1.67%) SAML
12 16 (1.40%) .NET
13 14 (1.23%) HTML5
13 14 (1.23%) ODBC
14 13 (1.14%) Apache Camel
14 13 (1.14%) jQuery
14 13 (1.14%) RabbitMQ
14 13 (1.14%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 134 (11.76%) CMDB
2 64 (5.62%) Onboarding
3 54 (4.74%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.42%) Replication
5 32 (2.81%) Data Centre
6 24 (2.11%) Mobile App
7 22 (1.93%) Self-Motivation
8 21 (1.84%) Management Information System
9 20 (1.76%) Driving Licence
9 20 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
10 18 (1.58%) Video Conferencing
11 17 (1.49%) Security Posture
12 14 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
12 14 (1.23%) Smartphone
13 13 (1.14%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.14%) Linux Command Line
14 10 (0.88%) Cloud Native
15 9 (0.79%) Low-Code
16 8 (0.70%) iPhone
17 7 (0.61%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 238 (20.90%) Windows
2 85 (7.46%) Windows 10
3 69 (6.06%) Linux
4 44 (3.86%) Mac OS
5 35 (3.07%) Android
6 29 (2.55%) Unix
7 22 (1.93%) VMS
8 20 (1.76%) Amazon Linux
8 20 (1.76%) Apple iOS
9 12 (1.05%) Ubuntu
10 9 (0.79%) Windows Server
11 5 (0.44%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.44%) zOS
12 4 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 2 (0.18%) CentOS
14 1 (0.088%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.088%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.088%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 386 (33.89%) ITSM
2 285 (25.02%) ITIL
3 263 (23.09%) Agile
4 214 (18.79%) Problem-Solving
5 201 (17.65%) Service Management
6 155 (13.61%) DevOps
7 154 (13.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 141 (12.38%) Stakeholder Management
9 128 (11.24%) Change Management
10 121 (10.62%) Customer Service
11 106 (9.31%) Continuous Improvement
12 94 (8.25%) CI/CD
13 80 (7.02%) Roadmaps
13 80 (7.02%) Scrum
14 78 (6.85%) Service Delivery
15 73 (6.41%) Configuration Management
16 70 (6.15%) User Acceptance Testing
17 68 (5.97%) Analytics
18 67 (5.88%) User Experience
19 66 (5.79%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 126 (11.06%) Python
2 105 (9.22%) JavaScript
3 73 (6.41%) PowerShell
4 64 (5.62%) Java
5 62 (5.44%) SQL
6 38 (3.34%) Perl
7 25 (2.19%) Groovy
8 19 (1.67%) Bash
9 14 (1.23%) Shell Script
10 12 (1.05%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.61%) ABAP
11 7 (0.61%) Lisp
12 6 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.44%) BeanShell
13 5 (0.44%) JCL
13 5 (0.44%) PHP
13 5 (0.44%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.44%) REXX
13 5 (0.44%) VB
13 5 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 332 (29.15%) Security Cleared
2 277 (24.32%) SC Cleared
3 126 (11.06%) Degree
4 31 (2.72%) TOGAF Certification
5 24 (2.11%) CISSP
6 20 (1.76%) Cisco Certification
7 19 (1.67%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (1.49%) CISM
8 17 (1.49%) DV Cleared
9 15 (1.32%) CCNP
9 15 (1.32%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.14%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.14%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.14%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
11 12 (1.05%) A+ Certification
11 12 (1.05%) ACSP
11 12 (1.05%) ACTC
11 12 (1.05%) CISA
12 11 (0.97%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (5.00%) QA
2 47 (4.13%) GDPR
3 40 (3.51%) SLA
4 33 (2.90%) GRC
5 28 (2.46%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (2.28%) NIST
7 25 (2.19%) Data Quality
8 20 (1.76%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (1.32%) Accessibility
10 14 (1.23%) COBIT
10 14 (1.23%) PCI DSS
11 13 (1.14%) PMO
12 8 (0.70%) NIST 800
13 7 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 19770
13 7 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.53%) HIPAA
15 4 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
16 3 (0.26%) ISO 22301
16 3 (0.26%) WCAG
17 2 (0.18%) MiFID
System Software
1 155 (13.61%) Active Directory
2 33 (2.90%) Docker
3 19 (1.67%) DFS Replication
3 19 (1.67%) VMware Infrastructure
4 15 (1.32%) VMware ESXi
5 12 (1.05%) GPFS
5 12 (1.05%) NFS
5 12 (1.05%) vSphere
6 11 (0.97%) Dovecot
6 11 (0.97%) Postfix
6 11 (0.97%) Squid
7 6 (0.53%) BitLocker
8 4 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
9 2 (0.18%) Hyper-V
9 2 (0.18%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 2 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
10 1 (0.088%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 1 (0.088%) Firmware
10 1 (0.088%) RACF
10 1 (0.088%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 51 (4.48%) SCCM
1 51 (4.48%) Terraform
2 38 (3.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 31 (2.72%) Ansible
4 30 (2.63%) OPNET
5 29 (2.55%) Grafana
6 24 (2.11%) Prometheus
6 24 (2.11%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (1.93%) Jamf Pro
8 17 (1.49%) RSA Archer
9 16 (1.40%) Nessus
10 12 (1.05%) vRealize
11 10 (0.88%) Proxmox
12 9 (0.79%) FortiGate
12 9 (0.79%) Kubernetes
13 4 (0.35%) Rancher
14 3 (0.26%) Nmap
14 3 (0.26%) Pingdom
14 3 (0.26%) Progress Chef
14 3 (0.26%) Puppet
Vendors
1 253 (22.21%) Microsoft
2 99 (8.69%) Remedy
3 65 (5.71%) Oracle
4 63 (5.53%) SAP
5 54 (4.74%) Cisco
6 46 (4.04%) Salesforce
7 44 (3.86%) Splunk
8 35 (3.07%) Apple
9 33 (2.90%) Atlassian
10 29 (2.55%) Workday
11 27 (2.37%) HP
12 26 (2.28%) IBM
13 25 (2.19%) VMware
14 24 (2.11%) BMC
15 20 (1.76%) Snow
16 15 (1.32%) Citrix
17 13 (1.14%) Ivanti
17 13 (1.14%) Rapid7
17 13 (1.14%) Zscaler
18 11 (0.97%) Okta