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 May 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
14 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 64 79
Rank change year-on-year -1 +15 +30
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,375 876 954
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.39% 3.63% 2.61%
As % of the Vendors category 8.20% 7.65% 6.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 950 550 560
10th Percentile £213 £200 £165
25th Percentile £400 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £494 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.32% -1.30% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £715
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 51 107
10th Percentile £16.03 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £14.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £16.30 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +54.29% - -8.01%
75th Percentile £83.75 £20.69 £21.37
90th Percentile £97.50 £37.50 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £17.30 £16.30
% change year-on-year +45.38% +6.13% -8.01%

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 16,765 11,453 15,361
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.27% 47.49% 42.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,855 7,374 9,755
10th Percentile £313 £281 £263
25th Percentile £413 £408 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.35%
75th Percentile £611 £625 £638
90th Percentile £710 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 891 454 1,001
10th Percentile £15.38 £14.84 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.46 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% +17.56% -43.11%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.45% +13.33% -47.06%

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 May 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 14 May 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 14 May 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 +2 605 £513 -5.96% 131
North of England -9 258 £525 +31.25% 83
South East -3 202 £500 +42.86% 75
Midlands +6 158 £420 -23.77% 42
North West -3 135 £450 -4.66% 51
West Midlands -10 118 £425 -22.87% 23
Yorkshire -17 112 £545 +36.25% 26
South West -13 64 £600 +147.42% 11
East of England -35 55 £525 +51.52% 26
East Midlands -4 33 £300 -41.46% 18
North East -7 15 £450 +50.00% 6
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 (6.76%) Confluence
2 53 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 47 (3.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.73%) Skype for Business
5 8 (0.58%) Apache
6 4 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.29%) CMS
6 4 (0.29%) SAS
7 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.22%) Appian
8 2 (0.15%) Camunda
8 2 (0.15%) CICS
8 2 (0.15%) IIS
8 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.073%) Drupal
9 1 (0.073%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
Applications
1 78 (5.67%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (3.93%) Microsoft Excel
3 52 (3.78%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (1.67%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.65%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.22%) Revit
7 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.073%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.073%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 46 (3.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.22%) Maximo
6 2 (0.15%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.15%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.15%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.15%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.073%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.073%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.073%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.073%) Unit4 Business World
Cloud Services
1 279 (20.29%) Azure
2 198 (14.40%) AWS
3 144 (10.47%) Microsoft 365
4 115 (8.36%) Entra ID
5 95 (6.91%) Power Platform
6 67 (4.87%) SaaS
7 63 (4.58%) GCP
8 56 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
9 25 (1.82%) OneDrive
10 19 (1.38%) Power Automate
11 15 (1.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (1.09%) Amazon S3
11 15 (1.09%) Microsoft Copilot
12 14 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
12 14 (1.02%) AWS KMS
13 13 (0.95%) GitHub
13 13 (0.95%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (0.87%) Datadog
15 11 (0.80%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (0.80%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.87%) DNS
2 57 (4.15%) Firewall
3 56 (4.07%) DHCP
4 50 (3.64%) VPN
5 33 (2.40%) Wireless
6 31 (2.25%) Network Security
7 29 (2.11%) WAN
8 28 (2.04%) LAN
9 22 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
10 20 (1.45%) TCP/IP
11 15 (1.09%) VLAN
12 14 (1.02%) Internet
12 14 (1.02%) SD-WAN
13 13 (0.95%) NAS
13 13 (0.95%) SAN
13 13 (0.95%) SSL
14 10 (0.73%) BIG-IP
14 10 (0.73%) Skype
15 9 (0.65%) NX-OS
15 9 (0.65%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (5.67%) Power BI
2 38 (2.76%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 15 (1.09%) Metadata
8 13 (0.95%) Tableau
9 10 (0.73%) Power Query
10 9 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (0.65%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (0.51%) MySQL
13 6 (0.44%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.44%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
14 5 (0.36%) DB2
15 4 (0.29%) Neo4j
15 4 (0.29%) PowerPivot
15 4 (0.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 251 (18.25%) JIRA
2 65 (4.73%) Git
3 39 (2.84%) Jenkins
4 31 (2.25%) GitLab
5 17 (1.24%) Selenium
6 14 (1.02%) REST Assured
7 13 (0.95%) 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%) Gatling
11 4 (0.29%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.22%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.22%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.22%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.22%) Flyway
12 3 (0.22%) JUnit
13 2 (0.15%) IBM UrbanCode
13 2 (0.15%) Robot Framework
General
1 418 (30.40%) Social Skills
2 268 (19.49%) Finance
3 180 (13.09%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (8.22%) Public Sector
5 81 (5.89%) Banking
6 60 (4.36%) Military
7 55 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
8 53 (3.85%) Telecoms
9 48 (3.49%) Legal
10 44 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
11 19 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (1.16%) Billing
14 15 (1.09%) Retail
15 14 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (0.95%) Financial Institution
17 10 (0.73%) Law
18 8 (0.58%) Aerospace
19 7 (0.51%) Manufacturing
20 5 (0.36%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 278 (20.22%) Architect
2 183 (13.31%) Analyst
3 154 (11.20%) ServiceNow Architect
4 119 (8.65%) Developer
5 98 (7.13%) ServiceNow Developer
6 79 (5.75%) Senior
7 76 (5.53%) Lead
8 73 (5.31%) Support Engineer
9 71 (5.16%) IT Support
10 59 (4.29%) Consultant
10 59 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
11 52 (3.78%) Business Analyst
12 48 (3.49%) Project Manager
13 46 (3.35%) IT Engineer
14 45 (3.27%) ServiceNow Manager
15 43 (3.13%) IT Support Engineer
15 43 (3.13%) Service Analyst
16 37 (2.69%) Delivery Manager
16 37 (2.69%) Technical Architect
17 35 (2.55%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 166 (12.07%) REST
2 99 (7.20%) SOAP
3 39 (2.84%) SailPoint
4 38 (2.76%) LDAP
5 30 (2.18%) Middleware
6 29 (2.11%) OpenID
7 28 (2.04%) CSS
8 27 (1.96%) HTML
9 25 (1.82%) JSON
10 23 (1.67%) Web Services
11 22 (1.60%) AngularJS
12 21 (1.53%) Flash
13 20 (1.45%) OAuth
14 19 (1.38%) XML
15 17 (1.24%) .NET
16 16 (1.16%) SAML
17 12 (0.87%) Kafka
18 11 (0.80%) JDBC
19 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Graph
20 9 (0.65%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 167 (12.15%) CMDB
2 107 (7.78%) Onboarding
3 99 (7.20%) Product Ownership
4 36 (2.62%) Data Centre
5 35 (2.55%) Management Information System
6 34 (2.47%) Replication
7 24 (1.75%) Security Posture
8 23 (1.67%) Cloud Native
9 21 (1.53%) Linux Command Line
10 19 (1.38%) Enterprise Software
11 18 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (1.24%) PKI
13 16 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
13 16 (1.16%) Data Structures
14 15 (1.09%) Virtual Team
15 12 (0.87%) AI Agents
15 12 (0.87%) Clustering
16 10 (0.73%) Analytical Mindset
16 10 (0.73%) Mainframe
17 9 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 212 (15.42%) Windows
2 81 (5.89%) Windows 10
3 68 (4.95%) Linux
4 38 (2.76%) Windows Server
5 36 (2.62%) Mac OS
6 27 (1.96%) Unix
7 20 (1.45%) Apple iOS
8 19 (1.38%) Android
9 10 (0.73%) Windows 7
10 7 (0.51%) zOS
11 6 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.073%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.073%) MVS
13 1 (0.073%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.073%) VMS
13 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 470 (34.18%) ITSM
2 376 (27.35%) ITIL
3 325 (23.64%) Agile
4 261 (18.98%) Service Management
5 197 (14.33%) Problem-Solving
6 191 (13.89%) Continuous Improvement
7 190 (13.82%) Stakeholder Management
8 169 (12.29%) Change Management
9 155 (11.27%) DevOps
10 153 (11.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 127 (9.24%) Migration
12 124 (9.02%) Customer Service
12 124 (9.02%) Service Delivery
13 119 (8.65%) Roadmaps
14 118 (8.58%) CI/CD
15 117 (8.51%) Data Modelling
16 111 (8.07%) Workflow
17 108 (7.85%) AI
18 99 (7.20%) Project Management
19 98 (7.13%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 124 (9.02%) SQL
2 96 (6.98%) JavaScript
3 84 (6.11%) Python
4 81 (5.89%) PowerShell
5 68 (4.95%) Java
6 27 (1.96%) C#
7 11 (0.80%) Bash
7 11 (0.80%) VB
8 10 (0.73%) PL/SQL
8 10 (0.73%) TypeScript
8 10 (0.73%) VBScript
9 9 (0.65%) Groovy
10 7 (0.51%) JCL
10 7 (0.51%) Perl
10 7 (0.51%) REXX
11 6 (0.44%) BeanShell
11 6 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (0.44%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.36%) Go
12 5 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 370 (26.91%) Security Cleared
2 275 (20.00%) SC Cleared
3 117 (8.51%) Degree
4 58 (4.22%) DV Cleared
5 34 (2.47%) Cisco Certification
6 33 (2.40%) PMP
7 29 (2.11%) ITIL Certification
7 29 (2.11%) PMI Certification
8 28 (2.04%) CISSP
8 28 (2.04%) TOGAF Certification
9 25 (1.82%) CCNP
10 22 (1.60%) CISM
11 19 (1.38%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (1.02%) CCNA
12 14 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
14 10 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 9 (0.65%) AWS Certification
15 9 (0.65%) Network+ Certification
15 9 (0.65%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (5.38%) SLA
2 61 (4.44%) Data Quality
3 50 (3.64%) QA
4 43 (3.13%) GRC
5 42 (3.05%) GDPR
6 27 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (1.82%) NIST
8 23 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (1.24%) PMO
10 12 (0.87%) Accessibility
11 11 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
12 8 (0.58%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.51%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.29%) GxP
15 3 (0.22%) COBIT
15 3 (0.22%) ISO 22301
15 3 (0.22%) NCSC
15 3 (0.22%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
16 2 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 159 (11.56%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.53%) GPFS
3 21 (1.53%) NFS
4 17 (1.24%) VMware ESXi
4 17 (1.24%) vSphere
5 14 (1.02%) Docker
6 10 (0.73%) BitLocker
7 6 (0.44%) Firmware
8 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.29%) IAG
9 4 (0.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.15%) RACF
11 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.073%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.073%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 56 (4.07%) Terraform
2 44 (3.20%) SCCM
3 36 (2.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (2.40%) Ansible
5 27 (1.96%) OPNET
6 25 (1.82%) Grafana
7 20 (1.45%) Prometheus
8 17 (1.24%) Kubernetes
8 17 (1.24%) vRealize
9 13 (0.95%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
11 7 (0.51%) CASB
11 7 (0.51%) RSA Archer
11 7 (0.51%) VxRail
12 5 (0.36%) Control-M
12 5 (0.36%) QRadar
12 5 (0.36%) Salt
13 4 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.29%) Pingdom
13 4 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 235 (17.09%) Microsoft
2 88 (6.40%) Remedy
3 84 (6.11%) Cisco
4 65 (4.73%) SAP
5 51 (3.71%) Oracle
6 45 (3.27%) Splunk
7 43 (3.13%) VMware
8 38 (2.76%) Workday
9 37 (2.69%) Salesforce
10 36 (2.62%) Atlassian
11 32 (2.33%) IBM
12 26 (1.89%) Apple
13 23 (1.67%) Google
14 22 (1.60%) CyberArk
14 22 (1.60%) Fortinet
14 22 (1.60%) Palo Alto
15 21 (1.53%) BMC
16 19 (1.38%) Zscaler
17 18 (1.31%) F5
17 18 (1.31%) Snow