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 16 January 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
16 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 67 68
Rank change year-on-year -6 +1 +56
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,108 894 1,131
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.48% 3.32% 3.13%
As % of the Vendors category 7.50% 7.20% 7.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 772 496 733
10th Percentile £204 £200 £165
25th Percentile £340 £356 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.51% -0.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £580 £630
90th Percentile £688 £656 £700
UK median daily rate £478 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.50% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 38
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.06 £15.45
25th Percentile £16.03 £16.00 £16.32
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.46 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +11.48% +19.79%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.40 £28.44
90th Percentile £58.05 £29.70 £63.25
UK median hourly rate £18.87 £22.09 £18.11
% change year-on-year -14.58% +21.98% +14.73%

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 14,775 12,415 15,827
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.41% 46.06% 43.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,708 7,508 10,255
10th Percentile £300 £286 £250
25th Percentile £409 £409 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £708 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 685 352 637
10th Percentile £15.35 £15.51 £13.54
25th Percentile £17.89 £18.15 £17.75
Median hourly rate £23.50 £30.00 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -21.67% -31.56% +34.88%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.84 £63.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £80.75 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £23.75 £27.35 £43.00
% change year-on-year -13.16% -36.40% +39.84%

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 16 January 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 16 January 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 16 January 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 -37 433 £478 -9.05% 83
North of England +1 211 £500 +22.25% 60
South East +36 160 £413 -11.29% 64
Midlands +6 147 £475 +13.10% 22
North West +7 124 £475 +18.01% 31
West Midlands +2 120 £475 - 13
Yorkshire -3 78 £525 -2.33% 26
South West +22 75 £613 +21.89% 12
East of England +3 73 £527 +0.29% 18
East Midlands -10 26 £425 +19.38% 9
North East -11 9 £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 72 (6.50%) Confluence
2 71 (6.41%) SharePoint
3 49 (4.42%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.81%) nginx
5 8 (0.72%) Skype for Business
6 6 (0.54%) Apache
6 6 (0.54%) Appian
6 6 (0.54%) Camunda
7 4 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.27%) CICS
8 3 (0.27%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.18%) IIS
9 2 (0.18%) JBoss
10 1 (0.090%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.090%) CMS
10 1 (0.090%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.090%) WebSphere
Applications
1 70 (6.32%) Microsoft Office
2 58 (5.23%) Microsoft Excel
3 52 (4.69%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (2.08%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.81%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.36%) Autodesk Inventor
8 4 (0.36%) Trello
9 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.090%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 38 (3.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.72%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.63%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 7 (0.63%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.54%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.27%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.090%) Actimize
8 1 (0.090%) assyst
8 1 (0.090%) Maximo
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.090%) Oracle HRMS
8 1 (0.090%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.090%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.090%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 240 (21.66%) Azure
2 180 (16.25%) Microsoft 365
3 141 (12.73%) AWS
4 86 (7.76%) Entra ID
5 66 (5.96%) SaaS
6 64 (5.78%) Power Platform
7 58 (5.23%) Azure DevOps
8 51 (4.60%) GCP
9 33 (2.98%) OneDrive
10 25 (2.26%) GitHub
11 19 (1.71%) Power Automate
12 17 (1.53%) AWS KMS
13 16 (1.44%) Amazon S3
14 15 (1.35%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 15 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (1.35%) Amazon ELB
14 15 (1.35%) Sauce Labs
14 15 (1.35%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (1.17%) Azure Logic Apps
16 11 (0.99%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 70 (6.32%) DNS
2 47 (4.24%) VPN
3 42 (3.79%) Firewall
4 38 (3.43%) Wireless
5 37 (3.34%) DHCP
6 33 (2.98%) Wi-Fi
7 24 (2.17%) WAN
8 23 (2.08%) LAN
9 21 (1.90%) FTP
10 18 (1.62%) HTTP
10 18 (1.62%) TCP/IP
11 16 (1.44%) Network Security
11 16 (1.44%) SSH
12 15 (1.35%) SMTP
13 13 (1.17%) BGP
14 10 (0.90%) Cisco Wireless
15 9 (0.81%) 4G
15 9 (0.81%) Cisco ISE
15 9 (0.81%) OpenLDAP
15 9 (0.81%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (3.97%) Power BI
2 23 (2.08%) Relational Database
3 22 (1.99%) SQL Server
4 21 (1.90%) MySQL
5 19 (1.71%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (1.62%) Metadata
6 18 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (1.44%) Tableau
8 13 (1.17%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.72%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.63%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.54%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.54%) DB2
12 6 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.36%) Metadata Repository
13 4 (0.36%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.36%) Redis
14 2 (0.18%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 197 (17.78%) JIRA
2 52 (4.69%) Jenkins
3 41 (3.70%) Git
4 24 (2.17%) GitLab
5 16 (1.44%) Browser DevTools
6 15 (1.35%) Android Studio
6 15 (1.35%) Eclipse
6 15 (1.35%) Xcode
7 14 (1.26%) Vagrant
8 12 (1.08%) Postman
8 12 (1.08%) Selenium
9 11 (0.99%) REST Assured
10 9 (0.81%) Cucumber
11 7 (0.63%) TestRail
12 4 (0.36%) Gatling
12 4 (0.36%) JMeter
12 4 (0.36%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.36%) Metasploit
12 4 (0.36%) NeoLoad
13 3 (0.27%) Burp Suite
General
1 448 (40.43%) Social Skills
2 224 (20.22%) Finance
3 170 (15.34%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (9.39%) Public Sector
5 51 (4.60%) Banking
6 43 (3.88%) Military
7 42 (3.79%) Telecoms
8 39 (3.52%) Legal
9 38 (3.43%) Documentation Skills
10 27 (2.44%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (1.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.62%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.44%) Law
14 12 (1.08%) Manufacturing
15 11 (0.99%) Aerospace
16 10 (0.90%) Billing
17 9 (0.81%) Financial Institution
17 9 (0.81%) Marketing
18 8 (0.72%) Retail
Job Titles
1 175 (15.79%) Architect
2 166 (14.98%) Analyst
3 92 (8.30%) Developer
3 92 (8.30%) ServiceNow Architect
4 89 (8.03%) Support Engineer
5 80 (7.22%) ServiceNow Developer
6 77 (6.95%) IT Support
7 63 (5.69%) Consultant
8 55 (4.96%) Lead
9 41 (3.70%) IT Engineer
10 39 (3.52%) Senior
11 38 (3.43%) Service Analyst
12 34 (3.07%) IT Support Engineer
13 32 (2.89%) Service Architect
13 32 (2.89%) ServiceNow Manager
14 31 (2.80%) Project Manager
15 30 (2.71%) Business Analyst
15 30 (2.71%) Solutions Architect
16 28 (2.53%) DevOps Engineer
16 28 (2.53%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 109 (9.84%) REST
2 85 (7.67%) SOAP
3 33 (2.98%) CSS
4 32 (2.89%) AngularJS
4 32 (2.89%) LDAP
5 29 (2.62%) SailPoint
6 21 (1.90%) Ajax
7 19 (1.71%) HTML
7 19 (1.71%) React
8 18 (1.62%) Flash
9 17 (1.53%) JSON
9 17 (1.53%) OpenID
10 16 (1.44%) GraphQL
11 11 (0.99%) Web Services
11 11 (0.99%) XML
12 9 (0.81%) .NET
12 9 (0.81%) ADO
12 9 (0.81%) SAML
13 8 (0.72%) Kafka
13 8 (0.72%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 134 (12.09%) CMDB
2 69 (6.23%) Onboarding
3 57 (5.14%) Product Ownership
4 40 (3.61%) Replication
5 31 (2.80%) Data Centre
6 28 (2.53%) Management Information System
7 23 (2.08%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (2.08%) Self-Motivation
8 20 (1.81%) Mobile App
9 18 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
10 17 (1.53%) Security Posture
10 17 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
11 16 (1.44%) Smartphone
12 15 (1.35%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (1.26%) Driving Licence
14 12 (1.08%) Cloud Native
14 12 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
15 9 (0.81%) Low-Code
15 9 (0.81%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 242 (21.84%) Windows
2 97 (8.75%) Windows 10
3 73 (6.59%) Linux
4 38 (3.43%) Mac OS
5 36 (3.25%) Android
6 32 (2.89%) Unix
7 20 (1.81%) Windows Server
8 18 (1.62%) Apple iOS
9 16 (1.44%) VMS
10 14 (1.26%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.81%) Ubuntu
12 7 (0.63%) Windows 7
13 5 (0.45%) zOS
14 4 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
15 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
16 1 (0.090%) Data ONTAP
16 1 (0.090%) Kali Linux
16 1 (0.090%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (33.66%) ITSM
2 287 (25.90%) ITIL
3 251 (22.65%) Agile
4 206 (18.59%) Service Management
5 194 (17.51%) Problem-Solving
6 153 (13.81%) Stakeholder Management
7 150 (13.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 145 (13.09%) DevOps
9 125 (11.28%) Change Management
10 121 (10.92%) Customer Service
11 111 (10.02%) Continuous Improvement
12 104 (9.39%) CI/CD
13 82 (7.40%) Roadmaps
14 76 (6.86%) Service Delivery
15 73 (6.59%) Workflow
16 71 (6.41%) Project Management
16 71 (6.41%) User Acceptance Testing
17 69 (6.23%) User Experience
18 68 (6.14%) Migration
19 67 (6.05%) Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 106 (9.57%) Python
2 99 (8.94%) JavaScript
3 72 (6.50%) PowerShell
4 70 (6.32%) SQL
5 60 (5.42%) Java
6 34 (3.07%) Perl
7 19 (1.71%) Groovy
8 15 (1.35%) Bash
9 12 (1.08%) Shell Script
10 10 (0.90%) TypeScript
11 9 (0.81%) VB
12 7 (0.63%) ABAP
12 7 (0.63%) Lisp
12 7 (0.63%) VBScript
13 6 (0.54%) Go
13 6 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
14 5 (0.45%) BeanShell
14 5 (0.45%) JCL
14 5 (0.45%) PHP
14 5 (0.45%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 310 (27.98%) Security Cleared
2 251 (22.65%) SC Cleared
3 110 (9.93%) Degree
4 31 (2.80%) TOGAF Certification
5 21 (1.90%) DV Cleared
6 18 (1.62%) Cisco Certification
7 16 (1.44%) CCNP
7 16 (1.44%) ITIL Certification
7 16 (1.44%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.26%) CISSP
9 13 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.08%) AWS Certification
10 12 (1.08%) Azure Certification
11 9 (0.81%) A+ Certification
11 9 (0.81%) ACSP
11 9 (0.81%) ACTC
11 9 (0.81%) CISM
11 9 (0.81%) ISTQB
11 9 (0.81%) PMI Certification
12 8 (0.72%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (4.87%) QA
1 54 (4.87%) SLA
2 37 (3.34%) Data Quality
3 36 (3.25%) GDPR
4 35 (3.16%) GRC
5 21 (1.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 18 (1.62%) NIST
7 17 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 16 (1.44%) PMO
9 12 (1.08%) PCI DSS
10 8 (0.72%) Accessibility
11 7 (0.63%) COBIT
12 6 (0.54%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.54%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.54%) ISO/IEC 19770
13 3 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.27%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.27%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 154 (13.90%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.71%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (2.53%) Docker
4 18 (1.62%) GPFS
4 18 (1.62%) NFS
5 17 (1.53%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (1.44%) vSphere
7 14 (1.26%) DFS Replication
8 9 (0.81%) Dovecot
8 9 (0.81%) Postfix
8 9 (0.81%) Squid
9 8 (0.72%) BitLocker
10 5 (0.45%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 2 (0.18%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.090%) Firmware
12 1 (0.090%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.090%) RACF
12 1 (0.090%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.090%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 56 (5.05%) SCCM
2 48 (4.33%) Terraform
3 42 (3.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.71%) OPNET
5 28 (2.53%) Ansible
5 28 (2.53%) Grafana
6 20 (1.81%) Prometheus
7 17 (1.53%) Jamf Pro
8 16 (1.44%) vRealize
9 13 (1.17%) Kubernetes
9 13 (1.17%) Nessus
10 11 (0.99%) RSA Archer
10 11 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.81%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.81%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.36%) Pingdom
12 4 (0.36%) Rancher
13 3 (0.27%) Nmap
13 3 (0.27%) OMEGAMON
13 3 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 245 (22.11%) Microsoft
2 90 (8.12%) Remedy
3 62 (5.60%) Oracle
4 60 (5.42%) Cisco
5 59 (5.32%) SAP
6 42 (3.79%) Salesforce
7 40 (3.61%) Splunk
8 35 (3.16%) VMware
9 34 (3.07%) Apple
10 33 (2.98%) Atlassian
11 31 (2.80%) IBM
12 29 (2.62%) Workday
13 21 (1.90%) Snow
14 18 (1.62%) HP
15 17 (1.53%) BMC
16 14 (1.26%) Citrix
16 14 (1.26%) Zscaler
17 11 (0.99%) CyberArk
17 11 (0.99%) Palo Alto
18 10 (0.90%) Dell