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 11 September 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
11 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 68 85
Rank change year-on-year +11 +17 -9
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,771 1,016 868
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.82% 3.65% 2.63%
As % of the Vendors category 9.16% 7.76% 5.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,130 643 533
10th Percentile £218 £214 £220
25th Percentile £400 £320 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £511 £475 £501
Median % change year-on-year +7.63% -5.09% +0.10%
75th Percentile £601 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £649 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £475 £505
% change year-on-year +7.37% -5.94% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 83 42
10th Percentile £16.06 £13.00 £13.90
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.50 £14.16
Median hourly rate £26.66 £18.82 £16.65
Median % change year-on-year +41.66% +13.03% -16.75%
75th Percentile £63.75 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.43 £63.32 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £17.87 £18.13
% change year-on-year +45.50% -1.43% -9.35%

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 19,342 13,094 14,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.69% 47.06% 44.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,050 8,299 8,943
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £501 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.40% -4.67% -
75th Percentile £619 £617 £631
90th Percentile £706 £704 £734
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,109 614 614
10th Percentile £14.06 £14.75 £14.19
25th Percentile £17.00 £17.81 £15.62
Median hourly rate £30.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +19.28% -28.14% -17.31%
75th Percentile £65.00 £47.09 £64.25
90th Percentile £83.05 £69.90 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £25.15 £30.80
% change year-on-year +7.36% -18.33% -27.54%

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 11 September 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 11 September 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 11 September 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 +25 775 £525 +5.00% 240
North of England -5 362 £450 -10.00% 55
South East +20 344 £544 +35.94% 97
North West +4 238 £400 -21.95% 35
Midlands -8 139 £425 -10.53% 24
West Midlands -4 115 £441 -7.16% 14
Yorkshire -26 114 £500 - 14
East of England -42 54 £510 +2.00% 18
South West -55 54 £475 +46.15% 23
East Midlands -9 20 £413 -12.00% 10
North East -35 16 £525 +50.00% 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
1 114 (6.44%) SharePoint
2 87 (4.91%) Confluence
3 48 (2.71%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.90%) Skype for Business
5 11 (0.62%) nginx
6 9 (0.51%) Apache
7 4 (0.23%) CMS
8 3 (0.17%) Mendix
9 2 (0.11%) SAS
9 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.056%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.056%) Appian
10 1 (0.056%) Drupal
10 1 (0.056%) IIS
10 1 (0.056%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.056%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.056%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.056%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.056%) Tomcat
Applications
1 82 (4.63%) Microsoft Office
2 79 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (1.19%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.62%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.56%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.45%) Revit
9 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.056%) LaTeX
10 1 (0.056%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.056%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 62 (3.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.34%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.11%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.11%) Maximo
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.11%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.056%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.056%) Cloudability
8 1 (0.056%) iTrent
8 1 (0.056%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.056%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 375 (21.17%) Azure
2 246 (13.89%) Microsoft 365
3 237 (13.38%) AWS
4 142 (8.02%) Power Platform
5 135 (7.62%) Entra ID
6 104 (5.87%) SaaS
7 54 (3.05%) Azure DevOps
8 51 (2.88%) GCP
9 45 (2.54%) GitHub
10 43 (2.43%) OneDrive
11 35 (1.98%) Azure Monitor
11 35 (1.98%) Microsoft Copilot
12 31 (1.75%) Datadog
13 25 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 25 (1.41%) Power Automate
14 23 (1.30%) Serverless
15 20 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (1.02%) Amazon S3
17 17 (0.96%) PowerApps
17 17 (0.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 88 (4.97%) DNS
2 77 (4.35%) DHCP
3 62 (3.50%) VPN
4 59 (3.33%) Firewall
5 52 (2.94%) TCP/IP
6 31 (1.75%) SSL
7 30 (1.69%) Wireless
8 27 (1.52%) VLAN
9 25 (1.41%) Network Security
10 24 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
11 23 (1.30%) WAN
12 20 (1.13%) LAN
13 18 (1.02%) NX-OS
13 18 (1.02%) SSH
14 17 (0.96%) SAN
14 17 (0.96%) Skype
15 16 (0.90%) BGP
16 15 (0.85%) NAS
17 13 (0.73%) Cisco IOS
18 11 (0.62%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (5.93%) Power BI
2 54 (3.05%) SQL Server
3 33 (1.86%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (0.96%) MySQL
5 17 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (0.79%) Metadata
6 14 (0.79%) Power Query
7 13 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
8 10 (0.56%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.34%) Redis
11 5 (0.28%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.23%) PowerPivot
12 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.17%) Pentaho
14 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 250 (14.12%) JIRA
2 69 (3.90%) Git
3 26 (1.47%) Jenkins
4 23 (1.30%) GitLab
5 8 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.17%) MSI
8 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.11%) Flyway
8 2 (0.11%) Tricentis qTest
8 2 (0.11%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.056%) Gatling
9 1 (0.056%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.056%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.056%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.056%) Postman
9 1 (0.056%) Robot Framework
General
1 568 (32.07%) Social Skills
2 330 (18.63%) Finance
3 237 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (8.75%) Public Sector
5 90 (5.08%) Banking
6 81 (4.57%) Telecoms
7 52 (2.94%) Legal
8 46 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
9 45 (2.54%) Documentation Skills
10 30 (1.69%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (1.47%) Manufacturing
12 25 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (1.19%) Military
14 19 (1.07%) Spanish Language
15 18 (1.02%) French Language
15 18 (1.02%) Italian Language
16 17 (0.96%) Police
17 16 (0.90%) Law
17 16 (0.90%) Retail
18 15 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 259 (14.62%) Architect
2 252 (14.23%) Analyst
3 181 (10.22%) Developer
4 161 (9.09%) ServiceNow Developer
5 153 (8.64%) ServiceNow Architect
6 124 (7.00%) Senior
7 109 (6.15%) Consultant
8 101 (5.70%) Support Engineer
9 94 (5.31%) Lead
10 91 (5.14%) IT Support
11 73 (4.12%) Service Analyst
12 71 (4.01%) Solutions Architect
13 65 (3.67%) Business Analyst
13 65 (3.67%) IT Engineer
14 64 (3.61%) Project Manager
15 57 (3.22%) IT Support Engineer
16 54 (3.05%) ServiceNow Consultant
17 44 (2.48%) Technical Architect
18 43 (2.43%) Service Manager
19 39 (2.20%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (11.07%) REST
2 108 (6.10%) SOAP
3 72 (4.07%) Terraform
4 44 (2.48%) JSON
5 36 (2.03%) HTML
6 35 (1.98%) SailPoint
7 32 (1.81%) CSS
7 32 (1.81%) LDAP
7 32 (1.81%) OAuth
8 29 (1.64%) XML
9 25 (1.41%) Middleware
10 19 (1.07%) .NET
10 19 (1.07%) Web Services
11 16 (0.90%) Ajax
11 16 (0.90%) AngularJS
12 14 (0.79%) SAML
13 13 (0.73%) JDBC
13 13 (0.73%) Microsoft Graph
13 13 (0.73%) OpenID
14 12 (0.68%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 286 (16.15%) CMDB
2 187 (10.56%) Onboarding
3 68 (3.84%) Enterprise Software
4 56 (3.16%) Data Centre
4 56 (3.16%) Product Ownership
5 49 (2.77%) Management Information System
6 40 (2.26%) Cloud Native
7 39 (2.20%) Replication
8 26 (1.47%) AI Agents
8 26 (1.47%) PKI
9 25 (1.41%) Clustering
10 24 (1.36%) Video Conferencing
11 23 (1.30%) Security Posture
12 21 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
15 16 (0.90%) Data Structures
15 16 (0.90%) iPhone
16 14 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 338 (19.09%) Windows
2 112 (6.32%) Windows 10
3 107 (6.04%) Linux
4 55 (3.11%) Windows Server
5 48 (2.71%) Mac OS
6 36 (2.03%) Apple iOS
7 24 (1.36%) Android
8 19 (1.07%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 18 (1.02%) Unix
10 16 (0.90%) Windows 7
11 9 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.23%) VMS
12 4 (0.23%) zOS
13 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.056%) MVS
14 1 (0.056%) SUSE
14 1 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 699 (39.47%) ITSM
2 564 (31.85%) ITIL
3 406 (22.92%) Service Management
4 346 (19.54%) Stakeholder Management
5 333 (18.80%) Agile
6 326 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
7 271 (15.30%) Continuous Improvement
8 218 (12.31%) AI
9 209 (11.80%) Customer Service
10 199 (11.24%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 191 (10.78%) DevOps
12 189 (10.67%) Service Delivery
13 185 (10.45%) Change Management
13 185 (10.45%) Roadmaps
14 146 (8.24%) Workflow
15 139 (7.85%) Migration
16 131 (7.40%) Incident Management
17 126 (7.11%) Asset Management
18 123 (6.95%) CI/CD
19 119 (6.72%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 150 (8.47%) PowerShell
2 115 (6.49%) JavaScript
3 112 (6.32%) Python
4 95 (5.36%) SQL
5 47 (2.65%) Java
6 22 (1.24%) Bash
7 18 (1.02%) C#
7 18 (1.02%) VBScript
8 17 (0.96%) Groovy
9 15 (0.85%) T-SQL
9 15 (0.85%) VB
10 8 (0.45%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.40%) BeanShell
11 7 (0.40%) Perl
12 6 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.28%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.23%) C++
15 3 (0.17%) JCL
15 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 481 (27.16%) Security Cleared
2 352 (19.88%) SC Cleared
3 137 (7.74%) Degree
4 86 (4.86%) DV Cleared
5 45 (2.54%) PMP
6 44 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
7 42 (2.37%) ITIL Certification
8 38 (2.15%) PMI Certification
9 37 (2.09%) Microsoft Certification
10 31 (1.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 29 (1.64%) Azure Certification
11 29 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (1.30%) CCNP
13 21 (1.19%) A+ Certification
13 21 (1.19%) CISSP
14 20 (1.13%) CCNA
15 16 (0.90%) AWS Certification
16 15 (0.85%) CISM
17 14 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
18 13 (0.73%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (5.48%) SLA
2 91 (5.14%) Data Quality
3 65 (3.67%) GRC
4 60 (3.39%) QA
5 45 (2.54%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 45 (2.54%) PMO
6 38 (2.15%) NIST
7 29 (1.64%) GDPR
8 17 (0.96%) COBIT
8 17 (0.96%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (0.90%) Accessibility
9 16 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
9 16 (0.90%) NCSC
10 12 (0.68%) ISO 9001
10 12 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 7 (0.40%) GxP
13 6 (0.34%) HIPAA
14 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 19770
14 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 234 (13.21%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.32%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (2.03%) Docker
4 23 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.96%) BitLocker
5 17 (0.96%) IAG
6 15 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.56%) NFS
9 9 (0.51%) vSphere
10 8 (0.45%) GPFS
11 7 (0.40%) VMware NSX
12 6 (0.34%) Firmware
12 6 (0.34%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.11%) DFS Replication
13 2 (0.11%) Dovecot
13 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 2 (0.11%) Postfix
13 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.11%) Squid
Systems Management
1 84 (4.74%) Microsoft Intune
2 68 (3.84%) SCCM
3 53 (2.99%) Ansible
4 36 (2.03%) Kubernetes
5 31 (1.75%) Grafana
6 25 (1.41%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (1.30%) SCOM
8 19 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
9 18 (1.02%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.56%) WMI
11 9 (0.51%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.40%) vRealize
13 6 (0.34%) Packer
13 6 (0.34%) RSA Archer
14 5 (0.28%) CASB
14 5 (0.28%) PowerCLI
15 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
15 4 (0.23%) Rancher
15 4 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 477 (26.93%) Microsoft
2 79 (4.46%) Cisco
3 70 (3.95%) Remedy
4 69 (3.90%) Oracle
5 68 (3.84%) SAP
6 64 (3.61%) Splunk
7 60 (3.39%) VMware
8 53 (2.99%) CyberArk
9 52 (2.94%) Salesforce
10 40 (2.26%) Dynatrace
11 33 (1.86%) Workday
12 32 (1.81%) BMC
13 30 (1.69%) Snow
14 28 (1.58%) Apple
15 25 (1.41%) Google
15 25 (1.41%) SolarWinds
16 24 (1.36%) Adobe
17 21 (1.19%) iManage
18 20 (1.13%) CrowdStrike
18 20 (1.13%) Palo Alto