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 12 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
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 74 67 66
Rank change year-on-year -7 -1 +65
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,083 876 1,144
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.49% 3.28% 3.14%
As % of the Vendors category 7.50% 7.14% 7.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 752 489 741
10th Percentile £204 £200 £169
25th Percentile £340 £355 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £688 £656 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £480 £500
% change year-on-year -1.04% -4.00% -2.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 48 25 41
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.08 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.05 £16.00 £16.54
Median hourly rate £19.25 £21.46 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +12.95% +20.37%
75th Percentile £28.75 £23.14 £23.75
90th Percentile £89.63 £29.60 £62.50
UK median hourly rate £19.25 £22.09 £18.72
% change year-on-year -12.86% +18.03% +20.74%

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 14,446 12,275 15,950
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.58% 45.95% 43.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,447 7,403 10,364
10th Percentile £300 £291 £250
25th Percentile £410 £410 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £614 £625 £638
90th Percentile £709 £723 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 677 348 635
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.42 £14.00
25th Percentile £17.98 £18.13 £18.00
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £43.86
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% -31.60% +51.24%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.26 £63.29
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.75 £76.42
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.13 £43.79
% change year-on-year -12.17% -38.06% +60.71%

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 12 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 12 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 12 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 -38 427 £475 -9.52% 93
North of England 0 199 £500 +22.85% 61
South East +37 161 £413 -8.33% 79
Midlands +6 142 £475 +13.10% 44
North West +6 119 £463 +15.63% 27
West Midlands +9 116 £475 +2.70% 27
South West +22 75 £613 +22.50% 19
Yorkshire +3 71 £513 -4.65% 31
East of England +1 71 £527 +0.29% 24
East Midlands -5 25 £425 +19.38% 16
North East -5 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 74 (6.83%) Confluence
2 73 (6.74%) SharePoint
3 46 (4.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.83%) nginx
5 6 (0.55%) Apache
5 6 (0.55%) Appian
5 6 (0.55%) Camunda
5 6 (0.55%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.37%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.28%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.28%) CICS
7 3 (0.28%) HCL Notes
7 3 (0.28%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.28%) SAS
8 2 (0.18%) IIS
8 2 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.092%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.092%) CMS
9 1 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.092%) WebSphere
Applications
1 68 (6.28%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (5.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (4.89%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (2.12%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.85%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.83%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.37%) Autodesk Inventor
8 4 (0.37%) Trello
9 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.092%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 39 (3.60%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.74%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.65%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 7 (0.65%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.55%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.28%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.092%) Actimize
8 1 (0.092%) assyst
8 1 (0.092%) Maximo
8 1 (0.092%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.092%) Oracle HRMS
8 1 (0.092%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 1 (0.092%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.092%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.092%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 231 (21.33%) Azure
2 177 (16.34%) Microsoft 365
3 134 (12.37%) AWS
4 79 (7.29%) Entra ID
5 62 (5.72%) Power Platform
5 62 (5.72%) SaaS
6 58 (5.36%) Azure DevOps
7 46 (4.25%) GCP
8 34 (3.14%) OneDrive
9 24 (2.22%) GitHub
10 19 (1.75%) Power Automate
11 18 (1.66%) AWS KMS
12 17 (1.57%) Amazon S3
13 16 (1.48%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 16 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
13 16 (1.48%) Amazon ELB
13 16 (1.48%) Sauce Labs
13 16 (1.48%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 13 (1.20%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (1.02%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 69 (6.37%) DNS
2 47 (4.34%) VPN
3 46 (4.25%) Firewall
4 41 (3.79%) Wireless
5 36 (3.32%) DHCP
6 31 (2.86%) Wi-Fi
7 22 (2.03%) WAN
8 21 (1.94%) TCP/IP
9 20 (1.85%) FTP
9 20 (1.85%) LAN
10 19 (1.75%) HTTP
11 17 (1.57%) SSH
12 16 (1.48%) Network Security
12 16 (1.48%) SMTP
13 13 (1.20%) BGP
14 10 (0.92%) Cisco Wireless
15 9 (0.83%) 4G
15 9 (0.83%) Cisco ISE
15 9 (0.83%) OpenLDAP
15 9 (0.83%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 42 (3.88%) Power BI
2 23 (2.12%) Relational Database
3 22 (2.03%) MySQL
4 21 (1.94%) SQL Server
5 20 (1.85%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (1.66%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (1.57%) Metadata
8 16 (1.48%) Tableau
9 13 (1.20%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.74%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.55%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.55%) DB2
12 6 (0.55%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.46%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.37%) Metadata Repository
14 4 (0.37%) Redis
15 2 (0.18%) DynamoDB
15 2 (0.18%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 196 (18.10%) JIRA
2 50 (4.62%) Jenkins
3 42 (3.88%) Git
4 20 (1.85%) GitLab
5 17 (1.57%) Browser DevTools
6 16 (1.48%) Android Studio
6 16 (1.48%) Eclipse
6 16 (1.48%) Xcode
7 15 (1.39%) Vagrant
8 12 (1.11%) Selenium
9 11 (1.02%) REST Assured
10 9 (0.83%) Cucumber
11 8 (0.74%) Postman
12 7 (0.65%) TestRail
13 4 (0.37%) Metasploit
14 3 (0.28%) Burp Suite
14 3 (0.28%) CircleCI
14 3 (0.28%) IBM UrbanCode
15 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
15 2 (0.18%) sqlmap
General
1 446 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 214 (19.76%) Finance
3 165 (15.24%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (9.42%) Public Sector
5 49 (4.52%) Banking
6 44 (4.06%) Military
7 43 (3.97%) Telecoms
8 38 (3.51%) Legal
9 37 (3.42%) Documentation Skills
10 31 (2.86%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.66%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (1.57%) Law
15 13 (1.20%) Aerospace
16 12 (1.11%) Manufacturing
17 10 (0.92%) Billing
18 9 (0.83%) Marketing
19 8 (0.74%) Financial Institution
20 7 (0.65%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 167 (15.42%) Architect
2 159 (14.68%) Analyst
3 92 (8.49%) ServiceNow Architect
4 91 (8.40%) Support Engineer
5 88 (8.13%) Developer
6 77 (7.11%) ServiceNow Developer
7 76 (7.02%) IT Support
8 62 (5.72%) Consultant
9 50 (4.62%) Lead
10 40 (3.69%) IT Engineer
11 39 (3.60%) Senior
12 37 (3.42%) Service Analyst
13 33 (3.05%) IT Support Engineer
13 33 (3.05%) ServiceNow Manager
14 32 (2.95%) Project Manager
14 32 (2.95%) Service Architect
15 29 (2.68%) Business Analyst
15 29 (2.68%) DevOps Engineer
16 28 (2.59%) Solutions Architect
16 28 (2.59%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 102 (9.42%) REST
2 82 (7.57%) SOAP
3 35 (3.23%) AngularJS
4 33 (3.05%) CSS
5 29 (2.68%) LDAP
6 24 (2.22%) SailPoint
7 21 (1.94%) Ajax
8 20 (1.85%) React
9 19 (1.75%) HTML
10 18 (1.66%) JSON
11 17 (1.57%) GraphQL
12 16 (1.48%) Flash
13 13 (1.20%) Web Services
14 12 (1.11%) OpenID
15 9 (0.83%) .NET
15 9 (0.83%) ADO
15 9 (0.83%) SAML
15 9 (0.83%) XML
16 8 (0.74%) Kafka
17 7 (0.65%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 132 (12.19%) CMDB
2 66 (6.09%) Onboarding
3 59 (5.45%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.60%) Replication
5 29 (2.68%) Data Centre
6 24 (2.22%) Management Information System
7 23 (2.12%) Enterprise Software
8 22 (2.03%) Mobile App
8 22 (2.03%) Self-Motivation
9 17 (1.57%) Video Conferencing
10 16 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
10 16 (1.48%) Security Posture
10 16 (1.48%) Smartphone
11 15 (1.39%) Driving Licence
12 12 (1.11%) Analytical Mindset
12 12 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
13 9 (0.83%) Cloud Native
13 9 (0.83%) Low-Code
14 8 (0.74%) Public Cloud
14 8 (0.74%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 239 (22.07%) Windows
2 92 (8.49%) Windows 10
3 71 (6.56%) Linux
4 41 (3.79%) Mac OS
5 36 (3.32%) Android
6 32 (2.95%) Unix
7 17 (1.57%) Apple iOS
7 17 (1.57%) VMS
7 17 (1.57%) Windows Server
8 15 (1.39%) Amazon Linux
9 9 (0.83%) Ubuntu
10 5 (0.46%) Windows 7
10 5 (0.46%) zOS
11 4 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.28%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.092%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.092%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.092%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 362 (33.43%) ITSM
2 285 (26.32%) ITIL
3 245 (22.62%) Agile
4 201 (18.56%) Service Management
5 194 (17.91%) Problem-Solving
6 152 (14.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 143 (13.20%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 141 (13.02%) DevOps
9 130 (12.00%) Change Management
10 119 (10.99%) Customer Service
11 103 (9.51%) Continuous Improvement
12 97 (8.96%) CI/CD
13 82 (7.57%) Roadmaps
14 80 (7.39%) Service Delivery
15 70 (6.46%) Project Management
15 70 (6.46%) User Experience
16 68 (6.28%) Migration
17 67 (6.19%) Configuration Management
18 66 (6.09%) Workflow
19 65 (6.00%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 103 (9.51%) Python
2 97 (8.96%) JavaScript
3 70 (6.46%) PowerShell
4 67 (6.19%) SQL
5 56 (5.17%) Java
6 35 (3.23%) Perl
7 20 (1.85%) Groovy
8 15 (1.39%) Bash
9 12 (1.11%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.65%) ABAP
10 7 (0.65%) Lisp
10 7 (0.65%) VB
11 6 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (0.55%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.46%) BeanShell
12 5 (0.46%) Go
12 5 (0.46%) JCL
12 5 (0.46%) PHP
12 5 (0.46%) REXX
12 5 (0.46%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 309 (28.53%) Security Cleared
2 250 (23.08%) SC Cleared
3 112 (10.34%) Degree
4 31 (2.86%) TOGAF Certification
5 18 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
5 18 (1.66%) DV Cleared
5 18 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
6 16 (1.48%) ITIL Certification
7 15 (1.39%) CCNP
8 14 (1.29%) CISSP
9 12 (1.11%) A+ Certification
9 12 (1.11%) AWS Certification
9 12 (1.11%) Azure Certification
9 12 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
10 9 (0.83%) ACSP
10 9 (0.83%) ACTC
10 9 (0.83%) CISM
10 9 (0.83%) PMI Certification
11 8 (0.74%) BPSS Clearance
11 8 (0.74%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 51 (4.71%) QA
2 48 (4.43%) SLA
3 37 (3.42%) GRC
4 36 (3.32%) GDPR
5 33 (3.05%) Data Quality
6 18 (1.66%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 17 (1.57%) NIST
8 15 (1.39%) PMO
8 15 (1.39%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (1.02%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.83%) Accessibility
11 6 (0.55%) COBIT
11 6 (0.55%) Cyber Essentials
11 6 (0.55%) ISO/IEC 19770
12 5 (0.46%) HIPAA
13 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
13 3 (0.28%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.28%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 3 (0.28%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.28%) WCAG
System Software
1 150 (13.85%) Active Directory
2 29 (2.68%) Docker
3 26 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 16 (1.48%) GPFS
4 16 (1.48%) NFS
4 16 (1.48%) VMware ESXi
5 15 (1.39%) DFS Replication
6 14 (1.29%) vSphere
7 9 (0.83%) Dovecot
7 9 (0.83%) Postfix
7 9 (0.83%) Squid
8 6 (0.55%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.18%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 1 (0.092%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.092%) Firmware
11 1 (0.092%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.092%) RACF
11 1 (0.092%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.092%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 51 (4.71%) SCCM
2 48 (4.43%) Terraform
3 41 (3.79%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.77%) OPNET
5 28 (2.59%) Grafana
6 27 (2.49%) Ansible
7 20 (1.85%) Prometheus
8 18 (1.66%) Jamf Pro
9 14 (1.29%) vRealize
10 13 (1.20%) Nessus
10 13 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
11 12 (1.11%) Kubernetes
12 11 (1.02%) RSA Archer
13 9 (0.83%) FortiGate
13 9 (0.83%) Proxmox
14 4 (0.37%) Pingdom
14 4 (0.37%) Rancher
15 3 (0.28%) Nmap
15 3 (0.28%) OMEGAMON
15 3 (0.28%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 244 (22.53%) Microsoft
2 91 (8.40%) Remedy
3 62 (5.72%) Oracle
4 59 (5.45%) Cisco
4 59 (5.45%) SAP
5 44 (4.06%) Salesforce
6 40 (3.69%) Splunk
7 34 (3.14%) Apple
8 33 (3.05%) Atlassian
9 31 (2.86%) VMware
10 29 (2.68%) IBM
11 28 (2.59%) Workday
12 21 (1.94%) Snow
13 18 (1.66%) HP
14 15 (1.39%) BMC
15 14 (1.29%) Zscaler
16 13 (1.20%) Citrix
17 12 (1.11%) Palo Alto
18 10 (0.92%) CyberArk
19 9 (0.83%) Jaspersoft