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 9 October 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
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 65 75
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 -7
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,691 1,041 942
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.66% 3.71% 2.91%
As % of the Vendors category 8.79% 7.76% 6.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,059 675 544
10th Percentile £217 £204 £213
25th Percentile £400 £285 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £608 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 82 28
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.51 £15.50 £15.81
Median hourly rate £26.00 £18.82 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +38.15% +3.81% -7.03%
75th Percentile £63.43 £32.84 £23.86
90th Percentile £87.16 £63.40 £33.78
UK median hourly rate £25.88 £17.81 £19.64
% change year-on-year +45.28% -9.33% +0.73%

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 19,239 13,411 14,425
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.63% 47.73% 44.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,783 8,527 8,642
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £516 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.88% -3.62% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £628
90th Percentile £715 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,251 647 523
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.99 £14.99
25th Percentile £16.59 £17.98 £15.62
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.08 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.69% -28.36% -20.16%
75th Percentile £61.16 £43.23 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.55 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £24.19 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -3.24% -23.08% -24.86%

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 9 October 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 9 October 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 9 October 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 +20 749 £525 +5.00% 510
South East +13 331 £538 +65.38% 117
North of England -13 330 £447 -10.60% 115
North West +3 219 £360 -26.91% 66
Midlands -24 129 £437 -8.00% 75
West Midlands -17 112 £463 -2.63% 57
Yorkshire -27 103 £486 -2.75% 38
East of England -37 58 £550 +8.70% 47
South West -51 50 £500 +57.17% 54
East Midlands -23 16 £381 -20.78% 17
North East -35 11 £463 +32.14% 11
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
1 112 (6.62%) SharePoint
2 78 (4.61%) Confluence
3 46 (2.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.95%) Skype for Business
5 14 (0.83%) nginx
6 8 (0.47%) Apache
7 4 (0.24%) CICS
7 4 (0.24%) CMS
7 4 (0.24%) Mendix
8 2 (0.12%) Appian
8 2 (0.12%) IIS
8 2 (0.12%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.12%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.059%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.059%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.059%) Documentum
9 1 (0.059%) Drupal
9 1 (0.059%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.059%) SAS
9 1 (0.059%) WebSphere
Applications
1 75 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
2 74 (4.38%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (2.13%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.30%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.06%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.71%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.53%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.41%) Revit
9 5 (0.30%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.18%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.059%) LaTeX
11 1 (0.059%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.059%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 59 (3.49%) Remedy ITSM
2 15 (0.89%) Dynamics CRM
3 10 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.47%) Workday HCM
5 5 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.24%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.24%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.12%) Maximo
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
9 1 (0.059%) Eloqua
9 1 (0.059%) Oracle Assets
9 1 (0.059%) Oracle EBS
9 1 (0.059%) SAP CO
9 1 (0.059%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.059%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 356 (21.05%) Azure
2 254 (15.02%) Microsoft 365
3 207 (12.24%) AWS
4 135 (7.98%) Power Platform
5 123 (7.27%) Entra ID
6 89 (5.26%) SaaS
7 64 (3.78%) GCP
8 57 (3.37%) Azure DevOps
9 52 (3.08%) GitHub
10 43 (2.54%) Azure Monitor
11 41 (2.42%) OneDrive
12 35 (2.07%) Microsoft Copilot
13 28 (1.66%) Datadog
14 24 (1.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 23 (1.36%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (1.30%) Serverless
17 21 (1.24%) Power Automate
18 18 (1.06%) Amazon S3
18 18 (1.06%) PowerApps
19 17 (1.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 83 (4.91%) DNS
2 69 (4.08%) DHCP
3 67 (3.96%) VPN
4 56 (3.31%) TCP/IP
5 55 (3.25%) Firewall
6 31 (1.83%) VLAN
7 26 (1.54%) Network Security
8 25 (1.48%) Wi-Fi
9 24 (1.42%) SSL
10 22 (1.30%) BGP
10 22 (1.30%) WAN
10 22 (1.30%) Wireless
11 20 (1.18%) NX-OS
11 20 (1.18%) SSH
12 19 (1.12%) LAN
13 17 (1.01%) Skype
14 12 (0.71%) OSPF
14 12 (0.71%) VXLAN
15 11 (0.65%) Cisco IOS
15 11 (0.65%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 90 (5.32%) Power BI
2 46 (2.72%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (0.95%) MySQL
6 15 (0.89%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (0.83%) Metadata
8 13 (0.77%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (0.47%) BigQuery
9 8 (0.47%) Looker
10 6 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.35%) Power Query
10 6 (0.35%) Redis
11 4 (0.24%) Data Mart
11 4 (0.24%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.24%) Db2
11 4 (0.24%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.18%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 207 (12.24%) JIRA
2 70 (4.14%) Git
3 29 (1.71%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.60%) GitLab
5 9 (0.53%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.30%) Artifactory
6 5 (0.30%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.24%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.18%) Postman
8 3 (0.18%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.12%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.12%) MSBuild
9 2 (0.12%) MSI
9 2 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.12%) Tricentis qTest
9 2 (0.12%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.059%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.059%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.059%) Oracle Forms
General
1 561 (33.18%) Social Skills
2 319 (18.86%) Finance
3 237 (14.02%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (9.17%) Public Sector
5 90 (5.32%) Banking
6 75 (4.44%) Telecoms
7 54 (3.19%) Legal
8 44 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
9 39 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
10 32 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
11 30 (1.77%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (1.18%) Police
14 19 (1.12%) Law
14 19 (1.12%) Military
15 17 (1.01%) Spanish Language
16 16 (0.95%) French Language
16 16 (0.95%) Italian Language
17 13 (0.77%) Local Government
17 13 (0.77%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 240 (14.19%) Analyst
2 232 (13.72%) Architect
3 176 (10.41%) Developer
4 151 (8.93%) ServiceNow Developer
5 133 (7.87%) ServiceNow Architect
6 121 (7.16%) Senior
7 113 (6.68%) Consultant
8 102 (6.03%) Support Engineer
9 94 (5.56%) Lead
10 84 (4.97%) IT Support
11 69 (4.08%) Solutions Architect
12 67 (3.96%) Service Analyst
13 64 (3.78%) IT Engineer
14 59 (3.49%) Project Manager
15 57 (3.37%) Business Analyst
16 56 (3.31%) IT Support Engineer
17 53 (3.13%) ServiceNow Consultant
18 45 (2.66%) Service Manager
19 44 (2.60%) Technical Architect
20 41 (2.42%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 184 (10.88%) REST
2 90 (5.32%) SOAP
3 75 (4.44%) Terraform
4 49 (2.90%) JSON
5 34 (2.01%) OAuth
6 30 (1.77%) HTML
6 30 (1.77%) Middleware
7 28 (1.66%) SailPoint
8 27 (1.60%) CSS
8 27 (1.60%) LDAP
8 27 (1.60%) XML
9 20 (1.18%) .NET
10 19 (1.12%) Web Services
11 17 (1.01%) Ajax
12 15 (0.89%) OAuth2
12 15 (0.89%) YAML
13 14 (0.83%) SAML
14 12 (0.71%) Microsoft Graph
14 12 (0.71%) OpenID
15 10 (0.59%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 290 (17.15%) CMDB
2 186 (11.00%) Onboarding
3 74 (4.38%) Enterprise Software
4 57 (3.37%) Data Centre
5 56 (3.31%) Management Information System
6 49 (2.90%) Product Ownership
7 41 (2.42%) Cloud Native
8 35 (2.07%) Replication
9 28 (1.66%) AI Agents
10 25 (1.48%) Video Conferencing
11 23 (1.36%) PKI
12 21 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.06%) Clustering
14 18 (1.06%) iPhone
14 18 (1.06%) Linux Command Line
15 17 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (1.01%) Low-Code
15 17 (1.01%) Security Posture
16 15 (0.89%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 336 (19.87%) Windows
2 115 (6.80%) Linux
3 109 (6.45%) Windows 10
4 53 (3.13%) Windows Server
5 52 (3.08%) Mac OS
6 33 (1.95%) Apple iOS
7 25 (1.48%) Android
8 22 (1.30%) Unix
9 20 (1.18%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 16 (0.95%) Windows 7
11 9 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (0.30%) zOS
13 4 (0.24%) VMS
14 3 (0.18%) Check Point GAiA
14 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
15 2 (0.12%) AIX
16 1 (0.059%) CentOS
16 1 (0.059%) Solaris
16 1 (0.059%) SUSE
16 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 696 (41.16%) ITSM
2 552 (32.64%) ITIL
3 409 (24.19%) Service Management
4 376 (22.24%) Stakeholder Management
5 301 (17.80%) Problem-Solving
6 295 (17.45%) Agile
7 252 (14.90%) Continuous Improvement
8 218 (12.89%) AI
9 202 (11.95%) Customer Service
10 187 (11.06%) Service Delivery
11 183 (10.82%) Roadmaps
12 182 (10.76%) DevOps
13 179 (10.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 174 (10.29%) Change Management
15 151 (8.93%) Workflow
16 133 (7.87%) Asset Management
16 133 (7.87%) Migration
17 130 (7.69%) Incident Management
18 121 (7.16%) CI/CD
19 118 (6.98%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 152 (8.99%) PowerShell
2 132 (7.81%) Python
3 114 (6.74%) JavaScript
4 86 (5.09%) SQL
5 38 (2.25%) Java
6 33 (1.95%) Bash
7 20 (1.18%) Groovy
8 18 (1.06%) VBScript
9 17 (1.01%) C#
10 15 (0.89%) T-SQL
10 15 (0.89%) VB
11 8 (0.47%) Perl
12 7 (0.41%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.35%) BeanShell
14 5 (0.30%) Go
14 5 (0.30%) Google Apps Script
14 5 (0.30%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.30%) TypeScript
15 4 (0.24%) C++
15 4 (0.24%) JCL
Qualifications
1 456 (26.97%) Security Cleared
2 345 (20.40%) SC Cleared
3 129 (7.63%) Degree
4 73 (4.32%) DV Cleared
5 41 (2.42%) PMP
6 40 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 39 (2.31%) ITIL Certification
8 38 (2.25%) Microsoft Certification
9 35 (2.07%) PMI Certification
10 31 (1.83%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 28 (1.66%) Azure Certification
12 24 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (1.24%) A+ Certification
13 21 (1.24%) Computer Science Degree
14 19 (1.12%) CCNP
15 17 (1.01%) CISSP
16 16 (0.95%) CCNA
17 14 (0.83%) AWS Certification
18 13 (0.77%) CISM
19 12 (0.71%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (6.03%) Data Quality
2 99 (5.85%) SLA
3 59 (3.49%) GRC
3 59 (3.49%) QA
4 51 (3.02%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (2.25%) NIST
5 38 (2.25%) PMO
6 23 (1.36%) GDPR
7 18 (1.06%) NCSC
8 17 (1.01%) COBIT
9 16 (0.95%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (0.71%) Accessibility
10 12 (0.71%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 12 (0.71%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.65%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
12 8 (0.47%) GxP
13 7 (0.41%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.41%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 212 (12.54%) Active Directory
2 45 (2.66%) Docker
3 40 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (1.06%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (1.01%) BitLocker
7 14 (0.83%) IAG
7 14 (0.83%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.59%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.53%) NFS
10 8 (0.47%) vSphere
11 7 (0.41%) GPFS
12 6 (0.35%) Firmware
13 5 (0.30%) Hyper-V
14 3 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 2 (0.12%) DFS Replication
15 2 (0.12%) Dovecot
15 2 (0.12%) Postfix
15 2 (0.12%) Squid
16 1 (0.059%) Veritas Volume Manager
Systems Management
1 86 (5.09%) Microsoft Intune
2 69 (4.08%) SCCM
3 61 (3.61%) Ansible
4 44 (2.60%) Kubernetes
5 35 (2.07%) Grafana
6 24 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (1.30%) SCOM
8 19 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
9 16 (0.95%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.59%) WMI
11 9 (0.53%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.41%) Kibana
13 6 (0.35%) Control-M
13 6 (0.35%) Packer
13 6 (0.35%) vRealize
14 5 (0.30%) PowerCLI
15 4 (0.24%) ITRS Geneos
15 4 (0.24%) Rancher
15 4 (0.24%) SCOrch
16 3 (0.18%) SELinux
Vendors
1 490 (28.98%) Microsoft
2 79 (4.67%) Cisco
3 67 (3.96%) Remedy
4 66 (3.90%) Splunk
5 64 (3.78%) SAP
6 63 (3.73%) Oracle
7 58 (3.43%) VMware
8 50 (2.96%) Salesforce
9 49 (2.90%) Dynatrace
10 43 (2.54%) CyberArk
11 33 (1.95%) Google
12 31 (1.83%) SolarWinds
13 30 (1.77%) Apple
14 28 (1.66%) Snow
15 27 (1.60%) BMC
16 23 (1.36%) Adobe
16 23 (1.36%) Okta
16 23 (1.36%) Palo Alto
17 22 (1.30%) IBM
17 22 (1.30%) Workday