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 21 July 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
21 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 66 80
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 +12
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,691 1,012 962
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.77% 3.71% 2.72%
As % of the Vendors category 9.20% 7.83% 6.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,108 621 570
10th Percentile £216 £213 £203
25th Percentile £400 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £585 £575
90th Percentile £677 £680 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 83 100
10th Percentile £17.37 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.44 £16.06
Median hourly rate £25.50 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +35.49% +15.46% -24.33%
75th Percentile £67.47 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.65 £63.32 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £17.45 £16.30
% change year-on-year +43.31% +7.02% -20.80%

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 18,371 12,927 15,282
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.97% 47.44% 43.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,609 8,163 9,799
10th Percentile £313 £280 £281
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -1.92% -0.95%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £503 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +0.50% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 967 616 892
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £19.85 £17.49 £15.22
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £26.03
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% -3.38% -30.59%
75th Percentile £67.47 £50.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.94 £25.15 £26.00
% change year-on-year +38.93% -3.27% -36.65%

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 21 July 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 21 July 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 21 July 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 +20 738 £525 +2.94% 132
South East +14 339 £525 +29.55% 66
North of England -8 313 £485 +4.58% 65
North West -8 182 £401 -19.88% 55
Midlands +16 163 £425 -10.53% 29
West Midlands -6 121 £448 -5.79% 23
Yorkshire -18 118 £525 +31.25% 8
East of England -39 54 £525 +16.67% 20
South West -48 47 £375 +34.89% 14
East Midlands +11 36 £345 -16.36% 6
North East -31 18 £488 +50.00% 4
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 96 (5.68%) SharePoint
2 90 (5.32%) Confluence
3 38 (2.25%) Microsoft Exchange
4 8 (0.47%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.41%) Apache
5 7 (0.41%) nginx
6 3 (0.18%) CMS
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.12%) IIS
7 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.12%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.12%) SAS
7 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.059%) Appian
8 1 (0.059%) Drupal
8 1 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 74 (4.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 70 (4.14%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (1.89%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.95%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.59%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.47%) Revit
8 7 (0.41%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.12%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.059%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.059%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 66 (3.90%) Remedy ITSM
2 11 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.18%) Maximo
6 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.12%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.12%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.12%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.12%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.12%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.12%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 355 (20.99%) Azure
2 232 (13.72%) AWS
3 199 (11.77%) Microsoft 365
4 134 (7.92%) Entra ID
5 114 (6.74%) Power Platform
6 90 (5.32%) SaaS
7 59 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
8 50 (2.96%) GCP
9 34 (2.01%) OneDrive
10 26 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 25 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
11 25 (1.48%) Datadog
12 24 (1.42%) Amazon S3
12 24 (1.42%) GitHub
13 23 (1.36%) Azure Monitor
14 22 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 20 (1.18%) Microsoft Copilot
16 18 (1.06%) Serverless
17 17 (1.01%) Power Automate
18 15 (0.89%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 83 (4.91%) DNS
2 76 (4.49%) DHCP
3 62 (3.67%) Firewall
4 50 (2.96%) VPN
5 47 (2.78%) TCP/IP
6 38 (2.25%) Wireless
7 32 (1.89%) Network Security
8 24 (1.42%) LAN
8 24 (1.42%) WAN
8 24 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
9 21 (1.24%) SSL
10 20 (1.18%) SAN
10 20 (1.18%) VLAN
11 19 (1.12%) NAS
12 15 (0.89%) Cisco IOS
12 15 (0.89%) NX-OS
12 15 (0.89%) Structured Cabling
13 14 (0.83%) Internet
14 13 (0.77%) SSH
15 12 (0.71%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (5.44%) Power BI
2 49 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (0.65%) MySQL
7 11 (0.65%) Power Query
8 8 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.41%) Metadata
10 6 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.35%) Tableau
11 5 (0.30%) Redis
12 4 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.24%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.24%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.24%) PowerPivot
13 3 (0.18%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 265 (15.67%) JIRA
2 79 (4.67%) Git
3 22 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.06%) GitLab
5 5 (0.30%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.24%) Flyway
7 3 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.18%) Selenium
8 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.12%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.12%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.12%) JUnit
8 2 (0.12%) Postman
8 2 (0.12%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.12%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.059%) Chocolatey
9 1 (0.059%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.059%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.059%) TestRail
General
1 543 (32.11%) Social Skills
2 310 (18.33%) Finance
3 225 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (7.63%) Public Sector
5 91 (5.38%) Banking
6 77 (4.55%) Telecoms
7 57 (3.37%) Organisational Skills
8 51 (3.02%) Legal
9 46 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
10 33 (1.95%) Military
11 23 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (1.06%) French Language
13 18 (1.06%) Manufacturing
13 18 (1.06%) Police
13 18 (1.06%) Retail
14 15 (0.89%) Spanish Language
15 14 (0.83%) Italian Language
16 12 (0.71%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 254 (15.02%) Architect
2 230 (13.60%) Analyst
3 172 (10.17%) Developer
4 161 (9.52%) ServiceNow Architect
5 148 (8.75%) ServiceNow Developer
6 113 (6.68%) Senior
7 96 (5.68%) Consultant
8 94 (5.56%) Support Engineer
9 89 (5.26%) IT Support
10 88 (5.20%) Lead
11 71 (4.20%) Service Analyst
12 67 (3.96%) Business Analyst
13 66 (3.90%) ServiceNow Consultant
14 65 (3.84%) Solutions Architect
15 63 (3.73%) IT Engineer
16 57 (3.37%) Project Manager
17 56 (3.31%) IT Support Engineer
18 44 (2.60%) Technical Architect
19 41 (2.42%) Delivery Manager
20 40 (2.37%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (11.35%) REST
2 119 (7.04%) SOAP
3 33 (1.95%) HTML
3 33 (1.95%) JSON
3 33 (1.95%) OAuth
3 33 (1.95%) SailPoint
4 31 (1.83%) CSS
5 29 (1.71%) LDAP
5 29 (1.71%) Middleware
5 29 (1.71%) Web Services
6 28 (1.66%) XML
7 21 (1.24%) AngularJS
8 18 (1.06%) .NET
9 17 (1.01%) SAML
10 15 (0.89%) Ajax
10 15 (0.89%) OpenID
11 12 (0.71%) Flash
12 11 (0.65%) JDBC
12 11 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
12 11 (0.65%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 244 (14.43%) CMDB
2 141 (8.34%) Onboarding
3 70 (4.14%) Product Ownership
4 49 (2.90%) Data Centre
5 43 (2.54%) Enterprise Software
6 42 (2.48%) Management Information System
7 40 (2.37%) Cloud Native
8 31 (1.83%) Replication
9 29 (1.71%) Security Posture
10 25 (1.48%) Self-Motivation
11 24 (1.42%) PKI
12 22 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
13 20 (1.18%) AI Agents
14 19 (1.12%) Clustering
14 19 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
14 19 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
15 17 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (1.01%) Data Structures
16 16 (0.95%) Virtual Team
17 15 (0.89%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 271 (16.03%) Windows
2 96 (5.68%) Windows 10
3 91 (5.38%) Linux
4 45 (2.66%) Mac OS
5 44 (2.60%) Windows Server
6 34 (2.01%) Apple iOS
7 25 (1.48%) Unix
8 24 (1.42%) Android
9 18 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 8 (0.47%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.24%) VMS
13 3 (0.18%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.18%) zOS
14 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.059%) MVS
15 1 (0.059%) SUSE
15 1 (0.059%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 647 (38.26%) ITSM
2 521 (30.81%) ITIL
3 337 (19.93%) Service Management
4 329 (19.46%) Agile
5 308 (18.21%) Problem-Solving
6 292 (17.27%) Stakeholder Management
7 255 (15.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 202 (11.95%) Change Management
9 196 (11.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 186 (11.00%) AI
11 185 (10.94%) Customer Service
11 185 (10.94%) DevOps
12 172 (10.17%) Service Delivery
13 151 (8.93%) Roadmaps
14 150 (8.87%) Migration
15 146 (8.63%) Workflow
16 129 (7.63%) Incident Management
17 127 (7.51%) Data Modelling
18 120 (7.10%) CI/CD
19 116 (6.86%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 121 (7.16%) SQL
2 118 (6.98%) PowerShell
3 117 (6.92%) JavaScript
4 104 (6.15%) Python
5 52 (3.08%) Java
6 32 (1.89%) C#
7 19 (1.12%) Bash
8 10 (0.59%) Groovy
8 10 (0.59%) VBScript
9 9 (0.53%) PL/SQL
9 9 (0.53%) T-SQL
10 7 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 7 (0.41%) TypeScript
10 7 (0.41%) VB
11 5 (0.30%) Perl
11 5 (0.30%) Shell Script
12 4 (0.24%) BeanShell
12 4 (0.24%) Bicep
13 3 (0.18%) C++
13 3 (0.18%) JCL
Qualifications
1 472 (27.91%) Security Cleared
2 332 (19.63%) SC Cleared
3 126 (7.45%) Degree
4 101 (5.97%) DV Cleared
5 46 (2.72%) PMP
6 43 (2.54%) ITIL Certification
7 38 (2.25%) Cisco Certification
7 38 (2.25%) PMI Certification
8 34 (2.01%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (1.95%) CISSP
10 28 (1.66%) CCNP
11 26 (1.54%) CISM
12 24 (1.42%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (1.18%) CCNA
14 18 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
15 15 (0.89%) A+ Certification
15 15 (0.89%) Azure Certification
15 15 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 15 (0.89%) Server+ Certification
16 13 (0.77%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (5.32%) SLA
2 74 (4.38%) Data Quality
3 55 (3.25%) GRC
4 47 (2.78%) QA
5 44 (2.60%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (2.19%) NIST
7 34 (2.01%) GDPR
8 32 (1.89%) PMO
9 17 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.77%) NCSC
11 12 (0.71%) COBIT
11 12 (0.71%) ISO 9001
12 11 (0.65%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.35%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.30%) PCI DSS
16 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 4 (0.24%) GxP
17 3 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 211 (12.48%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.36%) Docker
4 18 (1.06%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.83%) IAG
7 13 (0.77%) NFS
7 13 (0.77%) vSphere
8 12 (0.71%) GPFS
9 9 (0.53%) BitLocker
10 7 (0.41%) Firmware
10 7 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 2 (0.12%) RACF
13 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 69 (4.08%) Terraform
2 65 (3.84%) Microsoft Intune
3 51 (3.02%) SCCM
4 42 (2.48%) Ansible
5 31 (1.83%) Grafana
6 28 (1.66%) Kubernetes
7 26 (1.54%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.24%) Prometheus
9 19 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (0.71%) WMI
11 11 (0.65%) SCOM
12 10 (0.59%) vRealize
13 8 (0.47%) RSA Archer
14 7 (0.41%) CASB
14 7 (0.41%) vCenter Server
15 6 (0.35%) VxRail
16 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 4 (0.24%) Packer
16 4 (0.24%) PingFederate
16 4 (0.24%) QRadar
Vendors
1 381 (22.53%) Microsoft
2 85 (5.03%) Cisco
3 76 (4.49%) Remedy
4 69 (4.08%) SAP
5 68 (4.02%) Splunk
6 58 (3.43%) Oracle
7 44 (2.60%) Salesforce
8 42 (2.48%) VMware
9 36 (2.13%) CyberArk
10 32 (1.89%) Workday
11 30 (1.77%) BMC
11 30 (1.77%) Fortinet
12 29 (1.71%) Apple
13 28 (1.66%) Dynatrace
14 25 (1.48%) Palo Alto
15 21 (1.24%) Snow
15 21 (1.24%) SolarWinds
16 19 (1.12%) F5
16 19 (1.12%) Google
16 19 (1.12%) Qualys