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 19 August 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
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 68 74
Rank change year-on-year +12 +6 +7
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,756 1,014 928
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.84% 3.68% 2.79%
As % of the Vendors category 9.22% 7.79% 6.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,127 635 567
10th Percentile £218 £216 £213
25th Percentile £400 £315 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £501
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -5.09% +0.10%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £580
90th Percentile £700 £660 £650
UK median daily rate £501 £475 £505
% change year-on-year +5.53% -5.94% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 75 84 72
10th Percentile £16.10 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.50 £15.81
Median hourly rate £26.00 £18.82 £16.28
Median % change year-on-year +38.15% +15.64% -20.92%
75th Percentile £65.61 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.80 £63.28 £24.92
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £17.87 £16.30
% change year-on-year +45.50% +9.63% -20.22%

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 19,046 13,021 14,531
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.66% 47.21% 43.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,996 8,234 9,236
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £614 £619 £628
90th Percentile £700 £715 £734
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,029 645 729
10th Percentile £14.79 £14.75 £13.65
25th Percentile £18.07 £17.55 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -26.68%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £62.56
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £31.96 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +27.09% -10.18% -31.40%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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 19 August 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 +25 765 £525 +5.00% 270
North of England -4 355 £461 -7.34% 81
South East +15 351 £550 +46.67% 76
North West +1 235 £400 -21.88% 62
Midlands +3 138 £425 -10.53% 37
West Midlands -11 111 £431 -9.26% 32
Yorkshire -16 109 £502 +25.50% 14
East of England -42 55 £510 +13.33% 11
South West -54 55 £463 +40.15% 38
East Midlands -6 22 £413 - 6
North East -26 17 £500 +42.86% 5
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
1 107 (6.09%) SharePoint
2 85 (4.84%) Confluence
3 46 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.91%) Skype for Business
5 9 (0.51%) nginx
6 8 (0.46%) Apache
7 4 (0.23%) CMS
8 3 (0.17%) IIS
8 3 (0.17%) Mendix
9 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.11%) NetWeaver
9 2 (0.11%) SAS
9 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.057%) Drupal
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.057%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 82 (4.67%) Microsoft Office
2 78 (4.44%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (1.14%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.57%) AutoCAD
7 9 (0.51%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.46%) Revit
9 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.057%) LaTeX
10 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 65 (3.70%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.11%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.11%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.057%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.057%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.057%) iTrent
7 1 (0.057%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.057%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.057%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 374 (21.30%) Azure
2 238 (13.55%) AWS
3 237 (13.50%) Microsoft 365
4 138 (7.86%) Power Platform
5 136 (7.74%) Entra ID
6 103 (5.87%) SaaS
7 64 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
8 55 (3.13%) GCP
9 43 (2.45%) GitHub
10 41 (2.33%) OneDrive
11 29 (1.65%) Datadog
11 29 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
12 28 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
13 23 (1.31%) Power Automate
14 22 (1.25%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 21 (1.20%) Serverless
16 18 (1.03%) Amazon EC2
17 17 (0.97%) Amazon S3
18 16 (0.91%) PowerApps
19 15 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 89 (5.07%) DNS
2 80 (4.56%) DHCP
3 66 (3.76%) Firewall
4 60 (3.42%) VPN
5 48 (2.73%) TCP/IP
6 35 (1.99%) Wireless
7 31 (1.77%) Network Security
8 28 (1.59%) VLAN
8 28 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
9 27 (1.54%) WAN
10 26 (1.48%) SSL
11 23 (1.31%) LAN
12 21 (1.20%) NX-OS
13 19 (1.08%) SAN
14 18 (1.03%) NAS
15 17 (0.97%) Skype
15 17 (0.97%) SSH
16 16 (0.91%) BGP
16 16 (0.91%) Cisco IOS
17 14 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (5.92%) Power BI
2 51 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (0.80%) MySQL
7 13 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (0.74%) Power Query
8 9 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.34%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.28%) Metadata
11 5 (0.28%) Redis
11 5 (0.28%) Tableau
12 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.23%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 263 (14.98%) JIRA
2 77 (4.38%) Git
3 29 (1.65%) GitLab
4 26 (1.48%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.23%) Flyway
8 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.17%) MSI
9 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.11%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.11%) Tricentis qTest
9 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.057%) Gatling
10 1 (0.057%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.057%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.057%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.057%) Postman
10 1 (0.057%) TeamCity
General
1 568 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 342 (19.48%) Finance
3 240 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (7.97%) Public Sector
5 94 (5.35%) Banking
6 83 (4.73%) Telecoms
7 53 (3.02%) Legal
8 51 (2.90%) Organisational Skills
9 49 (2.79%) Documentation Skills
10 27 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (1.48%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 19 (1.08%) Military
13 19 (1.08%) Spanish Language
14 18 (1.03%) Police
15 17 (0.97%) French Language
15 17 (0.97%) Italian Language
15 17 (0.97%) Retail
16 16 (0.91%) Law
17 13 (0.74%) Billing
Job Titles
1 251 (14.29%) Architect
2 244 (13.90%) Analyst
3 186 (10.59%) Developer
4 161 (9.17%) ServiceNow Developer
5 145 (8.26%) ServiceNow Architect
6 128 (7.29%) Senior
7 110 (6.26%) Consultant
8 109 (6.21%) Support Engineer
9 97 (5.52%) IT Support
10 91 (5.18%) Lead
11 74 (4.21%) Service Analyst
12 71 (4.04%) IT Engineer
13 69 (3.93%) Business Analyst
14 66 (3.76%) Solutions Architect
15 62 (3.53%) IT Support Engineer
16 60 (3.42%) Project Manager
17 57 (3.25%) ServiceNow Consultant
18 43 (2.45%) Technical Architect
19 39 (2.22%) IT Manager
19 39 (2.22%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (11.62%) REST
2 117 (6.66%) SOAP
3 47 (2.68%) JSON
4 35 (1.99%) HTML
4 35 (1.99%) SailPoint
5 34 (1.94%) OAuth
6 33 (1.88%) XML
7 31 (1.77%) CSS
8 29 (1.65%) Web Services
9 28 (1.59%) Middleware
10 26 (1.48%) LDAP
11 22 (1.25%) .NET
12 20 (1.14%) AngularJS
13 16 (0.91%) Ajax
13 16 (0.91%) SAML
14 14 (0.80%) OpenID
15 12 (0.68%) JDBC
15 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
16 11 (0.63%) Flash
16 11 (0.63%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 276 (15.72%) CMDB
2 175 (9.97%) Onboarding
3 66 (3.76%) Product Ownership
4 59 (3.36%) Enterprise Software
5 55 (3.13%) Data Centre
6 45 (2.56%) Cloud Native
7 43 (2.45%) Management Information System
8 34 (1.94%) Replication
9 27 (1.54%) PKI
10 26 (1.48%) Security Posture
11 24 (1.37%) AI Agents
12 23 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (1.25%) Clustering
13 22 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
14 21 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
15 18 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
15 18 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (1.03%) Data Structures
15 18 (1.03%) iPhone
16 15 (0.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 328 (18.68%) Windows
2 111 (6.32%) Windows 10
3 102 (5.81%) Linux
4 51 (2.90%) Windows Server
5 48 (2.73%) Mac OS
6 36 (2.05%) Apple iOS
7 23 (1.31%) Android
8 20 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 19 (1.08%) Unix
10 16 (0.91%) Windows 7
11 6 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.23%) zOS
13 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.17%) VMS
14 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.057%) CentOS
15 1 (0.057%) MVS
15 1 (0.057%) SUSE
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 688 (39.18%) ITSM
2 563 (32.06%) ITIL
3 376 (21.41%) Service Management
4 332 (18.91%) Agile
5 325 (18.51%) Problem-Solving
6 314 (17.88%) Stakeholder Management
7 269 (15.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 209 (11.90%) Customer Service
9 201 (11.45%) AI
10 198 (11.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 197 (11.22%) DevOps
11 197 (11.22%) Service Delivery
12 195 (11.10%) Change Management
13 173 (9.85%) Roadmaps
14 152 (8.66%) Workflow
15 144 (8.20%) Migration
16 133 (7.57%) CI/CD
17 127 (7.23%) Incident Management
18 124 (7.06%) Data Modelling
19 121 (6.89%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 144 (8.20%) PowerShell
2 119 (6.78%) JavaScript
3 118 (6.72%) Python
4 108 (6.15%) SQL
5 49 (2.79%) Java
6 29 (1.65%) C#
7 22 (1.25%) Bash
8 18 (1.03%) VBScript
9 15 (0.85%) VB
10 13 (0.74%) Groovy
11 10 (0.57%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.51%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.34%) BeanShell
13 6 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.34%) Perl
14 5 (0.28%) C++
14 5 (0.28%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.28%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.23%) Bicep
16 3 (0.17%) JCL
Qualifications
1 467 (26.59%) Security Cleared
2 329 (18.74%) SC Cleared
3 141 (8.03%) Degree
4 95 (5.41%) DV Cleared
5 44 (2.51%) ITIL Certification
6 42 (2.39%) PMP
7 39 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 35 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
9 34 (1.94%) PMI Certification
10 30 (1.71%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (1.48%) CCNP
12 25 (1.42%) CISSP
13 24 (1.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 22 (1.25%) CCNA
15 20 (1.14%) A+ Certification
16 19 (1.08%) Azure Certification
16 19 (1.08%) CISM
17 17 (0.97%) Network+ Certification
18 15 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
19 14 (0.80%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (5.64%) SLA
2 83 (4.73%) Data Quality
3 58 (3.30%) GRC
4 52 (2.96%) QA
5 46 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (2.39%) NIST
7 41 (2.33%) PMO
8 30 (1.71%) GDPR
9 19 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 16 (0.91%) COBIT
11 14 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.80%) NCSC
12 13 (0.74%) Accessibility
13 12 (0.68%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.46%) GxP
14 8 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.34%) HIPAA
16 4 (0.23%) PCI DSS
17 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 228 (12.98%) Active Directory
2 42 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (1.82%) Docker
4 19 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (0.97%) BitLocker
6 17 (0.97%) IAG
7 13 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.68%) NFS
8 12 (0.68%) vSphere
9 11 (0.63%) GPFS
10 7 (0.40%) Firmware
10 7 (0.40%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 2 (0.11%) RACF
12 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 1 (0.057%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 77 (4.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 76 (4.33%) Terraform
3 67 (3.82%) SCCM
4 55 (3.13%) Ansible
5 38 (2.16%) Kubernetes
6 28 (1.59%) Grafana
7 24 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
9 18 (1.03%) Prometheus
10 14 (0.80%) SCOM
11 12 (0.68%) WMI
12 10 (0.57%) vRealize
13 9 (0.51%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.40%) RSA Archer
15 6 (0.34%) CASB
15 6 (0.34%) Packer
15 6 (0.34%) VxRail
16 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 4 (0.23%) CA Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 458 (26.08%) Microsoft
2 93 (5.30%) Cisco
3 73 (4.16%) Remedy
4 69 (3.93%) Oracle
4 69 (3.93%) SAP
5 67 (3.82%) Splunk
6 61 (3.47%) VMware
7 49 (2.79%) Salesforce
8 47 (2.68%) CyberArk
9 36 (2.05%) Dynatrace
10 33 (1.88%) BMC
11 32 (1.82%) Workday
12 30 (1.71%) Snow
13 29 (1.65%) Apple
14 23 (1.31%) Google
14 23 (1.31%) SolarWinds
15 22 (1.25%) iManage
15 22 (1.25%) Palo Alto
16 21 (1.20%) Adobe
16 21 (1.20%) IBM