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 17 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
17 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 69 75
Rank change year-on-year +13 +6 +3
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,762 1,020 929
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.86% 3.67% 2.80%
As % of the Vendors category 9.27% 7.77% 6.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,134 637 570
10th Percentile £218 £217 £213
25th Percentile £400 £315 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £579
90th Percentile £698 £660 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £505
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.94% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 84 75
10th Percentile £16.43 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £26.66 £18.82 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.66% +15.82% -21.04%
75th Percentile £67.47 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.70 £63.28 £24.67
UK median hourly rate £26.33 £17.87 £16.25
% change year-on-year +47.34% +9.97% -20.46%

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 19,010 13,120 14,475
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.60% 47.20% 43.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,979 8,297 9,243
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £613 £619 £628
90th Percentile £700 £716 £734
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,031 644 741
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.25 £17.73 £15.62
Median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.11% -16.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.38 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.36 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +28.68% -10.18% -30.86%

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 17 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 17 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 17 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 +24 772 £525 +5.00% 278
South East +16 351 £550 +37.50% 85
North of England -3 350 £459 -6.80% 93
North West +1 227 £400 -21.88% 71
Midlands +4 141 £425 -10.53% 41
West Midlands -9 113 £425 -10.53% 36
Yorkshire -16 112 £502 +25.50% 17
East of England -33 57 £518 +15.00% 10
South West -50 54 £463 +38.06% 42
East Midlands -6 23 £413 - 6
North East -30 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 (6.07%) SharePoint
2 85 (4.82%) Confluence
3 46 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.91%) Skype for Business
5 9 (0.51%) Apache
5 9 (0.51%) nginx
6 4 (0.23%) CMS
7 3 (0.17%) IIS
7 3 (0.17%) Mendix
8 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.11%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.11%) SAS
8 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.057%) Appian
9 1 (0.057%) Drupal
9 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.057%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 82 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
2 81 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (1.14%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.57%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.45%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.45%) Revit
8 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.057%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.057%) LaTeX
9 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 66 (3.75%) 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
6 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.11%) Eloqua
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 (0.057%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.057%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.057%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.057%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.057%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 372 (21.11%) Azure
2 237 (13.45%) AWS
3 236 (13.39%) Microsoft 365
4 138 (7.83%) Power Platform
5 136 (7.72%) Entra ID
6 102 (5.79%) SaaS
7 64 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (3.01%) GCP
9 41 (2.33%) OneDrive
10 40 (2.27%) GitHub
11 29 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
12 28 (1.59%) Datadog
13 27 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
14 23 (1.31%) Power Automate
15 21 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 21 (1.19%) Serverless
16 18 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
17 17 (0.96%) Amazon S3
18 16 (0.91%) PowerApps
19 15 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 90 (5.11%) DNS
2 80 (4.54%) DHCP
3 67 (3.80%) Firewall
4 61 (3.46%) VPN
5 49 (2.78%) TCP/IP
6 36 (2.04%) Wireless
7 32 (1.82%) Network Security
8 28 (1.59%) VLAN
8 28 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
9 26 (1.48%) SSL
9 26 (1.48%) WAN
10 23 (1.31%) LAN
11 21 (1.19%) NX-OS
12 19 (1.08%) SAN
13 18 (1.02%) NAS
14 17 (0.96%) Skype
14 17 (0.96%) SSH
15 16 (0.91%) BGP
15 16 (0.91%) Cisco IOS
16 14 (0.79%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (5.90%) Power BI
2 52 (2.95%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (0.79%) 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%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.34%) Tableau
11 5 (0.28%) Metadata
11 5 (0.28%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.28%) Redis
12 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.23%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 261 (14.81%) JIRA
2 78 (4.43%) Git
3 27 (1.53%) GitLab
4 25 (1.42%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.45%) 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%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.057%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.057%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.057%) Postman
General
1 570 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 342 (19.41%) Finance
3 240 (13.62%) Analytical Skills
4 142 (8.06%) Public Sector
5 95 (5.39%) Banking
6 81 (4.60%) Telecoms
7 53 (3.01%) Legal
8 50 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
9 49 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
10 27 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
10 27 (1.53%) Manufacturing
11 24 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (1.19%) Military
13 19 (1.08%) Spanish Language
14 18 (1.02%) Police
15 17 (0.96%) French Language
15 17 (0.96%) Italian Language
15 17 (0.96%) Retail
16 16 (0.91%) Law
17 14 (0.79%) Billing
Job Titles
1 255 (14.47%) Architect
2 244 (13.85%) Analyst
3 190 (10.78%) Developer
4 163 (9.25%) ServiceNow Developer
5 150 (8.51%) ServiceNow Architect
6 130 (7.38%) Senior
7 109 (6.19%) Consultant
8 108 (6.13%) Support Engineer
9 96 (5.45%) IT Support
10 92 (5.22%) Lead
11 75 (4.26%) Service Analyst
12 71 (4.03%) IT Engineer
13 70 (3.97%) Business Analyst
14 67 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
15 62 (3.52%) IT Support Engineer
16 60 (3.41%) Project Manager
17 59 (3.35%) ServiceNow Consultant
18 43 (2.44%) Technical Architect
19 42 (2.38%) IT Manager
20 39 (2.21%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (11.58%) REST
2 117 (6.64%) SOAP
3 47 (2.67%) JSON
4 35 (1.99%) HTML
5 34 (1.93%) OAuth
5 34 (1.93%) SailPoint
6 33 (1.87%) XML
7 31 (1.76%) 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 (0.79%) OpenID
15 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
16 11 (0.62%) Flash
16 11 (0.62%) JDBC
16 11 (0.62%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 270 (15.32%) CMDB
2 174 (9.88%) Onboarding
3 69 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 58 (3.29%) Enterprise Software
5 55 (3.12%) Data Centre
6 44 (2.50%) Management Information System
7 43 (2.44%) Cloud Native
8 34 (1.93%) Replication
9 27 (1.53%) Security Posture
10 26 (1.48%) PKI
11 24 (1.36%) AI Agents
12 23 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (1.25%) Clustering
13 22 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
14 21 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
15 20 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
16 18 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
16 18 (1.02%) Data Structures
16 18 (1.02%) iPhone
17 15 (0.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 326 (18.50%) Windows
2 111 (6.30%) Windows 10
3 105 (5.96%) Linux
4 51 (2.89%) Windows Server
5 48 (2.72%) Mac OS
6 36 (2.04%) Apple iOS
7 23 (1.31%) Android
8 21 (1.19%) Unix
9 20 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
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 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 691 (39.22%) ITSM
2 568 (32.24%) ITIL
3 377 (21.40%) Service Management
4 332 (18.84%) Agile
5 323 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
6 316 (17.93%) Stakeholder Management
7 270 (15.32%) Continuous Improvement
8 208 (11.80%) Customer Service
9 201 (11.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 198 (11.24%) AI
10 198 (11.24%) Service Delivery
11 197 (11.18%) Change Management
12 195 (11.07%) DevOps
13 170 (9.65%) Roadmaps
14 152 (8.63%) Workflow
15 145 (8.23%) Migration
16 131 (7.43%) CI/CD
17 130 (7.38%) Incident Management
18 127 (7.21%) Data Modelling
19 122 (6.92%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 143 (8.12%) PowerShell
2 119 (6.75%) JavaScript
2 119 (6.75%) Python
3 111 (6.30%) SQL
4 49 (2.78%) Java
5 29 (1.65%) C#
6 22 (1.25%) Bash
7 18 (1.02%) VBScript
8 15 (0.85%) VB
9 13 (0.74%) Groovy
10 11 (0.62%) T-SQL
11 9 (0.51%) TypeScript
12 7 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.34%) Perl
13 6 (0.34%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.28%) BeanShell
14 5 (0.28%) C++
15 4 (0.23%) Bicep
15 4 (0.23%) PL/SQL
16 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 473 (26.84%) Security Cleared
2 333 (18.90%) SC Cleared
3 142 (8.06%) Degree
4 97 (5.51%) DV Cleared
5 44 (2.50%) ITIL Certification
6 43 (2.44%) PMP
7 39 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 36 (2.04%) PMI Certification
9 35 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 27 (1.53%) CISSP
12 26 (1.48%) CCNP
13 24 (1.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 22 (1.25%) CCNA
15 20 (1.14%) A+ Certification
15 20 (1.14%) CISM
16 19 (1.08%) Azure Certification
17 17 (0.96%) Network+ Certification
18 15 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
19 14 (0.79%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (5.56%) SLA
2 83 (4.71%) Data Quality
3 57 (3.23%) GRC
4 50 (2.84%) QA
5 44 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (2.27%) NIST
6 40 (2.27%) PMO
7 29 (1.65%) GDPR
8 19 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (0.85%) COBIT
10 14 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (0.74%) Accessibility
11 13 (0.74%) NCSC
12 12 (0.68%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.45%) GxP
13 8 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.34%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.28%) PCI DSS
16 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 227 (12.88%) Active Directory
2 42 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 30 (1.70%) Docker
4 19 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (0.96%) BitLocker
7 16 (0.91%) IAG
8 13 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.68%) NFS
9 12 (0.68%) vSphere
10 11 (0.62%) GPFS
11 7 (0.40%) Firmware
11 7 (0.40%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 2 (0.11%) RACF
13 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.057%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 77 (4.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 75 (4.26%) Terraform
3 67 (3.80%) SCCM
4 52 (2.95%) Ansible
5 34 (1.93%) Kubernetes
6 29 (1.65%) Grafana
7 24 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
8 19 (1.08%) Prometheus
9 14 (0.79%) SCOM
10 12 (0.68%) WMI
11 10 (0.57%) vRealize
12 9 (0.51%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.40%) CASB
13 7 (0.40%) RSA Archer
14 6 (0.34%) Packer
14 6 (0.34%) VxRail
15 4 (0.23%) CA Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
15 4 (0.23%) SELinux
Vendors
1 461 (26.16%) Microsoft
2 94 (5.33%) Cisco
3 77 (4.37%) Remedy
4 69 (3.92%) SAP
4 69 (3.92%) Splunk
5 68 (3.86%) Oracle
6 61 (3.46%) VMware
7 48 (2.72%) Salesforce
8 46 (2.61%) CyberArk
9 35 (1.99%) Dynatrace
10 33 (1.87%) BMC
11 31 (1.76%) Workday
12 30 (1.70%) Snow
13 29 (1.65%) Apple
14 23 (1.31%) Google
14 23 (1.31%) Palo Alto
14 23 (1.31%) SolarWinds
15 22 (1.25%) iManage
16 21 (1.19%) Adobe
16 21 (1.19%) IBM