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 10 April 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
10 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 67 78
Rank change year-on-year +2 +11 +28
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,390 836 998
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.54% 3.43% 2.66%
As % of the Vendors category 8.21% 7.26% 6.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 948 512 582
10th Percentile £213 £208 £163
25th Percentile £400 £353 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £715
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £508
% change year-on-year - -1.48% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 42 97
10th Percentile £16.02 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £17.69 £15.58 £16.06
Median hourly rate £20.01 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% +15.46% -11.89%
75th Percentile £83.75 £21.81 £21.37
90th Percentile £98.00 £30.61 £30.10
UK median hourly rate £20.01 £21.46 £16.30
% change year-on-year -6.76% +31.66% -11.70%

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 16,929 11,516 15,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.16% 47.30% 42.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,058 7,485 10,120
10th Percentile £313 £296 £255
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.53% -0.39% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 877 426 971
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.99 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.50 £14.27
Median hourly rate £27.50 £28.88 £23.22
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +24.38% -38.91%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.63 £55.68
90th Percentile £77.80 £80.67 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £28.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -0.21% +24.44% -46.17%

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 10 April 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 10 April 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 10 April 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 -4 599 £500 -4.76% 126
North of England +5 238 £515 +28.75% 43
South East +17 209 £475 +13.30% 92
Midlands +5 176 £424 -21.44% 29
West Midlands -9 135 £425 -22.87% 17
North West +7 128 £450 +11.11% 24
Yorkshire +4 99 £545 +34.57% 17
East of England -17 70 £525 +18.51% 14
South West +3 66 £725 +31.82% 14
East Midlands -10 34 £400 -4.48% 12
North East -9 14 £450 +50.00% 2
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 93 (6.69%) Confluence
2 67 (4.82%) SharePoint
3 55 (3.96%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.65%) Skype for Business
5 8 (0.58%) Apache
6 6 (0.43%) Appian
6 6 (0.43%) Camunda
7 5 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.29%) SAS
9 3 (0.22%) CICS
9 3 (0.22%) CMS
10 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.14%) IIS
10 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.14%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.072%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
Applications
1 77 (5.54%) Microsoft Office
2 62 (4.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (4.46%) Microsoft Project
3 16 (1.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 16 (1.15%) MS Visio
4 4 (0.29%) Chatbot
4 4 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
5 3 (0.22%) Trello
6 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
6 2 (0.14%) Revit
7 1 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 1 (0.072%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 45 (3.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (1.01%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.65%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 9 (0.65%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.50%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
6 4 (0.29%) Maximo
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.22%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.14%) Actimize
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.14%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.14%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.072%) SAP CS
9 1 (0.072%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.072%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 270 (19.42%) Azure
2 183 (13.17%) AWS
3 165 (11.87%) Microsoft 365
4 121 (8.71%) Entra ID
5 91 (6.55%) Power Platform
6 72 (5.18%) SaaS
7 60 (4.32%) GCP
8 55 (3.96%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (1.87%) OneDrive
10 21 (1.51%) Power Automate
11 19 (1.37%) GitHub
12 15 (1.08%) Serverless
13 14 (1.01%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
14 13 (0.94%) Amazon S3
15 12 (0.86%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (0.79%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (0.79%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (0.79%) Azure Monitor
17 10 (0.72%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (4.60%) DNS
2 51 (3.67%) DHCP
3 49 (3.53%) Firewall
3 49 (3.53%) VPN
4 41 (2.95%) Wireless
5 33 (2.37%) WAN
6 32 (2.30%) LAN
7 29 (2.09%) Network Security
8 26 (1.87%) Wi-Fi
9 18 (1.29%) TCP/IP
10 16 (1.15%) VLAN
11 14 (1.01%) Internet
12 12 (0.86%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.79%) BGP
13 11 (0.79%) SSL
14 10 (0.72%) BIG-IP
14 10 (0.72%) NAS
14 10 (0.72%) NX-OS
14 10 (0.72%) SAN
15 9 (0.65%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (5.68%) Power BI
2 39 (2.81%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.80%) Metadata
4 19 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (1.29%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (1.29%) Tableau
6 17 (1.22%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (0.79%) MySQL
9 9 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (0.65%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.58%) Power Query
10 8 (0.58%) Relational Database
11 7 (0.50%) DB2
12 6 (0.43%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (0.36%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.36%) Redis
14 4 (0.29%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 254 (18.27%) JIRA
2 57 (4.10%) Git
3 37 (2.66%) Jenkins
4 30 (2.16%) GitLab
5 17 (1.22%) Selenium
6 14 (1.01%) REST Assured
7 13 (0.94%) Postman
8 12 (0.86%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.58%) TestRail
10 5 (0.36%) JMeter
10 5 (0.36%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.29%) Android Studio
11 4 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
11 4 (0.29%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.29%) Gatling
11 4 (0.29%) JUnit
11 4 (0.29%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.29%) Xcode
12 3 (0.22%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 442 (31.80%) Social Skills
2 284 (20.43%) Finance
3 189 (13.60%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (7.99%) Public Sector
5 85 (6.12%) Banking
6 63 (4.53%) Military
7 54 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
8 49 (3.53%) Telecoms
9 45 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
9 45 (3.24%) Legal
10 21 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (1.29%) Retail
12 17 (1.22%) Billing
13 14 (1.01%) Financial Institution
14 13 (0.94%) Law
14 13 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
15 10 (0.72%) Aerospace
15 10 (0.72%) Manufacturing
16 7 (0.50%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 258 (18.56%) Architect
2 192 (13.81%) Analyst
3 139 (10.00%) ServiceNow Architect
4 117 (8.42%) Developer
5 92 (6.62%) ServiceNow Developer
6 81 (5.83%) Lead
7 80 (5.76%) IT Support
7 80 (5.76%) Support Engineer
8 79 (5.68%) Consultant
9 70 (5.04%) Senior
10 52 (3.74%) Business Analyst
11 51 (3.67%) Project Manager
12 49 (3.53%) IT Engineer
13 45 (3.24%) IT Support Engineer
14 44 (3.17%) ServiceNow Manager
15 42 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
16 39 (2.81%) Service Analyst
17 37 (2.66%) Administrator
17 37 (2.66%) Technical Architect
18 36 (2.59%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 150 (10.79%) REST
2 97 (6.98%) SOAP
3 44 (3.17%) SailPoint
4 31 (2.23%) LDAP
5 27 (1.94%) OpenID
6 26 (1.87%) CSS
7 24 (1.73%) AngularJS
8 21 (1.51%) Middleware
9 20 (1.44%) Flash
9 20 (1.44%) OAuth
10 19 (1.37%) .NET
10 19 (1.37%) HTML
10 19 (1.37%) JSON
11 16 (1.15%) XML
12 15 (1.08%) Web Services
13 14 (1.01%) SAML
14 13 (0.94%) Kafka
15 12 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
16 10 (0.72%) ADO
17 9 (0.65%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 165 (11.87%) CMDB
2 109 (7.84%) Onboarding
3 97 (6.98%) Product Ownership
4 36 (2.59%) Data Centre
5 33 (2.37%) Management Information System
6 32 (2.30%) Replication
7 25 (1.80%) Security Posture
8 24 (1.73%) Cloud Native
9 22 (1.58%) Self-Motivation
10 20 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
11 17 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (1.15%) Virtual Team
13 15 (1.08%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.08%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (0.94%) Mainframe
14 13 (0.94%) PKI
15 9 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
15 9 (0.65%) Clustering
15 9 (0.65%) Driving Licence
15 9 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 221 (15.90%) Windows
2 91 (6.55%) Windows 10
3 61 (4.39%) Linux
4 34 (2.45%) Windows Server
5 28 (2.01%) Mac OS
6 27 (1.94%) Android
7 25 (1.80%) Unix
8 20 (1.44%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.65%) Windows 7
10 8 (0.58%) zOS
11 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
12 4 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.072%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.072%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.072%) MVS
13 1 (0.072%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.072%) VMS
13 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (33.02%) ITSM
2 368 (26.47%) ITIL
3 329 (23.67%) Agile
4 255 (18.35%) Service Management
5 205 (14.75%) Problem-Solving
6 201 (14.46%) Stakeholder Management
7 189 (13.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 168 (12.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 166 (11.94%) Change Management
10 150 (10.79%) DevOps
11 127 (9.14%) Customer Service
11 127 (9.14%) Migration
12 122 (8.78%) CI/CD
13 118 (8.49%) Data Modelling
14 116 (8.35%) Service Delivery
15 111 (7.99%) Roadmaps
16 110 (7.91%) Project Management
17 102 (7.34%) Workflow
18 98 (7.05%) AI
19 94 (6.76%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 122 (8.78%) SQL
2 93 (6.69%) JavaScript
3 86 (6.19%) Python
4 72 (5.18%) PowerShell
5 69 (4.96%) Java
6 24 (1.73%) C#
7 15 (1.08%) TypeScript
8 12 (0.86%) Bash
9 11 (0.79%) PL/SQL
9 11 (0.79%) VB
10 9 (0.65%) Perl
10 9 (0.65%) VBScript
11 8 (0.58%) ABAP
11 8 (0.58%) JCL
11 8 (0.58%) REXX
12 7 (0.50%) BeanShell
12 7 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.43%) Groovy
13 6 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 378 (27.19%) Security Cleared
2 279 (20.07%) SC Cleared
3 123 (8.85%) Degree
4 58 (4.17%) DV Cleared
5 32 (2.30%) Cisco Certification
5 32 (2.30%) PMP
6 30 (2.16%) TOGAF Certification
7 29 (2.09%) ITIL Certification
7 29 (2.09%) PMI Certification
8 26 (1.87%) CISSP
9 23 (1.65%) CCNP
10 22 (1.58%) CISM
11 17 (1.22%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (0.86%) CCNA
13 12 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
14 8 (0.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 8 (0.58%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.43%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (4.68%) SLA
2 62 (4.46%) Data Quality
3 52 (3.74%) QA
4 50 (3.60%) GRC
5 48 (3.45%) GDPR
6 34 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 29 (2.09%) NIST
8 23 (1.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 20 (1.44%) PMO
10 10 (0.72%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.43%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.29%) GxP
12 4 (0.29%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.22%) COBIT
13 3 (0.22%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.22%) NCSC
13 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.14%) MiFID
System Software
1 174 (12.52%) Active Directory
2 36 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.44%) GPFS
3 20 (1.44%) NFS
4 18 (1.29%) vSphere
5 17 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (0.79%) Docker
7 9 (0.65%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.29%) Firmware
9 4 (0.29%) IAG
9 4 (0.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 3 (0.22%) RACF
10 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.072%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 52 (3.74%) Terraform
2 49 (3.53%) SCCM
3 36 (2.59%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (2.23%) Ansible
5 30 (2.16%) OPNET
6 22 (1.58%) Grafana
7 18 (1.29%) Kubernetes
8 17 (1.22%) Prometheus
8 17 (1.22%) vRealize
9 13 (0.94%) RSA Archer
10 12 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.50%) CASB
12 7 (0.50%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.36%) Control-M
13 5 (0.36%) QRadar
13 5 (0.36%) Rancher
13 5 (0.36%) Salt
13 5 (0.36%) VxRail
14 4 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 240 (17.27%) Microsoft
2 94 (6.76%) Remedy
3 85 (6.12%) Cisco
4 66 (4.75%) SAP
5 54 (3.88%) Oracle
6 44 (3.17%) Splunk
7 42 (3.02%) Salesforce
7 42 (3.02%) VMware
8 39 (2.81%) Atlassian
8 39 (2.81%) Workday
9 35 (2.52%) IBM
10 25 (1.80%) CyberArk
11 23 (1.65%) Apple
12 22 (1.58%) Google
12 22 (1.58%) Zscaler
13 21 (1.51%) Fortinet
14 20 (1.44%) BMC
14 20 (1.44%) Palo Alto
15 19 (1.37%) Snow
16 17 (1.22%) Dynatrace