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 18 November 2025, 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
18 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 70 67
Rank change year-on-year -1 -3 +70
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,080 937 1,253
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.59% 3.05% 3.16%
As % of the Vendors category 7.54% 6.77% 7.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 712 518 832
10th Percentile £204 £220 £170
25th Percentile £320 £360 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £638 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 22 47
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £15.58
25th Percentile £15.81 £19.14 £16.70
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.78 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.34% +8.88% +29.03%
75th Percentile £28.41 £27.61 £31.09
90th Percentile £66.78 £29.90 £64.95
UK median hourly rate £18.82 £22.09 £20.00
% change year-on-year -14.80% +10.45% +29.03%

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 14,322 13,843 17,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.55% 45.12% 44.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,222 8,310 11,734
10th Percentile £286 £300 £255
25th Percentile £405 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 714 430 624
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -22.22% +74.55%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £71.85 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £44.50
% change year-on-year -17.90% -31.57% +74.51%

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025.

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 18 November 2025. 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 -29 416 £489 -6.86% 259
North of England +5 208 £500 - 52
South East +28 151 £405 -11.42% 106
Midlands +2 136 £475 +5.56% 44
North West +9 124 £488 -2.50% 32
West Midlands +6 115 £475 - 35
East of England +25 87 £512 -2.48% 31
Yorkshire -15 75 £533 -0.93% 16
South West +36 69 £445 -11.44% 24
East Midlands -11 21 £438 +4.48% 9
North East -3 9 £350 +133.33% 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 78 (7.22%) Confluence
2 61 (5.65%) SharePoint
3 36 (3.33%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.11%) nginx
5 9 (0.83%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.56%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.37%) Appian
7 4 (0.37%) Camunda
7 4 (0.37%) SAS
8 3 (0.28%) Apache
8 3 (0.28%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.28%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.19%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.19%) IIS
9 2 (0.19%) JBoss
10 1 (0.093%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.093%) CICS
10 1 (0.093%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.093%) Tuxedo
10 1 (0.093%) WebLogic
Applications
1 68 (6.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (6.11%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (3.06%) MS Visio
4 31 (2.87%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (1.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.37%) Autodesk Inventor
8 4 (0.37%) Trello
9 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.093%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 49 (4.54%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (0.83%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.65%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 7 (0.65%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.56%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.19%) assyst
7 2 (0.19%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.19%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.19%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.093%) Actimize
8 1 (0.093%) Maximo
8 1 (0.093%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.093%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.093%) Oracle HRMS
8 1 (0.093%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.093%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 189 (17.50%) Azure
2 163 (15.09%) Microsoft 365
3 131 (12.13%) AWS
4 67 (6.20%) Entra ID
5 66 (6.11%) SaaS
6 54 (5.00%) Power Platform
7 52 (4.81%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (2.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 30 (2.78%) Amazon S3
8 30 (2.78%) OneDrive
9 28 (2.59%) Amazon EC2
10 25 (2.31%) Amazon ELB
10 25 (2.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 24 (2.22%) AWS KMS
12 22 (2.04%) GCP
13 19 (1.76%) Amazon ECS
14 18 (1.67%) Power Automate
14 18 (1.67%) Sauce Labs
15 17 (1.57%) Serverless
16 16 (1.48%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 78 (7.22%) DNS
2 50 (4.63%) Firewall
3 38 (3.52%) Wireless
4 36 (3.33%) DHCP
5 35 (3.24%) VPN
6 32 (2.96%) HTTP
6 32 (2.96%) Wi-Fi
7 25 (2.31%) SMTP
8 24 (2.22%) SSH
9 23 (2.13%) FTP
10 19 (1.76%) LAN
10 19 (1.76%) TCP/IP
10 19 (1.76%) WAN
11 18 (1.67%) SSL
12 14 (1.30%) BGP
12 14 (1.30%) Cisco ISE
13 12 (1.11%) IMAP
13 12 (1.11%) Network Security
13 12 (1.11%) OpenLDAP
14 10 (0.93%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (3.43%) Power BI
2 34 (3.15%) Relational Database
3 31 (2.87%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (1.85%) MySQL
6 15 (1.39%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (1.20%) Tableau
8 12 (1.11%) Metadata
9 8 (0.74%) DynamoDB
9 8 (0.74%) Oracle ODI
10 6 (0.56%) SQL Server
11 5 (0.46%) DB2
12 4 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
13 3 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.28%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.28%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.28%) Redis
13 3 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 218 (20.19%) JIRA
2 48 (4.44%) Git
3 38 (3.52%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.22%) Vagrant
5 19 (1.76%) Browser DevTools
6 18 (1.67%) Android Studio
6 18 (1.67%) Eclipse
6 18 (1.67%) Xcode
7 9 (0.83%) GitLab
8 7 (0.65%) JUnit
9 5 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.46%) Maven
9 5 (0.46%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.37%) Metasploit
11 3 (0.28%) AdminStudio
11 3 (0.28%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.19%) Snyk
12 2 (0.19%) sqlmap
13 1 (0.093%) Postman
13 1 (0.093%) ScriptRunner
General
1 440 (40.74%) Social Skills
2 223 (20.65%) Finance
3 180 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (9.54%) Public Sector
5 39 (3.61%) Banking
6 35 (3.24%) Telecoms
7 31 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
8 29 (2.69%) Legal
8 29 (2.69%) Organisational Skills
9 27 (2.50%) Presentation Skills
10 21 (1.94%) Military
11 20 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (1.85%) Manufacturing
12 15 (1.39%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.11%) Aerospace
14 11 (1.02%) Law
15 10 (0.93%) Marketing
16 9 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.65%) Electronics
17 7 (0.65%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 163 (15.09%) Analyst
2 133 (12.31%) Architect
3 106 (9.81%) Developer
4 100 (9.26%) Support Engineer
5 81 (7.50%) ServiceNow Developer
6 73 (6.76%) Consultant
7 71 (6.57%) ServiceNow Architect
8 69 (6.39%) IT Support
9 49 (4.54%) Senior
10 41 (3.80%) Business Analyst
11 40 (3.70%) Lead
12 37 (3.43%) IT Engineer
12 37 (3.43%) Service Analyst
13 32 (2.96%) DevOps Engineer
14 31 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
15 30 (2.78%) IT Support Engineer
15 30 (2.78%) ServiceNow Consultant
16 29 (2.69%) Service Manager
17 28 (2.59%) Desktop Support
18 26 (2.41%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 91 (8.43%) REST
2 80 (7.41%) SOAP
3 61 (5.65%) AngularJS
4 37 (3.43%) React
5 35 (3.24%) CSS
5 35 (3.24%) LDAP
6 32 (2.96%) Web Services
7 28 (2.59%) HTML
7 28 (2.59%) JSON
8 21 (1.94%) Ajax
9 19 (1.76%) GraphQL
9 19 (1.76%) SAML
10 17 (1.57%) .NET
10 17 (1.57%) SailPoint
11 15 (1.39%) XML
12 14 (1.30%) HTML5
12 14 (1.30%) jQuery
12 14 (1.30%) ODBC
13 13 (1.20%) Apache Camel
13 13 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 107 (9.91%) CMDB
2 44 (4.07%) Onboarding
3 36 (3.33%) Replication
4 33 (3.06%) Data Centre
5 26 (2.41%) Product Ownership
6 25 (2.31%) Management Information System
6 25 (2.31%) Mobile App
7 23 (2.13%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (2.04%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (1.94%) Driving Licence
10 17 (1.57%) Security Posture
10 17 (1.57%) Video Conferencing
11 16 (1.48%) iPhone
12 15 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.20%) Smartphone
14 12 (1.11%) Cloud Native
14 12 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.11%) iPad
14 12 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
14 12 (1.11%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 235 (21.76%) Windows
2 79 (7.31%) Windows 10
3 75 (6.94%) Linux
4 36 (3.33%) Mac OS
5 35 (3.24%) Android
6 30 (2.78%) Apple iOS
7 29 (2.69%) Unix
8 26 (2.41%) VMS
9 24 (2.22%) Amazon Linux
10 14 (1.30%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.74%) Windows Server
12 5 (0.46%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.37%) CentOS
13 4 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.19%) zOS
16 1 (0.093%) Kali Linux
16 1 (0.093%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 373 (34.54%) ITSM
2 262 (24.26%) ITIL
3 246 (22.78%) Agile
4 227 (21.02%) Problem-Solving
5 191 (17.69%) Service Management
6 145 (13.43%) DevOps
7 135 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 135 (12.50%) Stakeholder Management
8 132 (12.22%) Customer Service
9 116 (10.74%) Change Management
10 87 (8.06%) Scrum
11 82 (7.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 81 (7.50%) CI/CD
13 79 (7.31%) Service Delivery
14 69 (6.39%) Roadmaps
15 68 (6.30%) Project Management
16 67 (6.20%) Configuration Management
17 66 (6.11%) Analytics
17 66 (6.11%) Migration
18 64 (5.93%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 128 (11.85%) Python
2 98 (9.07%) JavaScript
3 86 (7.96%) PowerShell
4 71 (6.57%) Java
5 56 (5.19%) SQL
6 41 (3.80%) Perl
7 27 (2.50%) Groovy
8 22 (2.04%) Bash
9 21 (1.94%) TypeScript
10 16 (1.48%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.65%) ABAP
11 7 (0.65%) Lisp
12 6 (0.56%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.56%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.46%) VB
13 5 (0.46%) VBScript
14 4 (0.37%) Go
15 3 (0.28%) BeanShell
15 3 (0.28%) C
15 3 (0.28%) C#
Qualifications
1 291 (26.94%) Security Cleared
2 245 (22.69%) SC Cleared
3 118 (10.93%) Degree
4 24 (2.22%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (2.13%) CISSP
6 22 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.04%) ITIL Certification
6 22 (2.04%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (1.48%) CISM
8 15 (1.39%) A+ Certification
9 14 (1.30%) AWS Certification
9 14 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.30%) CCNP
9 14 (1.30%) DV Cleared
10 13 (1.20%) ACSP
10 13 (1.20%) ACTC
10 13 (1.20%) CISA
11 12 (1.11%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.02%) CCNA
13 10 (0.93%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (4.54%) QA
2 48 (4.44%) GDPR
3 38 (3.52%) SLA
4 29 (2.69%) GRC
5 27 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (2.50%) NIST
6 23 (2.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (1.57%) COBIT
8 15 (1.39%) Accessibility
9 14 (1.30%) PCI DSS
10 13 (1.20%) PMO
11 12 (1.11%) Data Quality
12 8 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 19770
12 8 (0.74%) NIST 800
13 7 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.56%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 3 (0.28%) WCAG
16 2 (0.19%) SOC 2
System Software
1 156 (14.44%) Active Directory
2 39 (3.61%) Docker
3 22 (2.04%) DFS Replication
4 13 (1.20%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.11%) Dovecot
5 12 (1.11%) Postfix
5 12 (1.11%) Squid
5 12 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.93%) vSphere
7 9 (0.83%) GPFS
7 9 (0.83%) NFS
8 6 (0.56%) BitLocker
8 6 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.37%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.28%) Firmware
11 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.093%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 1 (0.093%) RACF
12 1 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 49 (4.54%) SCCM
2 46 (4.26%) Terraform
3 35 (3.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (3.06%) Ansible
5 31 (2.87%) Grafana
6 28 (2.59%) Prometheus
7 27 (2.50%) Jamf Pro
7 27 (2.50%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (1.57%) Nessus
8 17 (1.57%) RSA Archer
9 10 (0.93%) Proxmox
10 9 (0.83%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.83%) OPNET
10 9 (0.83%) vRealize
11 8 (0.74%) Kubernetes
12 4 (0.37%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 3 (0.28%) Nmap
13 3 (0.28%) Rancher
13 3 (0.28%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 287 (26.57%) Microsoft
2 80 (7.41%) Remedy
3 63 (5.83%) Oracle
4 59 (5.46%) Cisco
5 57 (5.28%) SAP
6 43 (3.98%) Splunk
7 37 (3.43%) Salesforce
8 31 (2.87%) Workday
9 28 (2.59%) Apple
10 23 (2.13%) BMC
11 22 (2.04%) VMware
12 21 (1.94%) Google
12 21 (1.94%) HP
12 21 (1.94%) Snow
13 20 (1.85%) IBM
14 15 (1.39%) Citrix
15 14 (1.30%) CheckPoint
15 14 (1.30%) Rapid7
16 13 (1.20%) Ivanti
17 12 (1.11%) Atlassian