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 30 May 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
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 66 88
Rank change year-on-year -1 +22 +13
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,419 877 930
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.38% 3.65% 2.53%
As % of the Vendors category 8.25% 7.67% 6.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 971 535 538
10th Percentile £213 £213 £165
25th Percentile £400 £313 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £592 £599
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £480 £500
% change year-on-year +4.17% -4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 67 107
10th Percentile £16.31 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £14.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +33.63% +15.46% -34.80%
75th Percentile £44.86 £25.00 £21.37
90th Percentile £85.80 £51.50 £26.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £17.45 £16.30
% change year-on-year +44.17% +7.02% -36.70%

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 17,195 11,438 15,403
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.93% 47.61% 41.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,072 7,319 9,821
10th Percentile £313 £280 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £520 £518
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% +0.48% -3.09%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £515
% change year-on-year -1.96% -0.97% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 924 482 1,026
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.66 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.75 £22.90
Median % change year-on-year +21.50% +16.82% -42.10%
75th Percentile £60.00 £53.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £77.28 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.45% +13.33% -47.67%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +12 627 £525 - 110
North of England -10 277 £515 +28.46% 63
South East -7 211 £500 +42.86% 80
Midlands +6 166 £420 -23.64% 34
North West -8 144 £458 -7.95% 43
Yorkshire -17 122 £525 +31.25% 17
West Midlands -16 119 £438 -20.45% 19
East of England -30 63 £525 +17.58% 23
South West -39 41 £475 +90.00% 12
East Midlands +10 40 £340 -33.66% 15
North East -15 15 £450 +50.00% 3
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 (5.50%) Confluence
2 53 (3.74%) SharePoint
3 49 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.85%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.49%) Apache
6 4 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.21%) Appian
7 3 (0.21%) CMS
7 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.14%) Camunda
8 2 (0.14%) IIS
8 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.14%) SAS
8 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.070%) CICS
9 1 (0.070%) Drupal
9 1 (0.070%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.070%) Tomcat
Applications
1 66 (4.65%) Microsoft Office
2 62 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 29 (2.04%) Microsoft Project
4 28 (1.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (0.70%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.28%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.28%) Revit
8 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.070%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.070%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 57 (4.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.21%) Maximo
5 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.14%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.14%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.070%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.070%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.070%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.070%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.070%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.070%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 291 (20.51%) Azure
2 203 (14.31%) AWS
3 154 (10.85%) Microsoft 365
4 116 (8.17%) Entra ID
5 95 (6.69%) Power Platform
6 64 (4.51%) GCP
6 64 (4.51%) SaaS
7 57 (4.02%) Azure DevOps
8 27 (1.90%) OneDrive
9 19 (1.34%) Microsoft Copilot
10 17 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 17 (1.20%) GitHub
11 16 (1.13%) Power Automate
12 15 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (1.06%) Amazon S3
12 15 (1.06%) Slack
12 15 (1.06%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 14 (0.99%) AWS KMS
14 13 (0.92%) Datadog
14 13 (0.92%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 77 (5.43%) DNS
2 68 (4.79%) DHCP
3 67 (4.72%) Firewall
4 52 (3.66%) VPN
5 39 (2.75%) Wireless
6 35 (2.47%) LAN
7 34 (2.40%) Network Security
7 34 (2.40%) WAN
8 25 (1.76%) Wi-Fi
9 24 (1.69%) TCP/IP
10 22 (1.55%) VLAN
11 20 (1.41%) SAN
12 19 (1.34%) NAS
13 16 (1.13%) SSL
14 15 (1.06%) Cisco IOS
14 15 (1.06%) NX-OS
14 15 (1.06%) SD-WAN
14 15 (1.06%) Structured Cabling
15 14 (0.99%) Internet
16 12 (0.85%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (5.57%) Power BI
2 41 (2.89%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (0.99%) Metadata
7 10 (0.70%) MongoDB
7 10 (0.70%) Power Query
8 9 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (0.63%) Tableau
9 7 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.49%) MySQL
9 7 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.42%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.42%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.28%) DB2
12 4 (0.28%) Neo4j
12 4 (0.28%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 248 (17.48%) JIRA
2 69 (4.86%) Git
3 35 (2.47%) Jenkins
4 33 (2.33%) GitLab
5 16 (1.13%) Selenium
6 13 (0.92%) Postman
6 13 (0.92%) REST Assured
7 12 (0.85%) Cucumber
8 7 (0.49%) TestRail
9 5 (0.35%) JMeter
9 5 (0.35%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.28%) Flyway
10 4 (0.28%) Gatling
10 4 (0.28%) NeoLoad
11 3 (0.21%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.21%) JUnit
12 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
12 2 (0.14%) Robot Framework
12 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
12 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 431 (30.37%) Social Skills
2 273 (19.24%) Finance
3 163 (11.49%) Analytical Skills
4 114 (8.03%) Public Sector
5 80 (5.64%) Banking
6 56 (3.95%) Telecoms
7 55 (3.88%) Organisational Skills
8 45 (3.17%) Legal
9 43 (3.03%) Documentation Skills
10 38 (2.68%) Military
11 20 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 18 (1.27%) Retail
13 17 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.13%) Billing
14 16 (1.13%) Influencing Skills
15 13 (0.92%) French Language
16 11 (0.78%) Manufacturing
17 10 (0.70%) Financial Institution
17 10 (0.70%) Law
18 9 (0.63%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 262 (18.46%) Architect
2 185 (13.04%) Analyst
3 153 (10.78%) ServiceNow Architect
4 126 (8.88%) Developer
5 105 (7.40%) ServiceNow Developer
6 88 (6.20%) Senior
7 75 (5.29%) IT Support
8 74 (5.21%) Support Engineer
9 70 (4.93%) Lead
10 65 (4.58%) Consultant
11 63 (4.44%) Solutions Architect
12 55 (3.88%) Project Manager
13 52 (3.66%) Business Analyst
14 47 (3.31%) IT Engineer
15 45 (3.17%) Service Analyst
16 44 (3.10%) IT Support Engineer
16 44 (3.10%) ServiceNow Manager
17 40 (2.82%) ServiceNow Consultant
17 40 (2.82%) Technical Architect
18 37 (2.61%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (12.47%) REST
2 103 (7.26%) SOAP
3 40 (2.82%) SailPoint
4 38 (2.68%) LDAP
5 31 (2.18%) Middleware
5 31 (2.18%) OpenID
6 29 (2.04%) CSS
7 28 (1.97%) HTML
8 25 (1.76%) JSON
9 24 (1.69%) OAuth
10 23 (1.62%) Web Services
11 21 (1.48%) AngularJS
12 20 (1.41%) Flash
13 19 (1.34%) XML
14 18 (1.27%) .NET
14 18 (1.27%) SAML
15 11 (0.78%) JDBC
15 11 (0.78%) Kafka
15 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
16 10 (0.70%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 180 (12.68%) CMDB
2 110 (7.75%) Onboarding
3 77 (5.43%) Product Ownership
4 45 (3.17%) Data Centre
5 36 (2.54%) Management Information System
6 33 (2.33%) Replication
7 29 (2.04%) Cloud Native
8 25 (1.76%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (1.76%) Security Posture
9 20 (1.41%) Linux Command Line
9 20 (1.41%) PKI
10 18 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (1.20%) Virtual Team
12 16 (1.13%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.06%) AI Agents
14 14 (0.99%) Data Protection Act
15 13 (0.92%) Clustering
15 13 (0.92%) Legacy Systems
16 10 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
16 10 (0.70%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 229 (16.14%) Windows
2 88 (6.20%) Windows 10
3 79 (5.57%) Linux
4 37 (2.61%) Windows Server
5 34 (2.40%) Mac OS
6 28 (1.97%) Unix
7 24 (1.69%) Apple iOS
8 20 (1.41%) Android
9 12 (0.85%) Windows 7
10 9 (0.63%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
11 4 (0.28%) zOS
12 3 (0.21%) VMS
13 1 (0.070%) MVS
13 1 (0.070%) SUSE
13 1 (0.070%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.070%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 496 (34.95%) ITSM
2 380 (26.78%) ITIL
3 305 (21.49%) Agile
4 244 (17.20%) Service Management
5 215 (15.15%) Problem-Solving
6 205 (14.45%) Stakeholder Management
7 195 (13.74%) Continuous Improvement
8 165 (11.63%) DevOps
9 164 (11.56%) Change Management
10 155 (10.92%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 143 (10.08%) Customer Service
12 137 (9.65%) Migration
13 130 (9.16%) Service Delivery
14 126 (8.88%) Roadmaps
15 125 (8.81%) AI
16 123 (8.67%) CI/CD
17 120 (8.46%) Workflow
18 114 (8.03%) Data Modelling
19 104 (7.33%) Asset Management
20 100 (7.05%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 128 (9.02%) SQL
2 104 (7.33%) JavaScript
3 90 (6.34%) Python
4 89 (6.27%) PowerShell
5 73 (5.14%) Java
6 30 (2.11%) C#
7 13 (0.92%) Bash
7 13 (0.92%) VB
7 13 (0.92%) VBScript
8 11 (0.78%) TypeScript
9 10 (0.70%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.56%) Groovy
11 7 (0.49%) Perl
12 6 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.42%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.35%) BeanShell
13 5 (0.35%) Go
13 5 (0.35%) PHP
14 4 (0.28%) JCL
14 4 (0.28%) REXX
Qualifications
1 372 (26.22%) Security Cleared
2 267 (18.82%) SC Cleared
3 105 (7.40%) Degree
4 68 (4.79%) DV Cleared
5 41 (2.89%) Cisco Certification
6 33 (2.33%) ITIL Certification
6 33 (2.33%) PMP
7 31 (2.18%) CCNP
8 29 (2.04%) CISSP
8 29 (2.04%) PMI Certification
9 22 (1.55%) CISM
10 21 (1.48%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (1.41%) CCNA
12 15 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
12 15 (1.06%) Server+ Certification
13 13 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.70%) AWS Certification
15 10 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 8 (0.56%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (5.50%) SLA
2 61 (4.30%) Data Quality
3 46 (3.24%) GRC
4 44 (3.10%) QA
5 40 (2.82%) GDPR
6 33 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (2.18%) NIST
8 26 (1.83%) PMO
9 21 (1.48%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.78%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.56%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.49%) COBIT
14 6 (0.42%) PCI DSS
15 4 (0.28%) GxP
15 4 (0.28%) NCSC
16 3 (0.21%) NIST 800
16 3 (0.21%) SOC 2
17 2 (0.14%) ISO 22301
17 2 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 167 (11.77%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.48%) NFS
4 20 (1.41%) GPFS
5 19 (1.34%) Docker
6 16 (1.13%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (1.13%) vSphere
7 12 (0.85%) BitLocker
8 7 (0.49%) Firmware
8 7 (0.49%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.28%) IAG
10 4 (0.28%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.28%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.14%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 2 (0.14%) RACF
11 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.070%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 57 (4.02%) Terraform
2 43 (3.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 43 (3.03%) SCCM
3 31 (2.18%) Ansible
4 25 (1.76%) Grafana
5 21 (1.48%) Kubernetes
6 19 (1.34%) Prometheus
7 17 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (1.13%) vRealize
9 11 (0.78%) Jamf Pro
10 8 (0.56%) VxRail
11 7 (0.49%) CASB
11 7 (0.49%) RSA Archer
11 7 (0.49%) WMI
12 6 (0.42%) OPNET
13 5 (0.35%) QRadar
13 5 (0.35%) Salt
14 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.28%) Pingdom
14 4 (0.28%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 271 (19.10%) Microsoft
2 97 (6.84%) Cisco
3 79 (5.57%) Remedy
4 61 (4.30%) SAP
5 52 (3.66%) Oracle
6 51 (3.59%) Splunk
7 45 (3.17%) VMware
8 37 (2.61%) Workday
9 34 (2.40%) Salesforce
10 31 (2.18%) BMC
10 31 (2.18%) IBM
11 28 (1.97%) Palo Alto
12 26 (1.83%) Fortinet
13 25 (1.76%) Google
14 24 (1.69%) Apple
14 24 (1.69%) CyberArk
15 23 (1.62%) F5
16 20 (1.41%) Snow
16 20 (1.41%) Zscaler
17 18 (1.27%) Bomgar