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 25 June 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
25 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 66 81
Rank change year-on-year +1 +15 +19
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,546 933 965
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.56% 3.72% 2.58%
As % of the Vendors category 8.75% 7.85% 6.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,041 575 565
10th Percentile £220 £213 £197
25th Percentile £400 £310 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £584 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £510 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 75 106
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £14.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £20.47 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +8.74% +15.46% -34.80%
75th Percentile £35.22 £29.88 £21.37
90th Percentile £85.53 £58.25 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £19.93 £17.45 £16.30
% change year-on-year +14.24% +7.02% -34.80%

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 17,677 11,892 15,872
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.71% 47.37% 42.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,296 7,560 10,061
10th Percentile £313 £280 £273
25th Percentile £413 £402 £412
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £520
% change year-on-year - -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 948 537 1,069
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.38
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.50 £14.50
Median hourly rate £34.62 £27.13 £24.43
Median % change year-on-year +27.64% +11.03% -34.85%
75th Percentile £63.75 £52.50 £59.95
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.40 £24.18
% change year-on-year +33.82% +5.05% -42.15%

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 25 June 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 25 June 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 25 June 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 +9 679 £525 +2.94% 109
North of England -9 287 £506 +21.34% 57
South East +6 269 £520 +41.50% 90
Midlands +8 170 £425 -18.27% 21
North West -6 154 £439 -12.07% 34
West Midlands -4 126 £455 -13.43% 15
Yorkshire -16 121 £545 +36.25% 18
East of England -37 60 £525 +110.00% 13
South West -49 46 £375 +50.00% 16
East Midlands +13 38 £340 -33.66% 6
North East -25 16 £450 +50.00% 6
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 82 (5.30%) Confluence
2 73 (4.72%) SharePoint
3 46 (2.98%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.78%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.45%) Apache
6 3 (0.19%) CMS
6 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.13%) IIS
7 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.13%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.13%) SAS
7 2 (0.13%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.065%) Appian
8 1 (0.065%) Drupal
8 1 (0.065%) Tomcat
Applications
1 67 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (4.27%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.62%) Microsoft Project
5 15 (0.97%) MS Visio
6 9 (0.58%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.52%) Revit
8 5 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.065%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.065%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 60 (3.88%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.19%) Maximo
6 2 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.13%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.13%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.13%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.13%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.13%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.065%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.065%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 314 (20.31%) Azure
2 216 (13.97%) AWS
3 168 (10.87%) Microsoft 365
4 123 (7.96%) Entra ID
5 101 (6.53%) Power Platform
6 79 (5.11%) SaaS
7 55 (3.56%) GCP
8 54 (3.49%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (2.07%) OneDrive
10 22 (1.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 20 (1.29%) Microsoft Copilot
12 19 (1.23%) Amazon S3
13 18 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
13 18 (1.16%) GitHub
14 16 (1.03%) Datadog
14 16 (1.03%) Power Automate
15 15 (0.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 14 (0.91%) Azure Monitor
16 14 (0.91%) Serverless
16 14 (0.91%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 76 (4.92%) DNS
2 70 (4.53%) DHCP
3 62 (4.01%) Firewall
4 46 (2.98%) VPN
5 36 (2.33%) Wireless
6 33 (2.13%) Network Security
7 32 (2.07%) LAN
8 30 (1.94%) TCP/IP
8 30 (1.94%) WAN
9 26 (1.68%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (1.42%) VLAN
11 20 (1.29%) SAN
12 19 (1.23%) NAS
13 16 (1.03%) SSL
14 15 (0.97%) Cisco IOS
14 15 (0.97%) NX-OS
14 15 (0.97%) Structured Cabling
15 14 (0.91%) Internet
16 13 (0.84%) SD-WAN
16 13 (0.84%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (5.37%) Power BI
2 41 (2.65%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.62%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
6 13 (0.84%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (0.71%) Metadata
7 11 (0.71%) Power Query
8 7 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
8 7 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
8 7 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (0.39%) MySQL
9 6 (0.39%) Tableau
10 5 (0.32%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.32%) NoSQL
10 5 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.26%) Data Lake
11 4 (0.26%) Neo4j
11 4 (0.26%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 264 (17.08%) JIRA
2 71 (4.59%) Git
3 24 (1.55%) GitLab
3 24 (1.55%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.45%) Selenium
5 6 (0.39%) Postman
6 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.32%) JMeter
6 5 (0.32%) LoadRunner
6 5 (0.32%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.26%) Flyway
7 4 (0.26%) Gatling
7 4 (0.26%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.13%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.13%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.13%) JUnit
8 2 (0.13%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.13%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
8 2 (0.13%) TestRail
8 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
General
1 477 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 299 (19.34%) Finance
3 189 (12.23%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (8.09%) Public Sector
5 89 (5.76%) Banking
6 65 (4.20%) Telecoms
7 55 (3.56%) Organisational Skills
8 46 (2.98%) Documentation Skills
9 39 (2.52%) Legal
10 33 (2.13%) Military
11 21 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.36%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (1.36%) Retail
12 19 (1.23%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (1.16%) French Language
14 16 (1.03%) Manufacturing
15 15 (0.97%) Billing
16 13 (0.84%) Spanish Language
17 12 (0.78%) Italian Language
17 12 (0.78%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 252 (16.30%) Architect
2 217 (14.04%) Analyst
3 149 (9.64%) ServiceNow Architect
4 145 (9.38%) Developer
5 119 (7.70%) ServiceNow Developer
6 105 (6.79%) Senior
7 87 (5.63%) Consultant
8 81 (5.24%) IT Support
9 77 (4.98%) Lead
9 77 (4.98%) Support Engineer
10 68 (4.40%) Solutions Architect
11 65 (4.20%) Business Analyst
12 59 (3.82%) ServiceNow Consultant
13 58 (3.75%) Project Manager
14 54 (3.49%) Service Analyst
15 53 (3.43%) IT Engineer
16 48 (3.10%) IT Support Engineer
17 46 (2.98%) Technical Architect
18 41 (2.65%) Delivery Manager
19 40 (2.59%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 177 (11.45%) REST
2 106 (6.86%) SOAP
3 39 (2.52%) SailPoint
4 33 (2.13%) LDAP
5 32 (2.07%) HTML
5 32 (2.07%) Middleware
6 30 (1.94%) CSS
6 30 (1.94%) JSON
7 27 (1.75%) OAuth
8 25 (1.62%) Web Services
8 25 (1.62%) XML
9 24 (1.55%) OpenID
10 21 (1.36%) AngularJS
11 19 (1.23%) SAML
12 18 (1.16%) Flash
13 14 (0.91%) .NET
14 13 (0.84%) Ajax
15 11 (0.71%) JDBC
15 11 (0.71%) OAuth2
16 10 (0.65%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 213 (13.78%) CMDB
2 119 (7.70%) Onboarding
3 69 (4.46%) Product Ownership
4 49 (3.17%) Data Centre
5 46 (2.98%) Management Information System
6 42 (2.72%) Cloud Native
7 39 (2.52%) Enterprise Software
8 32 (2.07%) Replication
9 25 (1.62%) Security Posture
9 25 (1.62%) Self-Motivation
10 24 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
11 22 (1.42%) PKI
12 20 (1.29%) Virtual Team
13 17 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
13 17 (1.10%) Data Structures
14 16 (1.03%) AI Agents
15 14 (0.91%) Legacy Systems
16 13 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (0.84%) Clustering
17 10 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 232 (15.01%) Windows
2 83 (5.37%) Linux
3 79 (5.11%) Windows 10
4 40 (2.59%) Windows Server
5 37 (2.39%) Mac OS
6 31 (2.01%) Apple iOS
7 27 (1.75%) Unix
8 18 (1.16%) Android
9 12 (0.78%) Windows 7
10 11 (0.71%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.19%) Check Point GAiA
12 3 (0.19%) VMS
12 3 (0.19%) zOS
13 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.065%) CentOS
14 1 (0.065%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.065%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 555 (35.90%) ITSM
2 433 (28.01%) ITIL
3 325 (21.02%) Agile
4 298 (19.28%) Service Management
5 271 (17.53%) Problem-Solving
6 256 (16.56%) Stakeholder Management
7 225 (14.55%) Continuous Improvement
8 179 (11.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 178 (11.51%) DevOps
10 174 (11.25%) Change Management
11 159 (10.28%) Customer Service
12 149 (9.64%) Service Delivery
13 148 (9.57%) AI
14 147 (9.51%) Migration
15 140 (9.06%) Roadmaps
16 130 (8.41%) Workflow
17 126 (8.15%) CI/CD
18 122 (7.89%) Data Modelling
19 105 (6.79%) Incident Management
20 103 (6.66%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 121 (7.83%) SQL
2 107 (6.92%) JavaScript
3 101 (6.53%) PowerShell
4 94 (6.08%) Python
5 61 (3.95%) Java
6 30 (1.94%) C#
7 14 (0.91%) VBScript
8 12 (0.78%) VB
9 11 (0.71%) Bash
9 11 (0.71%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.65%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.58%) Groovy
12 7 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.32%) Perl
14 4 (0.26%) BeanShell
14 4 (0.26%) Bicep
14 4 (0.26%) Cypher
14 4 (0.26%) Scala
14 4 (0.26%) Shell Script
15 3 (0.19%) JCL
Qualifications
1 407 (26.33%) Security Cleared
2 289 (18.69%) SC Cleared
3 115 (7.44%) Degree
4 86 (5.56%) DV Cleared
5 42 (2.72%) ITIL Certification
6 40 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
7 37 (2.39%) PMP
8 32 (2.07%) CISSP
9 30 (1.94%) CCNP
9 30 (1.94%) PMI Certification
10 25 (1.62%) CISM
11 21 (1.36%) BPSS Clearance
12 19 (1.23%) CCNA
13 17 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
14 15 (0.97%) Network+ Certification
14 15 (0.97%) Server+ Certification
15 14 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
16 11 (0.71%) AWS Certification
16 11 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
17 9 (0.58%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (4.66%) SLA
2 71 (4.59%) Data Quality
3 57 (3.69%) GRC
4 48 (3.10%) QA
5 44 (2.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (2.59%) GDPR
7 36 (2.33%) NIST
8 28 (1.81%) PMO
9 20 (1.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.78%) Accessibility
10 12 (0.78%) COBIT
10 12 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
11 9 (0.58%) NCSC
12 8 (0.52%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.45%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.32%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.26%) GxP
15 4 (0.26%) ISO 9001
15 4 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 3 (0.19%) NIST 800
System Software
1 176 (11.38%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.29%) Docker
4 19 (1.23%) NFS
5 18 (1.16%) GPFS
5 18 (1.16%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (1.16%) vSphere
6 13 (0.84%) BitLocker
6 13 (0.84%) Virtual Machines
7 7 (0.45%) Firmware
7 7 (0.45%) IAG
8 6 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.26%) VMware NSX
10 3 (0.19%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.13%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 2 (0.13%) RACF
11 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.13%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.065%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 60 (3.88%) Terraform
2 53 (3.43%) Microsoft Intune
3 49 (3.17%) SCCM
4 29 (1.88%) Ansible
5 25 (1.62%) Grafana
6 24 (1.55%) Kubernetes
7 21 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (1.16%) Prometheus
9 16 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
10 15 (0.97%) vRealize
11 11 (0.71%) WMI
12 9 (0.58%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.45%) CASB
13 7 (0.45%) VxRail
14 5 (0.32%) SCOM
15 4 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.26%) CA Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.26%) PingFederate
15 4 (0.26%) QRadar
15 4 (0.26%) Salt
Vendors
1 313 (20.25%) Microsoft
2 91 (5.89%) Cisco
3 74 (4.79%) Remedy
4 64 (4.14%) SAP
5 61 (3.95%) Splunk
6 60 (3.88%) Oracle
7 43 (2.78%) VMware
8 41 (2.65%) Salesforce
9 35 (2.26%) CyberArk
9 35 (2.26%) Workday
10 30 (1.94%) BMC
11 28 (1.81%) Fortinet
12 26 (1.68%) Google
12 26 (1.68%) Palo Alto
13 25 (1.62%) Apple
13 25 (1.62%) IBM
14 24 (1.55%) F5
15 23 (1.49%) Dynatrace
16 21 (1.36%) Snow
16 21 (1.36%) SolarWinds