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 24 September 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
24 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 67 83
Rank change year-on-year +8 +16 -6
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,772 1,027 866
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.80% 3.69% 2.66%
As % of the Vendors category 9.17% 7.77% 5.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,118 667 525
10th Percentile £218 £205 £219
25th Percentile £400 £313 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £607 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 79 32
10th Percentile £16.03 £13.00 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.50 £14.16
Median hourly rate £26.66 £18.82 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.66% +10.71% -10.53%
75th Percentile £64.68 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.47 £63.40 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £17.87 £18.13
% change year-on-year +45.50% -1.43% -4.58%

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 19,333 13,219 14,450
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.51% 47.50% 44.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,973 8,391 8,739
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £507 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.38% -3.43% -
75th Percentile £620 £620 £630
90th Percentile £713 £708 £731
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,159 629 566
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.75 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.75 £17.96 £15.62
Median hourly rate £28.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.33% -28.14% -20.18%
75th Percentile £64.38 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.29 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £31.50
% change year-on-year +2.39% -20.16% -28.18%

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 24 September 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 24 September 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 24 September 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 +30 783 £525 +5.00% 494
North of England -6 349 £455 -9.10% 114
South East +16 343 £544 +35.09% 151
North West +6 229 £375 -26.66% 67
Midlands -16 141 £425 -10.53% 56
West Midlands -3 122 £448 -5.79% 39
Yorkshire -26 113 £500 - 37
East of England -39 59 £510 +2.00% 48
South West -51 53 £500 +58.73% 39
East Midlands -22 16 £350 -27.27% 16
North East -37 13 £550 +57.14% 11
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
1 116 (6.55%) SharePoint
2 88 (4.97%) Confluence
3 47 (2.65%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.90%) Skype for Business
5 11 (0.62%) nginx
6 9 (0.51%) Apache
7 5 (0.28%) CMS
8 4 (0.23%) Mendix
9 2 (0.11%) Appian
9 2 (0.11%) SAS
9 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.056%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.056%) CICS
10 1 (0.056%) Drupal
10 1 (0.056%) IIS
10 1 (0.056%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.056%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.056%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.056%) Tomcat
Applications
1 81 (4.57%) Microsoft Office
2 80 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (1.13%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (1.07%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.62%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.56%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.45%) Revit
9 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.056%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.056%) LaTeX
10 1 (0.056%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.056%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 62 (3.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 15 (0.85%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.34%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.11%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.11%) Maximo
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.056%) Actimize
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.056%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.056%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.056%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 375 (21.16%) Azure
2 252 (14.22%) Microsoft 365
3 230 (12.98%) AWS
4 143 (8.07%) Power Platform
5 132 (7.45%) Entra ID
6 98 (5.53%) SaaS
7 61 (3.44%) GCP
8 56 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
9 51 (2.88%) GitHub
10 43 (2.43%) Azure Monitor
11 42 (2.37%) OneDrive
12 37 (2.09%) Microsoft Copilot
13 31 (1.75%) Datadog
14 25 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 24 (1.35%) Power Automate
16 22 (1.24%) Serverless
17 20 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
18 18 (1.02%) Amazon S3
18 18 (1.02%) PowerApps
19 17 (0.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 87 (4.91%) DNS
2 76 (4.29%) DHCP
3 62 (3.50%) VPN
4 57 (3.22%) Firewall
5 50 (2.82%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.69%) VLAN
7 29 (1.64%) Wireless
8 27 (1.52%) SSL
9 25 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
10 24 (1.35%) Network Security
11 22 (1.24%) NX-OS
12 21 (1.19%) WAN
13 19 (1.07%) LAN
14 18 (1.02%) BGP
14 18 (1.02%) SSH
15 17 (0.96%) Skype
16 13 (0.73%) Cisco IOS
16 13 (0.73%) SAN
17 12 (0.68%) VXLAN
18 11 (0.62%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (5.70%) Power BI
2 48 (2.71%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (1.13%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (0.90%) Metadata
5 16 (0.90%) MySQL
5 16 (0.90%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (0.73%) Amazon Aurora
7 10 (0.56%) Power Query
8 9 (0.51%) Data Warehouse
9 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.34%) Redis
11 4 (0.23%) BigQuery
11 4 (0.23%) Looker
11 4 (0.23%) MongoDB
11 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.17%) Pentaho
12 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 2 (0.11%) Db2
Development Applications
1 237 (13.37%) JIRA
2 73 (4.12%) Git
3 25 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.35%) GitLab
5 8 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.17%) MSI
7 3 (0.17%) Postman
8 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.11%) Tricentis qTest
8 2 (0.11%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.056%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.056%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.056%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.056%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.056%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.056%) TeamCity
General
1 574 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 332 (18.74%) Finance
3 241 (13.60%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (8.63%) Public Sector
5 90 (5.08%) Banking
6 81 (4.57%) Telecoms
7 53 (2.99%) Legal
8 46 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
9 41 (2.31%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
11 28 (1.58%) Manufacturing
12 25 (1.41%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 23 (1.30%) Military
14 17 (0.96%) Police
14 17 (0.96%) Retail
14 17 (0.96%) Spanish Language
15 16 (0.90%) French Language
15 16 (0.90%) Italian Language
15 16 (0.90%) Law
16 13 (0.73%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 265 (14.95%) Architect
2 245 (13.83%) Analyst
3 189 (10.67%) Developer
4 161 (9.09%) ServiceNow Developer
5 152 (8.58%) ServiceNow Architect
6 129 (7.28%) Senior
7 114 (6.43%) Consultant
8 97 (5.47%) Lead
8 97 (5.47%) Support Engineer
9 87 (4.91%) IT Support
10 76 (4.29%) Solutions Architect
11 68 (3.84%) Service Analyst
12 63 (3.56%) IT Engineer
13 61 (3.44%) Project Manager
14 60 (3.39%) Business Analyst
15 55 (3.10%) IT Support Engineer
15 55 (3.10%) ServiceNow Consultant
16 47 (2.65%) Technical Architect
17 44 (2.48%) Service Manager
18 39 (2.20%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (11.29%) REST
2 105 (5.93%) SOAP
3 78 (4.40%) Terraform
4 50 (2.82%) JSON
5 38 (2.14%) OAuth
6 37 (2.09%) HTML
7 34 (1.92%) CSS
8 32 (1.81%) Middleware
8 32 (1.81%) XML
9 31 (1.75%) SailPoint
10 30 (1.69%) LDAP
11 21 (1.19%) Web Services
12 19 (1.07%) .NET
12 19 (1.07%) OAuth2
13 17 (0.96%) Ajax
13 17 (0.96%) AngularJS
13 17 (0.96%) SAML
14 16 (0.90%) OpenID
15 15 (0.85%) YAML
16 14 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 303 (17.10%) CMDB
2 189 (10.67%) Onboarding
3 72 (4.06%) Enterprise Software
4 61 (3.44%) Data Centre
5 52 (2.93%) Product Ownership
6 51 (2.88%) Management Information System
7 45 (2.54%) Cloud Native
8 36 (2.03%) Replication
9 29 (1.64%) AI Agents
10 27 (1.52%) PKI
11 24 (1.35%) Video Conferencing
12 23 (1.30%) Clustering
12 23 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
15 17 (0.96%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (0.96%) iPhone
15 17 (0.96%) Security Posture
16 16 (0.90%) Data Structures
17 15 (0.85%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 332 (18.74%) Windows
2 112 (6.32%) Windows 10
3 107 (6.04%) Linux
4 53 (2.99%) Mac OS
5 52 (2.93%) Windows Server
6 37 (2.09%) Apple iOS
7 26 (1.47%) Android
8 20 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 20 (1.13%) Unix
9 16 (0.90%) Windows 7
10 9 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
11 5 (0.28%) zOS
12 4 (0.23%) VMS
13 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.056%) AIX
14 1 (0.056%) SUSE
14 1 (0.056%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 718 (40.52%) ITSM
2 571 (32.22%) ITIL
3 415 (23.42%) Service Management
4 356 (20.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 327 (18.45%) Agile
6 323 (18.23%) Problem-Solving
7 269 (15.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 222 (12.53%) AI
9 202 (11.40%) Customer Service
10 201 (11.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 197 (11.12%) DevOps
12 192 (10.84%) Service Delivery
13 187 (10.55%) Roadmaps
14 181 (10.21%) Change Management
15 155 (8.75%) Workflow
16 136 (7.67%) Asset Management
16 136 (7.67%) Migration
17 130 (7.34%) CI/CD
17 130 (7.34%) Incident Management
18 123 (6.94%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 149 (8.41%) PowerShell
2 124 (7.00%) Python
3 119 (6.72%) JavaScript
4 86 (4.85%) SQL
5 44 (2.48%) Java
6 24 (1.35%) Bash
7 18 (1.02%) VBScript
8 17 (0.96%) Groovy
9 15 (0.85%) T-SQL
9 15 (0.85%) VB
10 14 (0.79%) C#
11 8 (0.45%) Perl
11 8 (0.45%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.34%) BeanShell
12 6 (0.34%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.28%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.28%) Go
13 5 (0.28%) PL/SQL
14 4 (0.23%) Google Apps Script
14 4 (0.23%) JCL
Qualifications
1 476 (26.86%) Security Cleared
2 352 (19.86%) SC Cleared
3 138 (7.79%) Degree
4 84 (4.74%) DV Cleared
5 44 (2.48%) BPSS Clearance
6 43 (2.43%) PMP
7 41 (2.31%) ITIL Certification
8 39 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
9 37 (2.09%) PMI Certification
10 32 (1.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 29 (1.64%) Azure Certification
11 29 (1.64%) Cisco Certification
12 23 (1.30%) CCNP
13 21 (1.19%) A+ Certification
14 20 (1.13%) CCNA
15 19 (1.07%) CISSP
16 17 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
17 16 (0.90%) AWS Certification
18 14 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
19 13 (0.73%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (5.64%) SLA
2 97 (5.47%) Data Quality
3 64 (3.61%) GRC
4 59 (3.33%) QA
5 50 (2.82%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (2.37%) PMO
7 38 (2.14%) NIST
8 25 (1.41%) GDPR
9 18 (1.02%) NCSC
10 17 (0.96%) COBIT
11 16 (0.90%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.79%) Accessibility
12 14 (0.79%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 12 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 11 (0.62%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.40%) GxP
16 7 (0.40%) HIPAA
17 6 (0.34%) SOC 2
18 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 220 (12.42%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.31%) Docker
2 41 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.96%) BitLocker
4 17 (0.96%) IAG
5 15 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.56%) NFS
6 10 (0.56%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.51%) vSphere
8 8 (0.45%) GPFS
9 7 (0.40%) Firmware
10 5 (0.28%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.11%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.11%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 2 (0.11%) Postfix
12 2 (0.11%) Squid
Systems Management
1 88 (4.97%) Microsoft Intune
2 70 (3.95%) SCCM
3 62 (3.50%) Ansible
4 43 (2.43%) Kubernetes
5 33 (1.86%) Grafana
6 27 (1.52%) Single Sign-On
7 23 (1.30%) SCOM
8 19 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
9 17 (0.96%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.56%) WMI
11 9 (0.51%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.40%) vRealize
13 6 (0.34%) Packer
14 5 (0.28%) PowerCLI
15 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.23%) Nessus
15 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
15 4 (0.23%) Rancher
15 4 (0.23%) RSA Archer
15 4 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 493 (27.82%) Microsoft
2 78 (4.40%) Cisco
3 69 (3.89%) Remedy
4 67 (3.78%) Splunk
5 66 (3.72%) Oracle
6 65 (3.67%) SAP
7 60 (3.39%) VMware
8 53 (2.99%) Salesforce
9 51 (2.88%) CyberArk
10 46 (2.60%) Dynatrace
11 34 (1.92%) Google
12 32 (1.81%) Apple
13 30 (1.69%) BMC
13 30 (1.69%) Snow
14 29 (1.64%) SolarWinds
15 27 (1.52%) Workday
16 23 (1.30%) Adobe
16 23 (1.30%) Okta
17 22 (1.24%) Red Hat
18 21 (1.19%) IBM