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 21 August 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
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 69 79
Rank change year-on-year +13 +10 0
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,753 1,012 915
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.84% 3.67% 2.75%
As % of the Vendors category 9.23% 7.77% 6.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,122 631 559
10th Percentile £218 £213 £220
25th Percentile £400 £314 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £475 £505
Median % change year-on-year +6.32% -5.94% +1.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £580
90th Percentile £694 £652 £650
UK median daily rate £501 £475 £506
% change year-on-year +5.37% -6.17% +1.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 89 69
10th Percentile £16.08 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.50 £15.22
Median hourly rate £26.00 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +38.15% +15.46% -20.80%
75th Percentile £63.59 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.40 £63.08 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £25.88 £17.87 £16.30
% change year-on-year +44.80% +9.63% -20.22%

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 19,002 13,019 14,520
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.61% 47.25% 43.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,949 8,232 9,198
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £502 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.07% -4.36% -
75th Percentile £615 £615 £629
90th Percentile £700 £715 £732
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.31% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,025 645 719
10th Percentile £14.56 £14.75 £13.52
25th Percentile £17.97 £17.55 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -26.68%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £63.15
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £31.50 £25.15 £27.86
% change year-on-year +25.25% -9.73% -31.21%

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 21 August 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 21 August 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 21 August 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 +22 763 £525 +5.00% 133
North of England -5 355 £459 -7.92% 42
South East +16 349 £538 +46.76% 51
North West +3 238 £400 -21.88% 30
Midlands +7 139 £425 -10.53% 31
West Midlands -4 112 £425 -10.53% 25
Yorkshire -20 106 £511 +27.81% 9
East of England -35 55 £510 +7.37% 4
South West -55 55 £463 +38.06% 22
East Midlands -9 22 £413 - 7
North East -24 17 £500 +42.86% 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
1 107 (6.10%) SharePoint
2 84 (4.79%) Confluence
3 46 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.91%) Skype for Business
5 9 (0.51%) nginx
6 8 (0.46%) Apache
7 4 (0.23%) CMS
8 3 (0.17%) IIS
8 3 (0.17%) Mendix
9 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.11%) SAS
9 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.057%) Drupal
10 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.057%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 79 (4.51%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (4.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (2.05%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.43%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (1.14%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.57%) AutoCAD
7 9 (0.51%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.46%) Revit
9 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.057%) LaTeX
10 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 65 (3.71%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.11%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.11%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.057%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.057%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.057%) iTrent
7 1 (0.057%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.057%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.057%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 368 (20.99%) Azure
2 238 (13.58%) Microsoft 365
3 235 (13.41%) AWS
4 137 (7.82%) Power Platform
5 133 (7.59%) Entra ID
6 102 (5.82%) SaaS
7 58 (3.31%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (2.97%) GCP
9 42 (2.40%) GitHub
10 41 (2.34%) OneDrive
11 29 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
12 28 (1.60%) Datadog
13 27 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
14 22 (1.25%) Power Automate
15 21 (1.20%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 19 (1.08%) Serverless
17 17 (0.97%) Amazon EC2
18 16 (0.91%) Amazon S3
19 15 (0.86%) PowerApps
19 15 (0.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 89 (5.08%) DNS
2 80 (4.56%) DHCP
3 67 (3.82%) Firewall
4 61 (3.48%) VPN
5 48 (2.74%) TCP/IP
6 34 (1.94%) Wireless
7 31 (1.77%) Network Security
8 29 (1.65%) VLAN
9 28 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
10 27 (1.54%) WAN
11 26 (1.48%) SSL
12 23 (1.31%) LAN
13 21 (1.20%) NX-OS
14 19 (1.08%) SAN
15 18 (1.03%) NAS
16 17 (0.97%) Skype
16 17 (0.97%) SSH
17 16 (0.91%) BGP
17 16 (0.91%) Cisco IOS
18 14 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (5.93%) Power BI
2 50 (2.85%) SQL Server
3 32 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (0.80%) MySQL
7 13 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (0.74%) Power Query
8 10 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.34%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.29%) Metadata
11 5 (0.29%) Redis
11 5 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.29%) Tableau
12 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.23%) PowerPivot
13 3 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 258 (14.72%) JIRA
2 73 (4.16%) Git
3 26 (1.48%) GitLab
4 25 (1.43%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.17%) Flyway
7 3 (0.17%) MSI
8 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.11%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.11%) Tricentis qTest
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.057%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.057%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.057%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.057%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.057%) TeamCity
General
1 568 (32.40%) Social Skills
2 336 (19.17%) Finance
3 236 (13.46%) Analytical Skills
4 141 (8.04%) Public Sector
5 94 (5.36%) Banking
6 83 (4.73%) Telecoms
7 52 (2.97%) Legal
8 50 (2.85%) Documentation Skills
9 49 (2.80%) Organisational Skills
10 27 (1.54%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (1.48%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (1.14%) Military
14 19 (1.08%) Spanish Language
15 18 (1.03%) French Language
15 18 (1.03%) Italian Language
15 18 (1.03%) Police
16 17 (0.97%) Retail
17 16 (0.91%) Law
18 13 (0.74%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 248 (14.15%) Analyst
1 248 (14.15%) Architect
2 180 (10.27%) Developer
3 158 (9.01%) ServiceNow Developer
4 143 (8.16%) ServiceNow Architect
5 128 (7.30%) Senior
6 111 (6.33%) Consultant
7 109 (6.22%) Support Engineer
8 96 (5.48%) IT Support
9 92 (5.25%) Lead
10 72 (4.11%) Service Analyst
11 71 (4.05%) Business Analyst
12 70 (3.99%) IT Engineer
13 65 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
14 61 (3.48%) IT Support Engineer
15 58 (3.31%) Project Manager
16 57 (3.25%) ServiceNow Consultant
17 42 (2.40%) Technical Architect
18 38 (2.17%) IT Manager
18 38 (2.17%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 200 (11.41%) REST
2 115 (6.56%) SOAP
3 74 (4.22%) Terraform
4 46 (2.62%) JSON
5 35 (2.00%) HTML
6 34 (1.94%) SailPoint
7 33 (1.88%) OAuth
7 33 (1.88%) XML
8 31 (1.77%) CSS
9 28 (1.60%) Web Services
10 27 (1.54%) LDAP
10 27 (1.54%) Middleware
11 21 (1.20%) .NET
12 20 (1.14%) AngularJS
13 16 (0.91%) Ajax
14 15 (0.86%) SAML
15 13 (0.74%) OpenID
16 12 (0.68%) JDBC
16 12 (0.68%) OAuth2
17 11 (0.63%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 280 (15.97%) CMDB
2 175 (9.98%) Onboarding
3 66 (3.76%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.42%) Enterprise Software
5 52 (2.97%) Data Centre
6 43 (2.45%) Management Information System
7 42 (2.40%) Cloud Native
8 35 (2.00%) Replication
9 28 (1.60%) PKI
10 26 (1.48%) Security Posture
11 24 (1.37%) AI Agents
12 23 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
12 23 (1.31%) Video Conferencing
13 22 (1.25%) Clustering
14 21 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
15 19 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
16 18 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
16 18 (1.03%) Data Structures
17 17 (0.97%) iPhone
18 15 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 329 (18.77%) Windows
2 111 (6.33%) Windows 10
3 103 (5.88%) Linux
4 51 (2.91%) Windows Server
5 49 (2.80%) Mac OS
6 35 (2.00%) Apple iOS
7 24 (1.37%) Android
8 19 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 18 (1.03%) Unix
10 16 (0.91%) Windows 7
11 7 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.23%) zOS
13 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.17%) VMS
14 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.057%) MVS
15 1 (0.057%) SUSE
15 1 (0.057%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.057%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 684 (39.02%) ITSM
2 556 (31.72%) ITIL
3 369 (21.05%) Service Management
4 328 (18.71%) Agile
5 325 (18.54%) Problem-Solving
6 317 (18.08%) Stakeholder Management
7 268 (15.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 209 (11.92%) Customer Service
9 201 (11.47%) AI
10 196 (11.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 194 (11.07%) Service Delivery
12 191 (10.90%) Change Management
13 190 (10.84%) DevOps
14 175 (9.98%) Roadmaps
15 151 (8.61%) Workflow
16 142 (8.10%) Migration
17 129 (7.36%) CI/CD
17 129 (7.36%) Incident Management
18 122 (6.96%) Asset Management
18 122 (6.96%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 143 (8.16%) PowerShell
2 118 (6.73%) Python
3 117 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 105 (5.99%) SQL
5 49 (2.80%) Java
6 27 (1.54%) C#
7 23 (1.31%) Bash
8 18 (1.03%) VBScript
9 15 (0.86%) VB
10 14 (0.80%) Groovy
11 11 (0.63%) T-SQL
12 8 (0.46%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.40%) Perl
14 6 (0.34%) BeanShell
14 6 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.29%) C++
15 5 (0.29%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.29%) Shell Script
16 3 (0.17%) JCL
16 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 467 (26.64%) Security Cleared
2 330 (18.82%) SC Cleared
3 138 (7.87%) Degree
4 93 (5.31%) DV Cleared
5 43 (2.45%) ITIL Certification
6 40 (2.28%) PMP
7 39 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
8 35 (2.00%) Cisco Certification
9 32 (1.83%) PMI Certification
10 31 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (1.48%) CCNP
12 25 (1.43%) CISSP
13 24 (1.37%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 22 (1.25%) CCNA
15 20 (1.14%) A+ Certification
16 19 (1.08%) Azure Certification
16 19 (1.08%) CISM
17 17 (0.97%) Network+ Certification
18 14 (0.80%) AWS Certification
18 14 (0.80%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (5.76%) SLA
2 84 (4.79%) Data Quality
3 61 (3.48%) GRC
4 53 (3.02%) QA
5 46 (2.62%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (2.45%) NIST
7 41 (2.34%) PMO
8 29 (1.65%) GDPR
9 18 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 17 (0.97%) COBIT
11 15 (0.86%) NCSC
12 14 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.74%) Accessibility
14 12 (0.68%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.46%) GxP
15 8 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.34%) HIPAA
17 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
17 3 (0.17%) SOC 2
System Software
1 228 (13.01%) Active Directory
2 42 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
3 32 (1.83%) Docker
4 19 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (0.97%) BitLocker
6 17 (0.97%) IAG
7 13 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.68%) NFS
8 12 (0.68%) vSphere
9 11 (0.63%) GPFS
10 8 (0.46%) Firmware
11 7 (0.40%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 2 (0.11%) RACF
13 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.057%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 77 (4.39%) Microsoft Intune
2 67 (3.82%) SCCM
3 55 (3.14%) Ansible
4 37 (2.11%) Kubernetes
5 28 (1.60%) Grafana
6 24 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
8 19 (1.08%) Prometheus
9 14 (0.80%) SCOM
10 12 (0.68%) WMI
11 10 (0.57%) vRealize
12 9 (0.51%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.40%) RSA Archer
14 6 (0.34%) CASB
14 6 (0.34%) Packer
14 6 (0.34%) VxRail
15 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.23%) CA Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
15 4 (0.23%) SELinux
Vendors
1 457 (26.07%) Microsoft
2 93 (5.31%) Cisco
3 73 (4.16%) Remedy
4 69 (3.94%) Oracle
5 67 (3.82%) SAP
6 65 (3.71%) Splunk
7 60 (3.42%) VMware
8 51 (2.91%) Salesforce
9 48 (2.74%) CyberArk
10 36 (2.05%) Dynatrace
11 33 (1.88%) BMC
12 32 (1.83%) Workday
13 31 (1.77%) Snow
14 29 (1.65%) Apple
15 23 (1.31%) Google
16 22 (1.25%) Adobe
16 22 (1.25%) iManage
16 22 (1.25%) Palo Alto
16 22 (1.25%) SolarWinds
17 21 (1.20%) IBM