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 April 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
18 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 70 79
Rank change year-on-year +4 +9 +28
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,380 828 981
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.50% 3.38% 2.63%
As % of the Vendors category 8.19% 7.14% 6.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 944 518 572
10th Percentile £213 £206 £163
25th Percentile £400 £333 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year - -0.50% +0.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £615
90th Percentile £700 £688 £720
UK median daily rate £500 £496 £508
% change year-on-year +0.91% -2.36% +1.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 43 102
10th Percentile £16.24 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £18.22 £15.33 £16.06
Median hourly rate £22.27 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% +15.46% -11.51%
75th Percentile £85.00 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile £98.25 £32.14 £29.50
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £18.82 £16.30
% change year-on-year +16.90% +15.46% -9.80%

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 16,848 11,589 15,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.74% 47.32% 42.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,985 7,516 10,030
10th Percentile £313 £293 £255
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £634
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £517
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.87% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 877 436 985
10th Percentile £15.33 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £18.18 £14.16
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +27.78% -40.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.31 £55.00
90th Percentile £78.63 £80.05 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £28.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year +7.14% +24.44% -46.40%

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 April 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 18 April 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 18 April 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 +6 595 £500 -4.76% 114
North of England -2 239 £515 +28.75% 51
South East +14 203 £475 +26.67% 67
Midlands +3 173 £424 -23.07% 25
West Midlands -8 133 £425 -22.87% 19
North West -4 129 £466 +13.81% 29
Yorkshire -5 99 £545 +36.25% 19
South West +4 68 £600 +9.09% 20
East of England -18 66 £525 +68.00% 14
East Midlands -8 33 £300 -41.46% 5
North East -5 14 £425 +41.67% 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 92 (6.67%) Confluence
2 62 (4.49%) SharePoint
3 51 (3.70%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.65%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.51%) Apache
6 6 (0.43%) Appian
7 5 (0.36%) Camunda
8 4 (0.29%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.29%) SAS
9 3 (0.22%) CICS
9 3 (0.22%) CMS
10 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.14%) IIS
10 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.14%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.072%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
Applications
1 79 (5.72%) Microsoft Office
2 58 (4.20%) Microsoft Project
3 55 (3.99%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (1.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 16 (1.16%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.14%) Revit
8 2 (0.14%) Trello
9 1 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.072%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 45 (3.26%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.65%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 8 (0.58%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.51%) SAP MM
6 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
7 4 (0.29%) Maximo
7 4 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
8 3 (0.22%) SAP GRC
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.072%) assyst
10 1 (0.072%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.072%) SAP CO
10 1 (0.072%) SAP CS
10 1 (0.072%) SAP FI/CO
10 1 (0.072%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 269 (19.49%) Azure
2 181 (13.12%) AWS
3 154 (11.16%) Microsoft 365
4 119 (8.62%) Entra ID
5 90 (6.52%) Power Platform
6 72 (5.22%) SaaS
7 61 (4.42%) GCP
8 57 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (1.59%) Power Automate
10 21 (1.52%) OneDrive
11 20 (1.45%) GitHub
12 14 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
13 13 (0.94%) Amazon S3
13 13 (0.94%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (0.94%) Serverless
14 12 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
16 10 (0.72%) AWS KMS
16 10 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
16 10 (0.72%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.71%) DNS
2 51 (3.70%) DHCP
3 50 (3.62%) VPN
4 49 (3.55%) Firewall
5 40 (2.90%) Wireless
6 33 (2.39%) WAN
7 32 (2.32%) LAN
8 29 (2.10%) Network Security
9 24 (1.74%) Wi-Fi
10 19 (1.38%) TCP/IP
11 16 (1.16%) VLAN
12 14 (1.01%) Internet
13 12 (0.87%) SD-WAN
14 11 (0.80%) SSL
15 10 (0.72%) BGP
15 10 (0.72%) BIG-IP
15 10 (0.72%) NAS
15 10 (0.72%) SAN
16 9 (0.65%) Cisco ISE
16 9 (0.65%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (5.51%) Power BI
2 36 (2.61%) SQL Server
3 23 (1.67%) Metadata
4 19 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
5 18 (1.30%) Amazon RDS
6 17 (1.23%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (1.16%) Tableau
8 10 (0.72%) MySQL
9 9 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (0.65%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.65%) Power Query
10 7 (0.51%) DB2
11 6 (0.43%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.43%) Relational Database
12 5 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.36%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.36%) Redis
13 4 (0.29%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 254 (18.41%) JIRA
2 58 (4.20%) Git
3 37 (2.68%) Jenkins
4 31 (2.25%) GitLab
5 17 (1.23%) Selenium
6 14 (1.01%) REST Assured
7 12 (0.87%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.87%) Postman
8 8 (0.58%) TestRail
9 5 (0.36%) JMeter
9 5 (0.36%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.29%) Gatling
10 4 (0.29%) JUnit
10 4 (0.29%) NeoLoad
11 3 (0.22%) Android Studio
11 3 (0.22%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.22%) Browser DevTools
11 3 (0.22%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.22%) Flyway
11 3 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 434 (31.45%) Social Skills
2 281 (20.36%) Finance
3 181 (13.12%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (8.04%) Public Sector
5 82 (5.94%) Banking
6 64 (4.64%) Military
7 55 (3.99%) Organisational Skills
8 49 (3.55%) Telecoms
9 47 (3.41%) Legal
10 45 (3.26%) Documentation Skills
11 22 (1.59%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.45%) Influencing Skills
13 19 (1.38%) Retail
14 16 (1.16%) Billing
15 14 (1.01%) Law
16 13 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
17 12 (0.87%) Financial Institution
18 8 (0.58%) Aerospace
18 8 (0.58%) Manufacturing
19 7 (0.51%) French Language
Job Titles
1 264 (19.13%) Architect
2 186 (13.48%) Analyst
3 144 (10.43%) ServiceNow Architect
4 119 (8.62%) Developer
5 94 (6.81%) ServiceNow Developer
6 79 (5.72%) Lead
7 77 (5.58%) Consultant
8 76 (5.51%) IT Support
8 76 (5.51%) Support Engineer
9 75 (5.43%) Senior
10 55 (3.99%) Business Analyst
11 50 (3.62%) Project Manager
12 46 (3.33%) IT Engineer
13 44 (3.19%) ServiceNow Manager
13 44 (3.19%) Solutions Architect
14 43 (3.12%) IT Support Engineer
15 37 (2.68%) Service Analyst
15 37 (2.68%) ServiceNow Consultant
16 36 (2.61%) Administrator
16 36 (2.61%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 151 (10.94%) REST
2 97 (7.03%) SOAP
3 42 (3.04%) SailPoint
4 31 (2.25%) LDAP
5 27 (1.96%) OpenID
6 25 (1.81%) CSS
6 25 (1.81%) Middleware
7 24 (1.74%) AngularJS
8 20 (1.45%) Flash
8 20 (1.45%) HTML
8 20 (1.45%) JSON
8 20 (1.45%) OAuth
9 19 (1.38%) .NET
10 17 (1.23%) Web Services
10 17 (1.23%) XML
11 14 (1.01%) SAML
12 13 (0.94%) Kafka
13 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
14 10 (0.72%) ADO
15 9 (0.65%) Ajax
Miscellaneous
1 167 (12.10%) CMDB
2 108 (7.83%) Onboarding
3 98 (7.10%) Product Ownership
4 38 (2.75%) Data Centre
5 33 (2.39%) Management Information System
6 32 (2.32%) Replication
7 25 (1.81%) Security Posture
8 23 (1.67%) Cloud Native
9 20 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
10 19 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
11 16 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (1.16%) Data Structures
11 16 (1.16%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.09%) Virtual Team
13 13 (0.94%) Mainframe
13 13 (0.94%) PKI
14 10 (0.72%) Driving Licence
15 9 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
15 9 (0.65%) Clustering
15 9 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 215 (15.58%) Windows
2 85 (6.16%) Windows 10
3 63 (4.57%) Linux
4 34 (2.46%) Windows Server
5 28 (2.03%) Mac OS
6 25 (1.81%) Android
6 25 (1.81%) Unix
7 19 (1.38%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.65%) Windows 7
9 8 (0.58%) zOS
10 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.072%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.072%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.072%) MVS
11 1 (0.072%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.072%) VMS
11 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 462 (33.48%) ITSM
2 371 (26.88%) ITIL
3 330 (23.91%) Agile
4 256 (18.55%) Service Management
5 199 (14.42%) Stakeholder Management
6 197 (14.28%) Problem-Solving
7 189 (13.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 166 (12.03%) Change Management
8 166 (12.03%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 155 (11.23%) DevOps
10 127 (9.20%) Migration
11 123 (8.91%) CI/CD
11 123 (8.91%) Customer Service
12 119 (8.62%) Data Modelling
13 116 (8.41%) Service Delivery
14 112 (8.12%) Roadmaps
15 108 (7.83%) Project Management
16 105 (7.61%) Workflow
17 99 (7.17%) AI
18 94 (6.81%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (8.84%) SQL
2 95 (6.88%) JavaScript
3 85 (6.16%) Python
4 72 (5.22%) PowerShell
5 68 (4.93%) Java
6 27 (1.96%) C#
7 13 (0.94%) TypeScript
8 12 (0.87%) Bash
9 11 (0.80%) PL/SQL
9 11 (0.80%) VB
10 9 (0.65%) VBScript
11 8 (0.58%) ABAP
11 8 (0.58%) JCL
11 8 (0.58%) Perl
11 8 (0.58%) REXX
12 7 (0.51%) BeanShell
12 7 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
13 6 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.43%) Groovy
13 6 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 377 (27.32%) Security Cleared
2 279 (20.22%) SC Cleared
3 127 (9.20%) Degree
4 58 (4.20%) DV Cleared
5 33 (2.39%) PMP
6 32 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (2.17%) PMI Certification
7 30 (2.17%) TOGAF Certification
8 29 (2.10%) ITIL Certification
9 25 (1.81%) CISSP
10 23 (1.67%) CCNP
11 21 (1.52%) CISM
12 18 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
13 14 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
14 12 (0.87%) CCNA
14 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 8 (0.58%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 7 (0.51%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (4.71%) SLA
2 61 (4.42%) Data Quality
3 53 (3.84%) QA
4 49 (3.55%) GRC
5 48 (3.48%) GDPR
6 33 (2.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 27 (1.96%) NIST
8 23 (1.67%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 20 (1.45%) PMO
10 10 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.65%) Accessibility
12 6 (0.43%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.29%) GxP
14 3 (0.22%) NCSC
14 3 (0.22%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.14%) Actionable Recommendations
15 2 (0.14%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 170 (12.32%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.68%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.45%) GPFS
3 20 (1.45%) NFS
4 18 (1.30%) vSphere
5 17 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
6 11 (0.80%) Docker
7 9 (0.65%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.29%) IAG
9 4 (0.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 3 (0.22%) Firmware
10 3 (0.22%) RACF
10 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.072%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 51 (3.70%) Terraform
2 48 (3.48%) SCCM
3 34 (2.46%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (2.39%) Ansible
5 30 (2.17%) OPNET
6 22 (1.59%) Grafana
7 18 (1.30%) Kubernetes
7 18 (1.30%) vRealize
8 17 (1.23%) Prometheus
9 12 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.72%) RSA Archer
11 9 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.51%) CASB
13 6 (0.43%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.36%) Control-M
14 5 (0.36%) QRadar
14 5 (0.36%) Rancher
14 5 (0.36%) Salt
14 5 (0.36%) VxRail
15 4 (0.29%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 233 (16.88%) Microsoft
2 94 (6.81%) Remedy
3 85 (6.16%) Cisco
4 67 (4.86%) SAP
5 53 (3.84%) Oracle
6 43 (3.12%) VMware
7 42 (3.04%) Splunk
8 39 (2.83%) Atlassian
9 38 (2.75%) Workday
10 37 (2.68%) Salesforce
11 34 (2.46%) IBM
12 24 (1.74%) CyberArk
13 23 (1.67%) Apple
13 23 (1.67%) Google
14 22 (1.59%) Zscaler
15 21 (1.52%) Fortinet
15 21 (1.52%) Snow
16 20 (1.45%) Palo Alto
17 19 (1.38%) BMC
18 18 (1.30%) F5