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 16 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
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 67 82
Rank change year-on-year 0 +15 +15
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,483 915 954
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.46% 3.71% 2.55%
As % of the Vendors category 8.53% 7.80% 6.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 995 561 552
10th Percentile £213 £213 £191
25th Percentile £400 £306 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £582 £591
90th Percentile £675 £680 £675
UK median daily rate £510 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 75 106
10th Percentile £17.69 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £14.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £25.00 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +32.84% +15.46% -35.38%
75th Percentile £35.22 £29.88 £21.37
90th Percentile £85.25 £58.25 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £17.45 £16.30
% change year-on-year +43.31% +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 17,383 11,725 15,722
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.57% 47.48% 41.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,145 7,436 9,942
10th Percentile £313 £278 £270
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £513 £517
Median % change year-on-year -1.46% -0.87% -1.52%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 930 525 1,057
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.26
25th Percentile £19.09 £17.79 £14.48
Median hourly rate £33.99 £27.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.89% +12.50% -39.32%
75th Percentile £62.00 £53.50 £59.95
90th Percentile £80.21 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £25.50 £23.80
% change year-on-year +33.25% +7.14% -44.00%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 +9 655 £525 +0.96% 147
North of England -12 274 £513 +28.13% 81
South East +4 250 £513 +46.43% 113
Midlands +7 167 £425 -22.02% 48
North West -9 147 £446 -6.05% 49
West Midlands -14 121 £461 -16.23% 26
Yorkshire -16 114 £545 +36.25% 23
East of England -37 61 £525 +18.51% 28
South West -39 41 £314 +25.70% 16
East Midlands +10 40 £340 -33.66% 22
North East -22 17 £450 +50.00% 9
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 79 (5.33%) Confluence
2 66 (4.45%) SharePoint
3 50 (3.37%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.81%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.47%) Apache
6 3 (0.20%) CMS
6 3 (0.20%) 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 (0.067%) Appian
8 1 (0.067%) Drupal
8 1 (0.067%) Tomcat
Applications
1 65 (4.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 64 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
3 29 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 24 (1.62%) Microsoft Project
5 12 (0.81%) MS Visio
6 7 (0.47%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.47%) Revit
7 5 (0.34%) Chatbot
8 4 (0.27%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.067%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.067%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 61 (4.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (0.67%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.54%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.20%) 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 (0.067%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.067%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 300 (20.23%) Azure
2 200 (13.49%) AWS
3 165 (11.13%) Microsoft 365
4 120 (8.09%) Entra ID
5 101 (6.81%) Power Platform
6 71 (4.79%) SaaS
7 54 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (3.57%) GCP
9 33 (2.23%) OneDrive
10 20 (1.35%) Microsoft Copilot
11 19 (1.28%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 19 (1.28%) Amazon S3
12 18 (1.21%) Amazon EC2
12 18 (1.21%) GitHub
13 16 (1.08%) Power Automate
14 15 (1.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 14 (0.94%) Serverless
15 14 (0.94%) Slack
16 13 (0.88%) Datadog
17 12 (0.81%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 80 (5.39%) DNS
2 73 (4.92%) DHCP
3 64 (4.32%) Firewall
4 52 (3.51%) VPN
5 38 (2.56%) Wireless
6 34 (2.29%) Network Security
7 32 (2.16%) LAN
8 30 (2.02%) WAN
9 29 (1.96%) TCP/IP
10 26 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (1.48%) VLAN
12 20 (1.35%) SAN
13 19 (1.28%) NAS
14 16 (1.08%) SSL
15 15 (1.01%) Cisco IOS
15 15 (1.01%) NX-OS
15 15 (1.01%) Structured Cabling
16 14 (0.94%) Internet
17 13 (0.88%) SD-WAN
18 12 (0.81%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 83 (5.60%) Power BI
2 40 (2.70%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (1.08%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (0.94%) Metadata
7 11 (0.74%) Power Query
8 9 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (0.54%) Oracle Reports
10 7 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (0.47%) MongoDB
11 6 (0.40%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.40%) NoSQL
11 6 (0.40%) Tableau
12 5 (0.34%) MySQL
12 5 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 4 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.27%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.27%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 253 (17.06%) JIRA
2 72 (4.86%) Git
3 25 (1.69%) GitLab
3 25 (1.69%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.47%) Selenium
5 6 (0.40%) Postman
6 5 (0.34%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.34%) JMeter
6 5 (0.34%) LoadRunner
6 5 (0.34%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.27%) Flyway
7 4 (0.27%) Gatling
7 4 (0.27%) 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
1 455 (30.68%) Social Skills
2 279 (18.81%) Finance
3 173 (11.67%) Analytical Skills
4 118 (7.96%) Public Sector
5 83 (5.60%) Banking
6 60 (4.05%) Telecoms
7 53 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
8 48 (3.24%) Documentation Skills
9 41 (2.76%) Legal
10 32 (2.16%) Military
11 22 (1.48%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.35%) Retail
13 19 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
14 18 (1.21%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (1.15%) French Language
16 15 (1.01%) Manufacturing
17 14 (0.94%) Billing
18 12 (0.81%) Financial Institution
18 12 (0.81%) Spanish Language
19 11 (0.74%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 254 (17.13%) Architect
2 207 (13.96%) Analyst
3 152 (10.25%) ServiceNow Architect
4 136 (9.17%) Developer
5 110 (7.42%) ServiceNow Developer
6 97 (6.54%) Senior
7 81 (5.46%) IT Support
8 79 (5.33%) Consultant
9 78 (5.26%) Support Engineer
10 68 (4.59%) Lead
10 68 (4.59%) Solutions Architect
11 59 (3.98%) Business Analyst
12 58 (3.91%) Project Manager
13 55 (3.71%) Service Analyst
14 53 (3.57%) ServiceNow Consultant
15 51 (3.44%) IT Engineer
16 47 (3.17%) IT Support Engineer
17 43 (2.90%) Technical Architect
18 42 (2.83%) ServiceNow Manager
19 40 (2.70%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (11.60%) REST
2 105 (7.08%) SOAP
3 32 (2.16%) HTML
3 32 (2.16%) Middleware
3 32 (2.16%) SailPoint
4 31 (2.09%) CSS
4 31 (2.09%) LDAP
5 28 (1.89%) JSON
6 25 (1.69%) OAuth
6 25 (1.69%) Web Services
7 24 (1.62%) OpenID
8 23 (1.55%) XML
9 21 (1.42%) AngularJS
10 19 (1.28%) Flash
10 19 (1.28%) SAML
11 14 (0.94%) .NET
11 14 (0.94%) Ajax
12 11 (0.74%) JDBC
12 11 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
12 11 (0.74%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 200 (13.49%) CMDB
2 111 (7.48%) Onboarding
3 67 (4.52%) Product Ownership
4 49 (3.30%) Data Centre
5 40 (2.70%) Management Information System
6 36 (2.43%) Cloud Native
7 33 (2.23%) Replication
8 31 (2.09%) Enterprise Software
9 25 (1.69%) Security Posture
10 23 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.48%) PKI
12 21 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
13 20 (1.35%) Virtual Team
14 16 (1.08%) Data Structures
15 15 (1.01%) AI Agents
16 14 (0.94%) Data Protection Act
16 14 (0.94%) Legacy Systems
17 13 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
17 13 (0.88%) Clustering
18 9 (0.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 233 (15.71%) Windows
2 83 (5.60%) Linux
3 81 (5.46%) Windows 10
4 43 (2.90%) Windows Server
5 39 (2.63%) Mac OS
6 30 (2.02%) Apple iOS
7 27 (1.82%) Unix
8 20 (1.35%) Android
9 12 (0.81%) Windows 7
10 11 (0.74%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.27%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.20%) VMS
12 3 (0.20%) zOS
13 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.067%) Check Point GAiA
14 1 (0.067%) MVS
14 1 (0.067%) SUSE
14 1 (0.067%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.067%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 534 (36.01%) ITSM
2 413 (27.85%) ITIL
3 309 (20.84%) Agile
4 280 (18.88%) Service Management
5 248 (16.72%) Problem-Solving
6 236 (15.91%) Stakeholder Management
7 205 (13.82%) Continuous Improvement
8 170 (11.46%) Change Management
9 166 (11.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 164 (11.06%) DevOps
11 155 (10.45%) Customer Service
12 144 (9.71%) Migration
13 143 (9.64%) Service Delivery
14 135 (9.10%) AI
15 130 (8.77%) Roadmaps
16 122 (8.23%) CI/CD
16 122 (8.23%) Workflow
17 121 (8.16%) Data Modelling
18 103 (6.95%) Asset Management
19 99 (6.68%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (8.23%) SQL
2 101 (6.81%) JavaScript
3 96 (6.47%) PowerShell
4 89 (6.00%) Python
5 61 (4.11%) Java
6 30 (2.02%) C#
7 14 (0.94%) VBScript
8 13 (0.88%) VB
9 11 (0.74%) Bash
9 11 (0.74%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.67%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.61%) Groovy
12 7 (0.47%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (0.47%) Perl
13 4 (0.27%) BeanShell
13 4 (0.27%) Bicep
13 4 (0.27%) Cypher
13 4 (0.27%) Scala
13 4 (0.27%) Shell Script
14 3 (0.20%) Go
Qualifications
1 389 (26.23%) Security Cleared
2 278 (18.75%) SC Cleared
3 108 (7.28%) Degree
4 78 (5.26%) DV Cleared
5 41 (2.76%) Cisco Certification
6 39 (2.63%) ITIL Certification
7 35 (2.36%) PMP
8 31 (2.09%) CISSP
9 30 (2.02%) CCNP
10 29 (1.96%) PMI Certification
11 24 (1.62%) CISM
12 20 (1.35%) CCNA
13 19 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
14 17 (1.15%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
15 15 (1.01%) Server+ Certification
16 12 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
17 11 (0.74%) AWS Certification
17 11 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 9 (0.61%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (5.06%) SLA
2 69 (4.65%) Data Quality
3 53 (3.57%) GRC
4 45 (3.03%) QA
5 39 (2.63%) GDPR
5 39 (2.63%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 35 (2.36%) NIST
7 26 (1.75%) PMO
8 20 (1.35%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 14 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (0.81%) COBIT
11 11 (0.74%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.54%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.47%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.34%) SOC 2
15 4 (0.27%) GxP
15 4 (0.27%) NCSC
16 3 (0.20%) NIST 800
17 2 (0.13%) ISO 20022
17 2 (0.13%) ITGC
System Software
1 172 (11.60%) Active Directory
2 40 (2.70%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.35%) Docker
3 20 (1.35%) NFS
4 19 (1.28%) GPFS
5 18 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (1.21%) vSphere
6 13 (0.88%) BitLocker
7 10 (0.67%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.47%) Firmware
9 6 (0.40%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.27%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.27%) IAG
10 4 (0.27%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.20%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.13%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 2 (0.13%) RACF
12 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.13%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.067%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 56 (3.78%) Terraform
2 55 (3.71%) Microsoft Intune
3 49 (3.30%) SCCM
4 26 (1.75%) Ansible
4 26 (1.75%) Grafana
5 21 (1.42%) Kubernetes
6 19 (1.28%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.21%) Single Sign-On
8 16 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
9 15 (1.01%) vRealize
10 8 (0.54%) RSA Archer
10 8 (0.54%) WMI
11 7 (0.47%) CASB
11 7 (0.47%) VxRail
12 5 (0.34%) Salt
12 5 (0.34%) SCOM
13 4 (0.27%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.27%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.27%) PingFederate
13 4 (0.27%) QRadar
Vendors
1 307 (20.70%) Microsoft
2 94 (6.34%) Cisco
3 75 (5.06%) Remedy
4 62 (4.18%) SAP
5 60 (4.05%) Splunk
6 57 (3.84%) Oracle
7 46 (3.10%) VMware
8 38 (2.56%) Salesforce
9 37 (2.49%) Workday
10 30 (2.02%) BMC
11 29 (1.96%) Palo Alto
12 28 (1.89%) CyberArk
13 27 (1.82%) Fortinet
13 27 (1.82%) Google
13 27 (1.82%) IBM
14 24 (1.62%) Apple
14 24 (1.62%) F5
15 21 (1.42%) SolarWinds
16 20 (1.35%) Snow
17 19 (1.28%) Dynatrace