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 23 July 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
23 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 67 79
Rank change year-on-year +7 +12 +13
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,696 1,015 956
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.78% 3.71% 2.72%
As % of the Vendors category 9.21% 7.84% 6.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,114 628 566
10th Percentile £218 £217 £210
25th Percentile £400 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £584 £575
90th Percentile £679 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £506 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +6.47% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 84 100
10th Percentile £18.04 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.44 £16.06
Median hourly rate £26.66 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +41.66% +15.46% -24.33%
75th Percentile £83.13 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £88.30 £63.28 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £26.33 £17.45 £16.30
% change year-on-year +50.93% +7.02% -20.80%

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 18,418 12,952 15,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.04% 47.37% 43.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,656 8,192 9,753
10th Percentile £313 £280 £281
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -1.92% -0.95%
75th Percentile £610 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £501 £500 £514
% change year-on-year +0.10% -2.72% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 961 615 875
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.75 £13.27
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.71 £25.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.99% -6.85% -28.00%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.84 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.29 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £26.03
% change year-on-year +39.17% -3.38% -36.22%

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 23 July 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 23 July 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 23 July 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 +16 739 £525 +3.19% 163
South East +13 340 £525 +30.43% 71
North of England -10 312 £485 +3.46% 65
North West -7 185 £401 -20.77% 55
Midlands +13 165 £425 -10.53% 32
West Midlands -9 125 £450 -5.26% 25
Yorkshire -20 114 £525 +31.25% 8
East of England -37 55 £525 +16.67% 19
South West -50 48 £353 +19.66% 14
East Midlands +10 34 £350 -15.15% 7
North East -27 18 £488 +50.00% 4
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 98 (5.78%) SharePoint
2 90 (5.31%) Confluence
3 40 (2.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.53%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.41%) Apache
5 7 (0.41%) nginx
6 3 (0.18%) CMS
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.12%) IIS
7 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.12%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.12%) SAS
7 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.059%) Appian
8 1 (0.059%) Drupal
8 1 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 75 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (4.25%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (1.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.94%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.59%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.47%) Revit
8 7 (0.41%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.18%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.059%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.059%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 68 (4.01%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (0.71%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.18%) Maximo
6 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.12%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.12%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.12%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.12%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.12%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.12%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 357 (21.05%) Azure
2 233 (13.74%) AWS
3 201 (11.85%) Microsoft 365
4 135 (7.96%) Entra ID
5 118 (6.96%) Power Platform
6 92 (5.42%) SaaS
7 60 (3.54%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (2.77%) GCP
9 35 (2.06%) OneDrive
10 26 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 25 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
11 25 (1.47%) Datadog
12 24 (1.42%) Amazon S3
12 24 (1.42%) Azure Monitor
12 24 (1.42%) GitHub
13 22 (1.30%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 21 (1.24%) Microsoft Copilot
15 18 (1.06%) Serverless
16 17 (1.00%) Power Automate
17 15 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 81 (4.78%) DNS
2 76 (4.48%) DHCP
3 62 (3.66%) Firewall
4 52 (3.07%) VPN
5 48 (2.83%) TCP/IP
6 39 (2.30%) Wireless
7 30 (1.77%) Network Security
8 24 (1.42%) WAN
8 24 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (1.36%) LAN
10 22 (1.30%) SSL
11 20 (1.18%) SAN
11 20 (1.18%) VLAN
12 19 (1.12%) NAS
13 15 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
13 15 (0.88%) NX-OS
13 15 (0.88%) Structured Cabling
14 14 (0.83%) SSH
15 13 (0.77%) Internet
16 12 (0.71%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (5.54%) Power BI
2 51 (3.01%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.77%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (1.59%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (0.71%) MySQL
8 11 (0.65%) Power Query
9 8 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (0.47%) Metadata
10 6 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.35%) Tableau
11 5 (0.29%) Redis
12 4 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.24%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.24%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.24%) PowerPivot
13 3 (0.18%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 264 (15.57%) JIRA
2 79 (4.66%) Git
3 22 (1.30%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.06%) GitLab
5 5 (0.29%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.24%) Flyway
7 3 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.18%) Selenium
8 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.12%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.12%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.12%) JUnit
8 2 (0.12%) Postman
8 2 (0.12%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.12%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.059%) Chocolatey
9 1 (0.059%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.059%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.059%) TestRail
General
1 544 (32.08%) Social Skills
2 312 (18.40%) Finance
3 227 (13.38%) Analytical Skills
4 128 (7.55%) Public Sector
5 93 (5.48%) Banking
6 76 (4.48%) Telecoms
7 57 (3.36%) Organisational Skills
8 51 (3.01%) Legal
9 47 (2.77%) Documentation Skills
10 31 (1.83%) Military
11 24 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 24 (1.42%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.06%) French Language
12 18 (1.06%) Manufacturing
12 18 (1.06%) Police
12 18 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
12 18 (1.06%) Retail
13 15 (0.88%) Spanish Language
14 14 (0.83%) Italian Language
15 12 (0.71%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 251 (14.80%) Architect
2 230 (13.56%) Analyst
3 172 (10.14%) Developer
4 159 (9.38%) ServiceNow Architect
5 148 (8.73%) ServiceNow Developer
6 115 (6.78%) Senior
7 94 (5.54%) Consultant
8 93 (5.48%) Support Engineer
9 91 (5.37%) Lead
10 89 (5.25%) IT Support
11 70 (4.13%) Service Analyst
12 68 (4.01%) Business Analyst
13 66 (3.89%) Solutions Architect
14 64 (3.77%) ServiceNow Consultant
15 63 (3.71%) IT Engineer
16 57 (3.36%) Project Manager
17 56 (3.30%) IT Support Engineer
18 42 (2.48%) Delivery Manager
18 42 (2.48%) Technical Architect
19 40 (2.36%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (11.26%) REST
2 116 (6.84%) SOAP
3 34 (2.00%) SailPoint
4 33 (1.95%) HTML
4 33 (1.95%) JSON
4 33 (1.95%) OAuth
5 31 (1.83%) CSS
6 29 (1.71%) Middleware
6 29 (1.71%) Web Services
7 28 (1.65%) LDAP
7 28 (1.65%) XML
8 21 (1.24%) AngularJS
9 18 (1.06%) .NET
10 17 (1.00%) SAML
11 15 (0.88%) Ajax
11 15 (0.88%) OpenID
12 12 (0.71%) Flash
13 11 (0.65%) JDBC
13 11 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
13 11 (0.65%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 247 (14.56%) CMDB
2 143 (8.43%) Onboarding
3 71 (4.19%) Product Ownership
4 49 (2.89%) Data Centre
5 44 (2.59%) Enterprise Software
6 42 (2.48%) Management Information System
7 40 (2.36%) Cloud Native
8 32 (1.89%) Replication
9 29 (1.71%) Security Posture
10 25 (1.47%) PKI
10 25 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.30%) Linux Command Line
12 21 (1.24%) Clustering
13 20 (1.18%) AI Agents
14 19 (1.12%) Video Conferencing
15 18 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
15 18 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
16 17 (1.00%) Data Structures
17 15 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
17 15 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 276 (16.27%) Windows
2 99 (5.84%) Windows 10
3 92 (5.42%) Linux
4 46 (2.71%) Windows Server
5 45 (2.65%) Mac OS
6 34 (2.00%) Apple iOS
7 25 (1.47%) Unix
8 24 (1.42%) Android
9 18 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.53%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.24%) VMS
13 3 (0.18%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.18%) zOS
14 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.059%) MVS
15 1 (0.059%) SUSE
15 1 (0.059%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 647 (38.15%) ITSM
2 524 (30.90%) ITIL
3 345 (20.34%) Service Management
4 330 (19.46%) Agile
5 308 (18.16%) Problem-Solving
6 293 (17.28%) Stakeholder Management
7 260 (15.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 203 (11.97%) Change Management
9 198 (11.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 188 (11.08%) AI
11 186 (10.97%) DevOps
12 185 (10.91%) Customer Service
13 173 (10.20%) Service Delivery
14 152 (8.96%) Roadmaps
15 149 (8.79%) Migration
16 147 (8.67%) Workflow
17 131 (7.72%) Incident Management
18 127 (7.49%) Data Modelling
19 120 (7.08%) CI/CD
20 117 (6.90%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 123 (7.25%) SQL
2 122 (7.19%) PowerShell
3 116 (6.84%) JavaScript
4 103 (6.07%) Python
5 52 (3.07%) Java
6 32 (1.89%) C#
7 19 (1.12%) Bash
8 11 (0.65%) VBScript
9 10 (0.59%) Groovy
9 10 (0.59%) T-SQL
10 9 (0.53%) PL/SQL
11 8 (0.47%) VB
12 7 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (0.41%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.29%) Perl
13 5 (0.29%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.24%) BeanShell
14 4 (0.24%) Bicep
15 3 (0.18%) C++
15 3 (0.18%) JCL
Qualifications
1 473 (27.89%) Security Cleared
2 333 (19.63%) SC Cleared
3 130 (7.67%) Degree
4 101 (5.96%) DV Cleared
5 46 (2.71%) PMP
6 43 (2.54%) ITIL Certification
7 38 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
7 38 (2.24%) PMI Certification
8 35 (2.06%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (1.95%) CISSP
10 28 (1.65%) CCNP
11 26 (1.53%) CISM
12 25 (1.47%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (1.18%) CCNA
14 18 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
15 16 (0.94%) Azure Certification
15 16 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
16 15 (0.88%) A+ Certification
16 15 (0.88%) Server+ Certification
17 14 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (5.31%) SLA
2 74 (4.36%) Data Quality
3 55 (3.24%) GRC
4 48 (2.83%) QA
5 44 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (2.18%) NIST
7 33 (1.95%) GDPR
8 32 (1.89%) PMO
9 17 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.71%) COBIT
11 12 (0.71%) ISO 9001
11 12 (0.71%) NCSC
12 11 (0.65%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.35%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.29%) GxP
15 5 (0.29%) PCI DSS
16 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 3 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 214 (12.62%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.83%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.36%) Docker
4 19 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.83%) IAG
7 13 (0.77%) NFS
7 13 (0.77%) vSphere
8 12 (0.71%) GPFS
9 10 (0.59%) BitLocker
10 7 (0.41%) Firmware
10 7 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 2 (0.12%) RACF
13 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 68 (4.01%) Terraform
2 66 (3.89%) Microsoft Intune
3 53 (3.13%) SCCM
4 42 (2.48%) Ansible
5 31 (1.83%) Grafana
6 29 (1.71%) Kubernetes
7 25 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.24%) Prometheus
9 19 (1.12%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (0.71%) SCOM
10 12 (0.71%) WMI
11 10 (0.59%) vRealize
12 8 (0.47%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.41%) CASB
13 7 (0.41%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.35%) VxRail
15 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.24%) Packer
15 4 (0.24%) PingFederate
15 4 (0.24%) QRadar
Vendors
1 389 (22.94%) Microsoft
2 87 (5.13%) Cisco
3 78 (4.60%) Remedy
4 70 (4.13%) SAP
5 68 (4.01%) Splunk
6 58 (3.42%) Oracle
7 45 (2.65%) Salesforce
8 42 (2.48%) VMware
9 38 (2.24%) CyberArk
10 32 (1.89%) Workday
11 31 (1.83%) BMC
12 29 (1.71%) Apple
12 29 (1.71%) Fortinet
13 28 (1.65%) Dynatrace
14 25 (1.47%) Palo Alto
15 21 (1.24%) Snow
15 21 (1.24%) SolarWinds
16 20 (1.18%) CrowdStrike
17 19 (1.12%) F5
17 19 (1.12%) Qualys