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 1 October 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
1 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 69 77
Rank change year-on-year +8 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,743 1,023 902
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.74% 3.66% 2.79%
As % of the Vendors category 9.01% 7.68% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,098 663 530
10th Percentile £218 £204 £219
25th Percentile £400 £300 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £610 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £514 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +8.21% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 78 31
10th Percentile £16.03 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.63 £15.50 £14.69
Median hourly rate £26.33 £18.82 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +39.90% +3.81% -4.58%
75th Percentile £63.75 £32.84 £23.44
90th Percentile £87.14 £63.40 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £25.88 £17.75 £19.00
% change year-on-year +45.77% -6.58% -

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 19,337 13,323 14,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.54% 47.68% 44.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,901 8,487 8,614
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £623 £620 £630
90th Percentile £713 £701 £731
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,205 633 543
10th Percentile £14.02 £14.84 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.72 £18.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.14 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.94% -28.14% -20.18%
75th Percentile £62.50 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £25.52 £25.15 £31.50
% change year-on-year +1.47% -20.16% -27.38%

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 1 October 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 1 October 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 1 October 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 +30 764 £525 +5.00% 514
South East +17 342 £538 +45.27% 153
North of England -9 342 £455 -9.10% 121
North West -2 220 £375 -24.40% 72
Midlands -21 139 £425 -10.53% 79
West Midlands -4 120 £450 -5.26% 58
Yorkshire -24 114 £500 - 39
East of England -37 59 £510 +2.00% 56
South West -45 55 £500 +62.60% 53
East Midlands -19 16 £350 -27.27% 20
North East -29 14 £525 +50.00% 12
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 (6.66%) SharePoint
2 80 (4.59%) Confluence
3 45 (2.58%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.92%) Skype for Business
5 11 (0.63%) nginx
6 9 (0.52%) Apache
7 4 (0.23%) CICS
7 4 (0.23%) CMS
7 4 (0.23%) Mendix
8 2 (0.11%) Appian
8 2 (0.11%) SAS
8 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.057%) Drupal
9 1 (0.057%) IIS
9 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.057%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.057%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 78 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
2 77 (4.42%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (2.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 20 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (1.09%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.63%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.57%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.46%) Revit
9 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.057%) LaTeX
11 1 (0.057%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 61 (3.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 18 (1.03%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.40%) 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%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.057%) Actimize
8 1 (0.057%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.057%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.057%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.057%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.057%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 367 (21.06%) Azure
2 255 (14.63%) Microsoft 365
3 220 (12.62%) AWS
4 139 (7.97%) Power Platform
5 126 (7.23%) Entra ID
6 96 (5.51%) SaaS
7 63 (3.61%) GCP
8 55 (3.16%) Azure DevOps
9 50 (2.87%) GitHub
10 42 (2.41%) Azure Monitor
10 42 (2.41%) OneDrive
11 34 (1.95%) Microsoft Copilot
12 29 (1.66%) Datadog
13 24 (1.38%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 22 (1.26%) Serverless
15 21 (1.20%) Power Automate
16 20 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
17 18 (1.03%) Amazon S3
17 18 (1.03%) PowerApps
18 17 (0.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 87 (4.99%) DNS
2 74 (4.25%) DHCP
3 62 (3.56%) VPN
4 55 (3.16%) Firewall
5 52 (2.98%) TCP/IP
6 29 (1.66%) VLAN
7 27 (1.55%) Wi-Fi
8 24 (1.38%) Wireless
9 23 (1.32%) Network Security
9 23 (1.32%) SSL
10 21 (1.20%) NX-OS
10 21 (1.20%) WAN
11 19 (1.09%) LAN
11 19 (1.09%) SSH
12 18 (1.03%) BGP
13 17 (0.98%) Skype
14 12 (0.69%) Cisco IOS
14 12 (0.69%) SAN
14 12 (0.69%) VXLAN
15 11 (0.63%) Ethernet VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 96 (5.51%) Power BI
2 47 (2.70%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (1.15%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (0.92%) MySQL
5 16 (0.92%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
6 13 (0.75%) Metadata
7 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
8 6 (0.34%) BigQuery
8 6 (0.34%) Looker
8 6 (0.34%) Power Query
8 6 (0.34%) Redis
9 5 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
9 5 (0.29%) Db2
10 4 (0.23%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.17%) Pentaho
11 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 218 (12.51%) JIRA
2 72 (4.13%) Git
3 25 (1.43%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.38%) GitLab
5 8 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.23%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.17%) MSI
8 3 (0.17%) Postman
9 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.11%) Tricentis qTest
9 2 (0.11%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.057%) Flyway
10 1 (0.057%) Gatling
10 1 (0.057%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.057%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.057%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.057%) TeamCity
General
1 571 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 328 (18.82%) Finance
3 233 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (8.66%) Public Sector
5 87 (4.99%) Banking
6 77 (4.42%) Telecoms
7 53 (3.04%) Legal
8 45 (2.58%) Documentation Skills
9 43 (2.47%) Organisational Skills
10 32 (1.84%) Influencing Skills
11 28 (1.61%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (1.20%) Military
14 17 (0.98%) Police
14 17 (0.98%) Spanish Language
15 16 (0.92%) French Language
15 16 (0.92%) Italian Language
15 16 (0.92%) Law
16 13 (0.75%) Local Government
16 13 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 250 (14.34%) Architect
2 246 (14.11%) Analyst
3 182 (10.44%) Developer
4 157 (9.01%) ServiceNow Developer
5 146 (8.38%) ServiceNow Architect
6 131 (7.52%) Senior
7 117 (6.71%) Consultant
8 99 (5.68%) Support Engineer
9 96 (5.51%) Lead
10 88 (5.05%) IT Support
11 71 (4.07%) Solutions Architect
12 67 (3.84%) Service Analyst
13 65 (3.73%) IT Engineer
14 60 (3.44%) Business Analyst
14 60 (3.44%) Project Manager
15 57 (3.27%) IT Support Engineer
16 56 (3.21%) ServiceNow Consultant
17 46 (2.64%) Technical Architect
18 43 (2.47%) Service Manager
19 42 (2.41%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (11.07%) REST
2 99 (5.68%) SOAP
3 78 (4.48%) Terraform
4 50 (2.87%) JSON
5 34 (1.95%) HTML
5 34 (1.95%) OAuth
6 33 (1.89%) Middleware
6 33 (1.89%) XML
7 31 (1.78%) CSS
7 31 (1.78%) SailPoint
8 27 (1.55%) LDAP
9 19 (1.09%) Web Services
10 17 (0.98%) Ajax
11 16 (0.92%) .NET
12 15 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
12 15 (0.86%) OAuth2
12 15 (0.86%) YAML
13 13 (0.75%) SAML
14 12 (0.69%) OpenID
15 11 (0.63%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 297 (17.04%) CMDB
2 187 (10.73%) Onboarding
3 74 (4.25%) Enterprise Software
4 59 (3.38%) Data Centre
5 54 (3.10%) Management Information System
6 52 (2.98%) Product Ownership
7 44 (2.52%) Cloud Native
8 36 (2.07%) Replication
9 29 (1.66%) AI Agents
10 25 (1.43%) PKI
11 24 (1.38%) Video Conferencing
12 22 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.20%) Data Protection Act
14 19 (1.09%) Clustering
15 18 (1.03%) Linux Command Line
16 17 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
16 17 (0.98%) iPhone
17 16 (0.92%) Data Structures
18 15 (0.86%) Low-Code
18 15 (0.86%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 334 (19.16%) Windows
2 110 (6.31%) Windows 10
3 108 (6.20%) Linux
4 54 (3.10%) Windows Server
5 52 (2.98%) Mac OS
6 35 (2.01%) Apple iOS
7 25 (1.43%) Android
8 21 (1.20%) Unix
9 20 (1.15%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 16 (0.92%) Windows 7
11 9 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
12 7 (0.40%) zOS
13 4 (0.23%) VMS
14 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
14 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.057%) MVS
15 1 (0.057%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 709 (40.68%) ITSM
2 556 (31.90%) ITIL
3 408 (23.41%) Service Management
4 365 (20.94%) Stakeholder Management
5 317 (18.19%) Agile
6 313 (17.96%) Problem-Solving
7 265 (15.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 219 (12.56%) AI
9 201 (11.53%) Customer Service
10 194 (11.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 191 (10.96%) Service Delivery
12 186 (10.67%) DevOps
13 185 (10.61%) Roadmaps
14 173 (9.93%) Change Management
15 154 (8.84%) Workflow
16 138 (7.92%) Migration
17 134 (7.69%) Asset Management
18 128 (7.34%) Incident Management
19 124 (7.11%) CI/CD
20 121 (6.94%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 152 (8.72%) PowerShell
2 123 (7.06%) Python
3 119 (6.83%) JavaScript
4 85 (4.88%) SQL
5 37 (2.12%) Java
6 28 (1.61%) Bash
7 18 (1.03%) VBScript
8 17 (0.98%) Groovy
9 15 (0.86%) T-SQL
9 15 (0.86%) VB
10 14 (0.80%) C#
11 8 (0.46%) Perl
12 6 (0.34%) BeanShell
12 6 (0.34%) JCL
12 6 (0.34%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.29%) Go
13 5 (0.29%) Google Apps Script
13 5 (0.29%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.29%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.17%) C++
Qualifications
1 470 (26.97%) Security Cleared
2 355 (20.37%) SC Cleared
3 134 (7.69%) Degree
4 77 (4.42%) DV Cleared
5 43 (2.47%) BPSS Clearance
6 42 (2.41%) PMP
7 38 (2.18%) ITIL Certification
7 38 (2.18%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (2.07%) PMI Certification
9 32 (1.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 29 (1.66%) Azure Certification
11 24 (1.38%) Cisco Certification
12 21 (1.20%) A+ Certification
13 19 (1.09%) CCNP
13 19 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
14 17 (0.98%) CISSP
15 16 (0.92%) CCNA
16 15 (0.86%) AWS Certification
17 13 (0.75%) Network+ Certification
18 12 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (5.74%) SLA
2 98 (5.62%) Data Quality
3 61 (3.50%) GRC
4 58 (3.33%) QA
5 50 (2.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (2.29%) PMO
7 37 (2.12%) NIST
8 23 (1.32%) GDPR
9 18 (1.03%) NCSC
10 17 (0.98%) COBIT
11 16 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.80%) Accessibility
13 12 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 12 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.63%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.40%) GxP
16 7 (0.40%) HIPAA
17 6 (0.34%) PCI DSS
17 6 (0.34%) SOC 2
System Software
1 215 (12.34%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.35%) Docker
2 41 (2.35%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.32%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.98%) BitLocker
5 15 (0.86%) IAG
5 15 (0.86%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.86%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.57%) NFS
6 10 (0.57%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.52%) vSphere
8 8 (0.46%) GPFS
9 6 (0.34%) Firmware
10 5 (0.29%) 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 89 (5.11%) Microsoft Intune
2 70 (4.02%) SCCM
3 58 (3.33%) Ansible
4 43 (2.47%) Kubernetes
5 33 (1.89%) Grafana
6 22 (1.26%) SCOM
7 21 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
9 16 (0.92%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.57%) WMI
11 9 (0.52%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.40%) Control-M
12 7 (0.40%) vRealize
13 6 (0.34%) Packer
14 5 (0.29%) PowerCLI
15 4 (0.23%) Kibana
15 4 (0.23%) Rancher
15 4 (0.23%) SCOrch
15 4 (0.23%) SELinux
15 4 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 499 (28.63%) Microsoft
2 76 (4.36%) Cisco
3 68 (3.90%) Remedy
4 67 (3.84%) Oracle
5 64 (3.67%) Splunk
6 63 (3.61%) SAP
7 59 (3.38%) VMware
8 53 (3.04%) Salesforce
9 46 (2.64%) Dynatrace
10 43 (2.47%) CyberArk
11 34 (1.95%) Google
12 31 (1.78%) Apple
13 30 (1.72%) BMC
13 30 (1.72%) Snow
13 30 (1.72%) SolarWinds
14 24 (1.38%) Workday
15 23 (1.32%) Adobe
15 23 (1.32%) Okta
16 22 (1.26%) IBM
16 22 (1.26%) Red Hat