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 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
18 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 68 77
Rank change year-on-year +12 +9 +5
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,760 1,013 925
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.85% 3.67% 2.79%
As % of the Vendors category 9.24% 7.77% 6.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,131 631 568
10th Percentile £218 £214 £213
25th Percentile £400 £315 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £502 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.68% -5.05% +0.05%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £580
90th Percentile £700 £660 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £505
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.94% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 84 73
10th Percentile £16.43 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £26.66 £18.82 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.66% +15.82% -21.04%
75th Percentile £67.47 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.70 £63.28 £24.84
UK median hourly rate £26.33 £17.87 £16.30
% change year-on-year +47.34% +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 19,039 13,034 14,465
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.62% 47.21% 43.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,986 8,232 9,238
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £614 £619 £628
90th Percentile £700 £716 £734
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,032 642 732
10th Percentile £14.82 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.25 £17.61 £15.62
Median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £29.39
Median % change year-on-year +35.11% -14.41% -21.64%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £62.51
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.75 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -10.18% -30.86%

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 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 18 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 18 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 +25 772 £525 +5.00% 125
North of England -4 354 £455 -8.14% 51
South East +16 351 £550 +41.94% 60
North West -3 232 £400 -21.88% 36
Midlands -1 138 £425 -10.53% 28
West Midlands -6 111 £431 -9.26% 23
Yorkshire -21 111 £501 +25.25% 12
East of England -37 56 £510 +13.33% 2
South West -54 54 £463 +38.06% 21
East Midlands -9 22 £413 - 6
North East -27 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 (6.08%) SharePoint
2 85 (4.83%) Confluence
3 46 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.91%) Skype for Business
5 9 (0.51%) Apache
5 9 (0.51%) nginx
6 4 (0.23%) CMS
7 3 (0.17%) IIS
7 3 (0.17%) Mendix
8 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.11%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.11%) SAS
8 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.057%) Drupal
9 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.057%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 83 (4.72%) Microsoft Office
2 80 (4.55%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (1.14%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.57%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.45%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.45%) Revit
8 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.057%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.057%) LaTeX
9 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 65 (3.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (0.68%) 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
6 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.11%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.11%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.057%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.057%) Cloudability
8 1 (0.057%) iTrent
8 1 (0.057%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.057%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.057%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 373 (21.19%) Azure
2 239 (13.58%) AWS
3 237 (13.47%) Microsoft 365
4 138 (7.84%) Power Platform
5 136 (7.73%) Entra ID
6 102 (5.80%) SaaS
7 64 (3.64%) Azure DevOps
8 55 (3.13%) GCP
9 41 (2.33%) GitHub
9 41 (2.33%) OneDrive
10 29 (1.65%) Microsoft Copilot
11 28 (1.59%) Datadog
12 27 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
13 23 (1.31%) Power Automate
14 21 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 21 (1.19%) Serverless
15 18 (1.02%) Amazon EC2
16 17 (0.97%) Amazon S3
17 16 (0.91%) PowerApps
18 15 (0.85%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 89 (5.06%) DNS
2 80 (4.55%) DHCP
3 66 (3.75%) Firewall
4 60 (3.41%) VPN
5 48 (2.73%) TCP/IP
6 35 (1.99%) Wireless
7 31 (1.76%) Network Security
8 28 (1.59%) VLAN
8 28 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
9 26 (1.48%) SSL
9 26 (1.48%) WAN
10 23 (1.31%) LAN
11 21 (1.19%) NX-OS
12 19 (1.08%) SAN
13 18 (1.02%) NAS
14 17 (0.97%) Skype
14 17 (0.97%) SSH
15 16 (0.91%) BGP
15 16 (0.91%) Cisco IOS
16 14 (0.80%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (5.91%) Power BI
2 51 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (0.80%) MySQL
7 13 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (0.74%) Power Query
8 9 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.28%) Metadata
11 5 (0.28%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.28%) Redis
11 5 (0.28%) Tableau
12 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.23%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 263 (14.94%) JIRA
2 78 (4.43%) Git
3 28 (1.59%) GitLab
4 25 (1.42%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.23%) Flyway
8 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.17%) MSI
9 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.11%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.11%) Tricentis qTest
9 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
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%) Postman
10 1 (0.057%) TeamCity
General
1 570 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 341 (19.38%) Finance
3 240 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
4 142 (8.07%) Public Sector
5 95 (5.40%) Banking
6 82 (4.66%) Telecoms
7 53 (3.01%) Legal
8 50 (2.84%) Organisational Skills
9 49 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
10 27 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
11 26 (1.48%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (1.14%) Military
14 19 (1.08%) Spanish Language
15 18 (1.02%) Police
16 17 (0.97%) French Language
16 17 (0.97%) Italian Language
16 17 (0.97%) Retail
17 16 (0.91%) Law
18 14 (0.80%) Billing
Job Titles
1 254 (14.43%) Architect
2 244 (13.86%) Analyst
3 189 (10.74%) Developer
4 163 (9.26%) ServiceNow Developer
5 148 (8.41%) ServiceNow Architect
6 130 (7.39%) Senior
7 109 (6.19%) Support Engineer
8 107 (6.08%) Consultant
9 97 (5.51%) IT Support
10 92 (5.23%) Lead
11 74 (4.20%) Service Analyst
12 71 (4.03%) Business Analyst
12 71 (4.03%) IT Engineer
13 67 (3.81%) Solutions Architect
14 62 (3.52%) IT Support Engineer
15 60 (3.41%) Project Manager
16 57 (3.24%) ServiceNow Consultant
17 43 (2.44%) Technical Architect
18 41 (2.33%) IT Manager
19 39 (2.22%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 205 (11.65%) REST
2 118 (6.70%) SOAP
3 47 (2.67%) JSON
4 35 (1.99%) HTML
4 35 (1.99%) SailPoint
5 34 (1.93%) OAuth
6 33 (1.88%) XML
7 31 (1.76%) CSS
8 29 (1.65%) Web Services
9 28 (1.59%) Middleware
10 26 (1.48%) LDAP
11 22 (1.25%) .NET
12 20 (1.14%) AngularJS
13 16 (0.91%) Ajax
13 16 (0.91%) SAML
14 14 (0.80%) OpenID
15 12 (0.68%) JDBC
15 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
16 11 (0.63%) Flash
16 11 (0.63%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 273 (15.51%) CMDB
2 175 (9.94%) Onboarding
3 69 (3.92%) Product Ownership
4 59 (3.35%) Enterprise Software
5 55 (3.13%) Data Centre
6 44 (2.50%) Cloud Native
6 44 (2.50%) Management Information System
7 34 (1.93%) Replication
8 26 (1.48%) PKI
8 26 (1.48%) Security Posture
9 24 (1.36%) AI Agents
10 23 (1.31%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.25%) Clustering
11 22 (1.25%) Video Conferencing
12 21 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
13 20 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (1.02%) Data Structures
14 18 (1.02%) iPhone
15 15 (0.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 327 (18.58%) Windows
2 111 (6.31%) Windows 10
3 104 (5.91%) Linux
4 51 (2.90%) Windows Server
5 48 (2.73%) Mac OS
6 36 (2.05%) Apple iOS
7 23 (1.31%) Android
8 20 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 19 (1.08%) Unix
10 16 (0.91%) Windows 7
11 6 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.23%) zOS
13 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.17%) VMS
14 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.057%) CentOS
15 1 (0.057%) MVS
15 1 (0.057%) SUSE
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 693 (39.38%) ITSM
2 564 (32.05%) ITIL
3 378 (21.48%) Service Management
4 332 (18.86%) Agile
5 324 (18.41%) Problem-Solving
6 316 (17.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 270 (15.34%) Continuous Improvement
8 210 (11.93%) Customer Service
9 202 (11.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 199 (11.31%) Service Delivery
11 198 (11.25%) AI
12 196 (11.14%) Change Management
13 195 (11.08%) DevOps
14 172 (9.77%) Roadmaps
15 152 (8.64%) Workflow
16 144 (8.18%) Migration
17 133 (7.56%) CI/CD
18 128 (7.27%) Incident Management
19 125 (7.10%) Data Modelling
20 121 (6.88%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 144 (8.18%) PowerShell
2 118 (6.70%) JavaScript
2 118 (6.70%) Python
3 108 (6.14%) SQL
4 50 (2.84%) Java
5 29 (1.65%) C#
6 22 (1.25%) Bash
7 18 (1.02%) VBScript
8 15 (0.85%) VB
9 13 (0.74%) Groovy
10 10 (0.57%) T-SQL
11 9 (0.51%) TypeScript
12 6 (0.34%) BeanShell
12 6 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.34%) Perl
12 6 (0.34%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.28%) C++
14 4 (0.23%) Bicep
14 4 (0.23%) PL/SQL
15 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 473 (26.88%) Security Cleared
2 334 (18.98%) SC Cleared
3 142 (8.07%) Degree
4 96 (5.45%) DV Cleared
5 43 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
5 43 (2.44%) PMP
6 39 (2.22%) BPSS Clearance
7 36 (2.05%) PMI Certification
8 35 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
9 30 (1.70%) Microsoft Certification
10 26 (1.48%) CCNP
11 25 (1.42%) CISSP
12 24 (1.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 22 (1.25%) CCNA
14 20 (1.14%) A+ Certification
15 19 (1.08%) Azure Certification
15 19 (1.08%) CISM
16 17 (0.97%) Network+ Certification
17 15 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
18 14 (0.80%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (5.63%) SLA
2 83 (4.72%) Data Quality
3 57 (3.24%) GRC
4 51 (2.90%) QA
5 45 (2.56%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 41 (2.33%) NIST
7 40 (2.27%) PMO
8 30 (1.70%) GDPR
9 19 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 16 (0.91%) COBIT
11 14 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
12 13 (0.74%) Accessibility
12 13 (0.74%) NCSC
13 12 (0.68%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.45%) GxP
14 8 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.34%) HIPAA
16 4 (0.23%) PCI DSS
17 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 228 (12.95%) Active Directory
2 42 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (1.76%) Docker
4 19 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (0.97%) BitLocker
7 16 (0.91%) IAG
8 13 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.68%) NFS
9 12 (0.68%) vSphere
10 11 (0.63%) GPFS
11 7 (0.40%) 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 (4.38%) Microsoft Intune
2 76 (4.32%) Terraform
3 67 (3.81%) SCCM
4 52 (2.95%) Ansible
5 36 (2.05%) Kubernetes
6 28 (1.59%) Grafana
7 24 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
9 18 (1.02%) Prometheus
10 14 (0.80%) SCOM
11 12 (0.68%) WMI
12 10 (0.57%) vRealize
13 9 (0.51%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.40%) RSA Archer
15 6 (0.34%) CASB
15 6 (0.34%) Packer
15 6 (0.34%) VxRail
16 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 4 (0.23%) CA Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 460 (26.14%) Microsoft
2 93 (5.28%) Cisco
3 74 (4.20%) Remedy
4 70 (3.98%) SAP
5 68 (3.86%) Oracle
6 67 (3.81%) Splunk
7 61 (3.47%) VMware
8 49 (2.78%) Salesforce
9 46 (2.61%) CyberArk
10 35 (1.99%) Dynatrace
11 33 (1.88%) BMC
12 31 (1.76%) Workday
13 30 (1.70%) Snow
14 29 (1.65%) Apple
15 23 (1.31%) Google
15 23 (1.31%) SolarWinds
16 22 (1.25%) iManage
16 22 (1.25%) Palo Alto
17 21 (1.19%) Adobe
17 21 (1.19%) IBM