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 September 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 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 69 85
Rank change year-on-year +11 +16 -8
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,751 1,006 864
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.83% 3.65% 2.61%
As % of the Vendors category 9.22% 7.74% 5.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,110 632 538
10th Percentile £213 £213 £220
25th Percentile £400 £314 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £505
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.94% +1.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £505 £475 £505
% change year-on-year +6.32% -5.94% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 87 42
10th Percentile £16.03 £13.00 £13.90
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.50 £14.16
Median hourly rate £26.33 £18.82 £16.65
Median % change year-on-year +39.90% +13.03% -18.50%
75th Percentile £64.68 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.47 £63.16 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £25.88 £17.94 £17.00
% change year-on-year +44.27% +5.50% -16.79%

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 18,990 12,995 14,525
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.58% 47.12% 43.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,875 8,243 9,055
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
75th Percentile £619 £615 £630
90th Percentile £706 £706 £733
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,044 618 656
10th Percentile £14.48 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £17.36 £17.61 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -16.17% -27.71%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.50 £63.84
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £70.63
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -13.28% -31.76%

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 September 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 September 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 September 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 +25 762 £525 +5.00% 387
North of England -3 358 £450 -10.00% 94
South East +15 342 £538 +53.57% 108
North West 0 233 £375 -26.66% 72
Midlands +2 140 £425 -10.53% 52
West Midlands -5 115 £448 -5.79% 43
Yorkshire -16 114 £500 +3.36% 15
South West -43 56 £463 +42.31% 43
East of England -39 54 £510 +2.00% 21
East Midlands -5 20 £413 - 10
North East -33 17 £500 +42.86% 8
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
1 110 (6.28%) SharePoint
2 85 (4.85%) Confluence
3 47 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.91%) Skype for Business
5 11 (0.63%) nginx
6 8 (0.46%) Apache
7 4 (0.23%) CMS
8 3 (0.17%) IIS
8 3 (0.17%) Mendix
9 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.11%) SAS
9 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.057%) Drupal
10 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.057%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 80 (4.57%) Microsoft Office
2 79 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (2.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.54%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (1.14%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.57%) AutoCAD
6 10 (0.57%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.46%) Revit
8 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
8 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.057%) LaTeX
9 1 (0.057%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 60 (3.43%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.29%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
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%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.057%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.057%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 371 (21.19%) Azure
2 243 (13.88%) Microsoft 365
3 236 (13.48%) AWS
4 139 (7.94%) Power Platform
5 135 (7.71%) Entra ID
6 103 (5.88%) SaaS
7 54 (3.08%) Azure DevOps
8 50 (2.86%) GCP
9 43 (2.46%) GitHub
9 43 (2.46%) OneDrive
10 33 (1.88%) Azure Monitor
11 31 (1.77%) Microsoft Copilot
12 30 (1.71%) Datadog
13 24 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 24 (1.37%) Power Automate
14 20 (1.14%) Serverless
15 19 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (1.03%) Amazon S3
17 17 (0.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 16 (0.91%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 89 (5.08%) DNS
2 78 (4.45%) DHCP
3 62 (3.54%) VPN
4 61 (3.48%) Firewall
5 50 (2.86%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.71%) Wireless
7 29 (1.66%) SSL
8 28 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
9 26 (1.48%) VLAN
9 26 (1.48%) WAN
10 24 (1.37%) Network Security
11 23 (1.31%) LAN
12 18 (1.03%) NX-OS
12 18 (1.03%) SSH
13 17 (0.97%) SAN
13 17 (0.97%) Skype
14 16 (0.91%) BGP
15 15 (0.86%) NAS
16 13 (0.74%) Cisco IOS
16 13 (0.74%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (5.94%) Power BI
2 53 (3.03%) SQL Server
3 32 (1.83%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (1.20%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (0.97%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 16 (0.91%) MySQL
7 13 (0.74%) Power Query
8 12 (0.69%) Amazon Aurora
8 12 (0.69%) Metadata
9 11 (0.63%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (0.29%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.29%) Redis
11 5 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.23%) PowerPivot
13 3 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
13 3 (0.17%) Pentaho
13 3 (0.17%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 246 (14.05%) JIRA
2 70 (4.00%) Git
3 27 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 25 (1.43%) GitLab
5 8 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.17%) Flyway
7 3 (0.17%) MSI
8 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.11%) Tricentis qTest
8 2 (0.11%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.057%) LoadRunner
9 1 (0.057%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.057%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.057%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
9 1 (0.057%) TeamCity
General
1 562 (32.10%) Social Skills
2 327 (18.68%) Finance
3 234 (13.36%) Analytical Skills
4 153 (8.74%) Public Sector
5 90 (5.14%) Banking
6 83 (4.74%) Telecoms
7 51 (2.91%) Legal
8 47 (2.68%) Documentation Skills
8 47 (2.68%) Organisational Skills
9 28 (1.60%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (1.48%) Manufacturing
11 24 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (1.20%) Military
13 19 (1.09%) Spanish Language
14 18 (1.03%) French Language
14 18 (1.03%) Italian Language
14 18 (1.03%) Police
15 16 (0.91%) Law
15 16 (0.91%) Retail
16 15 (0.86%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 252 (14.39%) Analyst
2 250 (14.28%) Architect
3 182 (10.39%) Developer
4 162 (9.25%) ServiceNow Developer
5 148 (8.45%) ServiceNow Architect
6 122 (6.97%) Senior
7 109 (6.23%) Consultant
8 103 (5.88%) Support Engineer
9 93 (5.31%) Lead
10 91 (5.20%) IT Support
11 73 (4.17%) Service Analyst
12 68 (3.88%) Solutions Architect
13 67 (3.83%) Business Analyst
13 67 (3.83%) IT Engineer
14 61 (3.48%) Project Manager
15 58 (3.31%) IT Support Engineer
16 56 (3.20%) ServiceNow Consultant
17 39 (2.23%) Service Desk Analyst
17 39 (2.23%) Technical Architect
18 38 (2.17%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (11.31%) REST
2 115 (6.57%) SOAP
3 72 (4.11%) Terraform
4 43 (2.46%) JSON
5 36 (2.06%) HTML
6 35 (2.00%) SailPoint
7 32 (1.83%) CSS
7 32 (1.83%) OAuth
8 30 (1.71%) LDAP
8 30 (1.71%) XML
9 24 (1.37%) Middleware
9 24 (1.37%) Web Services
10 19 (1.09%) .NET
11 17 (0.97%) AngularJS
12 16 (0.91%) Ajax
13 14 (0.80%) JDBC
13 14 (0.80%) SAML
14 12 (0.69%) OpenID
15 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Graph
15 11 (0.63%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 285 (16.28%) CMDB
2 178 (10.17%) Onboarding
3 63 (3.60%) Enterprise Software
4 60 (3.43%) Product Ownership
5 52 (2.97%) Data Centre
6 45 (2.57%) Management Information System
7 40 (2.28%) Cloud Native
8 38 (2.17%) Replication
9 25 (1.43%) PKI
9 25 (1.43%) Security Posture
10 24 (1.37%) AI Agents
10 24 (1.37%) Clustering
10 24 (1.37%) Video Conferencing
11 22 (1.26%) Self-Motivation
12 20 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
13 19 (1.09%) Linux Command Line
14 18 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
15 16 (0.91%) Data Structures
15 16 (0.91%) iPhone
16 15 (0.86%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 334 (19.07%) Windows
2 110 (6.28%) Windows 10
3 105 (6.00%) Linux
4 52 (2.97%) Windows Server
5 49 (2.80%) Mac OS
6 35 (2.00%) Apple iOS
7 24 (1.37%) Android
8 19 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 18 (1.03%) Unix
10 16 (0.91%) Windows 7
11 9 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.23%) VMS
12 4 (0.23%) zOS
13 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.057%) MVS
14 1 (0.057%) SUSE
14 1 (0.057%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 691 (39.46%) ITSM
2 555 (31.70%) ITIL
3 385 (21.99%) Service Management
4 325 (18.56%) Agile
4 325 (18.56%) Stakeholder Management
5 321 (18.33%) Problem-Solving
6 268 (15.31%) Continuous Improvement
7 213 (12.16%) AI
8 209 (11.94%) Customer Service
9 202 (11.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 188 (10.74%) Change Management
10 188 (10.74%) Service Delivery
11 184 (10.51%) DevOps
12 178 (10.17%) Roadmaps
13 150 (8.57%) Workflow
14 137 (7.82%) Migration
15 131 (7.48%) Incident Management
16 124 (7.08%) Asset Management
17 123 (7.02%) CI/CD
18 119 (6.80%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 145 (8.28%) PowerShell
2 116 (6.62%) JavaScript
3 113 (6.45%) Python
4 97 (5.54%) SQL
5 48 (2.74%) Java
6 23 (1.31%) Bash
7 19 (1.09%) C#
8 18 (1.03%) VBScript
9 16 (0.91%) Groovy
10 15 (0.86%) VB
11 14 (0.80%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.51%) TypeScript
13 8 (0.46%) BeanShell
14 7 (0.40%) Perl
15 6 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
16 5 (0.29%) PL/SQL
16 5 (0.29%) Shell Script
17 4 (0.23%) C++
18 3 (0.17%) JCL
18 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 473 (27.01%) Security Cleared
2 344 (19.65%) SC Cleared
3 134 (7.65%) Degree
4 89 (5.08%) DV Cleared
5 44 (2.51%) PMP
6 43 (2.46%) ITIL Certification
7 42 (2.40%) BPSS Clearance
8 37 (2.11%) PMI Certification
9 35 (2.00%) Microsoft Certification
10 29 (1.66%) Cisco Certification
11 28 (1.60%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 25 (1.43%) Azure Certification
13 23 (1.31%) CISSP
14 22 (1.26%) CCNP
15 20 (1.14%) A+ Certification
16 19 (1.09%) CCNA
17 17 (0.97%) CISM
18 16 (0.91%) AWS Certification
19 14 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
19 14 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (5.83%) SLA
2 90 (5.14%) Data Quality
3 60 (3.43%) GRC
4 54 (3.08%) QA
5 44 (2.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (2.40%) PMO
7 39 (2.23%) NIST
8 30 (1.71%) GDPR
9 18 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 17 (0.97%) COBIT
11 15 (0.86%) NCSC
12 14 (0.80%) Accessibility
12 14 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
13 12 (0.69%) ISO 9001
14 11 (0.63%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 8 (0.46%) GxP
16 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.34%) HIPAA
17 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 19770
17 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 230 (13.14%) Active Directory
2 40 (2.28%) VMware Infrastructure
3 35 (2.00%) Docker
4 22 (1.26%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.97%) BitLocker
5 17 (0.97%) IAG
6 16 (0.91%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 11 (0.63%) NFS
9 10 (0.57%) vSphere
10 9 (0.51%) GPFS
11 8 (0.46%) Firmware
12 7 (0.40%) VMware NSX
13 5 (0.29%) Hyper-V
14 2 (0.11%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.11%) Dovecot
14 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
14 2 (0.11%) Postfix
14 2 (0.11%) RACF
14 2 (0.11%) Squid
Systems Management
1 78 (4.45%) Microsoft Intune
2 67 (3.83%) SCCM
3 55 (3.14%) Ansible
4 35 (2.00%) Kubernetes
5 30 (1.71%) Grafana
6 24 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
7 21 (1.20%) SCOM
8 19 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
8 19 (1.09%) Prometheus
9 10 (0.57%) WMI
10 9 (0.51%) vCenter Server
11 8 (0.46%) vRealize
12 6 (0.34%) Packer
12 6 (0.34%) RSA Archer
13 5 (0.29%) CASB
14 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
14 4 (0.23%) PowerCLI
14 4 (0.23%) SELinux
14 4 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 468 (26.73%) Microsoft
2 80 (4.57%) Cisco
3 70 (4.00%) Oracle
4 68 (3.88%) Remedy
5 66 (3.77%) SAP
6 62 (3.54%) Splunk
7 59 (3.37%) VMware
8 51 (2.91%) CyberArk
8 51 (2.91%) Salesforce
9 37 (2.11%) Dynatrace
10 31 (1.77%) BMC
10 31 (1.77%) Workday
11 30 (1.71%) Snow
12 29 (1.66%) Apple
13 25 (1.43%) SolarWinds
14 24 (1.37%) Adobe
15 23 (1.31%) Google
16 22 (1.26%) iManage
17 20 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
17 20 (1.14%) Palo Alto