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 4 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
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 66 76
Rank change year-on-year +4 +10 -5
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,713 1,037 927
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.70% 3.69% 2.86%
As % of the Vendors category 8.92% 7.74% 6.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,077 676 539
10th Percentile £218 £204 £214
25th Percentile £400 £300 £353
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 £515 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +8.42% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 81 32
10th Percentile £16.03 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.63 £15.50 £14.96
Median hourly rate £26.33 £18.82 £17.57
Median % change year-on-year +39.90% +7.14% -7.55%
75th Percentile £63.75 £33.75 £23.29
90th Percentile £87.14 £63.40 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £25.88 £17.81 £18.57
% change year-on-year +45.28% -4.07% -2.29%

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 19,202 13,397 14,433
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.45% 47.72% 44.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,771 8,513 8,666
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £414 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £625 £620 £628
90th Percentile £713 £700 £728
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,229 649 539
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.96 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.72 £18.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -28.14% -20.16%
75th Percentile £62.50 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.99 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £25.34 £25.15 £32.50
% change year-on-year +0.75% -22.62% -25.29%

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 4 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 4 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 4 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 +22 757 £525 +5.00% 486
South East +16 337 £538 +50.35% 153
North of England -12 335 £450 -10.00% 120
North West -2 217 £365 -25.81% 72
Midlands -16 135 £434 -8.74% 86
West Midlands -16 117 £461 -3.00% 64
Yorkshire -24 110 £494 -1.25% 39
East of England -33 59 £550 +8.70% 48
South West -52 48 £500 +55.64% 50
East Midlands -13 16 £381 -15.28% 21
North East -32 13 £500 +42.86% 10
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 (6.42%) SharePoint
2 77 (4.50%) Confluence
3 46 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.93%) Skype for Business
5 11 (0.64%) nginx
6 8 (0.47%) Apache
7 4 (0.23%) CICS
7 4 (0.23%) CMS
7 4 (0.23%) Mendix
8 2 (0.12%) Appian
8 2 (0.12%) SAS
9 1 (0.058%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.058%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.058%) Drupal
9 1 (0.058%) IIS
9 1 (0.058%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.058%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.058%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.058%) WebSphere
Applications
1 74 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
1 74 (4.32%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 19 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
3 19 (1.11%) MS Visio
4 11 (0.64%) Chatbot
5 9 (0.53%) AutoCAD
6 7 (0.41%) Revit
7 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.18%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.058%) LaTeX
9 1 (0.058%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.058%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 60 (3.50%) Remedy ITSM
2 18 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.41%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.12%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.12%) Maximo
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.058%) Actimize
8 1 (0.058%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.058%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.058%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.058%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.058%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 360 (21.02%) Azure
2 253 (14.77%) Microsoft 365
3 216 (12.61%) AWS
4 135 (7.88%) Power Platform
5 125 (7.30%) Entra ID
6 93 (5.43%) SaaS
7 63 (3.68%) GCP
8 54 (3.15%) Azure DevOps
9 50 (2.92%) GitHub
10 42 (2.45%) Azure Monitor
11 40 (2.34%) OneDrive
12 34 (1.98%) Microsoft Copilot
13 29 (1.69%) Datadog
14 24 (1.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 22 (1.28%) Serverless
16 21 (1.23%) Power Automate
17 20 (1.17%) Amazon EC2
18 18 (1.05%) Amazon S3
18 18 (1.05%) PowerApps
19 17 (0.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 83 (4.85%) DNS
2 70 (4.09%) DHCP
3 60 (3.50%) VPN
4 54 (3.15%) Firewall
5 52 (3.04%) TCP/IP
6 27 (1.58%) VLAN
7 26 (1.52%) Wi-Fi
8 23 (1.34%) Network Security
8 23 (1.34%) SSL
9 22 (1.28%) Wireless
10 21 (1.23%) WAN
11 20 (1.17%) NX-OS
12 19 (1.11%) LAN
12 19 (1.11%) SSH
13 18 (1.05%) BGP
14 17 (0.99%) Skype
15 12 (0.70%) VXLAN
16 11 (0.64%) Ethernet VPN
16 11 (0.64%) SAN
16 11 (0.64%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (5.37%) Power BI
2 44 (2.57%) SQL Server
3 28 (1.63%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (1.17%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (0.93%) MySQL
6 15 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (0.82%) Metadata
8 13 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.41%) BigQuery
9 7 (0.41%) Looker
9 7 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.35%) Power Query
10 6 (0.35%) Redis
11 5 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.23%) Db2
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 3 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.18%) Data Mart
13 3 (0.18%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.18%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 213 (12.43%) JIRA
2 71 (4.14%) Git
3 25 (1.46%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.40%) GitLab
5 8 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.23%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.18%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.18%) Postman
9 2 (0.12%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.12%) MSI
9 2 (0.12%) Tricentis qTest
9 2 (0.12%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.058%) Eclipse
10 1 (0.058%) JMeter
10 1 (0.058%) LoadRunner
10 1 (0.058%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.058%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.058%) Subversion
General
1 562 (32.81%) Social Skills
2 320 (18.68%) Finance
3 231 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (8.81%) Public Sector
5 87 (5.08%) Banking
6 76 (4.44%) Telecoms
7 53 (3.09%) Legal
8 44 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
9 39 (2.28%) Organisational Skills
10 32 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (1.69%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.28%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 19 (1.11%) Military
14 17 (0.99%) Law
14 17 (0.99%) Police
14 17 (0.99%) Spanish Language
15 16 (0.93%) French Language
15 16 (0.93%) Italian Language
16 13 (0.76%) Local Government
16 13 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 243 (14.19%) Architect
2 241 (14.07%) Analyst
3 181 (10.57%) Developer
4 156 (9.11%) ServiceNow Developer
5 141 (8.23%) ServiceNow Architect
6 126 (7.36%) Senior
7 114 (6.65%) Consultant
8 100 (5.84%) Support Engineer
9 95 (5.55%) Lead
10 87 (5.08%) IT Support
11 69 (4.03%) Solutions Architect
12 67 (3.91%) Service Analyst
13 65 (3.79%) IT Engineer
14 59 (3.44%) Project Manager
15 57 (3.33%) Business Analyst
15 57 (3.33%) IT Support Engineer
16 56 (3.27%) ServiceNow Consultant
17 44 (2.57%) Service Manager
17 44 (2.57%) Technical Architect
18 41 (2.39%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 186 (10.86%) REST
2 95 (5.55%) SOAP
3 76 (4.44%) Terraform
4 49 (2.86%) JSON
5 34 (1.98%) OAuth
6 32 (1.87%) HTML
6 32 (1.87%) XML
7 31 (1.81%) Middleware
8 29 (1.69%) CSS
9 28 (1.63%) SailPoint
10 25 (1.46%) LDAP
11 19 (1.11%) Web Services
12 17 (0.99%) Ajax
13 15 (0.88%) .NET
13 15 (0.88%) OAuth2
13 15 (0.88%) YAML
14 14 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
15 13 (0.76%) SAML
16 12 (0.70%) OpenID
17 11 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 293 (17.10%) CMDB
2 186 (10.86%) Onboarding
3 73 (4.26%) Enterprise Software
4 56 (3.27%) Data Centre
5 55 (3.21%) Management Information System
6 49 (2.86%) Product Ownership
7 44 (2.57%) Cloud Native
8 36 (2.10%) Replication
9 29 (1.69%) AI Agents
10 24 (1.40%) Video Conferencing
11 23 (1.34%) PKI
12 22 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.05%) Clustering
14 18 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
15 17 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (0.99%) iPhone
16 16 (0.93%) Data Structures
17 15 (0.88%) Low-Code
18 14 (0.82%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 331 (19.32%) Windows
2 110 (6.42%) Windows 10
3 107 (6.25%) Linux
4 53 (3.09%) Windows Server
5 52 (3.04%) Mac OS
6 35 (2.04%) Apple iOS
7 25 (1.46%) Android
8 20 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 20 (1.17%) Unix
9 16 (0.93%) Windows 7
10 9 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
11 7 (0.41%) zOS
12 4 (0.23%) VMS
13 3 (0.18%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.058%) AIX
14 1 (0.058%) SUSE
14 1 (0.058%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 696 (40.63%) ITSM
2 551 (32.17%) ITIL
3 403 (23.53%) Service Management
4 367 (21.42%) Stakeholder Management
5 306 (17.86%) Agile
6 304 (17.75%) Problem-Solving
7 260 (15.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 218 (12.73%) AI
9 200 (11.68%) Customer Service
10 188 (10.97%) Service Delivery
10 188 (10.97%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 184 (10.74%) Roadmaps
12 182 (10.62%) DevOps
13 169 (9.87%) Change Management
14 152 (8.87%) Workflow
15 137 (8.00%) Migration
16 132 (7.71%) Asset Management
17 128 (7.47%) Incident Management
18 122 (7.12%) Data Modelling
19 121 (7.06%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 147 (8.58%) PowerShell
2 121 (7.06%) Python
3 115 (6.71%) JavaScript
4 82 (4.79%) SQL
5 35 (2.04%) Java
6 28 (1.63%) Bash
7 18 (1.05%) VBScript
8 17 (0.99%) Groovy
9 15 (0.88%) T-SQL
9 15 (0.88%) VB
10 14 (0.82%) C#
11 8 (0.47%) Perl
12 6 (0.35%) BeanShell
12 6 (0.35%) JCL
12 6 (0.35%) 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 (0.18%) C++
Qualifications
1 459 (26.80%) Security Cleared
2 347 (20.26%) SC Cleared
3 130 (7.59%) Degree
4 75 (4.38%) DV Cleared
5 42 (2.45%) PMP
6 41 (2.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 38 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
7 38 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (2.10%) PMI Certification
9 31 (1.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 28 (1.63%) Azure Certification
11 23 (1.34%) Cisco Certification
12 21 (1.23%) A+ Certification
13 19 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
14 18 (1.05%) CCNP
15 17 (0.99%) CISSP
16 15 (0.88%) AWS Certification
16 15 (0.88%) CCNA
17 12 (0.70%) CISM
17 12 (0.70%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 100 (5.84%) Data Quality
1 100 (5.84%) SLA
2 60 (3.50%) GRC
3 59 (3.44%) QA
4 50 (2.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 38 (2.22%) NIST
5 38 (2.22%) PMO
6 24 (1.40%) GDPR
7 18 (1.05%) NCSC
8 17 (0.99%) COBIT
9 15 (0.88%) Cyber Essentials
10 12 (0.70%) Accessibility
10 12 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
10 12 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 11 (0.64%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 7 (0.41%) GxP
13 7 (0.41%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.41%) PCI DSS
14 6 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 213 (12.43%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.39%) Docker
2 41 (2.39%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.28%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.99%) BitLocker
5 15 (0.88%) IAG
5 15 (0.88%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.58%) NFS
6 10 (0.58%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.53%) vSphere
8 8 (0.47%) GPFS
9 6 (0.35%) Firmware
10 5 (0.29%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.12%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.12%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 2 (0.12%) Postfix
12 2 (0.12%) Squid
Systems Management
1 87 (5.08%) Microsoft Intune
2 70 (4.09%) SCCM
3 57 (3.33%) Ansible
4 43 (2.51%) Kubernetes
5 33 (1.93%) Grafana
6 22 (1.28%) SCOM
7 21 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
9 16 (0.93%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.58%) WMI
11 9 (0.53%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.41%) Control-M
12 7 (0.41%) vRealize
13 6 (0.35%) 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%) VxRail
16 3 (0.18%) ITRS Geneos
Vendors
1 494 (28.84%) Microsoft
2 75 (4.38%) Cisco
3 67 (3.91%) Remedy
4 65 (3.79%) Oracle
5 64 (3.74%) SAP
5 64 (3.74%) Splunk
6 59 (3.44%) VMware
7 51 (2.98%) Salesforce
8 46 (2.69%) Dynatrace
9 42 (2.45%) CyberArk
10 34 (1.98%) Google
11 31 (1.81%) Apple
11 31 (1.81%) SolarWinds
12 29 (1.69%) BMC
13 27 (1.58%) Snow
14 24 (1.40%) Workday
15 22 (1.28%) Adobe
15 22 (1.28%) IBM
15 22 (1.28%) Okta
15 22 (1.28%) Red Hat