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 February 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 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 64 72
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 +45
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,227 883 1,060
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.55% 3.42% 2.81%
As % of the Vendors category 7.89% 7.35% 6.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 850 497 657
10th Percentile £204 £200 £163
25th Percentile £350 £355 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.52% -1.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £591 £600
90th Percentile £688 £677 £717
UK median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 24 59
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.47
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.86 £16.06
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.46 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +21.11% +4.43%
75th Percentile £25.11 £23.40 £23.75
90th Percentile £95.00 £29.70 £38.80
UK median hourly rate £19.25 £22.69 £17.72
% change year-on-year -15.15% +28.03% +4.64%

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 15,561 12,008 16,275
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 45.00% 46.52% 43.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,166 7,316 10,432
10th Percentile £300 £278 £250
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £703 £719 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £521 £525
% change year-on-year -3.94% -0.86% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 794 339 861
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.01 £20.09 £15.43
Median hourly rate £23.83 £31.35 £27.52
Median % change year-on-year -23.99% +13.92% -17.25%
75th Percentile £57.25 £65.00 £56.49
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £30.00 £27.33
% change year-on-year -20.00% +9.76% -17.17%

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 February 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 February 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 February 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 -33 504 £497 -5.29% 114
North of England -3 215 £500 +25.00% 50
South East +42 186 £425 +1.80% 108
Midlands +12 179 £464 +3.11% 31
West Midlands +2 138 £475 -13.64% 23
North West -6 116 £450 +13.92% 33
Yorkshire +8 92 £535 +22.29% 15
East of England -9 67 £525 +2.44% 10
South West +9 62 £725 +222.22% 10
East Midlands +6 38 £413 +15.87% 8
North East -15 7 £176 -41.33% 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 75 (6.11%) Confluence
2 74 (6.03%) SharePoint
3 51 (4.16%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.73%) Skype for Business
5 6 (0.49%) Apache
5 6 (0.49%) Appian
5 6 (0.49%) Camunda
6 4 (0.33%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.33%) nginx
7 3 (0.24%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.24%) CICS
7 3 (0.24%) HCL Notes
7 3 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.24%) SAS
8 2 (0.16%) CMS
8 2 (0.16%) JBoss
9 1 (0.081%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.081%) IIS
9 1 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.081%) WebSphere
Applications
1 75 (6.11%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (4.81%) Microsoft Excel
3 57 (4.65%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.71%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.47%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.57%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.33%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (0.33%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 4 (0.33%) Trello
8 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 36 (2.93%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.73%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.65%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 7 (0.57%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.49%) Salesforce CRM
7 4 (0.33%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (0.24%) Maximo
8 3 (0.24%) SAP GRC
9 2 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.16%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.16%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.16%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.081%) Oracle Payables
10 1 (0.081%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.081%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
10 1 (0.081%) SAP ERP
10 1 (0.081%) SAP MDG
10 1 (0.081%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 248 (20.21%) Azure
2 186 (15.16%) Microsoft 365
3 151 (12.31%) AWS
4 95 (7.74%) Entra ID
5 66 (5.38%) Power Platform
6 62 (5.05%) GCP
6 62 (5.05%) SaaS
7 50 (4.07%) Azure DevOps
8 35 (2.85%) OneDrive
9 20 (1.63%) GitHub
10 16 (1.30%) Amazon S3
10 16 (1.30%) AWS KMS
11 15 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (1.22%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (1.22%) Amazon ELB
11 15 (1.22%) Power Automate
11 15 (1.22%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 13 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
13 12 (0.98%) Sauce Labs
14 9 (0.73%) Azure Data Factory
Communications & Networking
1 71 (5.79%) DNS
2 55 (4.48%) VPN
3 45 (3.67%) DHCP
4 39 (3.18%) Wireless
5 38 (3.10%) Firewall
5 38 (3.10%) Wi-Fi
6 31 (2.53%) LAN
7 29 (2.36%) WAN
8 20 (1.63%) TCP/IP
9 18 (1.47%) Network Security
10 14 (1.14%) FTP
11 12 (0.98%) BGP
11 12 (0.98%) VLAN
12 10 (0.81%) Cisco Wireless
12 10 (0.81%) Internet
12 10 (0.81%) SD-WAN
13 9 (0.73%) 4G
13 9 (0.73%) Cisco ISE
13 9 (0.73%) Skype
13 9 (0.73%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (3.91%) Power BI
2 25 (2.04%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.71%) Metadata
4 18 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (1.47%) MySQL
4 18 (1.47%) Relational Database
5 16 (1.30%) Tableau
6 13 (1.06%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
8 8 (0.65%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.65%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 7 (0.57%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.57%) Azure SQL Database
10 6 (0.49%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.49%) DB2
10 6 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.33%) Metadata Repository
11 4 (0.33%) Neo4j
12 3 (0.24%) Redis
13 2 (0.16%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 202 (16.46%) JIRA
2 46 (3.75%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.18%) Git
4 26 (2.12%) GitLab
5 17 (1.39%) Selenium
6 14 (1.14%) REST Assured
7 13 (1.06%) Browser DevTools
7 13 (1.06%) Postman
8 12 (0.98%) Android Studio
8 12 (0.98%) Cucumber
8 12 (0.98%) Eclipse
8 12 (0.98%) Xcode
9 8 (0.65%) TestRail
10 6 (0.49%) Vagrant
11 5 (0.41%) JMeter
11 5 (0.41%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.33%) Gatling
12 4 (0.33%) Metasploit
12 4 (0.33%) NeoLoad
13 3 (0.24%) Cypress.io
General
1 455 (37.08%) Social Skills
2 251 (20.46%) Finance
3 180 (14.67%) Analytical Skills
4 105 (8.56%) Public Sector
5 57 (4.65%) Banking
6 56 (4.56%) Military
7 46 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
8 44 (3.59%) Telecoms
9 42 (3.42%) Legal
10 36 (2.93%) Organisational Skills
11 23 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (1.55%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.30%) Law
14 12 (0.98%) Aerospace
14 12 (0.98%) Retail
15 9 (0.73%) Billing
15 9 (0.73%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.73%) Manufacturing
15 9 (0.73%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 201 (16.38%) Architect
2 181 (14.75%) Analyst
3 116 (9.45%) ServiceNow Architect
4 93 (7.58%) Support Engineer
5 85 (6.93%) Developer
6 84 (6.85%) IT Support
7 74 (6.03%) ServiceNow Developer
8 67 (5.46%) Consultant
9 66 (5.38%) Lead
10 50 (4.07%) IT Engineer
11 48 (3.91%) ServiceNow Manager
12 42 (3.42%) IT Support Engineer
13 41 (3.34%) Project Manager
14 39 (3.18%) Senior
14 39 (3.18%) Service Analyst
15 38 (3.10%) Business Analyst
16 34 (2.77%) Technical Architect
17 33 (2.69%) Administrator
17 33 (2.69%) Solutions Architect
18 32 (2.61%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 111 (9.05%) REST
2 81 (6.60%) SOAP
3 34 (2.77%) SailPoint
4 33 (2.69%) CSS
5 27 (2.20%) LDAP
6 24 (1.96%) AngularJS
7 20 (1.63%) OpenID
8 19 (1.55%) Flash
9 18 (1.47%) Ajax
10 16 (1.30%) HTML
11 14 (1.14%) JSON
11 14 (1.14%) React
12 13 (1.06%) GraphQL
13 11 (0.90%) .NET
13 11 (0.90%) Middleware
14 9 (0.73%) ADO
14 9 (0.73%) OAuth
14 9 (0.73%) XML
15 8 (0.65%) SAML
16 7 (0.57%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 144 (11.74%) CMDB
2 85 (6.93%) Onboarding
3 64 (5.22%) Product Ownership
4 34 (2.77%) Data Centre
5 32 (2.61%) Replication
6 30 (2.44%) Management Information System
7 23 (1.87%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.63%) Security Posture
10 19 (1.55%) Linux Command Line
10 19 (1.55%) Video Conferencing
11 16 (1.30%) Mobile App
11 16 (1.30%) Smartphone
12 15 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (1.22%) Cloud Native
13 14 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
14 13 (1.06%) Virtual Team
15 11 (0.90%) Driving Licence
15 11 (0.90%) Public Cloud
16 8 (0.65%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 243 (19.80%) Windows
2 109 (8.88%) Windows 10
3 69 (5.62%) Linux
4 41 (3.34%) Mac OS
5 35 (2.85%) Android
6 34 (2.77%) Unix
7 23 (1.87%) Windows Server
8 19 (1.55%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.73%) Windows 7
10 7 (0.57%) VMS
11 6 (0.49%) Amazon Linux
12 5 (0.41%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.41%) zOS
13 4 (0.33%) Ubuntu
14 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.081%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.081%) Kali Linux
15 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 417 (33.99%) ITSM
2 296 (24.12%) ITIL
3 284 (23.15%) Agile
4 217 (17.69%) Service Management
5 201 (16.38%) Problem-Solving
6 181 (14.75%) Stakeholder Management
7 143 (11.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 138 (11.25%) Continuous Improvement
9 133 (10.84%) Change Management
10 132 (10.76%) DevOps
11 128 (10.43%) Customer Service
12 102 (8.31%) CI/CD
13 90 (7.33%) Migration
14 87 (7.09%) Service Delivery
15 86 (7.01%) Project Management
16 84 (6.85%) Data Modelling
16 84 (6.85%) Roadmaps
17 80 (6.52%) Asset Management
18 79 (6.44%) User Acceptance Testing
19 77 (6.28%) AI
Programming Languages
1 100 (8.15%) Python
2 92 (7.50%) JavaScript
3 82 (6.68%) SQL
4 67 (5.46%) PowerShell
5 65 (5.30%) Java
6 28 (2.28%) Perl
7 14 (1.14%) Bash
8 12 (0.98%) Shell Script
9 11 (0.90%) PL/SQL
9 11 (0.90%) VB
10 10 (0.81%) Groovy
10 10 (0.81%) TypeScript
11 9 (0.73%) VBScript
12 8 (0.65%) ABAP
13 7 (0.57%) C#
13 7 (0.57%) Go
13 7 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (0.57%) Lisp
14 5 (0.41%) BeanShell
14 5 (0.41%) JCL
Qualifications
1 338 (27.55%) Security Cleared
2 264 (21.52%) SC Cleared
3 106 (8.64%) Degree
4 36 (2.93%) DV Cleared
5 31 (2.53%) TOGAF Certification
6 21 (1.71%) Cisco Certification
6 21 (1.71%) CISSP
6 21 (1.71%) ITIL Certification
7 17 (1.39%) PMI Certification
7 17 (1.39%) PMP
8 16 (1.30%) CCNP
8 16 (1.30%) CISM
8 16 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
9 12 (0.98%) Computer Science Degree
10 11 (0.90%) ISTQB
11 9 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
12 8 (0.65%) A+ Certification
12 8 (0.65%) ACSP
12 8 (0.65%) ACTC
13 7 (0.57%) CISA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (4.73%) QA
2 50 (4.07%) SLA
3 45 (3.67%) GRC
4 44 (3.59%) Data Quality
4 44 (3.59%) GDPR
5 28 (2.28%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (1.63%) NIST
7 19 (1.55%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 14 (1.14%) PMO
9 12 (0.98%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.73%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.57%) COBIT
12 7 (0.57%) HIPAA
13 5 (0.41%) ISO/IEC 19770
14 4 (0.33%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.24%) ISO 22301
15 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.24%) NCSC
15 3 (0.24%) NIST 800
System Software
1 165 (13.45%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.44%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.63%) Docker
4 19 (1.55%) GPFS
4 19 (1.55%) NFS
5 17 (1.39%) vSphere
6 16 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.81%) BitLocker
8 6 (0.49%) DFS Replication
9 5 (0.41%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.33%) Dovecot
10 4 (0.33%) Postfix
10 4 (0.33%) Squid
11 2 (0.16%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 2 (0.16%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.081%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.081%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.081%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.081%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 63 (5.13%) SCCM
2 43 (3.50%) Microsoft Intune
3 41 (3.34%) Terraform
4 30 (2.44%) OPNET
5 29 (2.36%) Ansible
6 21 (1.71%) Grafana
7 17 (1.39%) Jamf Pro
8 16 (1.30%) vRealize
9 15 (1.22%) Prometheus
10 13 (1.06%) Kubernetes
11 12 (0.98%) RSA Archer
12 10 (0.81%) FortiGate
13 8 (0.65%) Nessus
14 7 (0.57%) Single Sign-On
15 5 (0.41%) Salt
16 4 (0.33%) Pingdom
16 4 (0.33%) Proxmox
17 3 (0.24%) HP ALM
17 3 (0.24%) Nmap
17 3 (0.24%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 252 (20.54%) Microsoft
2 90 (7.33%) Remedy
3 66 (5.38%) Cisco
4 63 (5.13%) SAP
5 58 (4.73%) Oracle
6 41 (3.34%) Splunk
7 35 (2.85%) Salesforce
8 34 (2.77%) Apple
8 34 (2.77%) VMware
9 33 (2.69%) Atlassian
10 32 (2.61%) IBM
10 32 (2.61%) Workday
11 20 (1.63%) Snow
12 17 (1.39%) Google
12 17 (1.39%) HP
13 16 (1.30%) NetApp
13 16 (1.30%) Palo Alto
14 15 (1.22%) Citrix
14 15 (1.22%) Fortinet
15 14 (1.14%) BMC