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 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
4 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 68 86
Rank change year-on-year +11 +18 -9
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,761 991 850
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.86% 3.64% 2.61%
As % of the Vendors category 9.28% 7.72% 5.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,122 624 526
10th Percentile £218 £213 £220
25th Percentile £400 £319 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £505
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -5.94% +1.00%
75th Percentile £601 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £475 £505
% change year-on-year +7.89% -5.94% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 83 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 £63.32 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £25.88 £17.87 £17.00
% change year-on-year +44.80% +5.12% -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 18,979 12,830 14,317
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.59% 47.14% 43.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,881 8,139 8,906
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 £619 £630
90th Percentile £706 £710 £731
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,041 610 632
10th Percentile £14.45 £14.75 £14.06
25th Percentile £17.25 £17.79 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £32.75
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -23.21% -21.65%
75th Percentile £65.58 £47.41 £64.25
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.69 £71.13
UK median hourly rate £29.07 £25.15 £30.00
% change year-on-year +15.59% -16.17% -29.41%

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 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 4 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 4 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 +24 775 £525 +8.47% 403
North of England -4 359 £450 -10.00% 84
South East +19 342 £550 +48.65% 119
North West +7 235 £375 -26.76% 60
Midlands +2 138 £425 -10.53% 43
West Midlands -3 113 £448 -5.79% 31
Yorkshire -24 113 £500 +0.76% 16
East of England -36 54 £510 +2.00% 22
South West -55 54 £475 +46.15% 38
East Midlands -14 20 £413 -2.94% 12
North East -25 17 £500 +42.86% 9
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
1 112 (6.36%) SharePoint
2 86 (4.88%) Confluence
3 46 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.91%) Skype for Business
5 11 (0.62%) nginx
6 9 (0.51%) Apache
7 4 (0.23%) CMS
8 3 (0.17%) Mendix
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%) Appian
10 1 (0.057%) Drupal
10 1 (0.057%) IIS
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 83 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
2 82 (4.66%) Microsoft Excel
3 39 (2.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 27 (1.53%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (1.19%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.57%) AutoCAD
7 9 (0.51%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.45%) Revit
9 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.057%) LaTeX
10 1 (0.057%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 62 (3.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (0.80%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (0.28%) 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%) Salesforce CRM
8 1 (0.057%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 371 (21.07%) Azure
2 246 (13.97%) Microsoft 365
3 238 (13.52%) AWS
4 141 (8.01%) Power Platform
5 133 (7.55%) Entra ID
6 104 (5.91%) SaaS
7 53 (3.01%) Azure DevOps
8 51 (2.90%) GCP
9 44 (2.50%) OneDrive
10 43 (2.44%) GitHub
11 34 (1.93%) Azure Monitor
12 33 (1.87%) Microsoft Copilot
13 30 (1.70%) Datadog
14 25 (1.42%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 23 (1.31%) Power Automate
16 21 (1.19%) Serverless
17 20 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
18 19 (1.08%) Amazon S3
19 17 (0.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
20 15 (0.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 87 (4.94%) DNS
2 76 (4.32%) DHCP
3 62 (3.52%) Firewall
3 62 (3.52%) VPN
4 51 (2.90%) TCP/IP
5 31 (1.76%) SSL
6 30 (1.70%) Wireless
7 28 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
8 27 (1.53%) VLAN
8 27 (1.53%) WAN
9 25 (1.42%) Network Security
10 24 (1.36%) LAN
11 18 (1.02%) NX-OS
11 18 (1.02%) SSH
12 17 (0.97%) BGP
12 17 (0.97%) SAN
12 17 (0.97%) Skype
13 15 (0.85%) NAS
14 13 (0.74%) Cisco IOS
15 11 (0.62%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 105 (5.96%) Power BI
2 53 (3.01%) SQL Server
3 33 (1.87%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (0.97%) MySQL
6 16 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (0.80%) Power Query
8 13 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
8 13 (0.74%) Metadata
9 10 (0.57%) Data Warehouse
10 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.34%) Redis
12 5 (0.28%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 4 (0.23%) PowerPivot
13 4 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 3 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
14 3 (0.17%) Pentaho
15 2 (0.11%) Oracle Database
Development Applications
1 249 (14.14%) JIRA
2 69 (3.92%) Git
3 27 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.36%) GitLab
5 8 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.17%) MSI
8 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.11%) Flyway
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%) Gatling
9 1 (0.057%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.057%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.057%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.057%) Postman
9 1 (0.057%) Robot Framework
General
1 566 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 329 (18.68%) Finance
3 242 (13.74%) Analytical Skills
4 155 (8.80%) Public Sector
5 90 (5.11%) Banking
6 83 (4.71%) Telecoms
7 51 (2.90%) Legal
8 47 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
8 47 (2.67%) Organisational Skills
9 30 (1.70%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (1.48%) Manufacturing
11 25 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (1.19%) Military
13 19 (1.08%) Spanish Language
14 18 (1.02%) French Language
14 18 (1.02%) Italian Language
15 17 (0.97%) Police
16 16 (0.91%) Law
16 16 (0.91%) Retail
17 15 (0.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 254 (14.42%) Architect
2 250 (14.20%) Analyst
3 181 (10.28%) Developer
4 161 (9.14%) ServiceNow Developer
5 149 (8.46%) ServiceNow Architect
6 124 (7.04%) Senior
7 109 (6.19%) Consultant
8 103 (5.85%) Support Engineer
9 95 (5.39%) Lead
10 92 (5.22%) IT Support
11 73 (4.15%) Service Analyst
12 72 (4.09%) Solutions Architect
13 67 (3.80%) IT Engineer
14 65 (3.69%) Business Analyst
15 62 (3.52%) Project Manager
16 59 (3.35%) IT Support Engineer
17 55 (3.12%) ServiceNow Consultant
18 44 (2.50%) Service Manager
19 41 (2.33%) Technical Architect
20 39 (2.21%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 196 (11.13%) REST
2 113 (6.42%) SOAP
3 71 (4.03%) Terraform
4 42 (2.39%) JSON
5 36 (2.04%) HTML
6 34 (1.93%) SailPoint
7 32 (1.82%) CSS
7 32 (1.82%) OAuth
8 30 (1.70%) LDAP
9 29 (1.65%) XML
10 25 (1.42%) Middleware
11 23 (1.31%) Web Services
12 19 (1.08%) .NET
13 16 (0.91%) Ajax
13 16 (0.91%) AngularJS
14 14 (0.80%) SAML
15 13 (0.74%) JDBC
15 13 (0.74%) OpenID
16 12 (0.68%) OAuth2
17 11 (0.62%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 287 (16.30%) CMDB
2 184 (10.45%) Onboarding
3 65 (3.69%) Enterprise Software
4 62 (3.52%) Product Ownership
5 54 (3.07%) Data Centre
6 48 (2.73%) Management Information System
7 41 (2.33%) Cloud Native
8 39 (2.21%) Replication
9 26 (1.48%) PKI
10 25 (1.42%) Clustering
10 25 (1.42%) Security Posture
11 24 (1.36%) AI Agents
11 24 (1.36%) Video Conferencing
12 22 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
13 20 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
14 18 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
14 18 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
15 16 (0.91%) Data Structures
15 16 (0.91%) iPhone
16 14 (0.80%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 338 (19.19%) Windows
2 111 (6.30%) Windows 10
3 105 (5.96%) Linux
4 54 (3.07%) Windows Server
5 49 (2.78%) Mac OS
6 36 (2.04%) Apple iOS
7 24 (1.36%) Android
8 19 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 18 (1.02%) 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
1 697 (39.58%) ITSM
2 559 (31.74%) ITIL
3 397 (22.54%) Service Management
4 336 (19.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 330 (18.74%) Agile
6 325 (18.46%) Problem-Solving
7 272 (15.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 217 (12.32%) AI
9 208 (11.81%) Customer Service
10 201 (11.41%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 190 (10.79%) Service Delivery
12 189 (10.73%) DevOps
13 188 (10.68%) Change Management
14 181 (10.28%) Roadmaps
15 149 (8.46%) Workflow
16 136 (7.72%) Migration
17 132 (7.50%) Incident Management
18 125 (7.10%) CI/CD
19 123 (6.98%) Asset Management
20 120 (6.81%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 146 (8.29%) PowerShell
2 115 (6.53%) JavaScript
3 111 (6.30%) Python
4 94 (5.34%) SQL
5 47 (2.67%) Java
6 22 (1.25%) Bash
7 18 (1.02%) C#
7 18 (1.02%) VBScript
8 17 (0.97%) Groovy
9 15 (0.85%) T-SQL
9 15 (0.85%) VB
10 8 (0.45%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.40%) BeanShell
11 7 (0.40%) Perl
12 6 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.28%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.28%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.23%) C++
15 3 (0.17%) JCL
15 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 478 (27.14%) Security Cleared
2 348 (19.76%) SC Cleared
3 139 (7.89%) Degree
4 89 (5.05%) DV Cleared
5 45 (2.56%) PMP
6 44 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
7 42 (2.39%) ITIL Certification
8 38 (2.16%) PMI Certification
9 37 (2.10%) Microsoft Certification
10 30 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
10 30 (1.70%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 28 (1.59%) Azure Certification
12 23 (1.31%) CCNP
13 22 (1.25%) CISSP
14 21 (1.19%) A+ Certification
15 20 (1.14%) CCNA
16 16 (0.91%) AWS Certification
16 16 (0.91%) CISM
17 14 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
18 13 (0.74%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (5.96%) SLA
2 90 (5.11%) Data Quality
3 63 (3.58%) GRC
4 60 (3.41%) QA
5 47 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 46 (2.61%) PMO
7 40 (2.27%) NIST
8 29 (1.65%) GDPR
9 17 (0.97%) COBIT
9 17 (0.97%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 16 (0.91%) Accessibility
10 16 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
10 16 (0.91%) NCSC
11 12 (0.68%) ISO 9001
12 11 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 8 (0.45%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.45%) GxP
14 6 (0.34%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 19770
15 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 231 (13.12%) Active Directory
2 40 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 36 (2.04%) Docker
4 23 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.97%) BitLocker
5 17 (0.97%) IAG
6 15 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
7 14 (0.80%) Virtual Desktop
8 10 (0.57%) NFS
9 9 (0.51%) vSphere
10 8 (0.45%) GPFS
11 7 (0.40%) VMware NSX
12 6 (0.34%) Firmware
13 5 (0.28%) 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%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.11%) Squid
Systems Management
1 81 (4.60%) Microsoft Intune
2 68 (3.86%) SCCM
3 53 (3.01%) Ansible
4 36 (2.04%) Kubernetes
5 31 (1.76%) Grafana
6 25 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (1.25%) SCOM
8 19 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
9 18 (1.02%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.57%) WMI
11 9 (0.51%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.40%) vRealize
13 6 (0.34%) Packer
13 6 (0.34%) RSA Archer
14 5 (0.28%) CASB
15 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
15 4 (0.23%) PowerCLI
15 4 (0.23%) Rancher
15 4 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 475 (26.97%) Microsoft
2 80 (4.54%) Cisco
3 70 (3.98%) Remedy
4 69 (3.92%) Oracle
5 66 (3.75%) SAP
6 63 (3.58%) Splunk
7 59 (3.35%) VMware
8 52 (2.95%) Salesforce
9 51 (2.90%) CyberArk
10 39 (2.21%) Dynatrace
11 32 (1.82%) BMC
11 32 (1.82%) Workday
12 29 (1.65%) Apple
12 29 (1.65%) Snow
13 25 (1.42%) Google
13 25 (1.42%) SolarWinds
14 24 (1.36%) Adobe
15 21 (1.19%) iManage
16 20 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
16 20 (1.14%) Palo Alto