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 2 January 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
2 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 69 70 66
Rank change year-on-year +1 -4 +69
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,124 907 1,188
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.55% 3.26% 3.25%
As % of the Vendors category 7.53% 7.08% 7.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 774 508 783
10th Percentile £204 £205 £166
25th Percentile £340 £359 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -0.50% -4.29%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £638
90th Percentile £688 £652 £715
UK median daily rate £475 £498 £520
% change year-on-year -4.52% -4.33% +0.34%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 26 40
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.11 £15.93
25th Percentile £16.28 £16.00 £16.99
Median hourly rate £19.25 £21.46 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +11.48% +24.19%
75th Percentile £28.75 £23.14 £26.81
90th Percentile £89.63 £29.50 £65.36
UK median hourly rate £19.25 £22.05 £18.97
% change year-on-year -12.68% +16.24% +22.35%

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 14,919 12,802 16,094
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.08% 45.98% 44.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,749 7,759 10,475
10th Percentile £300 £291 £250
25th Percentile £409 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £708 £725 £729
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 692 367 621
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.24 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.21 £17.08 £19.76
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% -34.61% +69.93%
75th Percentile £48.75 £63.75 £64.40
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.65 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £45.21
% change year-on-year -13.36% -39.17% +73.88%

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 2 January 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 2 January 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 2 January 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 -39 440 £475 -9.52% 107
North of England +6 209 £500 +21.21% 35
South East +38 165 £413 -11.29% 63
Midlands +13 144 £475 +13.10% 30
North West -1 124 £475 +16.71% 17
West Midlands +5 118 £475 +5.56% 26
South West +35 82 £579 +15.12% 3
Yorkshire -8 76 £500 -6.98% 17
East of England +6 73 £528 +0.57% 7
East Midlands -5 25 £425 +19.38% 4
North East -5 9 £350 +133.33% 1
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 80 (7.12%) Confluence
2 73 (6.49%) SharePoint
3 45 (4.00%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.89%) nginx
5 6 (0.53%) Appian
5 6 (0.53%) Camunda
5 6 (0.53%) Skype for Business
6 5 (0.44%) Apache
7 4 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.36%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.27%) CICS
8 3 (0.27%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.18%) IIS
9 2 (0.18%) JBoss
10 1 (0.089%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.089%) CMS
10 1 (0.089%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.089%) WebSphere
Applications
1 71 (6.32%) Microsoft Office
2 58 (5.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (4.89%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (2.14%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.89%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.36%) Autodesk Inventor
8 4 (0.36%) Trello
9 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 46 (4.09%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.71%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.62%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 7 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.62%) SAP MM
5 3 (0.27%) SAP GRC
5 3 (0.27%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.089%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.089%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.089%) Oracle HRMS
7 1 (0.089%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.089%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.089%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.089%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.089%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.089%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 236 (21.00%) Azure
2 180 (16.01%) Microsoft 365
3 134 (11.92%) AWS
4 80 (7.12%) Entra ID
5 64 (5.69%) SaaS
6 63 (5.60%) Power Platform
7 59 (5.25%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (4.00%) GCP
9 34 (3.02%) OneDrive
10 24 (2.14%) GitHub
10 24 (2.14%) Power Automate
11 19 (1.69%) AWS KMS
12 18 (1.60%) Amazon S3
13 17 (1.51%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 17 (1.51%) Amazon EC2
13 17 (1.51%) Amazon ELB
13 17 (1.51%) Sauce Labs
13 17 (1.51%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 13 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (0.98%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 72 (6.41%) DNS
2 48 (4.27%) VPN
3 46 (4.09%) Firewall
4 43 (3.83%) Wireless
5 38 (3.38%) DHCP
6 32 (2.85%) Wi-Fi
7 25 (2.22%) HTTP
8 22 (1.96%) TCP/IP
9 21 (1.87%) FTP
10 20 (1.78%) LAN
10 20 (1.78%) WAN
11 18 (1.60%) SSH
12 17 (1.51%) SMTP
13 15 (1.33%) Network Security
14 14 (1.25%) SSL
15 13 (1.16%) BGP
16 10 (0.89%) Cisco Wireless
16 10 (0.89%) IMAP
16 10 (0.89%) OpenLDAP
17 9 (0.80%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (3.83%) Power BI
2 29 (2.58%) Relational Database
3 23 (2.05%) MySQL
4 21 (1.87%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (1.78%) SQL Server
6 19 (1.69%) PostgreSQL
7 17 (1.51%) Metadata
8 16 (1.42%) Tableau
9 14 (1.25%) Amazon Aurora
10 8 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.71%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.53%) Azure SQL Database
12 6 (0.53%) DB2
12 6 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.44%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.36%) Metadata Repository
14 4 (0.36%) Redis
15 3 (0.27%) Oracle ODI
16 2 (0.18%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 210 (18.68%) JIRA
2 49 (4.36%) Git
2 49 (4.36%) Jenkins
3 18 (1.60%) Browser DevTools
3 18 (1.60%) GitLab
4 17 (1.51%) Android Studio
4 17 (1.51%) Eclipse
4 17 (1.51%) Xcode
5 16 (1.42%) Vagrant
6 10 (0.89%) Selenium
7 9 (0.80%) REST Assured
8 8 (0.71%) Postman
9 7 (0.62%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.62%) TestRail
10 4 (0.36%) Metasploit
11 3 (0.27%) Burp Suite
11 3 (0.27%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.27%) IBM UrbanCode
12 2 (0.18%) sqlmap
12 2 (0.18%) Zephyr
General
1 460 (40.93%) Social Skills
2 226 (20.11%) Finance
3 174 (15.48%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (9.70%) Public Sector
5 49 (4.36%) Banking
6 44 (3.91%) Military
6 44 (3.91%) Telecoms
7 37 (3.29%) Documentation Skills
7 37 (3.29%) Legal
8 34 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
9 21 (1.87%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 21 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
10 20 (1.78%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (1.51%) Law
12 13 (1.16%) Aerospace
12 13 (1.16%) Manufacturing
13 9 (0.80%) Billing
13 9 (0.80%) Financial Institution
13 9 (0.80%) Marketing
14 7 (0.62%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 176 (15.66%) Architect
2 168 (14.95%) Analyst
3 101 (8.99%) ServiceNow Architect
4 94 (8.36%) Support Engineer
5 92 (8.19%) Developer
6 77 (6.85%) ServiceNow Developer
7 76 (6.76%) IT Support
8 64 (5.69%) Consultant
9 50 (4.45%) Lead
10 45 (4.00%) Senior
11 41 (3.65%) IT Engineer
12 39 (3.47%) Service Analyst
13 36 (3.20%) Project Manager
14 34 (3.02%) ServiceNow Manager
15 33 (2.94%) IT Support Engineer
16 32 (2.85%) Business Analyst
16 32 (2.85%) Service Architect
17 30 (2.67%) DevOps Engineer
18 29 (2.58%) Support Analyst
18 29 (2.58%) Technical Support
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (9.16%) REST
2 88 (7.83%) SOAP
3 46 (4.09%) AngularJS
4 34 (3.02%) CSS
5 33 (2.94%) LDAP
6 26 (2.31%) React
7 25 (2.22%) JSON
8 24 (2.14%) HTML
9 22 (1.96%) Ajax
9 22 (1.96%) SailPoint
10 19 (1.69%) Web Services
11 18 (1.60%) GraphQL
12 16 (1.42%) Flash
13 14 (1.25%) SAML
13 14 (1.25%) XML
14 10 (0.89%) .NET
14 10 (0.89%) HTML5
14 10 (0.89%) ODBC
14 10 (0.89%) OpenID
15 9 (0.80%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 137 (12.19%) CMDB
2 69 (6.14%) Onboarding
3 59 (5.25%) Product Ownership
4 40 (3.56%) Replication
5 31 (2.76%) Data Centre
6 23 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
6 23 (2.05%) Management Information System
6 23 (2.05%) Mobile App
7 22 (1.96%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (1.69%) Driving Licence
9 17 (1.51%) Video Conferencing
10 16 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
10 16 (1.42%) Security Posture
10 16 (1.42%) Smartphone
11 13 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
11 13 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
12 9 (0.80%) Cloud Native
12 9 (0.80%) Low-Code
12 9 (0.80%) Virtual Team
13 8 (0.71%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 243 (21.62%) Windows
2 92 (8.19%) Windows 10
3 73 (6.49%) Linux
4 43 (3.83%) Mac OS
5 38 (3.38%) Android
6 33 (2.94%) Unix
7 18 (1.60%) VMS
8 17 (1.51%) Apple iOS
9 16 (1.42%) Amazon Linux
10 15 (1.33%) Windows Server
11 11 (0.98%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.44%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.44%) zOS
13 4 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.089%) CentOS
14 1 (0.089%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.089%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 374 (33.27%) ITSM
2 292 (25.98%) ITIL
3 250 (22.24%) Agile
4 209 (18.59%) Service Management
5 200 (17.79%) Problem-Solving
6 153 (13.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 151 (13.43%) Stakeholder Management
8 147 (13.08%) DevOps
9 130 (11.57%) Change Management
10 123 (10.94%) Customer Service
11 102 (9.07%) Continuous Improvement
12 96 (8.54%) CI/CD
13 84 (7.47%) Roadmaps
14 82 (7.30%) Service Delivery
15 73 (6.49%) User Experience
16 70 (6.23%) Scrum
17 69 (6.14%) Configuration Management
17 69 (6.14%) Project Management
18 67 (5.96%) Migration
18 67 (5.96%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 108 (9.61%) Python
2 103 (9.16%) JavaScript
3 74 (6.58%) PowerShell
4 71 (6.32%) SQL
5 54 (4.80%) Java
6 36 (3.20%) Perl
7 21 (1.87%) Groovy
8 18 (1.60%) Bash
9 12 (1.07%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.62%) ABAP
10 7 (0.62%) Lisp
10 7 (0.62%) VB
11 6 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (0.53%) TypeScript
12 5 (0.44%) BeanShell
12 5 (0.44%) Go
12 5 (0.44%) JCL
12 5 (0.44%) PHP
12 5 (0.44%) REXX
12 5 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 325 (28.91%) Security Cleared
2 265 (23.58%) SC Cleared
3 118 (10.50%) Degree
4 31 (2.76%) TOGAF Certification
5 19 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
5 19 (1.69%) Microsoft Certification
6 18 (1.60%) DV Cleared
7 17 (1.51%) CISSP
8 16 (1.42%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (1.33%) CCNP
9 15 (1.33%) ITIL Certification
10 13 (1.16%) A+ Certification
10 13 (1.16%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.16%) Azure Certification
11 12 (1.07%) BPSS Clearance
12 11 (0.98%) PMI Certification
13 10 (0.89%) CISM
14 9 (0.80%) ACSP
14 9 (0.80%) ACTC
14 9 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 55 (4.89%) QA
2 49 (4.36%) SLA
3 38 (3.38%) GDPR
4 36 (3.20%) GRC
5 34 (3.02%) Data Quality
6 19 (1.69%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.69%) NIST
7 15 (1.33%) PMO
7 15 (1.33%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 11 (0.98%) PCI DSS
9 10 (0.89%) Accessibility
10 6 (0.53%) COBIT
10 6 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 19770
11 5 (0.44%) Cyber Essentials
11 5 (0.44%) HIPAA
12 3 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
12 3 (0.27%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 3 (0.27%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.27%) WCAG
System Software
1 150 (13.35%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.67%) Docker
3 25 (2.22%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.51%) VMware ESXi
5 16 (1.42%) DFS Replication
5 16 (1.42%) GPFS
5 16 (1.42%) NFS
6 14 (1.25%) vSphere
7 10 (0.89%) Dovecot
7 10 (0.89%) Postfix
7 10 (0.89%) Squid
8 6 (0.53%) BitLocker
9 3 (0.27%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.18%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 1 (0.089%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.089%) Firmware
11 1 (0.089%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.089%) RACF
11 1 (0.089%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.089%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 52 (4.63%) SCCM
2 48 (4.27%) Terraform
3 42 (3.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.67%) OPNET
5 29 (2.58%) Grafana
6 28 (2.49%) Ansible
7 21 (1.87%) Prometheus
8 18 (1.60%) Jamf Pro
8 18 (1.60%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (1.33%) Nessus
10 14 (1.25%) vRealize
11 12 (1.07%) Kubernetes
12 11 (0.98%) RSA Archer
13 10 (0.89%) Proxmox
14 9 (0.80%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.36%) Pingdom
15 4 (0.36%) Rancher
16 3 (0.27%) Control-M
16 3 (0.27%) Nmap
16 3 (0.27%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 257 (22.86%) Microsoft
2 96 (8.54%) Remedy
3 63 (5.60%) Oracle
4 61 (5.43%) SAP
5 58 (5.16%) Cisco
6 44 (3.91%) Salesforce
7 43 (3.83%) Splunk
8 35 (3.11%) Apple
9 33 (2.94%) Atlassian
10 31 (2.76%) IBM
10 31 (2.76%) VMware
11 30 (2.67%) Workday
12 25 (2.22%) HP
13 21 (1.87%) Snow
14 20 (1.78%) BMC
15 16 (1.42%) Citrix
16 13 (1.16%) Palo Alto
16 13 (1.16%) Zscaler
17 10 (0.89%) CyberArk
17 10 (0.89%) Dell