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 26 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
26 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 60 67 84
Rank change year-on-year +7 +17 -11
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,758 1,029 883
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.78% 3.68% 2.70%
As % of the Vendors category 9.10% 7.75% 6.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,106 671 532
10th Percentile £219 £206 £214
25th Percentile £400 £305 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £610 £575 £575
90th Percentile £703 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £513 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 78 32
10th Percentile £16.06 £13.00 -
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.50 £14.16
Median hourly rate £26.66 £18.82 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.66% +10.71% -10.53%
75th Percentile £63.75 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.43 £63.40 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £17.81 £18.13
% change year-on-year +45.99% -1.77% -4.58%

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 19,315 13,283 14,567
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.49% 47.54% 44.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,934 8,451 8,770
10th Percentile £309 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £403 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.28% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £622 £621 £630
90th Percentile £713 £706 £732
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,173 631 569
10th Percentile £14.01 £14.84 £14.50
25th Percentile £16.72 £18.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £27.30 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.55% -28.14% -20.16%
75th Percentile £63.75 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £79.79 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £32.50
% change year-on-year +2.39% -22.62% -25.87%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 +27 771 £525 +5.00% 469
South East +11 344 £538 +43.33% 143
North of England -7 344 £460 -8.10% 116
North West +3 226 £375 -26.66% 66
Midlands -16 138 £425 -10.53% 62
West Midlands -7 119 £445 -6.32% 44
Yorkshire -31 111 £500 - 40
East of England -40 61 £530 +6.00% 43
South West -48 54 £500 +62.60% 40
East Midlands -19 16 £350 -27.27% 17
North East -32 13 £550 +57.14% 11
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
1 116 (6.60%) SharePoint
2 87 (4.95%) Confluence
3 46 (2.62%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.91%) Skype for Business
5 11 (0.63%) nginx
6 9 (0.51%) Apache
7 5 (0.28%) CMS
8 4 (0.23%) Mendix
9 3 (0.17%) CICS
10 2 (0.11%) Appian
10 2 (0.11%) SAS
10 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
11 1 (0.057%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.057%) Drupal
11 1 (0.057%) IIS
11 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.057%) SharePoint Server
11 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 79 (4.49%) Microsoft Excel
2 78 (4.44%) Microsoft Office
3 38 (2.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 21 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
5 19 (1.08%) MS Visio
6 11 (0.63%) Chatbot
7 10 (0.57%) AutoCAD
8 8 (0.46%) 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 64 (3.64%) Remedy ITSM
2 16 (0.91%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
5 6 (0.34%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.11%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.11%) Maximo
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.057%) Actimize
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.057%) Oracle Financials
8 1 (0.057%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.057%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.057%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 370 (21.05%) Azure
2 252 (14.33%) Microsoft 365
3 223 (12.68%) AWS
4 144 (8.19%) Power Platform
5 127 (7.22%) Entra ID
6 95 (5.40%) SaaS
7 63 (3.58%) GCP
8 55 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
9 50 (2.84%) GitHub
10 42 (2.39%) Azure Monitor
10 42 (2.39%) OneDrive
11 36 (2.05%) Microsoft Copilot
12 29 (1.65%) Datadog
13 24 (1.37%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 22 (1.25%) Power Automate
14 22 (1.25%) Serverless
15 20 (1.14%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (1.02%) Amazon S3
16 18 (1.02%) PowerApps
17 17 (0.97%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 86 (4.89%) DNS
2 75 (4.27%) DHCP
3 62 (3.53%) VPN
4 54 (3.07%) Firewall
5 50 (2.84%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.71%) VLAN
7 27 (1.54%) SSL
8 25 (1.42%) Wi-Fi
8 25 (1.42%) Wireless
9 22 (1.25%) NX-OS
10 21 (1.19%) Network Security
10 21 (1.19%) WAN
11 19 (1.08%) LAN
12 18 (1.02%) BGP
12 18 (1.02%) SSH
13 17 (0.97%) Skype
14 13 (0.74%) Cisco IOS
14 13 (0.74%) SAN
15 12 (0.68%) VXLAN
16 11 (0.63%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 101 (5.75%) Power BI
2 48 (2.73%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (1.14%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (0.91%) Metadata
5 16 (0.91%) MySQL
5 16 (0.91%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (0.74%) Amazon Aurora
7 8 (0.46%) Power Query
8 7 (0.40%) Data Warehouse
8 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (0.34%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.34%) Looker
9 6 (0.34%) Redis
10 4 (0.23%) Db2
10 4 (0.23%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 3 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
11 3 (0.17%) Pentaho
11 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 231 (13.14%) JIRA
2 73 (4.15%) Git
3 25 (1.42%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.37%) GitLab
5 8 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.17%) MSI
7 3 (0.17%) Postman
7 3 (0.17%) Zephyr
8 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.11%) Tricentis qTest
8 2 (0.11%) Vagrant
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
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
1 572 (32.54%) Social Skills
2 330 (18.77%) Finance
3 236 (13.42%) Analytical Skills
4 154 (8.76%) Public Sector
5 90 (5.12%) Banking
6 79 (4.49%) Telecoms
7 54 (3.07%) Legal
8 46 (2.62%) Documentation Skills
9 42 (2.39%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (1.76%) Influencing Skills
11 28 (1.59%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (1.31%) Military
13 17 (0.97%) Police
13 17 (0.97%) Spanish Language
14 16 (0.91%) French Language
14 16 (0.91%) Italian Language
14 16 (0.91%) Law
14 16 (0.91%) Retail
15 13 (0.74%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 257 (14.62%) Architect
2 245 (13.94%) Analyst
3 187 (10.64%) Developer
4 160 (9.10%) ServiceNow Developer
5 150 (8.53%) ServiceNow Architect
6 129 (7.34%) Senior
7 116 (6.60%) Consultant
8 98 (5.57%) Lead
9 97 (5.52%) Support Engineer
10 87 (4.95%) IT Support
11 73 (4.15%) Solutions Architect
12 68 (3.87%) Service Analyst
13 64 (3.64%) IT Engineer
14 62 (3.53%) Project Manager
15 59 (3.36%) Business Analyst
16 56 (3.19%) IT Support Engineer
17 55 (3.13%) ServiceNow Consultant
18 47 (2.67%) Technical Architect
19 44 (2.50%) Service Manager
20 40 (2.28%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 195 (11.09%) REST
2 100 (5.69%) SOAP
3 77 (4.38%) Terraform
4 51 (2.90%) JSON
5 38 (2.16%) OAuth
6 36 (2.05%) HTML
7 34 (1.93%) Middleware
8 33 (1.88%) CSS
8 33 (1.88%) XML
9 31 (1.76%) LDAP
9 31 (1.76%) SailPoint
10 19 (1.08%) OAuth2
10 19 (1.08%) Web Services
11 17 (0.97%) .NET
11 17 (0.97%) Ajax
11 17 (0.97%) SAML
12 16 (0.91%) OpenID
13 15 (0.85%) Microsoft Graph
13 15 (0.85%) YAML
14 14 (0.80%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 300 (17.06%) CMDB
2 185 (10.52%) Onboarding
3 73 (4.15%) Enterprise Software
4 61 (3.47%) Data Centre
5 52 (2.96%) Management Information System
6 51 (2.90%) Product Ownership
7 44 (2.50%) Cloud Native
8 36 (2.05%) Replication
9 29 (1.65%) AI Agents
10 27 (1.54%) PKI
11 24 (1.37%) Video Conferencing
12 23 (1.31%) Clustering
13 22 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
14 20 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (1.02%) Linux Command Line
16 17 (0.97%) Analytical Mindset
16 17 (0.97%) Data Structures
17 16 (0.91%) iPhone
18 15 (0.85%) Low-Code
18 15 (0.85%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 328 (18.66%) Windows
2 111 (6.31%) Windows 10
3 106 (6.03%) Linux
4 53 (3.01%) Mac OS
5 51 (2.90%) Windows Server
6 36 (2.05%) Apple iOS
7 26 (1.48%) Android
8 20 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 19 (1.08%) Unix
10 16 (0.91%) Windows 7
11 9 (0.51%) Amazon Linux
12 7 (0.40%) zOS
13 4 (0.23%) VMS
14 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
14 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.057%) AIX
15 1 (0.057%) SUSE
15 1 (0.057%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 712 (40.50%) ITSM
2 567 (32.25%) ITIL
3 411 (23.38%) Service Management
4 364 (20.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 322 (18.32%) Agile
6 316 (17.97%) Problem-Solving
7 267 (15.19%) Continuous Improvement
8 220 (12.51%) AI
9 200 (11.38%) Customer Service
10 199 (11.32%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 193 (10.98%) Service Delivery
12 191 (10.86%) DevOps
13 186 (10.58%) Roadmaps
14 179 (10.18%) Change Management
15 154 (8.76%) Workflow
16 139 (7.91%) Migration
17 136 (7.74%) Asset Management
18 131 (7.45%) Incident Management
19 126 (7.17%) CI/CD
20 123 (7.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 150 (8.53%) PowerShell
2 123 (7.00%) Python
3 120 (6.83%) JavaScript
4 87 (4.95%) SQL
5 42 (2.39%) Java
6 25 (1.42%) Bash
7 18 (1.02%) VBScript
8 17 (0.97%) Groovy
9 15 (0.85%) T-SQL
9 15 (0.85%) VB
10 14 (0.80%) C#
11 8 (0.46%) Perl
12 6 (0.34%) BeanShell
12 6 (0.34%) JCL
12 6 (0.34%) Shell Script
12 6 (0.34%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.28%) Go
13 5 (0.28%) Google Apps Script
13 5 (0.28%) PL/SQL
14 3 (0.17%) C++
Qualifications
1 476 (27.08%) Security Cleared
2 354 (20.14%) SC Cleared
3 135 (7.68%) Degree
4 81 (4.61%) DV Cleared
5 44 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 43 (2.45%) PMP
7 40 (2.28%) ITIL Certification
8 38 (2.16%) Microsoft Certification
9 37 (2.10%) PMI Certification
10 32 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
11 29 (1.65%) Azure Certification
12 25 (1.42%) Cisco Certification
13 21 (1.19%) A+ Certification
14 20 (1.14%) CCNP
14 20 (1.14%) CISSP
15 18 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
16 17 (0.97%) CCNA
17 16 (0.91%) AWS Certification
18 14 (0.80%) CISM
18 14 (0.80%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (5.75%) SLA
2 98 (5.57%) Data Quality
3 62 (3.53%) GRC
4 59 (3.36%) QA
5 48 (2.73%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 42 (2.39%) PMO
7 35 (1.99%) NIST
8 27 (1.54%) GDPR
9 18 (1.02%) NCSC
10 17 (0.97%) COBIT
11 16 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
12 14 (0.80%) Accessibility
13 12 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 12 (0.68%) Sarbanes-Oxley
14 11 (0.63%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 7 (0.40%) GxP
16 7 (0.40%) HIPAA
17 6 (0.34%) SOC 2
18 4 (0.23%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 214 (12.17%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.33%) Docker
2 41 (2.33%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.31%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.97%) BitLocker
5 15 (0.85%) IAG
5 15 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.85%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.57%) NFS
6 10 (0.57%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.51%) vSphere
8 8 (0.46%) GPFS
9 6 (0.34%) Firmware
10 5 (0.28%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.11%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.11%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 2 (0.11%) Postfix
12 2 (0.11%) Squid
Systems Management
1 88 (5.01%) Microsoft Intune
2 69 (3.92%) SCCM
3 57 (3.24%) Ansible
4 43 (2.45%) Kubernetes
5 33 (1.88%) Grafana
6 25 (1.42%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (1.25%) SCOM
8 19 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
9 16 (0.91%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.57%) WMI
11 9 (0.51%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.40%) vRealize
13 6 (0.34%) Control-M
13 6 (0.34%) Packer
14 5 (0.28%) PowerCLI
15 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.23%) CA Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
15 4 (0.23%) Rancher
15 4 (0.23%) VxRail
Vendors
1 496 (28.21%) Microsoft
2 74 (4.21%) Cisco
3 71 (4.04%) Remedy
4 67 (3.81%) Oracle
5 64 (3.64%) SAP
6 63 (3.58%) Splunk
7 59 (3.36%) VMware
8 53 (3.01%) Salesforce
9 47 (2.67%) Dynatrace
10 44 (2.50%) CyberArk
11 36 (2.05%) Google
12 31 (1.76%) Apple
13 30 (1.71%) BMC
13 30 (1.71%) Snow
13 30 (1.71%) SolarWinds
14 23 (1.31%) Adobe
14 23 (1.31%) Okta
14 23 (1.31%) Workday
15 22 (1.25%) IBM
15 22 (1.25%) Red Hat