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 27 March 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
27 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 61 73
Rank change year-on-year -5 +12 +33
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,323 889 1,020
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.51% 3.67% 2.71%
As % of the Vendors category 8.02% 7.75% 6.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 904 521 600
10th Percentile £209 £200 £163
25th Percentile £394 £350 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £690 £688 £704
UK median daily rate £495 £495 £500
% change year-on-year - -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 42 91
10th Percentile £15.75 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £16.55 £16.06 £16.06
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% +15.46% -9.80%
75th Percentile £28.75 £22.83 £21.46
90th Percentile £95.00 £29.90 £30.25
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £21.46 £16.30
% change year-on-year -9.13% +31.66% -8.01%

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 16,486 11,472 15,963
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.77% 47.35% 42.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,739 7,460 10,228
10th Percentile £313 £296 £250
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.41%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 874 411 943
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £19.46 £14.36
Median hourly rate £25.38 £29.07 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.69% +21.13% -31.48%
75th Percentile £58.75 £63.75 £53.75
90th Percentile £76.73 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.77 £28.75 £23.22
% change year-on-year -10.37% +23.84% -39.70%

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 27 March 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 27 March 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 27 March 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 -19 573 £500 -4.76% 126
North of England +3 223 £488 +20.37% 43
South East +22 197 £475 +27.95% 92
Midlands 0 171 £425 -21.30% 29
West Midlands -8 131 £450 -18.33% 17
North West -3 125 £450 +11.11% 24
Yorkshire +6 88 £538 +26.47% 17
East of England -15 73 £525 +10.53% 14
South West +5 60 £725 +31.82% 14
East Midlands -8 35 £405 +13.76% 12
North East -10 10 £425 +41.67% 2
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 81 (6.12%) Confluence
2 65 (4.91%) SharePoint
3 54 (4.08%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.68%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.53%) Apache
6 6 (0.45%) Appian
6 6 (0.45%) Camunda
7 5 (0.38%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (0.23%) CICS
10 2 (0.15%) CMS
10 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.15%) IIS
10 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) SAS
11 1 (0.076%) JBoss
11 1 (0.076%) NetWeaver
11 1 (0.076%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.076%) Oracle Workflow
11 1 (0.076%) WebSphere
Applications
1 71 (5.37%) Microsoft Office
2 62 (4.69%) Microsoft Project
3 60 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
4 19 (1.44%) MS Visio
5 16 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.38%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.30%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.23%) Trello
9 1 (0.076%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.076%) Autodesk Inventor
9 1 (0.076%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 40 (3.02%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (1.06%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.68%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 9 (0.68%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.53%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.45%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.30%) Maximo
7 3 (0.23%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.15%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.076%) Actimize
9 1 (0.076%) assyst
9 1 (0.076%) Dynamics CRM
9 1 (0.076%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.076%) SAP CS
9 1 (0.076%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.076%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 262 (19.80%) Azure
2 171 (12.93%) Microsoft 365
3 163 (12.32%) AWS
4 109 (8.24%) Entra ID
5 86 (6.50%) Power Platform
6 65 (4.91%) Azure DevOps
7 63 (4.76%) SaaS
8 57 (4.31%) GCP
9 26 (1.97%) OneDrive
10 20 (1.51%) GitHub
10 20 (1.51%) Power Automate
11 15 (1.13%) Serverless
12 14 (1.06%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (0.98%) Amazon S3
13 13 (0.98%) Microsoft Copilot
14 12 (0.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 11 (0.83%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (0.83%) AWS Lambda
15 11 (0.83%) Azure Monitor
16 10 (0.76%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 61 (4.61%) DNS
2 47 (3.55%) Firewall
2 47 (3.55%) VPN
3 45 (3.40%) DHCP
4 40 (3.02%) Wireless
5 34 (2.57%) LAN
5 34 (2.57%) WAN
6 32 (2.42%) Wi-Fi
7 29 (2.19%) Network Security
8 18 (1.36%) TCP/IP
9 14 (1.06%) Internet
10 13 (0.98%) VLAN
11 12 (0.91%) BGP
12 11 (0.83%) SD-WAN
13 10 (0.76%) BIG-IP
13 10 (0.76%) Cisco ISE
14 9 (0.68%) NX-OS
14 9 (0.68%) Skype
15 8 (0.60%) Ethernet
15 8 (0.60%) NAS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 70 (5.29%) Power BI
2 35 (2.65%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.59%) Metadata
4 18 (1.36%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (1.36%) Tableau
5 17 (1.28%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (0.98%) MySQL
7 13 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
8 10 (0.76%) MongoDB
8 10 (0.76%) Relational Database
9 8 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (0.53%) DB2
10 7 (0.53%) Power Query
11 6 (0.45%) NoSQL
12 5 (0.38%) Amazon Aurora
12 5 (0.38%) Data Lake
12 5 (0.38%) Oracle Reports
12 5 (0.38%) Redis
13 4 (0.30%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 232 (17.54%) JIRA
2 51 (3.85%) Git
3 42 (3.17%) Jenkins
4 30 (2.27%) GitLab
5 17 (1.28%) Selenium
6 14 (1.06%) REST Assured
7 13 (0.98%) Postman
8 12 (0.91%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.60%) TestRail
10 6 (0.45%) Android Studio
10 6 (0.45%) Browser DevTools
10 6 (0.45%) Eclipse
10 6 (0.45%) Xcode
11 5 (0.38%) JMeter
11 5 (0.38%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.30%) Gatling
12 4 (0.30%) JUnit
12 4 (0.30%) NeoLoad
13 3 (0.23%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.23%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 440 (33.26%) Social Skills
2 266 (20.11%) Finance
3 193 (14.59%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (8.39%) Public Sector
5 80 (6.05%) Banking
6 57 (4.31%) Military
7 49 (3.70%) Telecoms
8 48 (3.63%) Organisational Skills
9 46 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
9 46 (3.48%) Legal
10 20 (1.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 20 (1.51%) Influencing Skills
11 17 (1.28%) Billing
11 17 (1.28%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (1.21%) Retail
13 13 (0.98%) Law
14 12 (0.91%) Financial Institution
14 12 (0.91%) Manufacturing
15 11 (0.83%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.60%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 236 (17.84%) Architect
2 190 (14.36%) Analyst
3 126 (9.52%) ServiceNow Architect
4 109 (8.24%) Developer
5 87 (6.58%) ServiceNow Developer
6 86 (6.50%) Support Engineer
7 81 (6.12%) IT Support
8 74 (5.59%) Lead
9 73 (5.52%) Consultant
10 55 (4.16%) Senior
11 52 (3.93%) Project Manager
12 50 (3.78%) IT Engineer
13 48 (3.63%) Business Analyst
14 46 (3.48%) IT Support Engineer
15 45 (3.40%) ServiceNow Manager
16 44 (3.33%) Service Analyst
17 38 (2.87%) Solutions Architect
18 37 (2.80%) Administrator
19 35 (2.65%) Technical Architect
20 33 (2.49%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 142 (10.73%) REST
2 96 (7.26%) SOAP
3 40 (3.02%) SailPoint
4 27 (2.04%) CSS
5 25 (1.89%) LDAP
6 23 (1.74%) OpenID
7 22 (1.66%) AngularJS
8 19 (1.44%) Flash
8 19 (1.44%) JSON
9 17 (1.28%) HTML
9 17 (1.28%) Web Services
10 16 (1.21%) .NET
10 16 (1.21%) OAuth
11 15 (1.13%) Middleware
12 13 (0.98%) Kafka
12 13 (0.98%) XML
13 11 (0.83%) ADO
13 11 (0.83%) Ajax
14 10 (0.76%) SAML
15 9 (0.68%) React
Miscellaneous
1 160 (12.09%) CMDB
2 101 (7.63%) Onboarding
3 92 (6.95%) Product Ownership
4 34 (2.57%) Management Information System
5 33 (2.49%) Data Centre
6 31 (2.34%) Replication
7 26 (1.97%) Security Posture
8 23 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (1.44%) Cloud Native
9 19 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
10 17 (1.28%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.13%) Virtual Team
12 14 (1.06%) Enterprise Software
13 13 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
14 12 (0.91%) Data Structures
15 10 (0.76%) Mainframe
16 9 (0.68%) Driving Licence
16 9 (0.68%) PKI
16 9 (0.68%) Public Cloud
16 9 (0.68%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 226 (17.08%) Windows
2 98 (7.41%) Windows 10
3 63 (4.76%) Linux
4 31 (2.34%) Unix
4 31 (2.34%) Windows Server
5 29 (2.19%) Android
6 27 (2.04%) Mac OS
7 17 (1.28%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.68%) Windows 7
9 6 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.38%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.38%) zOS
11 1 (0.076%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.076%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.076%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.076%) VMS
11 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (33.26%) ITSM
2 345 (26.08%) ITIL
3 308 (23.28%) Agile
4 243 (18.37%) Service Management
5 204 (15.42%) Problem-Solving
6 199 (15.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 168 (12.70%) Continuous Improvement
8 156 (11.79%) Change Management
9 147 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 144 (10.88%) DevOps
11 129 (9.75%) Customer Service
12 113 (8.54%) Migration
13 112 (8.47%) CI/CD
13 112 (8.47%) Data Modelling
14 110 (8.31%) Service Delivery
15 102 (7.71%) Roadmaps
16 101 (7.63%) Project Management
16 101 (7.63%) Workflow
17 90 (6.80%) User Acceptance Testing
18 85 (6.42%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 116 (8.77%) SQL
2 92 (6.95%) JavaScript
3 90 (6.80%) Python
4 71 (5.37%) PowerShell
5 66 (4.99%) Java
6 22 (1.66%) C#
7 14 (1.06%) TypeScript
8 12 (0.91%) Bash
9 11 (0.83%) Perl
9 11 (0.83%) PL/SQL
9 11 (0.83%) VB
10 9 (0.68%) VBScript
11 8 (0.60%) ABAP
11 8 (0.60%) BeanShell
12 7 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (0.53%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.45%) Groovy
14 5 (0.38%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 5 (0.38%) Go
14 5 (0.38%) JCL
Qualifications
1 361 (27.29%) Security Cleared
2 270 (20.41%) SC Cleared
3 123 (9.30%) Degree
4 51 (3.85%) DV Cleared
5 31 (2.34%) Cisco Certification
5 31 (2.34%) PMP
6 30 (2.27%) TOGAF Certification
7 28 (2.12%) ITIL Certification
7 28 (2.12%) PMI Certification
8 23 (1.74%) CISSP
9 22 (1.66%) CCNP
10 20 (1.51%) CISM
11 17 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (1.06%) Computer Science Degree
13 12 (0.91%) BPSS Clearance
14 10 (0.76%) CCNA
15 8 (0.60%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 8 (0.60%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.53%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 6 (0.45%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (4.84%) SLA
2 62 (4.69%) Data Quality
3 51 (3.85%) QA
4 46 (3.48%) GRC
5 43 (3.25%) GDPR
6 33 (2.49%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (2.12%) NIST
8 22 (1.66%) PMO
8 22 (1.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 11 (0.83%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.76%) Accessibility
11 9 (0.68%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.53%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.30%) COBIT
13 4 (0.30%) GxP
13 4 (0.30%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.23%) NCSC
14 3 (0.23%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.15%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
System Software
1 169 (12.77%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.65%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.44%) GPFS
3 19 (1.44%) NFS
4 17 (1.28%) vSphere
5 16 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (1.13%) Docker
7 9 (0.68%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.38%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.30%) Firmware
10 3 (0.23%) IAG
10 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.15%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 2 (0.15%) RACF
11 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.076%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.076%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.076%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.076%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 54 (4.08%) SCCM
2 47 (3.55%) Terraform
3 36 (2.72%) Microsoft Intune
4 31 (2.34%) Ansible
5 30 (2.27%) OPNET
6 22 (1.66%) Grafana
7 18 (1.36%) Kubernetes
8 17 (1.28%) Prometheus
9 16 (1.21%) vRealize
10 13 (0.98%) RSA Archer
11 10 (0.76%) Jamf Pro
12 8 (0.60%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
13 7 (0.53%) CASB
14 5 (0.38%) QRadar
14 5 (0.38%) Rancher
14 5 (0.38%) Salt
15 4 (0.30%) Pingdom
15 4 (0.30%) VxRail
16 3 (0.23%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 235 (17.76%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.95%) Remedy
3 85 (6.42%) Cisco
4 66 (4.99%) SAP
5 50 (3.78%) Oracle
6 41 (3.10%) VMware
7 39 (2.95%) Splunk
8 38 (2.87%) Atlassian
8 38 (2.87%) Salesforce
9 35 (2.65%) Workday
10 34 (2.57%) IBM
11 23 (1.74%) Apple
12 22 (1.66%) Zscaler
13 21 (1.59%) CyberArk
13 21 (1.59%) Fortinet
14 20 (1.51%) Palo Alto
15 19 (1.44%) Google
16 18 (1.36%) BMC
17 17 (1.28%) Citrix
17 17 (1.28%) F5