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 August 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 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 69 83
Rank change year-on-year +13 +14 -3
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,763 1,010 886
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.86% 3.66% 2.67%
As % of the Vendors category 9.28% 7.76% 6.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,119 638 549
10th Percentile £218 £213 £220
25th Percentile £400 £315 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £475 £505
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% -5.94% +1.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £652 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £509
% change year-on-year +5.26% -6.63% +1.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 73 88 49
10th Percentile £16.06 £13.00 £14.10
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.50 £14.16
Median hourly rate £26.00 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +38.15% +15.46% -20.80%
75th Percentile £63.75 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.43 £63.12 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £25.75 £17.94 £16.30
% change year-on-year +43.57% +10.03% -20.80%

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 18,992 13,016 14,500
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.54% 47.17% 43.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,896 8,242 9,108
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 £615 £615 £627
90th Percentile £703 £713 £731
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.31% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,033 636 685
10th Percentile £14.50 £14.75 £13.35
25th Percentile £17.50 £17.45 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.00 £25.15 £29.77
Median % change year-on-year +27.24% -15.52% -28.27%
75th Percentile £65.58 £48.13 £63.75
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £29.29 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +16.44% -10.18% -36.00%

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 August 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 August 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 August 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 +32 772 £525 +5.00% 395
North of England -4 360 £450 -10.00% 84
South East +18 344 £538 +50.35% 126
North West -3 233 £400 -21.88% 67
Midlands +5 141 £425 -10.53% 50
Yorkshire -22 116 £500 +5.26% 11
West Midlands -1 114 £445 -6.32% 43
South West -50 55 £463 +38.06% 50
East of England -41 53 £510 +2.00% 18
East Midlands -3 22 £413 - 8
North East -29 17 £500 +42.86% 6
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
1 109 (6.18%) 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 8 (0.45%) Apache
7 4 (0.23%) CMS
8 3 (0.17%) IIS
8 3 (0.17%) Mendix
9 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
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%) Apache Spark
10 1 (0.057%) Drupal
10 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.057%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 80 (4.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 79 (4.48%) Microsoft Office
3 36 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (1.13%) 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 13 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
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%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.057%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.057%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 374 (21.21%) Azure
2 241 (13.67%) Microsoft 365
3 239 (13.56%) AWS
4 136 (7.71%) Power Platform
5 131 (7.43%) Entra ID
6 103 (5.84%) SaaS
7 57 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
8 53 (3.01%) GCP
9 43 (2.44%) GitHub
9 43 (2.44%) OneDrive
10 31 (1.76%) Datadog
11 30 (1.70%) Microsoft Copilot
12 29 (1.64%) Azure Monitor
13 24 (1.36%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 24 (1.36%) Power Automate
14 20 (1.13%) Serverless
15 19 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
16 18 (1.02%) Amazon S3
17 17 (0.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
18 16 (0.91%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 89 (5.05%) DNS
2 78 (4.42%) DHCP
3 65 (3.69%) Firewall
4 62 (3.52%) VPN
5 49 (2.78%) TCP/IP
6 30 (1.70%) Network Security
6 30 (1.70%) Wireless
7 28 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
8 26 (1.47%) SSL
8 26 (1.47%) VLAN
8 26 (1.47%) WAN
9 23 (1.30%) LAN
10 18 (1.02%) NX-OS
10 18 (1.02%) SSH
11 17 (0.96%) Skype
12 16 (0.91%) BGP
12 16 (0.91%) SAN
13 15 (0.85%) NAS
14 13 (0.74%) Cisco IOS
14 13 (0.74%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 102 (5.79%) Power BI
2 49 (2.78%) SQL Server
3 32 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (1.19%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (0.85%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (0.79%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (0.74%) MySQL
7 13 (0.74%) Power Query
8 12 (0.68%) Amazon Aurora
8 12 (0.68%) Metadata
9 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
10 5 (0.28%) MongoDB
10 5 (0.28%) Redis
10 5 (0.28%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
11 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
11 4 (0.23%) PowerPivot
11 4 (0.23%) Tableau
12 3 (0.17%) Elasticsearch
12 3 (0.17%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 254 (14.41%) JIRA
2 73 (4.14%) Git
3 27 (1.53%) Jenkins
4 26 (1.47%) GitLab
5 8 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.17%) Flyway
7 3 (0.17%) MSI
8 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
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%) 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
1 566 (32.10%) Social Skills
2 335 (19.00%) Finance
3 239 (13.56%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (8.56%) Public Sector
5 92 (5.22%) Banking
6 82 (4.65%) Telecoms
7 49 (2.78%) Legal
7 49 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
8 48 (2.72%) Documentation Skills
9 28 (1.59%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (1.47%) Manufacturing
11 24 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.13%) Military
13 19 (1.08%) Spanish Language
14 18 (1.02%) French Language
14 18 (1.02%) Italian Language
14 18 (1.02%) Police
15 16 (0.91%) Law
15 16 (0.91%) Retail
16 14 (0.79%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 256 (14.52%) Analyst
2 253 (14.35%) Architect
3 185 (10.49%) Developer
4 163 (9.25%) ServiceNow Developer
5 152 (8.62%) ServiceNow Architect
6 122 (6.92%) Senior
7 108 (6.13%) Consultant
7 108 (6.13%) Support Engineer
8 93 (5.28%) IT Support
9 91 (5.16%) Lead
10 73 (4.14%) Service Analyst
11 72 (4.08%) Business Analyst
12 69 (3.91%) IT Engineer
13 67 (3.80%) Solutions Architect
14 60 (3.40%) IT Support Engineer
15 58 (3.29%) Project Manager
16 54 (3.06%) ServiceNow Consultant
17 41 (2.33%) Technical Architect
18 38 (2.16%) Service Desk Analyst
18 38 (2.16%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (11.46%) REST
2 119 (6.75%) SOAP
3 75 (4.25%) Terraform
4 44 (2.50%) JSON
5 35 (1.99%) HTML
6 34 (1.93%) OAuth
6 34 (1.93%) SailPoint
7 31 (1.76%) CSS
7 31 (1.76%) XML
8 30 (1.70%) LDAP
9 26 (1.47%) Middleware
10 25 (1.42%) Web Services
11 21 (1.19%) .NET
12 17 (0.96%) AngularJS
13 16 (0.91%) Ajax
14 15 (0.85%) SAML
15 13 (0.74%) JDBC
15 13 (0.74%) OpenID
16 12 (0.68%) OAuth2
17 11 (0.62%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 288 (16.34%) CMDB
2 178 (10.10%) Onboarding
3 65 (3.69%) Product Ownership
4 63 (3.57%) Enterprise Software
5 49 (2.78%) Data Centre
6 44 (2.50%) Management Information System
7 43 (2.44%) Cloud Native
8 36 (2.04%) Replication
9 26 (1.47%) PKI
9 26 (1.47%) Security Posture
10 25 (1.42%) AI Agents
11 24 (1.36%) Video Conferencing
12 22 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
13 21 (1.19%) Clustering
13 21 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
14 20 (1.13%) Linux Command Line
15 18 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
16 17 (0.96%) Data Structures
16 17 (0.96%) iPhone
17 15 (0.85%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 329 (18.66%) Windows
2 110 (6.24%) Windows 10
3 106 (6.01%) Linux
4 50 (2.84%) Windows Server
5 49 (2.78%) Mac OS
6 35 (1.99%) 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 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.057%) MVS
15 1 (0.057%) SUSE
15 1 (0.057%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 695 (39.42%) ITSM
2 558 (31.65%) ITIL
3 381 (21.61%) Service Management
4 329 (18.66%) Agile
5 326 (18.49%) Problem-Solving
5 326 (18.49%) Stakeholder Management
6 271 (15.37%) Continuous Improvement
7 210 (11.91%) AI
7 210 (11.91%) Customer Service
8 204 (11.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 191 (10.83%) Change Management
10 189 (10.72%) DevOps
10 189 (10.72%) Service Delivery
11 178 (10.10%) Roadmaps
12 151 (8.56%) Workflow
13 140 (7.94%) Migration
14 132 (7.49%) Incident Management
15 127 (7.20%) Asset Management
16 126 (7.15%) CI/CD
17 125 (7.09%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 141 (8.00%) PowerShell
2 118 (6.69%) JavaScript
3 116 (6.58%) Python
4 98 (5.56%) SQL
5 49 (2.78%) Java
6 23 (1.30%) Bash
7 22 (1.25%) C#
8 18 (1.02%) VBScript
9 16 (0.91%) Groovy
10 15 (0.85%) VB
11 11 (0.62%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.51%) TypeScript
13 7 (0.40%) BeanShell
13 7 (0.40%) Perl
14 6 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 5 (0.28%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.28%) Shell Script
16 4 (0.23%) C++
17 3 (0.17%) JCL
17 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 470 (26.66%) Security Cleared
2 339 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 138 (7.83%) Degree
4 91 (5.16%) DV Cleared
5 43 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
6 42 (2.38%) PMP
7 39 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 35 (1.99%) PMI Certification
9 32 (1.82%) Microsoft Certification
10 30 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
11 25 (1.42%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 24 (1.36%) CISSP
13 22 (1.25%) Azure Certification
13 22 (1.25%) CCNP
14 20 (1.13%) A+ Certification
15 19 (1.08%) CCNA
16 18 (1.02%) CISM
17 16 (0.91%) AWS Certification
18 15 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
19 14 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 105 (5.96%) SLA
2 92 (5.22%) Data Quality
3 60 (3.40%) GRC
4 56 (3.18%) QA
5 46 (2.61%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 44 (2.50%) NIST
7 42 (2.38%) PMO
8 29 (1.64%) GDPR
9 19 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 17 (0.96%) COBIT
11 15 (0.85%) NCSC
12 14 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.74%) Accessibility
14 12 (0.68%) ISO 9001
15 11 (0.62%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 8 (0.45%) GxP
17 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
17 6 (0.34%) HIPAA
18 3 (0.17%) ISO/IEC 19770
18 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 227 (12.88%) Active Directory
2 40 (2.27%) VMware Infrastructure
3 34 (1.93%) Docker
4 20 (1.13%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (0.96%) BitLocker
5 17 (0.96%) IAG
5 17 (0.96%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.79%) Virtual Desktop
7 11 (0.62%) NFS
7 11 (0.62%) vSphere
8 10 (0.57%) GPFS
9 8 (0.45%) Firmware
10 7 (0.40%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.11%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.11%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.11%) Postfix
12 2 (0.11%) RACF
12 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.11%) Squid
Systems Management
1 77 (4.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 67 (3.80%) SCCM
3 55 (3.12%) Ansible
4 38 (2.16%) Kubernetes
5 30 (1.70%) Grafana
6 24 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
7 20 (1.13%) Prometheus
8 16 (0.91%) SCOM
9 11 (0.62%) WMI
10 9 (0.51%) vCenter Server
10 9 (0.51%) vRealize
11 6 (0.34%) CASB
11 6 (0.34%) Packer
11 6 (0.34%) RSA Archer
12 5 (0.28%) VxRail
13 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
13 4 (0.23%) CA Single Sign-On
13 4 (0.23%) Nessus
13 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 462 (26.21%) Microsoft
2 87 (4.93%) Cisco
3 70 (3.97%) Remedy
4 69 (3.91%) Oracle
4 69 (3.91%) SAP
5 67 (3.80%) Splunk
6 59 (3.35%) VMware
7 50 (2.84%) CyberArk
8 49 (2.78%) Salesforce
9 36 (2.04%) Dynatrace
10 31 (1.76%) BMC
11 30 (1.70%) Snow
11 30 (1.70%) Workday
12 29 (1.64%) Apple
13 24 (1.36%) Adobe
13 24 (1.36%) SolarWinds
14 23 (1.30%) Google
15 21 (1.19%) IBM
15 21 (1.19%) iManage
16 20 (1.13%) Palo Alto