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 17 July 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
17 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 59 65 81
Rank change year-on-year +6 +16 +11
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,683 1,019 969
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.76% 3.75% 2.68%
As % of the Vendors category 9.16% 7.89% 6.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,108 626 572
10th Percentile £218 £213 £200
25th Percentile £400 £325 £347
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £585 £575
90th Percentile £675 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £510 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 66 83 103
10th Percentile £17.14 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.44 £15.78
Median hourly rate £26.00 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +38.15% +15.46% -24.33%
75th Percentile £67.47 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.75 £63.32 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £17.45 £16.30
% change year-on-year +49.04% +7.02% -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 18,373 12,914 15,522
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.03% 47.47% 42.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,631 8,167 9,918
10th Percentile £313 £281 £275
25th Percentile £413 £403 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £515
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -0.49% -1.90%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £513
% change year-on-year +1.00% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 977 611 954
10th Percentile £16.35 £14.75 £12.82
25th Percentile £20.09 £17.50 £15.03
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% -3.27% -28.77%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.84 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £34.91 £25.15 £26.00
% change year-on-year +38.79% -3.27% -35.80%

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 17 July 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 17 July 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 17 July 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 +13 728 £525 +2.19% 125
South East +12 335 £525 +29.63% 58
North of England -6 315 £485 +4.86% 61
North West -7 184 £402 -19.70% 52
Midlands +12 165 £425 -10.53% 27
West Midlands -8 123 £450 -5.26% 22
Yorkshire -18 119 £522 +30.50% 9
East of England -37 56 £525 +16.67% 16
South West -49 47 £375 +34.89% 13
East Midlands +10 36 £345 -18.82% 5
North East -27 17 £475 +46.15% 4
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 97 (5.76%) SharePoint
2 92 (5.47%) Confluence
3 40 (2.38%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.53%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.42%) Apache
6 6 (0.36%) nginx
7 3 (0.18%) CMS
8 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.12%) IIS
8 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.12%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.12%) SAS
8 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.059%) Appian
9 1 (0.059%) Drupal
9 1 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 74 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (4.28%) Microsoft Office
3 34 (2.02%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.66%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (1.07%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.59%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.48%) Revit
8 7 (0.42%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
10 2 (0.12%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.059%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.059%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 65 (3.86%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (0.59%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.18%) Maximo
6 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.12%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.12%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.12%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.12%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.12%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.12%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.059%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.059%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.059%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.059%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 348 (20.68%) Azure
2 228 (13.55%) AWS
3 198 (11.76%) Microsoft 365
4 133 (7.90%) Entra ID
5 114 (6.77%) Power Platform
6 88 (5.23%) SaaS
7 59 (3.51%) Azure DevOps
8 50 (2.97%) GCP
9 34 (2.02%) OneDrive
10 26 (1.54%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 24 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
11 24 (1.43%) Amazon S3
11 24 (1.43%) Datadog
12 23 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
13 22 (1.31%) GitHub
14 21 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 20 (1.19%) Microsoft Copilot
16 18 (1.07%) Serverless
17 17 (1.01%) Power Automate
18 15 (0.89%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 81 (4.81%) DNS
2 76 (4.52%) DHCP
3 63 (3.74%) Firewall
4 50 (2.97%) VPN
5 43 (2.55%) TCP/IP
6 38 (2.26%) Wireless
7 33 (1.96%) Network Security
8 28 (1.66%) LAN
8 28 (1.66%) WAN
9 25 (1.49%) Wi-Fi
10 21 (1.25%) SSL
11 20 (1.19%) SAN
12 19 (1.13%) NAS
12 19 (1.13%) VLAN
13 15 (0.89%) Cisco IOS
13 15 (0.89%) NX-OS
13 15 (0.89%) Structured Cabling
14 14 (0.83%) Internet
15 13 (0.77%) SD-WAN
16 12 (0.71%) SSH
Database & Business Intelligence
1 92 (5.47%) Power BI
2 48 (2.85%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.72%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (0.95%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (0.65%) MySQL
7 11 (0.65%) Power Query
8 8 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
8 8 (0.48%) Metadata
9 6 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
9 6 (0.36%) Tableau
10 4 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
10 4 (0.24%) Azure SQL Database
10 4 (0.24%) MongoDB
10 4 (0.24%) NoSQL
10 4 (0.24%) PowerPivot
10 4 (0.24%) Redis
11 3 (0.18%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 263 (15.63%) JIRA
2 77 (4.58%) Git
3 21 (1.25%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.07%) GitLab
5 4 (0.24%) Bitbucket
5 4 (0.24%) Flyway
6 3 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 3 (0.18%) Selenium
7 2 (0.12%) Cucumber
7 2 (0.12%) JUnit
7 2 (0.12%) Postman
7 2 (0.12%) REST Assured
7 2 (0.12%) Robot Framework
7 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
8 1 (0.059%) Chocolatey
8 1 (0.059%) Claude Code
8 1 (0.059%) LoadRunner
8 1 (0.059%) MSI
8 1 (0.059%) Serenity BDD
8 1 (0.059%) TestRail
General
1 535 (31.79%) Social Skills
2 310 (18.42%) Finance
3 222 (13.19%) Analytical Skills
4 127 (7.55%) Public Sector
5 89 (5.29%) Banking
6 77 (4.58%) Telecoms
7 57 (3.39%) Organisational Skills
8 49 (2.91%) Legal
9 46 (2.73%) Documentation Skills
10 33 (1.96%) Military
11 23 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 23 (1.37%) Influencing Skills
12 19 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (1.07%) French Language
13 18 (1.07%) Retail
14 17 (1.01%) Manufacturing
15 16 (0.95%) Police
16 14 (0.83%) Spanish Language
17 13 (0.77%) Italian Language
18 12 (0.71%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 257 (15.27%) Architect
2 230 (13.67%) Analyst
3 168 (9.98%) Developer
4 162 (9.63%) ServiceNow Architect
5 143 (8.50%) ServiceNow Developer
6 113 (6.71%) Senior
7 99 (5.88%) Consultant
8 93 (5.53%) Support Engineer
9 88 (5.23%) IT Support
10 85 (5.05%) Lead
11 71 (4.22%) Service Analyst
12 69 (4.10%) Business Analyst
13 68 (4.04%) ServiceNow Consultant
14 66 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
15 62 (3.68%) IT Engineer
16 58 (3.45%) Project Manager
17 55 (3.27%) IT Support Engineer
18 48 (2.85%) Technical Architect
19 41 (2.44%) Delivery Manager
19 41 (2.44%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (11.41%) REST
2 121 (7.19%) SOAP
3 34 (2.02%) OAuth
4 33 (1.96%) HTML
4 33 (1.96%) JSON
5 32 (1.90%) SailPoint
6 31 (1.84%) CSS
7 30 (1.78%) Middleware
8 29 (1.72%) LDAP
8 29 (1.72%) Web Services
9 28 (1.66%) XML
10 21 (1.25%) AngularJS
11 18 (1.07%) SAML
12 17 (1.01%) .NET
13 16 (0.95%) OpenID
14 15 (0.89%) Ajax
15 12 (0.71%) Flash
15 12 (0.71%) OAuth2
16 11 (0.65%) JDBC
16 11 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 245 (14.56%) CMDB
2 141 (8.38%) Onboarding
3 67 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 49 (2.91%) Data Centre
5 43 (2.55%) Enterprise Software
6 41 (2.44%) Cloud Native
6 41 (2.44%) Management Information System
7 31 (1.84%) Replication
8 29 (1.72%) Security Posture
9 25 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
10 24 (1.43%) PKI
11 21 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
12 19 (1.13%) AI Agents
12 19 (1.13%) Clustering
13 18 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
14 17 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (1.01%) Data Structures
14 17 (1.01%) Video Conferencing
15 16 (0.95%) Virtual Team
16 14 (0.83%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 269 (15.98%) Windows
2 97 (5.76%) Windows 10
3 89 (5.29%) Linux
4 45 (2.67%) Mac OS
5 44 (2.61%) Windows Server
6 34 (2.02%) Apple iOS
7 25 (1.49%) Unix
8 23 (1.37%) Android
9 17 (1.01%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.53%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.30%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.24%) VMS
13 3 (0.18%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.18%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.18%) zOS
14 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
14 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.059%) CentOS
15 1 (0.059%) MVS
Processes & Methodologies
1 645 (38.32%) ITSM
2 520 (30.90%) ITIL
3 335 (19.90%) Service Management
4 330 (19.61%) Agile
5 305 (18.12%) Problem-Solving
6 289 (17.17%) Stakeholder Management
7 253 (15.03%) Continuous Improvement
8 201 (11.94%) Change Management
9 198 (11.76%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 183 (10.87%) Customer Service
11 182 (10.81%) AI
11 182 (10.81%) DevOps
12 170 (10.10%) Service Delivery
13 152 (9.03%) Roadmaps
14 151 (8.97%) Migration
15 143 (8.50%) Workflow
16 129 (7.66%) Data Modelling
17 128 (7.61%) Incident Management
18 118 (7.01%) CI/CD
19 112 (6.65%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 121 (7.19%) SQL
2 118 (7.01%) PowerShell
3 116 (6.89%) JavaScript
4 104 (6.18%) Python
5 51 (3.03%) Java
6 32 (1.90%) C#
7 18 (1.07%) Bash
8 11 (0.65%) VBScript
9 10 (0.59%) Groovy
10 9 (0.53%) PL/SQL
10 9 (0.53%) T-SQL
11 8 (0.48%) VB
12 7 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 7 (0.42%) TypeScript
13 5 (0.30%) Perl
13 5 (0.30%) Shell Script
14 4 (0.24%) BeanShell
14 4 (0.24%) Bicep
15 3 (0.18%) JCL
15 3 (0.18%) Korn
Qualifications
1 473 (28.10%) Security Cleared
2 335 (19.90%) SC Cleared
3 130 (7.72%) Degree
4 100 (5.94%) DV Cleared
5 46 (2.73%) PMP
6 45 (2.67%) ITIL Certification
7 39 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
8 38 (2.26%) PMI Certification
9 32 (1.90%) BPSS Clearance
9 32 (1.90%) CISSP
10 29 (1.72%) CCNP
11 25 (1.49%) CISM
12 23 (1.37%) Microsoft Certification
13 20 (1.19%) CCNA
14 17 (1.01%) Network+ Certification
15 15 (0.89%) Azure Certification
15 15 (0.89%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 15 (0.89%) Server+ Certification
16 14 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
17 13 (0.77%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 87 (5.17%) SLA
2 73 (4.34%) Data Quality
3 59 (3.51%) GRC
4 45 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 45 (2.67%) QA
5 37 (2.20%) NIST
6 36 (2.14%) GDPR
7 32 (1.90%) PMO
8 17 (1.01%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 13 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
9 13 (0.77%) NCSC
10 12 (0.71%) COBIT
11 11 (0.65%) Accessibility
11 11 (0.65%) ISO 9001
12 7 (0.42%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 5 (0.30%) GxP
13 5 (0.30%) PCI DSS
14 4 (0.24%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 4 (0.24%) SOC 2
System Software
1 209 (12.42%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.37%) Docker
4 18 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.95%) VMware ESXi
6 13 (0.77%) IAG
6 13 (0.77%) NFS
6 13 (0.77%) vSphere
7 12 (0.71%) GPFS
8 10 (0.59%) BitLocker
9 7 (0.42%) Firmware
9 7 (0.42%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.24%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 2 (0.12%) RACF
12 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.12%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.059%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.059%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 70 (4.16%) Terraform
2 64 (3.80%) Microsoft Intune
3 52 (3.09%) SCCM
4 43 (2.55%) Ansible
5 29 (1.72%) Grafana
5 29 (1.72%) Kubernetes
6 24 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
7 20 (1.19%) Prometheus
8 19 (1.13%) Jamf Pro
9 12 (0.71%) WMI
10 11 (0.65%) SCOM
11 10 (0.59%) vRealize
12 9 (0.53%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.42%) CASB
13 7 (0.42%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.36%) VxRail
15 4 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.24%) Packer
15 4 (0.24%) PingFederate
15 4 (0.24%) QRadar
Vendors
1 376 (22.34%) Microsoft
2 87 (5.17%) Cisco
3 77 (4.58%) Remedy
4 67 (3.98%) SAP
5 66 (3.92%) Splunk
6 55 (3.27%) Oracle
7 44 (2.61%) Salesforce
8 42 (2.50%) VMware
9 36 (2.14%) CyberArk
10 32 (1.90%) Workday
11 30 (1.78%) BMC
12 29 (1.72%) Apple
12 29 (1.72%) Fortinet
13 26 (1.54%) Dynatrace
14 24 (1.43%) Palo Alto
15 21 (1.25%) F5
15 21 (1.25%) Snow
15 21 (1.25%) SolarWinds
16 20 (1.19%) Google
17 19 (1.13%) CrowdStrike