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 21 May 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
21 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 64 80
Rank change year-on-year -2 +16 +25
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,411 878 957
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.42% 3.63% 2.63%
As % of the Vendors category 8.35% 7.60% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 981 548 559
10th Percentile £213 £205 £165
25th Percentile £400 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £595 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £707
UK median daily rate £500 £488 £500
% change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 57 107
10th Percentile £16.31 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £14.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £22.27 £18.13 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.81% +11.23% -12.88%
75th Percentile £44.86 £22.56 £21.37
90th Percentile £85.80 £45.50 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £22.27 £17.37 £16.30
% change year-on-year +28.16% +6.58% -14.21%

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 16,907 11,546 15,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.01% 47.68% 41.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,945 7,418 9,750
10th Percentile £313 £275 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £523 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +1.46% -3.74%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £633
90th Percentile £703 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £514
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.29% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 884 471 1,004
10th Percentile £15.45 £14.84 £12.04
25th Percentile £18.73 £17.50 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% +17.56% -40.00%
75th Percentile £59.19 £58.72 £57.37
90th Percentile £76.17 £73.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.08
% change year-on-year +27.45% +15.52% -47.85%

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 21 May 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 21 May 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 21 May 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 +6 615 £519 -1.19% 128
North of England -4 275 £514 +28.50% 84
South East +1 209 £500 +42.86% 78
Midlands +10 164 £420 -23.77% 38
North West +2 140 £458 -7.95% 52
Yorkshire -11 124 £525 +31.25% 27
West Midlands -8 119 £425 -22.87% 22
East of England -26 60 £525 +51.52% 24
South West -26 54 £525 +116.49% 14
East Midlands +4 38 £410 -20.00% 15
North East -13 15 £450 +50.00% 5
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 88 (6.24%) Confluence
2 53 (3.76%) SharePoint
3 45 (3.19%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.71%) Skype for Business
5 8 (0.57%) Apache
6 4 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.28%) CMS
7 3 (0.21%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.21%) Appian
7 3 (0.21%) SAS
7 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.14%) Camunda
8 2 (0.14%) CICS
8 2 (0.14%) IIS
8 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.071%) Drupal
9 1 (0.071%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.071%) Tomcat
Applications
1 69 (4.89%) Microsoft Office
2 55 (3.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 42 (2.98%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (1.70%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.64%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.21%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.21%) Revit
7 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.071%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.071%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 51 (3.61%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.21%) Maximo
6 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.14%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.14%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.14%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.071%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.071%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.071%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.071%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.071%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 289 (20.48%) Azure
2 204 (14.46%) AWS
3 141 (9.99%) Microsoft 365
4 113 (8.01%) Entra ID
5 94 (6.66%) Power Platform
6 67 (4.75%) GCP
7 62 (4.39%) Azure DevOps
7 62 (4.39%) SaaS
8 26 (1.84%) OneDrive
9 18 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
10 17 (1.20%) Power Automate
11 15 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 15 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
11 15 (1.06%) Amazon S3
11 15 (1.06%) GitHub
11 15 (1.06%) Slack
12 14 (0.99%) AWS KMS
13 13 (0.92%) Datadog
13 13 (0.92%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 12 (0.85%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 71 (5.03%) DNS
2 61 (4.32%) Firewall
3 60 (4.25%) DHCP
4 49 (3.47%) VPN
5 36 (2.55%) Wireless
6 31 (2.20%) Network Security
7 30 (2.13%) LAN
7 30 (2.13%) WAN
8 23 (1.63%) Wi-Fi
9 21 (1.49%) TCP/IP
10 19 (1.35%) VLAN
11 17 (1.20%) SAN
12 16 (1.13%) NAS
13 15 (1.06%) Internet
13 15 (1.06%) SD-WAN
14 13 (0.92%) SSL
15 12 (0.85%) Cisco IOS
15 12 (0.85%) NX-OS
15 12 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
16 10 (0.71%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (5.53%) Power BI
2 37 (2.62%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (1.49%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (1.35%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 15 (1.06%) Metadata
8 13 (0.92%) Tableau
9 10 (0.71%) MongoDB
9 10 (0.71%) Power Query
10 9 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (0.50%) MySQL
12 6 (0.43%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.43%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.35%) DB2
13 5 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.28%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.28%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 251 (17.79%) JIRA
2 67 (4.75%) Git
3 39 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 35 (2.48%) GitLab
5 17 (1.20%) Selenium
6 14 (0.99%) REST Assured
7 13 (0.92%) Postman
8 12 (0.85%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.57%) TestRail
10 5 (0.35%) JMeter
10 5 (0.35%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.28%) Flyway
11 4 (0.28%) Gatling
11 4 (0.28%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.21%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.21%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.21%) JUnit
13 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 423 (29.98%) Social Skills
2 278 (19.70%) Finance
3 171 (12.12%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (8.22%) Public Sector
5 85 (6.02%) Banking
6 55 (3.90%) Telecoms
7 52 (3.69%) Organisational Skills
8 48 (3.40%) Military
9 47 (3.33%) Legal
10 41 (2.91%) Documentation Skills
11 18 (1.28%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (1.13%) Billing
12 16 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
13 15 (1.06%) Retail
14 14 (0.99%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.64%) Law
16 8 (0.57%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.57%) French Language
17 7 (0.50%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 274 (19.42%) Architect
2 184 (13.04%) Analyst
3 157 (11.13%) ServiceNow Architect
4 127 (9.00%) Developer
5 106 (7.51%) ServiceNow Developer
6 84 (5.95%) Senior
7 75 (5.32%) Lead
8 74 (5.24%) Support Engineer
9 70 (4.96%) IT Support
10 64 (4.54%) Consultant
11 62 (4.39%) Solutions Architect
12 50 (3.54%) Business Analyst
13 49 (3.47%) Project Manager
14 46 (3.26%) IT Engineer
15 45 (3.19%) ServiceNow Manager
16 43 (3.05%) IT Support Engineer
16 43 (3.05%) Service Analyst
17 39 (2.76%) Technical Architect
18 37 (2.62%) ServiceNow Consultant
19 35 (2.48%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (12.62%) REST
2 105 (7.44%) SOAP
3 39 (2.76%) SailPoint
4 38 (2.69%) LDAP
5 31 (2.20%) Middleware
6 29 (2.06%) CSS
6 29 (2.06%) OpenID
7 28 (1.98%) HTML
8 25 (1.77%) JSON
9 23 (1.63%) Web Services
10 22 (1.56%) AngularJS
10 22 (1.56%) OAuth
11 21 (1.49%) Flash
12 19 (1.35%) .NET
12 19 (1.35%) XML
13 16 (1.13%) SAML
14 11 (0.78%) JDBC
14 11 (0.78%) Kafka
14 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Graph
15 10 (0.71%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 179 (12.69%) CMDB
2 110 (7.80%) Onboarding
3 91 (6.45%) Product Ownership
4 41 (2.91%) Data Centre
5 34 (2.41%) Management Information System
6 33 (2.34%) Replication
7 27 (1.91%) Cloud Native
8 25 (1.77%) Security Posture
9 21 (1.49%) Linux Command Line
10 19 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.20%) Self-Motivation
12 16 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (1.13%) Data Structures
12 16 (1.13%) Virtual Team
13 15 (1.06%) AI Agents
14 14 (0.99%) PKI
15 12 (0.85%) Clustering
16 10 (0.71%) Analytical Mindset
17 9 (0.64%) Mainframe
17 9 (0.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 215 (15.24%) Windows
2 81 (5.74%) Windows 10
3 74 (5.24%) Linux
4 36 (2.55%) Mac OS
4 36 (2.55%) Windows Server
5 28 (1.98%) Unix
6 21 (1.49%) Apple iOS
7 18 (1.28%) Android
8 10 (0.71%) Windows 7
9 7 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 6 (0.43%) zOS
11 4 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.071%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.071%) MVS
12 1 (0.071%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.071%) VMS
12 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.071%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 488 (34.59%) ITSM
2 385 (27.29%) ITIL
3 319 (22.61%) Agile
4 250 (17.72%) Service Management
5 206 (14.60%) Problem-Solving
6 202 (14.32%) Stakeholder Management
7 199 (14.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 176 (12.47%) Change Management
9 168 (11.91%) DevOps
10 157 (11.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 132 (9.36%) Migration
12 128 (9.07%) Customer Service
12 128 (9.07%) Service Delivery
13 127 (9.00%) AI
13 127 (9.00%) CI/CD
14 121 (8.58%) Data Modelling
15 119 (8.43%) Roadmaps
16 117 (8.29%) Workflow
17 101 (7.16%) Asset Management
18 98 (6.95%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 132 (9.36%) SQL
2 103 (7.30%) JavaScript
3 89 (6.31%) Python
4 82 (5.81%) PowerShell
5 74 (5.24%) Java
6 30 (2.13%) C#
7 11 (0.78%) Bash
7 11 (0.78%) TypeScript
7 11 (0.78%) VB
7 11 (0.78%) VBScript
8 10 (0.71%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.57%) Groovy
10 7 (0.50%) Perl
11 6 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (0.43%) JCL
11 6 (0.43%) REXX
11 6 (0.43%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.35%) BeanShell
12 5 (0.35%) Go
12 5 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 371 (26.29%) Security Cleared
2 271 (19.21%) SC Cleared
3 110 (7.80%) Degree
4 65 (4.61%) DV Cleared
5 38 (2.69%) Cisco Certification
6 32 (2.27%) PMP
7 30 (2.13%) ITIL Certification
8 29 (2.06%) CCNP
9 28 (1.98%) PMI Certification
10 27 (1.91%) CISSP
11 21 (1.49%) CISM
12 20 (1.42%) BPSS Clearance
13 18 (1.28%) TOGAF Certification
14 17 (1.20%) CCNA
15 13 (0.92%) Computer Science Degree
16 12 (0.85%) Network+ Certification
16 12 (0.85%) Server+ Certification
17 11 (0.78%) Microsoft Certification
18 10 (0.71%) AWS Certification
18 10 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 75 (5.32%) SLA
2 66 (4.68%) Data Quality
3 50 (3.54%) QA
4 43 (3.05%) GRC
5 42 (2.98%) GDPR
6 27 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 27 (1.91%) NIST
7 23 (1.63%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 22 (1.56%) PMO
9 11 (0.78%) Accessibility
9 11 (0.78%) Cyber Essentials
10 8 (0.57%) HIPAA
10 8 (0.57%) PCI DSS
11 4 (0.28%) COBIT
11 4 (0.28%) GxP
12 3 (0.21%) ISO 22301
12 3 (0.21%) NCSC
12 3 (0.21%) NIST 800
12 3 (0.21%) SOC 2
13 2 (0.14%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 158 (11.20%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.48%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.56%) NFS
4 21 (1.49%) GPFS
5 19 (1.35%) Docker
6 17 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (1.20%) vSphere
7 10 (0.71%) BitLocker
8 7 (0.50%) Firmware
9 5 (0.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.28%) IAG
10 4 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (0.21%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 2 (0.14%) RACF
12 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.071%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.071%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.071%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.071%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 57 (4.04%) Terraform
2 44 (3.12%) SCCM
3 37 (2.62%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (2.41%) Ansible
5 25 (1.77%) Grafana
6 21 (1.49%) Kubernetes
7 19 (1.35%) Prometheus
8 17 (1.20%) OPNET
8 17 (1.20%) vRealize
9 13 (0.92%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.71%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.57%) VxRail
12 7 (0.50%) CASB
12 7 (0.50%) RSA Archer
12 7 (0.50%) WMI
13 5 (0.35%) QRadar
13 5 (0.35%) Salt
14 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.28%) Pingdom
14 4 (0.28%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 245 (17.36%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.59%) Cisco
3 84 (5.95%) Remedy
4 64 (4.54%) SAP
5 52 (3.69%) Splunk
6 50 (3.54%) Oracle
7 41 (2.91%) VMware
8 38 (2.69%) Workday
9 35 (2.48%) Salesforce
10 33 (2.34%) IBM
11 27 (1.91%) BMC
11 27 (1.91%) Fortinet
11 27 (1.91%) Palo Alto
12 25 (1.77%) Apple
12 25 (1.77%) Atlassian
13 23 (1.63%) CyberArk
13 23 (1.63%) F5
13 23 (1.63%) Google
14 20 (1.42%) Zscaler
15 18 (1.28%) Snow