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 7 April 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
7 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 67 77
Rank change year-on-year +2 +10 +30
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,379 844 994
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.54% 3.46% 2.66%
As % of the Vendors category 8.17% 7.33% 6.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 939 509 577
10th Percentile £213 £200 £163
25th Percentile £400 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £715
UK median daily rate £500 £499 £503
% change year-on-year +0.30% -0.80% +0.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 41 97
10th Percentile £15.98 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £17.59 £15.44 £16.06
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% +15.46% -11.89%
75th Percentile £78.44 £21.92 £21.37
90th Percentile £97.63 £30.68 £30.10
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £21.46 £16.30
% change year-on-year -9.13% +31.66% -11.89%

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 16,884 11,521 15,797
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.32% 47.23% 42.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,039 7,483 10,110
10th Percentile £313 £295 £255
25th Percentile £413 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 879 423 962
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.12 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £14.27
Median hourly rate £27.00 £29.00 £23.11
Median % change year-on-year -6.90% +25.50% -39.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.65 £80.72 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £28.68 £22.50
% change year-on-year -4.10% +27.44% -46.17%

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 7 April 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 7 April 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 7 April 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 -10 591 £500 -4.76% 126
North of England +4 234 £500 +25.00% 43
South East +15 209 £475 +20.25% 92
Midlands -3 176 £424 -22.16% 29
West Midlands -6 135 £425 -22.87% 17
North West +2 129 £450 +11.11% 24
Yorkshire +8 95 £545 +28.24% 17
East of England -19 72 £525 +16.67% 14
South West +3 64 £725 +31.82% 14
East Midlands -10 34 £400 -4.19% 12
North East -11 11 £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 93 (6.74%) Confluence
2 67 (4.86%) SharePoint
3 55 (3.99%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.65%) Skype for Business
5 8 (0.58%) Apache
6 6 (0.44%) Appian
6 6 (0.44%) Camunda
7 5 (0.36%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (0.22%) CICS
9 3 (0.22%) CMS
9 3 (0.22%) SAS
10 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.15%) IIS
10 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.073%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.073%) JBoss
11 1 (0.073%) Oracle SOA Suite
Applications
1 73 (5.29%) Microsoft Office
2 62 (4.50%) Microsoft Project
3 60 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
4 16 (1.16%) MS Visio
5 15 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 5 (0.36%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.29%) Chatbot
8 3 (0.22%) Trello
9 1 (0.073%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.073%) AutoCAD
9 1 (0.073%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.073%) Revit
Business Applications
1 44 (3.19%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (1.02%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.65%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 9 (0.65%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.51%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.29%) Maximo
7 3 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
7 3 (0.22%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.15%) Actimize
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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.073%) assyst
9 1 (0.073%) Dynamics CRM
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.073%) SAP CS
9 1 (0.073%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 261 (18.93%) Azure
2 168 (12.18%) AWS
3 167 (12.11%) Microsoft 365
4 117 (8.48%) Entra ID
5 90 (6.53%) Power Platform
6 67 (4.86%) SaaS
7 60 (4.35%) GCP
8 57 (4.13%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (1.96%) OneDrive
10 21 (1.52%) Power Automate
11 19 (1.38%) GitHub
12 15 (1.09%) Serverless
13 14 (1.02%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (1.02%) Microsoft Copilot
14 13 (0.94%) Amazon S3
15 12 (0.87%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (0.80%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (0.80%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (0.80%) Azure Monitor
17 10 (0.73%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 64 (4.64%) DNS
2 50 (3.63%) DHCP
3 49 (3.55%) Firewall
3 49 (3.55%) VPN
4 40 (2.90%) Wireless
5 33 (2.39%) WAN
6 32 (2.32%) LAN
7 29 (2.10%) Network Security
7 29 (2.10%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (1.31%) TCP/IP
9 16 (1.16%) VLAN
10 14 (1.02%) Internet
11 12 (0.87%) SD-WAN
12 11 (0.80%) BGP
12 11 (0.80%) SSL
13 10 (0.73%) BIG-IP
13 10 (0.73%) NAS
13 10 (0.73%) NX-OS
13 10 (0.73%) SAN
14 9 (0.65%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (5.58%) Power BI
2 39 (2.83%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.81%) Metadata
4 18 (1.31%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (1.31%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (1.31%) Tableau
5 16 (1.16%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 11 (0.80%) MySQL
7 9 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (0.65%) MongoDB
8 8 (0.58%) Power Query
8 8 (0.58%) Relational Database
9 7 (0.51%) DB2
10 6 (0.44%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.36%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (0.36%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.36%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (0.36%) Redis
12 4 (0.29%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 244 (17.69%) JIRA
2 49 (3.55%) Git
3 38 (2.76%) Jenkins
4 30 (2.18%) GitLab
5 17 (1.23%) Selenium
6 14 (1.02%) REST Assured
7 13 (0.94%) Postman
8 12 (0.87%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.58%) TestRail
10 5 (0.36%) JMeter
10 5 (0.36%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.29%) Android Studio
11 4 (0.29%) Browser DevTools
11 4 (0.29%) Eclipse
11 4 (0.29%) Gatling
11 4 (0.29%) JUnit
11 4 (0.29%) NeoLoad
11 4 (0.29%) Xcode
12 3 (0.22%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.22%) Flyway
General
1 438 (31.76%) Social Skills
2 280 (20.30%) Finance
3 190 (13.78%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (8.05%) Public Sector
5 84 (6.09%) Banking
6 61 (4.42%) Military
7 52 (3.77%) Organisational Skills
8 48 (3.48%) Telecoms
9 46 (3.34%) Documentation Skills
10 45 (3.26%) Legal
11 21 (1.52%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.52%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.31%) Retail
13 17 (1.23%) Billing
14 15 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
15 14 (1.02%) Financial Institution
16 13 (0.94%) Law
17 10 (0.73%) Aerospace
17 10 (0.73%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.51%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 256 (18.56%) Architect
2 192 (13.92%) Analyst
3 138 (10.01%) ServiceNow Architect
4 117 (8.48%) Developer
5 93 (6.74%) ServiceNow Developer
6 81 (5.87%) IT Support
7 80 (5.80%) Support Engineer
8 79 (5.73%) Consultant
8 79 (5.73%) Lead
9 63 (4.57%) Senior
10 51 (3.70%) Business Analyst
10 51 (3.70%) Project Manager
11 49 (3.55%) IT Engineer
12 45 (3.26%) IT Support Engineer
12 45 (3.26%) ServiceNow Manager
13 42 (3.05%) Solutions Architect
14 40 (2.90%) Service Analyst
15 38 (2.76%) Technical Architect
16 37 (2.68%) Administrator
17 36 (2.61%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 146 (10.59%) REST
2 94 (6.82%) SOAP
3 43 (3.12%) SailPoint
4 31 (2.25%) LDAP
5 27 (1.96%) OpenID
6 24 (1.74%) CSS
7 22 (1.60%) AngularJS
8 20 (1.45%) Flash
8 20 (1.45%) Middleware
8 20 (1.45%) OAuth
9 19 (1.38%) JSON
10 18 (1.31%) .NET
11 17 (1.23%) HTML
12 15 (1.09%) Web Services
13 14 (1.02%) SAML
14 13 (0.94%) Kafka
14 13 (0.94%) XML
15 11 (0.80%) ADO
16 10 (0.73%) Microsoft Graph
17 9 (0.65%) SAP Fiori
Miscellaneous
1 165 (11.97%) CMDB
2 104 (7.54%) Onboarding
3 96 (6.96%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.54%) Data Centre
5 33 (2.39%) Management Information System
6 32 (2.32%) Replication
7 25 (1.81%) Security Posture
8 22 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
10 19 (1.38%) Cloud Native
11 17 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (1.09%) Virtual Team
13 14 (1.02%) Data Structures
14 13 (0.94%) Enterprise Software
14 13 (0.94%) PKI
15 12 (0.87%) Mainframe
16 11 (0.80%) Analytical Mindset
17 9 (0.65%) Clustering
17 9 (0.65%) Driving Licence
17 9 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 223 (16.17%) Windows
2 95 (6.89%) Windows 10
3 62 (4.50%) Linux
4 33 (2.39%) Windows Server
5 27 (1.96%) Android
5 27 (1.96%) Mac OS
6 26 (1.89%) Unix
7 18 (1.31%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.65%) Windows 7
9 7 (0.51%) zOS
10 5 (0.36%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.073%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.073%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.073%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.073%) VMS
11 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 459 (33.28%) ITSM
2 364 (26.40%) ITIL
3 319 (23.13%) Agile
4 258 (18.71%) Service Management
5 203 (14.72%) Problem-Solving
6 200 (14.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 182 (13.20%) Continuous Improvement
8 163 (11.82%) Change Management
9 160 (11.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 143 (10.37%) DevOps
11 130 (9.43%) Customer Service
12 122 (8.85%) Migration
13 116 (8.41%) Data Modelling
14 114 (8.27%) Service Delivery
15 113 (8.19%) CI/CD
16 108 (7.83%) Project Management
17 103 (7.47%) Roadmaps
18 98 (7.11%) Workflow
19 93 (6.74%) User Acceptance Testing
20 92 (6.67%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 120 (8.70%) SQL
2 90 (6.53%) JavaScript
3 86 (6.24%) Python
4 71 (5.15%) PowerShell
5 70 (5.08%) Java
6 23 (1.67%) C#
7 15 (1.09%) TypeScript
8 12 (0.87%) Bash
9 11 (0.80%) PL/SQL
9 11 (0.80%) VB
10 9 (0.65%) Perl
10 9 (0.65%) VBScript
11 8 (0.58%) ABAP
12 7 (0.51%) BeanShell
12 7 (0.51%) JCL
12 7 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (0.51%) REXX
12 7 (0.51%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.44%) Groovy
Qualifications
1 377 (27.34%) Security Cleared
2 278 (20.16%) SC Cleared
3 122 (8.85%) Degree
4 57 (4.13%) DV Cleared
5 32 (2.32%) Cisco Certification
5 32 (2.32%) PMP
6 30 (2.18%) TOGAF Certification
7 29 (2.10%) ITIL Certification
7 29 (2.10%) PMI Certification
8 25 (1.81%) CISSP
9 23 (1.67%) CCNP
10 22 (1.60%) CISM
11 15 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
12 14 (1.02%) Microsoft Certification
13 12 (0.87%) CCNA
14 8 (0.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
14 8 (0.58%) ISTQB
15 7 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
16 6 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (4.64%) SLA
2 63 (4.57%) Data Quality
3 51 (3.70%) QA
4 49 (3.55%) GRC
5 47 (3.41%) GDPR
6 34 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (2.03%) NIST
8 22 (1.60%) PMO
8 22 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 12 (0.87%) Accessibility
10 10 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.73%) PCI DSS
11 6 (0.44%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.29%) GxP
12 4 (0.29%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.22%) COBIT
13 3 (0.22%) ISO 22301
13 3 (0.22%) NCSC
13 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
13 3 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 175 (12.69%) Active Directory
2 36 (2.61%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.45%) GPFS
3 20 (1.45%) NFS
4 18 (1.31%) vSphere
5 17 (1.23%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.87%) Docker
7 9 (0.65%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.29%) Firmware
10 3 (0.22%) IAG
10 3 (0.22%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 3 (0.22%) RACF
10 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.073%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 50 (3.63%) SCCM
2 45 (3.26%) Terraform
3 37 (2.68%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (2.32%) Ansible
5 30 (2.18%) OPNET
6 22 (1.60%) Grafana
7 18 (1.31%) Kubernetes
8 17 (1.23%) Prometheus
8 17 (1.23%) vRealize
9 13 (0.94%) RSA Archer
10 12 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
11 10 (0.73%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.51%) CASB
12 7 (0.51%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.36%) QRadar
13 5 (0.36%) Rancher
13 5 (0.36%) Salt
13 5 (0.36%) VxRail
14 4 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.29%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 236 (17.11%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.74%) Remedy
3 85 (6.16%) Cisco
4 64 (4.64%) SAP
5 51 (3.70%) Oracle
6 42 (3.05%) VMware
7 41 (2.97%) Splunk
8 40 (2.90%) Salesforce
9 39 (2.83%) Atlassian
10 36 (2.61%) Workday
11 35 (2.54%) IBM
12 24 (1.74%) CyberArk
13 22 (1.60%) Apple
13 22 (1.60%) Zscaler
14 21 (1.52%) Fortinet
14 21 (1.52%) Google
15 20 (1.45%) Palo Alto
16 19 (1.38%) BMC
17 18 (1.31%) Snow
18 17 (1.23%) Dynatrace