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 24 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
24 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 66 81
Rank change year-on-year 0 +15 +24
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,366 855 984
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.44% 3.48% 2.64%
As % of the Vendors category 8.12% 7.33% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 938 536 577
10th Percentile £213 £202 £164
25th Percentile £400 £331 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year - -0.50% +0.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £615
90th Percentile £705 £688 £720
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 46 104
10th Percentile £15.54 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £17.69 £15.22 £16.06
Median hourly rate £21.48 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +14.12% +15.46% -11.70%
75th Percentile £84.69 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile £97.88 £31.59 £28.50
UK median hourly rate £21.35 £18.82 £16.30
% change year-on-year +13.42% +15.46% -11.51%

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 16,823 11,670 15,684
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.34% 47.44% 42.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,964 7,550 9,996
10th Percentile £313 £292 £255
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% -3.63%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £631
90th Percentile £711 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 884 452 988
10th Percentile £15.45 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £18.13 £14.27
Median hourly rate £30.00 £27.63 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +8.58% +22.80% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.66 £56.25
90th Percentile £79.28 £76.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.32 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +11.78% +20.56% -48.86%

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 24 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 24 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 24 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 +3 598 £500 -9.09% 92
North of England -4 236 £519 +28.09% 52
South East +4 201 £492 +40.50% 71
Midlands +7 167 £425 -22.80% 23
West Midlands -5 127 £425 -22.87% 18
North West -7 125 £475 +16.14% 30
Yorkshire -7 100 £545 +36.25% 19
South West -4 68 £600 +26.32% 15
East of England -24 60 £525 +57.19% 12
East Midlands -8 33 £300 -41.46% 4
North East -7 14 £425 +41.67% 3
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 96 (7.03%) Confluence
2 55 (4.03%) SharePoint
3 49 (3.59%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.66%) Skype for Business
5 6 (0.44%) Apache
6 5 (0.37%) Appian
7 4 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.29%) Camunda
7 4 (0.29%) SAS
8 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.22%) CICS
8 3 (0.22%) CMS
9 2 (0.15%) IIS
9 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.073%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.073%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
Applications
1 80 (5.86%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (4.10%) Microsoft Project
3 55 (4.03%) Microsoft Excel
4 20 (1.46%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 13 (0.95%) MS Visio
6 4 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.15%) Revit
7 2 (0.15%) Trello
8 1 (0.073%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.073%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 44 (3.22%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.59%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.29%) Maximo
4 4 (0.29%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 3 (0.22%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.15%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.15%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.073%) Eloqua
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.073%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.073%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 267 (19.55%) Azure
2 186 (13.62%) AWS
3 143 (10.47%) Microsoft 365
4 122 (8.93%) Entra ID
5 87 (6.37%) Power Platform
6 71 (5.20%) SaaS
7 61 (4.47%) GCP
8 56 (4.10%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (1.61%) Power Automate
10 18 (1.32%) GitHub
11 16 (1.17%) OneDrive
12 14 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (1.02%) Amazon S3
13 13 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (0.95%) AWS KMS
13 13 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (0.95%) Microsoft Copilot
14 12 (0.88%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (0.81%) Serverless
16 10 (0.73%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 66 (4.83%) DNS
2 52 (3.81%) DHCP
2 52 (3.81%) Firewall
3 49 (3.59%) VPN
4 38 (2.78%) Wireless
5 31 (2.27%) WAN
6 30 (2.20%) LAN
7 29 (2.12%) Network Security
8 22 (1.61%) Wi-Fi
9 20 (1.46%) TCP/IP
10 17 (1.24%) VLAN
11 14 (1.02%) Internet
12 12 (0.88%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.88%) SSL
13 10 (0.73%) BIG-IP
13 10 (0.73%) NAS
13 10 (0.73%) SAN
14 9 (0.66%) Cisco ISE
14 9 (0.66%) Ethernet
14 9 (0.66%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (5.56%) Power BI
2 36 (2.64%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (1.46%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
6 17 (1.24%) Metadata
7 16 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (1.17%) Tableau
8 10 (0.73%) Power Query
9 9 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (0.66%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.66%) MySQL
10 8 (0.59%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.44%) DB2
12 6 (0.44%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.37%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.37%) Redis
14 4 (0.29%) Metadata Repository
14 4 (0.29%) Neo4j
Development Applications
1 254 (18.59%) JIRA
2 61 (4.47%) Git
3 40 (2.93%) Jenkins
4 31 (2.27%) GitLab
5 17 (1.24%) Selenium
6 14 (1.02%) REST Assured
7 12 (0.88%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.88%) Postman
8 8 (0.59%) TestRail
9 5 (0.37%) JMeter
9 5 (0.37%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.29%) Gatling
10 4 (0.29%) NeoLoad
11 3 (0.22%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.22%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.22%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.22%) Flyway
11 3 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
11 3 (0.22%) JUnit
12 2 (0.15%) Eclipse
General
1 427 (31.26%) Social Skills
2 271 (19.84%) Finance
3 181 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (7.91%) Public Sector
5 80 (5.86%) Banking
6 63 (4.61%) Military
7 54 (3.95%) Organisational Skills
8 50 (3.66%) Telecoms
9 47 (3.44%) Legal
10 44 (3.22%) Documentation Skills
11 21 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (1.39%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.32%) Retail
14 15 (1.10%) Billing
15 13 (0.95%) Law
15 13 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (0.88%) Financial Institution
17 8 (0.59%) Aerospace
17 8 (0.59%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.37%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 274 (20.06%) Architect
2 182 (13.32%) Analyst
3 151 (11.05%) ServiceNow Architect
4 114 (8.35%) Developer
5 91 (6.66%) ServiceNow Developer
6 79 (5.78%) Senior
7 76 (5.56%) Lead
8 71 (5.20%) Support Engineer
9 69 (5.05%) Consultant
9 69 (5.05%) IT Support
10 54 (3.95%) Business Analyst
11 50 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
12 49 (3.59%) Project Manager
13 44 (3.22%) ServiceNow Manager
14 43 (3.15%) IT Engineer
15 40 (2.93%) IT Support Engineer
16 37 (2.71%) Service Analyst
16 37 (2.71%) ServiceNow Consultant
16 37 (2.71%) Technical Architect
17 34 (2.49%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (11.64%) REST
2 101 (7.39%) SOAP
3 42 (3.07%) SailPoint
4 35 (2.56%) LDAP
5 30 (2.20%) OpenID
6 26 (1.90%) CSS
7 25 (1.83%) Middleware
8 24 (1.76%) AngularJS
9 23 (1.68%) JSON
10 22 (1.61%) HTML
10 22 (1.61%) OAuth
11 19 (1.39%) Flash
11 19 (1.39%) Web Services
12 18 (1.32%) .NET
12 18 (1.32%) XML
13 17 (1.24%) SAML
14 12 (0.88%) Kafka
14 12 (0.88%) Microsoft Graph
15 11 (0.81%) JDBC
16 10 (0.73%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 170 (12.45%) CMDB
2 108 (7.91%) Onboarding
3 99 (7.25%) Product Ownership
4 34 (2.49%) Data Centre
4 34 (2.49%) Management Information System
4 34 (2.49%) Replication
5 25 (1.83%) Security Posture
6 23 (1.68%) Cloud Native
7 19 (1.39%) Linux Command Line
7 19 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
8 17 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
8 17 (1.24%) Data Structures
8 17 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
9 15 (1.10%) Virtual Team
10 14 (1.02%) PKI
11 13 (0.95%) Mainframe
12 12 (0.88%) Driving Licence
13 11 (0.81%) Clustering
14 9 (0.66%) Analytical Mindset
14 9 (0.66%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 201 (14.71%) Windows
2 78 (5.71%) Windows 10
3 66 (4.83%) Linux
4 36 (2.64%) Windows Server
5 25 (1.83%) Unix
6 24 (1.76%) Mac OS
7 22 (1.61%) Android
8 16 (1.17%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.66%) Windows 7
10 8 (0.59%) zOS
11 7 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.073%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.073%) MVS
14 1 (0.073%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.073%) VMS
14 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (32.94%) ITSM
2 371 (27.16%) ITIL
3 328 (24.01%) Agile
4 253 (18.52%) Service Management
5 197 (14.42%) Problem-Solving
6 195 (14.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 194 (14.20%) Stakeholder Management
8 162 (11.86%) Change Management
9 160 (11.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 158 (11.57%) DevOps
11 125 (9.15%) Migration
12 121 (8.86%) CI/CD
13 119 (8.71%) Data Modelling
13 119 (8.71%) Service Delivery
14 117 (8.57%) Customer Service
15 116 (8.49%) Roadmaps
16 103 (7.54%) AI
16 103 (7.54%) Workflow
17 102 (7.47%) Project Management
18 97 (7.10%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 123 (9.00%) SQL
2 94 (6.88%) JavaScript
3 86 (6.30%) Python
4 81 (5.93%) PowerShell
5 74 (5.42%) Java
6 27 (1.98%) C#
7 12 (0.88%) Bash
7 12 (0.88%) TypeScript
8 11 (0.81%) PL/SQL
8 11 (0.81%) VB
9 10 (0.73%) Perl
10 9 (0.66%) Groovy
10 9 (0.66%) VBScript
11 8 (0.59%) BeanShell
11 8 (0.59%) JCL
11 8 (0.59%) REXX
12 6 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.44%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.37%) Go
Qualifications
1 378 (27.67%) Security Cleared
2 282 (20.64%) SC Cleared
3 124 (9.08%) Degree
4 59 (4.32%) DV Cleared
5 33 (2.42%) Cisco Certification
6 32 (2.34%) PMP
7 30 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
7 30 (2.20%) TOGAF Certification
8 29 (2.12%) PMI Certification
9 27 (1.98%) CISSP
10 24 (1.76%) CCNP
10 24 (1.76%) CISM
11 16 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
12 14 (1.02%) Computer Science Degree
13 13 (0.95%) CCNA
14 11 (0.81%) Microsoft Certification
15 9 (0.66%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 8 (0.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 8 (0.59%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.83%) SLA
2 60 (4.39%) Data Quality
3 51 (3.73%) QA
4 50 (3.66%) GDPR
5 47 (3.44%) GRC
6 33 (2.42%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (1.90%) NIST
8 25 (1.83%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 20 (1.46%) PMO
10 10 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.73%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.59%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.59%) HIPAA
12 4 (0.29%) GxP
13 3 (0.22%) COBIT
13 3 (0.22%) NCSC
13 3 (0.22%) NIST 800
13 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
14 2 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
14 2 (0.15%) ITGC
System Software
1 164 (12.01%) Active Directory
2 36 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.39%) GPFS
3 19 (1.39%) NFS
4 15 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (1.10%) vSphere
5 14 (1.02%) Docker
6 9 (0.66%) BitLocker
7 5 (0.37%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.29%) IAG
8 4 (0.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 3 (0.22%) Firmware
9 3 (0.22%) RACF
9 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.073%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 54 (3.95%) Terraform
2 45 (3.29%) SCCM
3 33 (2.42%) Ansible
4 30 (2.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.20%) OPNET
5 25 (1.83%) Grafana
6 20 (1.46%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.32%) Kubernetes
8 15 (1.10%) vRealize
9 12 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
10 9 (0.66%) RSA Archer
11 7 (0.51%) CASB
12 6 (0.44%) Jamf Pro
13 5 (0.37%) Control-M
13 5 (0.37%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.37%) QRadar
13 5 (0.37%) Rancher
13 5 (0.37%) Salt
13 5 (0.37%) VxRail
14 4 (0.29%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 224 (16.40%) Microsoft
2 91 (6.66%) Remedy
3 79 (5.78%) Cisco
4 67 (4.90%) SAP
5 53 (3.88%) Oracle
6 42 (3.07%) VMware
7 41 (3.00%) Workday
8 40 (2.93%) Splunk
9 39 (2.86%) Atlassian
10 36 (2.64%) Salesforce
11 32 (2.34%) IBM
12 24 (1.76%) CyberArk
13 22 (1.61%) Apple
13 22 (1.61%) Fortinet
13 22 (1.61%) Google
14 21 (1.54%) Palo Alto
15 20 (1.46%) BMC
16 19 (1.39%) Zscaler
17 18 (1.32%) Dynatrace
17 18 (1.32%) Snow