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 December 2025, 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 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 71 65
Rank change year-on-year +1 -6 +64
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,135 916 1,197
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.57% 3.21% 3.24%
As % of the Vendors category 7.56% 6.98% 7.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 779 517 784
10th Percentile £204 £207 £165
25th Percentile £350 £356 £309
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year -4.40% -0.50% -4.29%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £638
90th Percentile £688 £650 £715
UK median daily rate £475 £498 £515
% change year-on-year -4.52% -3.30% -0.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 51 24 42
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.39
25th Percentile £16.05 £16.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £19.25 £21.46 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +11.48% +24.19%
75th Percentile £28.75 £23.14 £32.38
90th Percentile £89.63 £27.55 £68.27
UK median hourly rate £19.25 £22.00 £18.93
% change year-on-year -12.50% +16.22% +22.13%

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 15,016 13,127 16,339
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.23% 46.02% 44.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,760 7,992 10,635
10th Percentile £297 £291 £250
25th Percentile £408 £411 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.71% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £708 £725 £729
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 718 376 622
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.49 £14.18
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.86 £19.82
Median hourly rate £23.54 £30.43 £45.21
Median % change year-on-year -22.65% -32.69% +69.14%
75th Percentile £47.50 £64.26 £64.24
90th Percentile £73.75 £80.34 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.79 £27.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -13.50% -38.89% +74.55%

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025.

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 December 2025. 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 -38 434 £480 -8.57% 155
North of England +3 215 £500 +21.21% 82
South East +33 171 £413 -8.33% 142
Midlands +6 144 £475 +13.10% 75
North West +11 128 £481 +18.24% 42
West Midlands +9 117 £475 +2.70% 49
South West +40 86 £614 +22.14% 27
Yorkshire +3 78 £500 -6.98% 37
East of England +9 75 £527 +0.29% 43
East Midlands -5 26 £425 +19.38% 23
North East -4 9 £350 +133.33% 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 81 (7.14%) Confluence
2 71 (6.26%) SharePoint
3 43 (3.79%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.88%) nginx
5 6 (0.53%) Appian
5 6 (0.53%) Camunda
5 6 (0.53%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.26%) Apache
7 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.26%) CICS
7 3 (0.26%) HCL Notes
7 3 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.26%) SAS
8 2 (0.18%) IIS
8 2 (0.18%) JBoss
9 1 (0.088%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.088%) CMS
9 1 (0.088%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 71 (6.26%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (5.02%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (4.85%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (2.11%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.88%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.35%) Autodesk Inventor
8 4 (0.35%) Trello
9 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.088%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 46 (4.05%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.70%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.62%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 7 (0.62%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.62%) SAP MM
5 3 (0.26%) SAP GRC
5 3 (0.26%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
7 1 (0.088%) Actimize
7 1 (0.088%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.088%) Maximo
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.088%) Oracle HRMS
7 1 (0.088%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.088%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.088%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.088%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 237 (20.88%) Azure
2 176 (15.51%) Microsoft 365
3 139 (12.25%) AWS
4 79 (6.96%) Entra ID
5 65 (5.73%) SaaS
6 60 (5.29%) Power Platform
7 58 (5.11%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (3.96%) GCP
9 32 (2.82%) OneDrive
10 24 (2.11%) Power Automate
11 21 (1.85%) GitHub
12 20 (1.76%) AWS KMS
13 19 (1.67%) Amazon S3
14 18 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 18 (1.59%) Amazon EC2
14 18 (1.59%) Amazon ELB
14 18 (1.59%) Sauce Labs
14 18 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (1.15%) Azure Logic Apps
16 11 (0.97%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 73 (6.43%) DNS
2 47 (4.14%) VPN
3 46 (4.05%) Firewall
4 43 (3.79%) Wireless
5 38 (3.35%) DHCP
6 32 (2.82%) Wi-Fi
7 26 (2.29%) HTTP
8 22 (1.94%) FTP
8 22 (1.94%) TCP/IP
9 20 (1.76%) LAN
9 20 (1.76%) WAN
10 19 (1.67%) SSH
11 18 (1.59%) SMTP
12 15 (1.32%) Network Security
13 14 (1.23%) SSL
14 13 (1.15%) BGP
15 10 (0.88%) Cisco Wireless
15 10 (0.88%) IMAP
15 10 (0.88%) OpenLDAP
16 9 (0.79%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (3.52%) Power BI
2 30 (2.64%) Relational Database
3 24 (2.11%) MySQL
4 22 (1.94%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
6 16 (1.41%) SQL Server
6 16 (1.41%) Tableau
7 15 (1.32%) Metadata
8 14 (1.23%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (0.70%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.53%) DB2
11 5 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.35%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.35%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.35%) Redis
13 3 (0.26%) Data Lake
13 3 (0.26%) Oracle ODI
13 3 (0.26%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 2 (0.18%) DynamoDB
14 2 (0.18%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 212 (18.68%) JIRA
2 50 (4.41%) Jenkins
3 47 (4.14%) Git
4 19 (1.67%) Browser DevTools
5 18 (1.59%) Android Studio
5 18 (1.59%) Eclipse
5 18 (1.59%) GitLab
5 18 (1.59%) Xcode
6 17 (1.50%) Vagrant
7 10 (0.88%) Selenium
8 9 (0.79%) REST Assured
9 8 (0.70%) Postman
10 7 (0.62%) Cucumber
11 6 (0.53%) TestRail
12 4 (0.35%) Metasploit
13 3 (0.26%) Burp Suite
13 3 (0.26%) CircleCI
13 3 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
14 2 (0.18%) sqlmap
14 2 (0.18%) Zephyr
General
1 459 (40.44%) Social Skills
2 227 (20.00%) Finance
3 182 (16.04%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (9.34%) Public Sector
5 50 (4.41%) Banking
6 42 (3.70%) Military
6 42 (3.70%) Telecoms
7 39 (3.44%) Legal
8 36 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
8 36 (3.17%) Organisational Skills
9 24 (2.11%) Influencing Skills
10 21 (1.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 21 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
11 17 (1.50%) Law
12 13 (1.15%) Aerospace
12 13 (1.15%) Manufacturing
13 9 (0.79%) Financial Institution
14 7 (0.62%) Billing
14 7 (0.62%) Investment Banking
14 7 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 182 (16.04%) Architect
2 166 (14.63%) Analyst
3 100 (8.81%) ServiceNow Architect
4 95 (8.37%) Support Engineer
5 93 (8.19%) Developer
6 79 (6.96%) ServiceNow Developer
7 76 (6.70%) IT Support
8 63 (5.55%) Consultant
9 51 (4.49%) Lead
10 44 (3.88%) Senior
11 41 (3.61%) IT Engineer
12 38 (3.35%) Service Analyst
13 34 (3.00%) Business Analyst
13 34 (3.00%) Project Manager
14 33 (2.91%) IT Support Engineer
14 33 (2.91%) ServiceNow Manager
15 32 (2.82%) Service Architect
16 31 (2.73%) DevOps Engineer
17 29 (2.56%) Service Manager
17 29 (2.56%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 100 (8.81%) REST
2 86 (7.58%) SOAP
3 47 (4.14%) AngularJS
4 35 (3.08%) CSS
5 34 (3.00%) LDAP
6 27 (2.38%) React
7 25 (2.20%) JSON
8 24 (2.11%) HTML
9 23 (2.03%) Ajax
9 23 (2.03%) SailPoint
10 19 (1.67%) GraphQL
10 19 (1.67%) Web Services
11 15 (1.32%) SAML
12 14 (1.23%) Flash
13 13 (1.15%) XML
14 10 (0.88%) .NET
14 10 (0.88%) HTML5
14 10 (0.88%) ODBC
14 10 (0.88%) OpenID
15 9 (0.79%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 143 (12.60%) CMDB
2 68 (5.99%) Onboarding
3 56 (4.93%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.44%) Replication
5 31 (2.73%) Data Centre
6 24 (2.11%) Mobile App
7 22 (1.94%) Enterprise Software
7 22 (1.94%) Management Information System
8 21 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
9 20 (1.76%) Driving Licence
10 18 (1.59%) Security Posture
11 17 (1.50%) Video Conferencing
12 16 (1.41%) Smartphone
13 14 (1.23%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
13 14 (1.23%) Linux Command Line
14 9 (0.79%) Cloud Native
14 9 (0.79%) Low-Code
15 8 (0.70%) Public Cloud
16 7 (0.62%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 244 (21.50%) Windows
2 91 (8.02%) Windows 10
3 73 (6.43%) Linux
4 43 (3.79%) Mac OS
5 39 (3.44%) Android
6 33 (2.91%) Unix
7 19 (1.67%) VMS
8 18 (1.59%) Apple iOS
9 17 (1.50%) Amazon Linux
10 14 (1.23%) Windows Server
11 11 (0.97%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.44%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.44%) zOS
13 4 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.088%) CentOS
14 1 (0.088%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.088%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.088%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (33.22%) ITSM
2 297 (26.17%) ITIL
3 250 (22.03%) Agile
4 206 (18.15%) Problem-Solving
4 206 (18.15%) Service Management
5 149 (13.13%) DevOps
5 149 (13.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 147 (12.95%) Stakeholder Management
7 131 (11.54%) Change Management
8 123 (10.84%) Customer Service
9 103 (9.07%) Continuous Improvement
10 94 (8.28%) CI/CD
11 83 (7.31%) Service Delivery
12 82 (7.22%) Roadmaps
13 73 (6.43%) Configuration Management
14 71 (6.26%) User Experience
15 70 (6.17%) Scrum
16 69 (6.08%) Project Management
17 67 (5.90%) Workflow
18 64 (5.64%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 114 (10.04%) Python
2 102 (8.99%) JavaScript
3 74 (6.52%) PowerShell
4 65 (5.73%) SQL
5 54 (4.76%) Java
6 38 (3.35%) Perl
7 22 (1.94%) Groovy
8 19 (1.67%) Bash
9 12 (1.06%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.62%) ABAP
10 7 (0.62%) Lisp
11 6 (0.53%) Go
11 6 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (0.53%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.53%) VB
12 5 (0.44%) BeanShell
12 5 (0.44%) JCL
12 5 (0.44%) PHP
12 5 (0.44%) REXX
12 5 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 328 (28.90%) Security Cleared
2 272 (23.96%) SC Cleared
3 117 (10.31%) Degree
4 31 (2.73%) TOGAF Certification
5 19 (1.67%) Cisco Certification
6 18 (1.59%) CISSP
6 18 (1.59%) DV Cleared
7 17 (1.50%) Microsoft Certification
8 16 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
9 15 (1.32%) CCNP
9 15 (1.32%) ITIL Certification
10 13 (1.15%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.15%) Azure Certification
11 12 (1.06%) A+ Certification
11 12 (1.06%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (1.06%) PMI Certification
12 11 (0.97%) CISM
13 9 (0.79%) ACSP
13 9 (0.79%) ACTC
13 9 (0.79%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (4.93%) QA
2 48 (4.23%) SLA
3 42 (3.70%) GDPR
4 37 (3.26%) GRC
5 31 (2.73%) Data Quality
6 23 (2.03%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.85%) NIST
8 18 (1.59%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (1.32%) PMO
10 12 (1.06%) Accessibility
11 11 (0.97%) PCI DSS
12 6 (0.53%) COBIT
12 6 (0.53%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 19770
13 4 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
14 3 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.26%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.26%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 152 (13.39%) Active Directory
2 31 (2.73%) Docker
3 23 (2.03%) VMware Infrastructure
4 17 (1.50%) DFS Replication
5 16 (1.41%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (1.23%) GPFS
6 14 (1.23%) NFS
7 13 (1.15%) vSphere
8 10 (0.88%) Dovecot
8 10 (0.88%) Postfix
8 10 (0.88%) Squid
9 6 (0.53%) BitLocker
10 3 (0.26%) Virtual Desktop
11 2 (0.18%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 2 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.088%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
12 1 (0.088%) Firmware
12 1 (0.088%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.088%) RACF
12 1 (0.088%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 52 (4.58%) SCCM
2 50 (4.41%) Terraform
3 42 (3.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.64%) Grafana
4 30 (2.64%) OPNET
5 29 (2.56%) Ansible
6 22 (1.94%) Prometheus
7 18 (1.59%) Jamf Pro
7 18 (1.59%) Single Sign-On
8 15 (1.32%) Nessus
9 13 (1.15%) vRealize
10 12 (1.06%) Kubernetes
10 12 (1.06%) RSA Archer
11 10 (0.88%) Proxmox
12 9 (0.79%) FortiGate
13 4 (0.35%) Pingdom
13 4 (0.35%) Rancher
14 3 (0.26%) Nmap
14 3 (0.26%) OMEGAMON
14 3 (0.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 253 (22.29%) Microsoft
2 96 (8.46%) Remedy
3 62 (5.46%) Oracle
3 62 (5.46%) SAP
4 57 (5.02%) Cisco
5 45 (3.96%) Splunk
6 44 (3.88%) Salesforce
7 34 (3.00%) Apple
8 32 (2.82%) Atlassian
9 29 (2.56%) VMware
10 28 (2.47%) IBM
10 28 (2.47%) Workday
11 24 (2.11%) HP
12 21 (1.85%) BMC
12 21 (1.85%) Snow
13 16 (1.41%) Citrix
14 13 (1.15%) Zscaler
15 12 (1.06%) Palo Alto
16 11 (0.97%) CrowdStrike
17 10 (0.88%) Tenable