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 28 February 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
28 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 67 69
Rank change year-on-year +4 +2 +47
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,283 901 1,076
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.61% 3.51% 2.85%
As % of the Vendors category 8.05% 7.52% 6.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 878 514 654
10th Percentile £204 £204 £163
25th Percentile £358 £357 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.58% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £693 £702
UK median daily rate £488 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% -2.40% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 26 82
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.34
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.06 £16.06
Median hourly rate £19.25 £21.46 £16.58
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +29.43% -5.26%
75th Percentile £27.85 £23.14 £21.46
90th Percentile £95.00 £29.50 £30.25
UK median hourly rate £19.30 £22.30 £16.30
% change year-on-year -13.46% +36.78% -5.51%

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 15,932 11,984 16,283
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.84% 46.66% 43.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,408 7,437 10,457
10th Percentile £305 £288 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +0.96% -3.26%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £517
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.58% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 828 367 889
10th Percentile £15.46 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £15.50
Median hourly rate £24.00 £31.00 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -22.58% +19.23% -21.21%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £55.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £83.50 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £26.00
% change year-on-year -17.44% +11.81% -25.27%

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 28 February 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 28 February 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 28 February 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 -20 538 £500 -4.76% 84
North of England -1 220 £500 +25.00% 36
South East +41 201 £435 +1.64% 75
Midlands +3 178 £450 -14.29% 27
West Midlands -1 136 £468 -14.99% 19
North West -9 121 £456 +14.72% 23
Yorkshire -3 92 £533 +25.29% 11
East of England -7 69 £525 +5.00% 7
South West +1 61 £725 +222.22% 10
East Midlands +5 39 £413 +15.87% 8
North East -16 7 £176 -41.33% 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 75 (5.85%) Confluence
2 74 (5.77%) SharePoint
3 54 (4.21%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.70%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.55%) Apache
6 6 (0.47%) Appian
6 6 (0.47%) Camunda
7 4 (0.31%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.23%) CICS
8 3 (0.23%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.23%) SAS
9 2 (0.16%) CMS
9 2 (0.16%) nginx
10 1 (0.078%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.078%) JBoss
10 1 (0.078%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.078%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.078%) WebSphere
Applications
1 76 (5.92%) Microsoft Office
2 63 (4.91%) Microsoft Excel
3 57 (4.44%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.64%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.31%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (0.31%) Trello
8 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
8 2 (0.16%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 1 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.078%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 38 (2.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 15 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.70%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 9 (0.70%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.55%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.23%) Maximo
6 3 (0.23%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.16%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.16%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.078%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.078%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.078%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.078%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.078%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.078%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 264 (20.58%) Azure
2 185 (14.42%) Microsoft 365
3 156 (12.16%) AWS
4 99 (7.72%) Entra ID
5 74 (5.77%) Power Platform
6 69 (5.38%) GCP
7 62 (4.83%) Azure DevOps
8 60 (4.68%) SaaS
9 33 (2.57%) OneDrive
10 19 (1.48%) GitHub
11 16 (1.25%) Power Automate
12 15 (1.17%) Amazon S3
13 14 (1.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (1.09%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (1.01%) AWS KMS
14 13 (1.01%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (0.94%) Amazon ELB
16 11 (0.86%) Serverless
17 10 (0.78%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 70 (5.46%) DNS
2 54 (4.21%) VPN
3 47 (3.66%) DHCP
4 41 (3.20%) Firewall
4 41 (3.20%) Wireless
5 38 (2.96%) Wi-Fi
6 31 (2.42%) LAN
7 30 (2.34%) WAN
8 21 (1.64%) Network Security
9 20 (1.56%) TCP/IP
10 15 (1.17%) VLAN
11 12 (0.94%) BGP
12 11 (0.86%) FTP
12 11 (0.86%) NX-OS
13 10 (0.78%) Internet
13 10 (0.78%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.70%) Cisco ISE
14 9 (0.70%) Cisco Wireless
14 9 (0.70%) Skype
14 9 (0.70%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (4.29%) Power BI
2 28 (2.18%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.64%) Metadata
4 17 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (1.25%) MySQL
5 16 (1.25%) Tableau
6 15 (1.17%) Relational Database
7 12 (0.94%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (0.94%) PostgreSQL
8 11 (0.86%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 9 (0.70%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.55%) DB2
12 6 (0.47%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.39%) Amazon Aurora
13 5 (0.39%) NoSQL
14 4 (0.31%) Metadata Repository
14 4 (0.31%) Neo4j
15 3 (0.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 214 (16.68%) JIRA
2 46 (3.59%) Git
3 44 (3.43%) Jenkins
4 30 (2.34%) GitLab
5 17 (1.33%) Selenium
6 14 (1.09%) REST Assured
7 13 (1.01%) Postman
8 12 (0.94%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.78%) Android Studio
9 10 (0.78%) Browser DevTools
9 10 (0.78%) Eclipse
9 10 (0.78%) Xcode
10 8 (0.62%) TestRail
11 5 (0.39%) JMeter
11 5 (0.39%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.31%) Gatling
12 4 (0.31%) JUnit
12 4 (0.31%) Metasploit
12 4 (0.31%) NeoLoad
13 3 (0.23%) CircleCI
General
1 460 (35.85%) Social Skills
2 264 (20.58%) Finance
3 191 (14.89%) Analytical Skills
4 110 (8.57%) Public Sector
5 67 (5.22%) Banking
6 58 (4.52%) Military
7 47 (3.66%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (3.66%) Legal
8 44 (3.43%) Telecoms
9 42 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
10 25 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (1.48%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.17%) Law
14 14 (1.09%) Aerospace
14 14 (1.09%) Billing
15 13 (1.01%) Retail
16 11 (0.86%) Financial Institution
17 10 (0.78%) Manufacturing
18 8 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 220 (17.15%) Architect
2 182 (14.19%) Analyst
3 122 (9.51%) ServiceNow Architect
4 102 (7.95%) Developer
5 95 (7.40%) Support Engineer
6 87 (6.78%) IT Support
7 85 (6.63%) ServiceNow Developer
8 68 (5.30%) Lead
9 67 (5.22%) Consultant
10 54 (4.21%) IT Engineer
11 53 (4.13%) Senior
12 50 (3.90%) ServiceNow Manager
13 46 (3.59%) IT Support Engineer
14 45 (3.51%) Project Manager
15 42 (3.27%) Business Analyst
16 41 (3.20%) Service Analyst
17 37 (2.88%) Technical Architect
18 35 (2.73%) Solutions Architect
19 34 (2.65%) Administrator
20 32 (2.49%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (10.05%) REST
2 89 (6.94%) SOAP
3 36 (2.81%) SailPoint
4 31 (2.42%) CSS
5 24 (1.87%) AngularJS
5 24 (1.87%) LDAP
6 20 (1.56%) OpenID
7 19 (1.48%) JSON
8 18 (1.40%) Flash
9 17 (1.33%) HTML
10 15 (1.17%) Ajax
10 15 (1.17%) Middleware
11 14 (1.09%) .NET
11 14 (1.09%) OAuth
12 13 (1.01%) XML
13 12 (0.94%) React
14 11 (0.86%) GraphQL
14 11 (0.86%) Web Services
15 10 (0.78%) ADO
15 10 (0.78%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 155 (12.08%) CMDB
2 89 (6.94%) Onboarding
3 72 (5.61%) Product Ownership
4 40 (3.12%) Data Centre
5 34 (2.65%) Management Information System
6 28 (2.18%) Replication
7 25 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
9 22 (1.71%) Cloud Native
10 20 (1.56%) Security Posture
11 19 (1.48%) Video Conferencing
12 18 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
13 17 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
14 16 (1.25%) Smartphone
15 15 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
16 13 (1.01%) Mobile App
16 13 (1.01%) Virtual Team
17 12 (0.94%) Public Cloud
18 11 (0.86%) Driving Licence
19 9 (0.70%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 235 (18.32%) Windows
2 109 (8.50%) Windows 10
3 64 (4.99%) Linux
4 35 (2.73%) Mac OS
5 33 (2.57%) Android
6 31 (2.42%) Unix
7 25 (1.95%) Windows Server
8 17 (1.33%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.70%) Windows 7
10 5 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.39%) zOS
11 4 (0.31%) VMS
12 3 (0.23%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 3 (0.23%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.078%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 444 (34.61%) ITSM
2 325 (25.33%) ITIL
3 306 (23.85%) Agile
4 234 (18.24%) Service Management
5 208 (16.21%) Problem-Solving
6 192 (14.96%) Stakeholder Management
7 155 (12.08%) Continuous Improvement
8 149 (11.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 145 (11.30%) DevOps
10 143 (11.15%) Change Management
11 134 (10.44%) Customer Service
12 110 (8.57%) CI/CD
13 106 (8.26%) Service Delivery
14 104 (8.11%) Migration
15 100 (7.79%) Data Modelling
16 95 (7.40%) Project Management
17 90 (7.01%) Roadmaps
18 86 (6.70%) Asset Management
18 86 (6.70%) User Acceptance Testing
19 85 (6.63%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 99 (7.72%) JavaScript
2 96 (7.48%) Python
2 96 (7.48%) SQL
3 68 (5.30%) PowerShell
4 65 (5.07%) Java
5 20 (1.56%) Perl
6 16 (1.25%) C#
7 13 (1.01%) Bash
8 11 (0.86%) PL/SQL
8 11 (0.86%) TypeScript
8 11 (0.86%) VB
9 10 (0.78%) Shell Script
10 9 (0.70%) VBScript
11 8 (0.62%) ABAP
12 7 (0.55%) Go
12 7 (0.55%) Groovy
12 7 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (0.55%) Lisp
13 5 (0.39%) BeanShell
13 5 (0.39%) REXX
Qualifications
1 366 (28.53%) Security Cleared
2 280 (21.82%) SC Cleared
3 114 (8.89%) Degree
4 40 (3.12%) DV Cleared
5 31 (2.42%) TOGAF Certification
6 27 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
7 26 (2.03%) ITIL Certification
8 23 (1.79%) PMP
9 22 (1.71%) CISSP
9 22 (1.71%) PMI Certification
10 20 (1.56%) CCNP
11 18 (1.40%) CISM
12 16 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (0.86%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (0.62%) A+ Certification
16 8 (0.62%) CISA
16 8 (0.62%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 8 (0.62%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (4.52%) QA
2 52 (4.05%) SLA
3 47 (3.66%) Data Quality
4 45 (3.51%) GRC
5 43 (3.35%) GDPR
6 29 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 21 (1.64%) NIST
8 18 (1.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (1.25%) PMO
10 11 (0.86%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.70%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.55%) COBIT
14 6 (0.47%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 19770
16 3 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
16 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 3 (0.23%) NCSC
16 3 (0.23%) NIST 800
16 3 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 167 (13.02%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.40%) Docker
3 18 (1.40%) GPFS
3 18 (1.40%) NFS
4 16 (1.25%) vSphere
5 15 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.78%) BitLocker
7 5 (0.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (0.23%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.16%) Dovecot
9 2 (0.16%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 2 (0.16%) Postfix
9 2 (0.16%) Squid
9 2 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.078%) Firmware
10 1 (0.078%) RACF
10 1 (0.078%) Virtual Desktop
10 1 (0.078%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 63 (4.91%) SCCM
2 42 (3.27%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (3.27%) Terraform
3 30 (2.34%) OPNET
4 29 (2.26%) Ansible
5 20 (1.56%) Grafana
6 16 (1.25%) Kubernetes
7 15 (1.17%) vRealize
8 13 (1.01%) Jamf Pro
8 13 (1.01%) Prometheus
9 12 (0.94%) RSA Archer
10 10 (0.78%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.47%) Nessus
11 6 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.39%) Salt
13 4 (0.31%) Pingdom
14 3 (0.23%) Control-M
14 3 (0.23%) HP ALM
14 3 (0.23%) Nmap
14 3 (0.23%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 251 (19.56%) Microsoft
2 92 (7.17%) Remedy
3 73 (5.69%) Cisco
4 68 (5.30%) SAP
5 55 (4.29%) Oracle
6 40 (3.12%) Splunk
7 37 (2.88%) Salesforce
8 35 (2.73%) VMware
9 33 (2.57%) Atlassian
10 32 (2.49%) IBM
10 32 (2.49%) Workday
11 28 (2.18%) Apple
12 19 (1.48%) Fortinet
12 19 (1.48%) Snow
13 18 (1.40%) Google
13 18 (1.40%) Palo Alto
14 17 (1.33%) Zscaler
15 16 (1.25%) BMC
15 16 (1.25%) Citrix
15 16 (1.25%) HP