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 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
7 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 70 71
Rank change year-on-year +3 +1 +50
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,174 873 1,098
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.52% 3.33% 2.86%
As % of the Vendors category 7.75% 7.19% 6.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 822 482 700
10th Percentile £204 £200 £165
25th Percentile £350 £325 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £610
90th Percentile £690 £688 £714
UK median daily rate £485 £477 £500
% change year-on-year +1.68% -4.60% -2.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 26 47
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.11 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.58 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.46 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +16.00% +11.87%
75th Percentile £26.51 £23.14 £27.50
90th Percentile £95.00 £29.50 £58.00
UK median hourly rate £19.25 £22.09 £17.72
% change year-on-year -12.86% +24.66% +9.25%

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 15,156 12,145 16,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 45.51% 46.37% 43.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,961 7,350 10,770
10th Percentile £300 £275 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £705 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -2.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 745 347 852
10th Percentile £15.10 £15.62 £12.87
25th Percentile £17.88 £19.47 £15.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.45 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.76% +1.50% -6.25%
75th Percentile £55.00 £64.88 £57.33
90th Percentile £71.50 £81.45 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £28.75
% change year-on-year -17.84% +0.87% -2.54%

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 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 7 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 7 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 -30 481 £493 -6.19% 138
North of England -6 217 £500 +25.00% 62
South East +44 177 £420 +29.23% 93
Midlands +9 155 £475 +5.56% 40
West Midlands -1 123 £475 -13.64% 29
North West -1 118 £475 +18.75% 34
Yorkshire +1 90 £530 +24.71% 21
East of England -9 68 £528 +5.60% 14
South West +16 67 £725 +222.22% 11
East Midlands -5 31 £425 +19.38% 11
North East -14 9 £200 -23.81% 8
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 73 (6.22%) SharePoint
2 65 (5.54%) Confluence
3 53 (4.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.85%) Skype for Business
5 6 (0.51%) Apache
5 6 (0.51%) Appian
5 6 (0.51%) Camunda
5 6 (0.51%) nginx
6 4 (0.34%) BizTalk Server
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 (0.17%) CMS
8 2 (0.17%) JBoss
9 1 (0.085%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.085%) IIS
9 1 (0.085%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.085%) WebSphere
Applications
1 75 (6.39%) Microsoft Office
2 60 (5.11%) Microsoft Excel
3 58 (4.94%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.79%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.60%) Spreadsheet
7 6 (0.51%) Mozilla Thunderbird
8 4 (0.34%) Autodesk Inventor
8 4 (0.34%) Trello
9 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.085%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 33 (2.81%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.11%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.77%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.68%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 7 (0.60%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.51%) Salesforce CRM
7 5 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
8 3 (0.26%) SAP GRC
9 2 (0.17%) Maximo
9 2 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.17%) SAP Business One
9 2 (0.17%) SAP CO
9 2 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
9 2 (0.17%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.085%) Actimize
10 1 (0.085%) assyst
10 1 (0.085%) Oracle Applications
10 1 (0.085%) Oracle ERP
10 1 (0.085%) Oracle Receivables
10 1 (0.085%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 251 (21.38%) Azure
2 186 (15.84%) Microsoft 365
3 145 (12.35%) AWS
4 94 (8.01%) Entra ID
5 66 (5.62%) Power Platform
6 61 (5.20%) GCP
6 61 (5.20%) SaaS
7 57 (4.86%) Azure DevOps
8 34 (2.90%) OneDrive
9 21 (1.79%) GitHub
10 16 (1.36%) Power Automate
11 13 (1.11%) Azure Logic Apps
12 12 (1.02%) Sauce Labs
13 11 (0.94%) AWS KMS
14 10 (0.85%) Amazon S3
14 10 (0.85%) Serverless
15 9 (0.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 9 (0.77%) Amazon EC2
15 9 (0.77%) Amazon ELB
15 9 (0.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 71 (6.05%) DNS
2 50 (4.26%) VPN
3 44 (3.75%) DHCP
4 37 (3.15%) Firewall
4 37 (3.15%) Wi-Fi
5 34 (2.90%) Wireless
6 29 (2.47%) LAN
7 27 (2.30%) WAN
8 20 (1.70%) TCP/IP
9 17 (1.45%) Network Security
10 16 (1.36%) FTP
11 12 (1.02%) BGP
12 11 (0.94%) VLAN
13 10 (0.85%) Cisco Wireless
13 10 (0.85%) HTTP
13 10 (0.85%) Skype
13 10 (0.85%) SSH
14 9 (0.77%) 4G
14 9 (0.77%) Cisco ISE
14 9 (0.77%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 47 (4.00%) Power BI
2 23 (1.96%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.79%) Metadata
4 18 (1.53%) MySQL
5 17 (1.45%) Relational Database
6 15 (1.28%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (1.28%) Tableau
7 13 (1.11%) Amazon RDS
8 10 (0.85%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (0.77%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.68%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.60%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.60%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.51%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.51%) DB2
12 6 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.34%) Metadata Repository
13 4 (0.34%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.34%) Redis
14 2 (0.17%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 197 (16.78%) JIRA
2 49 (4.17%) Jenkins
3 33 (2.81%) Git
4 26 (2.21%) GitLab
5 17 (1.45%) Selenium
6 14 (1.19%) REST Assured
7 13 (1.11%) Browser DevTools
7 13 (1.11%) Postman
8 12 (1.02%) Android Studio
8 12 (1.02%) Cucumber
8 12 (1.02%) Eclipse
8 12 (1.02%) Xcode
9 8 (0.68%) TestRail
9 8 (0.68%) Vagrant
10 5 (0.43%) JMeter
10 5 (0.43%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.34%) Gatling
11 4 (0.34%) Metasploit
11 4 (0.34%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.26%) CircleCI
General
1 450 (38.33%) Social Skills
2 241 (20.53%) Finance
3 180 (15.33%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (9.03%) Public Sector
5 52 (4.43%) Banking
6 50 (4.26%) Military
7 44 (3.75%) Documentation Skills
8 43 (3.66%) Telecoms
9 40 (3.41%) Legal
10 30 (2.56%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (1.79%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (1.36%) Law
13 16 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
14 12 (1.02%) Retail
15 10 (0.85%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.77%) Billing
16 9 (0.77%) Financial Institution
16 9 (0.77%) Marketing
17 7 (0.60%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 192 (16.35%) Architect
2 182 (15.50%) Analyst
3 111 (9.45%) ServiceNow Architect
4 97 (8.26%) Developer
5 88 (7.50%) Support Engineer
6 86 (7.33%) ServiceNow Developer
7 78 (6.64%) IT Support
8 64 (5.45%) Consultant
8 64 (5.45%) Lead
9 46 (3.92%) IT Engineer
10 40 (3.41%) Service Analyst
11 39 (3.32%) ServiceNow Manager
12 38 (3.24%) IT Support Engineer
12 38 (3.24%) Senior
13 37 (3.15%) Project Manager
14 36 (3.07%) Business Analyst
15 34 (2.90%) Technical Architect
16 33 (2.81%) Solutions Architect
17 32 (2.73%) Service Architect
18 31 (2.64%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 121 (10.31%) REST
2 92 (7.84%) SOAP
3 34 (2.90%) SailPoint
4 33 (2.81%) CSS
5 28 (2.39%) LDAP
6 24 (2.04%) AngularJS
7 20 (1.70%) OpenID
8 19 (1.62%) Flash
9 18 (1.53%) Ajax
10 16 (1.36%) HTML
11 14 (1.19%) JSON
11 14 (1.19%) React
12 13 (1.11%) GraphQL
13 9 (0.77%) .NET
13 9 (0.77%) ADO
13 9 (0.77%) Middleware
13 9 (0.77%) OAuth
13 9 (0.77%) XML
14 8 (0.68%) SAML
14 8 (0.68%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 149 (12.69%) CMDB
2 83 (7.07%) Onboarding
3 62 (5.28%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.98%) Replication
5 31 (2.64%) Data Centre
6 28 (2.39%) Management Information System
7 24 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (1.62%) Linux Command Line
9 19 (1.62%) Security Posture
9 19 (1.62%) Video Conferencing
10 17 (1.45%) Mobile App
11 16 (1.36%) Smartphone
12 15 (1.28%) Analytical Mindset
12 15 (1.28%) Cloud Native
13 14 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.02%) Driving Licence
15 11 (0.94%) Virtual Team
16 8 (0.68%) Low-Code
17 7 (0.60%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 242 (20.61%) Windows
2 106 (9.03%) Windows 10
3 66 (5.62%) Linux
4 41 (3.49%) Mac OS
5 36 (3.07%) Android
6 29 (2.47%) Unix
7 22 (1.87%) Windows Server
8 19 (1.62%) Apple iOS
9 10 (0.85%) VMS
10 9 (0.77%) Windows 7
11 8 (0.68%) Amazon Linux
12 6 (0.51%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.43%) zOS
14 3 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.085%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.085%) Kali Linux
15 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.085%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 405 (34.50%) ITSM
2 292 (24.87%) ITIL
3 273 (23.25%) Agile
4 221 (18.82%) Service Management
5 204 (17.38%) Problem-Solving
6 175 (14.91%) Stakeholder Management
7 151 (12.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 140 (11.93%) DevOps
9 128 (10.90%) Customer Service
10 126 (10.73%) Change Management
11 120 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
12 104 (8.86%) CI/CD
13 84 (7.16%) Project Management
13 84 (7.16%) Service Delivery
14 83 (7.07%) Roadmaps
15 81 (6.90%) Data Modelling
15 81 (6.90%) User Acceptance Testing
16 79 (6.73%) Migration
17 78 (6.64%) Workflow
18 69 (5.88%) AI
Programming Languages
1 99 (8.43%) JavaScript
1 99 (8.43%) Python
2 70 (5.96%) SQL
3 66 (5.62%) PowerShell
4 59 (5.03%) Java
5 28 (2.39%) Perl
6 15 (1.28%) Bash
7 13 (1.11%) Groovy
8 12 (1.02%) Shell Script
9 11 (0.94%) VB
10 10 (0.85%) TypeScript
11 9 (0.77%) VBScript
12 8 (0.68%) ABAP
13 7 (0.60%) Go
13 7 (0.60%) Lisp
14 6 (0.51%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.43%) BeanShell
15 5 (0.43%) PHP
15 5 (0.43%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.43%) REXX
Qualifications
1 314 (26.75%) Security Cleared
2 248 (21.12%) SC Cleared
3 110 (9.37%) Degree
4 31 (2.64%) TOGAF Certification
5 28 (2.39%) DV Cleared
6 20 (1.70%) ITIL Certification
7 16 (1.36%) PMI Certification
7 16 (1.36%) PMP
8 15 (1.28%) Cisco Certification
8 15 (1.28%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.19%) CCNP
9 14 (1.19%) CISSP
10 13 (1.11%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (0.94%) ISTQB
12 10 (0.85%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.77%) ACSP
13 9 (0.77%) ACTC
13 9 (0.77%) Azure Certification
13 9 (0.77%) CISM
14 8 (0.68%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 61 (5.20%) QA
2 51 (4.34%) SLA
3 42 (3.58%) GRC
4 41 (3.49%) Data Quality
5 40 (3.41%) GDPR
6 22 (1.87%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.70%) NIST
8 18 (1.53%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (1.36%) PMO
10 12 (1.02%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.77%) Accessibility
12 7 (0.60%) COBIT
12 7 (0.60%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.51%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 19770
14 4 (0.34%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.26%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.26%) NCSC
15 3 (0.26%) NIST 800
System Software
1 161 (13.71%) Active Directory
2 31 (2.64%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.79%) Docker
4 19 (1.62%) GPFS
4 19 (1.62%) NFS
5 17 (1.45%) vSphere
6 16 (1.36%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.85%) BitLocker
8 8 (0.68%) DFS Replication
9 6 (0.51%) Dovecot
9 6 (0.51%) Postfix
9 6 (0.51%) Squid
10 5 (0.43%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 2 (0.17%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.085%) Firmware
12 1 (0.085%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.085%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.085%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.085%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 60 (5.11%) SCCM
2 44 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 42 (3.58%) Terraform
4 30 (2.56%) OPNET
5 24 (2.04%) Ansible
6 20 (1.70%) Grafana
7 17 (1.45%) Jamf Pro
8 16 (1.36%) vRealize
9 14 (1.19%) Prometheus
10 12 (1.02%) Kubernetes
10 12 (1.02%) RSA Archer
11 10 (0.85%) FortiGate
12 9 (0.77%) Nessus
13 7 (0.60%) Single Sign-On
14 6 (0.51%) Proxmox
15 4 (0.34%) Pingdom
15 4 (0.34%) Rancher
16 3 (0.26%) Control-M
16 3 (0.26%) Nmap
16 3 (0.26%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 252 (21.47%) Microsoft
2 85 (7.24%) Remedy
3 63 (5.37%) SAP
4 59 (5.03%) Cisco
5 58 (4.94%) Oracle
6 37 (3.15%) Salesforce
6 37 (3.15%) Splunk
7 35 (2.98%) VMware
8 34 (2.90%) Apple
9 33 (2.81%) Atlassian
9 33 (2.81%) Workday
10 32 (2.73%) IBM
11 20 (1.70%) Snow
12 17 (1.45%) Google
13 16 (1.36%) HP
14 15 (1.28%) Citrix
15 13 (1.11%) BMC
15 13 (1.11%) Zscaler
16 11 (0.94%) CyberArk
16 11 (0.94%) NetApp