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 26 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
26 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 65 68
Rank change year-on-year -1 +3 +45
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,265 903 1,058
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.58% 3.50% 2.84%
As % of the Vendors category 7.96% 7.51% 6.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 869 515 643
10th Percentile £204 £200 £163
25th Percentile £356 £356 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.60% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £703
UK median daily rate £488 £488 £500
% change year-on-year - -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 24 79
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.33
25th Percentile £16.01 £15.86 £16.06
Median hourly rate £19.25 £21.46 £16.94
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +26.72% -0.38%
75th Percentile £27.85 £23.40 £21.46
90th Percentile £95.00 £29.70 £30.25
UK median hourly rate £19.34 £22.69 £16.70
% change year-on-year -14.75% +35.85% -1.58%

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 15,894 12,025 16,062
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.94% 46.67% 43.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,383 7,440 10,316
10th Percentile £305 £285 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +0.96% -3.30%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £705 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £517
% change year-on-year -3.85% +0.58% -1.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 821 355 875
10th Percentile £15.34 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.43 £21.25 £15.29
Median hourly rate £24.00 £31.35 £26.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.43% +20.56% -20.00%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £54.78
90th Percentile £73.75 £81.80 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.28 £30.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -19.08% +15.38% -21.21%

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 26 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 26 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 26 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 -24 526 £500 -4.76% 62
North of England -2 218 £500 +25.00% 33
South East +40 197 £425 -0.70% 41
Midlands +5 179 £456 -13.10% 19
West Midlands -6 137 £475 -13.71% 14
North West -6 118 £450 +13.92% 25
Yorkshire -2 93 £535 +25.88% 8
East of England -6 68 £525 +5.00% 6
South West +2 61 £725 +222.22% 4
East Midlands -1 39 £413 +15.87% 5
North East -16 7 £176 -41.33% 1
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 74 (5.85%) Confluence
1 74 (5.85%) SharePoint
2 53 (4.19%) Microsoft Exchange
3 9 (0.71%) Skype for Business
4 7 (0.55%) Apache
5 6 (0.47%) Appian
5 6 (0.47%) Camunda
6 4 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
7 3 (0.24%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.24%) CICS
7 3 (0.24%) HCL Notes
7 3 (0.24%) nginx
7 3 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 3 (0.24%) SAS
8 2 (0.16%) CMS
9 1 (0.079%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.079%) JBoss
9 1 (0.079%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.079%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.079%) WebSphere
Applications
1 76 (6.01%) Microsoft Office
2 62 (4.90%) Microsoft Excel
3 57 (4.51%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.66%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.55%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.32%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (0.32%) Trello
8 3 (0.24%) Mozilla Thunderbird
9 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.079%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.079%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 38 (3.00%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.71%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.63%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 7 (0.55%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.24%) Maximo
7 3 (0.24%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.16%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.16%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.079%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.079%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.079%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.079%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 1 (0.079%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.079%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 258 (20.40%) Azure
2 185 (14.62%) Microsoft 365
3 153 (12.09%) AWS
4 99 (7.83%) Entra ID
5 71 (5.61%) Power Platform
6 64 (5.06%) GCP
7 60 (4.74%) SaaS
8 57 (4.51%) Azure DevOps
9 33 (2.61%) OneDrive
10 19 (1.50%) GitHub
11 16 (1.26%) Amazon S3
11 16 (1.26%) Power Automate
12 15 (1.19%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (1.11%) AWS KMS
13 14 (1.11%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (1.11%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 13 (1.03%) Amazon ELB
15 11 (0.87%) Serverless
16 10 (0.79%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 71 (5.61%) DNS
2 54 (4.27%) VPN
3 47 (3.72%) DHCP
4 41 (3.24%) Wireless
5 39 (3.08%) Firewall
6 38 (3.00%) Wi-Fi
7 31 (2.45%) LAN
8 29 (2.29%) WAN
9 20 (1.58%) TCP/IP
10 18 (1.42%) Network Security
11 15 (1.19%) VLAN
12 12 (0.95%) BGP
12 12 (0.95%) FTP
13 11 (0.87%) NX-OS
14 10 (0.79%) Internet
14 10 (0.79%) SD-WAN
15 9 (0.71%) 4G
15 9 (0.71%) Cisco ISE
15 9 (0.71%) Cisco Wireless
15 9 (0.71%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 52 (4.11%) Power BI
2 28 (2.21%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.66%) Metadata
4 18 (1.42%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (1.19%) MySQL
5 15 (1.19%) Relational Database
5 15 (1.19%) Tableau
6 13 (1.03%) PostgreSQL
7 9 (0.71%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
7 9 (0.71%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 8 (0.63%) MongoDB
9 7 (0.55%) DB2
10 6 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (0.47%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.32%) Metadata Repository
11 4 (0.32%) Neo4j
11 4 (0.32%) NoSQL
12 3 (0.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 208 (16.44%) JIRA
2 45 (3.56%) Jenkins
3 43 (3.40%) Git
4 29 (2.29%) GitLab
5 17 (1.34%) Selenium
6 14 (1.11%) REST Assured
7 13 (1.03%) Postman
8 12 (0.95%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.79%) Android Studio
9 10 (0.79%) Browser DevTools
9 10 (0.79%) Eclipse
9 10 (0.79%) Xcode
10 8 (0.63%) TestRail
11 5 (0.40%) JMeter
11 5 (0.40%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.32%) Gatling
12 4 (0.32%) JUnit
12 4 (0.32%) Metasploit
12 4 (0.32%) NeoLoad
12 4 (0.32%) Vagrant
General
1 458 (36.21%) Social Skills
2 258 (20.40%) Finance
3 187 (14.78%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (8.54%) Public Sector
5 61 (4.82%) Banking
6 58 (4.58%) Military
7 47 (3.72%) Documentation Skills
7 47 (3.72%) Legal
8 43 (3.40%) Telecoms
9 39 (3.08%) Organisational Skills
10 24 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (1.50%) Presentation Skills
12 18 (1.42%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.19%) Law
14 14 (1.11%) Aerospace
15 12 (0.95%) Retail
16 11 (0.87%) Billing
17 10 (0.79%) Financial Institution
18 9 (0.71%) Manufacturing
19 8 (0.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 216 (17.08%) Architect
2 180 (14.23%) Analyst
3 122 (9.64%) ServiceNow Architect
4 97 (7.67%) Developer
5 92 (7.27%) Support Engineer
6 84 (6.64%) IT Support
7 82 (6.48%) ServiceNow Developer
8 69 (5.45%) Lead
9 68 (5.38%) Consultant
10 52 (4.11%) IT Engineer
11 50 (3.95%) ServiceNow Manager
12 48 (3.79%) Senior
13 44 (3.48%) IT Support Engineer
13 44 (3.48%) Project Manager
14 41 (3.24%) Service Analyst
15 40 (3.16%) Business Analyst
16 36 (2.85%) Technical Architect
17 35 (2.77%) Solutions Architect
18 34 (2.69%) Administrator
19 32 (2.53%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 124 (9.80%) REST
2 87 (6.88%) SOAP
3 36 (2.85%) SailPoint
4 31 (2.45%) CSS
5 25 (1.98%) LDAP
6 24 (1.90%) AngularJS
7 20 (1.58%) OpenID
8 18 (1.42%) Flash
8 18 (1.42%) JSON
9 17 (1.34%) HTML
10 15 (1.19%) Ajax
11 13 (1.03%) Middleware
12 12 (0.95%) .NET
12 12 (0.95%) React
12 12 (0.95%) XML
13 11 (0.87%) OAuth
13 11 (0.87%) Web Services
14 10 (0.79%) GraphQL
15 9 (0.71%) ADO
16 8 (0.63%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 152 (12.02%) CMDB
2 88 (6.96%) Onboarding
3 69 (5.45%) Product Ownership
4 40 (3.16%) Data Centre
5 34 (2.69%) Management Information System
6 29 (2.29%) Replication
7 23 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.58%) Security Posture
10 19 (1.50%) Video Conferencing
11 18 (1.42%) Cloud Native
11 18 (1.42%) Linux Command Line
12 17 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
13 16 (1.26%) Smartphone
14 15 (1.19%) Analytical Mindset
15 13 (1.03%) Mobile App
15 13 (1.03%) Virtual Team
16 11 (0.87%) Driving Licence
16 11 (0.87%) Public Cloud
17 9 (0.71%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 235 (18.58%) Windows
2 108 (8.54%) Windows 10
3 65 (5.14%) Linux
4 35 (2.77%) Mac OS
5 33 (2.61%) Android
6 31 (2.45%) Unix
7 25 (1.98%) Windows Server
8 17 (1.34%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.71%) Windows 7
10 5 (0.40%) VMS
10 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.40%) zOS
11 4 (0.32%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.32%) Ubuntu
12 3 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 1 (0.079%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.079%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.079%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 441 (34.86%) ITSM
2 318 (25.14%) ITIL
3 301 (23.79%) Agile
4 233 (18.42%) Service Management
5 206 (16.28%) Problem-Solving
6 191 (15.10%) Stakeholder Management
7 152 (12.02%) Continuous Improvement
8 148 (11.70%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 142 (11.23%) Change Management
10 140 (11.07%) DevOps
11 134 (10.59%) Customer Service
12 109 (8.62%) CI/CD
13 101 (7.98%) Migration
13 101 (7.98%) Service Delivery
14 93 (7.35%) Data Modelling
15 92 (7.27%) Project Management
16 90 (7.11%) Roadmaps
17 86 (6.80%) Asset Management
18 81 (6.40%) Workflow
19 79 (6.25%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 97 (7.67%) JavaScript
2 93 (7.35%) Python
3 91 (7.19%) SQL
4 68 (5.38%) PowerShell
5 62 (4.90%) Java
6 20 (1.58%) Perl
7 14 (1.11%) C#
8 13 (1.03%) Bash
9 11 (0.87%) PL/SQL
9 11 (0.87%) TypeScript
9 11 (0.87%) VB
10 10 (0.79%) Shell Script
11 9 (0.71%) VBScript
12 8 (0.63%) ABAP
12 8 (0.63%) Groovy
13 7 (0.55%) Go
13 7 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (0.55%) Lisp
14 5 (0.40%) PHP
14 5 (0.40%) REXX
Qualifications
1 360 (28.46%) Security Cleared
2 278 (21.98%) SC Cleared
3 111 (8.77%) Degree
4 39 (3.08%) DV Cleared
5 31 (2.45%) TOGAF Certification
6 26 (2.06%) ITIL Certification
7 25 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
8 21 (1.66%) PMI Certification
8 21 (1.66%) PMP
9 20 (1.58%) CCNP
9 20 (1.58%) CISSP
10 16 (1.26%) CISM
10 16 (1.26%) Microsoft Certification
11 12 (0.95%) Computer Science Degree
12 11 (0.87%) ISTQB
13 9 (0.71%) BPSS Clearance
14 8 (0.63%) A+ Certification
14 8 (0.63%) CISA
15 7 (0.55%) CCNA
15 7 (0.55%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (4.58%) QA
2 52 (4.11%) SLA
3 44 (3.48%) Data Quality
3 44 (3.48%) GRC
4 43 (3.40%) GDPR
5 27 (2.13%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 19 (1.50%) NIST
7 17 (1.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 14 (1.11%) PMO
9 11 (0.87%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.71%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.63%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.55%) COBIT
13 6 (0.47%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 19770
15 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.24%) GxP
15 3 (0.24%) ISO 22301
15 3 (0.24%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 166 (13.12%) Active Directory
2 29 (2.29%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.50%) Docker
4 18 (1.42%) GPFS
4 18 (1.42%) NFS
5 16 (1.26%) vSphere
6 15 (1.19%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.79%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.40%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.32%) DFS Replication
10 3 (0.24%) Dovecot
10 3 (0.24%) Postfix
10 3 (0.24%) Squid
11 2 (0.16%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 2 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.079%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.079%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 1 (0.079%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.079%) Virtual Servers
12 1 (0.079%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 62 (4.90%) SCCM
2 42 (3.32%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (3.32%) Terraform
3 30 (2.37%) OPNET
4 29 (2.29%) Ansible
5 20 (1.58%) Grafana
6 15 (1.19%) vRealize
7 14 (1.11%) Kubernetes
8 13 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
8 13 (1.03%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.87%) RSA Archer
10 10 (0.79%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.55%) Nessus
12 6 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
13 5 (0.40%) Salt
14 4 (0.32%) Pingdom
15 3 (0.24%) Control-M
15 3 (0.24%) HP ALM
15 3 (0.24%) Nmap
15 3 (0.24%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 250 (19.76%) Microsoft
2 92 (7.27%) Remedy
3 69 (5.45%) Cisco
4 64 (5.06%) SAP
5 55 (4.35%) Oracle
6 36 (2.85%) Splunk
7 35 (2.77%) Salesforce
8 34 (2.69%) VMware
8 34 (2.69%) Workday
9 33 (2.61%) Atlassian
10 31 (2.45%) IBM
11 28 (2.21%) Apple
12 19 (1.50%) Snow
13 18 (1.42%) Palo Alto
14 17 (1.34%) Google
15 16 (1.26%) BMC
15 16 (1.26%) HP
16 15 (1.19%) Citrix
16 15 (1.19%) Fortinet
16 15 (1.19%) NetApp