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 May 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 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 65 84
Rank change year-on-year -1 +19 +24
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,421 874 932
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.42% 3.64% 2.56%
As % of the Vendors category 8.34% 7.64% 6.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 983 543 542
10th Percentile £213 £206 £165
25th Percentile £400 £313 £310
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £679 £688 £699
UK median daily rate £500 £490 £500
% change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 61 106
10th Percentile £16.43 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £14.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £23.71 £18.13 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +30.76% +11.23% -12.88%
75th Percentile £40.04 £24.66 £21.37
90th Percentile £85.53 £47.50 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £23.71 £17.45 £16.30
% change year-on-year +35.90% +7.02% -14.21%

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 17,041 11,439 15,224
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.00% 47.68% 41.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,006 7,347 9,722
10th Percentile £313 £278 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £514
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% +2.14% -4.37%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £744
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £513
% change year-on-year -2.44% - -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 910 467 1,013
10th Percentile £15.37 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.50 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.45% +13.33% -41.56%
75th Percentile £58.75 £55.13 £57.33
90th Percentile £76.68 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.15
% change year-on-year +27.45% +15.12% -47.88%

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 May 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 May 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 May 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 +3 621 £516 -1.67% 161
North of England -9 277 £514 +28.50% 87
South East +3 213 £500 +42.86% 84
Midlands +6 165 £420 -23.77% 42
North West -2 142 £458 -5.86% 54
Yorkshire -11 124 £525 +31.25% 29
West Midlands -7 119 £425 -22.87% 26
East of England -30 62 £525 +51.52% 24
South West -28 49 £500 +100.00% 18
East Midlands +4 39 £380 -25.85% 15
North East -18 15 £450 +50.00% 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 84 (5.91%) Confluence
2 54 (3.80%) SharePoint
3 45 (3.17%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.70%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.49%) Apache
6 4 (0.28%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.28%) CMS
7 3 (0.21%) Appian
7 3 (0.21%) SAS
7 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
8 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.14%) Camunda
8 2 (0.14%) CICS
8 2 (0.14%) IIS
8 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
9 1 (0.070%) Drupal
9 1 (0.070%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.070%) Tomcat
Applications
1 67 (4.71%) Microsoft Office
2 57 (4.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (2.67%) Microsoft Project
4 26 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.63%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.21%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.21%) Revit
7 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.070%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.070%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 53 (3.73%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.56%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.35%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.28%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.21%) Maximo
6 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.14%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.14%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.14%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.070%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.070%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.070%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.070%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.070%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 290 (20.41%) Azure
2 204 (14.36%) AWS
3 144 (10.13%) Microsoft 365
4 113 (7.95%) Entra ID
5 93 (6.54%) Power Platform
6 67 (4.71%) GCP
7 63 (4.43%) SaaS
8 62 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (1.90%) OneDrive
10 18 (1.27%) Microsoft Copilot
11 17 (1.20%) Power Automate
12 15 (1.06%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (1.06%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (1.06%) Amazon S3
12 15 (1.06%) GitHub
12 15 (1.06%) Slack
13 14 (0.99%) AWS KMS
14 13 (0.91%) Datadog
14 13 (0.91%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (0.84%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 73 (5.14%) DNS
2 62 (4.36%) DHCP
2 62 (4.36%) Firewall
3 49 (3.45%) VPN
4 37 (2.60%) Wireless
5 31 (2.18%) Network Security
6 30 (2.11%) LAN
6 30 (2.11%) WAN
7 24 (1.69%) Wi-Fi
8 23 (1.62%) TCP/IP
9 20 (1.41%) VLAN
10 18 (1.27%) SAN
11 17 (1.20%) NAS
12 15 (1.06%) Internet
12 15 (1.06%) SD-WAN
13 13 (0.91%) Cisco IOS
13 13 (0.91%) NX-OS
13 13 (0.91%) SSL
13 13 (0.91%) Structured Cabling
14 10 (0.70%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (5.42%) Power BI
2 37 (2.60%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.55%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (1.34%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.13%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (0.99%) Metadata
8 13 (0.91%) Tableau
9 10 (0.70%) MongoDB
9 10 (0.70%) Power Query
10 9 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (0.49%) MySQL
11 7 (0.49%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.42%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.42%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.35%) DB2
13 5 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.28%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.28%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 248 (17.45%) JIRA
2 68 (4.79%) Git
3 39 (2.74%) Jenkins
4 35 (2.46%) GitLab
5 17 (1.20%) Selenium
6 14 (0.99%) REST Assured
7 13 (0.91%) Postman
8 12 (0.84%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.56%) TestRail
10 5 (0.35%) JMeter
10 5 (0.35%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.28%) Flyway
11 4 (0.28%) Gatling
11 4 (0.28%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.21%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.21%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.21%) JUnit
13 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
13 2 (0.14%) Bitbucket
13 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 429 (30.19%) Social Skills
2 281 (19.77%) Finance
3 168 (11.82%) Analytical Skills
4 116 (8.16%) Public Sector
5 85 (5.98%) Banking
6 56 (3.94%) Telecoms
7 53 (3.73%) Organisational Skills
8 47 (3.31%) Legal
9 45 (3.17%) Military
10 41 (2.89%) Documentation Skills
11 18 (1.27%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (1.13%) Billing
13 16 (1.13%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.13%) Retail
14 14 (0.99%) Financial Institution
15 9 (0.63%) French Language
15 9 (0.63%) Law
16 8 (0.56%) Aerospace
17 7 (0.49%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 269 (18.93%) Architect
2 185 (13.02%) Analyst
3 157 (11.05%) ServiceNow Architect
4 128 (9.01%) Developer
5 107 (7.53%) ServiceNow Developer
6 85 (5.98%) Senior
7 75 (5.28%) Lead
8 74 (5.21%) Support Engineer
9 72 (5.07%) IT Support
10 65 (4.57%) Consultant
11 62 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
12 50 (3.52%) Business Analyst
12 50 (3.52%) Project Manager
13 46 (3.24%) IT Engineer
13 46 (3.24%) ServiceNow Manager
14 43 (3.03%) IT Support Engineer
14 43 (3.03%) Service Analyst
15 39 (2.74%) Technical Architect
16 38 (2.67%) ServiceNow Consultant
17 35 (2.46%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 179 (12.60%) REST
2 105 (7.39%) SOAP
3 39 (2.74%) SailPoint
4 38 (2.67%) LDAP
5 31 (2.18%) Middleware
6 30 (2.11%) CSS
7 29 (2.04%) HTML
7 29 (2.04%) OpenID
8 25 (1.76%) JSON
9 23 (1.62%) Web Services
10 22 (1.55%) AngularJS
10 22 (1.55%) OAuth
11 21 (1.48%) Flash
12 19 (1.34%) .NET
12 19 (1.34%) XML
13 16 (1.13%) SAML
14 11 (0.77%) JDBC
14 11 (0.77%) Kafka
14 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Graph
15 10 (0.70%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 181 (12.74%) CMDB
2 111 (7.81%) Onboarding
3 86 (6.05%) Product Ownership
4 43 (3.03%) Data Centre
5 37 (2.60%) Management Information System
6 33 (2.32%) Replication
7 27 (1.90%) Cloud Native
8 25 (1.76%) Security Posture
9 21 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
10 18 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (1.20%) Data Structures
12 16 (1.13%) Virtual Team
13 15 (1.06%) AI Agents
13 15 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
14 14 (0.99%) PKI
15 12 (0.84%) Clustering
16 10 (0.70%) Analytical Mindset
16 10 (0.70%) Legacy Systems
17 9 (0.63%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 217 (15.27%) Windows
2 81 (5.70%) Windows 10
3 75 (5.28%) Linux
4 38 (2.67%) Mac OS
5 36 (2.53%) Windows Server
6 28 (1.97%) Unix
7 22 (1.55%) Apple iOS
8 18 (1.27%) Android
9 10 (0.70%) Windows 7
10 8 (0.56%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 6 (0.42%) zOS
12 4 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
13 1 (0.070%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.070%) MVS
13 1 (0.070%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.070%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.070%) VMS
13 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 496 (34.90%) ITSM
2 386 (27.16%) ITIL
3 318 (22.38%) Agile
4 246 (17.31%) Service Management
5 212 (14.92%) Problem-Solving
6 206 (14.50%) Stakeholder Management
7 200 (14.07%) Continuous Improvement
8 178 (12.53%) Change Management
9 169 (11.89%) DevOps
10 158 (11.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 133 (9.36%) Migration
12 130 (9.15%) Customer Service
13 129 (9.08%) Service Delivery
14 128 (9.01%) AI
14 128 (9.01%) CI/CD
15 121 (8.52%) Roadmaps
16 120 (8.44%) Data Modelling
17 118 (8.30%) Workflow
18 103 (7.25%) Asset Management
19 101 (7.11%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 132 (9.29%) SQL
2 104 (7.32%) JavaScript
3 89 (6.26%) Python
4 82 (5.77%) PowerShell
5 74 (5.21%) Java
6 30 (2.11%) C#
7 11 (0.77%) Bash
7 11 (0.77%) TypeScript
7 11 (0.77%) VB
7 11 (0.77%) VBScript
8 10 (0.70%) PL/SQL
9 8 (0.56%) Groovy
10 7 (0.49%) Perl
11 6 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (0.42%) JCL
11 6 (0.42%) REXX
11 6 (0.42%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.35%) BeanShell
12 5 (0.35%) Go
12 5 (0.35%) PHP
Qualifications
1 372 (26.18%) Security Cleared
2 272 (19.14%) SC Cleared
3 108 (7.60%) Degree
4 65 (4.57%) DV Cleared
5 39 (2.74%) Cisco Certification
6 32 (2.25%) PMP
7 31 (2.18%) ITIL Certification
8 30 (2.11%) CCNP
9 28 (1.97%) PMI Certification
10 27 (1.90%) CISSP
11 21 (1.48%) CISM
12 20 (1.41%) BPSS Clearance
13 18 (1.27%) CCNA
14 13 (0.91%) Computer Science Degree
14 13 (0.91%) Network+ Certification
14 13 (0.91%) Server+ Certification
14 13 (0.91%) TOGAF Certification
15 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Certification
16 10 (0.70%) AWS Certification
16 10 (0.70%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 76 (5.35%) SLA
2 66 (4.64%) Data Quality
3 51 (3.59%) QA
4 45 (3.17%) GRC
5 42 (2.96%) GDPR
6 28 (1.97%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 27 (1.90%) NIST
8 26 (1.83%) PMO
9 23 (1.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 11 (0.77%) Accessibility
10 11 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.56%) HIPAA
11 8 (0.56%) PCI DSS
12 5 (0.35%) COBIT
13 4 (0.28%) GxP
13 4 (0.28%) NCSC
14 3 (0.21%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.21%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.21%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.14%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 159 (11.19%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.46%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.55%) NFS
4 21 (1.48%) GPFS
5 19 (1.34%) Docker
6 17 (1.20%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (1.20%) vSphere
7 10 (0.70%) BitLocker
8 7 (0.49%) Firmware
9 5 (0.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.28%) IAG
10 4 (0.28%) Virtual Machines
11 3 (0.21%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 2 (0.14%) RACF
12 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.070%) Hyper-V
13 1 (0.070%) Microsoft Virtual Server
13 1 (0.070%) Virtual Desktop
13 1 (0.070%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 57 (4.01%) Terraform
2 45 (3.17%) SCCM
3 38 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 34 (2.39%) Ansible
5 25 (1.76%) Grafana
6 21 (1.48%) Kubernetes
7 19 (1.34%) Prometheus
8 17 (1.20%) vRealize
9 14 (0.99%) Single Sign-On
10 12 (0.84%) OPNET
11 11 (0.77%) Jamf Pro
12 8 (0.56%) VxRail
13 7 (0.49%) CASB
13 7 (0.49%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.49%) WMI
14 5 (0.35%) QRadar
14 5 (0.35%) Salt
15 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.28%) Pingdom
15 4 (0.28%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 252 (17.73%) Microsoft
2 94 (6.62%) Cisco
3 81 (5.70%) Remedy
4 64 (4.50%) SAP
5 52 (3.66%) Splunk
6 51 (3.59%) Oracle
7 41 (2.89%) VMware
8 37 (2.60%) Workday
9 35 (2.46%) Salesforce
10 33 (2.32%) IBM
11 29 (2.04%) BMC
12 27 (1.90%) Fortinet
12 27 (1.90%) Palo Alto
13 25 (1.76%) Apple
14 24 (1.69%) Google
15 23 (1.62%) CyberArk
15 23 (1.62%) F5
16 20 (1.41%) Atlassian
16 20 (1.41%) Zscaler
17 19 (1.34%) Snow