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 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
24 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 68 66
Rank change year-on-year +2 -2 +67
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,150 916 1,196
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.64% 3.18% 3.27%
As % of the Vendors category 7.67% 6.92% 7.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 793 515 785
10th Percentile £204 £205 £165
25th Percentile £350 £356 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -0.50% -4.29%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £638
90th Percentile £688 £654 £712
UK median daily rate £479 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -4.30% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 24 42
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.39
25th Percentile £16.04 £16.00 £16.69
Median hourly rate £19.06 £21.46 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -11.18% +11.48% +24.19%
75th Percentile £28.30 £23.14 £32.38
90th Percentile £89.63 £27.55 £68.27
UK median hourly rate £18.87 £21.80 £18.93
% change year-on-year -13.42% +15.13% +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 14,990 13,240 16,248
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.44% 45.99% 44.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,721 8,058 10,582
10th Percentile £293 £299 £250
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £708 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 726 382 600
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.51 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.08 £20.00
Median hourly rate £23.69 £30.52 £45.88
Median % change year-on-year -22.38% -33.48% +74.02%
75th Percentile £47.38 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.01 £80.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.75 £45.21
% change year-on-year -14.14% -38.62% +75.85%

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 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 24 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 24 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 -33 440 £486 -7.38% 169
North of England +7 219 £500 +17.65% 49
South East +38 173 £415 -7.78% 115
Midlands +5 145 £475 +13.10% 46
North West +5 130 £489 +19.50% 26
West Midlands +12 116 £475 +5.56% 30
South West +44 85 £614 +22.14% 16
Yorkshire +7 80 £504 -6.33% 21
East of England +12 75 £525 - 27
East Midlands +2 28 £425 +19.38% 16
North East -4 9 £350 +133.33% 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 83 (7.22%) Confluence
2 70 (6.09%) SharePoint
3 41 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.87%) nginx
5 6 (0.52%) Appian
5 6 (0.52%) Camunda
5 6 (0.52%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.35%) Oracle SOA Suite
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%) SAS
8 2 (0.17%) IIS
8 2 (0.17%) JBoss
9 1 (0.087%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.087%) CMS
9 1 (0.087%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 72 (6.26%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (5.30%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (4.78%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (2.09%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 10 (0.87%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.43%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.35%) Autodesk Inventor
8 4 (0.35%) Trello
9 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 48 (4.17%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.78%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.61%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 7 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.61%) SAP MM
5 3 (0.26%) SAP GRC
5 3 (0.26%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.17%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.17%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.087%) Actimize
7 1 (0.087%) assyst
7 1 (0.087%) Maximo
7 1 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.087%) Oracle HRMS
7 1 (0.087%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.087%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 238 (20.70%) Azure
2 172 (14.96%) Microsoft 365
3 144 (12.52%) AWS
4 79 (6.87%) Entra ID
5 68 (5.91%) SaaS
6 63 (5.48%) Power Platform
7 58 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (3.91%) GCP
9 31 (2.70%) OneDrive
10 24 (2.09%) Power Automate
11 21 (1.83%) AWS KMS
12 20 (1.74%) Amazon S3
12 20 (1.74%) GitHub
13 19 (1.65%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 19 (1.65%) Amazon EC2
13 19 (1.65%) Amazon ELB
13 19 (1.65%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 18 (1.57%) Sauce Labs
15 13 (1.13%) Azure Logic Apps
16 11 (0.96%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 74 (6.43%) DNS
2 48 (4.17%) Firewall
3 47 (4.09%) VPN
4 42 (3.65%) Wireless
5 38 (3.30%) DHCP
6 32 (2.78%) Wi-Fi
7 27 (2.35%) HTTP
8 23 (2.00%) FTP
9 22 (1.91%) TCP/IP
10 20 (1.74%) LAN
10 20 (1.74%) SSH
10 20 (1.74%) WAN
11 19 (1.65%) SMTP
12 15 (1.30%) Network Security
13 14 (1.22%) SSL
14 13 (1.13%) BGP
15 10 (0.87%) Cisco Wireless
15 10 (0.87%) IMAP
15 10 (0.87%) OpenLDAP
16 9 (0.78%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 43 (3.74%) Power BI
2 30 (2.61%) Relational Database
3 24 (2.09%) MySQL
4 23 (2.00%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (1.74%) Tableau
6 19 (1.65%) PostgreSQL
7 14 (1.22%) Amazon Aurora
7 14 (1.22%) Metadata
7 14 (1.22%) SQL Server
8 8 (0.70%) MongoDB
9 6 (0.52%) DB2
10 5 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
11 4 (0.35%) Oracle ODI
11 4 (0.35%) Redis
12 3 (0.26%) Azure SQL Database
12 3 (0.26%) Data Warehouse
13 2 (0.17%) Data Lake
13 2 (0.17%) DynamoDB
13 2 (0.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
14 1 (0.087%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 216 (18.78%) JIRA
2 51 (4.43%) Jenkins
3 48 (4.17%) Git
4 19 (1.65%) Browser DevTools
5 18 (1.57%) Android Studio
5 18 (1.57%) Eclipse
5 18 (1.57%) GitLab
5 18 (1.57%) Vagrant
5 18 (1.57%) Xcode
6 10 (0.87%) Selenium
7 9 (0.78%) REST Assured
8 8 (0.70%) Postman
9 7 (0.61%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.52%) TestRail
11 4 (0.35%) Metasploit
12 3 (0.26%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.26%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
13 2 (0.17%) sqlmap
13 2 (0.17%) Zephyr
General
1 464 (40.35%) Social Skills
2 237 (20.61%) Finance
3 185 (16.09%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (9.22%) Public Sector
5 51 (4.43%) Banking
6 43 (3.74%) Telecoms
7 42 (3.65%) Military
8 39 (3.39%) Legal
9 36 (3.13%) Documentation Skills
10 35 (3.04%) Organisational Skills
11 24 (2.09%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (1.83%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 21 (1.83%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.48%) Law
14 14 (1.22%) Manufacturing
15 12 (1.04%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.78%) Financial Institution
17 7 (0.61%) Billing
17 7 (0.61%) Investment Banking
17 7 (0.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 182 (15.83%) Architect
2 165 (14.35%) Analyst
3 98 (8.52%) ServiceNow Architect
4 96 (8.35%) Developer
4 96 (8.35%) Support Engineer
5 81 (7.04%) ServiceNow Developer
6 76 (6.61%) IT Support
7 65 (5.65%) Consultant
8 52 (4.52%) Lead
9 47 (4.09%) Senior
10 41 (3.57%) IT Engineer
11 38 (3.30%) Service Analyst
12 36 (3.13%) Business Analyst
13 34 (2.96%) Project Manager
14 33 (2.87%) IT Support Engineer
14 33 (2.87%) ServiceNow Manager
15 32 (2.78%) DevOps Engineer
15 32 (2.78%) Service Architect
16 30 (2.61%) Solutions Architect
17 28 (2.43%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (8.96%) REST
2 88 (7.65%) SOAP
3 48 (4.17%) AngularJS
4 35 (3.04%) CSS
5 34 (2.96%) LDAP
6 28 (2.43%) React
7 27 (2.35%) SailPoint
8 25 (2.17%) JSON
9 24 (2.09%) HTML
10 23 (2.00%) Ajax
11 19 (1.65%) GraphQL
11 19 (1.65%) Web Services
12 15 (1.30%) SAML
13 13 (1.13%) XML
14 12 (1.04%) Flash
15 11 (0.96%) .NET
15 11 (0.96%) Kafka
16 10 (0.87%) HTML5
16 10 (0.87%) ODBC
16 10 (0.87%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 143 (12.43%) CMDB
2 65 (5.65%) Onboarding
3 57 (4.96%) Product Ownership
4 38 (3.30%) Replication
5 31 (2.70%) Data Centre
6 24 (2.09%) Mobile App
7 21 (1.83%) Management Information System
8 20 (1.74%) Driving Licence
8 20 (1.74%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (1.74%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (1.65%) Security Posture
10 17 (1.48%) Video Conferencing
11 15 (1.30%) Smartphone
12 14 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (0.78%) Cloud Native
15 9 (0.78%) Low-Code
16 8 (0.70%) Public Cloud
17 7 (0.61%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 243 (21.13%) Windows
2 89 (7.74%) Windows 10
3 72 (6.26%) Linux
4 45 (3.91%) Mac OS
5 38 (3.30%) Android
6 32 (2.78%) Unix
7 20 (1.74%) VMS
8 18 (1.57%) Amazon Linux
9 17 (1.48%) Apple iOS
10 14 (1.22%) Windows Server
11 11 (0.96%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.43%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.43%) zOS
13 4 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.087%) CentOS
14 1 (0.087%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.087%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.087%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (33.04%) ITSM
2 297 (25.83%) ITIL
3 261 (22.70%) Agile
4 209 (18.17%) Problem-Solving
5 206 (17.91%) Service Management
6 156 (13.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 151 (13.13%) DevOps
8 148 (12.87%) Stakeholder Management
9 132 (11.48%) Change Management
10 124 (10.78%) Customer Service
11 109 (9.48%) Continuous Improvement
12 96 (8.35%) CI/CD
13 82 (7.13%) Roadmaps
13 82 (7.13%) Service Delivery
14 77 (6.70%) Scrum
15 74 (6.43%) Configuration Management
16 70 (6.09%) Project Management
17 69 (6.00%) User Experience
18 67 (5.83%) User Acceptance Testing
18 67 (5.83%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 120 (10.43%) Python
2 102 (8.87%) JavaScript
3 74 (6.43%) PowerShell
4 64 (5.57%) SQL
5 57 (4.96%) Java
6 39 (3.39%) Perl
7 23 (2.00%) Groovy
8 20 (1.74%) Bash
9 12 (1.04%) Shell Script
10 7 (0.61%) ABAP
10 7 (0.61%) Lisp
10 7 (0.61%) TypeScript
11 6 (0.52%) Go
11 6 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
11 6 (0.52%) VB
12 5 (0.43%) BeanShell
12 5 (0.43%) JCL
12 5 (0.43%) PHP
12 5 (0.43%) REXX
12 5 (0.43%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 327 (28.43%) Security Cleared
2 271 (23.57%) SC Cleared
3 121 (10.52%) Degree
4 31 (2.70%) TOGAF Certification
5 24 (2.09%) CISSP
6 20 (1.74%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (1.57%) DV Cleared
8 17 (1.48%) CISM
8 17 (1.48%) Computer Science Degree
9 16 (1.39%) Microsoft Certification
10 15 (1.30%) CCNP
10 15 (1.30%) ITIL Certification
11 13 (1.13%) AWS Certification
11 13 (1.13%) Azure Certification
12 12 (1.04%) BPSS Clearance
12 12 (1.04%) CISA
12 12 (1.04%) PMI Certification
13 11 (0.96%) A+ Certification
13 11 (0.96%) ACSP
13 11 (0.96%) ACTC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (4.96%) QA
2 48 (4.17%) SLA
3 42 (3.65%) GDPR
4 36 (3.13%) GRC
5 30 (2.61%) Data Quality
6 28 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (2.26%) NIST
8 18 (1.57%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (1.30%) Accessibility
9 15 (1.30%) PMO
10 11 (0.96%) COBIT
10 11 (0.96%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.70%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 6 (0.52%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 19770
14 4 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
14 4 (0.35%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.26%) ISO 22301
15 3 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 154 (13.39%) Active Directory
2 32 (2.78%) Docker
3 22 (1.91%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.57%) DFS Replication
5 15 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (1.04%) GPFS
6 12 (1.04%) NFS
6 12 (1.04%) vSphere
7 10 (0.87%) Dovecot
7 10 (0.87%) Postfix
7 10 (0.87%) Squid
8 6 (0.52%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.17%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 2 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.087%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.087%) Firmware
11 1 (0.087%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.087%) RACF
11 1 (0.087%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 52 (4.52%) SCCM
2 51 (4.43%) Terraform
3 42 (3.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (2.78%) Ansible
5 31 (2.70%) Grafana
6 30 (2.61%) OPNET
7 23 (2.00%) Prometheus
8 21 (1.83%) Jamf Pro
9 18 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
10 17 (1.48%) RSA Archer
11 15 (1.30%) Nessus
12 12 (1.04%) Kubernetes
12 12 (1.04%) vRealize
13 10 (0.87%) Proxmox
14 9 (0.78%) FortiGate
15 4 (0.35%) Pingdom
15 4 (0.35%) Rancher
16 3 (0.26%) Nmap
16 3 (0.26%) OMEGAMON
16 3 (0.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 256 (22.26%) Microsoft
2 96 (8.35%) Remedy
3 65 (5.65%) SAP
4 62 (5.39%) Oracle
5 57 (4.96%) Cisco
6 48 (4.17%) Splunk
7 45 (3.91%) Salesforce
8 34 (2.96%) Apple
9 33 (2.87%) Atlassian
10 28 (2.43%) VMware
10 28 (2.43%) Workday
11 26 (2.26%) IBM
12 24 (2.09%) HP
13 21 (1.83%) BMC
13 21 (1.83%) Snow
14 17 (1.48%) Citrix
15 13 (1.13%) Rapid7
15 13 (1.13%) Zscaler
16 12 (1.04%) CrowdStrike
16 12 (1.04%) Palo Alto