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 6 March 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
6 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 63 68
Rank change year-on-year 0 +5 +41
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,314 911 1,076
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.61% 3.57% 2.85%
As % of the Vendors category 8.10% 7.62% 6.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 898 526 647
10th Percentile £204 £202 £163
25th Percentile £363 £357 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year -2.15% +2.56% -4.65%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £698 £700
UK median daily rate £485 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -1.92% -1.10% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 47 27 87
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.33
25th Percentile £16.02 £16.12 £16.06
Median hourly rate £19.25 £21.46 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +31.66% -6.86%
75th Percentile £26.95 £23.66 £21.46
90th Percentile £95.00 £30.27 £30.25
UK median hourly rate £19.30 £22.50 £16.30
% change year-on-year -14.24% +38.04% -6.86%

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 16,229 11,953 16,199
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.60% 46.78% 42.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,575 7,483 10,386
10th Percentile £306 £288 £250
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £516
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% +1.84% -4.18%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £631
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £514
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.17% -3.02%
Number of hourly rates quoted 849 380 909
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.62 £12.75
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.24 £14.72
Median hourly rate £24.55 £31.42 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year -21.87% +24.45% -27.86%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £53.75
90th Percentile £74.26 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.00 £25.22
% change year-on-year -16.67% +18.98% -27.96%

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 6 March 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 6 March 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 6 March 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 -23 554 £500 -4.76% 106
North of England -7 222 £500 +25.00% 47
South East +31 210 £455 +5.20% 86
Midlands +2 177 £431 -18.79% 25
West Midlands -6 136 £463 -15.93% 18
North West -3 124 £453 +13.25% 30
Yorkshire -2 91 £535 +25.88% 13
East of England -14 69 £525 +5.00% 23
South West +3 63 £725 +114.81% 13
East Midlands +3 38 £413 +15.87% 7
North East -16 7 £176 -41.33% 5
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 (5.71%) Confluence
2 73 (5.56%) SharePoint
3 54 (4.11%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.68%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.53%) Apache
6 6 (0.46%) Appian
6 6 (0.46%) Camunda
7 4 (0.30%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.30%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.23%) CICS
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.23%) SAS
9 2 (0.15%) CMS
9 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
9 2 (0.15%) IIS
10 1 (0.076%) JBoss
10 1 (0.076%) Jupyter
10 1 (0.076%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.076%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.076%) WebSphere
Applications
1 73 (5.56%) Microsoft Office
2 61 (4.64%) Microsoft Excel
3 57 (4.34%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.60%) MS Visio
5 17 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.53%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.30%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (0.30%) Trello
8 2 (0.15%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.076%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.076%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.076%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 39 (2.97%) Remedy ITSM
2 15 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.68%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 9 (0.68%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.53%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.46%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.30%) Maximo
7 3 (0.23%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.15%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle ERP
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.15%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.15%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.076%) Actimize
9 1 (0.076%) assyst
9 1 (0.076%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.076%) SAP CS
9 1 (0.076%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.076%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 268 (20.40%) Azure
2 183 (13.93%) Microsoft 365
3 156 (11.87%) AWS
4 101 (7.69%) Entra ID
5 77 (5.86%) Power Platform
6 69 (5.25%) GCP
7 63 (4.79%) Azure DevOps
8 62 (4.72%) SaaS
9 32 (2.44%) OneDrive
10 19 (1.45%) GitHub
11 16 (1.22%) Power Automate
12 14 (1.07%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (0.99%) Amazon S3
14 12 (0.91%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 12 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
15 11 (0.84%) AWS KMS
15 11 (0.84%) Serverless
15 11 (0.84%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 10 (0.76%) Azure Monitor
16 10 (0.76%) Sauce Labs
Communications & Networking
1 70 (5.33%) DNS
2 53 (4.03%) VPN
3 48 (3.65%) DHCP
4 41 (3.12%) Firewall
4 41 (3.12%) Wireless
5 35 (2.66%) Wi-Fi
6 30 (2.28%) LAN
7 29 (2.21%) WAN
8 25 (1.90%) Network Security
9 20 (1.52%) TCP/IP
10 15 (1.14%) VLAN
11 12 (0.91%) BGP
12 11 (0.84%) NX-OS
13 10 (0.76%) Internet
13 10 (0.76%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.68%) 4G
14 9 (0.68%) Cisco ISE
14 9 (0.68%) Cisco Wireless
14 9 (0.68%) FTP
14 9 (0.68%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 58 (4.41%) Power BI
2 29 (2.21%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.60%) Metadata
4 19 (1.45%) Tableau
5 16 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (1.22%) MySQL
6 15 (1.14%) Relational Database
7 14 (1.07%) Data Warehouse
7 14 (1.07%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 11 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
9 9 (0.68%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.53%) DB2
12 6 (0.46%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.46%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.38%) NoSQL
14 4 (0.30%) Amazon Aurora
14 4 (0.30%) Metadata Repository
14 4 (0.30%) Neo4j
15 3 (0.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 217 (16.51%) JIRA
2 46 (3.50%) Git
3 43 (3.27%) Jenkins
4 31 (2.36%) GitLab
5 17 (1.29%) Selenium
6 14 (1.07%) REST Assured
7 13 (0.99%) Postman
8 12 (0.91%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.76%) Android Studio
9 10 (0.76%) Browser DevTools
9 10 (0.76%) Eclipse
9 10 (0.76%) Xcode
10 8 (0.61%) TestRail
11 5 (0.38%) JMeter
11 5 (0.38%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.30%) Gatling
12 4 (0.30%) JUnit
12 4 (0.30%) Metasploit
12 4 (0.30%) NeoLoad
13 3 (0.23%) CircleCI
General
1 469 (35.69%) Social Skills
2 274 (20.85%) Finance
3 192 (14.61%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (8.52%) Public Sector
5 70 (5.33%) Banking
6 58 (4.41%) Military
7 48 (3.65%) Documentation Skills
7 48 (3.65%) Legal
8 44 (3.35%) Telecoms
9 43 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
10 25 (1.90%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
12 16 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 15 (1.14%) Law
14 14 (1.07%) Aerospace
14 14 (1.07%) Billing
15 13 (0.99%) Retail
16 11 (0.84%) Financial Institution
16 11 (0.84%) Manufacturing
17 8 (0.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 223 (16.97%) Architect
2 189 (14.38%) Analyst
3 127 (9.67%) ServiceNow Architect
4 103 (7.84%) Developer
5 99 (7.53%) Support Engineer
6 90 (6.85%) IT Support
7 86 (6.54%) ServiceNow Developer
8 70 (5.33%) Consultant
8 70 (5.33%) Lead
9 57 (4.34%) IT Engineer
10 55 (4.19%) Senior
11 53 (4.03%) ServiceNow Manager
12 49 (3.73%) Business Analyst
13 48 (3.65%) IT Support Engineer
14 47 (3.58%) Project Manager
15 41 (3.12%) Service Analyst
16 37 (2.82%) Technical Architect
17 35 (2.66%) Solutions Architect
18 34 (2.59%) Administrator
19 33 (2.51%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 132 (10.05%) REST
2 92 (7.00%) SOAP
3 36 (2.74%) SailPoint
4 31 (2.36%) CSS
5 25 (1.90%) AngularJS
6 24 (1.83%) LDAP
7 21 (1.60%) OpenID
8 20 (1.52%) JSON
9 19 (1.45%) Flash
10 17 (1.29%) HTML
11 15 (1.14%) Ajax
11 15 (1.14%) Middleware
11 15 (1.14%) OAuth
12 14 (1.07%) .NET
12 14 (1.07%) Web Services
12 14 (1.07%) XML
13 12 (0.91%) React
14 11 (0.84%) GraphQL
15 10 (0.76%) Kafka
15 10 (0.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 159 (12.10%) CMDB
2 92 (7.00%) Onboarding
3 77 (5.86%) Product Ownership
4 39 (2.97%) Data Centre
5 33 (2.51%) Management Information System
6 27 (2.05%) Replication
7 25 (1.90%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (1.67%) Cloud Native
8 22 (1.67%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (1.60%) Security Posture
10 19 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
11 18 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
11 18 (1.37%) Video Conferencing
12 16 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
13 14 (1.07%) Smartphone
14 13 (0.99%) Virtual Team
15 12 (0.91%) Public Cloud
16 11 (0.84%) Driving Licence
16 11 (0.84%) Mobile App
17 9 (0.68%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 237 (18.04%) Windows
2 110 (8.37%) Windows 10
3 64 (4.87%) Linux
4 33 (2.51%) Android
4 33 (2.51%) Mac OS
5 32 (2.44%) Unix
6 27 (2.05%) Windows Server
7 17 (1.29%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.68%) Windows 7
9 6 (0.46%) Windows Server 2016
10 5 (0.38%) zOS
11 4 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 2 (0.15%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.15%) VMS
13 1 (0.076%) Amazon Linux
13 1 (0.076%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.076%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.076%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 452 (34.40%) ITSM
2 338 (25.72%) ITIL
3 315 (23.97%) Agile
4 238 (18.11%) Service Management
5 211 (16.06%) Problem-Solving
6 198 (15.07%) Stakeholder Management
7 159 (12.10%) Continuous Improvement
8 149 (11.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 147 (11.19%) DevOps
10 146 (11.11%) Change Management
11 136 (10.35%) Customer Service
12 111 (8.45%) CI/CD
13 108 (8.22%) Migration
14 106 (8.07%) Service Delivery
15 101 (7.69%) Data Modelling
16 95 (7.23%) Project Management
16 95 (7.23%) Roadmaps
17 93 (7.08%) User Acceptance Testing
18 91 (6.93%) Asset Management
18 91 (6.93%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 101 (7.69%) SQL
2 100 (7.61%) JavaScript
3 96 (7.31%) Python
4 67 (5.10%) PowerShell
5 64 (4.87%) Java
6 19 (1.45%) Perl
7 18 (1.37%) C#
8 14 (1.07%) Bash
9 12 (0.91%) TypeScript
10 11 (0.84%) PL/SQL
10 11 (0.84%) Shell Script
10 11 (0.84%) VB
11 9 (0.68%) VBScript
12 8 (0.61%) ABAP
13 7 (0.53%) Go
13 7 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (0.53%) Lisp
14 5 (0.38%) BeanShell
14 5 (0.38%) Groovy
14 5 (0.38%) JCL
Qualifications
1 369 (28.08%) Security Cleared
2 282 (21.46%) SC Cleared
3 118 (8.98%) Degree
4 42 (3.20%) DV Cleared
5 31 (2.36%) TOGAF Certification
6 27 (2.05%) Cisco Certification
6 27 (2.05%) ITIL Certification
7 23 (1.75%) PMP
8 22 (1.67%) CISSP
8 22 (1.67%) PMI Certification
9 20 (1.52%) CCNP
10 18 (1.37%) CISM
11 16 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
12 14 (1.07%) Computer Science Degree
13 11 (0.84%) ISTQB
14 9 (0.68%) BPSS Clearance
15 8 (0.61%) A+ Certification
15 8 (0.61%) CISA
15 8 (0.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
15 8 (0.61%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 60 (4.57%) QA
2 56 (4.26%) SLA
3 52 (3.96%) Data Quality
4 45 (3.42%) GRC
5 43 (3.27%) GDPR
6 31 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (1.90%) NIST
8 18 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (1.22%) PMO
10 12 (0.91%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.68%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.61%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.53%) COBIT
14 6 (0.46%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 19770
16 4 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
17 3 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
17 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
17 3 (0.23%) NCSC
17 3 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 169 (12.86%) Active Directory
2 33 (2.51%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.45%) GPFS
3 19 (1.45%) NFS
4 17 (1.29%) vSphere
5 16 (1.22%) Docker
5 16 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.76%) BitLocker
7 5 (0.38%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 3 (0.23%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.15%) Firmware
9 2 (0.15%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 2 (0.15%) RACF
9 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.076%) DFS Replication
10 1 (0.076%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.076%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.076%) IAG
10 1 (0.076%) Postfix
10 1 (0.076%) Squid
Systems Management
1 65 (4.95%) SCCM
2 42 (3.20%) Microsoft Intune
2 42 (3.20%) Terraform
3 31 (2.36%) Ansible
4 30 (2.28%) OPNET
5 19 (1.45%) Grafana
6 17 (1.29%) Kubernetes
7 16 (1.22%) vRealize
8 13 (0.99%) Prometheus
9 12 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
9 12 (0.91%) RSA Archer
10 10 (0.76%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.46%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.38%) Nessus
12 5 (0.38%) Salt
13 4 (0.30%) Pingdom
13 4 (0.30%) VxRail
14 3 (0.23%) HP ALM
14 3 (0.23%) OMEGAMON
14 3 (0.23%) Rancher
Vendors
1 253 (19.25%) Microsoft
2 93 (7.08%) Remedy
3 77 (5.86%) Cisco
4 71 (5.40%) SAP
5 56 (4.26%) Oracle
6 43 (3.27%) Splunk
7 38 (2.89%) VMware
8 37 (2.82%) Salesforce
9 34 (2.59%) IBM
10 33 (2.51%) Atlassian
11 31 (2.36%) Workday
12 26 (1.98%) Apple
13 21 (1.60%) Fortinet
14 20 (1.52%) Snow
14 20 (1.52%) Zscaler
15 18 (1.37%) Google
15 18 (1.37%) Palo Alto
16 16 (1.22%) BMC
16 16 (1.22%) Citrix
16 16 (1.22%) HP