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 14 November 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
14 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 70 68
Rank change year-on-year +3 -2 +70
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,084 951 1,252
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.59% 3.05% 3.17%
As % of the Vendors category 7.52% 6.74% 7.09%
Number of daily rates quoted 711 528 830
10th Percentile £204 £220 £168
25th Percentile £313 £360 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £650 £638 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 22 47
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £15.58
25th Percentile £15.81 £19.14 £16.70
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.78 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.34% +8.88% +29.03%
75th Percentile £28.41 £27.61 £31.09
90th Percentile £64.08 £29.90 £64.95
UK median hourly rate £18.82 £22.09 £20.00
% change year-on-year -14.80% +10.45% +29.03%

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 14,410 14,102 17,657
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.66% 45.16% 44.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,274 8,485 11,670
10th Percentile £283 £300 £255
25th Percentile £405 £413 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.62%
Number of hourly rates quoted 718 446 619
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.35 £14.73
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.94 £20.39
Median hourly rate £25.00 £33.75 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -25.93% -24.16% +73.08%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.00 £74.65 £76.31
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £30.45 £43.90
% change year-on-year -17.90% -30.64% +75.60%

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 14 November 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 14 November 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 14 November 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 -33 419 £489 -6.86% 246
North of England +4 210 £500 - 52
South East +26 153 £403 -12.02% 104
Midlands +6 135 £475 +11.76% 45
North West +9 125 £488 -2.50% 34
West Midlands +4 114 £475 +2.70% 32
East of England +26 89 £512 -2.48% 33
Yorkshire -17 76 £530 -0.24% 12
South West +31 67 £388 -22.50% 22
East Midlands -9 21 £438 +4.79% 13
North East -7 9 £350 +133.33% 6
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 72 (6.64%) Confluence
2 61 (5.63%) SharePoint
3 38 (3.51%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.11%) nginx
5 10 (0.92%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.55%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.37%) Appian
7 4 (0.37%) Camunda
8 3 (0.28%) Apache
8 3 (0.28%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.28%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.28%) SAS
9 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.18%) IIS
9 2 (0.18%) JBoss
10 1 (0.092%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.092%) CICS
10 1 (0.092%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.092%) Tuxedo
10 1 (0.092%) WebLogic
Applications
1 70 (6.46%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (5.63%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (2.95%) MS Visio
4 25 (2.31%) Microsoft Project
5 21 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 12 (1.11%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.37%) Autodesk Inventor
8 4 (0.37%) Trello
9 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.092%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 49 (4.52%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.20%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.83%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (0.83%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.65%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 7 (0.65%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.55%) Workday HCM
7 3 (0.28%) assyst
8 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.18%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.18%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.092%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.092%) Oracle HRMS
9 1 (0.092%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.092%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 189 (17.44%) Azure
2 168 (15.50%) Microsoft 365
3 131 (12.08%) AWS
4 66 (6.09%) Entra ID
5 65 (6.00%) SaaS
6 54 (4.98%) Power Platform
7 52 (4.80%) Azure DevOps
8 31 (2.86%) OneDrive
9 30 (2.77%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 30 (2.77%) Amazon S3
10 28 (2.58%) Amazon EC2
11 25 (2.31%) Amazon ELB
11 25 (2.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 24 (2.21%) AWS KMS
13 22 (2.03%) GCP
14 19 (1.75%) Amazon ECS
15 18 (1.66%) Google Workspace
15 18 (1.66%) Power Automate
15 18 (1.66%) Sauce Labs
16 17 (1.57%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 78 (7.20%) DNS
2 51 (4.70%) Firewall
3 38 (3.51%) VPN
3 38 (3.51%) Wireless
4 35 (3.23%) DHCP
5 32 (2.95%) HTTP
5 32 (2.95%) Wi-Fi
6 25 (2.31%) SMTP
7 24 (2.21%) SSH
8 22 (2.03%) FTP
9 20 (1.85%) LAN
9 20 (1.85%) TCP/IP
9 20 (1.85%) WAN
10 18 (1.66%) SSL
11 14 (1.29%) BGP
11 14 (1.29%) Cisco ISE
12 12 (1.11%) IMAP
12 12 (1.11%) Network Security
12 12 (1.11%) OpenLDAP
13 10 (0.92%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (3.41%) Power BI
2 34 (3.14%) Relational Database
3 31 (2.86%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (1.85%) MySQL
6 15 (1.38%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (1.20%) Tableau
8 12 (1.11%) Metadata
9 8 (0.74%) DynamoDB
9 8 (0.74%) Oracle ODI
10 7 (0.65%) SQL Server
11 5 (0.46%) DB2
12 4 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
13 3 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.28%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.28%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.28%) Redis
14 2 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 216 (19.93%) JIRA
2 48 (4.43%) Git
3 38 (3.51%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.21%) Vagrant
5 19 (1.75%) Browser DevTools
6 18 (1.66%) Android Studio
6 18 (1.66%) Eclipse
6 18 (1.66%) Xcode
7 9 (0.83%) GitLab
8 7 (0.65%) JUnit
9 5 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.46%) Maven
9 5 (0.46%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.37%) Metasploit
11 3 (0.28%) AdminStudio
11 3 (0.28%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.18%) Snyk
12 2 (0.18%) sqlmap
13 1 (0.092%) Postman
13 1 (0.092%) ScriptRunner
General
1 441 (40.68%) Social Skills
2 227 (20.94%) Finance
3 173 (15.96%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (9.78%) Public Sector
5 40 (3.69%) Banking
6 34 (3.14%) Telecoms
7 32 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
8 30 (2.77%) Legal
9 28 (2.58%) Organisational Skills
10 27 (2.49%) Presentation Skills
11 20 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (1.85%) Manufacturing
12 14 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 14 (1.29%) Military
13 12 (1.11%) Aerospace
14 11 (1.01%) Law
15 10 (0.92%) Marketing
16 9 (0.83%) Pharmaceutical
17 7 (0.65%) Electronics
17 7 (0.65%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 167 (15.41%) Analyst
2 126 (11.62%) Architect
3 108 (9.96%) Developer
4 103 (9.50%) Support Engineer
5 83 (7.66%) ServiceNow Developer
6 74 (6.83%) Consultant
7 72 (6.64%) IT Support
8 70 (6.46%) ServiceNow Architect
9 48 (4.43%) Senior
10 41 (3.78%) Business Analyst
11 39 (3.60%) Lead
12 38 (3.51%) IT Engineer
13 37 (3.41%) Service Analyst
14 32 (2.95%) Desktop Support
14 32 (2.95%) DevOps Engineer
15 31 (2.86%) IT Support Engineer
15 31 (2.86%) Solutions Architect
16 30 (2.77%) Support Analyst
17 29 (2.68%) ServiceNow Consultant
18 28 (2.58%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 89 (8.21%) REST
2 79 (7.29%) SOAP
3 61 (5.63%) AngularJS
4 37 (3.41%) React
5 35 (3.23%) CSS
5 35 (3.23%) LDAP
6 32 (2.95%) Web Services
7 28 (2.58%) HTML
7 28 (2.58%) JSON
8 21 (1.94%) Ajax
9 19 (1.75%) GraphQL
9 19 (1.75%) SAML
10 17 (1.57%) .NET
10 17 (1.57%) SailPoint
11 16 (1.48%) XML
12 14 (1.29%) HTML5
12 14 (1.29%) jQuery
12 14 (1.29%) ODBC
13 13 (1.20%) Apache Camel
13 13 (1.20%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 109 (10.06%) CMDB
2 44 (4.06%) Onboarding
3 36 (3.32%) Replication
4 33 (3.04%) Data Centre
5 25 (2.31%) Management Information System
5 25 (2.31%) Mobile App
6 24 (2.21%) Self-Motivation
7 22 (2.03%) Driving Licence
7 22 (2.03%) Enterprise Software
8 20 (1.85%) Product Ownership
9 19 (1.75%) iPhone
10 17 (1.57%) Security Posture
10 17 (1.57%) Video Conferencing
11 15 (1.38%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (1.38%) iPad
12 13 (1.20%) Smartphone
12 13 (1.20%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.11%) Cloud Native
13 12 (1.11%) Data Protection Act
13 12 (1.11%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 240 (22.14%) Windows
2 79 (7.29%) Windows 10
3 76 (7.01%) Linux
4 37 (3.41%) Mac OS
5 35 (3.23%) Android
6 33 (3.04%) Apple iOS
7 29 (2.68%) Unix
8 26 (2.40%) VMS
9 24 (2.21%) Amazon Linux
10 14 (1.29%) Ubuntu
11 6 (0.55%) Windows Server
12 5 (0.46%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.37%) CentOS
13 4 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.092%) Kali Linux
15 1 (0.092%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.092%) Windows Server 2019
15 1 (0.092%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 379 (34.96%) ITSM
2 261 (24.08%) ITIL
3 239 (22.05%) Agile
4 229 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
5 193 (17.80%) Service Management
6 147 (13.56%) DevOps
7 139 (12.82%) Customer Service
8 137 (12.64%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 136 (12.55%) Stakeholder Management
10 116 (10.70%) Change Management
11 87 (8.03%) Scrum
12 82 (7.56%) Service Delivery
13 81 (7.47%) CI/CD
14 80 (7.38%) Continuous Improvement
15 68 (6.27%) Migration
15 68 (6.27%) Project Management
15 68 (6.27%) Roadmaps
16 67 (6.18%) Configuration Management
17 66 (6.09%) Analytics
18 64 (5.90%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 130 (11.99%) Python
2 98 (9.04%) JavaScript
3 86 (7.93%) PowerShell
4 73 (6.73%) Java
5 57 (5.26%) SQL
6 41 (3.78%) Perl
7 27 (2.49%) Groovy
8 22 (2.03%) Bash
9 21 (1.94%) TypeScript
10 16 (1.48%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.65%) ABAP
11 7 (0.65%) Lisp
11 7 (0.65%) PL/SQL
12 6 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.46%) VB
13 5 (0.46%) VBScript
14 4 (0.37%) Go
15 3 (0.28%) BeanShell
15 3 (0.28%) C
15 3 (0.28%) C#
Qualifications
1 287 (26.48%) Security Cleared
2 240 (22.14%) SC Cleared
3 114 (10.52%) Degree
4 24 (2.21%) Cisco Certification
4 24 (2.21%) Microsoft Certification
5 23 (2.12%) CISSP
5 23 (2.12%) ITIL Certification
6 22 (2.03%) Computer Science Degree
7 16 (1.48%) CISM
8 15 (1.38%) A+ Certification
9 14 (1.29%) AWS Certification
9 14 (1.29%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.29%) CCNP
9 14 (1.29%) DV Cleared
10 13 (1.20%) ACSP
10 13 (1.20%) ACTC
10 13 (1.20%) CISA
11 12 (1.11%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.01%) CCNA
13 9 (0.83%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 49 (4.52%) GDPR
2 48 (4.43%) QA
3 38 (3.51%) SLA
4 29 (2.68%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 28 (2.58%) GRC
6 27 (2.49%) NIST
7 23 (2.12%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 17 (1.57%) COBIT
9 14 (1.29%) Accessibility
9 14 (1.29%) PCI DSS
10 13 (1.20%) PMO
11 12 (1.11%) Data Quality
12 8 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 19770
12 8 (0.74%) NIST 800
13 7 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.55%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.28%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 3 (0.28%) WCAG
16 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 160 (14.76%) Active Directory
2 39 (3.60%) Docker
3 22 (2.03%) DFS Replication
4 12 (1.11%) Dovecot
4 12 (1.11%) Postfix
4 12 (1.11%) Squid
4 12 (1.11%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (1.11%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.92%) vSphere
6 9 (0.83%) GPFS
6 9 (0.83%) NFS
7 7 (0.65%) BitLocker
8 6 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.37%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.28%) Firmware
11 2 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.092%) RACF
12 1 (0.092%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 50 (4.61%) SCCM
2 46 (4.24%) Terraform
3 37 (3.41%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (3.04%) Ansible
5 31 (2.86%) Grafana
6 28 (2.58%) Prometheus
7 27 (2.49%) Jamf Pro
7 27 (2.49%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (1.57%) Nessus
8 17 (1.57%) RSA Archer
9 10 (0.92%) Proxmox
10 9 (0.83%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.83%) vRealize
11 8 (0.74%) Kubernetes
12 4 (0.37%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
13 3 (0.28%) Nmap
13 3 (0.28%) OPNET
13 3 (0.28%) Rancher
13 3 (0.28%) vCenter Server
14 2 (0.18%) QRadar
Vendors
1 292 (26.94%) Microsoft
2 74 (6.83%) Remedy
3 64 (5.90%) Oracle
4 59 (5.44%) Cisco
5 57 (5.26%) SAP
6 42 (3.87%) Splunk
7 37 (3.41%) Salesforce
8 31 (2.86%) Workday
9 28 (2.58%) Apple
10 24 (2.21%) Google
11 22 (2.03%) BMC
12 21 (1.94%) HP
12 21 (1.94%) IBM
12 21 (1.94%) Snow
12 21 (1.94%) VMware
13 18 (1.66%) Citrix
14 15 (1.38%) MobileIron
14 15 (1.38%) Nexthink
15 14 (1.29%) CheckPoint
15 14 (1.29%) Rapid7