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 22 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
22 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 64 72
Rank change year-on-year -1 +8 +45
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,238 901 1,081
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.56% 3.49% 2.85%
As % of the Vendors category 7.94% 7.47% 6.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 854 512 666
10th Percentile £204 £200 £163
25th Percentile £353 £359 £304
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £688 £717
UK median daily rate £485 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -1.97% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 68
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.33
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.86 £16.06
Median hourly rate £19.25 £21.46 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +22.63% +1.45%
75th Percentile £28.75 £23.40 £22.25
90th Percentile £95.00 £29.70 £32.85
UK median hourly rate £19.34 £22.69 £17.04
% change year-on-year -14.75% +33.16% +0.22%

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 15,599 12,059 16,374
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.84% 46.64% 43.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,183 7,419 10,503
10th Percentile £303 £285 £250
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £705 £720 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 804 353 874
10th Percentile £15.32 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £18.16 £21.25 £15.45
Median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £27.51
Median % change year-on-year -23.15% +12.70% -17.27%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.00 £56.49
90th Percentile £74.11 £82.15 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £29.07 £26.97
% change year-on-year -17.44% +7.78% -22.47%

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 22 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 22 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 22 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 -25 511 £500 -4.76% 111
North of England -5 216 £500 +25.00% 50
South East +46 190 £425 -5.56% 99
Midlands +7 177 £456 -8.75% 32
West Midlands -9 136 £475 -13.64% 22
North West -11 113 £450 +19.21% 35
Yorkshire -2 96 £533 +21.71% 13
East of England -8 68 £525 +5.00% 9
South West +4 61 £725 +222.22% 14
East Midlands -1 38 £413 +15.87% 10
North East -23 7 £176 -41.33% 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 75 (6.06%) Confluence
2 73 (5.90%) SharePoint
3 50 (4.04%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.73%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.57%) Apache
6 6 (0.48%) Appian
6 6 (0.48%) Camunda
7 4 (0.32%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.24%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.24%) CICS
8 3 (0.24%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.24%) nginx
8 3 (0.24%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.24%) SAS
9 2 (0.16%) CMS
9 2 (0.16%) JBoss
10 1 (0.081%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.081%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.081%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.081%) WebSphere
Applications
1 75 (6.06%) Microsoft Office
2 62 (5.01%) Microsoft Excel
3 57 (4.60%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.70%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.57%) 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 (0.081%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.081%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 35 (2.83%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (1.13%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.73%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.65%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 7 (0.57%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.48%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.24%) Dynamics CRM
7 3 (0.24%) Maximo
7 3 (0.24%) SAP GRC
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 (0.081%) assyst
9 1 (0.081%) Oracle Payables
9 1 (0.081%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.081%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 1 (0.081%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.081%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.081%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 252 (20.36%) Azure
2 181 (14.62%) Microsoft 365
3 154 (12.44%) AWS
4 95 (7.67%) Entra ID
5 67 (5.41%) Power Platform
6 64 (5.17%) GCP
7 60 (4.85%) SaaS
8 54 (4.36%) Azure DevOps
9 32 (2.58%) OneDrive
10 19 (1.53%) GitHub
11 17 (1.37%) Amazon S3
12 16 (1.29%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 16 (1.29%) Amazon EC2
12 16 (1.29%) Power Automate
13 15 (1.21%) AWS KMS
13 15 (1.21%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (1.13%) Amazon ELB
14 14 (1.13%) Azure Logic Apps
15 11 (0.89%) Sauce Labs
15 11 (0.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 69 (5.57%) DNS
2 54 (4.36%) VPN
3 44 (3.55%) DHCP
4 38 (3.07%) Wi-Fi
4 38 (3.07%) Wireless
5 37 (2.99%) Firewall
6 31 (2.50%) LAN
7 29 (2.34%) WAN
8 20 (1.62%) TCP/IP
9 18 (1.45%) Network Security
10 13 (1.05%) FTP
11 12 (0.97%) BGP
11 12 (0.97%) VLAN
12 10 (0.81%) Internet
12 10 (0.81%) SD-WAN
13 9 (0.73%) 4G
13 9 (0.73%) Cisco ISE
13 9 (0.73%) Cisco Wireless
13 9 (0.73%) Skype
13 9 (0.73%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 48 (3.88%) Power BI
2 26 (2.10%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.70%) Metadata
4 19 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (1.29%) MySQL
5 16 (1.29%) Relational Database
6 15 (1.21%) Tableau
7 12 (0.97%) PostgreSQL
8 9 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
8 9 (0.73%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 8 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 8 (0.65%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.57%) DB2
11 6 (0.48%) Amazon Aurora
11 6 (0.48%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.32%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (0.32%) Neo4j
12 4 (0.32%) NoSQL
13 3 (0.24%) Redis
Development Applications
1 204 (16.48%) JIRA
2 47 (3.80%) Jenkins
3 43 (3.47%) Git
4 29 (2.34%) GitLab
5 17 (1.37%) Selenium
6 14 (1.13%) REST Assured
7 13 (1.05%) Postman
8 12 (0.97%) Cucumber
9 11 (0.89%) Android Studio
9 11 (0.89%) Browser DevTools
9 11 (0.89%) Eclipse
9 11 (0.89%) Xcode
10 8 (0.65%) TestRail
11 5 (0.40%) JMeter
11 5 (0.40%) LoadRunner
11 5 (0.40%) Vagrant
12 4 (0.32%) Gatling
12 4 (0.32%) JUnit
12 4 (0.32%) Metasploit
12 4 (0.32%) NeoLoad
General
1 450 (36.35%) Social Skills
2 254 (20.52%) Finance
3 185 (14.94%) Analytical Skills
4 104 (8.40%) Public Sector
5 58 (4.68%) Banking
6 57 (4.60%) Military
7 45 (3.63%) Documentation Skills
8 43 (3.47%) Legal
8 43 (3.47%) Telecoms
9 39 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
10 23 (1.86%) Influencing Skills
11 18 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
12 17 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (1.29%) Law
14 13 (1.05%) Aerospace
15 12 (0.97%) Retail
16 11 (0.89%) Billing
17 9 (0.73%) Financial Institution
17 9 (0.73%) Manufacturing
18 8 (0.65%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 207 (16.72%) Architect
2 181 (14.62%) Analyst
3 121 (9.77%) ServiceNow Architect
4 94 (7.59%) Developer
5 91 (7.35%) Support Engineer
6 82 (6.62%) IT Support
7 79 (6.38%) ServiceNow Developer
8 67 (5.41%) Lead
9 64 (5.17%) Consultant
10 50 (4.04%) IT Engineer
11 48 (3.88%) ServiceNow Manager
12 42 (3.39%) IT Support Engineer
12 42 (3.39%) Project Manager
12 42 (3.39%) Senior
13 41 (3.31%) Service Analyst
14 40 (3.23%) Business Analyst
15 35 (2.83%) Technical Architect
16 34 (2.75%) Administrator
16 34 (2.75%) Solutions Architect
17 32 (2.58%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 118 (9.53%) REST
2 85 (6.87%) SOAP
3 35 (2.83%) SailPoint
4 31 (2.50%) CSS
5 25 (2.02%) LDAP
6 22 (1.78%) AngularJS
7 20 (1.62%) OpenID
8 18 (1.45%) Flash
9 16 (1.29%) Ajax
9 16 (1.29%) HTML
9 16 (1.29%) JSON
10 13 (1.05%) React
11 12 (0.97%) .NET
11 12 (0.97%) Middleware
12 11 (0.89%) GraphQL
12 11 (0.89%) OAuth
13 10 (0.81%) XML
14 9 (0.73%) ADO
15 8 (0.65%) SAML
15 8 (0.65%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 147 (11.87%) CMDB
2 85 (6.87%) Onboarding
3 69 (5.57%) Product Ownership
4 37 (2.99%) Data Centre
5 32 (2.58%) Management Information System
6 30 (2.42%) Replication
7 23 (1.86%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (1.78%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.62%) Security Posture
10 19 (1.53%) Video Conferencing
11 18 (1.45%) Cloud Native
11 18 (1.45%) Linux Command Line
12 16 (1.29%) Data Protection Act
12 16 (1.29%) Smartphone
13 15 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
14 14 (1.13%) Mobile App
15 13 (1.05%) Virtual Team
16 11 (0.89%) Driving Licence
16 11 (0.89%) Public Cloud
17 9 (0.73%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 233 (18.82%) Windows
2 105 (8.48%) Windows 10
3 68 (5.49%) Linux
4 36 (2.91%) Mac OS
5 34 (2.75%) Android
6 32 (2.58%) Unix
7 23 (1.86%) Windows Server
8 17 (1.37%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.73%) Windows 7
10 6 (0.48%) VMS
11 5 (0.40%) Amazon Linux
11 5 (0.40%) Windows Server 2016
11 5 (0.40%) zOS
12 4 (0.32%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.32%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.081%) Data ONTAP
13 1 (0.081%) Kali Linux
13 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.081%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 426 (34.41%) ITSM
2 307 (24.80%) ITIL
3 292 (23.59%) Agile
4 226 (18.26%) Service Management
5 200 (16.16%) Problem-Solving
6 188 (15.19%) Stakeholder Management
7 148 (11.95%) Continuous Improvement
8 147 (11.87%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 138 (11.15%) Change Management
10 135 (10.90%) DevOps
11 131 (10.58%) Customer Service
12 105 (8.48%) CI/CD
13 95 (7.67%) Service Delivery
14 94 (7.59%) Migration
15 91 (7.35%) Project Management
16 89 (7.19%) Data Modelling
17 85 (6.87%) Roadmaps
18 80 (6.46%) Asset Management
19 78 (6.30%) User Acceptance Testing
20 76 (6.14%) Incident Management
Programming Languages
1 94 (7.59%) Python
2 93 (7.51%) JavaScript
3 85 (6.87%) SQL
4 65 (5.25%) Java
4 65 (5.25%) PowerShell
5 22 (1.78%) Perl
6 13 (1.05%) Bash
7 11 (0.89%) PL/SQL
7 11 (0.89%) Shell Script
7 11 (0.89%) TypeScript
7 11 (0.89%) VB
8 9 (0.73%) C#
8 9 (0.73%) Groovy
8 9 (0.73%) VBScript
9 8 (0.65%) ABAP
10 7 (0.57%) Go
10 7 (0.57%) Kusto Query Language
10 7 (0.57%) Lisp
11 5 (0.40%) BeanShell
11 5 (0.40%) REXX
Qualifications
1 347 (28.03%) Security Cleared
2 271 (21.89%) SC Cleared
3 109 (8.80%) Degree
4 37 (2.99%) DV Cleared
5 31 (2.50%) TOGAF Certification
6 23 (1.86%) ITIL Certification
7 21 (1.70%) Cisco Certification
7 21 (1.70%) PMI Certification
7 21 (1.70%) PMP
8 20 (1.62%) CISSP
9 16 (1.29%) CCNP
9 16 (1.29%) CISM
9 16 (1.29%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.05%) Computer Science Degree
11 11 (0.89%) ISTQB
12 9 (0.73%) BPSS Clearance
13 8 (0.65%) A+ Certification
13 8 (0.65%) CISA
14 7 (0.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
14 7 (0.57%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (4.68%) QA
2 52 (4.20%) SLA
3 45 (3.63%) Data Quality
3 45 (3.63%) GRC
4 44 (3.55%) GDPR
5 28 (2.26%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 20 (1.62%) NIST
7 18 (1.45%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 14 (1.13%) PMO
9 11 (0.89%) PCI DSS
10 9 (0.73%) Accessibility
11 8 (0.65%) Cyber Essentials
12 7 (0.57%) COBIT
13 6 (0.48%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 19770
15 4 (0.32%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.24%) Actionable Recommendations
16 3 (0.24%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 3 (0.24%) NCSC
16 3 (0.24%) NIST 800
System Software
1 161 (13.00%) Active Directory
2 29 (2.34%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.62%) Docker
4 18 (1.45%) GPFS
4 18 (1.45%) NFS
5 16 (1.29%) vSphere
6 15 (1.21%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.81%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.40%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 5 (0.40%) DFS Replication
9 3 (0.24%) Dovecot
9 3 (0.24%) Postfix
9 3 (0.24%) Squid
10 2 (0.16%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 2 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.081%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.081%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 1 (0.081%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.081%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.081%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 61 (4.93%) SCCM
2 42 (3.39%) Terraform
3 41 (3.31%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.42%) OPNET
5 29 (2.34%) Ansible
6 21 (1.70%) Grafana
7 15 (1.21%) Jamf Pro
7 15 (1.21%) vRealize
8 14 (1.13%) Kubernetes
8 14 (1.13%) Prometheus
9 11 (0.89%) RSA Archer
10 10 (0.81%) FortiGate
11 7 (0.57%) Nessus
12 6 (0.48%) 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
1 246 (19.87%) Microsoft
2 89 (7.19%) Remedy
3 64 (5.17%) Cisco
3 64 (5.17%) SAP
4 55 (4.44%) Oracle
5 37 (2.99%) Splunk
6 34 (2.75%) Salesforce
6 34 (2.75%) VMware
7 33 (2.67%) Atlassian
8 31 (2.50%) IBM
8 31 (2.50%) Workday
9 30 (2.42%) Apple
10 19 (1.53%) Snow
11 17 (1.37%) Google
12 16 (1.29%) HP
12 16 (1.29%) Palo Alto
13 15 (1.21%) Citrix
13 15 (1.21%) Fortinet
13 15 (1.21%) NetApp
14 14 (1.13%) BMC