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 15 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
15 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 60 82
Rank change year-on-year -7 +22 +24
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,388 881 948
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.41% 3.64% 2.60%
As % of the Vendors category 8.26% 7.66% 6.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 961 556 554
10th Percentile £213 £200 £165
25th Percentile £400 £313 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.04% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £718
UK median daily rate £500 £496 £500
% change year-on-year +0.81% -0.80% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 51 107
10th Percentile £16.08 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £14.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £25.91 £16.30 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +58.93% - -8.01%
75th Percentile £81.98 £20.69 £21.37
90th Percentile £97.25 £37.50 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £25.91 £17.30 £16.30
% change year-on-year +49.74% +6.13% -8.01%

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 16,807 11,505 15,293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.26% 47.55% 41.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,886 7,407 9,719
10th Percentile £313 £280 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.45% -2.82%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £638
90th Percentile £710 £725 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £515
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.49% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 892 458 1,005
10th Percentile £15.40 £14.84 £12.05
25th Percentile £18.64 £17.46 £14.27
Median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +22.87% +17.56% -43.11%
75th Percentile £60.00 £59.16 £57.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +27.45% +13.33% -47.06%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 -1 605 £513 -5.96% 140
North of England -11 263 £522 +30.50% 91
South East -5 205 £500 +42.86% 74
Midlands +5 161 £425 -22.87% 49
North West 0 137 £453 -4.03% 49
West Midlands -12 121 £438 -20.60% 24
Yorkshire -15 115 £545 +36.25% 35
South West -12 64 £600 +155.32% 9
East of England -30 56 £525 +51.52% 25
East Midlands -2 33 £300 -41.46% 24
North East -9 15 £450 +50.00% 7
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 94 (6.77%) Confluence
2 54 (3.89%) SharePoint
3 47 (3.39%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.72%) Skype for Business
5 8 (0.58%) Apache
6 4 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.29%) CMS
6 4 (0.29%) SAS
7 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.22%) Appian
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
8 2 (0.14%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.072%) Drupal
9 1 (0.072%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
Applications
1 76 (5.48%) Microsoft Office
2 54 (3.89%) Microsoft Excel
3 51 (3.67%) Microsoft Project
4 23 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 9 (0.65%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
7 3 (0.22%) Revit
7 3 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.072%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.072%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 47 (3.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.22%) Maximo
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 (0.072%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.072%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.072%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.072%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.072%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.072%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 283 (20.39%) Azure
2 203 (14.63%) AWS
3 145 (10.45%) Microsoft 365
4 114 (8.21%) Entra ID
5 96 (6.92%) Power Platform
6 66 (4.76%) SaaS
7 65 (4.68%) GCP
8 58 (4.18%) Azure DevOps
9 26 (1.87%) OneDrive
10 20 (1.44%) Power Automate
11 16 (1.15%) Microsoft Copilot
12 15 (1.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 15 (1.08%) Amazon EC2
12 15 (1.08%) Amazon S3
13 14 (1.01%) AWS KMS
13 14 (1.01%) GitHub
14 13 (0.94%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 12 (0.86%) Azure Logic Apps
15 12 (0.86%) Datadog
15 12 (0.86%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 71 (5.12%) DNS
2 60 (4.32%) DHCP
3 59 (4.25%) Firewall
4 50 (3.60%) VPN
5 35 (2.52%) Wireless
6 31 (2.23%) Network Security
7 29 (2.09%) WAN
8 28 (2.02%) LAN
9 22 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
10 21 (1.51%) TCP/IP
11 18 (1.30%) VLAN
12 16 (1.15%) SAN
13 15 (1.08%) NAS
14 14 (1.01%) Internet
14 14 (1.01%) SD-WAN
15 13 (0.94%) SSL
16 11 (0.79%) Cisco IOS
16 11 (0.79%) NX-OS
16 11 (0.79%) Structured Cabling
17 10 (0.72%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (5.62%) Power BI
2 38 (2.74%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 15 (1.08%) Metadata
8 13 (0.94%) Tableau
9 10 (0.72%) Power Query
10 9 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
10 9 (0.65%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (0.50%) MySQL
13 6 (0.43%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.43%) NoSQL
13 6 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
14 5 (0.36%) DB2
15 4 (0.29%) PowerPivot
15 4 (0.29%) Redis
15 4 (0.29%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 253 (18.23%) JIRA
2 66 (4.76%) Git
3 39 (2.81%) Jenkins
4 32 (2.31%) GitLab
5 17 (1.22%) Selenium
6 14 (1.01%) REST Assured
7 13 (0.94%) Postman
8 12 (0.86%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.58%) TestRail
10 5 (0.36%) JMeter
10 5 (0.36%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.29%) Gatling
11 4 (0.29%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.22%) Artifactory
12 3 (0.22%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.22%) Cypress.io
12 3 (0.22%) Flyway
12 3 (0.22%) JUnit
13 2 (0.14%) Robot Framework
13 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 428 (30.84%) Social Skills
2 272 (19.60%) Finance
3 179 (12.90%) Analytical Skills
4 115 (8.29%) Public Sector
5 81 (5.84%) Banking
6 58 (4.18%) Military
7 55 (3.96%) Organisational Skills
8 53 (3.82%) Telecoms
9 48 (3.46%) Legal
10 46 (3.31%) Documentation Skills
11 20 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
12 17 (1.22%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 16 (1.15%) Billing
14 15 (1.08%) Retail
15 14 (1.01%) Financial Institution
15 14 (1.01%) Presentation Skills
16 10 (0.72%) Law
17 8 (0.58%) Aerospace
18 7 (0.50%) Manufacturing
19 5 (0.36%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 280 (20.17%) Architect
2 183 (13.18%) Analyst
3 155 (11.17%) ServiceNow Architect
4 121 (8.72%) Developer
5 100 (7.20%) ServiceNow Developer
6 80 (5.76%) Senior
7 76 (5.48%) Lead
8 73 (5.26%) Support Engineer
9 71 (5.12%) IT Support
10 61 (4.39%) Consultant
11 59 (4.25%) Solutions Architect
12 52 (3.75%) Business Analyst
13 48 (3.46%) Project Manager
14 46 (3.31%) IT Engineer
15 45 (3.24%) ServiceNow Manager
16 43 (3.10%) IT Support Engineer
16 43 (3.10%) Service Analyst
17 39 (2.81%) Technical Architect
18 37 (2.67%) Delivery Manager
19 36 (2.59%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 171 (12.32%) REST
2 103 (7.42%) SOAP
3 39 (2.81%) SailPoint
4 38 (2.74%) LDAP
5 30 (2.16%) Middleware
6 29 (2.09%) OpenID
7 28 (2.02%) CSS
8 27 (1.95%) HTML
9 25 (1.80%) JSON
10 23 (1.66%) Web Services
11 22 (1.59%) AngularJS
11 22 (1.59%) Flash
12 20 (1.44%) OAuth
13 19 (1.37%) XML
14 18 (1.30%) .NET
15 16 (1.15%) SAML
16 12 (0.86%) Kafka
17 11 (0.79%) JDBC
18 10 (0.72%) Microsoft Graph
19 9 (0.65%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 170 (12.25%) CMDB
2 107 (7.71%) Onboarding
3 99 (7.13%) Product Ownership
4 40 (2.88%) Data Centre
5 35 (2.52%) Management Information System
5 35 (2.52%) Replication
6 24 (1.73%) Cloud Native
6 24 (1.73%) Security Posture
7 22 (1.59%) Linux Command Line
8 19 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
9 18 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.22%) PKI
11 16 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
11 16 (1.15%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.08%) Virtual Team
13 13 (0.94%) AI Agents
14 12 (0.86%) Clustering
15 10 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
15 10 (0.72%) Mainframe
16 9 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 216 (15.56%) Windows
2 81 (5.84%) Windows 10
3 73 (5.26%) Linux
4 38 (2.74%) Windows Server
5 37 (2.67%) Mac OS
6 28 (2.02%) Unix
7 21 (1.51%) Apple iOS
8 19 (1.37%) Android
9 10 (0.72%) Windows 7
10 7 (0.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 7 (0.50%) zOS
11 4 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
12 1 (0.072%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.072%) MVS
12 1 (0.072%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.072%) VMS
12 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 479 (34.51%) ITSM
2 382 (27.52%) ITIL
3 327 (23.56%) Agile
4 262 (18.88%) Service Management
5 201 (14.48%) Problem-Solving
6 193 (13.90%) Continuous Improvement
7 192 (13.83%) Stakeholder Management
8 171 (12.32%) Change Management
9 160 (11.53%) DevOps
10 157 (11.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 128 (9.22%) Migration
12 126 (9.08%) Service Delivery
13 124 (8.93%) Customer Service
14 121 (8.72%) CI/CD
15 120 (8.65%) Data Modelling
16 119 (8.57%) Roadmaps
17 114 (8.21%) AI
18 112 (8.07%) Workflow
19 99 (7.13%) Project Management
20 98 (7.06%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 128 (9.22%) SQL
2 99 (7.13%) JavaScript
3 87 (6.27%) Python
4 81 (5.84%) PowerShell
5 69 (4.97%) Java
6 28 (2.02%) C#
7 12 (0.86%) Bash
8 11 (0.79%) VB
9 10 (0.72%) PL/SQL
9 10 (0.72%) TypeScript
9 10 (0.72%) VBScript
10 9 (0.65%) Groovy
11 7 (0.50%) JCL
11 7 (0.50%) Perl
11 7 (0.50%) REXX
12 6 (0.43%) BeanShell
12 6 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.43%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.36%) Go
13 5 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 376 (27.09%) Security Cleared
2 278 (20.03%) SC Cleared
3 118 (8.50%) Degree
4 63 (4.54%) DV Cleared
5 36 (2.59%) Cisco Certification
6 33 (2.38%) PMP
7 29 (2.09%) PMI Certification
8 28 (2.02%) CISSP
8 28 (2.02%) ITIL Certification
9 27 (1.95%) CCNP
9 27 (1.95%) TOGAF Certification
10 22 (1.59%) CISM
11 19 (1.37%) BPSS Clearance
12 16 (1.15%) CCNA
13 14 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
14 11 (0.79%) Network+ Certification
14 11 (0.79%) Server+ Certification
15 10 (0.72%) AWS Certification
15 10 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (5.33%) SLA
2 61 (4.39%) Data Quality
3 50 (3.60%) QA
4 43 (3.10%) GRC
5 42 (3.03%) GDPR
6 27 (1.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (1.80%) NIST
8 23 (1.66%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 17 (1.22%) PMO
10 11 (0.79%) Accessibility
10 11 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
11 8 (0.58%) HIPAA
12 7 (0.50%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.29%) GxP
14 3 (0.22%) COBIT
14 3 (0.22%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.22%) NCSC
14 3 (0.22%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.14%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 159 (11.46%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.74%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.66%) NFS
4 22 (1.59%) GPFS
5 18 (1.30%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (1.30%) vSphere
6 16 (1.15%) Docker
7 10 (0.72%) BitLocker
8 6 (0.43%) Firmware
9 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.29%) IAG
10 4 (0.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 4 (0.29%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.14%) RACF
11 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.072%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.072%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 56 (4.03%) Terraform
2 44 (3.17%) SCCM
3 37 (2.67%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (2.38%) Ansible
5 26 (1.87%) OPNET
6 25 (1.80%) Grafana
7 20 (1.44%) Prometheus
8 18 (1.30%) Kubernetes
8 18 (1.30%) vRealize
9 13 (0.94%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.72%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.58%) VxRail
12 7 (0.50%) CASB
12 7 (0.50%) RSA Archer
13 5 (0.36%) Control-M
13 5 (0.36%) QRadar
13 5 (0.36%) Salt
13 5 (0.36%) WMI
14 4 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.29%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 235 (16.93%) Microsoft
2 90 (6.48%) Cisco
3 88 (6.34%) Remedy
4 65 (4.68%) SAP
5 52 (3.75%) Oracle
6 48 (3.46%) Splunk
7 44 (3.17%) VMware
8 38 (2.74%) Workday
9 37 (2.67%) Salesforce
10 35 (2.52%) Atlassian
11 33 (2.38%) IBM
12 26 (1.87%) Apple
13 25 (1.80%) Fortinet
13 25 (1.80%) Palo Alto
14 23 (1.66%) Google
15 22 (1.59%) BMC
15 22 (1.59%) CyberArk
16 21 (1.51%) F5
17 19 (1.37%) Zscaler
18 18 (1.30%) Snow