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 3 April 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
3 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 65 64 75
Rank change year-on-year -1 +11 +34
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,358 842 1,016
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.54% 3.47% 2.70%
As % of the Vendors category 8.14% 7.36% 6.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 930 504 598
10th Percentile £212 £200 £163
25th Percentile £398 £350 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £700 £688 £714
UK median daily rate £500 £499 £510
% change year-on-year +0.20% -2.25% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 40 93
10th Percentile £15.93 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £17.40 £15.86 £16.06
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +3.61% +15.46% -11.70%
75th Percentile £64.69 £22.22 £21.46
90th Percentile £97.88 £30.86 £30.20
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £21.46 £16.30
% change year-on-year -9.13% +31.66% -11.51%

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 16,674 11,439 15,904
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 43.48% 47.19% 42.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,908 7,426 10,179
10th Percentile £310 £296 £255
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.94% -4.19%
75th Percentile £604 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 863 413 954
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.12 £12.13
25th Percentile £18.50 £18.51 £14.27
Median hourly rate £25.77 £29.00 £23.36
Median % change year-on-year -11.14% +24.16% -36.87%
75th Percentile £59.46 £63.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £27.00 £28.60 £22.58
% change year-on-year -5.59% +26.66% -43.55%

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 3 April 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 3 April 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 3 April 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 -15 581 £500 -4.76% 126
North of England +13 232 £500 +24.22% 43
South East +16 202 £475 +14.46% 92
Midlands +3 174 £424 -22.16% 29
West Midlands -9 133 £425 -22.87% 17
North West -2 130 £450 +11.11% 24
Yorkshire +3 92 £545 +28.24% 17
East of England -18 71 £525 +16.67% 14
South West +3 65 £725 +31.82% 14
East Midlands -7 35 £400 -4.19% 12
North East -9 11 £425 +41.67% 2
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 91 (6.70%) Confluence
2 67 (4.93%) SharePoint
3 55 (4.05%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.66%) Skype for Business
5 8 (0.59%) Apache
6 6 (0.44%) Appian
6 6 (0.44%) Camunda
7 5 (0.37%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
9 3 (0.22%) CICS
9 3 (0.22%) CMS
10 2 (0.15%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.15%) IIS
10 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.15%) SAS
10 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.074%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.074%) Oracle SOA Suite
11 1 (0.074%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 74 (5.45%) Microsoft Office
2 62 (4.57%) Microsoft Excel
3 61 (4.49%) Microsoft Project
4 16 (1.18%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 16 (1.18%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
6 4 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.22%) Trello
8 1 (0.074%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.074%) AutoCAD
8 1 (0.074%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.074%) Revit
Business Applications
1 44 (3.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (1.03%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.66%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 9 (0.66%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.52%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.44%) Salesforce CRM
6 4 (0.29%) Maximo
7 3 (0.22%) SAP GRC
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%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
8 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.074%) Actimize
9 1 (0.074%) assyst
9 1 (0.074%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.074%) SAP CS
9 1 (0.074%) SAP PM
9 1 (0.074%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 262 (19.29%) Azure
2 169 (12.44%) Microsoft 365
3 167 (12.30%) AWS
4 115 (8.47%) Entra ID
5 91 (6.70%) Power Platform
6 65 (4.79%) SaaS
7 61 (4.49%) GCP
8 58 (4.27%) Azure DevOps
9 27 (1.99%) OneDrive
10 21 (1.55%) Power Automate
11 19 (1.40%) GitHub
12 15 (1.10%) Serverless
13 14 (1.03%) Azure Logic Apps
13 14 (1.03%) Microsoft Copilot
14 13 (0.96%) Amazon S3
15 12 (0.88%) Amazon CloudWatch
16 11 (0.81%) Amazon EC2
16 11 (0.81%) AWS Lambda
16 11 (0.81%) Azure Monitor
17 10 (0.74%) AWS KMS
Communications & Networking
1 63 (4.64%) DNS
2 49 (3.61%) DHCP
2 49 (3.61%) VPN
3 48 (3.53%) Firewall
4 41 (3.02%) Wireless
5 32 (2.36%) LAN
5 32 (2.36%) WAN
6 29 (2.14%) Network Security
6 29 (2.14%) Wi-Fi
7 18 (1.33%) TCP/IP
8 16 (1.18%) VLAN
9 13 (0.96%) Internet
10 11 (0.81%) BGP
10 11 (0.81%) SD-WAN
10 11 (0.81%) SSL
11 10 (0.74%) BIG-IP
11 10 (0.74%) NAS
11 10 (0.74%) NX-OS
11 10 (0.74%) SAN
12 9 (0.66%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (5.67%) Power BI
2 39 (2.87%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.84%) Metadata
4 18 (1.33%) Amazon RDS
4 18 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
4 18 (1.33%) Tableau
5 16 (1.18%) PostgreSQL
5 16 (1.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 12 (0.88%) MySQL
7 9 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
7 9 (0.66%) MongoDB
7 9 (0.66%) Relational Database
8 8 (0.59%) Power Query
9 7 (0.52%) DB2
10 6 (0.44%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.37%) Amazon Aurora
11 5 (0.37%) Data Lake
11 5 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (0.37%) Redis
12 4 (0.29%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 241 (17.75%) JIRA
2 48 (3.53%) Git
3 38 (2.80%) Jenkins
4 30 (2.21%) GitLab
5 17 (1.25%) Selenium
6 14 (1.03%) REST Assured
7 13 (0.96%) Postman
8 12 (0.88%) Cucumber
9 8 (0.59%) TestRail
10 5 (0.37%) Android Studio
10 5 (0.37%) Browser DevTools
10 5 (0.37%) Eclipse
10 5 (0.37%) JMeter
10 5 (0.37%) LoadRunner
10 5 (0.37%) Xcode
11 4 (0.29%) Gatling
11 4 (0.29%) JUnit
11 4 (0.29%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.22%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
General
1 439 (32.33%) Social Skills
2 278 (20.47%) Finance
3 189 (13.92%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (8.17%) Public Sector
5 82 (6.04%) Banking
6 60 (4.42%) Military
7 52 (3.83%) Organisational Skills
8 48 (3.53%) Telecoms
9 47 (3.46%) Documentation Skills
10 46 (3.39%) Legal
11 21 (1.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.47%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.33%) Retail
14 17 (1.25%) Billing
15 16 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
16 13 (0.96%) Law
17 12 (0.88%) Financial Institution
18 11 (0.81%) Aerospace
18 11 (0.81%) Manufacturing
19 7 (0.52%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 248 (18.26%) Architect
2 188 (13.84%) Analyst
3 133 (9.79%) ServiceNow Architect
4 112 (8.25%) Developer
5 88 (6.48%) ServiceNow Developer
6 82 (6.04%) Support Engineer
7 81 (5.96%) IT Support
8 78 (5.74%) Lead
9 76 (5.60%) Consultant
10 63 (4.64%) Senior
11 51 (3.76%) Project Manager
12 50 (3.68%) IT Engineer
13 49 (3.61%) Business Analyst
14 46 (3.39%) IT Support Engineer
15 45 (3.31%) ServiceNow Manager
16 41 (3.02%) Solutions Architect
17 40 (2.95%) Service Analyst
18 38 (2.80%) Technical Architect
19 37 (2.72%) Administrator
20 33 (2.43%) ServiceNow Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 143 (10.53%) REST
2 93 (6.85%) SOAP
3 43 (3.17%) SailPoint
4 31 (2.28%) LDAP
5 27 (1.99%) OpenID
6 25 (1.84%) CSS
7 22 (1.62%) AngularJS
8 20 (1.47%) OAuth
9 19 (1.40%) Flash
9 19 (1.40%) Middleware
10 18 (1.33%) .NET
11 17 (1.25%) HTML
11 17 (1.25%) JSON
12 15 (1.10%) Web Services
13 14 (1.03%) SAML
14 13 (0.96%) Kafka
15 11 (0.81%) ADO
15 11 (0.81%) XML
16 10 (0.74%) Ajax
16 10 (0.74%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 161 (11.86%) CMDB
2 103 (7.58%) Onboarding
3 95 (7.00%) Product Ownership
4 35 (2.58%) Data Centre
5 33 (2.43%) Management Information System
6 31 (2.28%) Replication
7 25 (1.84%) Security Posture
8 23 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
9 19 (1.40%) Cloud Native
9 19 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
10 17 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
11 15 (1.10%) Virtual Team
12 13 (0.96%) Data Structures
12 13 (0.96%) Enterprise Software
12 13 (0.96%) PKI
13 11 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
13 11 (0.81%) Mainframe
14 9 (0.66%) Clustering
14 9 (0.66%) Driving Licence
14 9 (0.66%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 224 (16.49%) Windows
2 97 (7.14%) Windows 10
3 62 (4.57%) Linux
4 32 (2.36%) Windows Server
5 28 (2.06%) Android
5 28 (2.06%) Mac OS
6 26 (1.91%) Unix
7 18 (1.33%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.66%) Windows 7
9 6 (0.44%) zOS
10 5 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 5 (0.37%) Windows Server 2016
11 1 (0.074%) Data ONTAP
11 1 (0.074%) Kali Linux
11 1 (0.074%) Ubuntu
11 1 (0.074%) VMS
11 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2012
11 1 (0.074%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 450 (33.14%) ITSM
2 360 (26.51%) ITIL
3 314 (23.12%) Agile
4 252 (18.56%) Service Management
5 202 (14.87%) Problem-Solving
6 199 (14.65%) Stakeholder Management
7 179 (13.18%) Continuous Improvement
8 161 (11.86%) Change Management
9 156 (11.49%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 144 (10.60%) DevOps
11 131 (9.65%) Customer Service
12 119 (8.76%) Migration
13 114 (8.39%) Data Modelling
14 111 (8.17%) CI/CD
14 111 (8.17%) Service Delivery
15 108 (7.95%) Project Management
16 103 (7.58%) Roadmaps
17 97 (7.14%) Workflow
18 91 (6.70%) Asset Management
19 88 (6.48%) AI
Programming Languages
1 119 (8.76%) SQL
2 89 (6.55%) JavaScript
3 87 (6.41%) Python
4 72 (5.30%) Java
4 72 (5.30%) PowerShell
5 22 (1.62%) C#
6 15 (1.10%) TypeScript
7 12 (0.88%) Bash
8 11 (0.81%) PL/SQL
8 11 (0.81%) VB
9 10 (0.74%) Perl
10 9 (0.66%) VBScript
11 8 (0.59%) ABAP
11 8 (0.59%) BeanShell
12 7 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
12 7 (0.52%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.44%) Groovy
13 6 (0.44%) JCL
13 6 (0.44%) REXX
Qualifications
1 371 (27.32%) Security Cleared
2 274 (20.18%) SC Cleared
3 121 (8.91%) Degree
4 56 (4.12%) DV Cleared
5 32 (2.36%) Cisco Certification
6 31 (2.28%) PMP
7 30 (2.21%) TOGAF Certification
8 29 (2.14%) ITIL Certification
9 28 (2.06%) PMI Certification
10 26 (1.91%) CISSP
11 23 (1.69%) CCNP
11 23 (1.69%) CISM
12 15 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (1.10%) Microsoft Certification
13 14 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
14 12 (0.88%) CCNA
15 8 (0.59%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 8 (0.59%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
17 6 (0.44%) CompTIA Security+
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 64 (4.71%) SLA
2 63 (4.64%) Data Quality
3 50 (3.68%) QA
4 48 (3.53%) GRC
5 47 (3.46%) GDPR
6 34 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 28 (2.06%) NIST
8 23 (1.69%) PMO
9 22 (1.62%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 12 (0.88%) Accessibility
11 11 (0.81%) PCI DSS
12 10 (0.74%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.52%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.29%) GxP
14 4 (0.29%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.22%) COBIT
15 3 (0.22%) ISO 22301
15 3 (0.22%) NCSC
15 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.22%) WCAG
System Software
1 174 (12.81%) Active Directory
2 35 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.40%) GPFS
3 19 (1.40%) NFS
4 17 (1.25%) vSphere
5 16 (1.18%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (0.88%) Docker
7 9 (0.66%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.37%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.29%) Firmware
10 3 (0.22%) IAG
10 3 (0.22%) RACF
10 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.15%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.074%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.074%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.074%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 51 (3.76%) SCCM
2 45 (3.31%) Terraform
3 36 (2.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (2.36%) Ansible
5 30 (2.21%) OPNET
6 22 (1.62%) Grafana
7 18 (1.33%) Kubernetes
8 17 (1.25%) Prometheus
9 16 (1.18%) vRealize
10 13 (0.96%) RSA Archer
11 12 (0.88%) Single Sign-On
12 10 (0.74%) Jamf Pro
13 7 (0.52%) CASB
13 7 (0.52%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.37%) QRadar
14 5 (0.37%) Rancher
14 5 (0.37%) Salt
15 4 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.29%) Pingdom
Vendors
1 235 (17.30%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.85%) Remedy
3 84 (6.19%) Cisco
4 65 (4.79%) SAP
5 50 (3.68%) Oracle
6 41 (3.02%) VMware
7 40 (2.95%) Salesforce
7 40 (2.95%) Splunk
8 39 (2.87%) Atlassian
9 35 (2.58%) Workday
10 34 (2.50%) IBM
11 23 (1.69%) Apple
11 23 (1.69%) CyberArk
12 22 (1.62%) Zscaler
13 21 (1.55%) Fortinet
13 21 (1.55%) Google
14 20 (1.47%) Palo Alto
15 18 (1.33%) BMC
16 17 (1.25%) Bomgar
16 17 (1.25%) Snow