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 7 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
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 71 66
Rank change year-on-year 0 -5 +73
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,071 957 1,262
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.60% 3.06% 3.18%
As % of the Vendors category 7.54% 6.80% 7.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 697 533 839
10th Percentile £204 £220 £168
25th Percentile £306 £360 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £573 £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 74 17 49
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.69 £15.67
25th Percentile £15.58 £16.23 £16.70
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.46 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +7.30% +26.70%
75th Percentile £28.41 £24.18 £36.00
90th Percentile £63.40 £28.75 £63.73
UK median hourly rate £18.41 £22.09 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.66% +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 14,196 14,066 17,742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.73% 45.00% 44.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,115 8,458 11,736
10th Percentile £283 £300 £256
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £506 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.62% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £615 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £729
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 697 435 619
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.24
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £20.13
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -21.35% +73.08%
75th Percentile £43.20 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £72.00 £74.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £32.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -21.88% -27.04% +75.44%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 -32 406 £500 -2.06% 449
North of England +7 224 £500 - 106
South East +27 146 £400 -12.57% 389
North West +8 131 £488 - 70
Midlands +6 129 £475 +5.56% 88
West Midlands +2 108 £475 - 62
East of England +31 87 £512 -2.48% 56
Yorkshire -14 84 £507 -5.67% 26
South West +35 68 £335 -33.00% 29
East Midlands -14 21 £438 +4.79% 22
North East -6 9 £350 +133.33% 11
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 68 (6.35%) Confluence
2 58 (5.42%) SharePoint
3 37 (3.45%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.12%) nginx
5 10 (0.93%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.56%) 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%) IIS
8 3 (0.28%) OpenStack
8 3 (0.28%) SAS
9 2 (0.19%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.19%) JBoss
10 1 (0.093%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.093%) BizTalk Server
10 1 (0.093%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.093%) Tuxedo
10 1 (0.093%) WebLogic
Applications
1 70 (6.54%) Microsoft Excel
2 62 (5.79%) Microsoft Office
3 32 (2.99%) MS Visio
4 23 (2.15%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 20 (1.87%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (1.12%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 4 (0.37%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (0.37%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.28%) Trello
9 2 (0.19%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.093%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 47 (4.39%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.84%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (0.84%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.65%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 7 (0.65%) SAP MM
6 5 (0.47%) Workday HCM
7 4 (0.37%) assyst
8 2 (0.19%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 2 (0.19%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.19%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
9 1 (0.093%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.093%) Oracle HRMS
9 1 (0.093%) SAP GRC
9 1 (0.093%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 183 (17.09%) Azure
2 173 (16.15%) Microsoft 365
3 129 (12.04%) AWS
4 66 (6.16%) Entra ID
5 65 (6.07%) SaaS
6 54 (5.04%) Power Platform
7 51 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (2.80%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 30 (2.80%) Amazon S3
8 30 (2.80%) OneDrive
9 28 (2.61%) Amazon EC2
10 25 (2.33%) Amazon ELB
10 25 (2.33%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 24 (2.24%) AWS KMS
12 21 (1.96%) GCP
13 19 (1.77%) Amazon ECS
14 18 (1.68%) Google Workspace
14 18 (1.68%) Power Automate
14 18 (1.68%) Sauce Labs
15 17 (1.59%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 80 (7.47%) DNS
2 54 (5.04%) Firewall
3 37 (3.45%) VPN
4 36 (3.36%) Wireless
5 35 (3.27%) DHCP
5 35 (3.27%) Wi-Fi
6 32 (2.99%) HTTP
7 25 (2.33%) SMTP
8 24 (2.24%) SSH
9 23 (2.15%) LAN
9 23 (2.15%) WAN
10 22 (2.05%) FTP
11 19 (1.77%) TCP/IP
12 18 (1.68%) SSL
13 14 (1.31%) BGP
13 14 (1.31%) Cisco ISE
14 12 (1.12%) IMAP
14 12 (1.12%) Network Security
14 12 (1.12%) OpenLDAP
15 10 (0.93%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (3.45%) Power BI
2 34 (3.17%) Relational Database
3 31 (2.89%) Amazon RDS
4 22 (2.05%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (1.87%) MySQL
6 15 (1.40%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (1.21%) Tableau
8 11 (1.03%) Metadata
9 8 (0.75%) DynamoDB
9 8 (0.75%) Oracle ODI
9 8 (0.75%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.37%) DB2
10 4 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
10 4 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.28%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.28%) RDBMS
11 3 (0.28%) Redis
12 2 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 208 (19.42%) JIRA
2 48 (4.48%) Git
3 37 (3.45%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.24%) Vagrant
5 19 (1.77%) Browser DevTools
6 18 (1.68%) Android Studio
6 18 (1.68%) Eclipse
6 18 (1.68%) Xcode
7 10 (0.93%) GitLab
8 7 (0.65%) JUnit
9 5 (0.47%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.47%) Maven
9 5 (0.47%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.37%) Metasploit
11 3 (0.28%) AdminStudio
11 3 (0.28%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.19%) Snyk
12 2 (0.19%) sqlmap
13 1 (0.093%) Postman
13 1 (0.093%) ScriptRunner
General
1 448 (41.83%) Social Skills
2 223 (20.82%) Finance
3 167 (15.59%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (9.99%) Public Sector
5 36 (3.36%) Banking
6 32 (2.99%) Documentation Skills
7 31 (2.89%) Telecoms
8 28 (2.61%) Legal
8 28 (2.61%) Organisational Skills
9 27 (2.52%) Presentation Skills
10 20 (1.87%) Manufacturing
11 19 (1.77%) Influencing Skills
12 16 (1.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.12%) Aerospace
14 10 (0.93%) Marketing
14 10 (0.93%) Military
15 9 (0.84%) Law
15 9 (0.84%) Pharmaceutical
16 8 (0.75%) Retail
17 7 (0.65%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 164 (15.31%) Analyst
2 115 (10.74%) Architect
3 109 (10.18%) Developer
4 104 (9.71%) Support Engineer
5 83 (7.75%) ServiceNow Developer
6 77 (7.19%) IT Support
7 75 (7.00%) Consultant
8 62 (5.79%) ServiceNow Architect
9 49 (4.58%) Senior
10 41 (3.83%) Lead
11 40 (3.73%) Business Analyst
12 38 (3.55%) IT Engineer
13 36 (3.36%) Service Analyst
14 32 (2.99%) Desktop Support
14 32 (2.99%) DevOps Engineer
14 32 (2.99%) ServiceNow Consultant
15 31 (2.89%) IT Support Engineer
15 31 (2.89%) Solutions Architect
16 29 (2.71%) Service Manager
16 29 (2.71%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 88 (8.22%) REST
2 78 (7.28%) SOAP
3 62 (5.79%) AngularJS
4 38 (3.55%) React
5 35 (3.27%) CSS
5 35 (3.27%) LDAP
6 32 (2.99%) Web Services
7 28 (2.61%) HTML
7 28 (2.61%) JSON
8 21 (1.96%) Ajax
9 19 (1.77%) .NET
9 19 (1.77%) GraphQL
10 18 (1.68%) SAML
11 16 (1.49%) XML
12 15 (1.40%) SailPoint
13 14 (1.31%) HTML5
13 14 (1.31%) jQuery
13 14 (1.31%) ODBC
14 13 (1.21%) JDBC
14 13 (1.21%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 107 (9.99%) CMDB
2 42 (3.92%) Onboarding
3 35 (3.27%) Replication
4 33 (3.08%) Data Centre
5 26 (2.43%) Enterprise Software
6 25 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 24 (2.24%) Management Information System
7 24 (2.24%) Mobile App
8 21 (1.96%) Driving Licence
8 21 (1.96%) iPhone
9 17 (1.59%) Security Posture
9 17 (1.59%) Video Conferencing
10 16 (1.49%) Smartphone
11 15 (1.40%) Analytical Mindset
11 15 (1.40%) iPad
11 15 (1.40%) Product Ownership
12 13 (1.21%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.12%) Linux Command Line
14 11 (1.03%) Cloud Native
14 11 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 246 (22.97%) Windows
2 81 (7.56%) Windows 10
3 75 (7.00%) Linux
4 42 (3.92%) Mac OS
5 36 (3.36%) Android
6 34 (3.17%) Apple iOS
7 29 (2.71%) Unix
8 26 (2.43%) VMS
9 24 (2.24%) Amazon Linux
10 14 (1.31%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.65%) Windows Server
12 5 (0.47%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.37%) CentOS
13 4 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 3 (0.28%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.093%) Kali Linux
15 1 (0.093%) Mac OS X
15 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.093%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 376 (35.11%) ITSM
2 263 (24.56%) ITIL
3 230 (21.48%) Agile
4 224 (20.92%) Problem-Solving
5 196 (18.30%) Service Management
6 143 (13.35%) Customer Service
7 142 (13.26%) DevOps
8 134 (12.51%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 134 (12.51%) Stakeholder Management
9 111 (10.36%) Change Management
10 87 (8.12%) Scrum
11 84 (7.84%) Service Delivery
12 78 (7.28%) CI/CD
13 76 (7.10%) Continuous Improvement
14 67 (6.26%) Configuration Management
14 67 (6.26%) Project Management
15 65 (6.07%) Analytics
15 65 (6.07%) Migration
15 65 (6.07%) Roadmaps
16 64 (5.98%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 131 (12.23%) Python
2 100 (9.34%) JavaScript
3 86 (8.03%) PowerShell
4 68 (6.35%) Java
5 54 (5.04%) SQL
6 41 (3.83%) Perl
7 27 (2.52%) Groovy
8 23 (2.15%) Bash
9 21 (1.96%) TypeScript
10 16 (1.49%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.65%) ABAP
11 7 (0.65%) Lisp
12 5 (0.47%) Kusto Query Language
12 5 (0.47%) VB
12 5 (0.47%) VBScript
13 4 (0.37%) C#
13 4 (0.37%) Go
14 3 (0.28%) Bicep
14 3 (0.28%) C
14 3 (0.28%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 273 (25.49%) Security Cleared
2 227 (21.20%) SC Cleared
3 109 (10.18%) Degree
4 24 (2.24%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (2.15%) Microsoft Certification
6 22 (2.05%) CISSP
6 22 (2.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 22 (2.05%) ITIL Certification
7 15 (1.40%) A+ Certification
7 15 (1.40%) AWS Certification
7 15 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
7 15 (1.40%) CISM
8 14 (1.31%) ACSP
8 14 (1.31%) ACTC
8 14 (1.31%) CCNP
9 13 (1.21%) CISA
10 12 (1.12%) Azure Certification
10 12 (1.12%) DV Cleared
11 11 (1.03%) CCNA
12 9 (0.84%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (4.67%) GDPR
2 47 (4.39%) QA
3 43 (4.01%) SLA
4 28 (2.61%) GRC
5 26 (2.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 24 (2.24%) NIST
7 23 (2.15%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 17 (1.59%) COBIT
9 14 (1.31%) Accessibility
10 13 (1.21%) PCI DSS
11 11 (1.03%) PMO
12 10 (0.93%) Data Quality
13 8 (0.75%) ISO/IEC 19770
13 8 (0.75%) NIST 800
14 7 (0.65%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 6 (0.56%) HIPAA
16 4 (0.37%) California Consumer Privacy Act
17 3 (0.28%) Actionable Recommendations
17 3 (0.28%) WCAG
18 2 (0.19%) GAAP
System Software
1 166 (15.50%) Active Directory
2 39 (3.64%) Docker
3 22 (2.05%) DFS Replication
4 12 (1.12%) Dovecot
4 12 (1.12%) Postfix
4 12 (1.12%) Squid
4 12 (1.12%) VMware ESXi
4 12 (1.12%) VMware Infrastructure
5 10 (0.93%) vSphere
6 9 (0.84%) GPFS
6 9 (0.84%) NFS
7 7 (0.65%) BitLocker
8 6 (0.56%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.37%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.28%) Firmware
11 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.093%) RACF
12 1 (0.093%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 48 (4.48%) SCCM
2 46 (4.30%) Terraform
3 37 (3.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (2.99%) Ansible
5 31 (2.89%) Grafana
5 31 (2.89%) Jamf Pro
6 28 (2.61%) Prometheus
7 27 (2.52%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (1.59%) Nessus
9 16 (1.49%) RSA Archer
10 10 (0.93%) Proxmox
11 9 (0.84%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.84%) vRealize
12 8 (0.75%) Kubernetes
13 5 (0.47%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 3 (0.28%) Nmap
14 3 (0.28%) Rancher
14 3 (0.28%) SCOM
14 3 (0.28%) vCenter Server
15 2 (0.19%) QRadar
Vendors
1 296 (27.64%) Microsoft
2 70 (6.54%) Remedy
3 65 (6.07%) Oracle
4 57 (5.32%) Cisco
5 56 (5.23%) SAP
6 44 (4.11%) Splunk
7 36 (3.36%) Salesforce
8 31 (2.89%) Apple
9 30 (2.80%) Workday
10 24 (2.24%) Google
11 21 (1.96%) BMC
11 21 (1.96%) IBM
11 21 (1.96%) Snow
12 20 (1.87%) VMware
13 19 (1.77%) HP
14 18 (1.68%) Citrix
15 15 (1.40%) MobileIron
15 15 (1.40%) Nexthink
16 14 (1.31%) CheckPoint
16 14 (1.31%) Rapid7