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 March 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 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 61 70
Rank change year-on-year -1 +9 +41
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,285 891 1,086
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.61% 3.56% 2.87%
As % of the Vendors category 8.07% 7.63% 6.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 881 512 654
10th Percentile £204 £204 £163
25th Percentile £358 £358 £300
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% - -3.85%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £600
90th Percentile £688 £700 £702
UK median daily rate £488 £491 £500
% change year-on-year -0.76% -1.75% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 26 87
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.33
25th Percentile £16.01 £16.06 £16.06
Median hourly rate £19.25 £21.46 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year -10.30% +31.66% -6.86%
75th Percentile £27.85 £23.14 £21.46
90th Percentile £95.00 £29.50 £30.25
UK median hourly rate £19.25 £22.30 £16.30
% change year-on-year -13.66% +36.78% -5.51%

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 15,931 11,677 16,301
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 44.76% 46.67% 43.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,393 7,296 10,445
10th Percentile £305 £288 £250
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £525 £515
Median % change year-on-year -3.43% +1.94% -4.19%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £631
90th Percentile £703 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £514
% change year-on-year -3.85% +1.17% -2.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 835 368 911
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.62 £12.81
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £14.87
Median hourly rate £24.00 £31.42 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year -23.62% +23.23% -27.14%
75th Percentile £58.75 £65.15 £53.81
90th Percentile £74.26 £85.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £24.28 £30.00 £25.25
% change year-on-year -19.08% +18.81% -27.86%

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 March 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 March 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 March 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 -22 539 £500 -4.76% 112
North of England -3 218 £500 +25.00% 54
South East +41 203 £445 +2.89% 97
Midlands -1 178 £450 -14.29% 38
West Midlands -4 136 £468 -14.99% 22
North West -12 122 £453 +13.25% 32
Yorkshire -3 89 £535 +25.88% 17
East of England -10 69 £525 +5.00% 30
South West +11 61 £725 +222.22% 17
East Midlands -4 39 £413 +15.87% 16
North East -15 7 £176 -41.33% 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 74 (5.76%) Confluence
2 73 (5.68%) SharePoint
3 54 (4.20%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.70%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.54%) Apache
6 6 (0.47%) Appian
6 6 (0.47%) Camunda
7 4 (0.31%) Apache Spark
7 4 (0.31%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.23%) CICS
8 3 (0.23%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.23%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.23%) SAS
9 2 (0.16%) CMS
10 1 (0.078%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.078%) JBoss
10 1 (0.078%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.078%) nginx
10 1 (0.078%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.078%) WebSphere
Applications
1 74 (5.76%) Microsoft Office
2 60 (4.67%) Microsoft Excel
3 57 (4.44%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.63%) MS Visio
5 17 (1.32%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 7 (0.54%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.31%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (0.31%) Trello
8 2 (0.16%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.078%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.078%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.078%) Mozilla Thunderbird
Business Applications
1 38 (2.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 15 (1.17%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.70%) OpenText VIM for SAP
3 9 (0.70%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.54%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.47%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.23%) Maximo
6 3 (0.23%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.16%) Dynamics CRM
7 2 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
7 2 (0.16%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 2 (0.16%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.16%) SAP FI/CO
7 2 (0.16%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.078%) Oracle Payables
8 1 (0.078%) Oracle Receivables
8 1 (0.078%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
8 1 (0.078%) SAP Business One
8 1 (0.078%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.078%) SAP LE
Cloud Services
1 262 (20.39%) Azure
2 182 (14.16%) Microsoft 365
3 155 (12.06%) AWS
4 96 (7.47%) Entra ID
5 74 (5.76%) Power Platform
6 69 (5.37%) GCP
7 62 (4.82%) Azure DevOps
8 60 (4.67%) SaaS
9 32 (2.49%) OneDrive
10 19 (1.48%) GitHub
11 16 (1.25%) Power Automate
12 14 (1.09%) Amazon S3
12 14 (1.09%) Azure Logic Apps
13 13 (1.01%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 13 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
14 12 (0.93%) AWS KMS
14 12 (0.93%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (0.86%) Amazon ELB
15 11 (0.86%) Serverless
16 10 (0.78%) Azure Monitor
Communications & Networking
1 69 (5.37%) DNS
2 53 (4.12%) VPN
3 47 (3.66%) DHCP
4 41 (3.19%) Firewall
4 41 (3.19%) Wireless
5 35 (2.72%) Wi-Fi
6 30 (2.33%) LAN
7 29 (2.26%) WAN
8 24 (1.87%) Network Security
9 20 (1.56%) TCP/IP
10 15 (1.17%) VLAN
11 12 (0.93%) BGP
12 11 (0.86%) NX-OS
13 10 (0.78%) FTP
13 10 (0.78%) Internet
13 10 (0.78%) SD-WAN
14 9 (0.70%) 4G
14 9 (0.70%) Cisco ISE
14 9 (0.70%) Cisco Wireless
14 9 (0.70%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 55 (4.28%) Power BI
2 28 (2.18%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.63%) Metadata
4 17 (1.32%) Tableau
5 16 (1.25%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (1.25%) MySQL
6 15 (1.17%) Relational Database
7 13 (1.01%) Data Warehouse
8 12 (0.93%) SQL Server Integration Services
9 11 (0.86%) PostgreSQL
10 9 (0.70%) MongoDB
11 8 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
12 7 (0.54%) DB2
13 6 (0.47%) Data Lake
13 6 (0.47%) Oracle Reports
14 5 (0.39%) NoSQL
15 4 (0.31%) Amazon Aurora
15 4 (0.31%) Metadata Repository
15 4 (0.31%) Neo4j
16 3 (0.23%) Redis
Development Applications
1 213 (16.58%) JIRA
2 45 (3.50%) Git
3 43 (3.35%) Jenkins
4 30 (2.33%) GitLab
5 17 (1.32%) Selenium
6 14 (1.09%) REST Assured
7 13 (1.01%) Postman
8 12 (0.93%) Cucumber
9 10 (0.78%) Android Studio
9 10 (0.78%) Browser DevTools
9 10 (0.78%) Eclipse
9 10 (0.78%) Xcode
10 8 (0.62%) TestRail
11 5 (0.39%) JMeter
11 5 (0.39%) LoadRunner
12 4 (0.31%) Gatling
12 4 (0.31%) JUnit
12 4 (0.31%) Metasploit
12 4 (0.31%) NeoLoad
13 3 (0.23%) CircleCI
General
1 456 (35.49%) Social Skills
2 267 (20.78%) Finance
3 190 (14.79%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (8.48%) Public Sector
5 67 (5.21%) Banking
6 58 (4.51%) Military
7 48 (3.74%) Documentation Skills
8 46 (3.58%) Legal
9 44 (3.42%) Telecoms
10 42 (3.27%) Organisational Skills
11 25 (1.95%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.40%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 15 (1.17%) Law
15 14 (1.09%) Aerospace
15 14 (1.09%) Billing
16 13 (1.01%) Retail
17 11 (0.86%) Financial Institution
18 10 (0.78%) Manufacturing
19 8 (0.62%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 219 (17.04%) Architect
2 186 (14.47%) Analyst
3 123 (9.57%) ServiceNow Architect
4 102 (7.94%) Developer
5 96 (7.47%) Support Engineer
6 87 (6.77%) IT Support
7 85 (6.61%) ServiceNow Developer
8 68 (5.29%) Lead
9 67 (5.21%) Consultant
10 54 (4.20%) IT Engineer
11 53 (4.12%) Senior
12 51 (3.97%) ServiceNow Manager
13 47 (3.66%) Business Analyst
14 46 (3.58%) IT Support Engineer
15 45 (3.50%) Project Manager
16 42 (3.27%) Service Analyst
17 37 (2.88%) Technical Architect
18 34 (2.65%) Administrator
18 34 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
19 32 (2.49%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 129 (10.04%) REST
2 89 (6.93%) SOAP
3 36 (2.80%) SailPoint
4 31 (2.41%) CSS
5 24 (1.87%) AngularJS
6 23 (1.79%) LDAP
7 20 (1.56%) OpenID
8 19 (1.48%) JSON
9 18 (1.40%) Flash
10 17 (1.32%) HTML
11 15 (1.17%) Ajax
11 15 (1.17%) Middleware
12 14 (1.09%) .NET
12 14 (1.09%) OAuth
13 13 (1.01%) XML
14 12 (0.93%) React
15 11 (0.86%) GraphQL
15 11 (0.86%) Web Services
16 10 (0.78%) ADO
16 10 (0.78%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 154 (11.98%) CMDB
2 91 (7.08%) Onboarding
3 73 (5.68%) Product Ownership
4 40 (3.11%) Data Centre
5 33 (2.57%) Management Information System
6 27 (2.10%) Replication
7 25 (1.95%) Self-Motivation
8 22 (1.71%) Cloud Native
8 22 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
9 20 (1.56%) Security Posture
10 18 (1.40%) Data Protection Act
10 18 (1.40%) Linux Command Line
10 18 (1.40%) Video Conferencing
11 15 (1.17%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.09%) Smartphone
13 13 (1.01%) Virtual Team
14 12 (0.93%) Public Cloud
15 11 (0.86%) Driving Licence
15 11 (0.86%) Mobile App
16 9 (0.70%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 234 (18.21%) Windows
2 109 (8.48%) Windows 10
3 63 (4.90%) Linux
4 33 (2.57%) Android
4 33 (2.57%) Mac OS
5 31 (2.41%) Unix
6 25 (1.95%) Windows Server
7 17 (1.32%) Apple iOS
8 9 (0.70%) Windows 7
9 5 (0.39%) Windows Server 2016
9 5 (0.39%) zOS
10 3 (0.23%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 3 (0.23%) VMS
11 2 (0.16%) Amazon Linux
11 2 (0.16%) Ubuntu
12 1 (0.078%) Data ONTAP
12 1 (0.078%) Kali Linux
12 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2012
12 1 (0.078%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 440 (34.24%) ITSM
2 326 (25.37%) ITIL
3 308 (23.97%) Agile
4 234 (18.21%) Service Management
5 210 (16.34%) Problem-Solving
6 193 (15.02%) Stakeholder Management
7 156 (12.14%) Continuous Improvement
8 149 (11.60%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 144 (11.21%) DevOps
10 143 (11.13%) Change Management
11 133 (10.35%) Customer Service
12 109 (8.48%) CI/CD
13 105 (8.17%) Service Delivery
14 104 (8.09%) Migration
15 100 (7.78%) Data Modelling
16 94 (7.32%) Project Management
17 91 (7.08%) Roadmaps
18 89 (6.93%) User Acceptance Testing
19 85 (6.61%) Asset Management
19 85 (6.61%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 99 (7.70%) JavaScript
2 96 (7.47%) SQL
3 95 (7.39%) Python
4 68 (5.29%) PowerShell
5 65 (5.06%) Java
6 20 (1.56%) Perl
7 16 (1.25%) C#
8 13 (1.01%) Bash
9 11 (0.86%) PL/SQL
9 11 (0.86%) TypeScript
9 11 (0.86%) VB
10 10 (0.78%) Shell Script
11 9 (0.70%) VBScript
12 8 (0.62%) ABAP
13 7 (0.54%) Go
13 7 (0.54%) Kusto Query Language
13 7 (0.54%) Lisp
14 6 (0.47%) Groovy
15 5 (0.39%) BeanShell
15 5 (0.39%) REXX
Qualifications
1 363 (28.25%) Security Cleared
2 277 (21.56%) SC Cleared
3 115 (8.95%) Degree
4 40 (3.11%) DV Cleared
5 31 (2.41%) TOGAF Certification
6 27 (2.10%) Cisco Certification
7 26 (2.02%) ITIL Certification
8 23 (1.79%) PMP
9 22 (1.71%) CISSP
9 22 (1.71%) PMI Certification
10 20 (1.56%) CCNP
11 18 (1.40%) CISM
12 16 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
13 13 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (0.86%) ISTQB
15 9 (0.70%) BPSS Clearance
16 8 (0.62%) A+ Certification
16 8 (0.62%) CISA
16 8 (0.62%) ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
16 8 (0.62%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 58 (4.51%) QA
2 55 (4.28%) SLA
3 48 (3.74%) Data Quality
4 45 (3.50%) GRC
5 42 (3.27%) GDPR
6 30 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 24 (1.87%) NIST
8 17 (1.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (1.25%) PMO
10 11 (0.86%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.70%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.62%) Cyber Essentials
13 7 (0.54%) COBIT
14 6 (0.47%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 19770
16 3 (0.23%) Actionable Recommendations
16 3 (0.23%) ISO 22301
16 3 (0.23%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
16 3 (0.23%) NCSC
16 3 (0.23%) SOC 2
System Software
1 165 (12.84%) Active Directory
2 31 (2.41%) VMware Infrastructure
3 18 (1.40%) GPFS
3 18 (1.40%) NFS
4 17 (1.32%) Docker
5 16 (1.25%) vSphere
6 15 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
7 10 (0.78%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.39%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 2 (0.16%) DFS Replication
9 2 (0.16%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 2 (0.16%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.16%) XenDesktop
10 1 (0.078%) Dovecot
10 1 (0.078%) Firmware
10 1 (0.078%) Hyper-V
10 1 (0.078%) IAG
10 1 (0.078%) Microsoft Virtual Server
10 1 (0.078%) Postfix
10 1 (0.078%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 63 (4.90%) SCCM
2 41 (3.19%) Microsoft Intune
2 41 (3.19%) Terraform
3 30 (2.33%) OPNET
4 29 (2.26%) Ansible
5 19 (1.48%) Grafana
6 16 (1.25%) Kubernetes
7 15 (1.17%) vRealize
8 12 (0.93%) Prometheus
8 12 (0.93%) RSA Archer
9 11 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
10 10 (0.78%) FortiGate
11 6 (0.47%) Single Sign-On
12 5 (0.39%) Nessus
12 5 (0.39%) Salt
13 4 (0.31%) Pingdom
14 3 (0.23%) Control-M
14 3 (0.23%) HP ALM
14 3 (0.23%) Nmap
14 3 (0.23%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 248 (19.30%) Microsoft
2 92 (7.16%) Remedy
3 75 (5.84%) Cisco
4 69 (5.37%) SAP
5 55 (4.28%) Oracle
6 42 (3.27%) Splunk
7 37 (2.88%) Salesforce
8 36 (2.80%) VMware
9 33 (2.57%) Atlassian
10 32 (2.49%) IBM
11 31 (2.41%) Workday
12 26 (2.02%) Apple
13 20 (1.56%) Fortinet
14 19 (1.48%) Zscaler
15 18 (1.40%) Google
15 18 (1.40%) Palo Alto
15 18 (1.40%) Snow
16 16 (1.25%) BMC
16 16 (1.25%) Citrix
16 16 (1.25%) HP