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 24 July 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
24 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 65 79
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 +13
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,705 1,020 955
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.79% 3.73% 2.73%
As % of the Vendors category 9.24% 7.87% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,121 631 565
10th Percentile £218 £219 £205
25th Percentile £400 £325 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £584 £576
90th Percentile £675 £675 £656
UK median daily rate £501 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.47% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 84 100
10th Percentile £17.72 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.44 £16.06
Median hourly rate £26.33 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +39.90% +15.46% -24.33%
75th Percentile £82.81 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £88.23 £63.28 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £17.45 £16.30
% change year-on-year +49.04% +7.02% -20.80%

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 18,443 12,960 15,118
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.03% 47.36% 43.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,674 8,202 9,702
10th Percentile £313 £280 £281
25th Percentile £413 £402 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £520
Median % change year-on-year - -1.92% -0.95%
75th Percentile £610 £623 £625
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 962 617 868
10th Percentile £16.50 £14.75 £13.29
25th Percentile £20.31 £17.50 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.81 £25.15 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +42.39% -6.85% -29.92%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.50 £61.30
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.11 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £35.22 £25.15 £26.97
% change year-on-year +40.04% -6.75% -35.01%

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 24 July 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 24 July 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 24 July 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 +17 745 £525 +3.19% 132
South East +17 338 £525 +30.43% 69
North of England -9 315 £475 +0.51% 73
North West -4 189 £400 -21.57% 57
Midlands +9 165 £425 -10.53% 32
West Midlands -9 125 £450 -5.26% 27
Yorkshire -15 115 £518 +29.48% 14
East of England -33 56 £525 +16.67% 15
South West -53 48 £353 +15.74% 17
East Midlands +11 34 £350 -15.15% 5
North East -24 18 £488 +50.00% 4
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 98 (5.75%) SharePoint
2 91 (5.34%) Confluence
3 40 (2.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.53%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.41%) Apache
5 7 (0.41%) nginx
6 3 (0.18%) CMS
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.12%) IIS
7 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.12%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.12%) SAS
7 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.059%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 1 (0.059%) Appian
8 1 (0.059%) Drupal
8 1 (0.059%) Mendix
8 1 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.059%) Tomcat
Applications
1 75 (4.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 72 (4.22%) Microsoft Office
3 33 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 28 (1.64%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (0.94%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.59%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.47%) Revit
8 7 (0.41%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.18%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.059%) Camtasia
11 1 (0.059%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 68 (3.99%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (0.70%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.35%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.18%) Maximo
6 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.12%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.12%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.12%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.12%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.12%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.12%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.059%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 360 (21.11%) Azure
2 236 (13.84%) AWS
3 205 (12.02%) Microsoft 365
4 136 (7.98%) Entra ID
5 121 (7.10%) Power Platform
6 92 (5.40%) SaaS
7 61 (3.58%) Azure DevOps
8 48 (2.82%) GCP
9 34 (1.99%) OneDrive
10 26 (1.52%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 25 (1.47%) Amazon EC2
11 25 (1.47%) Datadog
11 25 (1.47%) GitHub
12 24 (1.41%) Amazon S3
12 24 (1.41%) Azure Monitor
13 22 (1.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 21 (1.23%) Microsoft Copilot
15 18 (1.06%) Power Automate
15 18 (1.06%) Serverless
16 15 (0.88%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 82 (4.81%) DNS
2 77 (4.52%) DHCP
3 63 (3.70%) Firewall
4 53 (3.11%) VPN
5 49 (2.87%) TCP/IP
6 39 (2.29%) Wireless
7 30 (1.76%) Network Security
8 24 (1.41%) WAN
8 24 (1.41%) Wi-Fi
9 23 (1.35%) LAN
10 22 (1.29%) SSL
11 20 (1.17%) SAN
11 20 (1.17%) VLAN
12 19 (1.11%) NAS
13 15 (0.88%) Cisco IOS
13 15 (0.88%) NX-OS
13 15 (0.88%) Structured Cabling
14 14 (0.82%) SSH
15 13 (0.76%) Internet
16 12 (0.70%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 95 (5.57%) Power BI
2 51 (2.99%) SQL Server
3 30 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (1.58%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (1.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (0.76%) Data Warehouse
7 12 (0.70%) MySQL
8 11 (0.65%) Power Query
9 8 (0.47%) Amazon Aurora
9 8 (0.47%) Metadata
10 6 (0.35%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.35%) Tableau
11 5 (0.29%) Redis
12 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.23%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.23%) PowerPivot
13 3 (0.18%) Pentaho
Development Applications
1 267 (15.66%) JIRA
2 79 (4.63%) Git
3 22 (1.29%) Jenkins
4 18 (1.06%) GitLab
5 5 (0.29%) Bitbucket
6 4 (0.23%) Flyway
7 3 (0.18%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 3 (0.18%) Selenium
8 2 (0.12%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.12%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.12%) Cucumber
8 2 (0.12%) JUnit
8 2 (0.12%) Postman
8 2 (0.12%) REST Assured
8 2 (0.12%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.059%) Chocolatey
9 1 (0.059%) Serenity BDD
9 1 (0.059%) SonarQube
9 1 (0.059%) TestRail
General
1 549 (32.20%) Social Skills
2 314 (18.42%) Finance
3 228 (13.37%) Analytical Skills
4 131 (7.68%) Public Sector
5 93 (5.45%) Banking
6 75 (4.40%) Telecoms
7 58 (3.40%) Organisational Skills
8 52 (3.05%) Legal
9 48 (2.82%) Documentation Skills
10 31 (1.82%) Military
11 24 (1.41%) Influencing Skills
12 23 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (1.17%) Manufacturing
14 18 (1.06%) French Language
14 18 (1.06%) Police
14 18 (1.06%) Presentation Skills
15 17 (1.00%) Retail
16 15 (0.88%) Spanish Language
17 14 (0.82%) Italian Language
17 14 (0.82%) Law
Job Titles
1 250 (14.66%) Architect
2 231 (13.55%) Analyst
3 173 (10.15%) Developer
4 158 (9.27%) ServiceNow Architect
5 149 (8.74%) ServiceNow Developer
6 117 (6.86%) Senior
7 97 (5.69%) Consultant
8 96 (5.63%) Support Engineer
9 90 (5.28%) IT Support
10 89 (5.22%) Lead
11 70 (4.11%) Service Analyst
12 68 (3.99%) Business Analyst
13 66 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
14 64 (3.75%) IT Engineer
14 64 (3.75%) ServiceNow Consultant
15 59 (3.46%) Project Manager
16 57 (3.34%) IT Support Engineer
17 43 (2.52%) Technical Architect
18 42 (2.46%) Delivery Manager
19 41 (2.40%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 193 (11.32%) REST
2 115 (6.74%) SOAP
3 35 (2.05%) JSON
4 34 (1.99%) SailPoint
5 33 (1.94%) HTML
5 33 (1.94%) OAuth
6 31 (1.82%) CSS
7 30 (1.76%) Middleware
8 29 (1.70%) Web Services
9 28 (1.64%) LDAP
9 28 (1.64%) XML
10 21 (1.23%) AngularJS
11 19 (1.11%) .NET
12 17 (1.00%) SAML
13 15 (0.88%) Ajax
13 15 (0.88%) OpenID
14 12 (0.70%) Flash
15 11 (0.65%) JDBC
15 11 (0.65%) Microsoft Graph
15 11 (0.65%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 249 (14.60%) CMDB
2 145 (8.50%) Onboarding
3 68 (3.99%) Product Ownership
4 49 (2.87%) Data Centre
5 46 (2.70%) Enterprise Software
6 42 (2.46%) Management Information System
7 40 (2.35%) Cloud Native
8 32 (1.88%) Replication
9 29 (1.70%) Security Posture
10 25 (1.47%) PKI
10 25 (1.47%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.29%) Linux Command Line
12 21 (1.23%) Clustering
13 20 (1.17%) AI Agents
14 19 (1.11%) Video Conferencing
15 18 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
15 18 (1.06%) Data Protection Act
16 17 (1.00%) Data Structures
17 15 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
17 15 (0.88%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 281 (16.48%) Windows
2 100 (5.87%) Windows 10
3 93 (5.45%) Linux
4 46 (2.70%) Mac OS
4 46 (2.70%) Windows Server
5 34 (1.99%) Apple iOS
6 25 (1.47%) Unix
7 24 (1.41%) Android
8 18 (1.06%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.53%) Windows 7
10 5 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.23%) VMS
12 3 (0.18%) Check Point GAiA
12 3 (0.18%) zOS
13 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.059%) MVS
14 1 (0.059%) SUSE
14 1 (0.059%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 649 (38.06%) ITSM
2 527 (30.91%) ITIL
3 348 (20.41%) Service Management
4 333 (19.53%) Agile
5 310 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 300 (17.60%) Stakeholder Management
7 262 (15.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 203 (11.91%) Change Management
9 198 (11.61%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 188 (11.03%) AI
11 187 (10.97%) Customer Service
11 187 (10.97%) DevOps
12 174 (10.21%) Service Delivery
13 152 (8.91%) Roadmaps
14 150 (8.80%) Migration
15 149 (8.74%) Workflow
16 132 (7.74%) Incident Management
17 128 (7.51%) Data Modelling
18 121 (7.10%) CI/CD
19 120 (7.04%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 123 (7.21%) PowerShell
1 123 (7.21%) SQL
2 118 (6.92%) JavaScript
3 104 (6.10%) Python
4 52 (3.05%) Java
5 33 (1.94%) C#
6 19 (1.11%) Bash
7 11 (0.65%) VBScript
8 10 (0.59%) Groovy
8 10 (0.59%) T-SQL
9 9 (0.53%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.47%) TypeScript
10 8 (0.47%) VB
11 7 (0.41%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.29%) Perl
12 5 (0.29%) Shell Script
13 4 (0.23%) BeanShell
13 4 (0.23%) Bicep
14 3 (0.18%) C++
14 3 (0.18%) JCL
Qualifications
1 479 (28.09%) Security Cleared
2 339 (19.88%) SC Cleared
3 130 (7.62%) Degree
4 101 (5.92%) DV Cleared
5 46 (2.70%) PMP
6 43 (2.52%) ITIL Certification
7 38 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
7 38 (2.23%) PMI Certification
8 35 (2.05%) BPSS Clearance
9 33 (1.94%) CISSP
10 28 (1.64%) CCNP
11 26 (1.52%) CISM
11 26 (1.52%) Microsoft Certification
12 20 (1.17%) CCNA
13 18 (1.06%) Network+ Certification
14 16 (0.94%) Azure Certification
14 16 (0.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 15 (0.88%) A+ Certification
15 15 (0.88%) Server+ Certification
16 14 (0.82%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 90 (5.28%) SLA
2 74 (4.34%) Data Quality
3 55 (3.23%) GRC
4 47 (2.76%) QA
5 44 (2.58%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 38 (2.23%) NIST
7 34 (1.99%) GDPR
8 32 (1.88%) PMO
9 17 (1.00%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (0.76%) COBIT
10 13 (0.76%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.70%) ISO 9001
11 12 (0.70%) NCSC
12 11 (0.65%) Accessibility
13 8 (0.47%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 7 (0.41%) GxP
15 6 (0.35%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.29%) PCI DSS
17 4 (0.23%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
18 3 (0.18%) NIST 800
System Software
1 217 (12.73%) Active Directory
2 31 (1.82%) VMware Infrastructure
3 23 (1.35%) Docker
4 19 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
5 16 (0.94%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (0.82%) IAG
7 13 (0.76%) NFS
7 13 (0.76%) vSphere
8 12 (0.70%) GPFS
9 10 (0.59%) BitLocker
10 7 (0.41%) Firmware
10 7 (0.41%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.23%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.18%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 2 (0.12%) RACF
13 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.12%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 68 (3.99%) Terraform
2 66 (3.87%) Microsoft Intune
3 55 (3.23%) SCCM
4 42 (2.46%) Ansible
5 30 (1.76%) Grafana
6 29 (1.70%) Kubernetes
7 25 (1.47%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.23%) Prometheus
9 19 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
10 12 (0.70%) SCOM
10 12 (0.70%) WMI
11 10 (0.59%) vRealize
12 8 (0.47%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.41%) CASB
13 7 (0.41%) vCenter Server
14 6 (0.35%) VxRail
15 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.23%) Packer
15 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
15 4 (0.23%) QRadar
Vendors
1 394 (23.11%) Microsoft
2 87 (5.10%) Cisco
3 78 (4.57%) Remedy
4 70 (4.11%) SAP
5 68 (3.99%) Splunk
6 58 (3.40%) Oracle
7 46 (2.70%) Salesforce
8 42 (2.46%) VMware
9 38 (2.23%) CyberArk
10 31 (1.82%) BMC
10 31 (1.82%) Workday
11 29 (1.70%) Apple
12 28 (1.64%) Fortinet
13 27 (1.58%) Dynatrace
14 25 (1.47%) Palo Alto
15 21 (1.23%) SolarWinds
16 20 (1.17%) CrowdStrike
16 20 (1.17%) Snow
17 19 (1.11%) F5
17 19 (1.11%) Qualys