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 2 October 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
2 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 62 68 79
Rank change year-on-year +6 +11 -7
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,727 1,029 915
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.71% 3.68% 2.82%
As % of the Vendors category 8.94% 7.70% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,086 667 537
10th Percentile £218 £205 £218
25th Percentile £400 £300 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £610 £575 £575
90th Percentile £700 £650 £650
UK median daily rate £515 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +8.42% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 81 32
10th Percentile £16.03 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.63 £15.50 £14.96
Median hourly rate £26.33 £18.82 £17.57
Median % change year-on-year +39.90% +7.14% -7.55%
75th Percentile £63.75 £33.75 £23.29
90th Percentile £87.14 £63.40 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £25.88 £17.67 £18.57
% change year-on-year +46.41% -4.81% -2.29%

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 19,324 13,356 14,476
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.52% 47.72% 44.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,874 8,498 8,684
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.48% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £625 £620 £630
90th Percentile £713 £703 £731
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,218 643 545
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.84 £14.84
25th Percentile £16.72 £17.98 £15.62
Median hourly rate £26.00 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.38% -28.14% -20.16%
75th Percentile £62.38 £43.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £25.28 £25.15 £31.25
% change year-on-year +0.53% -19.52% -26.90%

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 2 October 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 2 October 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 2 October 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 +30 760 £525 +5.00% 524
North of England -10 339 £450 -10.00% 138
South East +14 338 £538 +47.26% 163
North West -2 218 £365 -26.41% 79
Midlands -21 138 £428 -10.00% 88
West Midlands -7 119 £455 -4.32% 62
Yorkshire -25 113 £500 - 49
East of England -37 59 £510 +2.00% 57
South West -51 51 £500 +62.60% 59
East Midlands -17 17 £381 -15.28% 25
North East -35 13 £500 +42.86% 12
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
1 113 (6.54%) SharePoint
2 79 (4.57%) Confluence
3 45 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.93%) Skype for Business
5 11 (0.64%) nginx
6 8 (0.46%) Apache
7 4 (0.23%) CICS
7 4 (0.23%) CMS
7 4 (0.23%) Mendix
8 2 (0.12%) Appian
8 2 (0.12%) SAS
8 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.058%) Drupal
9 1 (0.058%) IIS
9 1 (0.058%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.058%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.058%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.058%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.058%) Tomcat
9 1 (0.058%) WebLogic
Applications
1 76 (4.40%) Microsoft Office
2 75 (4.34%) Microsoft Excel
3 37 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 19 (1.10%) Microsoft Project
4 19 (1.10%) MS Visio
5 11 (0.64%) Chatbot
6 9 (0.52%) AutoCAD
7 7 (0.41%) Revit
8 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
9 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.058%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 1 (0.058%) LaTeX
10 1 (0.058%) Mozilla Thunderbird
10 1 (0.058%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 60 (3.47%) Remedy ITSM
2 18 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.52%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.46%) Oracle ERP
5 7 (0.41%) Workday HCM
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.12%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.12%) Maximo
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.12%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.058%) Actimize
8 1 (0.058%) Loan IQ
8 1 (0.058%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.058%) SAP ERP
8 1 (0.058%) SAP FI
8 1 (0.058%) SAP HCM
Cloud Services
1 362 (20.96%) Azure
2 253 (14.65%) Microsoft 365
3 216 (12.51%) AWS
4 136 (7.87%) Power Platform
5 125 (7.24%) Entra ID
6 95 (5.50%) SaaS
7 63 (3.65%) GCP
8 54 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
9 50 (2.90%) GitHub
10 42 (2.43%) Azure Monitor
11 41 (2.37%) OneDrive
12 34 (1.97%) Microsoft Copilot
13 29 (1.68%) Datadog
14 24 (1.39%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 22 (1.27%) Serverless
16 21 (1.22%) Power Automate
17 20 (1.16%) Amazon EC2
18 18 (1.04%) Amazon S3
18 18 (1.04%) PowerApps
19 17 (0.98%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 84 (4.86%) DNS
2 71 (4.11%) DHCP
3 61 (3.53%) VPN
4 54 (3.13%) Firewall
5 52 (3.01%) TCP/IP
6 28 (1.62%) VLAN
7 27 (1.56%) Wi-Fi
8 23 (1.33%) Network Security
8 23 (1.33%) SSL
8 23 (1.33%) Wireless
9 21 (1.22%) WAN
10 20 (1.16%) NX-OS
11 19 (1.10%) LAN
11 19 (1.10%) SSH
12 18 (1.04%) BGP
13 17 (0.98%) Skype
14 12 (0.69%) VXLAN
15 11 (0.64%) Cisco IOS
15 11 (0.64%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (0.64%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 93 (5.39%) Power BI
2 44 (2.55%) SQL Server
3 29 (1.68%) PostgreSQL
4 20 (1.16%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (0.93%) MySQL
6 15 (0.87%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 13 (0.75%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (0.75%) Metadata
8 7 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
9 6 (0.35%) BigQuery
9 6 (0.35%) Looker
9 6 (0.35%) Power Query
9 6 (0.35%) Redis
10 5 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
11 4 (0.23%) Db2
11 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 3 (0.17%) Amazon Redshift
12 3 (0.17%) MongoDB
12 3 (0.17%) Pentaho
12 3 (0.17%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 215 (12.45%) JIRA
2 71 (4.11%) Git
3 25 (1.45%) Jenkins
4 24 (1.39%) GitLab
5 8 (0.46%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.23%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.17%) MSI
8 3 (0.17%) Postman
9 2 (0.12%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.12%) Tricentis qTest
9 2 (0.12%) Vagrant
9 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.058%) Flyway
10 1 (0.058%) Gatling
10 1 (0.058%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.058%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.058%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.058%) TeamCity
General
1 566 (32.77%) Social Skills
2 325 (18.82%) Finance
3 233 (13.49%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (8.74%) Public Sector
5 85 (4.92%) Banking
6 76 (4.40%) Telecoms
7 53 (3.07%) Legal
8 44 (2.55%) Documentation Skills
9 41 (2.37%) Organisational Skills
10 32 (1.85%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (1.68%) Manufacturing
12 23 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (1.16%) Military
14 17 (0.98%) Law
14 17 (0.98%) Police
14 17 (0.98%) Spanish Language
15 16 (0.93%) French Language
15 16 (0.93%) Italian Language
16 13 (0.75%) Local Government
16 13 (0.75%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 245 (14.19%) Architect
2 243 (14.07%) Analyst
3 182 (10.54%) Developer
4 158 (9.15%) ServiceNow Developer
5 144 (8.34%) ServiceNow Architect
6 128 (7.41%) Senior
7 116 (6.72%) Consultant
8 99 (5.73%) Support Engineer
9 95 (5.50%) Lead
10 87 (5.04%) IT Support
11 69 (4.00%) Solutions Architect
12 67 (3.88%) Service Analyst
13 65 (3.76%) IT Engineer
14 59 (3.42%) Business Analyst
14 59 (3.42%) Project Manager
15 57 (3.30%) IT Support Engineer
16 56 (3.24%) ServiceNow Consultant
17 45 (2.61%) Technical Architect
18 44 (2.55%) Service Manager
19 41 (2.37%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 191 (11.06%) REST
2 98 (5.67%) SOAP
3 77 (4.46%) Terraform
4 50 (2.90%) JSON
5 34 (1.97%) HTML
5 34 (1.97%) OAuth
6 33 (1.91%) XML
7 31 (1.80%) CSS
7 31 (1.80%) Middleware
8 30 (1.74%) SailPoint
9 27 (1.56%) LDAP
10 19 (1.10%) Web Services
11 17 (0.98%) Ajax
12 15 (0.87%) .NET
12 15 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
12 15 (0.87%) OAuth2
12 15 (0.87%) YAML
13 13 (0.75%) SAML
14 12 (0.69%) OpenID
15 11 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 295 (17.08%) CMDB
2 185 (10.71%) Onboarding
3 73 (4.23%) Enterprise Software
4 57 (3.30%) Data Centre
5 55 (3.18%) Management Information System
6 51 (2.95%) Product Ownership
7 44 (2.55%) Cloud Native
8 36 (2.08%) Replication
9 29 (1.68%) AI Agents
10 24 (1.39%) PKI
10 24 (1.39%) Video Conferencing
11 22 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.22%) Data Protection Act
13 18 (1.04%) Clustering
13 18 (1.04%) Linux Command Line
14 17 (0.98%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (0.98%) iPhone
15 16 (0.93%) Data Structures
16 15 (0.87%) Low-Code
17 14 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 330 (19.11%) Windows
2 109 (6.31%) Windows 10
3 107 (6.20%) Linux
4 53 (3.07%) Windows Server
5 52 (3.01%) Mac OS
6 35 (2.03%) Apple iOS
7 25 (1.45%) Android
8 20 (1.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 20 (1.16%) Unix
9 16 (0.93%) Windows 7
10 9 (0.52%) Amazon Linux
11 7 (0.41%) zOS
12 4 (0.23%) VMS
13 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.17%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.058%) CentOS
14 1 (0.058%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.058%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 702 (40.65%) ITSM
2 553 (32.02%) ITIL
3 406 (23.51%) Service Management
4 364 (21.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 311 (18.01%) Agile
5 311 (18.01%) Problem-Solving
6 265 (15.34%) Continuous Improvement
7 219 (12.68%) AI
8 202 (11.70%) Customer Service
9 191 (11.06%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 190 (11.00%) Service Delivery
11 185 (10.71%) Roadmaps
12 184 (10.65%) DevOps
13 171 (9.90%) Change Management
14 153 (8.86%) Workflow
15 137 (7.93%) Migration
16 134 (7.76%) Asset Management
17 129 (7.47%) Incident Management
18 122 (7.06%) CI/CD
19 120 (6.95%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 150 (8.69%) PowerShell
2 122 (7.06%) Python
3 117 (6.77%) JavaScript
4 82 (4.75%) SQL
5 36 (2.08%) Java
6 28 (1.62%) Bash
7 18 (1.04%) VBScript
8 17 (0.98%) Groovy
9 15 (0.87%) T-SQL
9 15 (0.87%) VB
10 14 (0.81%) C#
11 8 (0.46%) Perl
12 6 (0.35%) BeanShell
12 6 (0.35%) JCL
12 6 (0.35%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.29%) Go
13 5 (0.29%) Google Apps Script
13 5 (0.29%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.29%) TypeScript
14 3 (0.17%) C++
Qualifications
1 463 (26.81%) Security Cleared
2 351 (20.32%) SC Cleared
3 132 (7.64%) Degree
4 75 (4.34%) DV Cleared
5 42 (2.43%) PMP
6 41 (2.37%) BPSS Clearance
7 38 (2.20%) ITIL Certification
7 38 (2.20%) Microsoft Certification
8 36 (2.08%) PMI Certification
9 32 (1.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
10 29 (1.68%) Azure Certification
11 23 (1.33%) Cisco Certification
12 21 (1.22%) A+ Certification
13 19 (1.10%) Computer Science Degree
14 18 (1.04%) CCNP
15 17 (0.98%) CISSP
16 15 (0.87%) AWS Certification
16 15 (0.87%) CCNA
17 12 (0.69%) CISM
17 12 (0.69%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (5.73%) SLA
2 98 (5.67%) Data Quality
3 61 (3.53%) GRC
4 58 (3.36%) QA
5 51 (2.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 38 (2.20%) NIST
6 38 (2.20%) PMO
7 24 (1.39%) GDPR
8 18 (1.04%) NCSC
9 17 (0.98%) COBIT
10 16 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
11 13 (0.75%) Accessibility
12 12 (0.69%) ISO/IEC 20000
12 12 (0.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
13 11 (0.64%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 7 (0.41%) GxP
15 7 (0.41%) HIPAA
15 7 (0.41%) PCI DSS
16 6 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 213 (12.33%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.37%) Docker
2 41 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 22 (1.27%) Virtual Machines
4 17 (0.98%) BitLocker
5 15 (0.87%) IAG
5 15 (0.87%) Virtual Desktop
5 15 (0.87%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.58%) NFS
6 10 (0.58%) VMware NSX
7 9 (0.52%) vSphere
8 8 (0.46%) GPFS
9 6 (0.35%) Firmware
10 5 (0.29%) Hyper-V
11 3 (0.17%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.12%) DFS Replication
12 2 (0.12%) Dovecot
12 2 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 2 (0.12%) Postfix
12 2 (0.12%) Squid
Systems Management
1 88 (5.10%) Microsoft Intune
2 70 (4.05%) SCCM
3 57 (3.30%) Ansible
4 43 (2.49%) Kubernetes
5 33 (1.91%) Grafana
6 22 (1.27%) SCOM
7 21 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.10%) Jamf Pro
9 16 (0.93%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.58%) WMI
11 9 (0.52%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.41%) Control-M
12 7 (0.41%) vRealize
13 6 (0.35%) Packer
14 5 (0.29%) PowerCLI
15 4 (0.23%) Kibana
15 4 (0.23%) Rancher
15 4 (0.23%) SCOrch
15 4 (0.23%) VxRail
16 3 (0.17%) SELinux
Vendors
1 497 (28.78%) Microsoft
2 75 (4.34%) Cisco
3 67 (3.88%) Remedy
4 65 (3.76%) Oracle
5 64 (3.71%) SAP
5 64 (3.71%) Splunk
6 59 (3.42%) VMware
7 51 (2.95%) Salesforce
8 46 (2.66%) Dynatrace
9 42 (2.43%) CyberArk
10 34 (1.97%) Google
11 31 (1.80%) Apple
11 31 (1.80%) SolarWinds
12 29 (1.68%) BMC
12 29 (1.68%) Snow
13 24 (1.39%) Workday
14 23 (1.33%) Okta
15 22 (1.27%) Adobe
15 22 (1.27%) IBM
15 22 (1.27%) Red Hat