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 20 August 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
20 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 68 77
Rank change year-on-year +12 +9 +3
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,763 1,011 920
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.86% 3.66% 2.77%
As % of the Vendors category 9.27% 7.75% 6.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,133 634 563
10th Percentile £218 £213 £213
25th Percentile £400 £315 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £505
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.94% +1.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £578
90th Percentile £699 £660 £650
UK median daily rate £505 £475 £505
% change year-on-year +6.32% -5.94% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 85 71
10th Percentile £16.08 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.50 £15.61
Median hourly rate £26.00 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +38.15% +15.46% -20.80%
75th Percentile £63.59 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.40 £63.24 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £25.88 £17.87 £16.30
% change year-on-year +44.80% +9.63% -20.22%

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 19,018 13,040 14,488
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.66% 47.25% 43.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,977 8,257 9,204
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £505 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.49% -3.81% -
75th Percentile £615 £615 £630
90th Percentile £700 £713 £734
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,019 643 726
10th Percentile £14.66 £14.75 £13.60
25th Percentile £18.00 £17.52 £15.62
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -26.68%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £63.45
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £31.93 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +26.94% -10.18% -32.15%

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 20 August 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 20 August 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 20 August 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 +23 767 £525 +5.00% 140
North of England -2 356 £462 -7.60% 43
South East +19 354 £550 +48.15% 51
North West +3 238 £400 -21.95% 30
Midlands +2 139 £425 -10.53% 32
West Midlands -7 112 £425 -10.53% 25
Yorkshire -20 107 £511 +27.81% 10
East of England -37 55 £510 +7.37% 4
South West -49 55 £463 +38.06% 21
East Midlands -8 22 £413 - 8
North East -26 17 £500 +42.86% 3
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
1 107 (6.07%) SharePoint
2 85 (4.82%) Confluence
3 46 (2.61%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.91%) Skype for Business
5 9 (0.51%) nginx
6 8 (0.45%) Apache
7 4 (0.23%) CMS
8 3 (0.17%) IIS
8 3 (0.17%) Mendix
9 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.11%) SAS
9 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.057%) Drupal
10 1 (0.057%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.057%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 81 (4.59%) Microsoft Office
2 77 (4.37%) Microsoft Excel
3 36 (2.04%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (1.13%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.57%) AutoCAD
7 9 (0.51%) Chatbot
8 8 (0.45%) Revit
9 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
9 3 (0.17%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.057%) LaTeX
10 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 65 (3.69%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (0.74%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.40%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
5 4 (0.23%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.11%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.11%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
7 1 (0.057%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.057%) Cloudability
7 1 (0.057%) iTrent
7 1 (0.057%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.057%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.057%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 373 (21.16%) Azure
2 238 (13.50%) Microsoft 365
3 236 (13.39%) AWS
4 138 (7.83%) Power Platform
5 135 (7.66%) Entra ID
6 103 (5.84%) SaaS
7 63 (3.57%) Azure DevOps
8 54 (3.06%) GCP
9 42 (2.38%) GitHub
10 41 (2.33%) OneDrive
11 29 (1.64%) Microsoft Copilot
12 28 (1.59%) Azure Monitor
12 28 (1.59%) Datadog
13 23 (1.30%) Power Automate
14 20 (1.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 19 (1.08%) Serverless
16 16 (0.91%) Amazon EC2
16 16 (0.91%) PowerApps
17 15 (0.85%) Amazon S3
18 14 (0.79%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 89 (5.05%) DNS
2 80 (4.54%) DHCP
3 66 (3.74%) Firewall
4 60 (3.40%) VPN
5 48 (2.72%) TCP/IP
6 35 (1.99%) Wireless
7 31 (1.76%) Network Security
8 29 (1.64%) VLAN
9 28 (1.59%) Wi-Fi
10 27 (1.53%) WAN
11 26 (1.47%) SSL
12 23 (1.30%) LAN
13 21 (1.19%) NX-OS
14 19 (1.08%) SAN
15 18 (1.02%) NAS
16 17 (0.96%) Skype
16 17 (0.96%) SSH
17 16 (0.91%) BGP
17 16 (0.91%) Cisco IOS
18 14 (0.79%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 104 (5.90%) Power BI
2 51 (2.89%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (1.08%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (0.79%) MySQL
7 13 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (0.74%) Power Query
8 9 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.34%) MongoDB
10 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 5 (0.28%) Metadata
11 5 (0.28%) Redis
11 5 (0.28%) Tableau
12 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.23%) Elasticsearch
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.23%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 262 (14.86%) JIRA
2 77 (4.37%) Git
3 29 (1.64%) GitLab
4 25 (1.42%) Jenkins
5 8 (0.45%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.23%) Flyway
8 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.17%) MSI
9 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.11%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.11%) Tricentis qTest
9 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
10 1 (0.057%) Gatling
10 1 (0.057%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.057%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.057%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.057%) Postman
10 1 (0.057%) TeamCity
General
1 571 (32.39%) Social Skills
2 341 (19.34%) Finance
3 242 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 140 (7.94%) Public Sector
5 95 (5.39%) Banking
6 83 (4.71%) Telecoms
7 53 (3.01%) Legal
8 50 (2.84%) Documentation Skills
9 49 (2.78%) Organisational Skills
10 27 (1.53%) Influencing Skills
10 27 (1.53%) Manufacturing
11 24 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (1.08%) Military
12 19 (1.08%) Spanish Language
13 18 (1.02%) French Language
13 18 (1.02%) Italian Language
13 18 (1.02%) Police
14 17 (0.96%) Retail
15 16 (0.91%) Law
16 13 (0.74%) Billing
Job Titles
1 250 (14.18%) Architect
2 246 (13.95%) Analyst
3 185 (10.49%) Developer
4 162 (9.19%) ServiceNow Developer
5 145 (8.22%) ServiceNow Architect
6 128 (7.26%) Senior
7 111 (6.30%) Consultant
8 108 (6.13%) Support Engineer
9 97 (5.50%) IT Support
10 92 (5.22%) Lead
11 72 (4.08%) Service Analyst
12 70 (3.97%) Business Analyst
12 70 (3.97%) IT Engineer
13 66 (3.74%) Solutions Architect
14 61 (3.46%) IT Support Engineer
15 60 (3.40%) Project Manager
16 57 (3.23%) ServiceNow Consultant
17 43 (2.44%) Technical Architect
18 39 (2.21%) IT Manager
18 39 (2.21%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 204 (11.57%) REST
2 118 (6.69%) SOAP
3 75 (4.25%) Terraform
4 47 (2.67%) JSON
5 36 (2.04%) OAuth
6 35 (1.99%) HTML
7 34 (1.93%) SailPoint
8 33 (1.87%) XML
9 31 (1.76%) CSS
10 28 (1.59%) Web Services
11 27 (1.53%) LDAP
11 27 (1.53%) Middleware
12 22 (1.25%) .NET
13 20 (1.13%) AngularJS
14 16 (0.91%) Ajax
14 16 (0.91%) SAML
15 14 (0.79%) OpenID
16 12 (0.68%) JDBC
16 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
16 12 (0.68%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 280 (15.88%) CMDB
2 175 (9.93%) Onboarding
3 68 (3.86%) Product Ownership
4 60 (3.40%) Enterprise Software
5 55 (3.12%) Data Centre
6 43 (2.44%) Cloud Native
6 43 (2.44%) Management Information System
7 34 (1.93%) Replication
8 28 (1.59%) PKI
9 26 (1.47%) Security Posture
10 24 (1.36%) AI Agents
11 23 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
11 23 (1.30%) Video Conferencing
12 22 (1.25%) Clustering
13 21 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
14 19 (1.08%) Data Protection Act
15 18 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
15 18 (1.02%) Data Structures
15 18 (1.02%) iPhone
16 15 (0.85%) Low-Code
Operating Systems
1 331 (18.77%) Windows
2 111 (6.30%) Windows 10
3 102 (5.79%) Linux
4 51 (2.89%) Windows Server
5 48 (2.72%) Mac OS
6 36 (2.04%) Apple iOS
7 24 (1.36%) Android
8 19 (1.08%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 18 (1.02%) Unix
10 16 (0.91%) Windows 7
11 6 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.23%) zOS
13 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.17%) VMS
14 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.057%) MVS
15 1 (0.057%) SUSE
15 1 (0.057%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
15 1 (0.057%) Ubuntu
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 689 (39.08%) ITSM
2 565 (32.05%) ITIL
3 376 (21.33%) Service Management
4 334 (18.94%) Agile
5 329 (18.66%) Problem-Solving
6 318 (18.04%) Stakeholder Management
7 271 (15.37%) Continuous Improvement
8 209 (11.85%) Customer Service
9 202 (11.46%) AI
10 198 (11.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 197 (11.17%) Service Delivery
12 196 (11.12%) DevOps
13 194 (11.00%) Change Management
14 175 (9.93%) Roadmaps
15 152 (8.62%) Workflow
16 144 (8.17%) Migration
17 131 (7.43%) CI/CD
18 128 (7.26%) Incident Management
19 126 (7.15%) Data Modelling
20 122 (6.92%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 144 (8.17%) PowerShell
2 120 (6.81%) JavaScript
3 117 (6.64%) Python
4 107 (6.07%) SQL
5 48 (2.72%) Java
6 28 (1.59%) C#
7 22 (1.25%) Bash
8 18 (1.02%) VBScript
9 15 (0.85%) VB
10 13 (0.74%) Groovy
11 11 (0.62%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.51%) TypeScript
13 6 (0.34%) BeanShell
13 6 (0.34%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.34%) Perl
14 5 (0.28%) C++
14 5 (0.28%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.28%) Shell Script
15 4 (0.23%) Bicep
16 3 (0.17%) JCL
Qualifications
1 467 (26.49%) Security Cleared
2 330 (18.72%) SC Cleared
3 141 (8.00%) Degree
4 95 (5.39%) DV Cleared
5 45 (2.55%) ITIL Certification
6 41 (2.33%) PMP
7 39 (2.21%) BPSS Clearance
8 35 (1.99%) Cisco Certification
9 33 (1.87%) PMI Certification
10 31 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 26 (1.47%) CCNP
12 25 (1.42%) CISSP
13 24 (1.36%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 22 (1.25%) CCNA
15 20 (1.13%) A+ Certification
16 19 (1.08%) Azure Certification
16 19 (1.08%) CISM
17 17 (0.96%) Network+ Certification
18 15 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
19 14 (0.79%) Server+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (5.73%) SLA
2 84 (4.76%) Data Quality
3 61 (3.46%) GRC
4 52 (2.95%) QA
5 47 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 43 (2.44%) NIST
7 41 (2.33%) PMO
8 30 (1.70%) GDPR
9 19 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 17 (0.96%) COBIT
11 15 (0.85%) NCSC
12 14 (0.79%) Cyber Essentials
13 13 (0.74%) Accessibility
14 12 (0.68%) ISO 9001
15 8 (0.45%) GxP
15 8 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
16 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
16 6 (0.34%) HIPAA
17 4 (0.23%) PCI DSS
18 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 229 (12.99%) Active Directory
2 42 (2.38%) VMware Infrastructure
3 31 (1.76%) Docker
4 19 (1.08%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (0.96%) BitLocker
6 17 (0.96%) IAG
7 13 (0.74%) Virtual Desktop
8 12 (0.68%) NFS
8 12 (0.68%) vSphere
9 11 (0.62%) GPFS
10 8 (0.45%) Firmware
11 7 (0.40%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 2 (0.11%) RACF
13 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.057%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 77 (4.37%) Microsoft Intune
2 68 (3.86%) SCCM
3 55 (3.12%) Ansible
4 37 (2.10%) Kubernetes
5 27 (1.53%) Grafana
6 24 (1.36%) Single Sign-On
7 19 (1.08%) Jamf Pro
8 18 (1.02%) Prometheus
9 14 (0.79%) SCOM
10 12 (0.68%) WMI
11 10 (0.57%) vRealize
12 9 (0.51%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.40%) RSA Archer
14 6 (0.34%) CASB
14 6 (0.34%) Packer
14 6 (0.34%) VxRail
15 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.23%) CA Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
15 4 (0.23%) SELinux
Vendors
1 460 (26.09%) Microsoft
2 93 (5.28%) Cisco
3 73 (4.14%) Remedy
4 69 (3.91%) Oracle
5 68 (3.86%) SAP
6 65 (3.69%) Splunk
7 61 (3.46%) VMware
8 51 (2.89%) Salesforce
9 48 (2.72%) CyberArk
10 36 (2.04%) Dynatrace
11 33 (1.87%) BMC
12 32 (1.82%) Workday
13 31 (1.76%) Snow
14 29 (1.64%) Apple
15 23 (1.30%) Google
16 22 (1.25%) iManage
16 22 (1.25%) Palo Alto
16 22 (1.25%) SolarWinds
17 21 (1.19%) Adobe
17 21 (1.19%) IBM