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 22 October 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
22 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 73 73 72
Rank change year-on-year 0 -1 +69
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,029 967 1,228
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.62% 3.05% 3.03%
As % of the Vendors category 7.58% 6.79% 6.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 663 542 826
10th Percentile £204 £214 £170
25th Percentile £300 £352 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £569 £625
90th Percentile £655 £638 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 21 45
10th Percentile £13.68 £14.16 £15.50
25th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £16.70
Median hourly rate £18.82 £19.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -5.00% +29.03%
75th Percentile £31.02 £23.75 £36.00
90th Percentile £63.40 £28.75 £66.18
UK median hourly rate £17.87 £21.37 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.38% +6.85% +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 13,578 14,243 17,998
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.80% 44.85% 44.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,649 8,539 11,920
10th Percentile £278 £300 £263
25th Percentile £405 £413 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.33%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £644
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 663 478 618
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.00 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.00 £16.00 £20.00
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £44.20
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -20.81% +76.80%
75th Percentile £41.98 £65.00 £63.22
90th Percentile £69.65 £70.38 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £24.00 £32.50 £43.84
% change year-on-year -26.15% -25.86% +82.65%

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 22 October 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 22 October 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 22 October 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 -31 395 £500 - 212
North of England +7 223 £500 -4.76% 74
South East +32 135 £365 -27.36% 176
North West +17 121 £475 -5.00% 46
Midlands -8 111 £475 +12.43% 39
Yorkshire -4 94 £507 -6.76% 18
West Midlands +1 90 £475 -2.56% 31
East of England +29 84 £512 -0.10% 36
South West +44 68 £325 -32.99% 14
East Midlands -12 21 £438 +22.89% 8
North East -3 8 £350 +141.38% 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 73 (7.09%) Confluence
2 46 (4.47%) SharePoint
3 34 (3.30%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.17%) nginx
5 10 (0.97%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 5 (0.49%) OpenStack
7 3 (0.29%) IIS
7 3 (0.29%) SAS
8 2 (0.19%) Apache
8 2 (0.19%) JBoss
9 1 (0.097%) Apache Spark
9 1 (0.097%) Appian
9 1 (0.097%) BizTalk Server
9 1 (0.097%) Camunda
9 1 (0.097%) HCL Notes
9 1 (0.097%) Skype for Business
9 1 (0.097%) Tuxedo
9 1 (0.097%) WebLogic
Applications
1 73 (7.09%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (6.41%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (2.72%) MS Visio
4 27 (2.62%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 17 (1.65%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (1.17%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 4 (0.39%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (0.39%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.19%) Trello
9 1 (0.097%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 43 (4.18%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.78%) Salesforce CRM
3 6 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.49%) assyst
5 4 (0.39%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.19%) Cloudability
6 2 (0.19%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.19%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 2 (0.19%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.19%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.19%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.19%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.097%) Oracle HRMS
7 1 (0.097%) SAP IBP
7 1 (0.097%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.097%) SAP SD
7 1 (0.097%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 173 (16.81%) Microsoft 365
2 163 (15.84%) Azure
3 124 (12.05%) AWS
4 64 (6.22%) Entra ID
5 60 (5.83%) SaaS
6 47 (4.57%) Azure DevOps
7 42 (4.08%) Power Platform
8 30 (2.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
9 29 (2.82%) Amazon S3
10 28 (2.72%) Amazon EC2
10 28 (2.72%) OneDrive
11 25 (2.43%) Amazon ELB
11 25 (2.43%) Virtual Private Cloud
12 24 (2.33%) AWS KMS
13 21 (2.04%) GCP
14 20 (1.94%) Google Workspace
15 19 (1.85%) Amazon ECS
16 16 (1.55%) Sauce Labs
17 14 (1.36%) AWS CloudFormation
17 14 (1.36%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 80 (7.77%) DNS
2 54 (5.25%) Firewall
3 35 (3.40%) VPN
4 33 (3.21%) Wi-Fi
5 32 (3.11%) HTTP
6 31 (3.01%) DHCP
7 29 (2.82%) Wireless
8 25 (2.43%) SMTP
9 24 (2.33%) SSH
10 22 (2.14%) FTP
11 19 (1.85%) TCP/IP
12 18 (1.75%) LAN
13 17 (1.65%) SSL
14 16 (1.55%) WAN
15 13 (1.26%) WebEx
16 12 (1.17%) BGP
16 12 (1.17%) IMAP
16 12 (1.17%) Network Security
16 12 (1.17%) OpenLDAP
17 10 (0.97%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (3.11%) Relational Database
2 31 (3.01%) Power BI
3 30 (2.92%) Amazon RDS
4 21 (2.04%) PostgreSQL
5 18 (1.75%) MySQL
6 14 (1.36%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (1.26%) Tableau
8 8 (0.78%) DynamoDB
8 8 (0.78%) Oracle ODI
9 7 (0.68%) SQL Server
10 4 (0.39%) DB2
10 4 (0.39%) Metadata
10 4 (0.39%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 3 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
11 3 (0.29%) MongoDB
11 3 (0.29%) Oracle Reports
11 3 (0.29%) RDBMS
12 2 (0.19%) Azure SQL Database
12 2 (0.19%) Redis
12 2 (0.19%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 207 (20.12%) JIRA
2 46 (4.47%) Git
3 36 (3.50%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.33%) Vagrant
5 17 (1.65%) Browser DevTools
6 16 (1.55%) Android Studio
6 16 (1.55%) Eclipse
6 16 (1.55%) Xcode
7 13 (1.26%) GitLab
8 8 (0.78%) TeamCity
9 7 (0.68%) JUnit
10 6 (0.58%) ScriptRunner
11 5 (0.49%) Cucumber
11 5 (0.49%) Maven
12 4 (0.39%) Metasploit
13 3 (0.29%) AdminStudio
13 3 (0.29%) Burp Suite
14 2 (0.19%) Snyk
14 2 (0.19%) SoapUI
14 2 (0.19%) sqlmap
General
1 440 (42.76%) Social Skills
2 206 (20.02%) Finance
3 161 (15.65%) Analytical Skills
4 102 (9.91%) Public Sector
5 35 (3.40%) Banking
6 30 (2.92%) Legal
7 28 (2.72%) Presentation Skills
7 28 (2.72%) Telecoms
8 26 (2.53%) Documentation Skills
8 26 (2.53%) Organisational Skills
9 23 (2.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 23 (2.24%) Manufacturing
10 17 (1.65%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (1.46%) Retail
12 12 (1.17%) Aerospace
12 12 (1.17%) Marketing
13 10 (0.97%) Military
14 9 (0.87%) Pharmaceutical
15 8 (0.78%) Electronics
16 7 (0.68%) Law
Job Titles
1 167 (16.23%) Analyst
2 100 (9.72%) Architect
2 100 (9.72%) Developer
3 99 (9.62%) Support Engineer
4 77 (7.48%) ServiceNow Developer
5 73 (7.09%) IT Support
6 63 (6.12%) Consultant
7 53 (5.15%) ServiceNow Architect
8 48 (4.66%) Senior
9 41 (3.98%) Business Analyst
10 40 (3.89%) Service Analyst
11 39 (3.79%) Desktop Support
12 35 (3.40%) Lead
12 35 (3.40%) Support Analyst
12 35 (3.40%) Support Manager
13 33 (3.21%) IT Engineer
13 33 (3.21%) IT Manager
13 33 (3.21%) ServiceNow Consultant
14 32 (3.11%) Desktop Engineer
15 31 (3.01%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 81 (7.87%) REST
2 71 (6.90%) SOAP
3 60 (5.83%) AngularJS
4 36 (3.50%) React
5 35 (3.40%) CSS
6 34 (3.30%) LDAP
7 33 (3.21%) Web Services
8 30 (2.92%) HTML
9 29 (2.82%) JSON
10 17 (1.65%) Ajax
10 17 (1.65%) GraphQL
10 17 (1.65%) SAML
10 17 (1.65%) XML
11 16 (1.55%) .NET
12 14 (1.36%) HTML5
12 14 (1.36%) jQuery
12 14 (1.36%) ODBC
13 13 (1.26%) Apache Camel
13 13 (1.26%) JDBC
13 13 (1.26%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 105 (10.20%) CMDB
2 37 (3.60%) Onboarding
3 32 (3.11%) Data Centre
3 32 (3.11%) Replication
4 27 (2.62%) Enterprise Software
5 26 (2.53%) iPhone
6 22 (2.14%) Management Information System
6 22 (2.14%) Mobile App
7 21 (2.04%) Self-Motivation
7 21 (2.04%) Smartphone
8 19 (1.85%) Driving Licence
9 16 (1.55%) Product Ownership
9 16 (1.55%) Video Conferencing
10 15 (1.46%) iPad
11 14 (1.36%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.36%) Security Posture
12 13 (1.26%) Virtual Team
13 12 (1.17%) Data Protection Act
14 11 (1.07%) Cloud Native
15 10 (0.97%) Linux Command Line
Operating Systems
1 226 (21.96%) Windows
2 71 (6.90%) Windows 10
3 69 (6.71%) Linux
4 48 (4.66%) Mac OS
5 32 (3.11%) Android
6 31 (3.01%) Apple iOS
7 27 (2.62%) Unix
8 26 (2.53%) VMS
9 24 (2.33%) Amazon Linux
10 16 (1.55%) Ubuntu
11 7 (0.68%) Windows Server
12 6 (0.58%) CentOS
13 3 (0.29%) Mac OS X
13 3 (0.29%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
13 3 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
14 2 (0.19%) Windows 8
14 2 (0.19%) Windows XP
15 1 (0.097%) Kali Linux
15 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.097%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 360 (34.99%) ITSM
2 267 (25.95%) ITIL
3 222 (21.57%) Agile
4 215 (20.89%) Problem-Solving
5 193 (18.76%) Service Management
6 157 (15.26%) Customer Service
7 134 (13.02%) DevOps
8 123 (11.95%) Stakeholder Management
9 113 (10.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 105 (10.20%) Change Management
11 93 (9.04%) Service Delivery
12 82 (7.97%) Scrum
13 74 (7.19%) CI/CD
14 71 (6.90%) Configuration Management
15 69 (6.71%) Migration
16 67 (6.51%) Incident Management
17 65 (6.32%) Continuous Improvement
18 61 (5.93%) Roadmaps
19 59 (5.73%) Analytics
20 57 (5.54%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 124 (12.05%) Python
2 90 (8.75%) JavaScript
3 77 (7.48%) PowerShell
4 65 (6.32%) Java
5 49 (4.76%) SQL
6 37 (3.60%) Perl
7 31 (3.01%) Groovy
8 22 (2.14%) Bash
9 20 (1.94%) Shell Script
10 18 (1.75%) TypeScript
11 5 (0.49%) Lisp
12 4 (0.39%) C#
12 4 (0.39%) Go
13 3 (0.29%) Bicep
13 3 (0.29%) C
13 3 (0.29%) PL/SQL
14 1 (0.097%) C++
14 1 (0.097%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 1 (0.097%) Korn
14 1 (0.097%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 253 (24.59%) Security Cleared
2 216 (20.99%) SC Cleared
3 107 (10.40%) Degree
4 28 (2.72%) Microsoft Certification
5 22 (2.14%) CISSP
5 22 (2.14%) ITIL Certification
6 21 (2.04%) Computer Science Degree
7 20 (1.94%) A+ Certification
7 20 (1.94%) Cisco Certification
8 16 (1.55%) ACSP
8 16 (1.55%) ACTC
8 16 (1.55%) AWS Certification
9 14 (1.36%) CISM
10 13 (1.26%) BPSS Clearance
10 13 (1.26%) CISA
11 12 (1.17%) Azure Certification
12 10 (0.97%) CCNP
12 10 (0.97%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
13 9 (0.87%) CCNA
13 9 (0.87%) MCSA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 44 (4.28%) QA
2 43 (4.18%) GDPR
2 43 (4.18%) SLA
3 28 (2.72%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 25 (2.43%) GRC
5 21 (2.04%) NIST
5 21 (2.04%) Sarbanes-Oxley
6 19 (1.85%) COBIT
7 15 (1.46%) PCI DSS
8 13 (1.26%) Accessibility
9 10 (0.97%) PMO
10 8 (0.78%) Data Quality
10 8 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 8 (0.78%) NIST 800
11 7 (0.68%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
12 5 (0.49%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
14 3 (0.29%) WCAG
15 2 (0.19%) GAAP
15 2 (0.19%) ISO 9001
System Software
1 167 (16.23%) Active Directory
2 38 (3.69%) Docker
3 22 (2.14%) DFS Replication
4 12 (1.17%) Dovecot
4 12 (1.17%) Postfix
4 12 (1.17%) Squid
5 8 (0.78%) VMware ESXi
5 8 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
5 8 (0.78%) vSphere
6 6 (0.58%) Hyper-V
6 6 (0.58%) Virtual Desktop
7 5 (0.49%) GPFS
7 5 (0.49%) NFS
8 3 (0.29%) Firmware
9 2 (0.19%) BitLocker
9 2 (0.19%) Virtual Machines
9 2 (0.19%) Virtual Servers
9 2 (0.19%) XenApp
Systems Management
1 47 (4.57%) Terraform
2 40 (3.89%) SCCM
3 38 (3.69%) Microsoft Intune
4 36 (3.50%) Ansible
5 33 (3.21%) Jamf Pro
6 30 (2.92%) Grafana
7 27 (2.62%) Prometheus
8 25 (2.43%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (1.65%) Nessus
10 14 (1.36%) RSA Archer
11 10 (0.97%) Proxmox
12 8 (0.78%) Kubernetes
13 6 (0.58%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
14 5 (0.49%) FortiGate
14 5 (0.49%) vRealize
15 4 (0.39%) Progress Chef
15 4 (0.39%) Puppet
15 4 (0.39%) Salt
16 3 (0.29%) Nmap
16 3 (0.29%) SCOM
Vendors
1 297 (28.86%) Microsoft
2 63 (6.12%) Remedy
3 57 (5.54%) Oracle
4 50 (4.86%) Cisco
4 50 (4.86%) SAP
5 41 (3.98%) Splunk
6 39 (3.79%) Apple
7 35 (3.40%) Salesforce
8 34 (3.30%) Citrix
9 27 (2.62%) Google
10 25 (2.43%) Workday
11 22 (2.14%) BMC
12 20 (1.94%) HP
13 19 (1.85%) VMware
14 17 (1.65%) Snow
15 16 (1.55%) IBM
15 16 (1.55%) Nexthink
16 15 (1.46%) MobileIron
17 14 (1.36%) CheckPoint
17 14 (1.36%) Sage