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 7 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
7 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 63 67 75
Rank change year-on-year +4 +8 -4
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,709 1,035 926
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.67% 3.70% 2.88%
As % of the Vendors category 8.85% 7.76% 6.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,072 676 538
10th Percentile £218 £204 £213
25th Percentile £400 £298 £356
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +8.05% -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 71 80 28
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.51 £15.50 £15.81
Median hourly rate £26.00 £18.82 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year +38.15% +3.81% -4.58%
75th Percentile £63.75 £33.75 £23.86
90th Percentile £87.16 £63.40 £33.78
UK median hourly rate £25.75 £17.87 £19.64
% change year-on-year +44.10% -9.02% +3.38%

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 19,301 13,346 14,305
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.46% 47.75% 44.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,823 8,487 8,564
10th Percentile £310 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £404 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £506 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.78% -3.62% -
75th Percentile £625 £619 £629
90th Percentile £715 £700 £725
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,243 643 527
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.87 £14.93
25th Percentile £16.71 £18.00 £15.62
Median hourly rate £25.75 £25.15 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +2.39% -28.14% -20.08%
75th Percentile £61.79 £43.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £69.65 £73.45
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £25.11 £32.50
% change year-on-year -0.44% -22.74% -23.98%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +23 755 £525 +5.00% 513
South East +16 336 £538 +55.80% 167
North of England -11 334 £450 -10.00% 113
North West +2 218 £365 -25.81% 74
Midlands -21 133 £437 -8.00% 88
West Midlands -16 116 £463 -2.63% 66
Yorkshire -28 107 £494 -1.25% 31
East of England -33 59 £550 +8.70% 46
South West -60 49 £500 +57.17% 52
East Midlands -21 16 £381 -15.28% 20
North East -31 14 £500 +42.86% 9
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
1 112 (6.55%) SharePoint
2 78 (4.56%) Confluence
3 46 (2.69%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.94%) Skype for Business
5 14 (0.82%) nginx
6 8 (0.47%) Apache
7 4 (0.23%) CICS
7 4 (0.23%) CMS
7 4 (0.23%) Mendix
8 3 (0.18%) SAS
9 2 (0.12%) Appian
9 2 (0.12%) IIS
10 1 (0.059%) Adobe Experience Manager
10 1 (0.059%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.059%) Documentum
10 1 (0.059%) Drupal
10 1 (0.059%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 1 (0.059%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.059%) SharePoint Server
10 1 (0.059%) WebSphere
Applications
1 77 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (4.39%) Microsoft Office
3 37 (2.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 22 (1.29%) MS Visio
5 19 (1.11%) Microsoft Project
6 12 (0.70%) Chatbot
7 9 (0.53%) AutoCAD
8 7 (0.41%) Revit
9 5 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
10 3 (0.18%) Acrobat
11 1 (0.059%) Adobe Creative Suite
11 1 (0.059%) LaTeX
11 1 (0.059%) Mozilla Thunderbird
11 1 (0.059%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 60 (3.51%) Remedy ITSM
2 18 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.53%) SAP S/4HANA
4 8 (0.47%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.47%) Workday HCM
5 5 (0.29%) Oracle Payables
6 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 4 (0.23%) SAP MDG
7 3 (0.18%) Oracle General Ledger
8 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
8 2 (0.12%) Eloqua
8 2 (0.12%) Maximo
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Financials
8 2 (0.12%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.12%) Unit4 Business World
9 1 (0.059%) Loan IQ
9 1 (0.059%) Oracle Applications
9 1 (0.059%) SAP ERP
9 1 (0.059%) SAP FI
Cloud Services
1 360 (21.06%) Azure
2 253 (14.80%) Microsoft 365
3 218 (12.76%) AWS
4 139 (8.13%) Power Platform
5 122 (7.14%) Entra ID
6 92 (5.38%) SaaS
7 63 (3.69%) GCP
8 56 (3.28%) Azure DevOps
9 51 (2.98%) GitHub
10 42 (2.46%) Azure Monitor
11 39 (2.28%) OneDrive
12 35 (2.05%) Microsoft Copilot
13 28 (1.64%) Datadog
14 24 (1.40%) Amazon CloudWatch
15 23 (1.35%) Amazon EC2
16 22 (1.29%) Serverless
17 21 (1.23%) Power Automate
18 18 (1.05%) Amazon S3
18 18 (1.05%) PowerApps
19 17 (0.99%) Virtual Private Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 82 (4.80%) DNS
2 69 (4.04%) DHCP
3 62 (3.63%) VPN
4 53 (3.10%) Firewall
5 52 (3.04%) TCP/IP
6 27 (1.58%) VLAN
7 25 (1.46%) Wi-Fi
8 23 (1.35%) Network Security
8 23 (1.35%) SSL
9 22 (1.29%) Wireless
10 20 (1.17%) NX-OS
10 20 (1.17%) WAN
11 19 (1.11%) LAN
11 19 (1.11%) SSH
12 18 (1.05%) BGP
13 17 (0.99%) Skype
14 12 (0.70%) VXLAN
15 11 (0.64%) Ethernet VPN
15 11 (0.64%) SAN
15 11 (0.64%) WebEx
Database & Business Intelligence
1 94 (5.50%) Power BI
2 45 (2.63%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.81%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.35%) Amazon RDS
5 16 (0.94%) MySQL
6 15 (0.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (0.82%) Metadata
8 13 (0.76%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.41%) BigQuery
9 7 (0.41%) Looker
9 7 (0.41%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.35%) Power Query
10 6 (0.35%) Redis
11 5 (0.29%) Data Warehouse
12 4 (0.23%) Db2
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 3 (0.18%) Amazon Redshift
13 3 (0.18%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.18%) Pentaho
13 3 (0.18%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 213 (12.46%) JIRA
2 71 (4.15%) Git
3 28 (1.64%) Jenkins
4 27 (1.58%) GitLab
5 8 (0.47%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.23%) Artifactory
7 4 (0.23%) Zephyr
8 3 (0.18%) Postman
8 3 (0.18%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.12%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.12%) MSBuild
9 2 (0.12%) MSI
9 2 (0.12%) Octopus Deploy
9 2 (0.12%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.12%) Tricentis qTest
9 2 (0.12%) Vagrant
10 1 (0.059%) Flyway
10 1 (0.059%) Gatling
10 1 (0.059%) NeoLoad
General
1 565 (33.06%) Social Skills
2 320 (18.72%) Finance
3 235 (13.75%) Analytical Skills
4 151 (8.84%) Public Sector
5 87 (5.09%) Banking
6 75 (4.39%) Telecoms
7 54 (3.16%) Legal
8 44 (2.57%) Documentation Skills
9 40 (2.34%) Organisational Skills
10 31 (1.81%) Influencing Skills
11 29 (1.70%) Manufacturing
12 22 (1.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 20 (1.17%) Police
14 19 (1.11%) Law
14 19 (1.11%) Military
15 17 (0.99%) Spanish Language
16 16 (0.94%) French Language
16 16 (0.94%) Italian Language
17 13 (0.76%) Local Government
17 13 (0.76%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 242 (14.16%) Analyst
2 237 (13.87%) Architect
3 178 (10.42%) Developer
4 153 (8.95%) ServiceNow Developer
5 137 (8.02%) ServiceNow Architect
6 126 (7.37%) Senior
7 113 (6.61%) Consultant
8 99 (5.79%) Support Engineer
9 96 (5.62%) Lead
10 85 (4.97%) IT Support
11 68 (3.98%) Solutions Architect
12 67 (3.92%) Service Analyst
13 64 (3.74%) IT Engineer
14 60 (3.51%) Project Manager
15 59 (3.45%) Business Analyst
16 56 (3.28%) IT Support Engineer
17 55 (3.22%) ServiceNow Consultant
18 44 (2.57%) Service Manager
18 44 (2.57%) Technical Architect
19 41 (2.40%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 190 (11.12%) REST
2 95 (5.56%) SOAP
3 80 (4.68%) Terraform
4 49 (2.87%) JSON
5 34 (1.99%) OAuth
6 32 (1.87%) HTML
6 32 (1.87%) XML
7 31 (1.81%) Middleware
8 29 (1.70%) CSS
9 27 (1.58%) SailPoint
10 25 (1.46%) LDAP
11 19 (1.11%) .NET
11 19 (1.11%) Web Services
12 17 (0.99%) Ajax
13 15 (0.88%) OAuth2
13 15 (0.88%) YAML
14 14 (0.82%) Microsoft Graph
15 13 (0.76%) SAML
16 12 (0.70%) OpenID
17 11 (0.64%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 291 (17.03%) CMDB
2 186 (10.88%) Onboarding
3 74 (4.33%) Enterprise Software
4 56 (3.28%) Data Centre
4 56 (3.28%) Management Information System
5 49 (2.87%) Product Ownership
6 44 (2.57%) Cloud Native
7 36 (2.11%) Replication
8 29 (1.70%) AI Agents
9 24 (1.40%) Video Conferencing
10 23 (1.35%) PKI
11 22 (1.29%) Self-Motivation
12 21 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
13 18 (1.05%) Clustering
13 18 (1.05%) iPhone
13 18 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
14 17 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (0.99%) Low-Code
15 16 (0.94%) Security Posture
16 15 (0.88%) Data Structures
Operating Systems
1 334 (19.54%) Windows
2 112 (6.55%) Linux
3 109 (6.38%) Windows 10
4 54 (3.16%) Windows Server
5 52 (3.04%) Mac OS
6 35 (2.05%) Apple iOS
7 25 (1.46%) Android
8 20 (1.17%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 20 (1.17%) Unix
9 16 (0.94%) Windows 7
10 9 (0.53%) Amazon Linux
11 7 (0.41%) zOS
12 4 (0.23%) VMS
13 3 (0.18%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.18%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.059%) CentOS
14 1 (0.059%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
14 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.059%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 695 (40.67%) ITSM
2 553 (32.36%) ITIL
3 405 (23.70%) Service Management
4 371 (21.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 309 (18.08%) Agile
6 305 (17.85%) Problem-Solving
7 260 (15.21%) Continuous Improvement
8 223 (13.05%) AI
9 202 (11.82%) Customer Service
10 190 (11.12%) Service Delivery
10 190 (11.12%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 188 (11.00%) Roadmaps
12 186 (10.88%) DevOps
13 171 (10.01%) Change Management
14 154 (9.01%) Workflow
15 137 (8.02%) Migration
16 131 (7.67%) Asset Management
17 129 (7.55%) Incident Management
18 122 (7.14%) CI/CD
19 120 (7.02%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 148 (8.66%) PowerShell
2 124 (7.26%) Python
3 118 (6.90%) JavaScript
4 82 (4.80%) SQL
5 35 (2.05%) Java
6 29 (1.70%) Bash
7 20 (1.17%) Groovy
8 18 (1.05%) VBScript
9 17 (0.99%) C#
10 15 (0.88%) T-SQL
10 15 (0.88%) VB
11 8 (0.47%) Perl
12 7 (0.41%) Shell Script
13 6 (0.35%) BeanShell
13 6 (0.35%) JCL
14 5 (0.29%) Go
14 5 (0.29%) Google Apps Script
14 5 (0.29%) PL/SQL
14 5 (0.29%) TypeScript
15 3 (0.18%) C++
Qualifications
1 462 (27.03%) Security Cleared
2 349 (20.42%) SC Cleared
3 132 (7.72%) Degree
4 75 (4.39%) DV Cleared
5 42 (2.46%) BPSS Clearance
5 42 (2.46%) PMP
6 38 (2.22%) ITIL Certification
6 38 (2.22%) Microsoft Certification
7 36 (2.11%) PMI Certification
8 31 (1.81%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 28 (1.64%) Azure Certification
10 23 (1.35%) Cisco Certification
11 21 (1.23%) A+ Certification
12 20 (1.17%) Computer Science Degree
13 18 (1.05%) CCNP
14 17 (0.99%) CISSP
15 15 (0.88%) AWS Certification
15 15 (0.88%) CCNA
16 12 (0.70%) CISM
16 12 (0.70%) Network+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 101 (5.91%) Data Quality
2 100 (5.85%) SLA
3 60 (3.51%) GRC
3 60 (3.51%) QA
4 51 (2.98%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 39 (2.28%) NIST
6 38 (2.22%) PMO
7 23 (1.35%) GDPR
8 18 (1.05%) NCSC
9 17 (0.99%) COBIT
10 16 (0.94%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.70%) Accessibility
11 12 (0.70%) ISO/IEC 20000
11 12 (0.70%) Sarbanes-Oxley
12 11 (0.64%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.47%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 8 (0.47%) GxP
14 7 (0.41%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.41%) PCI DSS
15 6 (0.35%) SOC 2
System Software
1 210 (12.29%) Active Directory
2 45 (2.63%) Docker
3 41 (2.40%) VMware Infrastructure
4 22 (1.29%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (1.05%) Virtual Desktop
6 17 (0.99%) BitLocker
7 15 (0.88%) IAG
7 15 (0.88%) VMware ESXi
8 10 (0.59%) NFS
8 10 (0.59%) VMware NSX
9 9 (0.53%) vSphere
10 8 (0.47%) GPFS
11 6 (0.35%) Firmware
12 5 (0.29%) Hyper-V
13 3 (0.18%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 2 (0.12%) DFS Replication
14 2 (0.12%) Dovecot
14 2 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
14 2 (0.12%) Postfix
14 2 (0.12%) Squid
Systems Management
1 86 (5.03%) Microsoft Intune
2 70 (4.10%) SCCM
3 57 (3.34%) Ansible
4 44 (2.57%) Kubernetes
5 33 (1.93%) Grafana
6 22 (1.29%) SCOM
7 21 (1.23%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.11%) Jamf Pro
9 16 (0.94%) Prometheus
10 10 (0.59%) WMI
11 9 (0.53%) vCenter Server
12 7 (0.41%) Control-M
12 7 (0.41%) Kibana
12 7 (0.41%) vRealize
13 6 (0.35%) Packer
14 5 (0.29%) PowerCLI
15 4 (0.23%) Rancher
15 4 (0.23%) SCOrch
15 4 (0.23%) VxRail
16 3 (0.18%) SELinux
Vendors
1 494 (28.91%) Microsoft
2 75 (4.39%) Cisco
3 67 (3.92%) Remedy
4 66 (3.86%) Oracle
5 64 (3.74%) SAP
6 63 (3.69%) Splunk
7 59 (3.45%) VMware
8 51 (2.98%) Salesforce
9 46 (2.69%) Dynatrace
10 42 (2.46%) CyberArk
11 34 (1.99%) Google
12 31 (1.81%) Apple
12 31 (1.81%) SolarWinds
13 29 (1.70%) BMC
13 29 (1.70%) Snow
14 24 (1.40%) Workday
15 22 (1.29%) Adobe
15 22 (1.29%) IBM
15 22 (1.29%) Okta
15 22 (1.29%) Red Hat