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 19 November 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
19 Nov 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 71 71 64
Rank change year-on-year 0 -7 +73
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,094 945 1,249
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.60% 3.06% 3.18%
As % of the Vendors category 7.57% 6.79% 7.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 719 525 829
10th Percentile £204 £220 £170
25th Percentile £320 £360 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £625
90th Percentile £651 £638 £700
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 68 22 47
10th Percentile £15.50 £16.00 £15.58
25th Percentile £15.94 £19.14 £16.70
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.78 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -13.34% +8.88% +29.03%
75th Percentile £31.02 £27.61 £31.09
90th Percentile £84.99 £29.90 £64.95
UK median hourly rate £18.82 £22.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.36% +12.50% +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 14,454 13,909 17,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.56% 45.11% 44.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,299 8,356 11,614
10th Percentile £286 £300 £255
25th Percentile £405 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £700 £725 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 728 430 621
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.50 £15.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.00 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.08 £35.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.36% -22.22% +73.08%
75th Percentile £45.20 £65.00 £63.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.21 £44.50
% change year-on-year -16.75% -32.12% +73.08%

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 19 November 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 19 November 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 19 November 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 -29 420 £486 -7.38% 255
North of England +4 210 £500 - 49
South East +26 155 £406 -12.80% 107
Midlands +3 137 £475 +8.57% 42
North West +9 126 £475 -2.56% 32
West Midlands +7 116 £475 +2.70% 33
East of England +26 88 £512 -2.48% 32
Yorkshire -21 75 £533 -0.93% 13
South West +39 71 £446 -11.68% 25
East Midlands -14 21 £438 +4.48% 9
North East -3 9 £350 +133.33% 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 81 (7.40%) Confluence
2 61 (5.58%) SharePoint
3 39 (3.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (1.10%) nginx
5 9 (0.82%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 6 (0.55%) Skype for Business
7 4 (0.37%) Appian
7 4 (0.37%) Camunda
7 4 (0.37%) SAS
8 3 (0.27%) Apache
8 3 (0.27%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.27%) OpenStack
9 2 (0.18%) Apache Spark
9 2 (0.18%) IIS
9 2 (0.18%) JBoss
10 1 (0.091%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.091%) CICS
10 1 (0.091%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.091%) Tuxedo
10 1 (0.091%) WebLogic
Applications
1 67 (6.12%) Microsoft Excel
1 67 (6.12%) Microsoft Office
2 33 (3.02%) MS Visio
3 32 (2.93%) Microsoft Project
4 20 (1.83%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (1.10%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 5 (0.46%) Spreadsheet
7 4 (0.37%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (0.37%) Trello
8 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
9 1 (0.091%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 50 (4.57%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.82%) Salesforce CRM
3 9 (0.82%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.73%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.64%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 7 (0.64%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.55%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.18%) assyst
7 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.18%) SAP CO
7 2 (0.18%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.091%) Actimize
8 1 (0.091%) Maximo
8 1 (0.091%) Oracle EBS
8 1 (0.091%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.091%) Oracle HRMS
8 1 (0.091%) SAP SD
8 1 (0.091%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 191 (17.46%) Azure
2 167 (15.27%) Microsoft 365
3 136 (12.43%) AWS
4 71 (6.49%) SaaS
5 68 (6.22%) Entra ID
6 57 (5.21%) Power Platform
7 53 (4.84%) Azure DevOps
8 30 (2.74%) Amazon CloudWatch
8 30 (2.74%) Amazon S3
8 30 (2.74%) OneDrive
9 28 (2.56%) Amazon EC2
10 25 (2.29%) Amazon ELB
10 25 (2.29%) Virtual Private Cloud
11 24 (2.19%) AWS KMS
12 22 (2.01%) GCP
12 22 (2.01%) Power Automate
13 19 (1.74%) Amazon ECS
14 18 (1.65%) Sauce Labs
14 18 (1.65%) Serverless
15 17 (1.55%) GitHub
Communications & Networking
1 78 (7.13%) DNS
2 50 (4.57%) Firewall
3 38 (3.47%) Wireless
4 36 (3.29%) DHCP
5 35 (3.20%) VPN
6 32 (2.93%) HTTP
6 32 (2.93%) Wi-Fi
7 25 (2.29%) SMTP
8 24 (2.19%) SSH
9 23 (2.10%) FTP
10 19 (1.74%) LAN
10 19 (1.74%) TCP/IP
10 19 (1.74%) WAN
11 18 (1.65%) SSL
12 14 (1.28%) BGP
12 14 (1.28%) Cisco ISE
13 12 (1.10%) IMAP
13 12 (1.10%) Network Security
13 12 (1.10%) OpenLDAP
14 10 (0.91%) Cisco Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 37 (3.38%) Power BI
2 34 (3.11%) Relational Database
3 32 (2.93%) Amazon RDS
4 23 (2.10%) PostgreSQL
5 20 (1.83%) MySQL
6 16 (1.46%) Amazon Aurora
7 13 (1.19%) Tableau
8 12 (1.10%) Metadata
9 8 (0.73%) DynamoDB
9 8 (0.73%) Oracle ODI
10 6 (0.55%) SQL Server
11 5 (0.46%) DB2
12 4 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.37%) Redis
13 3 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
13 3 (0.27%) MongoDB
13 3 (0.27%) RDBMS
13 3 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 2 (0.18%) Azure SQL Database
14 2 (0.18%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 224 (20.48%) JIRA
2 50 (4.57%) Git
3 39 (3.56%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.19%) Vagrant
5 19 (1.74%) Browser DevTools
6 18 (1.65%) Android Studio
6 18 (1.65%) Eclipse
6 18 (1.65%) Xcode
7 9 (0.82%) GitLab
8 7 (0.64%) JUnit
9 5 (0.46%) Cucumber
9 5 (0.46%) Maven
9 5 (0.46%) TeamCity
10 4 (0.37%) Metasploit
11 3 (0.27%) AdminStudio
11 3 (0.27%) Burp Suite
12 2 (0.18%) Snyk
12 2 (0.18%) sqlmap
13 1 (0.091%) Postman
13 1 (0.091%) Sonatype Nexus
General
1 447 (40.86%) Social Skills
2 223 (20.38%) Finance
3 182 (16.64%) Analytical Skills
4 106 (9.69%) Public Sector
5 39 (3.56%) Banking
6 35 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
6 35 (3.20%) Telecoms
7 31 (2.83%) Legal
8 30 (2.74%) Organisational Skills
9 27 (2.47%) Presentation Skills
10 23 (2.10%) Military
11 20 (1.83%) Influencing Skills
11 20 (1.83%) Manufacturing
12 15 (1.37%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 12 (1.10%) Aerospace
13 12 (1.10%) Law
14 10 (0.91%) Marketing
15 9 (0.82%) Pharmaceutical
16 7 (0.64%) Electronics
16 7 (0.64%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 166 (15.17%) Analyst
2 136 (12.43%) Architect
3 106 (9.69%) Developer
4 101 (9.23%) Support Engineer
5 81 (7.40%) ServiceNow Developer
6 73 (6.67%) Consultant
7 72 (6.58%) ServiceNow Architect
8 70 (6.40%) IT Support
9 49 (4.48%) Senior
10 43 (3.93%) Business Analyst
11 40 (3.66%) Lead
12 38 (3.47%) IT Engineer
13 37 (3.38%) Service Analyst
14 33 (3.02%) DevOps Engineer
15 32 (2.93%) Service Manager
15 32 (2.93%) Solutions Architect
16 31 (2.83%) IT Support Engineer
17 30 (2.74%) ServiceNow Consultant
18 28 (2.56%) Desktop Support
19 26 (2.38%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 92 (8.41%) REST
2 81 (7.40%) SOAP
3 61 (5.58%) AngularJS
4 37 (3.38%) React
5 35 (3.20%) CSS
5 35 (3.20%) LDAP
6 32 (2.93%) Web Services
7 28 (2.56%) HTML
7 28 (2.56%) JSON
8 21 (1.92%) Ajax
9 19 (1.74%) GraphQL
9 19 (1.74%) SAML
10 17 (1.55%) .NET
10 17 (1.55%) SailPoint
11 15 (1.37%) XML
12 14 (1.28%) HTML5
12 14 (1.28%) jQuery
12 14 (1.28%) ODBC
13 13 (1.19%) Apache Camel
13 13 (1.19%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 108 (9.87%) CMDB
2 48 (4.39%) Onboarding
3 37 (3.38%) Replication
4 33 (3.02%) Data Centre
5 28 (2.56%) Product Ownership
6 25 (2.29%) Management Information System
6 25 (2.29%) Mobile App
7 24 (2.19%) Self-Motivation
8 23 (2.10%) Enterprise Software
9 21 (1.92%) Driving Licence
10 18 (1.65%) Security Posture
11 17 (1.55%) Video Conferencing
12 16 (1.46%) iPhone
13 15 (1.37%) Analytical Mindset
14 13 (1.19%) Smartphone
15 12 (1.10%) Cloud Native
15 12 (1.10%) Data Protection Act
15 12 (1.10%) iPad
15 12 (1.10%) Linux Command Line
15 12 (1.10%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 236 (21.57%) Windows
2 80 (7.31%) Windows 10
3 75 (6.86%) Linux
4 36 (3.29%) Mac OS
5 35 (3.20%) Android
6 30 (2.74%) Apple iOS
7 29 (2.65%) Unix
8 26 (2.38%) VMS
9 24 (2.19%) Amazon Linux
10 14 (1.28%) Ubuntu
11 8 (0.73%) Windows Server
12 5 (0.46%) Windows 7
13 4 (0.37%) CentOS
13 4 (0.37%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 3 (0.27%) Windows Server 2016
15 2 (0.18%) zOS
16 1 (0.091%) Kali Linux
16 1 (0.091%) Mac OS X
16 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2012
16 1 (0.091%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 380 (34.73%) ITSM
2 268 (24.50%) ITIL
3 251 (22.94%) Agile
4 229 (20.93%) Problem-Solving
5 197 (18.01%) Service Management
6 149 (13.62%) DevOps
7 139 (12.71%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 137 (12.52%) Stakeholder Management
9 132 (12.07%) Customer Service
10 117 (10.69%) Change Management
11 87 (7.95%) Scrum
12 86 (7.86%) Continuous Improvement
13 83 (7.59%) CI/CD
14 82 (7.50%) Service Delivery
15 73 (6.67%) Roadmaps
16 69 (6.31%) Project Management
17 67 (6.12%) Configuration Management
17 67 (6.12%) Migration
18 66 (6.03%) Analytics
19 64 (5.85%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 130 (11.88%) Python
2 99 (9.05%) JavaScript
3 86 (7.86%) PowerShell
4 71 (6.49%) Java
5 56 (5.12%) SQL
6 41 (3.75%) Perl
7 28 (2.56%) Groovy
8 23 (2.10%) Bash
9 21 (1.92%) TypeScript
10 16 (1.46%) Shell Script
11 7 (0.64%) ABAP
11 7 (0.64%) Lisp
12 6 (0.55%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.55%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.46%) VB
13 5 (0.46%) VBScript
14 4 (0.37%) Go
15 3 (0.27%) BeanShell
15 3 (0.27%) Bicep
15 3 (0.27%) C
Qualifications
1 300 (27.42%) Security Cleared
2 254 (23.22%) SC Cleared
3 120 (10.97%) Degree
4 24 (2.19%) Cisco Certification
5 23 (2.10%) CISSP
5 23 (2.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 23 (2.10%) ITIL Certification
6 22 (2.01%) Microsoft Certification
7 16 (1.46%) CISM
8 15 (1.37%) A+ Certification
9 14 (1.28%) AWS Certification
9 14 (1.28%) BPSS Clearance
9 14 (1.28%) CCNP
9 14 (1.28%) DV Cleared
10 13 (1.19%) ACSP
10 13 (1.19%) ACTC
10 13 (1.19%) CISA
11 12 (1.10%) Azure Certification
12 11 (1.01%) CCNA
12 11 (1.01%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 50 (4.57%) QA
2 48 (4.39%) GDPR
3 38 (3.47%) SLA
4 29 (2.65%) GRC
5 27 (2.47%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 27 (2.47%) NIST
6 23 (2.10%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 17 (1.55%) COBIT
8 15 (1.37%) Accessibility
9 14 (1.28%) PCI DSS
10 13 (1.19%) PMO
11 12 (1.10%) Data Quality
12 8 (0.73%) ISO/IEC 19770
12 8 (0.73%) NIST 800
13 7 (0.64%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 6 (0.55%) HIPAA
15 3 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.27%) California Consumer Privacy Act
15 3 (0.27%) WCAG
16 2 (0.18%) SOC 2
System Software
1 159 (14.53%) Active Directory
2 40 (3.66%) Docker
3 22 (2.01%) DFS Replication
4 13 (1.19%) VMware Infrastructure
5 12 (1.10%) Dovecot
5 12 (1.10%) Postfix
5 12 (1.10%) Squid
5 12 (1.10%) VMware ESXi
6 10 (0.91%) vSphere
7 9 (0.82%) GPFS
7 9 (0.82%) NFS
8 6 (0.55%) BitLocker
8 6 (0.55%) Virtual Desktop
9 4 (0.37%) Hyper-V
10 3 (0.27%) Firmware
11 2 (0.18%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.091%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 1 (0.091%) RACF
12 1 (0.091%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 49 (4.48%) SCCM
2 47 (4.30%) Terraform
3 35 (3.20%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (3.02%) Ansible
5 32 (2.93%) Grafana
6 29 (2.65%) Prometheus
7 27 (2.47%) Jamf Pro
7 27 (2.47%) Single Sign-On
8 17 (1.55%) Nessus
8 17 (1.55%) RSA Archer
9 10 (0.91%) OPNET
9 10 (0.91%) Proxmox
10 9 (0.82%) FortiGate
10 9 (0.82%) Kubernetes
10 9 (0.82%) vRealize
11 4 (0.37%) Rancher
12 3 (0.27%) Nmap
12 3 (0.27%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
12 3 (0.27%) vCenter Server
13 2 (0.18%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 291 (26.60%) Microsoft
2 82 (7.50%) Remedy
3 63 (5.76%) Oracle
4 59 (5.39%) Cisco
5 58 (5.30%) SAP
6 43 (3.93%) Splunk
7 38 (3.47%) Salesforce
8 31 (2.83%) Workday
9 28 (2.56%) Apple
10 23 (2.10%) BMC
11 22 (2.01%) VMware
12 21 (1.92%) Google
12 21 (1.92%) HP
12 21 (1.92%) Snow
13 20 (1.83%) IBM
14 15 (1.37%) Citrix
15 14 (1.28%) Atlassian
15 14 (1.28%) CheckPoint
15 14 (1.28%) Rapid7
16 13 (1.19%) Ivanti
472 ServiceNow jobs in England