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 21 January 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
21 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 66 70
Rank change year-on-year -5 +4 +55
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,122 890 1,099
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.48% 3.34% 2.98%
As % of the Vendors category 7.51% 7.26% 6.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 791 491 721
10th Percentile £204 £200 £165
25th Percentile £350 £356 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% - -4.76%
75th Percentile £575 £588 £625
90th Percentile £688 £656 £700
UK median daily rate £485 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -1.92% -1.10% -1.96%
Number of hourly rates quoted 43 24 37
10th Percentile £15.52 £15.06 £15.43
25th Percentile £16.05 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.46 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +10.05% +21.34%
75th Percentile £26.06 £23.40 £30.00
90th Percentile £67.36 £29.70 £63.50
UK median hourly rate £19.25 £22.50 £17.72
% change year-on-year -14.44% +26.98% +12.26%

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 14,940 12,252 16,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.27% 45.97% 43.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,832 7,390 10,412
10th Percentile £300 £288 £250
25th Percentile £410 £410 £403
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £708 £715 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.78%
Number of hourly rates quoted 701 353 745
10th Percentile £15.38 £15.62 £13.15
25th Percentile £17.96 £18.20 £16.25
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.00 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.58% -15.49% +9.23%
75th Percentile £48.75 £64.10 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.00 £80.75 £70.66
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -13.36% -21.43% +12.63%

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 21 January 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 21 January 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 21 January 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 -39 442 £480 -8.57% 100
North of England +6 215 £500 +22.85% 61
South East +35 160 £413 -8.33% 68
Midlands +1 148 £475 +13.10% 26
North West 0 127 £488 +21.88% 34
West Midlands +6 122 £475 +2.70% 15
Yorkshire -2 81 £525 -2.33% 23
East of England -1 74 £528 +0.57% 18
South West +22 73 £600 +19.40% 13
East Midlands -13 25 £425 +19.38% 10
North East -13 7 £350 +133.33% 5
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 74 (6.60%) Confluence
2 73 (6.51%) SharePoint
3 51 (4.55%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.89%) Skype for Business
5 9 (0.80%) nginx
6 6 (0.53%) Apache
6 6 (0.53%) Appian
6 6 (0.53%) Camunda
7 4 (0.36%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.27%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.27%) CICS
8 3 (0.27%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.27%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.27%) SAS
9 2 (0.18%) IIS
9 2 (0.18%) JBoss
10 1 (0.089%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.089%) CMS
10 1 (0.089%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.089%) WebSphere
Applications
1 72 (6.42%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (4.99%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (4.72%) Microsoft Project
4 25 (2.23%) MS Visio
5 20 (1.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 9 (0.80%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.45%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.36%) Autodesk Inventor
8 4 (0.36%) Trello
9 2 (0.18%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.089%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 37 (3.30%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
3 8 (0.71%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.62%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 7 (0.62%) SAP MM
5 6 (0.53%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.27%) SAP GRC
7 2 (0.18%) NetSuite
7 2 (0.18%) SAP Business One
7 2 (0.18%) Workday HCM
8 1 (0.089%) Actimize
8 1 (0.089%) assyst
8 1 (0.089%) Maximo
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle Applications
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle ERP
8 1 (0.089%) Oracle HRMS
8 1 (0.089%) SAP CO
8 1 (0.089%) SAP FI/CO
8 1 (0.089%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 237 (21.12%) Azure
2 180 (16.04%) Microsoft 365
3 140 (12.48%) AWS
4 86 (7.66%) Entra ID
5 66 (5.88%) SaaS
6 63 (5.61%) Power Platform
7 57 (5.08%) Azure DevOps
8 52 (4.63%) GCP
9 32 (2.85%) OneDrive
10 22 (1.96%) GitHub
11 18 (1.60%) Power Automate
12 17 (1.52%) AWS KMS
13 16 (1.43%) Amazon S3
14 15 (1.34%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 15 (1.34%) Amazon EC2
14 15 (1.34%) Amazon ELB
14 15 (1.34%) Sauce Labs
14 15 (1.34%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 13 (1.16%) Azure Logic Apps
16 10 (0.89%) Amazon ECS
Communications & Networking
1 72 (6.42%) DNS
2 50 (4.46%) VPN
3 44 (3.92%) Firewall
4 39 (3.48%) DHCP
5 38 (3.39%) Wireless
6 35 (3.12%) Wi-Fi
7 29 (2.58%) WAN
8 28 (2.50%) LAN
9 21 (1.87%) FTP
10 18 (1.60%) HTTP
10 18 (1.60%) Network Security
10 18 (1.60%) TCP/IP
11 16 (1.43%) SSH
12 15 (1.34%) BGP
12 15 (1.34%) SMTP
13 11 (0.98%) SD-WAN
13 11 (0.98%) VLAN
14 10 (0.89%) Cisco Wireless
14 10 (0.89%) Skype
15 9 (0.80%) Cisco ISE
Database & Business Intelligence
1 44 (3.92%) Power BI
2 23 (2.05%) Relational Database
3 22 (1.96%) SQL Server
4 21 (1.87%) MySQL
5 19 (1.69%) Amazon RDS
6 18 (1.60%) Metadata
6 18 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
7 16 (1.43%) Tableau
8 13 (1.16%) Amazon Aurora
9 9 (0.80%) Data Warehouse
10 8 (0.71%) MongoDB
11 7 (0.62%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.62%) SQL Server Integration Services
12 6 (0.53%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.53%) DB2
12 6 (0.53%) Oracle Reports
13 4 (0.36%) Metadata Repository
13 4 (0.36%) Neo4j
13 4 (0.36%) Redis
14 2 (0.18%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 198 (17.65%) JIRA
2 53 (4.72%) Jenkins
3 41 (3.65%) Git
4 25 (2.23%) GitLab
5 16 (1.43%) Browser DevTools
6 15 (1.34%) Android Studio
6 15 (1.34%) Eclipse
6 15 (1.34%) Xcode
7 14 (1.25%) Selenium
7 14 (1.25%) Vagrant
8 12 (1.07%) Postman
8 12 (1.07%) REST Assured
9 10 (0.89%) Cucumber
10 7 (0.62%) TestRail
11 4 (0.36%) Gatling
11 4 (0.36%) JMeter
11 4 (0.36%) LoadRunner
11 4 (0.36%) Metasploit
11 4 (0.36%) NeoLoad
12 3 (0.27%) Burp Suite
General
1 448 (39.93%) Social Skills
2 225 (20.05%) Finance
3 170 (15.15%) Analytical Skills
4 109 (9.71%) Public Sector
5 51 (4.55%) Banking
6 43 (3.83%) Military
7 42 (3.74%) Telecoms
8 39 (3.48%) Documentation Skills
8 39 (3.48%) Legal
9 26 (2.32%) Organisational Skills
10 21 (1.87%) Influencing Skills
11 19 (1.69%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 18 (1.60%) Presentation Skills
13 16 (1.43%) Law
14 12 (1.07%) Manufacturing
15 11 (0.98%) Aerospace
16 9 (0.80%) Billing
16 9 (0.80%) Marketing
17 8 (0.71%) Financial Institution
17 8 (0.71%) Retail
Job Titles
1 183 (16.31%) Architect
2 170 (15.15%) Analyst
3 98 (8.73%) ServiceNow Architect
4 94 (8.38%) Developer
5 90 (8.02%) Support Engineer
6 81 (7.22%) ServiceNow Developer
7 76 (6.77%) IT Support
8 65 (5.79%) Consultant
9 56 (4.99%) Lead
10 41 (3.65%) IT Engineer
10 41 (3.65%) Senior
11 37 (3.30%) Service Analyst
12 34 (3.03%) Business Analyst
12 34 (3.03%) IT Support Engineer
13 33 (2.94%) ServiceNow Manager
14 32 (2.85%) Project Manager
14 32 (2.85%) Service Architect
14 32 (2.85%) Solutions Architect
15 30 (2.67%) Technical Architect
16 28 (2.50%) Support Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 113 (10.07%) REST
2 88 (7.84%) SOAP
3 33 (2.94%) CSS
3 33 (2.94%) LDAP
4 32 (2.85%) AngularJS
5 31 (2.76%) SailPoint
6 21 (1.87%) Ajax
7 19 (1.69%) Flash
7 19 (1.69%) HTML
7 19 (1.69%) OpenID
7 19 (1.69%) React
8 17 (1.52%) JSON
9 16 (1.43%) GraphQL
10 11 (0.98%) Web Services
10 11 (0.98%) XML
11 10 (0.89%) SAML
12 9 (0.80%) .NET
12 9 (0.80%) ADO
12 9 (0.80%) OAuth
13 8 (0.71%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 136 (12.12%) CMDB
2 71 (6.33%) Onboarding
3 57 (5.08%) Product Ownership
4 41 (3.65%) Replication
5 30 (2.67%) Data Centre
6 28 (2.50%) Management Information System
7 23 (2.05%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (2.05%) Self-Motivation
8 20 (1.78%) Mobile App
9 19 (1.69%) Linux Command Line
10 17 (1.52%) Security Posture
10 17 (1.52%) Video Conferencing
11 16 (1.43%) Smartphone
12 14 (1.25%) Analytical Mindset
12 14 (1.25%) Cloud Native
12 14 (1.25%) Driving Licence
13 12 (1.07%) Data Protection Act
14 9 (0.80%) Virtual Team
15 8 (0.71%) Low-Code
16 7 (0.62%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 244 (21.75%) Windows
2 100 (8.91%) Windows 10
3 74 (6.60%) Linux
4 38 (3.39%) Mac OS
5 36 (3.21%) Android
6 32 (2.85%) Unix
7 21 (1.87%) Windows Server
8 18 (1.60%) Apple iOS
9 16 (1.43%) VMS
10 14 (1.25%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.80%) Ubuntu
11 9 (0.80%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.45%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.45%) zOS
13 3 (0.27%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.089%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.089%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.089%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.089%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 381 (33.96%) ITSM
2 286 (25.49%) ITIL
3 256 (22.82%) Agile
4 209 (18.63%) Service Management
5 193 (17.20%) Problem-Solving
6 153 (13.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 149 (13.28%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 143 (12.75%) DevOps
9 125 (11.14%) Change Management
10 121 (10.78%) Customer Service
11 111 (9.89%) Continuous Improvement
12 102 (9.09%) CI/CD
13 81 (7.22%) Roadmaps
14 78 (6.95%) Service Delivery
15 73 (6.51%) User Acceptance Testing
15 73 (6.51%) Workflow
16 71 (6.33%) Project Management
17 70 (6.24%) Migration
18 69 (6.15%) Data Modelling
19 68 (6.06%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 108 (9.63%) Python
2 100 (8.91%) JavaScript
3 74 (6.60%) PowerShell
4 71 (6.33%) SQL
5 63 (5.61%) Java
6 34 (3.03%) Perl
7 19 (1.69%) Groovy
8 15 (1.34%) Bash
9 12 (1.07%) Shell Script
10 11 (0.98%) VB
11 10 (0.89%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.80%) VBScript
13 7 (0.62%) ABAP
13 7 (0.62%) Go
13 7 (0.62%) Lisp
14 6 (0.53%) Kusto Query Language
15 5 (0.45%) BeanShell
15 5 (0.45%) PHP
15 5 (0.45%) PL/SQL
15 5 (0.45%) REXX
Qualifications
1 317 (28.25%) Security Cleared
2 258 (22.99%) SC Cleared
3 114 (10.16%) Degree
4 31 (2.76%) TOGAF Certification
5 21 (1.87%) DV Cleared
6 19 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
6 19 (1.69%) ITIL Certification
7 17 (1.52%) CCNP
8 16 (1.43%) Microsoft Certification
9 14 (1.25%) CISSP
9 14 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
10 12 (1.07%) Azure Certification
11 11 (0.98%) AWS Certification
11 11 (0.98%) PMI Certification
12 10 (0.89%) ISTQB
13 9 (0.80%) A+ Certification
13 9 (0.80%) ACTC
13 9 (0.80%) BPSS Clearance
13 9 (0.80%) CISM
13 9 (0.80%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (4.81%) QA
2 53 (4.72%) SLA
3 41 (3.65%) GRC
4 37 (3.30%) GDPR
5 36 (3.21%) Data Quality
6 22 (1.96%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 18 (1.60%) NIST
7 18 (1.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 16 (1.43%) PMO
9 12 (1.07%) PCI DSS
10 10 (0.89%) Accessibility
11 7 (0.62%) COBIT
11 7 (0.62%) HIPAA
12 6 (0.53%) Cyber Essentials
12 6 (0.53%) ISO/IEC 19770
13 4 (0.36%) SOC 2
14 3 (0.27%) Actionable Recommendations
14 3 (0.27%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.27%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
14 3 (0.27%) NIST 800
System Software
1 155 (13.81%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.67%) VMware Infrastructure
3 27 (2.41%) Docker
4 19 (1.69%) GPFS
4 19 (1.69%) NFS
5 17 (1.52%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (1.52%) vSphere
6 14 (1.25%) DFS Replication
7 10 (0.89%) BitLocker
8 9 (0.80%) Dovecot
8 9 (0.80%) Postfix
8 9 (0.80%) Squid
9 5 (0.45%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 2 (0.18%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 2 (0.18%) Virtual Desktop
11 1 (0.089%) Firmware
11 1 (0.089%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.089%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.089%) RACF
11 1 (0.089%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 58 (5.17%) SCCM
2 50 (4.46%) Terraform
3 41 (3.65%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.67%) OPNET
5 28 (2.50%) Ansible
5 28 (2.50%) Grafana
6 20 (1.78%) Prometheus
7 17 (1.52%) Jamf Pro
7 17 (1.52%) vRealize
8 13 (1.16%) Nessus
9 12 (1.07%) Kubernetes
9 12 (1.07%) RSA Archer
10 11 (0.98%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.80%) FortiGate
11 9 (0.80%) Proxmox
12 4 (0.36%) Pingdom
12 4 (0.36%) Rancher
13 3 (0.27%) Control-M
13 3 (0.27%) Nmap
13 3 (0.27%) OMEGAMON
Vendors
1 244 (21.75%) Microsoft
2 91 (8.11%) Remedy
3 63 (5.61%) Oracle
4 62 (5.53%) Cisco
5 59 (5.26%) SAP
6 40 (3.57%) Salesforce
6 40 (3.57%) Splunk
7 35 (3.12%) VMware
8 34 (3.03%) Apple
9 33 (2.94%) Atlassian
10 31 (2.76%) IBM
11 30 (2.67%) Workday
12 21 (1.87%) Snow
13 18 (1.60%) HP
14 17 (1.52%) BMC
15 15 (1.34%) Zscaler
16 14 (1.25%) Citrix
17 11 (0.98%) CyberArk
17 11 (0.98%) F5
17 11 (0.98%) Palo Alto