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 27 June 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
27 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 64 81
Rank change year-on-year -3 +17 +16
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,559 946 964
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.59% 3.74% 2.59%
As % of the Vendors category 8.81% 7.91% 6.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,049 583 562
10th Percentile £220 £213 £196
25th Percentile £400 £313 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £584 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £510 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.37% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 50 75 106
10th Percentile £16.01 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £14.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £19.72 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% +15.46% -34.80%
75th Percentile £35.22 £29.88 £21.37
90th Percentile £85.53 £58.25 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £17.45 £16.30
% change year-on-year +11.78% +7.02% -34.80%

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 17,688 11,964 15,851
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.69% 47.35% 42.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,279 7,588 10,036
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £403 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.98% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £517
% change year-on-year - -3.29% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 951 545 1,055
10th Percentile £16.00 £14.84 £12.40
25th Percentile £19.34 £17.50 £14.55
Median hourly rate £35.00 £27.13 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year +29.03% +10.71% -34.67%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £81.25 £69.29 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.40 £24.18
% change year-on-year +33.82% +5.05% -42.64%

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 27 June 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 27 June 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 27 June 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 +12 680 £525 +2.19% 132
North of England -8 290 £510 +13.33% 55
South East +8 280 £525 +42.86% 89
Midlands +4 169 £425 -17.48% 27
North West -9 155 £443 -11.23% 37
West Midlands -12 125 £459 -11.73% 19
Yorkshire -6 124 £545 +36.25% 14
East of England -38 59 £525 +110.00% 11
South West -42 45 £375 +50.00% 12
East Midlands +16 38 £340 -33.66% 8
North East -25 16 £450 +38.46% 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 84 (5.39%) Confluence
2 74 (4.75%) SharePoint
3 45 (2.89%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.77%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.45%) Apache
6 3 (0.19%) CMS
6 3 (0.19%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.13%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.13%) IIS
7 2 (0.13%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.13%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.13%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.13%) SAS
7 2 (0.13%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.064%) Appian
8 1 (0.064%) Drupal
8 1 (0.064%) Tomcat
Applications
1 68 (4.36%) Microsoft Excel
2 66 (4.23%) Microsoft Office
3 30 (1.92%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.60%) Microsoft Project
5 16 (1.03%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.64%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.51%) Revit
8 5 (0.32%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.064%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.064%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 59 (3.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (0.64%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.19%) Maximo
6 2 (0.13%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.13%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.13%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.13%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.13%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.13%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.13%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.13%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.13%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.064%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.064%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 317 (20.33%) Azure
2 218 (13.98%) AWS
3 167 (10.71%) Microsoft 365
4 124 (7.95%) Entra ID
5 105 (6.74%) Power Platform
6 80 (5.13%) SaaS
7 56 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
8 55 (3.53%) GCP
9 32 (2.05%) OneDrive
10 22 (1.41%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 20 (1.28%) Amazon S3
11 20 (1.28%) Microsoft Copilot
12 18 (1.15%) Amazon EC2
12 18 (1.15%) GitHub
13 17 (1.09%) Datadog
14 16 (1.03%) Azure Monitor
14 16 (1.03%) Power Automate
15 15 (0.96%) Serverless
15 15 (0.96%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 14 (0.90%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 77 (4.94%) DNS
2 71 (4.55%) DHCP
3 63 (4.04%) Firewall
4 48 (3.08%) VPN
5 36 (2.31%) Wireless
6 33 (2.12%) LAN
6 33 (2.12%) Network Security
7 31 (1.99%) TCP/IP
7 31 (1.99%) WAN
8 27 (1.73%) Wi-Fi
9 22 (1.41%) VLAN
10 20 (1.28%) SAN
11 19 (1.22%) NAS
12 18 (1.15%) SSL
13 15 (0.96%) Cisco IOS
13 15 (0.96%) NX-OS
13 15 (0.96%) Structured Cabling
14 14 (0.90%) Internet
14 14 (0.90%) SD-WAN
15 13 (0.83%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 86 (5.52%) Power BI
2 43 (2.76%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.60%) PostgreSQL
4 23 (1.48%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (1.09%) Data Warehouse
6 15 (0.96%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 11 (0.71%) Metadata
7 11 (0.71%) Power Query
8 8 (0.51%) MySQL
9 7 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.45%) Azure SQL Database
9 7 (0.45%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.38%) Tableau
11 5 (0.32%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.32%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.32%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.26%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.26%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.26%) Neo4j
12 4 (0.26%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 264 (16.93%) JIRA
2 71 (4.55%) Git
3 24 (1.54%) GitLab
3 24 (1.54%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.45%) Selenium
5 6 (0.38%) Postman
6 5 (0.32%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.32%) JMeter
6 5 (0.32%) LoadRunner
6 5 (0.32%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.26%) Flyway
7 4 (0.26%) Gatling
7 4 (0.26%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.13%) Artifactory
8 2 (0.13%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.13%) JUnit
8 2 (0.13%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.13%) TestRail
8 2 (0.13%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.064%) SonarQube
General
1 481 (30.85%) Social Skills
2 300 (19.24%) Finance
3 191 (12.25%) Analytical Skills
4 125 (8.02%) Public Sector
5 89 (5.71%) Banking
6 66 (4.23%) Telecoms
7 54 (3.46%) Organisational Skills
8 46 (2.95%) Documentation Skills
9 38 (2.44%) Legal
10 33 (2.12%) Military
11 21 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.35%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (1.35%) Retail
12 19 (1.22%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (1.15%) French Language
14 17 (1.09%) Manufacturing
15 15 (0.96%) Billing
16 13 (0.83%) Spanish Language
17 12 (0.77%) Italian Language
17 12 (0.77%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 251 (16.10%) Architect
2 220 (14.11%) Analyst
3 150 (9.62%) Developer
4 148 (9.49%) ServiceNow Architect
5 124 (7.95%) ServiceNow Developer
6 106 (6.80%) Senior
7 87 (5.58%) Consultant
8 81 (5.20%) IT Support
9 78 (5.00%) Lead
10 77 (4.94%) Support Engineer
11 68 (4.36%) Solutions Architect
12 67 (4.30%) Business Analyst
13 59 (3.78%) ServiceNow Consultant
14 58 (3.72%) Project Manager
15 56 (3.59%) IT Engineer
15 56 (3.59%) Service Analyst
16 49 (3.14%) IT Support Engineer
17 46 (2.95%) Technical Architect
18 40 (2.57%) Delivery Manager
18 40 (2.57%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 178 (11.42%) REST
2 106 (6.80%) SOAP
3 39 (2.50%) SailPoint
4 34 (2.18%) LDAP
5 32 (2.05%) HTML
5 32 (2.05%) Middleware
6 30 (1.92%) CSS
6 30 (1.92%) JSON
7 27 (1.73%) OAuth
8 25 (1.60%) Web Services
8 25 (1.60%) XML
9 24 (1.54%) OpenID
10 21 (1.35%) AngularJS
11 19 (1.22%) SAML
12 17 (1.09%) Flash
13 15 (0.96%) .NET
14 13 (0.83%) Ajax
15 11 (0.71%) JDBC
15 11 (0.71%) Microsoft Graph
15 11 (0.71%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 218 (13.98%) CMDB
2 118 (7.57%) Onboarding
3 70 (4.49%) Product Ownership
4 50 (3.21%) Data Centre
5 46 (2.95%) Management Information System
6 42 (2.69%) Cloud Native
7 37 (2.37%) Enterprise Software
8 33 (2.12%) Replication
9 26 (1.67%) Security Posture
10 25 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
11 23 (1.48%) Linux Command Line
12 22 (1.41%) PKI
13 20 (1.28%) Virtual Team
14 17 (1.09%) Data Structures
15 16 (1.03%) AI Agents
15 16 (1.03%) Data Protection Act
16 15 (0.96%) Clustering
17 14 (0.90%) Analytical Mindset
17 14 (0.90%) Legacy Systems
18 10 (0.64%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 232 (14.88%) Windows
2 83 (5.32%) Linux
3 79 (5.07%) Windows 10
4 42 (2.69%) Windows Server
5 37 (2.37%) Mac OS
6 30 (1.92%) Apple iOS
7 27 (1.73%) Unix
8 17 (1.09%) Android
9 12 (0.77%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 12 (0.77%) Windows 7
10 4 (0.26%) Amazon Linux
11 3 (0.19%) Check Point GAiA
11 3 (0.19%) VMS
11 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
11 3 (0.19%) zOS
12 2 (0.13%) Ubuntu
12 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2012
12 2 (0.13%) Windows Server 2019
13 1 (0.064%) MVS
13 1 (0.064%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 560 (35.92%) ITSM
2 442 (28.35%) ITIL
3 326 (20.91%) Agile
4 297 (19.05%) Service Management
5 270 (17.32%) Problem-Solving
6 261 (16.74%) Stakeholder Management
7 225 (14.43%) Continuous Improvement
8 184 (11.80%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 180 (11.55%) DevOps
10 178 (11.42%) Change Management
11 158 (10.13%) Customer Service
12 151 (9.69%) AI
13 150 (9.62%) Service Delivery
14 147 (9.43%) Migration
15 140 (8.98%) Roadmaps
16 131 (8.40%) Workflow
17 127 (8.15%) CI/CD
18 124 (7.95%) Data Modelling
19 106 (6.80%) Incident Management
20 104 (6.67%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 124 (7.95%) SQL
2 109 (6.99%) JavaScript
3 103 (6.61%) PowerShell
4 95 (6.09%) Python
5 61 (3.91%) Java
6 31 (1.99%) C#
7 14 (0.90%) VBScript
8 12 (0.77%) Bash
8 12 (0.77%) VB
9 11 (0.71%) TypeScript
10 10 (0.64%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.58%) Groovy
12 7 (0.45%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 5 (0.32%) Perl
13 5 (0.32%) T-SQL
14 4 (0.26%) BeanShell
14 4 (0.26%) Bicep
14 4 (0.26%) Cypher
14 4 (0.26%) Scala
14 4 (0.26%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 415 (26.62%) Security Cleared
2 296 (18.99%) SC Cleared
3 120 (7.70%) Degree
4 90 (5.77%) DV Cleared
5 42 (2.69%) ITIL Certification
6 41 (2.63%) Cisco Certification
7 37 (2.37%) PMP
8 32 (2.05%) CISSP
9 31 (1.99%) CCNP
10 30 (1.92%) PMI Certification
11 25 (1.60%) CISM
12 21 (1.35%) BPSS Clearance
13 20 (1.28%) CCNA
14 19 (1.22%) Microsoft Certification
15 15 (0.96%) Network+ Certification
15 15 (0.96%) Server+ Certification
16 14 (0.90%) Computer Science Degree
17 11 (0.71%) AWS Certification
17 11 (0.71%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
18 10 (0.64%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 74 (4.75%) Data Quality
2 73 (4.68%) SLA
3 56 (3.59%) GRC
4 47 (3.01%) QA
5 45 (2.89%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (2.57%) GDPR
7 36 (2.31%) NIST
8 28 (1.80%) PMO
9 20 (1.28%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (0.83%) COBIT
11 12 (0.77%) Accessibility
11 12 (0.77%) Cyber Essentials
12 9 (0.58%) NCSC
13 8 (0.51%) HIPAA
14 7 (0.45%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.32%) GxP
15 5 (0.32%) ISO 9001
15 5 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 5 (0.32%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.19%) NIST 800
System Software
1 176 (11.29%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.37%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.28%) Docker
4 18 (1.15%) NFS
5 17 (1.09%) GPFS
5 17 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (1.09%) vSphere
6 16 (1.03%) Virtual Machines
7 13 (0.83%) BitLocker
8 7 (0.45%) Firmware
8 7 (0.45%) IAG
9 6 (0.38%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.26%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.26%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.19%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.13%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 2 (0.13%) RACF
12 2 (0.13%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.13%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.064%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 60 (3.85%) Terraform
2 52 (3.34%) Microsoft Intune
3 48 (3.08%) SCCM
4 30 (1.92%) Ansible
5 25 (1.60%) Grafana
6 24 (1.54%) Kubernetes
7 21 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (1.15%) Prometheus
9 16 (1.03%) Jamf Pro
10 14 (0.90%) vRealize
11 11 (0.71%) WMI
12 9 (0.58%) RSA Archer
13 7 (0.45%) CASB
13 7 (0.45%) SCOM
13 7 (0.45%) VxRail
14 4 (0.26%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.26%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.26%) PingFederate
14 4 (0.26%) QRadar
14 4 (0.26%) Salt
Vendors
1 319 (20.46%) Microsoft
2 92 (5.90%) Cisco
3 72 (4.62%) Remedy
4 64 (4.11%) SAP
5 62 (3.98%) Splunk
6 59 (3.78%) Oracle
7 43 (2.76%) VMware
8 41 (2.63%) Salesforce
9 35 (2.25%) CyberArk
9 35 (2.25%) Workday
10 30 (1.92%) BMC
11 28 (1.80%) Fortinet
12 27 (1.73%) Palo Alto
13 26 (1.67%) Google
14 24 (1.54%) Apple
14 24 (1.54%) F5
14 24 (1.54%) IBM
15 23 (1.48%) Dynatrace
16 21 (1.35%) Snow
16 21 (1.35%) SolarWinds