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 April 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 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 69 83
Rank change year-on-year +2 +14 +22
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,389 835 977
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.51% 3.41% 2.64%
As % of the Vendors category 8.24% 7.19% 6.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 950 521 570
10th Percentile £213 £206 £165
25th Percentile £400 £331 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.48% +1.50%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £619
90th Percentile £700 £688 £720
UK median daily rate £500 £496 £513
% change year-on-year +0.81% -3.22% +2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 44 105
10th Percentile £15.87 £14.99 £14.48
25th Percentile £17.69 £15.22 £16.06
Median hourly rate £22.27 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +18.30% +15.46% -11.70%
75th Percentile £85.00 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile £98.00 £31.95 £28.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £18.82 £16.30
% change year-on-year +16.90% +15.46% -11.51%

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 16,849 11,612 15,594
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.59% 47.37% 42.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,980 7,529 9,955
10th Percentile £313 £296 £255
25th Percentile £413 £407 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £631
90th Percentile £705 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £518
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.97% -1.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 886 441 986
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.70 £18.13 £14.16
Median hourly rate £30.00 £28.75 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% +27.78% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £55.08
90th Percentile £78.40 £80.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.99 £22.50
% change year-on-year +7.18% +24.40% -48.70%

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 April 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 April 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 April 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 +4 604 £500 -4.76% 119
North of England -1 240 £518 +29.38% 60
South East +1 200 £500 +33.33% 67
Midlands +3 172 £424 -23.07% 32
West Midlands -6 132 £425 -22.87% 25
North West -2 129 £475 +16.14% 31
Yorkshire -9 99 £545 +36.25% 26
South West +3 69 £600 +9.09% 18
East of England -15 67 £525 +68.00% 12
East Midlands -8 33 £300 -41.46% 6
North East -5 15 £425 +41.67% 3
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 95 (6.84%) Confluence
2 63 (4.54%) SharePoint
3 51 (3.67%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.65%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.50%) Apache
6 6 (0.43%) Appian
7 5 (0.36%) Camunda
8 4 (0.29%) Apache Spark
8 4 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
8 4 (0.29%) SAS
9 3 (0.22%) CICS
9 3 (0.22%) CMS
10 2 (0.14%) HCL Notes
10 2 (0.14%) IIS
10 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
10 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
10 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
10 2 (0.14%) WebSphere
11 1 (0.072%) Apache Airflow
11 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
Applications
1 82 (5.90%) Microsoft Office
2 58 (4.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 58 (4.18%) Microsoft Project
3 21 (1.51%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 15 (1.08%) MS Visio
5 4 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
6 3 (0.22%) Chatbot
7 2 (0.14%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.14%) Revit
7 2 (0.14%) Trello
8 1 (0.072%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 1 (0.072%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 45 (3.24%) Remedy ITSM
2 13 (0.94%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.65%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 8 (0.58%) SAP FI
5 7 (0.50%) SAP MM
6 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
6 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
7 4 (0.29%) Maximo
8 3 (0.22%) SAP GRC
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
9 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
9 2 (0.14%) Salesforce CRM
9 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
9 2 (0.14%) Workday HCM
10 1 (0.072%) Payment Gateway
10 1 (0.072%) SAP CO
10 1 (0.072%) SAP FI/CO
10 1 (0.072%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 272 (19.58%) Azure
2 186 (13.39%) AWS
3 153 (11.02%) Microsoft 365
4 122 (8.78%) Entra ID
5 93 (6.70%) Power Platform
6 70 (5.04%) SaaS
7 60 (4.32%) GCP
8 56 (4.03%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (1.58%) Power Automate
10 19 (1.37%) GitHub
10 19 (1.37%) OneDrive
11 16 (1.15%) Amazon S3
12 15 (1.08%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (1.01%) Amazon EC2
13 14 (1.01%) Microsoft Copilot
14 13 (0.94%) AWS KMS
14 13 (0.94%) Serverless
15 12 (0.86%) Azure Logic Apps
15 12 (0.86%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 10 (0.72%) AWS Lambda
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.68%) DNS
2 51 (3.67%) DHCP
2 51 (3.67%) Firewall
3 50 (3.60%) VPN
4 38 (2.74%) Wireless
5 33 (2.38%) WAN
6 32 (2.30%) LAN
7 29 (2.09%) Network Security
8 23 (1.66%) Wi-Fi
9 20 (1.44%) TCP/IP
10 16 (1.15%) VLAN
11 14 (1.01%) Internet
12 12 (0.86%) SD-WAN
12 12 (0.86%) SSL
13 10 (0.72%) BIG-IP
13 10 (0.72%) NAS
13 10 (0.72%) SAN
14 9 (0.65%) BGP
14 9 (0.65%) Ethernet
14 9 (0.65%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 78 (5.62%) Power BI
2 36 (2.59%) SQL Server
3 23 (1.66%) Metadata
4 21 (1.51%) Amazon RDS
5 20 (1.44%) PostgreSQL
6 19 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
7 16 (1.15%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 16 (1.15%) Tableau
8 10 (0.72%) Power Query
9 9 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (0.65%) MongoDB
9 9 (0.65%) MySQL
10 8 (0.58%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (0.50%) DB2
12 6 (0.43%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
13 5 (0.36%) Data Lake
13 5 (0.36%) Redis
13 5 (0.36%) Relational Database
14 4 (0.29%) Metadata Repository
Development Applications
1 255 (18.36%) JIRA
2 60 (4.32%) Git
3 40 (2.88%) Jenkins
4 31 (2.23%) GitLab
5 17 (1.22%) Selenium
6 14 (1.01%) REST Assured
7 12 (0.86%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.86%) Postman
8 8 (0.58%) TestRail
9 5 (0.36%) JMeter
9 5 (0.36%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.29%) Gatling
10 4 (0.29%) JUnit
10 4 (0.29%) NeoLoad
11 3 (0.22%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.22%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.22%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.22%) Flyway
11 3 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
12 2 (0.14%) Robot Framework
General
1 435 (31.32%) Social Skills
2 286 (20.59%) Finance
3 184 (13.25%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (7.99%) Public Sector
5 81 (5.83%) Banking
6 63 (4.54%) Military
7 56 (4.03%) Organisational Skills
8 50 (3.60%) Telecoms
9 47 (3.38%) Legal
10 44 (3.17%) Documentation Skills
11 22 (1.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 20 (1.44%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.30%) Retail
14 16 (1.15%) Billing
15 13 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (0.86%) Financial Institution
16 12 (0.86%) Law
17 8 (0.58%) Aerospace
17 8 (0.58%) Manufacturing
18 7 (0.50%) French Language
Job Titles
1 271 (19.51%) Architect
2 188 (13.53%) Analyst
3 148 (10.66%) ServiceNow Architect
4 119 (8.57%) Developer
5 94 (6.77%) ServiceNow Developer
6 78 (5.62%) Lead
7 76 (5.47%) Consultant
7 76 (5.47%) Senior
8 74 (5.33%) IT Support
8 74 (5.33%) Support Engineer
9 55 (3.96%) Business Analyst
10 50 (3.60%) Project Manager
11 48 (3.46%) Solutions Architect
12 46 (3.31%) IT Engineer
13 44 (3.17%) ServiceNow Manager
14 43 (3.10%) IT Support Engineer
15 38 (2.74%) Service Analyst
16 37 (2.66%) ServiceNow Consultant
16 37 (2.66%) Technical Architect
17 34 (2.45%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 153 (11.02%) REST
2 98 (7.06%) SOAP
3 43 (3.10%) SailPoint
4 33 (2.38%) LDAP
5 29 (2.09%) OpenID
6 25 (1.80%) Middleware
7 24 (1.73%) CSS
8 23 (1.66%) AngularJS
9 22 (1.58%) JSON
9 22 (1.58%) OAuth
10 20 (1.44%) Flash
10 20 (1.44%) HTML
11 19 (1.37%) .NET
12 18 (1.30%) Web Services
13 17 (1.22%) XML
14 16 (1.15%) SAML
15 13 (0.94%) Kafka
16 12 (0.86%) Microsoft Graph
17 10 (0.72%) ADO
17 10 (0.72%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 169 (12.17%) CMDB
2 109 (7.85%) Onboarding
3 98 (7.06%) Product Ownership
4 36 (2.59%) Data Centre
5 35 (2.52%) Replication
6 34 (2.45%) Management Information System
7 25 (1.80%) Security Posture
8 23 (1.66%) Cloud Native
9 20 (1.44%) Linux Command Line
9 20 (1.44%) Self-Motivation
10 17 (1.22%) Data Structures
10 17 (1.22%) Enterprise Software
11 16 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
12 15 (1.08%) Virtual Team
13 13 (0.94%) Mainframe
13 13 (0.94%) PKI
14 11 (0.79%) Driving Licence
15 10 (0.72%) Clustering
16 9 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
16 9 (0.65%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 211 (15.19%) Windows
2 83 (5.98%) Windows 10
3 65 (4.68%) Linux
4 34 (2.45%) Windows Server
5 28 (2.02%) Mac OS
6 25 (1.80%) Android
7 24 (1.73%) Unix
8 19 (1.37%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.65%) Windows 7
10 8 (0.58%) zOS
11 6 (0.43%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 5 (0.36%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.072%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.072%) MVS
14 1 (0.072%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.072%) VMS
14 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 462 (33.26%) ITSM
2 373 (26.85%) ITIL
3 335 (24.12%) Agile
4 255 (18.36%) Service Management
5 202 (14.54%) Problem-Solving
6 200 (14.40%) Stakeholder Management
7 195 (14.04%) Continuous Improvement
8 167 (12.02%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 166 (11.95%) Change Management
10 156 (11.23%) DevOps
11 126 (9.07%) Migration
12 123 (8.86%) Customer Service
13 121 (8.71%) CI/CD
14 120 (8.64%) Data Modelling
15 118 (8.50%) Service Delivery
16 114 (8.21%) Roadmaps
17 109 (7.85%) Project Management
18 106 (7.63%) Workflow
19 101 (7.27%) AI
20 98 (7.06%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 125 (9.00%) SQL
2 93 (6.70%) JavaScript
3 88 (6.34%) Python
4 78 (5.62%) PowerShell
5 73 (5.26%) Java
6 27 (1.94%) C#
7 13 (0.94%) TypeScript
8 12 (0.86%) Bash
9 11 (0.79%) PL/SQL
9 11 (0.79%) VB
10 10 (0.72%) Perl
11 9 (0.65%) Groovy
11 9 (0.65%) VBScript
12 8 (0.58%) ABAP
12 8 (0.58%) BeanShell
12 8 (0.58%) JCL
12 8 (0.58%) REXX
13 7 (0.50%) Kusto Query Language
14 6 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.43%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 380 (27.36%) Security Cleared
2 283 (20.37%) SC Cleared
3 126 (9.07%) Degree
4 58 (4.18%) DV Cleared
5 33 (2.38%) PMP
6 31 (2.23%) Cisco Certification
7 30 (2.16%) PMI Certification
7 30 (2.16%) TOGAF Certification
8 29 (2.09%) ITIL Certification
9 26 (1.87%) CISSP
10 23 (1.66%) CISM
11 22 (1.58%) CCNP
12 18 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
13 13 (0.94%) Computer Science Degree
14 12 (0.86%) CCNA
14 12 (0.86%) Microsoft Certification
15 8 (0.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 8 (0.58%) ISTQB
15 8 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 7 (0.50%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 65 (4.68%) SLA
2 61 (4.39%) Data Quality
3 52 (3.74%) QA
4 50 (3.60%) GDPR
5 49 (3.53%) GRC
6 33 (2.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 26 (1.87%) NIST
8 25 (1.80%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 20 (1.44%) PMO
10 10 (0.72%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.72%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.65%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.58%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.29%) GxP
14 3 (0.22%) COBIT
14 3 (0.22%) NCSC
14 3 (0.22%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.14%) Government Security Classifications
15 2 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 170 (12.24%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.66%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.44%) GPFS
3 20 (1.44%) NFS
4 18 (1.30%) vSphere
5 17 (1.22%) VMware ESXi
6 14 (1.01%) Docker
7 9 (0.65%) BitLocker
8 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 4 (0.29%) IAG
9 4 (0.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 3 (0.22%) Firmware
10 3 (0.22%) RACF
10 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
11 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.072%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.072%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 54 (3.89%) Terraform
2 47 (3.38%) SCCM
3 34 (2.45%) Microsoft Intune
4 33 (2.38%) Ansible
5 30 (2.16%) OPNET
6 25 (1.80%) Grafana
7 20 (1.44%) Prometheus
8 18 (1.30%) Kubernetes
8 18 (1.30%) vRealize
9 12 (0.86%) Single Sign-On
10 10 (0.72%) RSA Archer
11 9 (0.65%) Jamf Pro
12 7 (0.50%) CASB
13 5 (0.36%) Control-M
13 5 (0.36%) FortiGate
13 5 (0.36%) QRadar
13 5 (0.36%) Rancher
13 5 (0.36%) Salt
13 5 (0.36%) VxRail
14 4 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 235 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 93 (6.70%) Remedy
3 83 (5.98%) Cisco
4 70 (5.04%) SAP
5 54 (3.89%) Oracle
6 43 (3.10%) VMware
7 40 (2.88%) Splunk
7 40 (2.88%) Workday
8 39 (2.81%) Atlassian
9 36 (2.59%) Salesforce
10 34 (2.45%) IBM
11 24 (1.73%) CyberArk
12 23 (1.66%) Apple
13 22 (1.58%) Google
13 22 (1.58%) Zscaler
14 21 (1.51%) Fortinet
14 21 (1.51%) Snow
15 20 (1.44%) Palo Alto
16 19 (1.37%) BMC
17 18 (1.30%) F5