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 30 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
30 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 71 70 70
Rank change year-on-year -1 0 +49
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,153 871 1,084
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.49% 3.28% 2.88%
As % of the Vendors category 7.59% 7.08% 6.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 808 477 702
10th Percentile £200 £200 £165
25th Percentile £350 £350 £305
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -4.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £615
90th Percentile £688 £675 £700
UK median daily rate £485 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -0.51% -2.50% -2.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 24 42
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.06 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.46 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +11.48% +19.79%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.40 £28.75
90th Percentile £58.05 £29.70 £61.75
UK median hourly rate £19.25 £22.09 £17.72
% change year-on-year -12.86% +24.66% +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 15,199 12,308 16,430
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 46.02% 46.32% 43.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,972 7,412 10,628
10th Percentile £300 £285 £250
25th Percentile £410 £410 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.81% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £710 £720 £730
UK median daily rate £500 £523 £525
% change year-on-year -4.31% -0.48% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 726 356 814
10th Percentile £15.25 £15.62 £13.00
25th Percentile £17.69 £18.51 £15.75
Median hourly rate £23.25 £30.00 £30.88
Median % change year-on-year -22.50% -2.83% -4.26%
75th Percentile £50.00 £63.75 £58.65
90th Percentile £70.00 £80.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £27.75 £30.25
% change year-on-year -14.14% -8.26% +5.22%

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 30 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 30 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 30 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 -37 461 £483 -8.10% 110
North of England -1 220 £500 +23.46% 59
South East +45 167 £416 -0.89% 83
Midlands +7 153 £475 +13.10% 29
West Midlands +6 123 £475 +2.70% 20
North West +2 123 £475 +18.75% 40
Yorkshire -1 88 £535 +11.17% 16
East of England +1 74 £528 +3.02% 12
South West +13 67 £725 +123.08% 11
East Midlands -7 29 £425 +19.38% 9
North East -10 9 £200 +33.33% 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 71 (6.16%) SharePoint
2 69 (5.98%) Confluence
3 53 (4.60%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (0.87%) Skype for Business
5 8 (0.69%) nginx
6 6 (0.52%) Apache
6 6 (0.52%) Appian
6 6 (0.52%) Camunda
7 4 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
8 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.26%) CICS
8 3 (0.26%) HCL Notes
8 3 (0.26%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 3 (0.26%) SAS
9 2 (0.17%) JBoss
10 1 (0.087%) Apache Airflow
10 1 (0.087%) CMS
10 1 (0.087%) IIS
10 1 (0.087%) Oracle Workflow
10 1 (0.087%) WebSphere
Applications
1 73 (6.33%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 53 (4.60%) Microsoft Project
4 21 (1.82%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.56%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 8 (0.69%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 7 (0.61%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.35%) Autodesk Inventor
8 4 (0.35%) Trello
9 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 32 (2.78%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (1.21%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.78%) SAP FI
4 8 (0.69%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 7 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
5 7 (0.61%) SAP MM
6 6 (0.52%) Salesforce CRM
7 3 (0.26%) SAP GRC
8 2 (0.17%) NetSuite
8 2 (0.17%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
8 2 (0.17%) SAP Business One
8 2 (0.17%) SAP CO
8 2 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
8 2 (0.17%) Workday HCM
9 1 (0.087%) Actimize
9 1 (0.087%) assyst
9 1 (0.087%) Maximo
9 1 (0.087%) Oracle Receivables
9 1 (0.087%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
9 1 (0.087%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 242 (20.99%) Azure
2 185 (16.05%) Microsoft 365
3 141 (12.23%) AWS
4 90 (7.81%) Entra ID
5 64 (5.55%) Power Platform
6 63 (5.46%) SaaS
7 55 (4.77%) Azure DevOps
8 54 (4.68%) GCP
9 34 (2.95%) OneDrive
10 21 (1.82%) GitHub
11 18 (1.56%) Power Automate
12 15 (1.30%) AWS KMS
13 14 (1.21%) Amazon S3
14 13 (1.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
14 13 (1.13%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (1.13%) Amazon ELB
14 13 (1.13%) Azure Logic Apps
14 13 (1.13%) Sauce Labs
14 13 (1.13%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (0.87%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 75 (6.50%) DNS
2 49 (4.25%) VPN
3 44 (3.82%) DHCP
4 38 (3.30%) Firewall
5 37 (3.21%) Wi-Fi
6 35 (3.04%) Wireless
7 28 (2.43%) LAN
8 26 (2.25%) WAN
9 20 (1.73%) FTP
9 20 (1.73%) TCP/IP
10 17 (1.47%) Network Security
11 16 (1.39%) HTTP
12 14 (1.21%) SSH
13 12 (1.04%) BGP
13 12 (1.04%) SMTP
14 11 (0.95%) VLAN
15 10 (0.87%) Cisco Wireless
15 10 (0.87%) Skype
16 9 (0.78%) 4G
16 9 (0.78%) Unified Communications
Database & Business Intelligence
1 45 (3.90%) Power BI
2 23 (1.99%) SQL Server
3 20 (1.73%) Metadata
3 20 (1.73%) Relational Database
4 19 (1.65%) MySQL
5 17 (1.47%) Amazon RDS
5 17 (1.47%) PostgreSQL
6 15 (1.30%) Tableau
7 12 (1.04%) Amazon Aurora
8 9 (0.78%) Data Warehouse
9 8 (0.69%) MongoDB
10 7 (0.61%) Azure SQL Database
10 7 (0.61%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 6 (0.52%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.52%) DB2
11 6 (0.52%) Oracle Reports
12 4 (0.35%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (0.35%) Neo4j
12 4 (0.35%) Redis
13 2 (0.17%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 198 (17.17%) JIRA
2 51 (4.42%) Jenkins
3 39 (3.38%) Git
4 25 (2.17%) GitLab
5 14 (1.21%) Browser DevTools
5 14 (1.21%) Selenium
6 13 (1.13%) Android Studio
6 13 (1.13%) Eclipse
6 13 (1.13%) Xcode
7 12 (1.04%) Postman
7 12 (1.04%) REST Assured
7 12 (1.04%) Vagrant
8 10 (0.87%) Cucumber
9 7 (0.61%) TestRail
10 4 (0.35%) Gatling
10 4 (0.35%) JMeter
10 4 (0.35%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.35%) Metasploit
10 4 (0.35%) NeoLoad
11 3 (0.26%) Burp Suite
General
1 447 (38.77%) Social Skills
2 235 (20.38%) Finance
3 176 (15.26%) Analytical Skills
4 103 (8.93%) Public Sector
5 52 (4.51%) Banking
6 45 (3.90%) Military
7 43 (3.73%) Telecoms
8 42 (3.64%) Legal
9 39 (3.38%) Documentation Skills
10 26 (2.25%) Organisational Skills
11 21 (1.82%) Influencing Skills
12 20 (1.73%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 18 (1.56%) Presentation Skills
14 16 (1.39%) Law
15 12 (1.04%) Manufacturing
16 11 (0.95%) Aerospace
17 10 (0.87%) Retail
18 9 (0.78%) Billing
18 9 (0.78%) Financial Institution
18 9 (0.78%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 188 (16.31%) Architect
2 178 (15.44%) Analyst
3 105 (9.11%) ServiceNow Architect
4 96 (8.33%) Developer
5 91 (7.89%) Support Engineer
6 83 (7.20%) ServiceNow Developer
7 77 (6.68%) IT Support
8 68 (5.90%) Consultant
9 60 (5.20%) Lead
10 43 (3.73%) IT Engineer
11 40 (3.47%) Service Analyst
12 38 (3.30%) Senior
13 36 (3.12%) IT Support Engineer
13 36 (3.12%) ServiceNow Manager
14 34 (2.95%) Business Analyst
14 34 (2.95%) Project Manager
15 32 (2.78%) Service Architect
15 32 (2.78%) Technical Architect
16 30 (2.60%) Administrator
16 30 (2.60%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 116 (10.06%) REST
2 90 (7.81%) SOAP
3 32 (2.78%) SailPoint
4 31 (2.69%) CSS
5 29 (2.52%) LDAP
6 26 (2.25%) AngularJS
7 19 (1.65%) Ajax
7 19 (1.65%) Flash
7 19 (1.65%) OpenID
8 17 (1.47%) React
9 15 (1.30%) HTML
10 14 (1.21%) GraphQL
10 14 (1.21%) JSON
11 11 (0.95%) XML
12 9 (0.78%) .NET
12 9 (0.78%) ADO
12 9 (0.78%) OAuth
13 8 (0.69%) Kafka
13 8 (0.69%) SAML
13 8 (0.69%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 142 (12.32%) CMDB
2 76 (6.59%) Onboarding
3 60 (5.20%) Product Ownership
4 39 (3.38%) Replication
5 31 (2.69%) Data Centre
6 28 (2.43%) Management Information System
7 23 (1.99%) Enterprise Software
7 23 (1.99%) Self-Motivation
8 19 (1.65%) Linux Command Line
8 19 (1.65%) Security Posture
9 18 (1.56%) Mobile App
9 18 (1.56%) Video Conferencing
10 16 (1.39%) Smartphone
11 14 (1.21%) Analytical Mindset
11 14 (1.21%) Cloud Native
11 14 (1.21%) Data Protection Act
12 13 (1.13%) Driving Licence
13 10 (0.87%) Virtual Team
14 8 (0.69%) Low-Code
15 7 (0.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 245 (21.25%) Windows
2 104 (9.02%) Windows 10
3 70 (6.07%) Linux
4 40 (3.47%) Mac OS
5 36 (3.12%) Android
6 29 (2.52%) Unix
7 21 (1.82%) Windows Server
8 19 (1.65%) Apple iOS
9 13 (1.13%) VMS
10 12 (1.04%) Amazon Linux
11 9 (0.78%) Windows 7
12 8 (0.69%) Ubuntu
13 5 (0.43%) Windows Server 2016
13 5 (0.43%) zOS
14 3 (0.26%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
15 1 (0.087%) Data ONTAP
15 1 (0.087%) Kali Linux
15 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
15 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 388 (33.65%) ITSM
2 283 (24.54%) ITIL
3 263 (22.81%) Agile
4 211 (18.30%) Service Management
5 198 (17.17%) Problem-Solving
6 159 (13.79%) Stakeholder Management
7 150 (13.01%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 138 (11.97%) DevOps
9 125 (10.84%) Customer Service
10 122 (10.58%) Change Management
11 119 (10.32%) Continuous Improvement
12 100 (8.67%) CI/CD
13 80 (6.94%) Roadmaps
14 77 (6.68%) Service Delivery
15 76 (6.59%) Project Management
16 75 (6.50%) User Acceptance Testing
16 75 (6.50%) Workflow
17 73 (6.33%) Data Modelling
18 71 (6.16%) Migration
19 66 (5.72%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 103 (8.93%) Python
2 97 (8.41%) JavaScript
3 71 (6.16%) PowerShell
4 69 (5.98%) SQL
5 60 (5.20%) Java
6 31 (2.69%) Perl
7 17 (1.47%) Groovy
8 15 (1.30%) Bash
9 12 (1.04%) Shell Script
10 11 (0.95%) VB
11 10 (0.87%) TypeScript
12 9 (0.78%) VBScript
13 8 (0.69%) ABAP
14 7 (0.61%) Go
14 7 (0.61%) Lisp
15 6 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
16 5 (0.43%) BeanShell
16 5 (0.43%) JCL
16 5 (0.43%) PHP
16 5 (0.43%) REXX
Qualifications
1 312 (27.06%) Security Cleared
2 252 (21.86%) SC Cleared
3 112 (9.71%) Degree
4 31 (2.69%) TOGAF Certification
5 23 (1.99%) DV Cleared
6 17 (1.47%) ITIL Certification
7 15 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
7 15 (1.30%) Microsoft Certification
8 14 (1.21%) CCNP
8 14 (1.21%) CISSP
8 14 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
9 13 (1.13%) PMI Certification
9 13 (1.13%) PMP
10 11 (0.95%) Azure Certification
10 11 (0.95%) ISTQB
11 10 (0.87%) AWS Certification
11 10 (0.87%) BPSS Clearance
12 9 (0.78%) ACSP
12 9 (0.78%) ACTC
12 9 (0.78%) CISM
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 56 (4.86%) QA
2 54 (4.68%) SLA
3 43 (3.73%) GRC
4 38 (3.30%) GDPR
5 37 (3.21%) Data Quality
6 22 (1.91%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 20 (1.73%) NIST
8 18 (1.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (1.39%) PMO
10 12 (1.04%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.78%) Accessibility
12 7 (0.61%) COBIT
12 7 (0.61%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.52%) Cyber Essentials
13 6 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 19770
14 4 (0.35%) SOC 2
15 3 (0.26%) GxP
15 3 (0.26%) ISO 22301
15 3 (0.26%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
15 3 (0.26%) NCSC
System Software
1 160 (13.88%) Active Directory
2 32 (2.78%) VMware Infrastructure
3 25 (2.17%) Docker
4 19 (1.65%) GPFS
4 19 (1.65%) NFS
5 18 (1.56%) vSphere
6 17 (1.47%) VMware ESXi
7 12 (1.04%) DFS Replication
8 10 (0.87%) BitLocker
9 8 (0.69%) Dovecot
9 8 (0.69%) Postfix
9 8 (0.69%) Squid
10 5 (0.43%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 2 (0.17%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 2 (0.17%) Virtual Desktop
12 1 (0.087%) Firmware
12 1 (0.087%) Hyper-V
12 1 (0.087%) Microsoft Virtual Server
12 1 (0.087%) Virtual Machines
12 1 (0.087%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 58 (5.03%) SCCM
2 46 (3.99%) Terraform
3 44 (3.82%) Microsoft Intune
4 30 (2.60%) OPNET
5 26 (2.25%) Grafana
6 24 (2.08%) Ansible
7 18 (1.56%) Prometheus
8 17 (1.47%) Jamf Pro
8 17 (1.47%) vRealize
9 12 (1.04%) Kubernetes
10 11 (0.95%) Nessus
10 11 (0.95%) RSA Archer
11 9 (0.78%) FortiGate
12 8 (0.69%) Proxmox
13 7 (0.61%) Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.35%) Pingdom
14 4 (0.35%) Rancher
15 3 (0.26%) Control-M
15 3 (0.26%) Nmap
15 3 (0.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 248 (21.51%) Microsoft
2 84 (7.29%) Remedy
3 62 (5.38%) SAP
4 61 (5.29%) Oracle
5 60 (5.20%) Cisco
6 40 (3.47%) Salesforce
7 37 (3.21%) Splunk
8 36 (3.12%) VMware
9 34 (2.95%) Apple
9 34 (2.95%) Atlassian
10 32 (2.78%) Workday
11 31 (2.69%) IBM
12 22 (1.91%) Snow
13 15 (1.30%) Citrix
13 15 (1.30%) HP
14 14 (1.21%) Google
15 13 (1.13%) BMC
15 13 (1.13%) Zscaler
16 11 (0.95%) Palo Alto
17 10 (0.87%) Dynatrace