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 11 August 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
11 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 67 76
Rank change year-on-year +9 +9 +6
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,755 1,001 947
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.85% 3.62% 2.84%
As % of the Vendors category 9.31% 7.68% 6.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,139 622 576
10th Percentile £220 £223 £213
25th Percentile £400 £318 £360
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £474 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.59% -5.24% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £576
90th Percentile £680 £659 £650
UK median daily rate £502 £475 £501
% change year-on-year +5.68% -5.09% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 83 80
10th Percentile £17.25 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £26.66 £18.82 £16.28
Median % change year-on-year +41.66% +15.64% -20.92%
75th Percentile £67.47 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.70 £63.32 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £26.33 £17.87 £16.30
% change year-on-year +47.34% +9.63% -20.80%

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 18,846 13,040 14,528
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.34% 47.19% 43.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,837 8,247 9,243
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.52% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £613 £620 £627
90th Percentile £700 £719 £735
UK median daily rate £507 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.40% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,037 630 758
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.75 £17.44 £15.62
Median hourly rate £34.00 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.19% -16.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £62.54
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.69 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -30.12%

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 11 August 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 11 August 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 11 August 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 +23 765 £525 +5.00% 252
South East +13 353 £544 +34.09% 85
North of England -1 334 £475 - 80
North West +1 213 £400 -21.77% 59
Midlands +2 154 £425 -10.53% 28
West Midlands -4 125 £459 -3.37% 22
Yorkshire -19 110 £514 +28.50% 17
East of England -28 59 £525 +16.67% 8
South West -45 52 £419 +28.85% 26
East Midlands +1 24 £413 - 7
North East -29 17 £500 +66.67% 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
1 105 (5.98%) SharePoint
2 96 (5.47%) Confluence
3 45 (2.56%) Microsoft Exchange
4 15 (0.85%) Skype for Business
5 9 (0.51%) Apache
5 9 (0.51%) nginx
6 4 (0.23%) CMS
7 3 (0.17%) IIS
8 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.11%) Mendix
8 2 (0.11%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.11%) SAS
8 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.057%) Appian
9 1 (0.057%) Drupal
9 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 80 (4.56%) Microsoft Office
2 76 (4.33%) Microsoft Excel
3 35 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.97%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.57%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.46%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.46%) Revit
8 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
9 1 (0.057%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.057%) LaTeX
9 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.057%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 67 (3.82%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.46%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.11%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.11%) Maximo
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
6 2 (0.11%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.11%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
6 2 (0.11%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.057%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.057%) iTrent
7 1 (0.057%) OpenText VIM for SAP
7 1 (0.057%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 366 (20.85%) Azure
2 238 (13.56%) AWS
3 225 (12.82%) Microsoft 365
4 133 (7.58%) Entra ID
5 131 (7.46%) Power Platform
6 97 (5.53%) SaaS
7 63 (3.59%) Azure DevOps
8 49 (2.79%) GCP
9 38 (2.17%) OneDrive
10 33 (1.88%) GitHub
11 28 (1.60%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 27 (1.54%) Azure Monitor
12 27 (1.54%) Datadog
12 27 (1.54%) Microsoft Copilot
13 26 (1.48%) Amazon EC2
14 25 (1.42%) Amazon S3
15 23 (1.31%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 21 (1.20%) Power Automate
17 20 (1.14%) Serverless
18 14 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 89 (5.07%) DNS
2 80 (4.56%) DHCP
3 69 (3.93%) Firewall
4 61 (3.48%) VPN
5 47 (2.68%) TCP/IP
6 39 (2.22%) Wireless
7 32 (1.82%) Network Security
8 28 (1.60%) Wi-Fi
9 27 (1.54%) WAN
10 26 (1.48%) SSL
10 26 (1.48%) VLAN
11 23 (1.31%) LAN
12 20 (1.14%) SAN
13 19 (1.08%) NAS
14 17 (0.97%) Cisco IOS
14 17 (0.97%) NX-OS
14 17 (0.97%) SSH
15 16 (0.91%) Skype
16 15 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
17 14 (0.80%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (5.58%) Power BI
2 51 (2.91%) SQL Server
3 32 (1.82%) PostgreSQL
4 28 (1.60%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (0.80%) MySQL
7 13 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (0.63%) Power Query
9 9 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.34%) Tableau
12 5 (0.28%) Metadata
12 5 (0.28%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.28%) Redis
13 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
13 4 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
13 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
13 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
13 4 (0.23%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 271 (15.44%) JIRA
2 82 (4.67%) Git
3 24 (1.37%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.25%) GitLab
5 7 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.23%) Flyway
8 3 (0.17%) MSI
9 2 (0.11%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.11%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.057%) Gatling
10 1 (0.057%) JUnit
10 1 (0.057%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.057%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.057%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.057%) Oracle Forms
10 1 (0.057%) Postman
10 1 (0.057%) TeamCity
General
1 569 (32.42%) Social Skills
2 329 (18.75%) Finance
3 241 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
4 146 (8.32%) Public Sector
5 96 (5.47%) Banking
6 80 (4.56%) Telecoms
7 53 (3.02%) Organisational Skills
8 52 (2.96%) Legal
9 45 (2.56%) Documentation Skills
10 26 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (1.48%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.31%) Military
12 22 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 18 (1.03%) Police
13 18 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (0.97%) French Language
15 16 (0.91%) Law
15 16 (0.91%) Retail
15 16 (0.91%) Spanish Language
16 14 (0.80%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 251 (14.30%) Architect
2 233 (13.28%) Analyst
3 182 (10.37%) Developer
4 157 (8.95%) ServiceNow Developer
5 152 (8.66%) ServiceNow Architect
6 126 (7.18%) Senior
7 109 (6.21%) Consultant
8 106 (6.04%) Support Engineer
9 96 (5.47%) IT Support
10 92 (5.24%) Lead
11 71 (4.05%) Business Analyst
11 71 (4.05%) Service Analyst
12 69 (3.93%) IT Engineer
13 68 (3.87%) Solutions Architect
14 62 (3.53%) Project Manager
14 62 (3.53%) ServiceNow Consultant
15 61 (3.48%) IT Support Engineer
16 42 (2.39%) Technical Architect
17 41 (2.34%) Delivery Manager
18 39 (2.22%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 198 (11.28%) REST
2 116 (6.61%) SOAP
3 41 (2.34%) JSON
4 34 (1.94%) HTML
4 34 (1.94%) OAuth
4 34 (1.94%) SailPoint
5 32 (1.82%) XML
6 30 (1.71%) CSS
7 29 (1.65%) Web Services
8 28 (1.60%) Middleware
9 26 (1.48%) LDAP
10 21 (1.20%) .NET
11 20 (1.14%) AngularJS
12 16 (0.91%) Ajax
12 16 (0.91%) SAML
13 14 (0.80%) OpenID
14 11 (0.63%) Flash
14 11 (0.63%) JDBC
14 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Graph
14 11 (0.63%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 262 (14.93%) CMDB
2 167 (9.52%) Onboarding
3 70 (3.99%) Product Ownership
4 56 (3.19%) Enterprise Software
5 50 (2.85%) Data Centre
6 42 (2.39%) Cloud Native
6 42 (2.39%) Management Information System
7 34 (1.94%) Replication
8 27 (1.54%) Security Posture
9 26 (1.48%) PKI
10 24 (1.37%) AI Agents
10 24 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.25%) Clustering
12 21 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
13 20 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
14 18 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
15 17 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
15 17 (0.97%) Data Structures
15 17 (0.97%) iPhone
16 15 (0.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 315 (17.95%) Windows
2 109 (6.21%) Windows 10
3 106 (6.04%) Linux
4 50 (2.85%) Windows Server
5 48 (2.74%) Mac OS
6 35 (1.99%) Apple iOS
7 24 (1.37%) Unix
8 22 (1.25%) Android
9 20 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 15 (0.85%) Windows 7
11 6 (0.34%) Amazon Linux
12 4 (0.23%) zOS
13 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
13 3 (0.17%) VMS
14 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
14 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
15 1 (0.057%) CentOS
15 1 (0.057%) MVS
15 1 (0.057%) SUSE
15 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 682 (38.86%) ITSM
2 550 (31.34%) ITIL
3 364 (20.74%) Service Management
4 334 (19.03%) Agile
5 319 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
6 308 (17.55%) Stakeholder Management
7 272 (15.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 207 (11.79%) Change Management
9 202 (11.51%) Customer Service
10 197 (11.23%) AI
11 195 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 191 (10.88%) Service Delivery
13 190 (10.83%) DevOps
14 163 (9.29%) Roadmaps
15 148 (8.43%) Workflow
16 147 (8.38%) Migration
17 131 (7.46%) Incident Management
18 126 (7.18%) CI/CD
19 123 (7.01%) Data Modelling
20 119 (6.78%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 140 (7.98%) PowerShell
2 120 (6.84%) SQL
3 117 (6.67%) JavaScript
4 115 (6.55%) Python
5 54 (3.08%) Java
6 31 (1.77%) C#
7 21 (1.20%) Bash
8 17 (0.97%) VBScript
9 14 (0.80%) VB
10 13 (0.74%) Groovy
11 11 (0.63%) T-SQL
12 10 (0.57%) PL/SQL
13 9 (0.51%) TypeScript
14 7 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (0.34%) Perl
15 6 (0.34%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.28%) BeanShell
16 5 (0.28%) C++
17 4 (0.23%) Bicep
18 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 497 (28.32%) Security Cleared
2 358 (20.40%) SC Cleared
3 137 (7.81%) Degree
4 100 (5.70%) DV Cleared
5 44 (2.51%) ITIL Certification
5 44 (2.51%) PMP
6 40 (2.28%) Cisco Certification
7 38 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
8 37 (2.11%) PMI Certification
9 31 (1.77%) CISSP
9 31 (1.77%) Microsoft Certification
10 27 (1.54%) CCNP
11 24 (1.37%) CISM
12 23 (1.31%) CCNA
13 20 (1.14%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 19 (1.08%) A+ Certification
14 19 (1.08%) Azure Certification
15 18 (1.03%) Network+ Certification
16 15 (0.85%) Server+ Certification
17 14 (0.80%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 97 (5.53%) SLA
2 77 (4.39%) Data Quality
3 52 (2.96%) GRC
4 48 (2.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (2.62%) QA
6 40 (2.28%) NIST
7 37 (2.11%) PMO
8 33 (1.88%) GDPR
9 19 (1.08%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 16 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.80%) COBIT
12 13 (0.74%) NCSC
13 12 (0.68%) Accessibility
13 12 (0.68%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.46%) GxP
14 8 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.34%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.28%) PCI DSS
17 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 221 (12.59%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.11%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (1.65%) Docker
4 20 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (0.91%) BitLocker
7 15 (0.85%) IAG
8 12 (0.68%) NFS
8 12 (0.68%) vSphere
9 11 (0.63%) GPFS
9 11 (0.63%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.40%) Firmware
11 5 (0.28%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 2 (0.11%) RACF
13 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
14 1 (0.057%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 75 (4.27%) Microsoft Intune
1 75 (4.27%) Terraform
2 64 (3.65%) SCCM
3 48 (2.74%) Ansible
4 34 (1.94%) Kubernetes
5 31 (1.77%) Grafana
6 24 (1.37%) Single Sign-On
7 22 (1.25%) Prometheus
8 20 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
9 14 (0.80%) SCOM
10 12 (0.68%) WMI
11 10 (0.57%) vRealize
12 9 (0.51%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.40%) CASB
13 7 (0.40%) RSA Archer
14 6 (0.34%) Packer
14 6 (0.34%) VxRail
15 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.23%) CA Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 437 (24.90%) Microsoft
2 91 (5.19%) Cisco
3 76 (4.33%) Remedy
4 69 (3.93%) Splunk
5 67 (3.82%) SAP
6 64 (3.65%) Oracle
7 54 (3.08%) VMware
8 47 (2.68%) Salesforce
9 44 (2.51%) CyberArk
10 33 (1.88%) Dynatrace
11 30 (1.71%) Apple
11 30 (1.71%) Workday
12 29 (1.65%) BMC
13 26 (1.48%) Palo Alto
13 26 (1.48%) Snow
14 23 (1.31%) SolarWinds
15 21 (1.20%) iManage
16 19 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
17 18 (1.03%) Fortinet
17 18 (1.03%) Qualys