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 2 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
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 68 62 82
Rank change year-on-year -6 +20 +18
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,398 880 943
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.35% 3.65% 2.56%
As % of the Vendors category 8.22% 7.68% 6.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 954 534 547
10th Percentile £213 £213 £180
25th Percentile £400 £307 £319
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.79% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £593 £597
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £478 £500
% change year-on-year +4.71% -4.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 69 105
10th Percentile £16.43 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £14.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £25.91 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +37.65% +15.46% -35.95%
75th Percentile £40.04 £25.00 £21.37
90th Percentile £85.53 £49.50 £27.25
UK median hourly rate £25.91 £17.45 £16.30
% change year-on-year +48.50% +7.02% -37.25%

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 17,001 11,464 15,463
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.80% 47.61% 41.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,910 7,320 9,844
10th Percentile £313 £280 £263
25th Percentile £413 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £520 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.88% +0.97% -2.83%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £630
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £510 £514
% change year-on-year -1.96% -0.78% -2.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 919 489 1,031
10th Percentile £15.72 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £19.00 £17.79 £14.48
Median hourly rate £32.50 £27.13 £23.80
Median % change year-on-year +19.82% +13.97% -39.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.00 £58.60
90th Percentile £77.70 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.50 £22.56
% change year-on-year +27.45% +13.03% -47.53%

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 2 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 2 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 2 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 +11 617 £525 - 167
North of England -8 274 £517 +29.20% 83
South East -4 212 £500 +42.86% 92
Midlands +7 164 £420 -23.64% 39
North West -3 141 £475 - 58
Yorkshire -11 122 £525 +31.25% 22
West Midlands -14 117 £425 -22.80% 22
East of England -33 61 £525 +17.58% 25
East Midlands +5 40 £340 -33.66% 17
South West -41 37 £310 +23.80% 16
North East -17 15 £450 +50.00% 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 72 (5.15%) Confluence
2 51 (3.65%) SharePoint
3 47 (3.36%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.86%) Skype for Business
5 7 (0.50%) Apache
6 3 (0.21%) CMS
6 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
7 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.14%) Appian
7 2 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
7 2 (0.14%) IIS
7 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 2 (0.14%) SAS
7 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
8 1 (0.072%) Camunda
8 1 (0.072%) Drupal
8 1 (0.072%) NetWeaver
8 1 (0.072%) Tomcat
Applications
1 62 (4.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 61 (4.36%) Microsoft Office
3 27 (1.93%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.79%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.64%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.36%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.29%) AutoCAD
7 4 (0.29%) Revit
8 3 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.072%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.072%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 57 (4.08%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.57%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
4 3 (0.21%) Maximo
5 2 (0.14%) Dynamics GP
5 2 (0.14%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.14%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.14%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.14%) SAP MDG
5 2 (0.14%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.072%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.072%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.072%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.072%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.072%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.072%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 285 (20.39%) Azure
2 202 (14.45%) AWS
3 148 (10.59%) Microsoft 365
4 113 (8.08%) Entra ID
5 95 (6.80%) Power Platform
6 65 (4.65%) SaaS
7 64 (4.58%) GCP
8 57 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
9 28 (2.00%) OneDrive
10 19 (1.36%) Microsoft Copilot
11 17 (1.22%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 17 (1.22%) GitHub
12 16 (1.14%) Power Automate
13 15 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
13 15 (1.07%) Amazon S3
13 15 (1.07%) Slack
13 15 (1.07%) Virtual Private Cloud
14 14 (1.00%) AWS KMS
15 13 (0.93%) Datadog
15 13 (0.93%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 77 (5.51%) DNS
2 68 (4.86%) DHCP
3 65 (4.65%) Firewall
4 50 (3.58%) VPN
5 39 (2.79%) Wireless
6 33 (2.36%) LAN
6 33 (2.36%) Network Security
7 32 (2.29%) WAN
8 25 (1.79%) TCP/IP
8 25 (1.79%) Wi-Fi
9 22 (1.57%) VLAN
10 20 (1.43%) SAN
11 19 (1.36%) NAS
12 16 (1.14%) SSL
13 15 (1.07%) Cisco IOS
13 15 (1.07%) NX-OS
13 15 (1.07%) Structured Cabling
14 14 (1.00%) Internet
14 14 (1.00%) SD-WAN
15 12 (0.86%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 79 (5.65%) Power BI
2 41 (2.93%) SQL Server
3 22 (1.57%) Amazon RDS
3 22 (1.57%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (1.36%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (1.14%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (1.00%) Metadata
7 10 (0.72%) Power Query
8 9 (0.64%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (0.64%) MongoDB
8 9 (0.64%) Tableau
9 7 (0.50%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.50%) MySQL
10 6 (0.43%) Data Lake
10 6 (0.43%) NoSQL
10 6 (0.43%) Oracle Reports
11 5 (0.36%) SQL Server Reporting Services
12 4 (0.29%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (0.29%) Neo4j
12 4 (0.29%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 243 (17.38%) JIRA
2 68 (4.86%) Git
3 34 (2.43%) Jenkins
4 33 (2.36%) GitLab
5 15 (1.07%) Selenium
6 12 (0.86%) Cucumber
6 12 (0.86%) Postman
6 12 (0.86%) REST Assured
7 7 (0.50%) TestRail
8 5 (0.36%) JMeter
8 5 (0.36%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.29%) Flyway
9 4 (0.29%) Gatling
9 4 (0.29%) NeoLoad
10 3 (0.21%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.21%) JUnit
11 2 (0.14%) Artifactory
11 2 (0.14%) Robot Framework
11 2 (0.14%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
11 2 (0.14%) Visual Studio
General
1 424 (30.33%) Social Skills
2 267 (19.10%) Finance
3 159 (11.37%) Analytical Skills
4 112 (8.01%) Public Sector
5 79 (5.65%) Banking
6 55 (3.93%) Telecoms
7 54 (3.86%) Organisational Skills
8 44 (3.15%) Documentation Skills
9 43 (3.08%) Legal
10 34 (2.43%) Military
11 19 (1.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 18 (1.29%) Presentation Skills
12 18 (1.29%) Retail
13 16 (1.14%) Influencing Skills
14 15 (1.07%) Billing
15 13 (0.93%) French Language
16 11 (0.79%) Manufacturing
17 10 (0.72%) Financial Institution
17 10 (0.72%) Law
18 9 (0.64%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 254 (18.17%) Architect
2 183 (13.09%) Analyst
3 150 (10.73%) ServiceNow Architect
4 125 (8.94%) Developer
5 104 (7.44%) ServiceNow Developer
6 88 (6.29%) Senior
7 74 (5.29%) IT Support
7 74 (5.29%) Support Engineer
8 68 (4.86%) Lead
9 65 (4.65%) Consultant
10 62 (4.43%) Solutions Architect
11 55 (3.93%) Project Manager
12 52 (3.72%) Business Analyst
13 47 (3.36%) IT Engineer
14 44 (3.15%) IT Support Engineer
14 44 (3.15%) Service Analyst
14 44 (3.15%) ServiceNow Manager
15 40 (2.86%) ServiceNow Consultant
15 40 (2.86%) Technical Architect
16 37 (2.65%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 174 (12.45%) REST
2 101 (7.22%) SOAP
3 39 (2.79%) SailPoint
4 38 (2.72%) LDAP
5 31 (2.22%) Middleware
5 31 (2.22%) OpenID
6 30 (2.15%) CSS
7 29 (2.07%) HTML
8 24 (1.72%) OAuth
9 23 (1.65%) JSON
9 23 (1.65%) Web Services
10 21 (1.50%) AngularJS
11 20 (1.43%) Flash
12 19 (1.36%) XML
13 18 (1.29%) .NET
13 18 (1.29%) SAML
14 11 (0.79%) Ajax
14 11 (0.79%) JDBC
14 11 (0.79%) Kafka
14 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 177 (12.66%) CMDB
2 110 (7.87%) Onboarding
3 72 (5.15%) Product Ownership
4 46 (3.29%) Data Centre
5 35 (2.50%) Management Information System
6 33 (2.36%) Replication
7 30 (2.15%) Cloud Native
8 25 (1.79%) Enterprise Software
8 25 (1.79%) Security Posture
9 20 (1.43%) Linux Command Line
9 20 (1.43%) PKI
10 19 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
11 17 (1.22%) Virtual Team
12 16 (1.14%) Data Structures
13 15 (1.07%) AI Agents
14 14 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
15 13 (0.93%) Clustering
15 13 (0.93%) Legacy Systems
16 11 (0.79%) Analytical Mindset
17 10 (0.72%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 222 (15.88%) Windows
2 82 (5.87%) Windows 10
3 78 (5.58%) Linux
4 37 (2.65%) Windows Server
5 35 (2.50%) Mac OS
6 27 (1.93%) Unix
7 24 (1.72%) Apple iOS
8 19 (1.36%) Android
9 12 (0.86%) Windows 7
10 9 (0.64%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.29%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.21%) VMS
12 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.21%) zOS
13 1 (0.072%) MVS
13 1 (0.072%) SUSE
13 1 (0.072%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.072%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.072%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 494 (35.34%) ITSM
2 375 (26.82%) ITIL
3 300 (21.46%) Agile
4 240 (17.17%) Service Management
5 212 (15.16%) Problem-Solving
6 205 (14.66%) Stakeholder Management
7 193 (13.81%) Continuous Improvement
8 165 (11.80%) Change Management
9 163 (11.66%) DevOps
10 157 (11.23%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 140 (10.01%) Customer Service
12 133 (9.51%) Migration
13 128 (9.16%) Service Delivery
14 126 (9.01%) Roadmaps
15 124 (8.87%) AI
16 120 (8.58%) CI/CD
16 120 (8.58%) Workflow
17 113 (8.08%) Data Modelling
18 103 (7.37%) Asset Management
19 100 (7.15%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 126 (9.01%) SQL
2 104 (7.44%) JavaScript
3 88 (6.29%) PowerShell
4 87 (6.22%) Python
5 71 (5.08%) Java
6 30 (2.15%) C#
7 13 (0.93%) Bash
7 13 (0.93%) VB
7 13 (0.93%) VBScript
8 11 (0.79%) TypeScript
9 10 (0.72%) PL/SQL
10 8 (0.57%) Groovy
11 7 (0.50%) Perl
12 6 (0.43%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.43%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.36%) Go
13 5 (0.36%) PHP
14 4 (0.29%) BeanShell
14 4 (0.29%) Cypher
14 4 (0.29%) Scala
Qualifications
1 367 (26.25%) Security Cleared
2 264 (18.88%) SC Cleared
3 100 (7.15%) Degree
4 68 (4.86%) DV Cleared
5 41 (2.93%) Cisco Certification
6 33 (2.36%) ITIL Certification
6 33 (2.36%) PMP
7 30 (2.15%) CCNP
8 29 (2.07%) CISSP
8 29 (2.07%) PMI Certification
9 22 (1.57%) CISM
10 21 (1.50%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (1.43%) CCNA
12 15 (1.07%) Network+ Certification
12 15 (1.07%) Server+ Certification
13 13 (0.93%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (0.79%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.72%) AWS Certification
15 10 (0.72%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 9 (0.64%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (5.58%) SLA
2 59 (4.22%) Data Quality
3 46 (3.29%) GRC
4 43 (3.08%) QA
5 38 (2.72%) GDPR
6 33 (2.36%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 31 (2.22%) NIST
8 26 (1.86%) PMO
9 21 (1.50%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (0.93%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.79%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.57%) HIPAA
13 7 (0.50%) COBIT
14 6 (0.43%) PCI DSS
15 4 (0.29%) GxP
15 4 (0.29%) NCSC
16 3 (0.21%) NIST 800
16 3 (0.21%) SOC 2
17 2 (0.14%) Government Security Classifications
17 2 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 161 (11.52%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.72%) VMware Infrastructure
3 21 (1.50%) NFS
4 20 (1.43%) GPFS
5 19 (1.36%) Docker
6 16 (1.14%) VMware ESXi
6 16 (1.14%) vSphere
7 12 (0.86%) BitLocker
8 7 (0.50%) Firmware
8 7 (0.50%) Virtual Machines
9 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
10 4 (0.29%) IAG
10 4 (0.29%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.29%) VMware NSX
11 2 (0.14%) Hyper-V
11 2 (0.14%) Job Entry Subsystem
11 2 (0.14%) RACF
11 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
11 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
12 1 (0.072%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 54 (3.86%) Terraform
2 43 (3.08%) SCCM
3 42 (3.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 29 (2.07%) Ansible
5 25 (1.79%) Grafana
6 21 (1.50%) Kubernetes
7 19 (1.36%) Prometheus
8 17 (1.22%) Single Sign-On
9 16 (1.14%) vRealize
10 12 (0.86%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.57%) VxRail
12 7 (0.50%) CASB
12 7 (0.50%) RSA Archer
12 7 (0.50%) WMI
13 5 (0.36%) QRadar
13 5 (0.36%) Salt
14 4 (0.29%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.29%) PingFederate
15 3 (0.21%) Control-M
Vendors
1 270 (19.31%) Microsoft
2 96 (6.87%) Cisco
3 73 (5.22%) Remedy
4 61 (4.36%) SAP
5 51 (3.65%) Oracle
5 51 (3.65%) Splunk
6 45 (3.22%) VMware
7 37 (2.65%) Workday
8 34 (2.43%) Salesforce
9 31 (2.22%) BMC
10 30 (2.15%) IBM
11 28 (2.00%) Palo Alto
12 26 (1.86%) Fortinet
13 25 (1.79%) CyberArk
13 25 (1.79%) Google
14 24 (1.72%) Apple
15 22 (1.57%) F5
16 20 (1.43%) Snow
17 19 (1.36%) Zscaler
18 16 (1.14%) Bomgar