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 1 May 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
1 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 67 81
Rank change year-on-year 0 +14 +25
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,375 862 974
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.41% 3.54% 2.62%
As % of the Vendors category 8.12% 7.45% 6.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 950 541 568
10th Percentile £213 £200 £165
25th Percentile £400 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £705 £688 £720
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 51 105
10th Percentile £15.75 - £14.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £14.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £22.27 £18.13 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +22.81% +11.23% -11.51%
75th Percentile £85.00 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile £98.00 £32.50 £28.00
UK median hourly rate £22.13 £18.48 £16.30
% change year-on-year +19.80% +13.34% -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 16,936 11,564 15,642
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.95% 47.50% 42.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,050 7,453 9,947
10th Percentile £313 £288 £257
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -3.26%
75th Percentile £609 £625 £631
90th Percentile £711 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% -0.04% -1.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 886 460 995
10th Percentile £15.36 £14.84 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.75 £18.10 £14.26
Median hourly rate £30.63 £27.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.90% +20.56% -44.10%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £56.91
90th Percentile £79.13 £76.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £31.09 £26.45 £22.50
% change year-on-year +17.53% +17.56% -49.44%

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 1 May 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 1 May 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 1 May 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 +4 606 £506 -8.05% 128
North of England -9 241 £525 +31.25% 54
South East +6 200 £500 +42.86% 72
Midlands 0 167 £425 -22.87% 24
North West -3 128 £475 +3.15% 35
West Midlands -8 127 £425 -22.87% 17
Yorkshire -10 102 £550 +37.50% 18
South West -2 68 £600 +75.18% 17
East of England -22 58 £525 +57.19% 21
East Midlands -4 33 £300 -41.46% 6
North East -11 14 £425 +41.67% 1
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 96 (6.98%) Confluence
2 54 (3.93%) SharePoint
3 48 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.65%) Skype for Business
5 8 (0.58%) Apache
6 4 (0.29%) Appian
6 4 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.29%) CMS
6 4 (0.29%) SAS
7 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.22%) Camunda
7 3 (0.22%) CICS
8 2 (0.15%) IIS
8 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.073%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
Applications
1 80 (5.82%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (4.07%) Microsoft Project
3 55 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
4 21 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.87%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.44%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
8 2 (0.15%) AutoCAD
8 2 (0.15%) Revit
9 1 (0.073%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.073%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.073%) Trello
Business Applications
1 44 (3.20%) Remedy ITSM
2 7 (0.51%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.29%) Maximo
4 4 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.22%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.15%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.15%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.15%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.073%) SAP ERP
7 1 (0.073%) SAP GTS
7 1 (0.073%) SAP LE
7 1 (0.073%) SAP SRM
Cloud Services
1 274 (19.93%) Azure
2 187 (13.60%) AWS
3 146 (10.62%) Microsoft 365
4 122 (8.87%) Entra ID
5 90 (6.55%) Power Platform
6 72 (5.24%) SaaS
7 62 (4.51%) GCP
8 57 (4.15%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (1.60%) Power Automate
10 19 (1.38%) OneDrive
11 16 (1.16%) GitHub
11 16 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
12 14 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (1.02%) Amazon S3
13 13 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (0.95%) AWS KMS
13 13 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (0.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 11 (0.80%) Datadog
15 11 (0.80%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 67 (4.87%) DNS
2 54 (3.93%) DHCP
3 52 (3.78%) Firewall
4 51 (3.71%) VPN
5 34 (2.47%) Wireless
6 32 (2.33%) WAN
7 31 (2.25%) LAN
8 30 (2.18%) Network Security
9 21 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
10 18 (1.31%) TCP/IP
11 17 (1.24%) VLAN
12 14 (1.02%) Internet
13 13 (0.95%) SSL
14 12 (0.87%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.73%) BIG-IP
15 10 (0.73%) NAS
15 10 (0.73%) SAN
16 9 (0.65%) Ethernet
16 9 (0.65%) Skype
17 8 (0.58%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (5.53%) Power BI
2 36 (2.62%) SQL Server
3 20 (1.45%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (1.24%) Metadata
6 16 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 15 (1.09%) Tableau
8 10 (0.73%) Power Query
9 9 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (0.65%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.58%) MySQL
11 7 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
11 7 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
12 6 (0.44%) DB2
12 6 (0.44%) NoSQL
13 5 (0.36%) Data Lake
14 4 (0.29%) Metadata Repository
14 4 (0.29%) PowerPivot
14 4 (0.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 251 (18.25%) JIRA
2 62 (4.51%) Git
3 39 (2.84%) Jenkins
4 31 (2.25%) GitLab
5 17 (1.24%) Selenium
6 14 (1.02%) REST Assured
7 12 (0.87%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.87%) 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%) 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
11 3 (0.22%) JUnit
12 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 420 (30.55%) Social Skills
2 270 (19.64%) Finance
3 183 (13.31%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (7.78%) Public Sector
5 78 (5.67%) Banking
6 64 (4.65%) Military
7 57 (4.15%) Organisational Skills
8 50 (3.64%) Telecoms
9 49 (3.56%) Legal
10 44 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
11 19 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.31%) Retail
13 16 (1.16%) Billing
14 13 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (0.87%) Financial Institution
15 12 (0.87%) Law
16 8 (0.58%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.58%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.36%) French Language
Job Titles
1 278 (20.22%) Architect
2 184 (13.38%) Analyst
3 151 (10.98%) ServiceNow Architect
4 118 (8.58%) Developer
5 96 (6.98%) ServiceNow Developer
6 81 (5.89%) Senior
7 75 (5.45%) Lead
8 73 (5.31%) Support Engineer
9 69 (5.02%) IT Support
10 66 (4.80%) Consultant
11 54 (3.93%) Business Analyst
12 52 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
13 50 (3.64%) Project Manager
14 46 (3.35%) ServiceNow Manager
15 45 (3.27%) IT Engineer
16 42 (3.05%) IT Support Engineer
17 41 (2.98%) Service Analyst
18 40 (2.91%) Technical Architect
19 37 (2.69%) ServiceNow Consultant
20 34 (2.47%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 157 (11.42%) REST
2 99 (7.20%) SOAP
3 42 (3.05%) SailPoint
4 35 (2.55%) LDAP
5 29 (2.11%) OpenID
6 26 (1.89%) CSS
6 26 (1.89%) Middleware
7 23 (1.67%) AngularJS
7 23 (1.67%) HTML
7 23 (1.67%) JSON
8 21 (1.53%) OAuth
9 20 (1.45%) Web Services
10 19 (1.38%) Flash
11 18 (1.31%) XML
12 17 (1.24%) .NET
12 17 (1.24%) SAML
13 11 (0.80%) ADO
13 11 (0.80%) JDBC
13 11 (0.80%) Kafka
13 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 165 (12.00%) CMDB
2 111 (8.07%) Onboarding
3 103 (7.49%) Product Ownership
4 36 (2.62%) Management Information System
5 33 (2.40%) Replication
6 29 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 25 (1.82%) Security Posture
8 24 (1.75%) Cloud Native
9 20 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
11 17 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.24%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
12 15 (1.09%) PKI
12 15 (1.09%) Virtual Team
13 13 (0.95%) Mainframe
14 11 (0.80%) AI Agents
14 11 (0.80%) Clustering
14 11 (0.80%) Driving Licence
15 9 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 202 (14.69%) Windows
2 79 (5.75%) Windows 10
3 67 (4.87%) Linux
4 35 (2.55%) Windows Server
5 26 (1.89%) Unix
6 25 (1.82%) Mac OS
7 21 (1.53%) Android
8 17 (1.24%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.65%) Windows 7
10 8 (0.58%) zOS
11 7 (0.51%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.073%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.073%) MVS
14 1 (0.073%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.073%) VMS
14 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 454 (33.02%) ITSM
2 366 (26.62%) ITIL
3 329 (23.93%) Agile
4 257 (18.69%) Service Management
5 199 (14.47%) Problem-Solving
6 195 (14.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 195 (14.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 163 (11.85%) Change Management
8 159 (11.56%) DevOps
9 156 (11.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 128 (9.31%) Migration
11 121 (8.80%) Service Delivery
12 120 (8.73%) CI/CD
13 117 (8.51%) Customer Service
13 117 (8.51%) Data Modelling
14 113 (8.22%) Roadmaps
15 108 (7.85%) Workflow
16 107 (7.78%) AI
17 104 (7.56%) Project Management
18 98 (7.13%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 122 (8.87%) SQL
2 90 (6.55%) JavaScript
3 83 (6.04%) Python
4 80 (5.82%) PowerShell
5 73 (5.31%) Java
6 27 (1.96%) C#
7 11 (0.80%) Bash
7 11 (0.80%) PL/SQL
7 11 (0.80%) TypeScript
7 11 (0.80%) VB
8 9 (0.65%) VBScript
9 8 (0.58%) BeanShell
9 8 (0.58%) Groovy
9 8 (0.58%) JCL
9 8 (0.58%) REXX
10 7 (0.51%) Perl
11 6 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (0.44%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.36%) Go
12 5 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 377 (27.42%) Security Cleared
2 281 (20.44%) SC Cleared
3 124 (9.02%) Degree
4 61 (4.44%) DV Cleared
5 33 (2.40%) PMP
6 30 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
6 30 (2.18%) ITIL Certification
6 30 (2.18%) PMI Certification
6 30 (2.18%) TOGAF Certification
7 28 (2.04%) CISSP
8 24 (1.75%) CISM
9 21 (1.53%) CCNP
10 16 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
11 15 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
12 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
13 11 (0.80%) CCNA
14 10 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 8 (0.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 8 (0.58%) ISTQB
16 7 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 68 (4.95%) SLA
2 60 (4.36%) Data Quality
3 50 (3.64%) QA
4 48 (3.49%) GDPR
5 44 (3.20%) GRC
6 32 (2.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 27 (1.96%) NIST
8 24 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 20 (1.45%) PMO
10 11 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.73%) Accessibility
12 9 (0.65%) PCI DSS
13 8 (0.58%) HIPAA
14 4 (0.29%) GxP
15 3 (0.22%) COBIT
15 3 (0.22%) NCSC
15 3 (0.22%) NIST 800
15 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
16 2 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
16 2 (0.15%) ITGC
System Software
1 160 (11.64%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.38%) GPFS
3 19 (1.38%) NFS
4 15 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (1.09%) vSphere
5 13 (0.95%) Docker
6 9 (0.65%) BitLocker
7 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.29%) IAG
8 4 (0.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 3 (0.22%) Firmware
9 3 (0.22%) RACF
9 3 (0.22%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.073%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.073%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 53 (3.85%) Terraform
2 43 (3.13%) SCCM
3 33 (2.40%) Ansible
4 32 (2.33%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (2.18%) OPNET
6 24 (1.75%) Grafana
7 19 (1.38%) Prometheus
8 17 (1.24%) Kubernetes
9 15 (1.09%) vRealize
10 12 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.58%) RSA Archer
12 7 (0.51%) CASB
13 6 (0.44%) VxRail
14 5 (0.36%) Control-M
14 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.36%) QRadar
14 5 (0.36%) Salt
15 4 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.29%) Pingdom
15 4 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 235 (17.09%) Microsoft
2 89 (6.47%) Remedy
3 76 (5.53%) Cisco
4 65 (4.73%) SAP
5 50 (3.64%) Oracle
6 43 (3.13%) VMware
7 42 (3.05%) Splunk
8 41 (2.98%) Workday
9 39 (2.84%) Atlassian
10 36 (2.62%) Salesforce
11 32 (2.33%) IBM
12 23 (1.67%) CyberArk
13 22 (1.60%) Fortinet
13 22 (1.60%) Google
13 22 (1.60%) Palo Alto
14 21 (1.53%) Apple
15 20 (1.45%) BMC
16 19 (1.38%) Zscaler
17 18 (1.31%) F5
17 18 (1.31%) Snow