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 July 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 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 64 62 82
Rank change year-on-year -2 +20 +11
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,603 970 958
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.65% 3.76% 2.57%
As % of the Vendors category 8.96% 7.94% 6.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,072 597 562
10th Percentile £220 £213 £200
25th Percentile £400 £313 £331
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £584 £588
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £513 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 74 105
10th Percentile £16.23 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £15.10 £16.06
Median hourly rate £21.00 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +11.58% +15.46% -34.80%
75th Percentile £34.49 £26.69 £21.37
90th Percentile £85.15 £58.38 £28.75
UK median hourly rate £20.47 £17.45 £16.30
% change year-on-year +17.31% +7.02% -31.37%

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 17,888 12,212 15,896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.77% 47.29% 42.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,365 7,741 10,084
10th Percentile £313 £280 £275
25th Percentile £413 £402 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £513 £520
Median % change year-on-year -0.49% -1.44% -0.95%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £628
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £515
% change year-on-year - -2.91% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 970 563 1,054
10th Percentile £16.01 £14.84 £12.49
25th Percentile £19.34 £17.50 £14.71
Median hourly rate £35.00 £26.00 £24.93
Median % change year-on-year +34.62% +4.30% -33.08%
75th Percentile £65.00 £52.08 £60.45
90th Percentile £81.25 £68.75 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £24.50
% change year-on-year +35.15% +2.65% -39.64%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +14 696 £525 +1.45% 168
North of England -6 302 £500 +9.65% 63
South East +7 296 £525 +35.48% 108
Midlands +12 170 £425 -17.07% 37
North West -8 166 £439 -12.25% 44
West Midlands -3 126 £459 -10.87% 28
Yorkshire -9 125 £543 +35.63% 14
East of England -33 58 £525 +18.51% 17
South West -40 47 £425 +70.00% 14
East Midlands +10 38 £340 -27.47% 9
North East -19 16 £450 +38.46% 6
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 84 (5.24%) Confluence
2 76 (4.74%) SharePoint
3 43 (2.68%) Microsoft Exchange
4 12 (0.75%) Skype for Business
5 5 (0.31%) Apache
6 3 (0.19%) CMS
7 2 (0.12%) Apache Spark
7 2 (0.12%) IIS
7 2 (0.12%) Jupyter
7 2 (0.12%) NetWeaver
7 2 (0.12%) SAS
7 2 (0.12%) WebLogic
7 2 (0.12%) WebSphere
8 1 (0.062%) Appian
8 1 (0.062%) Drupal
8 1 (0.062%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 1 (0.062%) Tomcat
Applications
1 69 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 68 (4.24%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 26 (1.62%) Microsoft Project
5 18 (1.12%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.62%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.50%) Revit
8 6 (0.37%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.062%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.062%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 58 (3.62%) Remedy ITSM
2 10 (0.62%) Dynamics CRM
3 8 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 6 (0.37%) Oracle ERP
5 3 (0.19%) Maximo
6 2 (0.12%) Dynamics GP
6 2 (0.12%) Eloqua
6 2 (0.12%) OpenText VIM for SAP
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.12%) Oracle EBS
6 2 (0.12%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.12%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.12%) SAP FI/CO
6 2 (0.12%) SAP MDG
6 2 (0.12%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 1 (0.062%) Aladdin
7 1 (0.062%) Oracle Payables
7 1 (0.062%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
7 1 (0.062%) Oracle Receivables
7 1 (0.062%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 330 (20.59%) Azure
2 221 (13.79%) AWS
3 169 (10.54%) Microsoft 365
4 127 (7.92%) Entra ID
5 108 (6.74%) Power Platform
6 80 (4.99%) SaaS
7 58 (3.62%) Azure DevOps
8 55 (3.43%) GCP
9 30 (1.87%) OneDrive
10 23 (1.43%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 21 (1.31%) Amazon S3
12 20 (1.25%) Azure Monitor
13 19 (1.19%) Amazon EC2
13 19 (1.19%) Datadog
14 18 (1.12%) Microsoft Copilot
15 16 (1.00%) GitHub
15 16 (1.00%) Power Automate
15 16 (1.00%) Serverless
15 16 (1.00%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 14 (0.87%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 79 (4.93%) DNS
2 73 (4.55%) DHCP
3 63 (3.93%) Firewall
4 48 (2.99%) VPN
5 37 (2.31%) Wireless
6 35 (2.18%) TCP/IP
7 34 (2.12%) LAN
7 34 (2.12%) Network Security
7 34 (2.12%) WAN
8 28 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
9 22 (1.37%) VLAN
10 21 (1.31%) SSL
11 20 (1.25%) SAN
12 19 (1.19%) NAS
13 16 (1.00%) SD-WAN
14 15 (0.94%) Cisco IOS
14 15 (0.94%) NX-OS
14 15 (0.94%) Structured Cabling
15 14 (0.87%) Internet
16 13 (0.81%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 89 (5.55%) Power BI
2 45 (2.81%) SQL Server
3 25 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (1.50%) Amazon RDS
5 15 (0.94%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 13 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
7 11 (0.69%) MySQL
7 11 (0.69%) Power Query
8 9 (0.56%) Metadata
9 7 (0.44%) Amazon Aurora
10 6 (0.37%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.37%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.37%) Tableau
11 5 (0.31%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.25%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.25%) MongoDB
12 4 (0.25%) Neo4j
12 4 (0.25%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.25%) PowerPivot
13 3 (0.19%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 264 (16.47%) JIRA
2 72 (4.49%) Git
3 24 (1.50%) GitLab
3 24 (1.50%) Jenkins
4 7 (0.44%) Selenium
5 6 (0.37%) Postman
6 5 (0.31%) Cucumber
6 5 (0.31%) JMeter
6 5 (0.31%) LoadRunner
6 5 (0.31%) REST Assured
7 4 (0.25%) Flyway
7 4 (0.25%) Gatling
7 4 (0.25%) NeoLoad
8 2 (0.12%) Cypress.io
8 2 (0.12%) JUnit
8 2 (0.12%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.12%) Visual Studio
9 1 (0.062%) MSI
9 1 (0.062%) Subversion
9 1 (0.062%) TestNG
General
1 495 (30.88%) Social Skills
2 310 (19.34%) Finance
3 204 (12.73%) Analytical Skills
4 129 (8.05%) Public Sector
5 91 (5.68%) Banking
6 65 (4.05%) Telecoms
7 55 (3.43%) Organisational Skills
8 46 (2.87%) Documentation Skills
9 37 (2.31%) Legal
10 31 (1.93%) Military
11 21 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 21 (1.31%) Influencing Skills
11 21 (1.31%) Retail
12 19 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
13 18 (1.12%) French Language
14 17 (1.06%) Manufacturing
15 13 (0.81%) Billing
15 13 (0.81%) Spanish Language
16 12 (0.75%) Italian Language
16 12 (0.75%) Portuguese Language
Job Titles
1 253 (15.78%) Architect
2 221 (13.79%) Analyst
3 159 (9.92%) Developer
4 151 (9.42%) ServiceNow Architect
5 133 (8.30%) ServiceNow Developer
6 107 (6.67%) Senior
7 92 (5.74%) Consultant
8 83 (5.18%) Support Engineer
9 82 (5.12%) Lead
10 81 (5.05%) IT Support
11 68 (4.24%) Business Analyst
12 67 (4.18%) Solutions Architect
13 64 (3.99%) ServiceNow Consultant
14 58 (3.62%) Service Analyst
15 57 (3.56%) IT Engineer
15 57 (3.56%) Project Manager
16 50 (3.12%) IT Support Engineer
17 48 (2.99%) Technical Architect
18 42 (2.62%) Delivery Manager
19 41 (2.56%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 185 (11.54%) REST
2 112 (6.99%) SOAP
3 39 (2.43%) SailPoint
4 35 (2.18%) LDAP
5 34 (2.12%) Middleware
6 32 (2.00%) HTML
6 32 (2.00%) JSON
7 30 (1.87%) CSS
8 29 (1.81%) OAuth
9 26 (1.62%) XML
10 25 (1.56%) Web Services
11 24 (1.50%) OpenID
12 21 (1.31%) AngularJS
13 19 (1.19%) SAML
14 17 (1.06%) .NET
15 16 (1.00%) Flash
16 13 (0.81%) Ajax
17 11 (0.69%) JDBC
17 11 (0.69%) Microsoft Graph
17 11 (0.69%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 230 (14.35%) CMDB
2 125 (7.80%) Onboarding
3 65 (4.05%) Product Ownership
4 50 (3.12%) Data Centre
5 47 (2.93%) Management Information System
6 44 (2.74%) Cloud Native
7 37 (2.31%) Enterprise Software
8 34 (2.12%) Replication
9 27 (1.68%) Security Posture
10 24 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
11 22 (1.37%) Linux Command Line
11 22 (1.37%) PKI
12 18 (1.12%) Data Structures
12 18 (1.12%) Virtual Team
13 17 (1.06%) AI Agents
13 17 (1.06%) Analytical Mindset
13 17 (1.06%) Clustering
14 16 (1.00%) Data Protection Act
15 14 (0.87%) Legacy Systems
16 11 (0.69%) Video Conferencing
Operating Systems
1 246 (15.35%) Windows
2 84 (5.24%) Linux
3 82 (5.12%) Windows 10
4 44 (2.74%) Windows Server
5 39 (2.43%) Mac OS
6 31 (1.93%) Apple iOS
7 26 (1.62%) Unix
8 22 (1.37%) Android
9 13 (0.81%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 12 (0.75%) Windows 7
11 4 (0.25%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.19%) Check Point GAiA
12 3 (0.19%) VMS
12 3 (0.19%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.19%) zOS
13 2 (0.12%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2012
13 2 (0.12%) Windows Server 2019
14 1 (0.062%) CentOS
14 1 (0.062%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 588 (36.68%) ITSM
2 469 (29.26%) ITIL
3 330 (20.59%) Agile
4 305 (19.03%) Service Management
5 285 (17.78%) Problem-Solving
6 270 (16.84%) Stakeholder Management
7 234 (14.60%) Continuous Improvement
8 190 (11.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 184 (11.48%) DevOps
10 182 (11.35%) Change Management
11 165 (10.29%) AI
12 164 (10.23%) Customer Service
13 155 (9.67%) Service Delivery
14 146 (9.11%) Migration
15 143 (8.92%) Roadmaps
16 136 (8.48%) Workflow
17 125 (7.80%) CI/CD
18 124 (7.74%) Data Modelling
19 111 (6.92%) Incident Management
20 107 (6.67%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 124 (7.74%) SQL
2 111 (6.92%) JavaScript
3 104 (6.49%) PowerShell
4 102 (6.36%) Python
5 59 (3.68%) Java
6 32 (2.00%) C#
7 14 (0.87%) Bash
7 14 (0.87%) VBScript
8 11 (0.69%) TypeScript
8 11 (0.69%) VB
9 10 (0.62%) PL/SQL
10 9 (0.56%) Groovy
10 9 (0.56%) T-SQL
11 7 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 5 (0.31%) Perl
13 4 (0.25%) BeanShell
13 4 (0.25%) Bicep
13 4 (0.25%) Cypher
13 4 (0.25%) Scala
13 4 (0.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 436 (27.20%) Security Cleared
2 310 (19.34%) SC Cleared
3 122 (7.61%) Degree
4 97 (6.05%) DV Cleared
5 44 (2.74%) ITIL Certification
6 41 (2.56%) Cisco Certification
7 39 (2.43%) PMP
8 32 (2.00%) CISSP
8 32 (2.00%) PMI Certification
9 31 (1.93%) CCNP
10 28 (1.75%) BPSS Clearance
11 25 (1.56%) CISM
12 20 (1.25%) CCNA
13 19 (1.19%) Microsoft Certification
14 15 (0.94%) Network+ Certification
14 15 (0.94%) Server+ Certification
15 14 (0.87%) Azure Certification
15 14 (0.87%) Computer Science Degree
16 11 (0.69%) AWS Certification
16 11 (0.69%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 78 (4.87%) SLA
2 71 (4.43%) Data Quality
3 57 (3.56%) GRC
4 49 (3.06%) QA
5 47 (2.93%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 39 (2.43%) GDPR
7 36 (2.25%) NIST
8 30 (1.87%) PMO
9 20 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (0.81%) COBIT
10 13 (0.81%) Cyber Essentials
11 12 (0.75%) Accessibility
12 9 (0.56%) NCSC
13 8 (0.50%) HIPAA
13 8 (0.50%) ISO 9001
14 7 (0.44%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 7 (0.44%) PCI DSS
15 5 (0.31%) SOC 2
16 4 (0.25%) GxP
17 3 (0.19%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
System Software
1 182 (11.35%) Active Directory
2 36 (2.25%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.25%) Docker
4 18 (1.12%) Virtual Machines
5 17 (1.06%) NFS
5 17 (1.06%) VMware ESXi
5 17 (1.06%) vSphere
6 16 (1.00%) GPFS
7 13 (0.81%) BitLocker
8 9 (0.56%) IAG
9 7 (0.44%) Firmware
10 6 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
11 4 (0.25%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 4 (0.25%) VMware NSX
12 3 (0.19%) Hyper-V
13 2 (0.12%) Job Entry Subsystem
13 2 (0.12%) RACF
13 2 (0.12%) Slurm Workload Manager
13 2 (0.12%) XenDesktop
14 1 (0.062%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 61 (3.81%) Terraform
2 56 (3.49%) Microsoft Intune
3 50 (3.12%) SCCM
4 35 (2.18%) Ansible
5 27 (1.68%) Grafana
6 26 (1.62%) Kubernetes
7 21 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
8 18 (1.12%) Prometheus
9 17 (1.06%) Jamf Pro
10 14 (0.87%) vRealize
11 11 (0.69%) WMI
12 10 (0.62%) SCOM
13 9 (0.56%) RSA Archer
14 7 (0.44%) CASB
14 7 (0.44%) VxRail
15 4 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.25%) CA Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.25%) PingFederate
15 4 (0.25%) QRadar
15 4 (0.25%) Salt
Vendors
1 332 (20.71%) Microsoft
2 94 (5.86%) Cisco
3 72 (4.49%) Remedy
4 66 (4.12%) SAP
5 65 (4.05%) Splunk
6 57 (3.56%) Oracle
7 42 (2.62%) VMware
8 40 (2.50%) Salesforce
9 35 (2.18%) CyberArk
10 32 (2.00%) Workday
11 30 (1.87%) BMC
12 28 (1.75%) Fortinet
13 26 (1.62%) Dynatrace
13 26 (1.62%) Palo Alto
14 25 (1.56%) Apple
14 25 (1.56%) Google
15 24 (1.50%) F5
16 22 (1.37%) IBM
16 22 (1.37%) SolarWinds
17 21 (1.31%) Snow