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 6 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
6 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 58 68 75
Rank change year-on-year +10 +7 +10
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,744 1,004 956
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.83% 3.63% 2.86%
As % of the Vendors category 9.28% 7.70% 6.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,135 625 577
10th Percentile £218 £224 £213
25th Percentile £400 £321 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £473 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.18% -5.49% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £580
90th Percentile £675 £660 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 82 88
10th Percentile £17.25 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £26.66 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +41.66% +15.46% -20.80%
75th Percentile £67.47 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.70 £63.36 £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 18,790 13,040 14,563
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.27% 47.19% 43.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,812 8,260 9,294
10th Percentile £313 £278 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year - -2.86% -
75th Percentile £613 £619 £627
90th Percentile £700 £719 £738
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,028 627 772
10th Percentile £15.92 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.33 £17.45 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.50 £25.15 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +41.15% -13.28% -26.77%
75th Percentile £67.50 £50.00 £61.83
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.11 £71.13
UK median hourly rate £34.85 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +38.57% -10.18% -33.85%

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +26 754 £525 +5.00% 243
South East +15 351 £550 +35.64% 80
North of England -3 327 £461 -3.00% 75
North West -5 206 £375 -26.56% 58
Midlands +10 162 £425 -10.53% 27
West Midlands 0 127 £450 -5.26% 22
Yorkshire -20 110 £514 +28.50% 14
East of England -28 61 £525 +16.67% 10
South West -52 52 £419 +30.35% 25
East Midlands +9 29 £381 -7.58% 6
North East -28 17 £500 +66.67% 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
1 104 (5.96%) SharePoint
2 96 (5.50%) Confluence
3 39 (2.24%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.52%) Apache
4 9 (0.52%) nginx
4 9 (0.52%) Skype for Business
5 3 (0.17%) CMS
5 3 (0.17%) IIS
6 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.11%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.11%) SAS
6 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
6 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.057%) Adobe Experience Manager
7 1 (0.057%) Appian
7 1 (0.057%) Drupal
7 1 (0.057%) Mendix
7 1 (0.057%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 75 (4.30%) Microsoft Excel
1 75 (4.30%) Microsoft Office
2 35 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 26 (1.49%) Microsoft Project
4 17 (0.97%) MS Visio
5 10 (0.57%) AutoCAD
6 8 (0.46%) Revit
7 7 (0.40%) Chatbot
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 69 (3.96%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (0.69%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.52%) 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
1 364 (20.87%) Azure
2 236 (13.53%) AWS
3 224 (12.84%) Microsoft 365
4 130 (7.45%) Entra ID
5 128 (7.34%) Power Platform
6 97 (5.56%) SaaS
7 63 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
8 46 (2.64%) GCP
9 37 (2.12%) OneDrive
10 29 (1.66%) GitHub
11 27 (1.55%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 27 (1.55%) Datadog
12 26 (1.49%) Azure Monitor
12 26 (1.49%) Microsoft Copilot
13 25 (1.43%) Amazon EC2
14 24 (1.38%) Amazon S3
15 22 (1.26%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 20 (1.15%) Serverless
17 19 (1.09%) Power Automate
18 14 (0.80%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 85 (4.87%) DNS
2 77 (4.42%) DHCP
3 68 (3.90%) Firewall
4 56 (3.21%) VPN
5 46 (2.64%) TCP/IP
6 39 (2.24%) Wireless
7 32 (1.83%) Network Security
8 26 (1.49%) SSL
9 23 (1.32%) WAN
9 23 (1.32%) Wi-Fi
10 22 (1.26%) VLAN
11 20 (1.15%) LAN
11 20 (1.15%) SAN
12 19 (1.09%) NAS
13 17 (0.97%) Cisco IOS
14 16 (0.92%) SSH
15 15 (0.86%) NX-OS
15 15 (0.86%) Structured Cabling
16 14 (0.80%) SNMP
17 13 (0.75%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 97 (5.56%) Power BI
2 52 (2.98%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.78%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (1.55%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (1.03%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (0.80%) MySQL
7 13 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (0.63%) Power Query
9 8 (0.46%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.34%) Tableau
12 5 (0.29%) Metadata
12 5 (0.29%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.29%) 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 (15.54%) JIRA
2 81 (4.64%) Git
3 24 (1.38%) Jenkins
4 20 (1.15%) GitLab
5 7 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.29%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.23%) Flyway
8 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.11%) JMeter
9 2 (0.11%) JUnit
9 2 (0.11%) LoadRunner
9 2 (0.11%) MSI
9 2 (0.11%) Postman
9 2 (0.11%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.11%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.057%) REST Assured
10 1 (0.057%) Serenity BDD
10 1 (0.057%) SonarQube
General
1 563 (32.28%) Social Skills
2 326 (18.69%) Finance
3 238 (13.65%) Analytical Skills
4 143 (8.20%) Public Sector
5 96 (5.50%) Banking
6 80 (4.59%) Telecoms
7 55 (3.15%) Organisational Skills
8 54 (3.10%) Legal
9 48 (2.75%) Documentation Skills
10 27 (1.55%) Military
11 25 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
12 23 (1.32%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 23 (1.32%) Manufacturing
13 18 (1.03%) Police
13 18 (1.03%) Presentation Skills
14 17 (0.97%) French Language
15 16 (0.92%) Retail
15 16 (0.92%) Spanish Language
16 15 (0.86%) Law
17 14 (0.80%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 250 (14.33%) Architect
2 232 (13.30%) Analyst
3 176 (10.09%) Developer
4 154 (8.83%) ServiceNow Architect
5 151 (8.66%) ServiceNow Developer
6 126 (7.22%) Senior
7 106 (6.08%) Consultant
8 104 (5.96%) Support Engineer
9 95 (5.45%) IT Support
10 91 (5.22%) Lead
11 73 (4.19%) Service Analyst
12 69 (3.96%) Business Analyst
12 69 (3.96%) IT Engineer
13 68 (3.90%) Solutions Architect
14 63 (3.61%) ServiceNow Consultant
15 62 (3.56%) Project Manager
16 61 (3.50%) IT Support Engineer
17 41 (2.35%) Delivery Manager
17 41 (2.35%) Technical Architect
18 40 (2.29%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 192 (11.01%) REST
2 114 (6.54%) SOAP
3 38 (2.18%) JSON
4 33 (1.89%) OAuth
5 32 (1.83%) HTML
5 32 (1.83%) SailPoint
5 32 (1.83%) XML
6 29 (1.66%) Middleware
6 29 (1.66%) Web Services
7 28 (1.61%) CSS
8 25 (1.43%) LDAP
9 22 (1.26%) .NET
10 20 (1.15%) AngularJS
11 16 (0.92%) Ajax
11 16 (0.92%) SAML
12 14 (0.80%) OpenID
13 11 (0.63%) Flash
13 11 (0.63%) JDBC
13 11 (0.63%) Microsoft Graph
13 11 (0.63%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 257 (14.74%) CMDB
2 165 (9.46%) Onboarding
3 69 (3.96%) Product Ownership
4 54 (3.10%) Enterprise Software
5 48 (2.75%) Data Centre
6 42 (2.41%) Cloud Native
6 42 (2.41%) Management Information System
7 32 (1.83%) Replication
8 27 (1.55%) PKI
8 27 (1.55%) Security Posture
9 24 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
10 23 (1.32%) AI Agents
11 22 (1.26%) Clustering
12 21 (1.20%) Linux Command Line
12 21 (1.20%) Video Conferencing
13 18 (1.03%) Analytical Mindset
14 17 (0.97%) Data Protection Act
15 16 (0.92%) Data Structures
15 16 (0.92%) iPhone
16 15 (0.86%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 307 (17.60%) Windows
2 105 (6.02%) Windows 10
3 102 (5.85%) Linux
4 50 (2.87%) Windows Server
5 46 (2.64%) Mac OS
6 34 (1.95%) Apple iOS
7 24 (1.38%) Unix
8 22 (1.26%) Android
9 19 (1.09%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 9 (0.52%) Windows 7
11 5 (0.29%) 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
1 668 (38.30%) ITSM
2 550 (31.54%) ITIL
3 354 (20.30%) Service Management
4 332 (19.04%) Agile
5 315 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
6 303 (17.37%) Stakeholder Management
7 270 (15.48%) Continuous Improvement
8 206 (11.81%) Change Management
9 199 (11.41%) Customer Service
10 197 (11.30%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 195 (11.18%) AI
12 190 (10.89%) DevOps
13 188 (10.78%) Service Delivery
14 160 (9.17%) Roadmaps
15 147 (8.43%) Workflow
16 145 (8.31%) Migration
17 128 (7.34%) Incident Management
18 124 (7.11%) CI/CD
19 122 (7.00%) Asset Management
19 122 (7.00%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 131 (7.51%) PowerShell
2 122 (7.00%) SQL
3 115 (6.59%) JavaScript
4 110 (6.31%) Python
5 53 (3.04%) Java
6 32 (1.83%) C#
7 21 (1.20%) Bash
8 12 (0.69%) Groovy
9 11 (0.63%) T-SQL
9 11 (0.63%) VBScript
10 10 (0.57%) PL/SQL
11 8 (0.46%) TypeScript
11 8 (0.46%) VB
12 7 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
13 6 (0.34%) Shell Script
14 5 (0.29%) C++
14 5 (0.29%) Perl
15 4 (0.23%) BeanShell
15 4 (0.23%) Bicep
16 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 494 (28.33%) Security Cleared
2 349 (20.01%) SC Cleared
3 137 (7.86%) Degree
4 104 (5.96%) DV Cleared
5 43 (2.47%) PMP
6 42 (2.41%) ITIL Certification
7 41 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
8 37 (2.12%) BPSS Clearance
8 37 (2.12%) PMI Certification
9 33 (1.89%) CISSP
10 29 (1.66%) Microsoft Certification
11 28 (1.61%) CCNP
12 26 (1.49%) CISM
13 23 (1.32%) CCNA
14 21 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 19 (1.09%) A+ Certification
16 18 (1.03%) Azure Certification
16 18 (1.03%) Network+ Certification
17 15 (0.86%) Server+ Certification
18 14 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (5.62%) SLA
2 74 (4.24%) Data Quality
3 54 (3.10%) GRC
4 47 (2.69%) QA
5 46 (2.64%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 37 (2.12%) NIST
6 37 (2.12%) PMO
7 33 (1.89%) GDPR
8 18 (1.03%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 16 (0.92%) Cyber Essentials
10 14 (0.80%) COBIT
11 13 (0.75%) NCSC
12 12 (0.69%) Accessibility
12 12 (0.69%) ISO 9001
13 8 (0.46%) GxP
13 8 (0.46%) ISO/IEC 20000
14 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
14 6 (0.34%) HIPAA
15 5 (0.29%) PCI DSS
16 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 221 (12.67%) Active Directory
2 33 (1.89%) VMware Infrastructure
3 28 (1.61%) Docker
4 20 (1.15%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (1.03%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (0.86%) IAG
7 12 (0.69%) NFS
7 12 (0.69%) vSphere
8 11 (0.63%) GPFS
9 10 (0.57%) BitLocker
9 10 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.40%) Firmware
11 4 (0.23%) 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 74 (4.24%) Terraform
2 71 (4.07%) Microsoft Intune
3 57 (3.27%) SCCM
4 47 (2.69%) Ansible
5 35 (2.01%) Kubernetes
6 30 (1.72%) Grafana
7 23 (1.32%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.20%) Prometheus
9 19 (1.09%) Jamf Pro
10 13 (0.75%) SCOM
11 12 (0.69%) WMI
12 10 (0.57%) vRealize
13 9 (0.52%) vCenter Server
14 7 (0.40%) CASB
14 7 (0.40%) RSA Archer
15 6 (0.34%) Packer
15 6 (0.34%) VxRail
16 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
16 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
16 4 (0.23%) SELinux
Vendors
1 424 (24.31%) Microsoft
2 90 (5.16%) Cisco
3 78 (4.47%) Remedy
4 69 (3.96%) Splunk
5 66 (3.78%) SAP
6 64 (3.67%) Oracle
7 48 (2.75%) VMware
8 46 (2.64%) Salesforce
9 39 (2.24%) CyberArk
10 33 (1.89%) Dynatrace
11 31 (1.78%) BMC
12 30 (1.72%) Workday
13 28 (1.61%) Apple
14 27 (1.55%) Palo Alto
15 23 (1.32%) Snow
15 23 (1.32%) SolarWinds
16 22 (1.26%) Fortinet
16 22 (1.26%) iManage
17 19 (1.09%) CrowdStrike
17 19 (1.09%) F5