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 5 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
5 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 70 81
Rank change year-on-year +4 +11 +19
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,428 875 937
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.40% 3.63% 2.55%
As % of the Vendors category 8.36% 7.65% 6.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 970 530 545
10th Percentile £213 £213 £180
25th Percentile £400 £301 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £588 £596
90th Percentile £675 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 41 70 104
10th Percentile £16.55 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.25 £14.99 £15.92
Median hourly rate £26.66 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +41.66% +15.46% -35.95%
75th Percentile £35.22 £26.69 £21.37
90th Percentile £85.25 £57.63 £27.63
UK median hourly rate £26.66 £17.45 £16.30
% change year-on-year +52.82% +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 17,087 11,441 15,424
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 40.73% 47.51% 41.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,976 7,272 9,819
10th Percentile £313 £278 £263
25th Percentile £413 £405 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £505 £519 £515
Median % change year-on-year -2.77% +0.85% -2.83%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £505 £515
% change year-on-year -0.99% -1.94% -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 914 495 1,027
10th Percentile £15.82 £14.84 £12.13
25th Percentile £19.01 £17.79 £14.48
Median hourly rate £33.98 £27.38 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.13% +16.49% -38.96%
75th Percentile £60.00 £55.13 £58.00
90th Percentile £78.69 £70.00 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £26.45 £22.56
% change year-on-year +22.87% +17.24% -46.92%

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 5 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 5 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 5 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 +12 629 £525 - 196
North of England -6 277 £513 +28.31% 91
South East 0 228 £502 +43.29% 114
Midlands +12 165 £420 -23.64% 33
North West -1 141 £458 -5.86% 60
Yorkshire -4 123 £525 +31.25% 27
West Midlands -13 118 £450 -18.18% 16
East of England -31 62 £525 +16.67% 22
East Midlands +8 40 £340 -33.66% 17
South West -42 35 £310 +23.80% 18
North East -17 17 £450 +50.00% 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 73 (5.11%) Confluence
2 49 (3.43%) Microsoft Exchange
2 49 (3.43%) SharePoint
3 12 (0.84%) Skype for Business
4 7 (0.49%) Apache
5 3 (0.21%) CMS
5 3 (0.21%) WebSphere
6 2 (0.14%) Apache Spark
6 2 (0.14%) Appian
6 2 (0.14%) BizTalk Server
6 2 (0.14%) IIS
6 2 (0.14%) Jupyter
6 2 (0.14%) NetWeaver
6 2 (0.14%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 2 (0.14%) SAS
6 2 (0.14%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.070%) Camunda
7 1 (0.070%) Drupal
7 1 (0.070%) Tomcat
Applications
1 62 (4.34%) Microsoft Excel
2 60 (4.20%) Microsoft Office
3 28 (1.96%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 23 (1.61%) Microsoft Project
5 9 (0.63%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.35%) AutoCAD
6 5 (0.35%) Chatbot
6 5 (0.35%) Revit
7 4 (0.28%) Spreadsheet
8 1 (0.070%) Camtasia
8 1 (0.070%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 60 (4.20%) Remedy ITSM
2 9 (0.63%) Dynamics CRM
2 9 (0.63%) SAP S/4HANA
3 6 (0.42%) 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 (0.070%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.070%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.070%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.070%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.070%) SAP SRM
6 1 (0.070%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 294 (20.59%) Azure
2 205 (14.36%) AWS
3 158 (11.06%) Microsoft 365
4 117 (8.19%) Entra ID
5 93 (6.51%) Power Platform
6 68 (4.76%) SaaS
7 60 (4.20%) GCP
8 55 (3.85%) Azure DevOps
9 29 (2.03%) OneDrive
10 19 (1.33%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 19 (1.33%) Amazon S3
10 19 (1.33%) Microsoft Copilot
11 18 (1.26%) Amazon EC2
11 18 (1.26%) GitHub
12 15 (1.05%) Slack
12 15 (1.05%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 14 (0.98%) AWS KMS
13 14 (0.98%) Power Automate
13 14 (0.98%) Serverless
14 13 (0.91%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 80 (5.60%) DNS
2 71 (4.97%) DHCP
3 66 (4.62%) Firewall
4 53 (3.71%) VPN
5 39 (2.73%) Wireless
6 34 (2.38%) Network Security
7 33 (2.31%) LAN
8 32 (2.24%) WAN
9 26 (1.82%) TCP/IP
10 25 (1.75%) Wi-Fi
11 22 (1.54%) VLAN
12 20 (1.40%) SAN
13 19 (1.33%) NAS
14 16 (1.12%) SSL
15 15 (1.05%) Cisco IOS
15 15 (1.05%) NX-OS
15 15 (1.05%) Structured Cabling
16 14 (0.98%) Internet
16 14 (0.98%) SD-WAN
17 12 (0.84%) Skype
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (5.39%) Power BI
2 42 (2.94%) SQL Server
3 23 (1.61%) PostgreSQL
4 22 (1.54%) Amazon RDS
5 19 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
6 16 (1.12%) SQL Server Integration Services
7 14 (0.98%) Metadata
8 10 (0.70%) MySQL
8 10 (0.70%) Power Query
9 9 (0.63%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (0.63%) MongoDB
10 8 (0.56%) Oracle Reports
11 7 (0.49%) Amazon Aurora
12 6 (0.42%) Data Lake
12 6 (0.42%) NoSQL
12 6 (0.42%) Tableau
13 5 (0.35%) SQL Server Reporting Services
14 4 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
14 4 (0.28%) Neo4j
14 4 (0.28%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 251 (17.58%) JIRA
2 71 (4.97%) Git
3 35 (2.45%) Jenkins
4 34 (2.38%) GitLab
5 15 (1.05%) Selenium
6 12 (0.84%) Cucumber
6 12 (0.84%) Postman
6 12 (0.84%) REST Assured
7 7 (0.49%) TestRail
8 5 (0.35%) JMeter
8 5 (0.35%) LoadRunner
9 4 (0.28%) Flyway
9 4 (0.28%) Gatling
9 4 (0.28%) 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
1 443 (31.02%) Social Skills
2 272 (19.05%) Finance
3 167 (11.69%) Analytical Skills
4 111 (7.77%) Public Sector
5 83 (5.81%) Banking
6 56 (3.92%) Telecoms
7 54 (3.78%) Organisational Skills
8 46 (3.22%) Documentation Skills
9 43 (3.01%) Legal
10 32 (2.24%) Military
11 20 (1.40%) Retail
12 19 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 17 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
14 15 (1.05%) Billing
14 15 (1.05%) French Language
15 14 (0.98%) Influencing Skills
16 13 (0.91%) Manufacturing
17 10 (0.70%) Financial Institution
17 10 (0.70%) Italian Language
17 10 (0.70%) Law
Job Titles
1 248 (17.37%) Architect
2 191 (13.38%) Analyst
3 147 (10.29%) ServiceNow Architect
4 125 (8.75%) Developer
5 103 (7.21%) ServiceNow Developer
6 89 (6.23%) Senior
7 78 (5.46%) IT Support
7 78 (5.46%) Support Engineer
8 70 (4.90%) Lead
9 68 (4.76%) Consultant
10 65 (4.55%) Solutions Architect
11 57 (3.99%) Project Manager
12 53 (3.71%) Business Analyst
13 50 (3.50%) IT Engineer
14 48 (3.36%) Service Analyst
15 47 (3.29%) IT Support Engineer
16 44 (3.08%) ServiceNow Manager
17 43 (3.01%) ServiceNow Consultant
18 40 (2.80%) Delivery Manager
19 39 (2.73%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 172 (12.04%) REST
2 99 (6.93%) SOAP
3 39 (2.73%) SailPoint
4 38 (2.66%) LDAP
5 31 (2.17%) Middleware
5 31 (2.17%) OpenID
6 30 (2.10%) CSS
7 29 (2.03%) HTML
8 24 (1.68%) OAuth
9 23 (1.61%) JSON
9 23 (1.61%) Web Services
10 21 (1.47%) AngularJS
11 19 (1.33%) Flash
11 19 (1.33%) XML
12 18 (1.26%) .NET
12 18 (1.26%) SAML
13 11 (0.77%) Ajax
13 11 (0.77%) JDBC
13 11 (0.77%) Kafka
13 11 (0.77%) Microsoft Graph
Miscellaneous
1 184 (12.89%) CMDB
2 108 (7.56%) Onboarding
3 71 (4.97%) Product Ownership
4 46 (3.22%) Data Centre
5 36 (2.52%) Management Information System
6 33 (2.31%) Replication
7 30 (2.10%) Cloud Native
8 26 (1.82%) Enterprise Software
9 25 (1.75%) Security Posture
10 20 (1.40%) PKI
11 19 (1.33%) Linux Command Line
11 19 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
12 17 (1.19%) Virtual Team
13 15 (1.05%) Data Structures
14 14 (0.98%) AI Agents
14 14 (0.98%) Legacy Systems
15 13 (0.91%) Clustering
15 13 (0.91%) Data Protection Act
16 12 (0.84%) Analytical Mindset
17 9 (0.63%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 234 (16.39%) Windows
2 84 (5.88%) Windows 10
3 82 (5.74%) Linux
4 43 (3.01%) Windows Server
5 37 (2.59%) Mac OS
6 27 (1.89%) Unix
7 26 (1.82%) Apple iOS
8 20 (1.40%) Android
9 12 (0.84%) Windows 7
10 10 (0.70%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
11 4 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
12 3 (0.21%) VMS
12 3 (0.21%) Windows Server 2016
12 3 (0.21%) zOS
13 1 (0.070%) MVS
13 1 (0.070%) SUSE
13 1 (0.070%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
13 1 (0.070%) Ubuntu
13 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2012
13 1 (0.070%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 505 (35.36%) ITSM
2 386 (27.03%) ITIL
3 302 (21.15%) Agile
4 249 (17.44%) Service Management
5 225 (15.76%) Problem-Solving
6 220 (15.41%) Stakeholder Management
7 199 (13.94%) Continuous Improvement
8 166 (11.62%) Change Management
9 163 (11.41%) DevOps
10 162 (11.34%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 147 (10.29%) Customer Service
12 135 (9.45%) Migration
13 134 (9.38%) Service Delivery
14 128 (8.96%) Roadmaps
15 126 (8.82%) AI
16 122 (8.54%) CI/CD
17 119 (8.33%) Workflow
18 116 (8.12%) Data Modelling
19 105 (7.35%) Asset Management
20 100 (7.00%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 129 (9.03%) SQL
2 101 (7.07%) JavaScript
3 90 (6.30%) PowerShell
4 87 (6.09%) Python
5 71 (4.97%) Java
6 30 (2.10%) C#
7 13 (0.91%) Bash
7 13 (0.91%) VB
7 13 (0.91%) VBScript
8 11 (0.77%) TypeScript
9 10 (0.70%) PL/SQL
10 9 (0.63%) Groovy
11 7 (0.49%) Perl
12 6 (0.42%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.42%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.35%) Go
13 5 (0.35%) PHP
14 4 (0.28%) BeanShell
14 4 (0.28%) Cypher
14 4 (0.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 372 (26.05%) Security Cleared
2 268 (18.77%) SC Cleared
3 100 (7.00%) Degree
4 72 (5.04%) DV Cleared
5 41 (2.87%) Cisco Certification
6 37 (2.59%) ITIL Certification
7 34 (2.38%) PMP
8 30 (2.10%) CCNP
8 30 (2.10%) CISSP
9 29 (2.03%) PMI Certification
10 23 (1.61%) CISM
11 20 (1.40%) BPSS Clearance
11 20 (1.40%) CCNA
12 15 (1.05%) Microsoft Certification
12 15 (1.05%) Network+ Certification
12 15 (1.05%) Server+ Certification
13 12 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
14 11 (0.77%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
15 10 (0.70%) AWS Certification
16 9 (0.63%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (5.60%) SLA
2 63 (4.41%) Data Quality
3 48 (3.36%) GRC
4 46 (3.22%) QA
5 38 (2.66%) GDPR
6 36 (2.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 33 (2.31%) NIST
8 26 (1.82%) PMO
9 21 (1.47%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 13 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
11 11 (0.77%) Accessibility
11 11 (0.77%) COBIT
12 8 (0.56%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.42%) PCI DSS
14 5 (0.35%) NCSC
15 4 (0.28%) GxP
15 4 (0.28%) SOC 2
16 3 (0.21%) NIST 800
17 2 (0.14%) ISO 22301
17 2 (0.14%) ITGC
System Software
1 169 (11.83%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.87%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.40%) NFS
4 19 (1.33%) Docker
4 19 (1.33%) GPFS
5 18 (1.26%) VMware ESXi
5 18 (1.26%) vSphere
6 13 (0.91%) BitLocker
7 9 (0.63%) Virtual Machines
8 7 (0.49%) Firmware
9 5 (0.35%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
9 5 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
10 4 (0.28%) IAG
10 4 (0.28%) VMware NSX
11 3 (0.21%) Hyper-V
12 2 (0.14%) Job Entry Subsystem
12 2 (0.14%) RACF
12 2 (0.14%) Slurm Workload Manager
12 2 (0.14%) XenDesktop
13 1 (0.070%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 55 (3.85%) Terraform
2 48 (3.36%) Microsoft Intune
3 45 (3.15%) SCCM
4 27 (1.89%) Ansible
5 24 (1.68%) Grafana
6 21 (1.47%) Kubernetes
7 19 (1.33%) Prometheus
8 17 (1.19%) Single Sign-On
9 15 (1.05%) vRealize
10 13 (0.91%) Jamf Pro
11 8 (0.56%) WMI
12 7 (0.49%) CASB
12 7 (0.49%) RSA Archer
12 7 (0.49%) VxRail
13 5 (0.35%) QRadar
13 5 (0.35%) Salt
13 5 (0.35%) SCOM
14 4 (0.28%) Active Directory Federation Services
14 4 (0.28%) CA Single Sign-On
14 4 (0.28%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 282 (19.75%) Microsoft
2 96 (6.72%) Cisco
3 74 (5.18%) Remedy
4 62 (4.34%) SAP
5 57 (3.99%) Oracle
6 55 (3.85%) Splunk
7 47 (3.29%) VMware
8 37 (2.59%) Workday
9 36 (2.52%) Salesforce
10 30 (2.10%) BMC
11 29 (2.03%) IBM
11 29 (2.03%) Palo Alto
12 27 (1.89%) Fortinet
13 25 (1.75%) CyberArk
13 25 (1.75%) Google
14 24 (1.68%) Apple
15 23 (1.61%) F5
16 21 (1.47%) SolarWinds
17 18 (1.26%) Snow
17 18 (1.26%) Zscaler