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 9 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
9 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 57 68 72
Rank change year-on-year +11 +4 +10
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,761 1,015 939
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.85% 3.65% 2.82%
As % of the Vendors category 9.29% 7.73% 6.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,145 631 573
10th Percentile £218 £225 £213
25th Percentile £400 £325 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +6.63% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £580
90th Percentile £680 £660 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 82 80
10th Percentile £17.25 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.50 £16.06
Median hourly rate £26.66 £18.82 £16.28
Median % change year-on-year +41.66% +15.64% -20.92%
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 18,951 13,133 14,474
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.42% 47.22% 43.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,904 8,307 9,254
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 £621 £627
90th Percentile £700 £719 £737
UK median daily rate £505 £500 £520
% change year-on-year +1.00% -3.85% -0.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,040 632 758
10th Percentile £15.25 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £19.24 £17.45 £15.62
Median hourly rate £35.00 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.17% -16.17% -18.92%
75th Percentile £66.75 £50.00 £63.45
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.56 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £33.98 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +35.11% -13.28% -28.47%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 +20 766 £525 +5.00% 234
South East +16 353 £544 +34.09% 83
North of England -2 330 £461 -3.00% 78
North West -2 208 £375 -26.66% 57
Midlands +11 161 £425 -10.53% 27
West Midlands +2 126 £455 -4.32% 22
Yorkshire -16 111 £514 +28.50% 18
East of England -29 61 £525 +16.67% 9
South West -52 52 £419 +28.85% 26
East Midlands +6 29 £381 -7.58% 6
North East -30 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
1 105 (5.96%) SharePoint
2 95 (5.39%) Confluence
3 40 (2.27%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.51%) Apache
4 9 (0.51%) nginx
4 9 (0.51%) 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%) Mendix
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%) Oracle SOA Suite
7 1 (0.057%) Tomcat
Applications
1 76 (4.32%) Microsoft Excel
2 75 (4.26%) Microsoft Office
3 35 (1.99%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.42%) Microsoft Project
5 17 (0.97%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.57%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.45%) Revit
8 7 (0.40%) Chatbot
9 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
10 1 (0.057%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.057%) LaTeX
10 1 (0.057%) Photoshop
10 1 (0.057%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 68 (3.86%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
4 8 (0.45%) 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
1 366 (20.78%) Azure
2 235 (13.34%) AWS
3 229 (13.00%) Microsoft 365
4 134 (7.61%) Entra ID
5 131 (7.44%) Power Platform
6 98 (5.57%) SaaS
7 64 (3.63%) Azure DevOps
8 47 (2.67%) GCP
9 38 (2.16%) OneDrive
10 32 (1.82%) GitHub
11 27 (1.53%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 27 (1.53%) Azure Monitor
11 27 (1.53%) Datadog
11 27 (1.53%) Microsoft Copilot
12 25 (1.42%) Amazon EC2
13 24 (1.36%) Amazon S3
14 22 (1.25%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 21 (1.19%) Power Automate
16 20 (1.14%) Serverless
17 14 (0.80%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 86 (4.88%) DNS
2 77 (4.37%) DHCP
3 67 (3.80%) Firewall
4 56 (3.18%) VPN
5 47 (2.67%) TCP/IP
6 39 (2.21%) Wireless
7 32 (1.82%) Network Security
8 26 (1.48%) SSL
9 24 (1.36%) Wi-Fi
10 23 (1.31%) WAN
11 22 (1.25%) VLAN
12 20 (1.14%) LAN
12 20 (1.14%) SAN
13 19 (1.08%) NAS
14 17 (0.97%) Cisco IOS
14 17 (0.97%) NX-OS
15 16 (0.91%) SSH
16 15 (0.85%) Structured Cabling
17 14 (0.80%) SNMP
18 13 (0.74%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 98 (5.57%) Power BI
2 51 (2.90%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.76%) PostgreSQL
4 27 (1.53%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (1.02%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (0.80%) MySQL
7 13 (0.74%) Data Warehouse
8 11 (0.62%) Power Query
9 8 (0.45%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (0.40%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
11 6 (0.34%) Tableau
12 5 (0.28%) Metadata
12 5 (0.28%) MongoDB
12 5 (0.28%) 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
1 272 (15.45%) JIRA
2 82 (4.66%) Git
3 23 (1.31%) Jenkins
4 22 (1.25%) GitLab
5 7 (0.40%) Bitbucket
6 5 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
7 4 (0.23%) Flyway
8 3 (0.17%) MSI
9 2 (0.11%) Artifactory
9 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
9 2 (0.11%) Robot Framework
9 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
10 1 (0.057%) Chocolatey
10 1 (0.057%) Gatling
10 1 (0.057%) MSBuild
10 1 (0.057%) NeoLoad
10 1 (0.057%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.057%) Postman
10 1 (0.057%) SonarQube
10 1 (0.057%) TeamCity
General
1 572 (32.48%) Social Skills
2 327 (18.57%) Finance
3 243 (13.80%) Analytical Skills
4 145 (8.23%) Public Sector
5 96 (5.45%) Banking
6 81 (4.60%) Telecoms
7 54 (3.07%) Legal
7 54 (3.07%) Organisational Skills
8 47 (2.67%) Documentation Skills
9 27 (1.53%) Military
10 26 (1.48%) Influencing Skills
10 26 (1.48%) Manufacturing
11 23 (1.31%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 18 (1.02%) Police
12 18 (1.02%) Presentation Skills
13 17 (0.97%) French Language
14 16 (0.91%) Law
14 16 (0.91%) Retail
14 16 (0.91%) Spanish Language
15 14 (0.80%) Italian Language
Job Titles
1 251 (14.25%) Architect
2 236 (13.40%) Analyst
3 181 (10.28%) Developer
4 156 (8.86%) ServiceNow Developer
5 153 (8.69%) ServiceNow Architect
6 126 (7.16%) Senior
7 108 (6.13%) Consultant
8 107 (6.08%) Support Engineer
9 97 (5.51%) IT Support
10 93 (5.28%) Lead
11 73 (4.15%) Service Analyst
12 71 (4.03%) Business Analyst
13 70 (3.98%) IT Engineer
14 68 (3.86%) Solutions Architect
15 63 (3.58%) Project Manager
16 62 (3.52%) IT Support Engineer
16 62 (3.52%) ServiceNow Consultant
17 42 (2.39%) Technical Architect
18 41 (2.33%) Delivery Manager
19 39 (2.21%) IT Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 197 (11.19%) REST
2 115 (6.53%) SOAP
3 41 (2.33%) JSON
4 34 (1.93%) HTML
5 33 (1.87%) OAuth
5 33 (1.87%) SailPoint
6 32 (1.82%) XML
7 30 (1.70%) CSS
8 29 (1.65%) Web Services
9 28 (1.59%) Middleware
10 25 (1.42%) LDAP
11 23 (1.31%) .NET
12 20 (1.14%) AngularJS
13 16 (0.91%) Ajax
13 16 (0.91%) SAML
14 14 (0.80%) OpenID
15 11 (0.62%) Flash
15 11 (0.62%) Microsoft Graph
15 11 (0.62%) OAuth2
16 10 (0.57%) JDBC
Miscellaneous
1 261 (14.82%) CMDB
2 166 (9.43%) Onboarding
3 70 (3.98%) Product Ownership
4 55 (3.12%) Enterprise Software
5 50 (2.84%) Data Centre
6 42 (2.39%) Cloud Native
6 42 (2.39%) Management Information System
7 32 (1.82%) Replication
8 27 (1.53%) Security Posture
9 26 (1.48%) PKI
10 24 (1.36%) Self-Motivation
11 23 (1.31%) AI Agents
12 22 (1.25%) Clustering
13 21 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
14 20 (1.14%) Video Conferencing
15 18 (1.02%) Analytical Mindset
15 18 (1.02%) Data Protection Act
16 17 (0.97%) Data Structures
16 17 (0.97%) iPhone
17 15 (0.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 312 (17.72%) Windows
2 105 (5.96%) Linux
2 105 (5.96%) Windows 10
3 50 (2.84%) Windows Server
4 48 (2.73%) Mac OS
5 35 (1.99%) Apple iOS
6 24 (1.36%) Unix
7 22 (1.25%) Android
8 20 (1.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 9 (0.51%) Windows 7
10 5 (0.28%) Amazon Linux
11 4 (0.23%) zOS
12 3 (0.17%) Check Point GAiA
12 3 (0.17%) VMS
13 2 (0.11%) Ubuntu
13 2 (0.11%) Windows Server 2016
14 1 (0.057%) CentOS
14 1 (0.057%) MVS
14 1 (0.057%) SUSE
14 1 (0.057%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 681 (38.67%) ITSM
2 553 (31.40%) ITIL
3 359 (20.39%) Service Management
4 333 (18.91%) Agile
5 322 (18.29%) Problem-Solving
6 309 (17.55%) Stakeholder Management
7 273 (15.50%) Continuous Improvement
8 207 (11.75%) Change Management
9 205 (11.64%) Customer Service
10 198 (11.24%) AI
11 197 (11.19%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 191 (10.85%) Service Delivery
13 190 (10.79%) DevOps
14 161 (9.14%) Roadmaps
15 150 (8.52%) Workflow
16 148 (8.40%) Migration
17 132 (7.50%) Incident Management
18 125 (7.10%) CI/CD
19 124 (7.04%) Data Modelling
20 122 (6.93%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 133 (7.55%) PowerShell
2 121 (6.87%) SQL
3 117 (6.64%) JavaScript
4 113 (6.42%) Python
5 52 (2.95%) Java
6 32 (1.82%) C#
7 21 (1.19%) Bash
8 12 (0.68%) Groovy
9 11 (0.62%) T-SQL
9 11 (0.62%) VBScript
10 10 (0.57%) PL/SQL
11 9 (0.51%) TypeScript
12 8 (0.45%) VB
13 7 (0.40%) Data Analysis Expressions
14 6 (0.34%) Shell Script
15 5 (0.28%) C++
15 5 (0.28%) Perl
16 4 (0.23%) BeanShell
16 4 (0.23%) Bicep
17 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 497 (28.22%) Security Cleared
2 354 (20.10%) SC Cleared
3 138 (7.84%) Degree
4 104 (5.91%) DV Cleared
5 43 (2.44%) ITIL Certification
5 43 (2.44%) PMP
6 41 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
7 38 (2.16%) BPSS Clearance
8 37 (2.10%) PMI Certification
9 33 (1.87%) CISSP
10 31 (1.76%) Microsoft Certification
11 28 (1.59%) CCNP
12 26 (1.48%) CISM
13 23 (1.31%) CCNA
14 21 (1.19%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
15 19 (1.08%) A+ Certification
16 18 (1.02%) Azure Certification
16 18 (1.02%) Network+ Certification
17 15 (0.85%) Server+ Certification
18 14 (0.80%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (5.57%) SLA
2 77 (4.37%) Data Quality
3 55 (3.12%) GRC
4 47 (2.67%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 46 (2.61%) QA
6 39 (2.21%) NIST
7 37 (2.10%) PMO
8 32 (1.82%) GDPR
9 18 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 16 (0.91%) Cyber Essentials
11 14 (0.80%) COBIT
12 13 (0.74%) NCSC
13 12 (0.68%) Accessibility
13 12 (0.68%) ISO 9001
14 8 (0.45%) GxP
14 8 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
15 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
15 6 (0.34%) HIPAA
16 5 (0.28%) PCI DSS
17 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 223 (12.66%) Active Directory
2 35 (1.99%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (1.65%) Docker
4 20 (1.14%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (1.02%) VMware ESXi
6 15 (0.85%) IAG
7 12 (0.68%) NFS
7 12 (0.68%) vSphere
8 11 (0.62%) GPFS
9 10 (0.57%) BitLocker
9 10 (0.57%) Virtual Desktop
10 7 (0.40%) Firmware
11 5 (0.28%) 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 75 (4.26%) Microsoft Intune
2 74 (4.20%) Terraform
3 59 (3.35%) SCCM
4 49 (2.78%) Ansible
5 35 (1.99%) Kubernetes
6 30 (1.70%) Grafana
7 23 (1.31%) Single Sign-On
8 21 (1.19%) Prometheus
9 20 (1.14%) Jamf Pro
10 14 (0.80%) SCOM
11 12 (0.68%) WMI
12 10 (0.57%) vRealize
13 9 (0.51%) 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%) CA Single Sign-On
16 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 434 (24.65%) Microsoft
2 92 (5.22%) Cisco
3 77 (4.37%) Remedy
4 69 (3.92%) Splunk
5 66 (3.75%) SAP
6 64 (3.63%) Oracle
7 50 (2.84%) VMware
8 46 (2.61%) Salesforce
9 39 (2.21%) CyberArk
10 33 (1.87%) Dynatrace
11 30 (1.70%) Apple
11 30 (1.70%) BMC
11 30 (1.70%) Workday
12 27 (1.53%) Palo Alto
13 24 (1.36%) Snow
14 23 (1.31%) SolarWinds
15 22 (1.25%) Fortinet
15 22 (1.25%) iManage
16 19 (1.08%) CrowdStrike
16 19 (1.08%) F5