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 15 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
15 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 55 66 73
Rank change year-on-year +11 +7 +10
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,774 1,015 946
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.87% 3.67% 2.84%
As % of the Vendors category 9.31% 7.77% 6.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,147 632 577
10th Percentile £218 £219 £213
25th Percentile £400 £315 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £575 £575
90th Percentile £692 £660 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £475 £501
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.09% +0.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 84 81
10th Percentile £17.25 £13.00 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.75 £15.50 £16.00
Median hourly rate £26.66 £18.82 £16.25
Median % change year-on-year +41.66% +15.82% -21.04%
75th Percentile £67.47 £33.75 £21.37
90th Percentile £87.70 £63.28 £24.18
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 19,062 13,061 14,524
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.60% 47.18% 43.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 12,004 8,264 9,264
10th Percentile £313 £275 £300
25th Percentile £413 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £508 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.99% -3.33% -
75th Percentile £613 £620 £627
90th Percentile £700 £716 £734
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £523
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.31% -0.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,028 639 754
10th Percentile £14.94 £14.75 £13.69
25th Percentile £18.50 £17.52 £15.62
Median hourly rate £33.99 £25.15 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +35.15% -16.17% -20.00%
75th Percentile £65.58 £50.00 £61.60
90th Percentile £85.00 £69.65 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £32.50 £25.15 £29.00
% change year-on-year +29.22% -13.28% -28.40%

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 15 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 15 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 15 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 +24 778 £525 +5.00% 388
South East +17 353 £550 +37.50% 123
North of England -2 349 £459 -7.23% 108
North West -4 226 £388 -24.32% 84
Midlands +8 146 £425 -10.53% 44
West Midlands -2 118 £445 -6.32% 38
Yorkshire -17 112 £506 +26.50% 17
East of England -30 58 £525 +16.67% 15
South West -59 53 £419 +26.89% 46
East Midlands -5 23 £413 - 7
North East -30 17 £500 - 7
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
1 106 (5.98%) SharePoint
2 87 (4.90%) Confluence
3 45 (2.54%) Microsoft Exchange
4 16 (0.90%) Skype for Business
5 9 (0.51%) Apache
5 9 (0.51%) nginx
6 4 (0.23%) CMS
7 3 (0.17%) IIS
7 3 (0.17%) Mendix
8 2 (0.11%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.11%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.11%) NetWeaver
8 2 (0.11%) SAS
8 2 (0.11%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.11%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.056%) Adobe Experience Manager
9 1 (0.056%) Drupal
9 1 (0.056%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.056%) SharePoint Server
9 1 (0.056%) Tomcat
Applications
1 83 (4.68%) Microsoft Office
2 80 (4.51%) Microsoft Excel
3 38 (2.14%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 25 (1.41%) Microsoft Project
5 20 (1.13%) MS Visio
6 10 (0.56%) AutoCAD
7 8 (0.45%) Chatbot
7 8 (0.45%) Revit
8 3 (0.17%) Acrobat
9 2 (0.11%) Spreadsheet
10 1 (0.056%) Camtasia
10 1 (0.056%) LaTeX
10 1 (0.056%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 66 (3.72%) Remedy ITSM
2 12 (0.68%) Dynamics CRM
3 9 (0.51%) Oracle ERP
4 7 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
5 4 (0.23%) Oracle Payables
5 4 (0.23%) Oracle Receivables
6 3 (0.17%) Workday HCM
7 2 (0.11%) Dynamics GP
7 2 (0.11%) Eloqua
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle EBS
7 2 (0.11%) Oracle General Ledger
7 2 (0.11%) SAP MDG
7 2 (0.11%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 2 (0.11%) Unit4 Business World
8 1 (0.056%) Aladdin
8 1 (0.056%) Cloudability
8 1 (0.056%) iTrent
8 1 (0.056%) OpenText VIM for SAP
8 1 (0.056%) Payment Gateway
8 1 (0.056%) Workfront
Cloud Services
1 373 (21.03%) Azure
2 238 (13.42%) AWS
3 235 (13.25%) Microsoft 365
4 136 (7.67%) Entra ID
4 136 (7.67%) Power Platform
5 101 (5.69%) SaaS
6 64 (3.61%) Azure DevOps
7 53 (2.99%) GCP
8 40 (2.25%) OneDrive
9 38 (2.14%) GitHub
10 28 (1.58%) Datadog
10 28 (1.58%) Microsoft Copilot
11 27 (1.52%) Azure Monitor
12 22 (1.24%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 22 (1.24%) Power Automate
13 21 (1.18%) Serverless
14 19 (1.07%) Amazon EC2
15 18 (1.01%) Amazon S3
16 16 (0.90%) Virtual Private Cloud
17 15 (0.85%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 90 (5.07%) DNS
2 80 (4.51%) DHCP
3 67 (3.78%) Firewall
4 61 (3.44%) VPN
5 48 (2.71%) TCP/IP
6 36 (2.03%) Wireless
7 32 (1.80%) Network Security
8 28 (1.58%) VLAN
8 28 (1.58%) Wi-Fi
9 26 (1.47%) SSL
9 26 (1.47%) WAN
10 23 (1.30%) LAN
11 19 (1.07%) NX-OS
11 19 (1.07%) SAN
12 18 (1.01%) NAS
13 17 (0.96%) Skype
13 17 (0.96%) SSH
14 16 (0.90%) Cisco IOS
15 14 (0.79%) SNMP
15 14 (0.79%) Structured Cabling
Database & Business Intelligence
1 103 (5.81%) Power BI
2 52 (2.93%) SQL Server
3 31 (1.75%) PostgreSQL
4 21 (1.18%) Amazon RDS
5 18 (1.01%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 14 (0.79%) MySQL
7 13 (0.73%) Data Warehouse
7 13 (0.73%) Power Query
8 9 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.39%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.34%) SQL Server Reporting Services
10 6 (0.34%) Tableau
11 5 (0.28%) Metadata
11 5 (0.28%) MongoDB
11 5 (0.28%) Redis
12 4 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
12 4 (0.23%) Azure SQL Database
12 4 (0.23%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
12 4 (0.23%) PowerPivot
Development Applications
1 263 (14.83%) JIRA
2 78 (4.40%) Git
3 25 (1.41%) GitLab
3 25 (1.41%) Jenkins
4 8 (0.45%) Bitbucket
5 5 (0.28%) Atlassian Bamboo
6 4 (0.23%) Flyway
7 3 (0.17%) Artifactory
7 3 (0.17%) MSI
8 2 (0.11%) Claude Code
8 2 (0.11%) Robot Framework
8 2 (0.11%) Tricentis qTest
8 2 (0.11%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.11%) Zephyr
9 1 (0.056%) Gatling
9 1 (0.056%) MSBuild
9 1 (0.056%) NeoLoad
9 1 (0.056%) Octopus Deploy
9 1 (0.056%) Postman
9 1 (0.056%) TeamCity
General
1 572 (32.24%) Social Skills
2 343 (19.33%) Finance
3 243 (13.70%) Analytical Skills
4 141 (7.95%) Public Sector
5 95 (5.36%) Banking
6 82 (4.62%) Telecoms
7 53 (2.99%) Legal
8 51 (2.87%) Organisational Skills
9 48 (2.71%) Documentation Skills
10 28 (1.58%) Influencing Skills
11 27 (1.52%) Manufacturing
12 24 (1.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 22 (1.24%) Military
14 19 (1.07%) Spanish Language
15 18 (1.01%) Police
16 17 (0.96%) French Language
16 17 (0.96%) Italian Language
16 17 (0.96%) Retail
17 16 (0.90%) Law
18 14 (0.79%) Billing
Job Titles
1 256 (14.43%) Architect
2 243 (13.70%) Analyst
3 188 (10.60%) Developer
4 161 (9.08%) ServiceNow Developer
5 152 (8.57%) ServiceNow Architect
6 129 (7.27%) Senior
7 109 (6.14%) Consultant
8 108 (6.09%) Support Engineer
9 97 (5.47%) IT Support
10 93 (5.24%) Lead
11 76 (4.28%) Service Analyst
12 71 (4.00%) Business Analyst
12 71 (4.00%) IT Engineer
13 67 (3.78%) Solutions Architect
14 62 (3.49%) IT Support Engineer
14 62 (3.49%) Project Manager
15 60 (3.38%) ServiceNow Consultant
16 43 (2.42%) IT Manager
16 43 (2.42%) Technical Architect
17 39 (2.20%) Service Desk Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 202 (11.39%) REST
2 117 (6.60%) SOAP
3 45 (2.54%) JSON
4 35 (1.97%) HTML
5 34 (1.92%) OAuth
5 34 (1.92%) SailPoint
6 33 (1.86%) XML
7 31 (1.75%) CSS
8 29 (1.63%) Web Services
9 28 (1.58%) Middleware
10 26 (1.47%) LDAP
11 22 (1.24%) .NET
12 20 (1.13%) AngularJS
13 16 (0.90%) Ajax
13 16 (0.90%) SAML
14 14 (0.79%) OpenID
15 12 (0.68%) Microsoft Graph
16 11 (0.62%) Flash
16 11 (0.62%) JDBC
16 11 (0.62%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 269 (15.16%) CMDB
2 174 (9.81%) Onboarding
3 70 (3.95%) Product Ownership
4 58 (3.27%) Enterprise Software
5 54 (3.04%) Data Centre
6 44 (2.48%) Management Information System
7 43 (2.42%) Cloud Native
8 34 (1.92%) Replication
9 27 (1.52%) Security Posture
10 26 (1.47%) PKI
11 24 (1.35%) AI Agents
12 23 (1.30%) Self-Motivation
13 22 (1.24%) Clustering
13 22 (1.24%) Video Conferencing
14 21 (1.18%) Linux Command Line
15 20 (1.13%) Data Protection Act
16 18 (1.01%) Analytical Mindset
16 18 (1.01%) Data Structures
16 18 (1.01%) iPhone
17 15 (0.85%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 326 (18.38%) Windows
2 112 (6.31%) Windows 10
3 105 (5.92%) Linux
4 51 (2.87%) Windows Server
5 48 (2.71%) Mac OS
6 36 (2.03%) Apple iOS
7 23 (1.30%) Android
8 21 (1.18%) Unix
9 20 (1.13%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
10 16 (0.90%) Windows 7
11 6 (0.34%) 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 (0.056%) CentOS
15 1 (0.056%) MVS
15 1 (0.056%) SUSE
15 1 (0.056%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 694 (39.12%) ITSM
2 572 (32.24%) ITIL
3 377 (21.25%) Service Management
4 336 (18.94%) Agile
5 324 (18.26%) Problem-Solving
6 319 (17.98%) Stakeholder Management
7 272 (15.33%) Continuous Improvement
8 207 (11.67%) Customer Service
9 200 (11.27%) Change Management
9 200 (11.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 197 (11.10%) AI
11 196 (11.05%) Service Delivery
12 195 (10.99%) DevOps
13 172 (9.70%) Roadmaps
14 152 (8.57%) Workflow
15 144 (8.12%) Migration
16 130 (7.33%) Incident Management
17 129 (7.27%) CI/CD
18 125 (7.05%) Data Modelling
19 124 (6.99%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 143 (8.06%) PowerShell
2 119 (6.71%) JavaScript
3 117 (6.60%) Python
4 115 (6.48%) SQL
5 53 (2.99%) Java
6 29 (1.63%) C#
7 22 (1.24%) Bash
8 18 (1.01%) VBScript
9 15 (0.85%) VB
10 13 (0.73%) Groovy
11 11 (0.62%) T-SQL
12 9 (0.51%) TypeScript
13 8 (0.45%) PL/SQL
14 7 (0.39%) Data Analysis Expressions
15 6 (0.34%) Perl
15 6 (0.34%) Shell Script
16 5 (0.28%) BeanShell
16 5 (0.28%) C++
17 4 (0.23%) Bicep
18 3 (0.17%) REXX
Qualifications
1 486 (27.40%) Security Cleared
2 343 (19.33%) SC Cleared
3 142 (8.00%) Degree
4 99 (5.58%) DV Cleared
5 45 (2.54%) ITIL Certification
6 44 (2.48%) PMP
7 39 (2.20%) BPSS Clearance
8 37 (2.09%) PMI Certification
9 36 (2.03%) Cisco Certification
10 31 (1.75%) Microsoft Certification
11 28 (1.58%) CISSP
12 26 (1.47%) CCNP
13 24 (1.35%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
14 22 (1.24%) CCNA
15 21 (1.18%) CISM
16 20 (1.13%) A+ Certification
17 19 (1.07%) Azure Certification
18 17 (0.96%) Network+ Certification
19 15 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
20 14 (0.79%) AWS Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 99 (5.58%) SLA
2 81 (4.57%) Data Quality
3 56 (3.16%) GRC
4 50 (2.82%) QA
5 46 (2.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 40 (2.25%) NIST
6 40 (2.25%) PMO
7 30 (1.69%) GDPR
8 19 (1.07%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (0.85%) COBIT
9 15 (0.85%) Cyber Essentials
10 13 (0.73%) Accessibility
10 13 (0.73%) NCSC
11 12 (0.68%) ISO 9001
12 8 (0.45%) GxP
12 8 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 20000
13 6 (0.34%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
13 6 (0.34%) HIPAA
14 5 (0.28%) PCI DSS
15 3 (0.17%) NIST 800
System Software
1 226 (12.74%) Active Directory
2 41 (2.31%) VMware Infrastructure
3 29 (1.63%) Docker
4 19 (1.07%) Virtual Machines
5 18 (1.01%) VMware ESXi
6 17 (0.96%) BitLocker
7 16 (0.90%) IAG
8 13 (0.73%) Virtual Desktop
9 12 (0.68%) NFS
9 12 (0.68%) vSphere
10 11 (0.62%) GPFS
11 7 (0.39%) Firmware
12 6 (0.34%) VMware NSX
13 3 (0.17%) Hyper-V
14 2 (0.11%) Job Entry Subsystem
14 2 (0.11%) RACF
14 2 (0.11%) Slurm Workload Manager
15 1 (0.056%) XenDesktop
Systems Management
1 77 (4.34%) Microsoft Intune
2 75 (4.23%) Terraform
3 67 (3.78%) SCCM
4 50 (2.82%) Ansible
5 34 (1.92%) Kubernetes
6 29 (1.63%) Grafana
7 24 (1.35%) Single Sign-On
8 19 (1.07%) Jamf Pro
8 19 (1.07%) Prometheus
9 14 (0.79%) SCOM
10 12 (0.68%) WMI
11 10 (0.56%) vRealize
12 9 (0.51%) vCenter Server
13 7 (0.39%) CASB
13 7 (0.39%) RSA Archer
14 6 (0.34%) Packer
14 6 (0.34%) VxRail
15 4 (0.23%) Active Directory Federation Services
15 4 (0.23%) CA Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.23%) PingFederate
Vendors
1 459 (25.87%) Microsoft
2 92 (5.19%) Cisco
3 77 (4.34%) Remedy
4 69 (3.89%) SAP
4 69 (3.89%) Splunk
5 68 (3.83%) Oracle
6 60 (3.38%) VMware
7 48 (2.71%) Salesforce
8 46 (2.59%) CyberArk
9 35 (1.97%) Dynatrace
10 32 (1.80%) BMC
11 31 (1.75%) Workday
12 30 (1.69%) Snow
13 29 (1.63%) Apple
14 23 (1.30%) Google
14 23 (1.30%) Palo Alto
14 23 (1.30%) SolarWinds
15 22 (1.24%) iManage
16 21 (1.18%) Adobe
16 21 (1.18%) IBM