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 3 May 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
3 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 66 67 84
Rank change year-on-year +1 +17 +21
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,377 866 972
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.40% 3.55% 2.62%
As % of the Vendors category 8.13% 7.48% 6.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 953 545 573
10th Percentile £213 £200 £163
25th Percentile £400 £316 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £600 £600 £600
90th Percentile £704 £688 £720
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £500
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 50 106
10th Percentile £15.82 £14.88 £14.32
25th Percentile £17.83 £14.99 £16.06
Median hourly rate £21.14 £18.13 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +16.59% +11.23% -9.80%
75th Percentile £84.69 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile £97.88 £32.63 £25.00
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £18.13 £16.30
% change year-on-year +21.35% +11.23% -11.51%

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 16,947 11,572 15,610
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 41.87% 47.47% 42.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,050 7,462 9,925
10th Percentile £313 £288 £259
25th Percentile £413 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £520
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +0.96% -2.99%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £631
90th Percentile £711 £725 £743
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 885 464 1,002
10th Percentile £15.32 £14.84 £12.01
25th Percentile £18.69 £17.75 £14.27
Median hourly rate £30.75 £27.13 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +13.36% +20.56% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.00 £57.33
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.88 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.88 £26.34 £22.50
% change year-on-year +17.24% +17.04% -48.86%

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 3 May 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 3 May 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 3 May 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 +2 608 £507 -7.91% 140
North of England -11 242 £525 +31.25% 67
South East -4 203 £500 +42.86% 96
Midlands +4 166 £425 -22.87% 34
North West -3 129 £453 -1.63% 38
West Midlands -8 126 £425 -22.87% 20
Yorkshire -11 102 £550 +37.50% 25
South West 0 68 £600 +75.18% 24
East of England -28 56 £525 +57.19% 39
East Midlands -7 33 £300 -41.46% 13
North East -11 14 £425 +41.67% 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 96 (6.97%) Confluence
2 53 (3.85%) SharePoint
3 48 (3.49%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.80%) Skype for Business
5 8 (0.58%) Apache
6 4 (0.29%) Appian
6 4 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.29%) CMS
6 4 (0.29%) SAS
7 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.22%) Camunda
7 3 (0.22%) CICS
8 2 (0.15%) IIS
8 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
8 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
8 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
8 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
9 1 (0.073%) NetWeaver
9 1 (0.073%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.073%) Tomcat
Applications
1 81 (5.88%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (4.07%) Microsoft Project
3 55 (3.99%) Microsoft Excel
4 21 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 12 (0.87%) MS Visio
6 6 (0.44%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.22%) AutoCAD
8 3 (0.22%) Revit
9 1 (0.073%) Camtasia
9 1 (0.073%) Photoshop
9 1 (0.073%) Trello
Business Applications
1 45 (3.27%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (0.44%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
4 4 (0.29%) Maximo
4 4 (0.29%) Oracle ERP
5 2 (0.15%) Eloqua
5 2 (0.15%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
5 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
5 2 (0.15%) SAP GRC
5 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 1 (0.073%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
6 1 (0.073%) Payment Gateway
6 1 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.073%) SAP ERP
6 1 (0.073%) SAP GTS
6 1 (0.073%) SAP LE
6 1 (0.073%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 270 (19.61%) Azure
2 188 (13.65%) AWS
3 143 (10.38%) Microsoft 365
4 118 (8.57%) Entra ID
5 91 (6.61%) Power Platform
6 73 (5.30%) SaaS
7 61 (4.43%) GCP
8 57 (4.14%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (1.60%) Power Automate
10 19 (1.38%) OneDrive
11 16 (1.16%) Microsoft Copilot
12 15 (1.09%) GitHub
13 14 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
13 14 (1.02%) Amazon S3
14 13 (0.94%) Amazon EC2
14 13 (0.94%) AWS KMS
15 12 (0.87%) Azure Logic Apps
15 12 (0.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
16 11 (0.80%) Datadog
16 11 (0.80%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 65 (4.72%) DNS
2 52 (3.78%) DHCP
2 52 (3.78%) Firewall
3 49 (3.56%) VPN
4 34 (2.47%) Wireless
5 30 (2.18%) Network Security
5 30 (2.18%) WAN
6 29 (2.11%) LAN
7 19 (1.38%) Wi-Fi
8 18 (1.31%) TCP/IP
9 15 (1.09%) VLAN
10 14 (1.02%) Internet
11 12 (0.87%) SD-WAN
11 12 (0.87%) SSL
12 11 (0.80%) Skype
13 10 (0.73%) BIG-IP
13 10 (0.73%) NAS
13 10 (0.73%) SAN
14 9 (0.65%) Ethernet
15 8 (0.58%) FTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 77 (5.59%) Power BI
2 37 (2.69%) SQL Server
3 21 (1.53%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
5 16 (1.16%) Metadata
5 16 (1.16%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 15 (1.09%) Tableau
7 10 (0.73%) Power Query
8 9 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (0.65%) MongoDB
9 8 (0.58%) MySQL
10 7 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
10 7 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
11 6 (0.44%) Data Lake
11 6 (0.44%) DB2
11 6 (0.44%) NoSQL
12 4 (0.29%) Neo4j
12 4 (0.29%) PowerPivot
12 4 (0.29%) Redis
Development Applications
1 254 (18.45%) JIRA
2 62 (4.50%) Git
3 39 (2.83%) Jenkins
4 31 (2.25%) GitLab
5 17 (1.23%) Selenium
6 14 (1.02%) REST Assured
7 12 (0.87%) Cucumber
7 12 (0.87%) Postman
8 8 (0.58%) TestRail
9 5 (0.36%) JMeter
9 5 (0.36%) LoadRunner
10 4 (0.29%) Gatling
10 4 (0.29%) NeoLoad
11 3 (0.22%) Artifactory
11 3 (0.22%) CircleCI
11 3 (0.22%) Cypress.io
11 3 (0.22%) Flyway
11 3 (0.22%) IBM UrbanCode
11 3 (0.22%) JUnit
12 2 (0.15%) SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS)
General
1 416 (30.21%) Social Skills
2 270 (19.61%) Finance
3 182 (13.22%) Analytical Skills
4 107 (7.77%) Public Sector
5 80 (5.81%) Banking
6 64 (4.65%) Military
7 56 (4.07%) Organisational Skills
8 51 (3.70%) Telecoms
9 49 (3.56%) Legal
10 42 (3.05%) Documentation Skills
11 19 (1.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 19 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
12 18 (1.31%) Retail
13 16 (1.16%) Billing
14 13 (0.94%) Financial Institution
14 13 (0.94%) Presentation Skills
15 12 (0.87%) Law
16 8 (0.58%) Aerospace
16 8 (0.58%) Manufacturing
17 5 (0.36%) French Language
Job Titles
1 279 (20.26%) Architect
2 186 (13.51%) Analyst
3 152 (11.04%) ServiceNow Architect
4 119 (8.64%) Developer
5 97 (7.04%) ServiceNow Developer
6 80 (5.81%) Senior
7 74 (5.37%) Lead
8 73 (5.30%) Support Engineer
9 69 (5.01%) IT Support
10 63 (4.58%) Consultant
11 54 (3.92%) Business Analyst
11 54 (3.92%) Solutions Architect
12 50 (3.63%) Project Manager
13 46 (3.34%) ServiceNow Manager
14 45 (3.27%) IT Engineer
15 42 (3.05%) IT Support Engineer
15 42 (3.05%) Service Analyst
16 39 (2.83%) Technical Architect
17 37 (2.69%) ServiceNow Consultant
18 35 (2.54%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 158 (11.47%) REST
2 98 (7.12%) SOAP
3 41 (2.98%) SailPoint
4 35 (2.54%) LDAP
5 29 (2.11%) OpenID
6 27 (1.96%) CSS
7 26 (1.89%) Middleware
8 24 (1.74%) HTML
9 23 (1.67%) AngularJS
9 23 (1.67%) JSON
10 21 (1.53%) OAuth
11 20 (1.45%) Web Services
12 19 (1.38%) Flash
13 18 (1.31%) .NET
13 18 (1.31%) XML
14 17 (1.23%) SAML
15 11 (0.80%) JDBC
15 11 (0.80%) Kafka
15 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Graph
16 9 (0.65%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 164 (11.91%) CMDB
2 110 (7.99%) Onboarding
3 103 (7.48%) Product Ownership
4 36 (2.61%) Management Information System
5 32 (2.32%) Replication
6 29 (2.11%) Data Centre
7 24 (1.74%) Cloud Native
8 23 (1.67%) Security Posture
9 20 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
10 19 (1.38%) Linux Command Line
11 17 (1.23%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.23%) Data Structures
11 17 (1.23%) Enterprise Software
12 16 (1.16%) PKI
13 15 (1.09%) Virtual Team
14 13 (0.94%) Mainframe
15 11 (0.80%) AI Agents
15 11 (0.80%) Clustering
15 11 (0.80%) Driving Licence
16 9 (0.65%) Analytical Mindset
Operating Systems
1 204 (14.81%) Windows
2 80 (5.81%) Windows 10
3 66 (4.79%) Linux
4 36 (2.61%) Windows Server
5 26 (1.89%) Unix
6 24 (1.74%) Mac OS
7 21 (1.53%) Android
8 17 (1.23%) Apple iOS
9 11 (0.80%) Windows 7
10 8 (0.58%) zOS
11 6 (0.44%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
12 4 (0.29%) Windows Server 2016
13 3 (0.22%) Amazon Linux
14 1 (0.073%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.073%) MVS
14 1 (0.073%) Ubuntu
14 1 (0.073%) VMS
14 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2012
14 1 (0.073%) Windows Server 2019
Processes & Methodologies
1 458 (33.26%) ITSM
2 371 (26.94%) ITIL
3 329 (23.89%) Agile
4 259 (18.81%) Service Management
5 199 (14.45%) Problem-Solving
6 195 (14.16%) Continuous Improvement
7 193 (14.02%) Stakeholder Management
8 168 (12.20%) Change Management
9 158 (11.47%) DevOps
10 155 (11.26%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 126 (9.15%) Migration
12 121 (8.79%) Service Delivery
13 119 (8.64%) CI/CD
14 117 (8.50%) Data Modelling
15 116 (8.42%) Customer Service
16 114 (8.28%) Roadmaps
17 108 (7.84%) AI
18 106 (7.70%) Workflow
19 104 (7.55%) Project Management
20 98 (7.12%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 125 (9.08%) SQL
2 91 (6.61%) JavaScript
3 83 (6.03%) Python
4 81 (5.88%) PowerShell
5 73 (5.30%) Java
6 27 (1.96%) C#
7 12 (0.87%) VB
8 11 (0.80%) Bash
8 11 (0.80%) PL/SQL
8 11 (0.80%) TypeScript
8 11 (0.80%) VBScript
9 8 (0.58%) BeanShell
9 8 (0.58%) Groovy
9 8 (0.58%) JCL
9 8 (0.58%) REXX
10 7 (0.51%) Perl
11 6 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 6 (0.44%) Shell Script
12 5 (0.36%) Go
12 5 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 381 (27.67%) Security Cleared
2 285 (20.70%) SC Cleared
3 123 (8.93%) Degree
4 61 (4.43%) DV Cleared
5 33 (2.40%) PMP
6 30 (2.18%) Cisco Certification
6 30 (2.18%) ITIL Certification
6 30 (2.18%) PMI Certification
6 30 (2.18%) TOGAF Certification
7 28 (2.03%) CISSP
8 24 (1.74%) CISM
9 21 (1.53%) CCNP
10 15 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
10 15 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
11 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Certification
12 11 (0.80%) CCNA
13 10 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
14 8 (0.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
15 7 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
15 7 (0.51%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 69 (5.01%) SLA
2 60 (4.36%) Data Quality
3 50 (3.63%) QA
4 46 (3.34%) GDPR
5 43 (3.12%) GRC
6 30 (2.18%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 25 (1.82%) NIST
8 24 (1.74%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 20 (1.45%) PMO
10 11 (0.80%) Cyber Essentials
11 10 (0.73%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.58%) HIPAA
12 8 (0.58%) PCI DSS
13 4 (0.29%) GxP
14 3 (0.22%) COBIT
14 3 (0.22%) ISO 22301
14 3 (0.22%) NCSC
14 3 (0.22%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.15%) Government Security Classifications
System Software
1 158 (11.47%) Active Directory
2 37 (2.69%) VMware Infrastructure
3 19 (1.38%) GPFS
3 19 (1.38%) NFS
4 15 (1.09%) VMware ESXi
4 15 (1.09%) vSphere
5 13 (0.94%) Docker
6 11 (0.80%) BitLocker
7 5 (0.36%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
8 4 (0.29%) IAG
8 4 (0.29%) Job Entry Subsystem
9 3 (0.22%) Firmware
9 3 (0.22%) RACF
9 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
10 2 (0.15%) Slurm Workload Manager
10 2 (0.15%) XenDesktop
11 1 (0.073%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.073%) Microsoft Virtual Server
11 1 (0.073%) Virtual Servers
11 1 (0.073%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 53 (3.85%) Terraform
2 45 (3.27%) SCCM
3 33 (2.40%) Ansible
4 32 (2.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 30 (2.18%) OPNET
6 24 (1.74%) Grafana
7 19 (1.38%) Prometheus
8 17 (1.23%) Kubernetes
9 15 (1.09%) vRealize
10 12 (0.87%) Single Sign-On
11 8 (0.58%) RSA Archer
12 7 (0.51%) CASB
13 6 (0.44%) VxRail
14 5 (0.36%) Control-M
14 5 (0.36%) Jamf Pro
14 5 (0.36%) QRadar
14 5 (0.36%) Salt
15 4 (0.29%) CA Single Sign-On
15 4 (0.29%) Pingdom
15 4 (0.29%) Rancher
Vendors
1 233 (16.92%) Microsoft
2 90 (6.54%) Remedy
3 76 (5.52%) Cisco
4 64 (4.65%) SAP
5 50 (3.63%) Oracle
6 42 (3.05%) Splunk
6 42 (3.05%) VMware
7 39 (2.83%) Atlassian
7 39 (2.83%) Workday
8 38 (2.76%) Salesforce
9 32 (2.32%) IBM
10 22 (1.60%) CyberArk
10 22 (1.60%) Fortinet
10 22 (1.60%) Google
10 22 (1.60%) Palo Alto
11 21 (1.53%) Apple
11 21 (1.53%) BMC
12 19 (1.38%) Zscaler
13 18 (1.31%) F5
13 18 (1.31%) Snow