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 27 April 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
27 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 68 82
Rank change year-on-year +1 +14 +25
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,373 848 988
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.43% 3.47% 2.66%
As % of the Vendors category 8.13% 7.30% 6.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 945 535 578
10th Percentile £216 £200 £165
25th Percentile £400 £325 £325
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £501
Median % change year-on-year - -0.25% +0.25%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £615
90th Percentile £703 £688 £720
UK median daily rate £500 £500 £505
% change year-on-year - -0.99% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 47 105
10th Percentile £15.54 £14.99 £14.29
25th Percentile £17.69 £15.11 £16.06
Median hourly rate £21.48 £18.82 £16.30
Median % change year-on-year +14.12% +15.46% -11.70%
75th Percentile £84.69 £21.46 £21.37
90th Percentile £97.88 £33.00 £28.00
UK median hourly rate £21.35 £18.82 £16.30
% change year-on-year +13.42% +15.46% -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 16,881 11,616 15,635
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 42.16% 47.47% 42.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,001 7,518 9,942
10th Percentile £313 £288 £256
25th Percentile £413 £408 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £518
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +1.35% -3.63%
75th Percentile £608 £625 £631
90th Percentile £711 £725 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £515
% change year-on-year -2.91% - -1.90%
Number of hourly rates quoted 886 458 990
10th Percentile £15.50 £14.99 £12.00
25th Percentile £18.78 £18.13 £14.18
Median hourly rate £30.32 £27.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +10.25% +22.22% -43.75%
75th Percentile £60.00 £60.09 £56.25
90th Percentile £79.75 £76.25 £70.00
UK median hourly rate £30.50 £27.13 £22.50
% change year-on-year +12.44% +20.56% -48.70%

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 27 April 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 27 April 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 27 April 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 +2 598 £500 -9.09% 108
North of England -5 241 £519 +28.09% 79
South East +1 202 £500 +42.86% 76
Midlands +4 167 £425 -22.87% 37
North West -4 128 £456 +11.49% 51
West Midlands -6 127 £425 -22.87% 23
Yorkshire -14 102 £545 +36.25% 20
South West 0 69 £600 +33.33% 25
East of England -25 60 £525 +57.19% 20
East Midlands -12 33 £300 -41.46% 13
North East -10 14 £425 +41.67% 8
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 (6.99%) Confluence
2 56 (4.08%) SharePoint
3 49 (3.57%) Microsoft Exchange
4 9 (0.66%) Skype for Business
5 6 (0.44%) Apache
6 5 (0.36%) Appian
7 4 (0.29%) BizTalk Server
7 4 (0.29%) Camunda
7 4 (0.29%) SAS
8 3 (0.22%) Apache Spark
8 3 (0.22%) CICS
8 3 (0.22%) CMS
9 2 (0.15%) IIS
9 2 (0.15%) Jupyter
9 2 (0.15%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 2 (0.15%) WebLogic
9 2 (0.15%) WebSphere
10 1 (0.073%) HCL Notes
10 1 (0.073%) NetWeaver
10 1 (0.073%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 81 (5.90%) Microsoft Office
2 56 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 56 (4.08%) Microsoft Project
3 21 (1.53%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 13 (0.95%) MS Visio
5 5 (0.36%) Chatbot
6 4 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
7 2 (0.15%) AutoCAD
7 2 (0.15%) Revit
7 2 (0.15%) Trello
8 1 (0.073%) Camtasia
Business Applications
1 45 (3.28%) Remedy ITSM
2 8 (0.58%) SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (0.36%) Dynamics CRM
3 5 (0.36%) Oracle ERP
4 4 (0.29%) Maximo
4 4 (0.29%) OpenText VIM for SAP
5 3 (0.22%) SAP FI
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Applications
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Payables
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 2 (0.15%) Oracle Receivables
6 2 (0.15%) SAP GRC
6 2 (0.15%) SAP MM
6 2 (0.15%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
6 2 (0.15%) Workday HCM
7 1 (0.073%) Oracle Subledger Accounting
7 1 (0.073%) Payment Gateway
7 1 (0.073%) Salesforce CRM
7 1 (0.073%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.073%) SAP GTS
Cloud Services
1 267 (19.45%) Azure
2 186 (13.55%) AWS
3 143 (10.42%) Microsoft 365
4 121 (8.81%) Entra ID
5 88 (6.41%) Power Platform
6 71 (5.17%) SaaS
7 61 (4.44%) GCP
8 56 (4.08%) Azure DevOps
9 22 (1.60%) Power Automate
10 17 (1.24%) GitHub
11 16 (1.17%) OneDrive
12 14 (1.02%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 14 (1.02%) Amazon S3
12 14 (1.02%) Microsoft Copilot
13 13 (0.95%) Amazon EC2
13 13 (0.95%) AWS KMS
13 13 (0.95%) Azure Logic Apps
14 12 (0.87%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 10 (0.73%) Azure Monitor
15 10 (0.73%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 68 (4.95%) DNS
2 54 (3.93%) DHCP
3 53 (3.86%) Firewall
4 49 (3.57%) VPN
5 38 (2.77%) Wireless
6 32 (2.33%) WAN
7 31 (2.26%) LAN
8 30 (2.18%) Network Security
9 21 (1.53%) Wi-Fi
10 19 (1.38%) TCP/IP
11 17 (1.24%) VLAN
12 14 (1.02%) Internet
13 13 (0.95%) SSL
14 12 (0.87%) SD-WAN
15 10 (0.73%) BIG-IP
15 10 (0.73%) NAS
15 10 (0.73%) SAN
16 9 (0.66%) BGP
16 9 (0.66%) Cisco ISE
16 9 (0.66%) Ethernet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 76 (5.54%) Power BI
2 36 (2.62%) SQL Server
3 20 (1.46%) PostgreSQL
4 19 (1.38%) Amazon RDS
4 19 (1.38%) Data Warehouse
5 17 (1.24%) Metadata
6 16 (1.17%) SQL Server Integration Services
6 16 (1.17%) Tableau
7 10 (0.73%) Power Query
8 9 (0.66%) Azure SQL Database
8 9 (0.66%) MongoDB
8 9 (0.66%) MySQL
9 7 (0.51%) Amazon Aurora
9 7 (0.51%) Oracle Reports
10 6 (0.44%) DB2
10 6 (0.44%) NoSQL
11 5 (0.36%) Data Lake
12 4 (0.29%) Metadata Repository
12 4 (0.29%) PowerPivot
12 4 (0.29%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 253 (18.43%) JIRA
2 60 (4.37%) Git
3 39 (2.84%) Jenkins
4 31 (2.26%) GitLab
5 17 (1.24%) 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%) Eclipse
General
1 429 (31.25%) Social Skills
2 273 (19.88%) Finance
3 181 (13.18%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (7.87%) Public Sector
5 81 (5.90%) Banking
6 64 (4.66%) Military
7 55 (4.01%) Organisational Skills
8 50 (3.64%) Telecoms
9 48 (3.50%) Legal
10 44 (3.20%) Documentation Skills
11 21 (1.53%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 19 (1.38%) Influencing Skills
13 18 (1.31%) Retail
14 15 (1.09%) Billing
15 13 (0.95%) Law
15 13 (0.95%) Presentation Skills
16 12 (0.87%) Financial Institution
17 8 (0.58%) Aerospace
17 8 (0.58%) Manufacturing
18 5 (0.36%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 278 (20.25%) Architect
2 184 (13.40%) Analyst
3 154 (11.22%) ServiceNow Architect
4 116 (8.45%) Developer
5 93 (6.77%) ServiceNow Developer
6 80 (5.83%) Senior
7 75 (5.46%) Lead
8 71 (5.17%) Support Engineer
9 69 (5.03%) Consultant
10 67 (4.88%) IT Support
11 55 (4.01%) Business Analyst
12 51 (3.71%) Solutions Architect
13 49 (3.57%) Project Manager
14 44 (3.20%) ServiceNow Manager
15 43 (3.13%) IT Engineer
16 40 (2.91%) IT Support Engineer
17 39 (2.84%) Technical Architect
18 37 (2.69%) Service Analyst
18 37 (2.69%) ServiceNow Consultant
19 34 (2.48%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 159 (11.58%) REST
2 101 (7.36%) SOAP
3 42 (3.06%) SailPoint
4 35 (2.55%) LDAP
5 30 (2.18%) OpenID
6 26 (1.89%) CSS
6 26 (1.89%) Middleware
7 24 (1.75%) AngularJS
8 23 (1.68%) JSON
8 23 (1.68%) OAuth
9 22 (1.60%) HTML
10 20 (1.46%) Flash
11 19 (1.38%) Web Services
12 18 (1.31%) .NET
12 18 (1.31%) SAML
12 18 (1.31%) XML
13 12 (0.87%) Microsoft Graph
14 11 (0.80%) JDBC
14 11 (0.80%) Kafka
15 10 (0.73%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 172 (12.53%) CMDB
2 107 (7.79%) Onboarding
3 101 (7.36%) Product Ownership
4 34 (2.48%) Management Information System
4 34 (2.48%) Replication
5 33 (2.40%) Data Centre
6 25 (1.82%) Security Posture
7 23 (1.68%) Cloud Native
8 20 (1.46%) Linux Command Line
9 19 (1.38%) Self-Motivation
10 18 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
11 17 (1.24%) Data Protection Act
11 17 (1.24%) Data Structures
12 15 (1.09%) PKI
12 15 (1.09%) Virtual Team
13 13 (0.95%) Mainframe
14 12 (0.87%) Driving Licence
15 11 (0.80%) Clustering
16 10 (0.73%) AI Agents
17 9 (0.66%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 201 (14.64%) Windows
2 79 (5.75%) Windows 10
3 68 (4.95%) Linux
4 36 (2.62%) Windows Server
5 26 (1.89%) Unix
6 24 (1.75%) Mac OS
7 22 (1.60%) Android
8 16 (1.17%) Apple iOS
9 9 (0.66%) Windows 7
10 8 (0.58%) zOS
11 7 (0.51%) 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
1 454 (33.07%) ITSM
2 371 (27.02%) ITIL
3 331 (24.11%) Agile
4 255 (18.57%) Service Management
5 199 (14.49%) Problem-Solving
6 196 (14.28%) Continuous Improvement
7 194 (14.13%) Stakeholder Management
8 162 (11.80%) Change Management
9 160 (11.65%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 156 (11.36%) DevOps
11 128 (9.32%) Migration
12 120 (8.74%) Service Delivery
13 119 (8.67%) CI/CD
13 119 (8.67%) Data Modelling
14 117 (8.52%) Customer Service
15 115 (8.38%) Roadmaps
16 107 (7.79%) AI
17 104 (7.57%) Project Management
17 104 (7.57%) Workflow
18 97 (7.06%) Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 123 (8.96%) SQL
2 95 (6.92%) JavaScript
3 85 (6.19%) Python
4 81 (5.90%) PowerShell
5 74 (5.39%) Java
6 27 (1.97%) C#
7 12 (0.87%) TypeScript
8 11 (0.80%) Bash
8 11 (0.80%) PL/SQL
8 11 (0.80%) VB
9 10 (0.73%) Perl
10 9 (0.66%) VBScript
11 8 (0.58%) BeanShell
11 8 (0.58%) Groovy
11 8 (0.58%) JCL
11 8 (0.58%) REXX
12 6 (0.44%) Data Analysis Expressions
12 6 (0.44%) Kusto Query Language
12 6 (0.44%) Shell Script
13 5 (0.36%) PHP
Qualifications
1 381 (27.75%) Security Cleared
2 284 (20.68%) SC Cleared
3 125 (9.10%) Degree
4 60 (4.37%) DV Cleared
5 33 (2.40%) Cisco Certification
6 32 (2.33%) PMP
7 30 (2.18%) ITIL Certification
7 30 (2.18%) TOGAF Certification
8 29 (2.11%) PMI Certification
9 27 (1.97%) CISSP
10 24 (1.75%) CCNP
10 24 (1.75%) CISM
11 16 (1.17%) BPSS Clearance
12 15 (1.09%) Computer Science Degree
13 13 (0.95%) CCNA
14 11 (0.80%) Microsoft Certification
15 10 (0.73%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
16 8 (0.58%) ISO 27001 Lead Implementer
16 8 (0.58%) ISTQB
17 7 (0.51%) (ISC)2 CCSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 66 (4.81%) SLA
2 60 (4.37%) Data Quality
3 51 (3.71%) QA
4 50 (3.64%) GDPR
5 47 (3.42%) GRC
6 33 (2.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 27 (1.97%) NIST
8 25 (1.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 20 (1.46%) PMO
10 10 (0.73%) Cyber Essentials
10 10 (0.73%) PCI DSS
11 9 (0.66%) Accessibility
12 8 (0.58%) HIPAA
13 4 (0.29%) GxP
14 3 (0.22%) COBIT
14 3 (0.22%) NCSC
14 3 (0.22%) NIST 800
14 3 (0.22%) SOC 2
15 2 (0.15%) GLP
15 2 (0.15%) GMP
System Software
1 163 (11.87%) Active Directory
2 38 (2.77%) VMware Infrastructure
3 20 (1.46%) GPFS
3 20 (1.46%) NFS
4 16 (1.17%) VMware ESXi
4 16 (1.17%) vSphere
5 13 (0.95%) Docker
6 9 (0.66%) 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%) Slurm Workload Manager
9 3 (0.22%) Virtual Machines
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 (3.86%) Terraform
2 43 (3.13%) SCCM
3 33 (2.40%) Ansible
4 30 (2.18%) OPNET
5 29 (2.11%) Microsoft Intune
6 24 (1.75%) Grafana
7 19 (1.38%) Prometheus
8 17 (1.24%) Kubernetes
9 16 (1.17%) vRealize
10 11 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
11 9 (0.66%) RSA Archer
12 7 (0.51%) CASB
13 6 (0.44%) VxRail
14 5 (0.36%) Control-M
14 5 (0.36%) FortiGate
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
Vendors
1 226 (16.46%) Microsoft
2 92 (6.70%) Remedy
3 80 (5.83%) Cisco
4 67 (4.88%) SAP
5 54 (3.93%) Oracle
6 44 (3.20%) VMware
7 41 (2.99%) Workday
8 40 (2.91%) Splunk
9 39 (2.84%) Atlassian
10 36 (2.62%) Salesforce
11 33 (2.40%) IBM
12 24 (1.75%) CyberArk
13 22 (1.60%) Fortinet
13 22 (1.60%) Google
13 22 (1.60%) Palo Alto
14 21 (1.53%) Apple
15 20 (1.46%) BMC
16 19 (1.38%) Zscaler
17 18 (1.31%) F5
17 18 (1.31%) Snow