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 19 December 2025, 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
19 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 71 65
Rank change year-on-year +2 -6 +71
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 1,144 921 1,213
As % of all contract jobs in England 3.64% 3.18% 3.25%
As % of the Vendors category 7.66% 6.93% 7.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 791 524 798
10th Percentile £204 £205 £165
25th Percentile £350 £356 £307
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £500 £503
Median % change year-on-year -3.00% -0.50% -4.29%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £638
90th Percentile £688 £650 £719
UK median daily rate £479 £500 £513
% change year-on-year -4.30% -2.44% -2.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 21 46
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.22 £15.66
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.00 £17.14
Median hourly rate £18.87 £21.46 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.07% +7.30% +29.03%
75th Percentile £28.75 £23.14 £32.94
90th Percentile £89.63 £29.00 £66.82
UK median hourly rate £18.87 £22.09 £19.25
% change year-on-year -14.58% +14.75% +24.19%

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 14,934 13,299 16,661
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 47.48% 45.90% 44.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,682 8,112 10,891
10th Percentile £294 £291 £250
25th Percentile £408 £413 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% - -2.78%
75th Percentile £615 £626 £638
90th Percentile £706 £725 £730
UK median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.67% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 726 385 614
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.55 £14.62
25th Percentile £18.22 £17.08 £20.50
Median hourly rate £23.83 £31.00 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.15% -31.11% +73.08%
75th Percentile £47.69 £65.00 £64.85
90th Percentile £74.26 £79.00 £76.53
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -17.84% -34.83% +73.08%

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025.

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 19 December 2025. 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 -37 437 £488 -7.14% 117
North of England +6 219 £500 +21.21% 64
South East +35 173 £414 -8.06% 106
Midlands +8 143 £475 +13.10% 49
North West +3 130 £492 +20.29% 40
West Midlands +4 115 £480 +6.67% 33
South West +36 84 £615 +22.39% 15
Yorkshire 0 80 £507 +12.67% 22
East of England +8 75 £525 - 33
East Midlands -1 27 £425 +19.38% 14
North East -3 9 £350 +133.33% 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 85 (7.43%) Confluence
2 68 (5.94%) SharePoint
3 39 (3.41%) Microsoft Exchange
4 11 (0.96%) nginx
5 6 (0.52%) Appian
5 6 (0.52%) Camunda
5 6 (0.52%) Oracle SOA Suite
5 6 (0.52%) Skype for Business
6 4 (0.35%) BizTalk Server
6 4 (0.35%) SAS
7 3 (0.26%) Apache
7 3 (0.26%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.26%) CICS
7 3 (0.26%) HCL Notes
8 2 (0.17%) IIS
8 2 (0.17%) JBoss
9 1 (0.087%) CMS
9 1 (0.087%) Oracle Workflow
9 1 (0.087%) Tuxedo
9 1 (0.087%) WebLogic
Applications
1 74 (6.47%) Microsoft Office
2 59 (5.16%) Microsoft Excel
3 55 (4.81%) Microsoft Project
4 24 (2.10%) MS Visio
5 18 (1.57%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 11 (0.96%) Mozilla Thunderbird
7 5 (0.44%) Spreadsheet
8 4 (0.35%) Autodesk Inventor
8 4 (0.35%) Trello
9 2 (0.17%) Chatbot
10 1 (0.087%) Adobe Creative Suite
Business Applications
1 47 (4.11%) Remedy ITSM
2 14 (1.22%) SAP S/4HANA
3 9 (0.79%) SAP FI
4 7 (0.61%) Dynamics CRM
4 7 (0.61%) OpenText VIM for SAP
4 7 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.61%) SAP MM
5 3 (0.26%) SAP GRC
5 3 (0.26%) Workday HCM
6 2 (0.17%) NetSuite
6 2 (0.17%) SAP Business One
6 2 (0.17%) SAP CO
6 2 (0.17%) SAP FI/CO
7 1 (0.087%) Actimize
7 1 (0.087%) assyst
7 1 (0.087%) Maximo
7 1 (0.087%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.087%) Oracle HRMS
7 1 (0.087%) SAP MDG
7 1 (0.087%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 235 (20.54%) Azure
2 170 (14.86%) Microsoft 365
3 149 (13.02%) AWS
4 77 (6.73%) Entra ID
5 70 (6.12%) SaaS
6 60 (5.24%) Power Platform
7 59 (5.16%) Azure DevOps
8 45 (3.93%) GCP
9 30 (2.62%) OneDrive
10 24 (2.10%) Power Automate
11 23 (2.01%) Amazon S3
12 22 (1.92%) Amazon CloudWatch
12 22 (1.92%) AWS KMS
13 21 (1.84%) Amazon EC2
14 20 (1.75%) Amazon ELB
14 20 (1.75%) Virtual Private Cloud
15 19 (1.66%) GitHub
16 18 (1.57%) Sauce Labs
17 15 (1.31%) Amazon ECS
18 13 (1.14%) Azure Logic Apps
Communications & Networking
1 74 (6.47%) DNS
2 47 (4.11%) Firewall
3 43 (3.76%) VPN
4 42 (3.67%) Wireless
5 38 (3.32%) DHCP
6 32 (2.80%) Wi-Fi
7 27 (2.36%) HTTP
8 23 (2.01%) FTP
9 22 (1.92%) TCP/IP
10 20 (1.75%) LAN
10 20 (1.75%) SMTP
10 20 (1.75%) SSH
10 20 (1.75%) WAN
11 14 (1.22%) Network Security
11 14 (1.22%) SSL
12 13 (1.14%) BGP
13 11 (0.96%) IMAP
13 11 (0.96%) OpenLDAP
14 10 (0.87%) Cisco Wireless
15 9 (0.79%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (3.50%) Power BI
2 33 (2.88%) Relational Database
3 25 (2.19%) Amazon RDS
4 24 (2.10%) MySQL
5 22 (1.92%) PostgreSQL
6 20 (1.75%) Tableau
7 15 (1.31%) Amazon Aurora
8 14 (1.22%) Metadata
9 12 (1.05%) SQL Server
10 8 (0.70%) DB2
11 7 (0.61%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.52%) Oracle ODI
13 5 (0.44%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.44%) Oracle Reports
14 4 (0.35%) Redis
15 3 (0.26%) RDBMS
16 2 (0.17%) Azure SQL Database
16 2 (0.17%) Data Lake
16 2 (0.17%) Data Warehouse
17 1 (0.087%) Amazon QuickSight
Development Applications
1 221 (19.32%) JIRA
2 52 (4.55%) Jenkins
3 48 (4.20%) Git
4 19 (1.66%) Browser DevTools
4 19 (1.66%) Vagrant
5 18 (1.57%) Android Studio
5 18 (1.57%) Eclipse
5 18 (1.57%) GitLab
5 18 (1.57%) Xcode
6 10 (0.87%) Selenium
7 9 (0.79%) Cucumber
7 9 (0.79%) REST Assured
8 8 (0.70%) Postman
9 6 (0.52%) TestRail
10 5 (0.44%) JUnit
11 4 (0.35%) Metasploit
12 3 (0.26%) Burp Suite
12 3 (0.26%) CircleCI
12 3 (0.26%) IBM UrbanCode
12 3 (0.26%) Maven
General
1 461 (40.30%) Social Skills
2 239 (20.89%) Finance
3 185 (16.17%) Analytical Skills
4 108 (9.44%) Public Sector
5 51 (4.46%) Banking
6 43 (3.76%) Telecoms
7 42 (3.67%) Military
8 38 (3.32%) Legal
9 35 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
10 33 (2.88%) Organisational Skills
11 24 (2.10%) Influencing Skills
12 21 (1.84%) Presentation Skills
13 20 (1.75%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 16 (1.40%) Law
15 15 (1.31%) Manufacturing
16 12 (1.05%) Aerospace
17 9 (0.79%) Financial Institution
18 7 (0.61%) Billing
18 7 (0.61%) Investment Banking
18 7 (0.61%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 178 (15.56%) Architect
2 162 (14.16%) Analyst
3 99 (8.65%) Developer
4 96 (8.39%) Support Engineer
5 93 (8.13%) ServiceNow Architect
6 81 (7.08%) ServiceNow Developer
7 73 (6.38%) IT Support
8 65 (5.68%) Consultant
9 54 (4.72%) Lead
10 48 (4.20%) Senior
11 40 (3.50%) IT Engineer
12 36 (3.15%) Business Analyst
12 36 (3.15%) Service Analyst
13 33 (2.88%) DevOps Engineer
14 32 (2.80%) IT Support Engineer
14 32 (2.80%) Project Manager
14 32 (2.80%) Service Architect
15 30 (2.62%) ServiceNow Manager
15 30 (2.62%) Solutions Architect
16 28 (2.45%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 103 (9.00%) REST
2 88 (7.69%) SOAP
3 48 (4.20%) AngularJS
4 35 (3.06%) LDAP
5 34 (2.97%) CSS
6 29 (2.53%) React
7 27 (2.36%) SailPoint
8 26 (2.27%) JSON
9 23 (2.01%) Ajax
9 23 (2.01%) HTML
10 19 (1.66%) GraphQL
10 19 (1.66%) Web Services
11 15 (1.31%) SAML
12 13 (1.14%) Kafka
12 13 (1.14%) XML
13 12 (1.05%) .NET
13 12 (1.05%) Flash
14 10 (0.87%) HTML5
14 10 (0.87%) ODBC
14 10 (0.87%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 139 (12.15%) CMDB
2 65 (5.68%) Onboarding
3 56 (4.90%) Product Ownership
4 38 (3.32%) Replication
5 31 (2.71%) Data Centre
6 24 (2.10%) Mobile App
7 21 (1.84%) Management Information System
7 21 (1.84%) Self-Motivation
8 20 (1.75%) Driving Licence
8 20 (1.75%) Enterprise Software
9 19 (1.66%) Security Posture
10 18 (1.57%) Video Conferencing
11 15 (1.31%) Smartphone
12 14 (1.22%) Analytical Mindset
13 13 (1.14%) Data Protection Act
14 12 (1.05%) Linux Command Line
15 9 (0.79%) Cloud Native
15 9 (0.79%) Low-Code
16 8 (0.70%) Public Cloud
17 7 (0.61%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 241 (21.07%) Windows
2 88 (7.69%) Windows 10
3 73 (6.38%) Linux
4 45 (3.93%) Mac OS
5 38 (3.32%) Android
6 33 (2.88%) Unix
7 21 (1.84%) VMS
8 20 (1.75%) Apple iOS
9 19 (1.66%) Amazon Linux
10 12 (1.05%) Windows Server
11 11 (0.96%) Ubuntu
12 5 (0.44%) Windows 7
12 5 (0.44%) Windows Server 2016
12 5 (0.44%) zOS
13 4 (0.35%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
14 1 (0.087%) CentOS
14 1 (0.087%) Data ONTAP
14 1 (0.087%) Kali Linux
14 1 (0.087%) Mac OS X
14 1 (0.087%) Windows Server 2012
Processes & Methodologies
1 377 (32.95%) ITSM
2 287 (25.09%) ITIL
3 263 (22.99%) Agile
4 213 (18.62%) Problem-Solving
5 200 (17.48%) Service Management
6 155 (13.55%) DevOps
7 153 (13.37%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 147 (12.85%) Stakeholder Management
9 132 (11.54%) Change Management
10 122 (10.66%) Customer Service
11 106 (9.27%) Continuous Improvement
12 99 (8.65%) CI/CD
13 83 (7.26%) Service Delivery
14 79 (6.91%) Roadmaps
14 79 (6.91%) Scrum
15 73 (6.38%) Configuration Management
16 71 (6.21%) Project Management
17 68 (5.94%) User Acceptance Testing
17 68 (5.94%) User Experience
18 67 (5.86%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 123 (10.75%) Python
2 102 (8.92%) JavaScript
3 75 (6.56%) PowerShell
4 66 (5.77%) SQL
5 65 (5.68%) Java
6 39 (3.41%) Perl
7 24 (2.10%) Groovy
8 22 (1.92%) Bash
9 14 (1.22%) Shell Script
10 10 (0.87%) TypeScript
11 7 (0.61%) ABAP
11 7 (0.61%) Lisp
12 6 (0.52%) Go
12 6 (0.52%) Kusto Query Language
13 5 (0.44%) BeanShell
13 5 (0.44%) PHP
13 5 (0.44%) PL/SQL
13 5 (0.44%) REXX
13 5 (0.44%) VB
13 5 (0.44%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 329 (28.76%) Security Cleared
2 275 (24.04%) SC Cleared
3 122 (10.66%) Degree
4 31 (2.71%) TOGAF Certification
5 24 (2.10%) CISSP
6 21 (1.84%) Cisco Certification
7 18 (1.57%) Computer Science Degree
8 17 (1.49%) CISM
8 17 (1.49%) DV Cleared
9 15 (1.31%) CCNP
9 15 (1.31%) Microsoft Certification
10 13 (1.14%) AWS Certification
10 13 (1.14%) Azure Certification
10 13 (1.14%) ITIL Certification
11 12 (1.05%) ACSP
11 12 (1.05%) ACTC
11 12 (1.05%) BPSS Clearance
11 12 (1.05%) CISA
11 12 (1.05%) PMI Certification
12 11 (0.96%) A+ Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 57 (4.98%) QA
2 46 (4.02%) GDPR
3 45 (3.93%) SLA
4 35 (3.06%) GRC
5 28 (2.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 26 (2.27%) NIST
7 24 (2.10%) Data Quality
8 21 (1.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 15 (1.31%) Accessibility
9 15 (1.31%) PMO
10 11 (0.96%) COBIT
10 11 (0.96%) PCI DSS
11 8 (0.70%) NIST 800
12 7 (0.61%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
13 6 (0.52%) HIPAA
13 6 (0.52%) ISO/IEC 19770
14 4 (0.35%) Actionable Recommendations
15 3 (0.26%) Cyber Essentials
15 3 (0.26%) ISO 22301
15 3 (0.26%) WCAG
System Software
1 152 (13.29%) Active Directory
2 35 (3.06%) Docker
3 21 (1.84%) VMware Infrastructure
4 18 (1.57%) DFS Replication
5 15 (1.31%) VMware ESXi
6 12 (1.05%) GPFS
6 12 (1.05%) NFS
6 12 (1.05%) vSphere
7 11 (0.96%) Dovecot
7 11 (0.96%) Postfix
7 11 (0.96%) Squid
8 6 (0.52%) BitLocker
9 4 (0.35%) Virtual Desktop
10 2 (0.17%) Job Entry Subsystem
10 2 (0.17%) Virtual Machines
11 1 (0.087%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
11 1 (0.087%) Firmware
11 1 (0.087%) Hyper-V
11 1 (0.087%) RACF
11 1 (0.087%) Slurm Workload Manager
Systems Management
1 52 (4.55%) Terraform
2 51 (4.46%) SCCM
3 41 (3.58%) Microsoft Intune
4 32 (2.80%) Ansible
4 32 (2.80%) Grafana
5 30 (2.62%) OPNET
6 24 (2.10%) Prometheus
7 22 (1.92%) Jamf Pro
8 18 (1.57%) Single Sign-On
9 17 (1.49%) RSA Archer
10 16 (1.40%) Nessus
11 12 (1.05%) Kubernetes
11 12 (1.05%) vRealize
12 10 (0.87%) Proxmox
13 9 (0.79%) FortiGate
14 4 (0.35%) Pingdom
14 4 (0.35%) Rancher
15 3 (0.26%) Nmap
15 3 (0.26%) OMEGAMON
15 3 (0.26%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 253 (22.12%) Microsoft
2 95 (8.30%) Remedy
3 65 (5.68%) Oracle
4 64 (5.59%) SAP
5 57 (4.98%) Cisco
6 48 (4.20%) Splunk
7 45 (3.93%) Salesforce
8 36 (3.15%) Apple
9 33 (2.88%) Atlassian
10 27 (2.36%) VMware
11 26 (2.27%) Workday
12 25 (2.19%) IBM
13 23 (2.01%) HP
14 21 (1.84%) BMC
15 20 (1.75%) Snow
16 16 (1.40%) Citrix
17 13 (1.14%) Rapid7
17 13 (1.14%) Zscaler
18 11 (0.96%) CrowdStrike
18 11 (0.96%) Jaspersoft