ServiceNow Contract Job Trends in London

ServiceNow
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in London 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 24 November 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
24 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 72 83
Rank change year-on-year -31 +11 +62
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 414 533 551
As % of all contract jobs in London 2.96% 3.37% 2.76%
As % of the Vendors category 6.36% 7.72% 6.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 274 289 386
10th Percentile £216 £246 £210
25th Percentile £350 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £489 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.86% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £588 £575 £636
90th Percentile £688 £650 £690
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 6
10th Percentile £25.27 - £25.47
25th Percentile £25.45 £18.50 £36.81
Median hourly rate £26.50 £19.00 £52.50
Median % change year-on-year +39.47% -63.81% +169.23%
75th Percentile £61.13 £19.50 £53.75
90th Percentile £81.45 - £65.63
England median hourly rate £18.85 £21.46 £20.00
% change year-on-year -12.19% +7.30% +29.03%

All Vendors
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 6,509 6,908 8,210
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 46.57% 43.71% 41.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,207 4,355 5,693
10th Percentile £325 £313 £300
25th Percentile £420 £425 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -4.35%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £675
90th Percentile £738 £738 £763
England median daily rate £501 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.57% - -2.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 136 67 113
10th Percentile £17.74 £20.28 £16.88
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.80 £22.75
Median hourly rate £25.15 £39.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -36.33% -1.25% +55.58%
75th Percentile £40.88 £65.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £63.50 £95.50 £85.65
England median hourly rate £25.00 £33.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -24.24% -25.84% +62.56%

ServiceNow
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ServiceNow relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

ServiceNow job vacancy trend in London

ServiceNow
Daily Rate Trend in London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ServiceNow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ServiceNow

ServiceNow
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ServiceNow in London over the 6 months to 24 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ServiceNow in London

ServiceNow
Hourly Rate Trend in London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ServiceNow.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in London citing ServiceNow

ServiceNow
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ServiceNow in London over the 6 months to 24 November 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ServiceNow in London

ServiceNow
Contract Job Locations in London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ServiceNow within the London region over the 6 months to 24 November 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
Central London -2 52 £525 - 19
South London +7 18 £483 -3.45%
West London -5 8 £293 -10.69% 10
East London -3 2 £585 +8.33% 5
ServiceNow
England

ServiceNow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 46 (11.11%) Confluence
2 33 (7.97%) SharePoint
3 18 (4.35%) Microsoft Exchange
4 10 (2.42%) nginx
5 7 (1.69%) Oracle SOA Suite
6 4 (0.97%) Apache
6 4 (0.97%) Appian
6 4 (0.97%) Camunda
7 3 (0.72%) Apache Spark
7 3 (0.72%) SAS
8 2 (0.48%) IIS
9 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
9 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 23 (5.56%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (4.11%) Microsoft Office
3 14 (3.38%) MS Visio
4 12 (2.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 10 (2.42%) Mozilla Thunderbird
6 9 (2.17%) Microsoft Project
7 4 (0.97%) Autodesk Inventor
7 4 (0.97%) Spreadsheet
8 3 (0.72%) Trello
9 1 (0.24%) Adobe Creative Suite
9 1 (0.24%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 32 (7.73%) Remedy ITSM
2 6 (1.45%) Workday HCM
3 5 (1.21%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.72%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (0.48%) SAP Business One
6 1 (0.24%) Actimize
6 1 (0.24%) Cloudability
6 1 (0.24%) NetSuite
6 1 (0.24%) Oracle HRMS
6 1 (0.24%) SAP GRC
6 1 (0.24%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
6 1 (0.24%) SAP SD
Cloud Services
1 91 (21.98%) Azure
2 79 (19.08%) Microsoft 365
3 69 (16.67%) AWS
4 30 (7.25%) Azure DevOps
5 28 (6.76%) Power Platform
6 27 (6.52%) Entra ID
7 19 (4.59%) SaaS
8 17 (4.11%) Amazon ECS
8 17 (4.11%) Serverless
9 16 (3.86%) Amazon S3
10 15 (3.62%) Amazon CloudWatch
11 14 (3.38%) Amazon EC2
11 14 (3.38%) AWS Lambda
12 11 (2.66%) Amazon ELB
12 11 (2.66%) GCP
12 11 (2.66%) GitHub
12 11 (2.66%) Virtual Private Cloud
13 10 (2.42%) AWS CloudFormation
13 10 (2.42%) AWS KMS
13 10 (2.42%) Route 53
Communications & Networking
1 24 (5.80%) DNS
1 24 (5.80%) Firewall
2 21 (5.07%) VPN
3 16 (3.86%) SSL
4 12 (2.90%) SSH
5 11 (2.66%) HTTP
6 10 (2.42%) DHCP
6 10 (2.42%) FTP
6 10 (2.42%) IMAP
6 10 (2.42%) LAN
6 10 (2.42%) OpenLDAP
6 10 (2.42%) SMTP
6 10 (2.42%) TCP/IP
6 10 (2.42%) WAN
7 7 (1.69%) Network Security
7 7 (1.69%) Remote Desktop
7 7 (1.69%) Wireless
8 5 (1.21%) BGP
8 5 (1.21%) OSPF
8 5 (1.21%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 23 (5.56%) Power BI
2 19 (4.59%) PostgreSQL
3 18 (4.35%) Amazon RDS
4 14 (3.38%) Amazon Aurora
5 8 (1.93%) DynamoDB
6 7 (1.69%) Oracle ODI
6 7 (1.69%) Tableau
7 6 (1.45%) Metadata
8 5 (1.21%) Relational Database
9 4 (0.97%) DB2
9 4 (0.97%) Redis
10 3 (0.72%) MongoDB
10 3 (0.72%) RDBMS
11 2 (0.48%) Data Lake
11 2 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
11 2 (0.48%) Oracle Reports
12 1 (0.24%) Amazon QuickSight
12 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
12 1 (0.24%) Big Data
12 1 (0.24%) Data Vault
Development Applications
1 97 (23.43%) JIRA
2 21 (5.07%) Git
2 21 (5.07%) Jenkins
3 10 (2.42%) Vagrant
4 7 (1.69%) JUnit
5 5 (1.21%) Cucumber
5 5 (1.21%) Maven
6 4 (0.97%) GitLab
6 4 (0.97%) Metasploit
7 2 (0.48%) Burp Suite
7 2 (0.48%) Snyk
7 2 (0.48%) sqlmap
8 1 (0.24%) QADirector
8 1 (0.24%) Zephyr
General
1 158 (38.16%) Social Skills
2 97 (23.43%) Finance
3 59 (14.25%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (10.39%) Public Sector
5 26 (6.28%) Banking
6 20 (4.83%) Presentation Skills
7 17 (4.11%) Legal
7 17 (4.11%) Telecoms
8 11 (2.66%) Documentation Skills
9 7 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
10 6 (1.45%) Law
11 5 (1.21%) Billing
11 5 (1.21%) Front Office
11 5 (1.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 5 (1.21%) Military
12 4 (0.97%) Influencing Skills
13 3 (0.72%) Financial Institution
13 3 (0.72%) Marketing
13 3 (0.72%) Pharmaceutical
14 2 (0.48%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 74 (17.87%) Architect
2 56 (13.53%) Developer
3 54 (13.04%) Analyst
4 45 (10.87%) ServiceNow Architect
5 39 (9.42%) ServiceNow Developer
6 34 (8.21%) Support Engineer
7 29 (7.00%) Consultant
8 24 (5.80%) Senior
8 24 (5.80%) Solutions Architect
9 23 (5.56%) Business Analyst
10 22 (5.31%) IT Support
11 19 (4.59%) Lead
12 16 (3.86%) IT Engineer
13 15 (3.62%) AWS Engineer
13 15 (3.62%) DevOps Engineer
13 15 (3.62%) Project Manager
14 13 (3.14%) Desktop Support
15 12 (2.90%) IT Support Engineer
15 12 (2.90%) Platform Engineer
15 12 (2.90%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 65 (15.70%) REST
2 51 (12.32%) SOAP
3 25 (6.04%) AngularJS
4 24 (5.80%) LDAP
5 23 (5.56%) Web Services
6 17 (4.11%) .NET
6 17 (4.11%) HTML
7 15 (3.62%) JSON
7 15 (3.62%) SAML
8 13 (3.14%) jQuery
9 12 (2.90%) Apache Camel
9 12 (2.90%) HTML5
9 12 (2.90%) JDBC
9 12 (2.90%) ODBC
9 12 (2.90%) RabbitMQ
10 10 (2.42%) Kafka
10 10 (2.42%) React
11 7 (1.69%) Oracle Fusion
11 7 (1.69%) Spring
12 6 (1.45%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 57 (13.77%) CMDB
2 22 (5.31%) Onboarding
3 16 (3.86%) Replication
4 14 (3.38%) Security Posture
5 9 (2.17%) Cloud Native
5 9 (2.17%) Product Ownership
6 8 (1.93%) Data Centre
6 8 (1.93%) Data Protection Act
6 8 (1.93%) Management Information System
7 7 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
8 6 (1.45%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (0.97%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (0.97%) Video Conferencing
10 3 (0.72%) Analytical Mindset
10 3 (0.72%) Cyber Threat
10 3 (0.72%) Driving Licence
10 3 (0.72%) Life Science
10 3 (0.72%) Mainframe
10 3 (0.72%) Mobile App
10 3 (0.72%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 84 (20.29%) Windows
2 21 (5.07%) Linux
3 19 (4.59%) Windows 10
4 11 (2.66%) Apple iOS
4 11 (2.66%) Ubuntu
4 11 (2.66%) VMS
5 10 (2.42%) Amazon Linux
5 10 (2.42%) Android
5 10 (2.42%) Mac OS
6 9 (2.17%) Unix
7 4 (0.97%) Windows Server
8 1 (0.24%) CentOS
8 1 (0.24%) Mac OS X
8 1 (0.24%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2012
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2016
8 1 (0.24%) Windows Server 2019
8 1 (0.24%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 144 (34.78%) ITSM
2 114 (27.54%) Agile
3 82 (19.81%) ITIL
4 81 (19.57%) Problem-Solving
5 79 (19.08%) DevOps
6 55 (13.29%) Scrum
7 53 (12.80%) Service Management
8 49 (11.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 48 (11.59%) CI/CD
10 45 (10.87%) Change Management
10 45 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
11 40 (9.66%) Analytics
11 40 (9.66%) Customer Service
12 36 (8.70%) Configuration Management
13 33 (7.97%) Risk Management
14 32 (7.73%) Security Operations
15 31 (7.49%) Business Intelligence
15 31 (7.49%) Continuous Improvement
16 30 (7.25%) Cybersecurity
16 30 (7.25%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 66 (15.94%) Python
2 53 (12.80%) JavaScript
3 39 (9.42%) PowerShell
4 31 (7.49%) SQL
5 26 (6.28%) Java
6 21 (5.07%) TypeScript
7 18 (4.35%) Bash
8 14 (3.38%) Groovy
9 5 (1.21%) Kusto Query Language
10 4 (0.97%) Go
11 3 (0.72%) R
12 2 (0.48%) Bicep
12 2 (0.48%) C#
12 2 (0.48%) Perl
13 1 (0.24%) BeanShell
13 1 (0.24%) C
13 1 (0.24%) C++
13 1 (0.24%) JCL
13 1 (0.24%) REXX
13 1 (0.24%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 91 (21.98%) Security Cleared
2 78 (18.84%) SC Cleared
3 45 (10.87%) Degree
4 12 (2.90%) AWS Certification
5 11 (2.66%) Azure Certification
6 9 (2.17%) BPSS Clearance
6 9 (2.17%) CISSP
7 6 (1.45%) CCNP
7 6 (1.45%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (1.45%) CISM
7 6 (1.45%) GPEN
7 6 (1.45%) ITIL Certification
7 6 (1.45%) OSCP
8 5 (1.21%) Computer Science Degree
8 5 (1.21%) DV Cleared
9 4 (0.97%) A+ Certification
9 4 (0.97%) CEH
9 4 (0.97%) CISA
9 4 (0.97%) CompTIA Security+
9 4 (0.97%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (5.07%) QA
2 19 (4.59%) GDPR
3 14 (3.38%) GRC
4 13 (3.14%) NIST
5 12 (2.90%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 12 (2.90%) SLA
6 11 (2.66%) Data Quality
7 8 (1.93%) PMO
8 7 (1.69%) Accessibility
8 7 (1.69%) COBIT
8 7 (1.69%) PCI DSS
8 7 (1.69%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 4 (0.97%) HIPAA
10 3 (0.72%) ISO/IEC 19770
10 3 (0.72%) WCAG
11 2 (0.48%) Actionable Recommendations
11 2 (0.48%) California Consumer Privacy Act
11 2 (0.48%) FIPS 140-2
12 1 (0.24%) SOC 2
12 1 (0.24%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 52 (12.56%) Active Directory
2 25 (6.04%) Docker
3 10 (2.42%) DFS Replication
3 10 (2.42%) Dovecot
3 10 (2.42%) Postfix
3 10 (2.42%) Squid
4 2 (0.48%) Firmware
4 2 (0.48%) Virtual Desktop
4 2 (0.48%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.24%) BitLocker
5 1 (0.24%) Hyper-V
5 1 (0.24%) Job Entry Subsystem
5 1 (0.24%) RACF
5 1 (0.24%) Virtual Machines
5 1 (0.24%) VMware ESXi
5 1 (0.24%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 25 (6.04%) Terraform
2 19 (4.59%) Microsoft Intune
2 19 (4.59%) Single Sign-On
3 16 (3.86%) Grafana
4 15 (3.62%) Nessus
5 14 (3.38%) Prometheus
5 14 (3.38%) SCCM
6 11 (2.66%) Ansible
7 10 (2.42%) Proxmox
8 8 (1.93%) Jamf Pro
9 7 (1.69%) Kubernetes
9 7 (1.69%) RSA Archer
10 4 (0.97%) Rancher
11 2 (0.48%) Nmap
11 2 (0.48%) QRadar
12 1 (0.24%) Cisco UCCE
12 1 (0.24%) Cisco UCCX
12 1 (0.24%) Control-M
12 1 (0.24%) HP Operations Orchestration
12 1 (0.24%) WSUS
Vendors
1 86 (20.77%) Microsoft
2 41 (9.90%) Remedy
3 22 (5.31%) Cisco
3 22 (5.31%) Oracle
3 22 (5.31%) Salesforce
4 19 (4.59%) SAP
5 16 (3.86%) BMC
5 16 (3.86%) HP
6 12 (2.90%) Ivanti
6 12 (2.90%) Splunk
6 12 (2.90%) Workday
7 10 (2.42%) Apple
7 10 (2.42%) Jaspersoft
8 9 (2.17%) CrowdStrike
8 9 (2.17%) Okta
9 8 (1.93%) Databricks
9 8 (1.93%) Tenable
10 7 (1.69%) Bloomberg
10 7 (1.69%) CA Agile Central
11 6 (1.45%) Citrix