ServiceNow Contract Job Trends in Scotland

ServiceNow
UK > Scotland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 20 March 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
20 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 41 83
Rank change year-on-year -15 +42 +23
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 55 89 43
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.38% 5.37% 1.88%
As % of the Vendors category 9.00% 12.84% 4.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 54 27
10th Percentile £176 £322 £130
25th Percentile £350 £387 £224
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £453 £282
Median % change year-on-year -0.55% +60.46% -35.17%
75th Percentile £575 £561 £522
90th Percentile £594 £613 £563
UK median daily rate £489 £494 £500
% change year-on-year -0.96% -1.20% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 9
10th Percentile - £14.36 £15.82
25th Percentile - £18.66 -
Median hourly rate £17.87 £24.18 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.10% +51.13% -
75th Percentile £19.94 - £16.71
90th Percentile £21.17 - £17.02
UK median hourly rate £19.50 £21.46 £16.30
% change year-on-year -9.13% +31.66% -6.86%

All Vendors
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 611 693 929
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 37.51% 41.85% 40.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 372 431 554
10th Percentile £260 £197 £181
25th Percentile £400 £350 £361
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £472 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +4.86% -5.26% -
75th Percentile £575 £538 £588
90th Percentile £675 £625 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £515 £513
% change year-on-year -2.91% +0.49% -2.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 25 25 49
10th Percentile £15.77 £18.51 £12.94
25th Percentile £16.17 £20.38 £16.00
Median hourly rate £22.00 £23.00 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +31.43% -24.80%
75th Percentile £55.00 £24.18 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.60 £28.13 £60.15
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £29.00 £24.50
% change year-on-year -13.28% +18.37% -31.94%

ServiceNow
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

ServiceNow job vacancy trend in Scotland

ServiceNow
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing ServiceNow

ServiceNow
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ServiceNow in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 March 2026.

Daily rate histogram for ServiceNow in Scotland

ServiceNow
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing ServiceNow

ServiceNow
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ServiceNow within the Scotland region over the 6 months to 20 March 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
Glasgow -9 37 £450 - 8
Edinburgh -14 9 £600 +25.00% 4
Perth and Kinross - 8 £178 -
ServiceNow
UK

ServiceNow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Scotland 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 4 (7.27%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.82%) Apache
2 1 (1.82%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.82%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.82%) CICS
2 1 (1.82%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (3.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (7.27%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.82%) Microsoft 365
2 8 (14.55%) Azure
3 7 (12.73%) AWS
4 5 (9.09%) OneDrive
5 4 (7.27%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (7.27%) Amazon EventBridge
5 4 (7.27%) Amazon Kinesis
5 4 (7.27%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (7.27%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (7.27%) Serverless
5 4 (7.27%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 2 (3.64%) SaaS
7 1 (1.82%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.82%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 8 (14.55%) DHCP
1 8 (14.55%) DNS
1 8 (14.55%) TCP/IP
1 8 (14.55%) VPN
1 8 (14.55%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (9.09%) VoIP
3 4 (7.27%) Firewall
3 4 (7.27%) WAN
4 3 (5.45%) Internet
4 3 (5.45%) SD-WAN
5 2 (3.64%) SSL
6 1 (1.82%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (16.36%) Relational Database
2 4 (7.27%) DynamoDB
3 3 (5.45%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (5.45%) Big Data
4 1 (1.82%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.82%) Hadoop
4 1 (1.82%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 13 (23.64%) JIRA
2 1 (1.82%) Git
2 1 (1.82%) Hudson
General
1 29 (52.73%) Finance
2 20 (36.36%) Social Skills
3 13 (23.64%) Banking
4 6 (10.91%) Legal
5 4 (7.27%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.45%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (5.45%) Financial Institution
6 3 (5.45%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.64%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.82%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (21.82%) Analyst
2 10 (18.18%) IT Support
3 9 (16.36%) Data Analyst
4 7 (12.73%) Project Manager
5 6 (10.91%) IT Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) IT Support Engineer
5 6 (10.91%) Support Engineer
6 5 (9.09%) Business Analyst
7 4 (7.27%) Architect
7 4 (7.27%) Data Business Analyst
7 4 (7.27%) Technical Manager
7 4 (7.27%) Technical Project Manager
8 3 (5.45%) Data Engineer
8 3 (5.45%) Lead
8 3 (5.45%) Team Leader
9 2 (3.64%) Developer
9 2 (3.64%) Infrastructure Team Leader
9 2 (3.64%) Principal Architect
9 2 (3.64%) Release Manager
9 2 (3.64%) Service Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.27%) Node.js
2 3 (5.45%) REST
3 2 (3.64%) SOAP
4 1 (1.82%) React
4 1 (1.82%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 18 (32.73%) CMDB
2 6 (10.91%) Self-Motivation
2 6 (10.91%) Virtual Team
3 4 (7.27%) Data Centre
3 4 (7.27%) IVR
3 4 (7.27%) NHS
4 2 (3.64%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (3.64%) Legacy Systems
4 2 (3.64%) PMI
4 2 (3.64%) Product Ownership
4 2 (3.64%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.82%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.82%) Driving Licence
Operating Systems
1 14 (25.45%) Windows
2 5 (9.09%) Mac OS
2 5 (9.09%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.82%) Linux
3 1 (1.82%) Unix
3 1 (1.82%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (54.55%) ITSM
2 22 (40.00%) Agile
2 22 (40.00%) ITIL
3 13 (23.64%) Problem-Solving
4 12 (21.82%) Migration
5 11 (20.00%) Scrum
6 10 (18.18%) Asset Management
6 10 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 9 (16.36%) Continuous Improvement
7 9 (16.36%) Data Architecture
8 8 (14.55%) Analytics
8 8 (14.55%) CI/CD
8 8 (14.55%) Data Lineage
8 8 (14.55%) DevOps
8 8 (14.55%) Performance Monitoring
8 8 (14.55%) Service Management
8 8 (14.55%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 7 (12.73%) Data Modelling
9 7 (12.73%) Disaster Recovery
9 7 (12.73%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 10 (18.18%) Python
2 9 (16.36%) SQL
3 1 (1.82%) Java
3 1 (1.82%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (10.91%) PMI Certification
2 4 (7.27%) ITIL Certification
2 4 (7.27%) PMP
3 3 (5.45%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 3 (5.45%) SC Cleared
3 3 (5.45%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.64%) Computer Science Degree
4 2 (3.64%) Degree
5 1 (1.82%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.27%) GDPR
1 4 (7.27%) PCI DSS
1 4 (7.27%) SLA
2 3 (5.45%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.45%) HIPAA
2 3 (5.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 3 (5.45%) PMO
3 1 (1.82%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.82%) QA
System Software
1 9 (16.36%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (7.27%) Terraform
2 2 (3.64%) CASB
Vendors
1 12 (21.82%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.91%) Cisco
3 4 (7.27%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.45%) Avaya
4 3 (5.45%) Genesys
4 3 (5.45%) IBM
4 3 (5.45%) Pega
5 2 (3.64%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (3.64%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.82%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.82%) Databricks
6 1 (1.82%) SAP
6 1 (1.82%) WorldPay