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 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
20 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 51 49 111
Rank change year-on-year -2 +62 +11
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 59 73 31
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.85% 4.36% 1.30%
As % of the Vendors category 8.89% 11.39% 3.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 29 20
10th Percentile £333 £155 £110
25th Percentile £388 £348 £226
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £400 £291
Median % change year-on-year +18.75% +37.46% -35.33%
75th Percentile £575 £463 £528
90th Percentile £588 £503 £603
UK median daily rate £478 £500 £510
% change year-on-year -4.35% -1.96% -2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 7
10th Percentile - £12.73 £16.00
25th Percentile - £16.24 £16.35
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.44 £16.71
Median % change year-on-year -20.36% +34.28% +26.98%
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £17.72
90th Percentile £36.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £18.87 £22.05 £19.00
% change year-on-year -14.40% +16.03% +22.58%

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 664 641 1,008
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 43.37% 38.29% 42.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 366 598
10th Percentile £251 £175 £181
25th Percentile £380 £350 £397
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year - -7.69% +8.33%
75th Percentile £546 £538 £593
90th Percentile £638 £664 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -2.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 39 37
10th Percentile - £13.56 £12.35
25th Percentile £17.87 £19.62 £16.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +6.61% +33.13% -
75th Percentile £27.15 £24.18 £60.00
90th Percentile £60.25 £36.41 £68.10
UK median hourly rate £23.83 £29.00 £45.11
% change year-on-year -17.84% -35.71% +76.74%

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 December 2025.

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
Hourly Rate Histogram in Scotland

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ServiceNow in Scotland over the 6 months to 20 December 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ServiceNow in Scotland

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 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
Glasgow +9 34 £475 +21.33% 4
Edinburgh -8 18 £112 -75.91% 2
East Lothian 0 3 - -
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 5 (8.47%) Apache
1 5 (8.47%) Apache Airflow
1 5 (8.47%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.69%) CICS
2 1 (1.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.69%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 6 (10.17%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (6.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.78%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (5.08%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (11.86%) AWS
2 5 (8.47%) Power Platform
2 5 (8.47%) Snowflake
3 4 (6.78%) Amazon CloudWatch
3 4 (6.78%) Amazon EventBridge
3 4 (6.78%) Amazon Kinesis
3 4 (6.78%) AWS CloudFormation
3 4 (6.78%) AWS Lambda
3 4 (6.78%) Serverless
3 4 (6.78%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 3 (5.08%) Azure
5 2 (3.39%) IaaS
6 1 (1.69%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (18.64%) Relational Database
2 7 (11.86%) Big Data
3 5 (8.47%) Data Warehouse
3 5 (8.47%) Hadoop
3 5 (8.47%) Power BI
4 4 (6.78%) DynamoDB
5 3 (5.08%) Amazon Athena
6 1 (1.69%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 7 (11.86%) JIRA
2 5 (8.47%) Git
3 1 (1.69%) Hudson
General
1 29 (49.15%) Finance
2 23 (38.98%) Social Skills
3 14 (23.73%) Banking
4 6 (10.17%) Investment Banking
5 4 (6.78%) Public Sector
6 3 (5.08%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Organisational Skills
7 1 (1.69%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 13 (22.03%) Analyst
2 11 (18.64%) Data Analyst
3 8 (13.56%) Project Manager
4 6 (10.17%) Data Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Architect
5 4 (6.78%) Developer
5 4 (6.78%) Python Data Engineer
5 4 (6.78%) Python Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) Data Centre Engineer
6 3 (5.08%) ServiceNow Developer
6 3 (5.08%) Technical Manager
6 3 (5.08%) Technical Project Manager
7 2 (3.39%) Administrator
7 2 (3.39%) Agile Coach
7 2 (3.39%) Consultant
7 2 (3.39%) IT Administrator
7 2 (3.39%) PMO Project Manager
7 2 (3.39%) Release Manager
7 2 (3.39%) Service Manager
7 2 (3.39%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (10.17%) REST
2 4 (6.78%) Node.js
2 4 (6.78%) RESTful
3 1 (1.69%) JSON
3 1 (1.69%) React
3 1 (1.69%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 21 (35.59%) CMDB
2 8 (13.56%) Self-Motivation
3 6 (10.17%) Data Centre
3 6 (10.17%) Virtual Team
4 4 (6.78%) IVR
4 4 (6.78%) NHS
5 2 (3.39%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.39%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.39%) PMI
5 2 (3.39%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.69%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
Operating Systems
1 5 (8.47%) Linux
2 3 (5.08%) Unix
3 2 (3.39%) Windows
4 1 (1.69%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (45.76%) ITSM
2 26 (44.07%) Agile
3 20 (33.90%) Service Management
4 16 (27.12%) Visualisation
5 15 (25.42%) Analytics
5 15 (25.42%) Data Modelling
6 14 (23.73%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (22.03%) ITIL
8 12 (20.34%) Break/Fix
8 12 (20.34%) Customer Service
9 11 (18.64%) Asset Management
10 10 (16.95%) Migration
11 9 (15.25%) Data Architecture
11 9 (15.25%) Data Visualisation
11 9 (15.25%) DevOps
11 9 (15.25%) Project Management
11 9 (15.25%) Stakeholder Management
12 8 (13.56%) Performance Monitoring
12 8 (13.56%) Programme Management
12 8 (13.56%) Time Management
Programming Languages
1 16 (27.12%) Python
2 12 (20.34%) SQL
3 1 (1.69%) Java
3 1 (1.69%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (11.86%) ITIL Certification
2 6 (10.17%) PMI Certification
3 4 (6.78%) PMP
4 3 (5.08%) Degree
4 3 (5.08%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 2 (3.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.39%) DBS Check
6 1 (1.69%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.69%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (8.47%) Data Quality
1 5 (8.47%) PMO
2 4 (6.78%) GDPR
2 4 (6.78%) PCI DSS
3 3 (5.08%) HIPAA
3 3 (5.08%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.69%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.69%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.78%) Terraform
2 2 (3.39%) SCCM
3 1 (1.69%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 6 (10.17%) Databricks
2 5 (8.47%) Microsoft
3 4 (6.78%) Salesforce
4 3 (5.08%) Avaya
4 3 (5.08%) BMC
4 3 (5.08%) Cisco
4 3 (5.08%) Genesys
4 3 (5.08%) IBM
4 3 (5.08%) Pega
4 3 (5.08%) Remedy
4 3 (5.08%) SAP
5 2 (3.39%) Snow
6 1 (1.69%) NetScout
6 1 (1.69%) Oracle
6 1 (1.69%) WorldPay