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 19 August 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
19 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 56 46 74
Rank change year-on-year -10 +28 +35
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 80 77 42
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.61% 4.73% 2.25%
As % of the Vendors category 8.54% 10.36% 5.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 54 40 18
10th Percentile - £168 £154
25th Percentile £150 £367 £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £483 £394
Median % change year-on-year -22.36% +22.67% -12.50%
75th Percentile £547 £553 £522
90th Percentile £618 £575 £633
UK median daily rate £501 £475 £505
% change year-on-year +5.53% -5.94% +1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 24 8
10th Percentile £18.04 - £12.47
25th Percentile £19.32 £16.84 £14.45
Median hourly rate £21.56 £17.45 £21.14
Median % change year-on-year +23.56% -17.49% +19.31%
75th Percentile £23.70 £18.05 £24.18
90th Percentile £24.93 £24.61 -
UK median hourly rate £26.00 £17.87 £16.30
% change year-on-year +45.50% +9.63% -20.22%

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 937 743 742
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 42.32% 45.61% 39.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 531 412 478
10th Percentile £238 £250 £174
25th Percentile £367 £368 £281
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £451 £466 £438
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +6.45% -7.84%
75th Percentile £557 £538 £538
90th Percentile £640 £600 £688
UK median daily rate £510 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.00% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 63 37
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.02 £12.39
25th Percentile £13.90 £16.96 £15.10
Median hourly rate £16.05 £19.23 £18.13
Median % change year-on-year -16.56% +6.07% +2.31%
75th Percentile £19.33 £25.15 £23.00
90th Percentile £58.55 - £48.42
UK median hourly rate £31.96 £25.15 £28.00
% change year-on-year +27.09% -10.18% -31.40%

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 19 August 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 19 August 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
Edinburgh +10 35 £375 +28.87% 31
Glasgow -27 24 £415 -17.00% 15
Fife - 11 £150 -
Highlands - 4 £716 -
Perthshire - 1 £450 -
Dundee - 1 - -
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 11 (13.75%) HCL Notes
2 5 (6.25%) Confluence
3 3 (3.75%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (17.50%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 13 (16.25%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (13.75%) Azure
3 7 (8.75%) AWS
4 4 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
5 3 (3.75%) GCP
5 3 (3.75%) GitHub
5 3 (3.75%) Power Platform
6 2 (2.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.50%) SaaS
6 2 (2.50%) Snowflake
7 1 (1.25%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (1.25%) Entra ID
7 1 (1.25%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.25%) Google Gemini
7 1 (1.25%) IaaS
7 1 (1.25%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.25%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 16 (20.00%) VPN
2 5 (6.25%) LAN
2 5 (6.25%) WAN
3 4 (5.00%) Internet
3 4 (5.00%) SSL
3 4 (5.00%) TCP/IP
4 3 (3.75%) Firewall
5 2 (2.50%) ISDN
5 2 (2.50%) Unified Communications
6 1 (1.25%) Cisco IPT
6 1 (1.25%) H.323
6 1 (1.25%) Intranet
6 1 (1.25%) IP Telephony
6 1 (1.25%) MGCP
6 1 (1.25%) Remote Desktop
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.75%) Power BI
2 2 (2.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (18.75%) JIRA
2 2 (2.50%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.25%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.25%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (1.25%) Git
3 1 (1.25%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 42 (52.50%) Social Skills
2 23 (28.75%) Finance
3 20 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (7.50%) Banking
5 4 (5.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (2.50%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.50%) Legal
7 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
7 1 (1.25%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (1.25%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 22 (27.50%) Analyst
2 17 (21.25%) Support Engineer
3 16 (20.00%) IT Support
4 15 (18.75%) IT Engineer
4 15 (18.75%) IT Support Engineer
4 15 (18.75%) Service Analyst
5 10 (12.50%) Business Analyst
6 8 (10.00%) Project Manager
6 8 (10.00%) Service Delivery Analyst
7 7 (8.75%) Architect
8 6 (7.50%) Developer
8 6 (7.50%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
9 5 (6.25%) Desktop Support
9 5 (6.25%) ServiceNow Architect
10 4 (5.00%) Consultant
10 4 (5.00%) IT Manager
10 4 (5.00%) Senior
10 4 (5.00%) ServiceNow Developer
11 3 (3.75%) Deskside Support
11 3 (3.75%) Project Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (5.00%) REST
1 4 (5.00%) SOAP
2 3 (3.75%) AngularJS
2 3 (3.75%) HTML
3 2 (2.50%) ADO
3 2 (2.50%) SailPoint
3 2 (2.50%) XMPP
4 1 (1.25%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.75%) Blackberry
2 7 (8.75%) CMDB
2 7 (8.75%) Onboarding
3 6 (7.50%) Data Centre
4 2 (2.50%) Cloud Security Posture
4 2 (2.50%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.50%) Renewable Energy
4 2 (2.50%) Security Posture
5 1 (1.25%) Chip and PIN
5 1 (1.25%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.25%) Linux Command Line
5 1 (1.25%) Mainframe
5 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.25%) Operational Technology
5 1 (1.25%) PKI
5 1 (1.25%) Product Ownership
5 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 28 (35.00%) Windows
2 15 (18.75%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.75%) Linux
4 2 (2.50%) Unix
4 2 (2.50%) Windows Server
4 2 (2.50%) zOS
5 1 (1.25%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 47 (58.75%) ITIL
2 33 (41.25%) ITSM
3 27 (33.75%) Service Delivery
4 21 (26.25%) Customer Service
5 18 (22.50%) Continuous Improvement
6 17 (21.25%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (20.00%) Agile
7 16 (20.00%) Service Management
8 15 (18.75%) Problem-Solving
9 11 (13.75%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 8 (10.00%) Change Management
10 8 (10.00%) Cybersecurity
10 8 (10.00%) Project Delivery
11 6 (7.50%) AI
11 6 (7.50%) CI/CD
11 6 (7.50%) DevOps
11 6 (7.50%) Migration
11 6 (7.50%) Requirements Gathering
11 6 (7.50%) Risk Management
11 6 (7.50%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.00%) JavaScript
2 3 (3.75%) Python
2 3 (3.75%) SQL
3 2 (2.50%) Java
3 2 (2.50%) PL/SQL
3 2 (2.50%) Shell Script
3 2 (2.50%) VBScript
Qualifications
1 12 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 8 (10.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 8 (10.00%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.00%) A+ Certification
4 3 (3.75%) PMI Certification
4 3 (3.75%) PMP
5 2 (2.50%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.25%) Azure Certification
6 1 (1.25%) CCNP
6 1 (1.25%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.25%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.75%) SLA
2 6 (7.50%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.75%) PMO
4 2 (2.50%) GRC
4 2 (2.50%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 2 (2.50%) NIST
5 1 (1.25%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.25%) GDPR
5 1 (1.25%) NCSC
5 1 (1.25%) QA
5 1 (1.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 12 (15.00%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.25%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (13.75%) SCCM
2 3 (3.75%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (2.50%) CASB
3 2 (2.50%) Cisco CUCM
3 2 (2.50%) Cisco UCCX
3 2 (2.50%) Netcool
4 1 (1.25%) Cisco Prime
Vendors
1 27 (33.75%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.75%) Lotus
3 8 (10.00%) Citrix
4 2 (2.50%) Avaya
4 2 (2.50%) Blue Prism
4 2 (2.50%) Cisco
4 2 (2.50%) CrowdStrike
4 2 (2.50%) Dynatrace
4 2 (2.50%) IBM
4 2 (2.50%) Zscaler
5 1 (1.25%) Autodesk
5 1 (1.25%) Dell
5 1 (1.25%) Workday