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 3 October 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
3 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 61 58 67
Rank change year-on-year -3 +9 +41
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 84 61 49
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.52% 3.81% 2.61%
As % of the Vendors category 8.20% 8.47% 6.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 59 23 14
10th Percentile - £251 £149
25th Percentile £150 £369 £195
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £381
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +31.15% -15.28%
75th Percentile £501 £525 £503
90th Percentile £680 £566 £618
UK median daily rate £515 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +8.42% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 29 10
10th Percentile £17.83 £16.84 £12.49
25th Percentile £18.79 £17.08 £13.71
Median hourly rate £19.33 £17.45 £20.94
Median % change year-on-year +10.81% -16.68% +18.16%
75th Percentile £20.94 £18.05 £23.89
90th Percentile £23.82 £26.12 £24.18
UK median hourly rate £25.88 £17.67 £18.57
% change year-on-year +46.41% -4.81% -2.29%

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 1,024 720 736
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 42.97% 44.92% 39.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 572 390 443
10th Percentile £232 £249 £163
25th Percentile £363 £399 £311
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £464 £431
Median % change year-on-year -2.96% +7.60% -9.26%
75th Percentile £550 £538 £541
90th Percentile £643 £625 £687
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 52 69 37
10th Percentile £13.46 £16.02 £12.46
25th Percentile £13.97 £17.30 £15.10
Median hourly rate £15.23 £18.87 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -19.32% -3.68% +10.55%
75th Percentile £18.88 £25.15 £24.18
90th Percentile £25.11 £32.00 £48.42
UK median hourly rate £25.50 £25.15 £32.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% -21.41% -25.58%

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 3 October 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 3 October 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 +7 38 £213 +89.73% 7
Glasgow -23 19 £402 -19.60% 49
Fife - 11 £150 -
Highlands - 8 £700 - 1
Perth and Kinross - 2 £175 - 1
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 (13.10%) HCL Notes
2 3 (3.57%) Confluence
3 2 (2.38%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 13 (15.48%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.19%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.38%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (22.62%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (13.10%) Azure
3 7 (8.33%) AWS
4 4 (4.76%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (4.76%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.57%) GCP
5 3 (3.57%) GitHub
6 2 (2.38%) AWS CloudFormation
6 2 (2.38%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.19%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (1.19%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.19%) Google Gemini
7 1 (1.19%) IaaS
7 1 (1.19%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.19%) PaaS
7 1 (1.19%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 16 (19.05%) VPN
2 9 (10.71%) LAN
3 7 (8.33%) TCP/IP
3 7 (8.33%) WAN
4 3 (3.57%) ISDN
4 3 (3.57%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (3.57%) Unified Communications
5 2 (2.38%) Cisco IPT
5 2 (2.38%) Firewall
5 2 (2.38%) H.323
5 2 (2.38%) IP Telephony
5 2 (2.38%) SSL
6 1 (1.19%) MGCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.38%) Power BI
2 1 (1.19%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 10 (11.90%) JIRA
2 2 (2.38%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.19%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.19%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (1.19%) Git
3 1 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 46 (54.76%) Social Skills
2 22 (26.19%) Analytical Skills
3 17 (20.24%) Finance
4 5 (5.95%) Banking
5 3 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.19%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.19%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Investment Banking
6 1 (1.19%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.19%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (27.38%) Support Engineer
2 20 (23.81%) IT Engineer
2 20 (23.81%) IT Support
2 20 (23.81%) IT Support Engineer
3 18 (21.43%) Analyst
4 13 (15.48%) Service Analyst
5 9 (10.71%) Business Analyst
6 8 (9.52%) Developer
6 8 (9.52%) Service Delivery Analyst
7 7 (8.33%) Desktop Support
8 6 (7.14%) Architect
8 6 (7.14%) Consultant
8 6 (7.14%) Project Manager
8 6 (7.14%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
9 5 (5.95%) Deskside Support
9 5 (5.95%) Technical Engineer
9 5 (5.95%) Technical Support
9 5 (5.95%) Technical Support Engineer
10 4 (4.76%) ServiceNow Architect
10 4 (4.76%) ServiceNow Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.57%) AngularJS
1 3 (3.57%) HTML
1 3 (3.57%) REST
1 3 (3.57%) SOAP
1 3 (3.57%) XMPP
2 2 (2.38%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.19%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.10%) Blackberry
2 9 (10.71%) Data Centre
3 7 (8.33%) CMDB
4 6 (7.14%) Onboarding
5 3 (3.57%) Chip and PIN
6 2 (2.38%) Learning Management System
6 2 (2.38%) PKI
6 2 (2.38%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.38%) Smartphone
6 2 (2.38%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.19%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Storage
7 1 (1.19%) Linux Command Line
7 1 (1.19%) Mainframe
7 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
7 1 (1.19%) Operational Technology
7 1 (1.19%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (39.29%) Windows
2 20 (23.81%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.57%) Linux
4 2 (2.38%) Unix
4 2 (2.38%) zOS
5 1 (1.19%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (61.90%) ITIL
2 34 (40.48%) ITSM
3 28 (33.33%) Customer Service
4 26 (30.95%) Service Delivery
5 21 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (23.81%) Problem-Solving
6 20 (23.81%) Service Management
7 19 (22.62%) Stakeholder Management
8 12 (14.29%) Agile
9 9 (10.71%) Project Delivery
10 8 (9.52%) Change Management
10 8 (9.52%) Requirements Gathering
10 8 (9.52%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 7 (8.33%) CI/CD
11 7 (8.33%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (8.33%) Workshop Facilitation
12 6 (7.14%) Risk Management
13 5 (5.95%) CAD
13 5 (5.95%) Mentoring
13 5 (5.95%) Migration
Programming Languages
1 4 (4.76%) JavaScript
1 4 (4.76%) Python
1 4 (4.76%) VBScript
2 3 (3.57%) SQL
3 2 (2.38%) Java
3 2 (2.38%) PL/SQL
3 2 (2.38%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 17 (20.24%) Security Cleared
2 13 (15.48%) SC Cleared
3 9 (10.71%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 7 (8.33%) A+ Certification
5 4 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.38%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.38%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.38%) PMP
7 1 (1.19%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.19%) CCNP
7 1 (1.19%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 5 (5.95%) SLA
3 3 (3.57%) GRC
3 3 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.57%) NIST
4 2 (2.38%) NCSC
5 1 (1.19%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.19%) GDPR
5 1 (1.19%) PMO
5 1 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (21.43%) Active Directory
2 5 (5.95%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (13.10%) SCCM
2 5 (5.95%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.57%) Cisco CUCM
3 3 (3.57%) Cisco UCCX
4 2 (2.38%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (2.38%) Netcool
5 1 (1.19%) Avamar
5 1 (1.19%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 29 (34.52%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.10%) Lotus
3 10 (11.90%) Citrix
4 4 (4.76%) Blue Prism
5 3 (3.57%) Avaya
5 3 (3.57%) Cisco
5 3 (3.57%) Dell
6 2 (2.38%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.38%) IBM
6 2 (2.38%) Workday