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 April 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 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 30 86
Rank change year-on-year -22 +56 +28
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 62 102 47
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.59% 6.20% 2.09%
As % of the Vendors category 9.25% 14.17% 5.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 63 29
10th Percentile £176 £210 £136
25th Percentile £366 £368 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £282
Median % change year-on-year - +59.57% -37.33%
75th Percentile £576 £554 £519
90th Percentile £600 £599 £550
UK median daily rate £500 £497 £510
% change year-on-year +0.60% -2.55% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 13 9
10th Percentile £17.66 - £15.82
25th Percentile £18.39 £17.30 -
Median hourly rate £19.68 £24.18 £16.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.61% +51.13% -
75th Percentile £20.89 £24.50 £16.71
90th Percentile £21.55 £24.66 £17.02
UK median hourly rate £22.00 £18.82 £16.30
% change year-on-year +16.90% +15.46% -9.80%

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 670 720 896
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.77% 43.77% 39.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 403 444 550
10th Percentile £261 £227 £179
25th Percentile £402 £363 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £456 £469
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -2.67% -0.58%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £585
90th Percentile £684 £621 £676
UK median daily rate £500 £513 £517
% change year-on-year -2.44% -0.87% -1.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 35 52
10th Percentile £13.97 £16.90 £13.43
25th Percentile £16.05 £19.13 £16.00
Median hourly rate £17.36 £23.00 £17.61
Median % change year-on-year -24.52% +30.61% -69.37%
75th Percentile £55.00 £24.58 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £28.22 £60.68
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £27.97 £22.50
% change year-on-year +7.28% +24.29% -47.06%

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 April 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 April 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 -8 40 £465 -7.00% 4
Edinburgh -13 12 £525 +10.53% 2
Perth and Kinross - 8 £178 -
Dundee - 1 - - 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 3 (4.84%) Confluence
1 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Exchange
2 1 (1.61%) Apache
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.61%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.61%) CICS
2 1 (1.61%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (8.06%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (6.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (4.84%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.45%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 11 (17.74%) Microsoft 365
2 9 (14.52%) Azure
3 7 (11.29%) AWS
4 5 (8.06%) OneDrive
5 4 (6.45%) Amazon CloudWatch
5 4 (6.45%) Amazon EventBridge
5 4 (6.45%) Amazon Kinesis
5 4 (6.45%) AWS CloudFormation
5 4 (6.45%) AWS Lambda
5 4 (6.45%) Serverless
5 4 (6.45%) Virtual Private Cloud
6 3 (4.84%) Power Platform
6 3 (4.84%) Snowflake
7 2 (3.23%) SaaS
8 1 (1.61%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 8 (12.90%) DHCP
1 8 (12.90%) DNS
1 8 (12.90%) TCP/IP
1 8 (12.90%) VPN
1 8 (12.90%) Wi-Fi
2 5 (8.06%) VoIP
3 4 (6.45%) Firewall
3 4 (6.45%) Internet
3 4 (6.45%) WAN
4 3 (4.84%) SD-WAN
5 2 (3.23%) SSL
6 1 (1.61%) Intranet
6 1 (1.61%) LAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (11.29%) Relational Database
2 4 (6.45%) DynamoDB
3 3 (4.84%) Amazon Athena
3 3 (4.84%) Big Data
3 3 (4.84%) Power BI
4 2 (3.23%) Tableau
5 1 (1.61%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.61%) Hadoop
Development Applications
1 14 (22.58%) JIRA
2 1 (1.61%) Git
General
1 34 (54.84%) Finance
2 25 (40.32%) Social Skills
3 15 (24.19%) Banking
4 6 (9.68%) Legal
5 5 (8.06%) Analytical Skills
6 4 (6.45%) Investment Banking
6 4 (6.45%) Public Sector
7 3 (4.84%) Financial Institution
8 2 (3.23%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.61%) Influencing Skills
9 1 (1.61%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (24.19%) Analyst
2 13 (20.97%) Project Manager
3 10 (16.13%) IT Support
4 9 (14.52%) Business Analyst
5 7 (11.29%) Data Analyst
6 5 (8.06%) IT Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) IT Support Engineer
6 5 (8.06%) Support Engineer
7 4 (6.45%) Architect
7 4 (6.45%) Data Business Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Lead
7 4 (6.45%) Service Analyst
7 4 (6.45%) Technical Manager
7 4 (6.45%) Technical Project Manager
8 3 (4.84%) Data Engineer
8 3 (4.84%) IT Manager
8 3 (4.84%) Project Analyst
8 3 (4.84%) Service Manager
8 3 (4.84%) Team Leader
9 2 (3.23%) IT Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.45%) Node.js
2 3 (4.84%) REST
3 2 (3.23%) ADO
3 2 (3.23%) SOAP
4 1 (1.61%) React
4 1 (1.61%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 19 (30.65%) CMDB
2 6 (9.68%) Self-Motivation
3 5 (8.06%) Virtual Team
4 4 (6.45%) Data Centre
4 4 (6.45%) IVR
4 4 (6.45%) NHS
5 2 (3.23%) Cloud Security Posture
5 2 (3.23%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (3.23%) PMI
5 2 (3.23%) Product Ownership
5 2 (3.23%) Security Posture
6 1 (1.61%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.61%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 13 (20.97%) Windows
2 5 (8.06%) Mac OS
2 5 (8.06%) Windows Server
3 1 (1.61%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (50.00%) ITSM
2 26 (41.94%) Agile
3 24 (38.71%) ITIL
4 16 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
5 13 (20.97%) Continuous Improvement
6 12 (19.35%) Migration
6 12 (19.35%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 11 (17.74%) Scrum
7 11 (17.74%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (16.13%) Asset Management
8 10 (16.13%) Project Management
9 9 (14.52%) DevOps
10 8 (12.90%) CI/CD
10 8 (12.90%) Data Architecture
10 8 (12.90%) Performance Monitoring
10 8 (12.90%) Project Delivery
11 7 (11.29%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (11.29%) Data Lineage
11 7 (11.29%) Decision-Making
11 7 (11.29%) IT Asset Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (12.90%) Python
1 8 (12.90%) SQL
2 1 (1.61%) Java
2 1 (1.61%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (11.29%) PMI Certification
2 5 (8.06%) PMP
3 4 (6.45%) ITIL Certification
3 4 (6.45%) Security Cleared
4 3 (4.84%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 3 (4.84%) PRINCE2 Certification
4 3 (4.84%) SC Cleared
5 2 (3.23%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (3.23%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (9.68%) PMO
2 4 (6.45%) Data Quality
2 4 (6.45%) GDPR
2 4 (6.45%) PCI DSS
2 4 (6.45%) SLA
3 3 (4.84%) HIPAA
3 3 (4.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.61%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (1.61%) QA
System Software
1 8 (12.90%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (6.45%) Terraform
2 2 (3.23%) CASB
Vendors
1 15 (24.19%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.68%) Cisco
3 4 (6.45%) Salesforce
4 3 (4.84%) Avaya
4 3 (4.84%) Genesys
4 3 (4.84%) IBM
4 3 (4.84%) Pega
5 2 (3.23%) Autodesk
5 2 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
5 2 (3.23%) Zscaler
6 1 (1.61%) Databricks
6 1 (1.61%) SAP
6 1 (1.61%) WorldPay