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 15 September 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
15 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 70 111
Rank change year-on-year +23 +41 +36
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 79 46 40
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.00% 2.47% 1.59%
As % of the Vendors category 10.88% 6.26% 4.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 15 23
10th Percentile £168 £152 £334
25th Percentile £364 £259 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +15.00% -11.11% +14.94%
75th Percentile £530 £538 £534
90th Percentile £555 £642 £545
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.05% +0.05% -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 9 5
10th Percentile £16.84 £12.48 £14.98
25th Percentile £17.19 £15.10 -
Median hourly rate £17.45 £21.59 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -19.20% +21.84% +34.65%
75th Percentile £24.58 £24.18 -
90th Percentile £27.99 - £18.45
UK median hourly rate £17.87 £18.13 £19.75
% change year-on-year -1.43% -8.20% +27.42%

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 726 735 990
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 45.95% 39.41% 39.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 394 451 628
10th Percentile £227 £165 £211
25th Percentile £369 £314 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £458 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.67% -5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £560 £550
90th Percentile £622 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -0.94%
Number of hourly rates quoted 71 39 29
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.48 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.07 £12.50
Median hourly rate £19.23 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +1.21% +7.22% -
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £58.75
90th Percentile £30.00 £46.23 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £30.21 £43.38
% change year-on-year -16.74% -30.36% +85.44%

ServiceNow
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing ServiceNow as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for ServiceNow 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 15 September 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 +6 39 £500 +25.00% 7
Edinburgh +9 23 £112 -77.03% 11
East Lothian - 10 £168 - 1
West Lothian -2 3 - - 1
South Ayrshire - 1 £230 -
ServiceNow
UK

ServiceNow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 4 (5.06%) Apache
1 4 (5.06%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (5.06%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (6.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 3 (3.80%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (5.06%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.06%) Power Platform
1 4 (5.06%) Snowflake
2 3 (3.80%) IaaS
3 2 (2.53%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.27%) PaaS
4 1 (1.27%) SaaS
4 1 (1.27%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.59%) Remote Desktop
2 3 (3.80%) BGP
2 3 (3.80%) Firewall
2 3 (3.80%) LAN
2 3 (3.80%) OSPF
2 3 (3.80%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.80%) VPN
2 3 (3.80%) WAN
2 3 (3.80%) Wireless
3 2 (2.53%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (11.39%) Relational Database
2 4 (5.06%) Big Data
2 4 (5.06%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (5.06%) Hadoop
2 4 (5.06%) Power BI
3 1 (1.27%) DB2
3 1 (1.27%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.27%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 8 (10.13%) JIRA
2 4 (5.06%) Git
General
1 33 (41.77%) Social Skills
2 27 (34.18%) Finance
3 15 (18.99%) Banking
4 8 (10.13%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.59%) Investment Banking
6 2 (2.53%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.53%) Retail Banking
7 1 (1.27%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (1.27%) Legal
7 1 (1.27%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 14 (17.72%) Analyst
2 10 (12.66%) Data Analyst
3 8 (10.13%) Data Centre Engineer
4 7 (8.86%) Incident Manager
5 6 (7.59%) Desktop Support
6 5 (6.33%) 2nd Line Support
7 4 (5.06%) Architect
7 4 (5.06%) Data Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Hardware Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Python Data Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Python Engineer
7 4 (5.06%) Senior
8 3 (3.80%) Business Manager
8 3 (3.80%) Developer
8 3 (3.80%) Installations Engineer
8 3 (3.80%) Network Engineer
9 2 (2.53%) Administrator
9 2 (2.53%) Consultant
9 2 (2.53%) Data Architect
9 2 (2.53%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.33%) REST
2 4 (5.06%) RESTful
3 1 (1.27%) J2EE
3 1 (1.27%) JSON
3 1 (1.27%) Kafka
3 1 (1.27%) Middleware
3 1 (1.27%) SOAP
3 1 (1.27%) Spring
3 1 (1.27%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.27%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 23 (29.11%) CMDB
2 16 (20.25%) Data Centre
3 7 (8.86%) Driving Licence
3 7 (8.86%) Self-Motivation
4 5 (6.33%) Virtual Team
5 4 (5.06%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.53%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.53%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.53%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.53%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.27%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.27%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.27%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.33%) Linux
2 3 (3.80%) Unix
2 3 (3.80%) Windows
3 1 (1.27%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (30.38%) Break/Fix
2 23 (29.11%) Customer Service
2 23 (29.11%) ITSM
2 23 (29.11%) Service Management
3 20 (25.32%) ITIL
4 18 (22.78%) Problem-Solving
5 17 (21.52%) Agile
6 13 (16.46%) Data Modelling
6 13 (16.46%) Visualisation
7 10 (12.66%) Configuration Management
7 10 (12.66%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (12.66%) Time Management
8 9 (11.39%) Analytics
8 9 (11.39%) Data Architecture
9 8 (10.13%) Problem Management
10 7 (8.86%) Data Visualisation
10 7 (8.86%) Incident Management
10 7 (8.86%) Programme Management
11 6 (7.59%) Change Control
11 6 (7.59%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.92%) SQL
2 8 (10.13%) Python
3 1 (1.27%) Java
3 1 (1.27%) PL/SQL
3 1 (1.27%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 10 (12.66%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (6.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 4 (5.06%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.80%) CCNP
4 3 (3.80%) Cisco Certification
4 3 (3.80%) Degree
5 2 (2.53%) DBS Check
5 2 (2.53%) SC Cleared
6 1 (1.27%) CEH
6 1 (1.27%) CISSP
6 1 (1.27%) GCIH
6 1 (1.27%) OSCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.59%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.33%) QA
3 2 (2.53%) Disclosure Scotland
3 2 (2.53%) PMO
4 1 (1.27%) SLA
Systems Management
1 3 (3.80%) FortiGate
2 2 (2.53%) SCCM
3 1 (1.27%) BMC PATROL
Vendors
1 6 (7.59%) Citrix
1 6 (7.59%) Dell
2 5 (6.33%) Databricks
3 4 (5.06%) Cisco
3 4 (5.06%) Remedy
4 3 (3.80%) BMC
4 3 (3.80%) Juniper
4 3 (3.80%) Palo Alto
4 3 (3.80%) Snow
5 2 (2.53%) Microsoft
5 2 (2.53%) SAP
6 1 (1.27%) Adobe
6 1 (1.27%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.27%) DocuSign
6 1 (1.27%) HP
6 1 (1.27%) NetScout
6 1 (1.27%) Oracle
6 1 (1.27%) Qualys
6 1 (1.27%) Symantec