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 9 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
9 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 67 64 65
Rank change year-on-year -3 +1 +40
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 79 57 51
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.34% 3.56% 2.73%
As % of the Vendors category 7.87% 7.96% 6.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 22 16
10th Percentile - £240 £149
25th Percentile £150 £366 £272
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £363 £500 £381
Median % change year-on-year -27.50% +31.15% -15.28%
75th Percentile £501 £525 £476
90th Percentile £683 £571 £595
UK median daily rate £513 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +7.89% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 27 10
10th Percentile - £16.84 £12.49
25th Percentile - £16.96 £13.71
Median hourly rate £19.33 £17.45 £20.94
Median % change year-on-year +10.81% -16.68% +18.16%
75th Percentile £22.54 £18.05 £23.89
90th Percentile £24.47 £27.09 £24.18
UK median hourly rate £25.88 £17.81 £19.64
% change year-on-year +45.28% -9.33% +0.73%

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 1,004 716 731
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 42.47% 44.72% 39.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 557 391 437
10th Percentile £231 £250 £167
25th Percentile £363 £381 £313
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £454 £429
Median % change year-on-year -0.88% +5.83% -9.68%
75th Percentile £540 £538 £538
90th Percentile £639 £625 £685
UK median daily rate £513 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 65 36
10th Percentile £13.47 £16.02 £12.45
25th Percentile £13.97 £17.30 £14.73
Median hourly rate £15.45 £19.23 £19.59
Median % change year-on-year -19.66% -1.84% +10.55%
75th Percentile £19.25 £25.15 £24.18
90th Percentile £33.15 £36.00 £39.27
UK median hourly rate £24.19 £25.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year -3.24% -23.08% -24.86%

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 9 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 9 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 +11 38 £213 +89.73% 3
Glasgow -29 15 £389 -22.30% 43
Fife - 11 £150 -
Highlands - 8 £700 -
Perth and Kinross - 2 £175 -
Perthshire - 1 £450 -
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 (13.92%) HCL Notes
2 3 (3.80%) Confluence
3 2 (2.53%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 12 (15.19%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 2 (2.53%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 19 (24.05%) Microsoft 365
2 11 (13.92%) Azure
3 7 (8.86%) AWS
4 4 (5.06%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (5.06%) Entra ID
5 3 (3.80%) GCP
5 3 (3.80%) GitHub
6 2 (2.53%) AWS CloudFormation
7 1 (1.27%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (1.27%) GitHub Copilot
7 1 (1.27%) Google Gemini
7 1 (1.27%) IaaS
7 1 (1.27%) OneDrive
7 1 (1.27%) PaaS
7 1 (1.27%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 16 (20.25%) VPN
2 9 (11.39%) LAN
3 7 (8.86%) TCP/IP
3 7 (8.86%) WAN
4 3 (3.80%) ISDN
4 3 (3.80%) Remote Desktop
4 3 (3.80%) Unified Communications
5 2 (2.53%) Cisco IPT
5 2 (2.53%) Firewall
5 2 (2.53%) H.323
5 2 (2.53%) IP Telephony
5 2 (2.53%) SSL
6 1 (1.27%) MGCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.27%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (12.66%) JIRA
2 2 (2.53%) Bitbucket
3 1 (1.27%) Claude Code
3 1 (1.27%) Gemini Tracker
3 1 (1.27%) Git
3 1 (1.27%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 44 (55.70%) Social Skills
2 21 (26.58%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (18.99%) Finance
4 4 (5.06%) Banking
5 3 (3.80%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Aerospace
6 1 (1.27%) Financial Institution
6 1 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (1.27%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 23 (29.11%) Support Engineer
2 20 (25.32%) IT Engineer
2 20 (25.32%) IT Support
2 20 (25.32%) IT Support Engineer
3 16 (20.25%) Analyst
4 13 (16.46%) Service Analyst
5 8 (10.13%) Developer
5 8 (10.13%) Service Delivery Analyst
6 7 (8.86%) Desktop Support
7 6 (7.59%) Architect
7 6 (7.59%) Business Analyst
7 6 (7.59%) Consultant
7 6 (7.59%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
8 5 (6.33%) Deskside Support
8 5 (6.33%) Technical Engineer
8 5 (6.33%) Technical Support
8 5 (6.33%) Technical Support Engineer
9 4 (5.06%) ServiceNow Architect
9 4 (5.06%) ServiceNow Developer
10 3 (3.80%) Senior
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.80%) AngularJS
1 3 (3.80%) HTML
1 3 (3.80%) REST
1 3 (3.80%) SOAP
1 3 (3.80%) XMPP
2 2 (2.53%) SailPoint
3 1 (1.27%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 11 (13.92%) Blackberry
2 9 (11.39%) Data Centre
3 6 (7.59%) CMDB
3 6 (7.59%) Onboarding
4 3 (3.80%) Chip and PIN
5 2 (2.53%) Learning Management System
5 2 (2.53%) PKI
5 2 (2.53%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.53%) Smartphone
5 2 (2.53%) Video Conferencing
6 1 (1.27%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.27%) Enterprise Storage
6 1 (1.27%) Linux Command Line
6 1 (1.27%) Mainframe
6 1 (1.27%) Operational Technology
6 1 (1.27%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 33 (41.77%) Windows
2 20 (25.32%) Windows 10
3 3 (3.80%) Linux
4 2 (2.53%) Unix
4 2 (2.53%) zOS
5 1 (1.27%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (65.82%) ITIL
2 33 (41.77%) ITSM
3 28 (35.44%) Customer Service
4 25 (31.65%) Service Delivery
5 21 (26.58%) Continuous Improvement
6 20 (25.32%) Service Management
7 19 (24.05%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (24.05%) Stakeholder Management
8 10 (12.66%) Agile
9 8 (10.13%) Change Management
9 8 (10.13%) Project Delivery
9 8 (10.13%) Requirements Gathering
9 8 (10.13%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 7 (8.86%) CI/CD
10 7 (8.86%) Cybersecurity
10 7 (8.86%) Workshop Facilitation
11 5 (6.33%) CAD
11 5 (6.33%) Mentoring
11 5 (6.33%) Migration
11 5 (6.33%) Risk Management
Programming Languages
1 4 (5.06%) JavaScript
1 4 (5.06%) Python
1 4 (5.06%) VBScript
2 2 (2.53%) Java
2 2 (2.53%) PL/SQL
2 2 (2.53%) Shell Script
2 2 (2.53%) SQL
Qualifications
1 16 (20.25%) Security Cleared
2 13 (16.46%) SC Cleared
3 9 (11.39%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 7 (8.86%) A+ Certification
5 4 (5.06%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.53%) ITIL Certification
6 2 (2.53%) PMI Certification
6 2 (2.53%) PMP
7 1 (1.27%) Azure Certification
7 1 (1.27%) CCNP
7 1 (1.27%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (8.86%) Data Quality
2 5 (6.33%) SLA
3 3 (3.80%) GRC
3 3 (3.80%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 3 (3.80%) NIST
4 2 (2.53%) NCSC
5 1 (1.27%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (1.27%) GDPR
5 1 (1.27%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 18 (22.78%) Active Directory
2 5 (6.33%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 11 (13.92%) SCCM
2 5 (6.33%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (3.80%) Cisco CUCM
3 3 (3.80%) Cisco UCCX
4 2 (2.53%) Cisco Prime
4 2 (2.53%) Netcool
5 1 (1.27%) Avamar
5 1 (1.27%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 28 (35.44%) Microsoft
2 11 (13.92%) Lotus
3 10 (12.66%) Citrix
4 4 (5.06%) Blue Prism
5 3 (3.80%) Avaya
5 3 (3.80%) Cisco
5 3 (3.80%) Dell
6 2 (2.53%) Dynatrace
6 2 (2.53%) IBM
6 2 (2.53%) Workday