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 7 November 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
7 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 58 109
Rank change year-on-year +10 +51 +23
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 63 64 33
As % of all contract jobs in Scotland 3.92% 3.53% 1.38%
As % of the Vendors category 8.86% 9.12% 3.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 29 23 21
10th Percentile £227 £150 £350
25th Percentile £375 £239 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £392 £525
Median % change year-on-year +21.33% -25.43% +16.67%
75th Percentile £525 £453 £545
90th Percentile £576 £538 £601
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 15 6
10th Percentile - £12.80 £15.44
25th Percentile £16.84 £17.37 -
Median hourly rate £17.87 £22.88 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -21.88% +29.09% +34.65%
75th Percentile £19.04 £24.18 -
90th Percentile £28.55 - £18.33
UK median hourly rate £18.41 £22.09 £20.00
% change year-on-year -16.66% +10.45% +29.03%

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 711 702 956
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 44.27% 38.76% 40.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 399 405 582
10th Percentile £207 £166 £182
25th Percentile £373 £333 £393
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £440 £498
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -11.56% +8.98%
75th Percentile £538 £538 £580
90th Percentile £625 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -1.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 36 29
10th Percentile £16.55 £13.23 £12.13
25th Percentile £17.87 £17.73 £12.50
Median hourly rate £20.80 £22.44 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -7.32% +26.62% -
75th Percentile £25.15 £24.18 £55.00
90th Percentile £40.00 £29.34 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.00 £32.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -21.88% -27.04% +75.44%

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 7 November 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 7 November 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 7 November 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 +4 32 £488 +21.88% 15
Edinburgh -1 20 £112 -78.67% 11
East Lothian +1 3 - -
West Lothian 0 3 - - 4
South Ayrshire - 1 £230 -
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 4 (6.35%) Apache
1 4 (6.35%) Apache Airflow
1 4 (6.35%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.59%) CICS
2 1 (1.59%) Confluence
2 1 (1.59%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 7 (11.11%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.17%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (6.35%) Remedy ITSM
2 1 (1.59%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 4 (6.35%) AWS
1 4 (6.35%) Power Platform
1 4 (6.35%) Snowflake
2 3 (4.76%) Azure
2 3 (4.76%) IaaS
3 2 (3.17%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (3.17%) Serverless
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon EventBridge
4 1 (1.59%) Amazon Kinesis
4 1 (1.59%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.59%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.59%) PaaS
4 1 (1.59%) SaaS
4 1 (1.59%) Virtual Private Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.63%) Relational Database
2 6 (9.52%) Big Data
3 4 (6.35%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (6.35%) Hadoop
3 4 (6.35%) Power BI
4 1 (1.59%) DB2
4 1 (1.59%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.59%) RDBMS
Development Applications
1 13 (20.63%) JIRA
2 4 (6.35%) Git
3 1 (1.59%) Hudson
General
1 24 (38.10%) Finance
1 24 (38.10%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.46%) Banking
3 8 (12.70%) Investment Banking
4 4 (6.35%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (3.17%) Public Sector
6 1 (1.59%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Legal
6 1 (1.59%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.59%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (23.81%) Analyst
2 13 (20.63%) Data Analyst
3 6 (9.52%) 2nd Line Support
4 5 (7.94%) Data Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Project Manager
5 4 (6.35%) Python Data Engineer
5 4 (6.35%) Python Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Administrator
6 3 (4.76%) Architect
6 3 (4.76%) Data Centre Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) Developer
6 3 (4.76%) Installations Engineer
6 3 (4.76%) IT Administrator
7 2 (3.17%) PMO Consultant
7 2 (3.17%) PMO Manager
7 2 (3.17%) Project Consultant
7 2 (3.17%) Release Manager
7 2 (3.17%) Service Manager
7 2 (3.17%) Software Analyst
7 2 (3.17%) Windows Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (7.94%) REST
2 4 (6.35%) RESTful
3 1 (1.59%) J2EE
3 1 (1.59%) JSON
3 1 (1.59%) Kafka
3 1 (1.59%) Middleware
3 1 (1.59%) Node.js
3 1 (1.59%) React
3 1 (1.59%) SOAP
3 1 (1.59%) Spring
3 1 (1.59%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.59%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 21 (33.33%) CMDB
2 10 (15.87%) Self-Motivation
3 8 (12.70%) Virtual Team
4 6 (9.52%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.17%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (3.17%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (3.17%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.17%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.59%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.59%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.59%) Driving Licence
6 1 (1.59%) IVR
6 1 (1.59%) NHS
6 1 (1.59%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.59%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 5 (7.94%) Linux
2 4 (6.35%) Unix
2 4 (6.35%) Windows
3 2 (3.17%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (41.27%) Service Management
2 25 (39.68%) ITSM
3 23 (36.51%) Agile
4 20 (31.75%) ITIL
5 17 (26.98%) Visualisation
6 16 (25.40%) Data Modelling
6 16 (25.40%) Problem-Solving
7 14 (22.22%) Analytics
7 14 (22.22%) Break/Fix
8 13 (20.63%) Customer Service
9 11 (17.46%) Asset Management
9 11 (17.46%) Data Architecture
9 11 (17.46%) Time Management
10 10 (15.87%) Data Visualisation
10 10 (15.87%) Programme Management
11 9 (14.29%) Change Control
11 9 (14.29%) Configuration Management
11 9 (14.29%) Data Lineage
11 9 (14.29%) Data Management
11 9 (14.29%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 15 (23.81%) SQL
2 12 (19.05%) Python
3 2 (3.17%) Java
4 1 (1.59%) PL/SQL
4 1 (1.59%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 9 (14.29%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (7.94%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 3 (4.76%) PMI Certification
3 3 (4.76%) PMP
3 3 (4.76%) PRINCE2 Certification
3 3 (4.76%) Security Cleared
4 2 (3.17%) DBS Check
4 2 (3.17%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.59%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (7.94%) Data Quality
2 3 (4.76%) QA
3 2 (3.17%) PMO
4 1 (1.59%) GDPR
4 1 (1.59%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 1 (1.59%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (3.17%) SCCM
2 1 (1.59%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (1.59%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (7.94%) Databricks
2 4 (6.35%) Remedy
3 3 (4.76%) BMC
3 3 (4.76%) IBM
3 3 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 3 (4.76%) SAP
4 2 (3.17%) Snow
5 1 (1.59%) DocuSign
5 1 (1.59%) NetScout
5 1 (1.59%) Oracle
5 1 (1.59%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.59%) WorldPay