ServiceNow Contracts 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 2 August 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
2 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 43 84 112
Rank change year-on-year +41 +28 +34
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 87 36 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 5.01% 1.89% 1.98%
As % of the Vendors category 10.57% 4.85% 4.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 20 35
10th Percentile £168 £156 £238
25th Percentile £368 £256 £328
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -11.11% +70.62%
75th Percentile £554 £491 £494
90th Percentile £575 £628 £542
UK median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 6 5
10th Percentile - £17.37 £14.98
25th Percentile £16.84 £19.98 -
Median hourly rate £17.45 £23.09 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -24.45% +30.30% -
75th Percentile £18.05 £24.18 -
90th Percentile £24.63 - £18.45
UK median hourly rate £17.87 £16.30 £20.58
% change year-on-year +9.63% -20.80% +32.77%

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 823 742 1,085
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 47.38% 38.89% 41.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 443 478 727
10th Percentile £233 £174 £199
25th Percentile £368 £281 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £470 £438 £475
Median % change year-on-year +7.37% -7.84% +5.56%
75th Percentile £538 £539 £550
90th Percentile £600 £688 £625
UK median daily rate £500 £520 £525
% change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 34 28
10th Percentile £16.02 £12.63 £12.13
25th Percentile £16.84 £15.13 £12.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £18.07 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +4.46% +1.95% -19.45%
75th Percentile £25.15 £22.48 £59.20
90th Percentile £27.95 £50.84 £65.47
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £28.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -10.18% -30.00% +81.82%

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

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing ServiceNow in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for ServiceNow in Scotland

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Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ServiceNow in Scotland over the 6 months to 2 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ServiceNow in Scotland

ServiceNow
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing ServiceNow in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for ServiceNow in Scotland

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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 2 August 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 +13 48 £514 +28.56% 8
Edinburgh +19 26 £470 +28.42% 4
East Lothian - 7 £168 -
West Lothian - 3 - -
South Ayrshire - 1 £230 -
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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 2 (2.30%) Apache
1 2 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
1 2 (2.30%) Apache Spark
2 1 (1.15%) TPMS
Applications
1 6 (6.90%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (4.60%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (4.60%) Microsoft 365
2 3 (3.45%) Azure
2 3 (3.45%) Entra ID
2 3 (3.45%) IaaS
3 2 (2.30%) Power Platform
3 2 (2.30%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.15%) AWS
4 1 (1.15%) PaaS
4 1 (1.15%) SaaS
4 1 (1.15%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.90%) Remote Desktop
1 6 (6.90%) WAN
2 3 (3.45%) 4G
2 3 (3.45%) BGP
2 3 (3.45%) Firewall
2 3 (3.45%) LAN
2 3 (3.45%) OSPF
2 3 (3.45%) SD-WAN
2 3 (3.45%) TCP/IP
2 3 (3.45%) VPN
2 3 (3.45%) Wireless
3 2 (2.30%) Network Security
4 1 (1.15%) Internet
4 1 (1.15%) Intranet
4 1 (1.15%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (3.45%) Relational Database
2 2 (2.30%) Big Data
2 2 (2.30%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (2.30%) DB2
2 2 (2.30%) Hadoop
2 2 (2.30%) Power BI
3 1 (1.15%) MongoDB
3 1 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 6 (6.90%) JIRA
2 2 (2.30%) Git
3 1 (1.15%) JUnit
General
1 36 (41.38%) Social Skills
2 27 (31.03%) Finance
3 15 (17.24%) Banking
4 12 (13.79%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (11.49%) Public Sector
6 6 (6.90%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.30%) Documentation Skills
7 2 (2.30%) Publishing
7 2 (2.30%) Retail Banking
8 1 (1.15%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.15%) Legal
8 1 (1.15%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.15%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 17 (19.54%) Developer
2 15 (17.24%) ServiceNow Developer
3 13 (14.94%) Architect
4 7 (8.05%) Data Architect
4 7 (8.05%) Senior
5 6 (6.90%) Desktop Support
5 6 (6.90%) Incident Manager
6 5 (5.75%) 2nd Line Support
6 5 (5.75%) Analyst
6 5 (5.75%) Data Centre Engineer
6 5 (5.75%) ServiceNow Architect
7 4 (4.60%) Hardware Engineer
7 4 (4.60%) Solutions Architect
8 3 (3.45%) Installations Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Java Developer
8 3 (3.45%) Lead
8 3 (3.45%) Network Engineer
8 3 (3.45%) Project Manager
8 3 (3.45%) Security Architect
9 2 (2.30%) Python Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.49%) CSS
1 10 (11.49%) HTML
1 10 (11.49%) REST
2 9 (10.34%) SOAP
3 6 (6.90%) AngularJS
3 6 (6.90%) HTML5
4 5 (5.75%) jQuery
4 5 (5.75%) JSON
4 5 (5.75%) XML
5 3 (3.45%) Web Services
6 2 (2.30%) Kafka
6 2 (2.30%) RESTful
6 2 (2.30%) Spring
7 1 (1.15%) J2EE
7 1 (1.15%) JMS
7 1 (1.15%) Middleware
7 1 (1.15%) Oracle Fusion
7 1 (1.15%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 20 (22.99%) CMDB
2 11 (12.64%) Data Centre
3 7 (8.05%) Driving Licence
3 7 (8.05%) Self-Motivation
4 4 (4.60%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (3.45%) Data Structures
5 3 (3.45%) Virtual Team
6 2 (2.30%) Management Information System
6 2 (2.30%) Private Cloud
7 1 (1.15%) Algorithms
7 1 (1.15%) Data Protection Act
7 1 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (1.15%) Equities
7 1 (1.15%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.15%) Onboarding
7 1 (1.15%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 4 (4.60%) Linux
1 4 (4.60%) Windows
2 1 (1.15%) Unix
2 1 (1.15%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 26 (29.89%) ITIL
2 25 (28.74%) ITSM
3 23 (26.44%) Service Management
4 19 (21.84%) Agile
4 19 (21.84%) Break/Fix
4 19 (21.84%) Problem-Solving
5 18 (20.69%) Customer Service
6 12 (13.79%) Continuous Improvement
7 10 (11.49%) Configuration Management
7 10 (11.49%) Time Management
8 9 (10.34%) Data Modelling
9 8 (9.20%) Problem Management
9 8 (9.20%) Stakeholder Management
10 7 (8.05%) Asset Management
10 7 (8.05%) Data Architecture
11 6 (6.90%) Change Management
11 6 (6.90%) Incident Management
11 6 (6.90%) Programme Management
11 6 (6.90%) Risk Management
11 6 (6.90%) Web Development
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.94%) JavaScript
2 4 (4.60%) Python
2 4 (4.60%) SQL
3 3 (3.45%) Java
4 2 (2.30%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.15%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (10.34%) ITIL Certification
2 5 (5.75%) CISSP
2 5 (5.75%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 5 (5.75%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.60%) CISM
4 3 (3.45%) CCNP
4 3 (3.45%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.30%) Degree
6 1 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.15%) CEH
6 1 (1.15%) GCIH
6 1 (1.15%) OSCP
6 1 (1.15%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (9.20%) GRC
2 6 (6.90%) Disclosure Scotland
3 5 (5.75%) Data Quality
3 5 (5.75%) QA
4 1 (1.15%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.15%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.45%) FortiGate
2 1 (1.15%) BMC PATROL
2 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.15%) SCCM
Vendors
1 7 (8.05%) Snow
2 6 (6.90%) Citrix
2 6 (6.90%) Dell
3 4 (4.60%) Cisco
3 4 (4.60%) Qualys
4 3 (3.45%) BT
4 3 (3.45%) Juniper
4 3 (3.45%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.45%) Palo Alto
5 2 (2.30%) Databricks
5 2 (2.30%) HP
6 1 (1.15%) Adobe
6 1 (1.15%) Ariba
6 1 (1.15%) Autodesk
6 1 (1.15%) BMC
6 1 (1.15%) DocuSign
6 1 (1.15%) NetScout
6 1 (1.15%) Remedy
6 1 (1.15%) Symantec
6 1 (1.15%) Workday