ServiceNow Contract Job Trends in Sheffield

ServiceNow
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Sheffield 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 17 December 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
17 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 32 12
Rank change year-on-year -34 -20 +33
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 22 10 47
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 3.06% 3.21% 12.08%
As % of the Vendors category 5.95% 5.88% 26.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 5 29
10th Percentile £404 £301 £400
25th Percentile £475 £358 £540
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £366 £704
Median % change year-on-year +43.44% -48.01% +22.43%
75th Percentile £598 £450 £720
90th Percentile £641 £533 -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £538 £366 £702
% change year-on-year +46.86% -47.86% +22.09%

All Vendors
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 370 170 180
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 51.53% 54.49% 46.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 255 103 110
10th Percentile £314 £220 £387
25th Percentile £404 £362 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £487 £520 £556
Median % change year-on-year -6.35% -6.39% +5.81%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £625
90th Percentile £650 £700 £720
South Yorkshire median daily rate £487 £520 £500
% change year-on-year -6.35% +4.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 2
10th Percentile - £12.79 £18.65
25th Percentile - £14.35 £18.88
Median hourly rate £15.00 £18.10 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.10% -7.21% +70.53%
75th Percentile - £20.38 £19.88
90th Percentile - £21.05 £19.95
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £18.10 £19.50
% change year-on-year -17.10% -7.21% +90.43%

ServiceNow
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing ServiceNow relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

ServiceNow job vacancy trend in Sheffield

ServiceNow
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing ServiceNow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing ServiceNow

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Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ServiceNow in Sheffield over the 6 months to 17 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ServiceNow in Sheffield

ServiceNow
Hourly Rate Trend in Sheffield

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing ServiceNow.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Sheffield citing ServiceNow

ServiceNow
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield 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:

Cloud Services
1 9 (40.91%) AWS
1 9 (40.91%) Azure
1 9 (40.91%) GCP
2 6 (27.27%) SaaS
3 1 (4.55%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (4.55%) AWS KMS
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub
3 1 (4.55%) GitHub Actions
3 1 (4.55%) Tricentis Tosca
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) DNS
2 1 (4.55%) DHCP
2 1 (4.55%) Firewall
2 1 (4.55%) Internet
2 1 (4.55%) TCP/IP
2 1 (4.55%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (22.73%) MySQL
1 5 (22.73%) SQL Server
2 1 (4.55%) MongoDB
2 1 (4.55%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 16 (72.73%) JIRA
2 9 (40.91%) Jenkins
3 8 (36.36%) GitLab
3 8 (36.36%) Selenium
4 7 (31.82%) Cucumber
4 7 (31.82%) REST Assured
5 6 (27.27%) Postman
6 5 (22.73%) TestRail
7 1 (4.55%) CircleCI
7 1 (4.55%) Git
7 1 (4.55%) JUnit
7 1 (4.55%) Maven
7 1 (4.55%) SoapUI
7 1 (4.55%) WebDriver
7 1 (4.55%) Zephyr
General
1 12 (54.55%) Finance
2 11 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 7 (31.82%) Social Skills
4 4 (18.18%) Banking
5 1 (4.55%) Documentation Skills
5 1 (4.55%) Financial Institution
5 1 (4.55%) Law
5 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 7 (31.82%) Incident Manager
2 6 (27.27%) Lead
3 5 (22.73%) Test Automation Engineer
3 5 (22.73%) Test Engineer
4 3 (13.64%) Automation Test Lead
4 3 (13.64%) Major Incident Manager
4 3 (13.64%) Test Leader
5 2 (9.09%) Lead Test Engineer
5 2 (9.09%) Splunk Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Support
6 1 (4.55%) Infrastructure Support Engineer
6 1 (4.55%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 8 (36.36%) LDAP
1 8 (36.36%) OpenID
1 8 (36.36%) REST
1 8 (36.36%) SailPoint
2 5 (22.73%) .NET
3 1 (4.55%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (4.55%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Linux
1 1 (4.55%) Unix
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (54.55%) Problem-Solving
2 11 (50.00%) ITSM
3 8 (36.36%) API Testing
3 8 (36.36%) CI/CD
3 8 (36.36%) Incident Management
3 8 (36.36%) Mentoring
3 8 (36.36%) Test Automation
4 7 (31.82%) Backlog Management
4 7 (31.82%) Decision-Making
4 7 (31.82%) Manual Testing
4 7 (31.82%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 6 (27.27%) Data Ingestion
5 6 (27.27%) DevOps
5 6 (27.27%) ETL
5 6 (27.27%) GitOps
5 6 (27.27%) Identity Access Management
5 6 (27.27%) Incident Response
5 6 (27.27%) Observability
5 6 (27.27%) Scenario Testing
6 5 (22.73%) Operational Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 10 (45.45%) Python
2 9 (40.91%) Java
3 8 (36.36%) SQL
4 5 (22.73%) JavaScript
4 5 (22.73%) PHP
4 5 (22.73%) Shell Script
5 4 (18.18%) Perl
6 1 (4.55%) Bash
6 1 (4.55%) Go
6 1 (4.55%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (4.55%) ISTQB
1 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (31.82%) GDPR
1 7 (31.82%) Sarbanes-Oxley
2 5 (22.73%) QA
3 1 (4.55%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (4.55%) Active Directory Lightweight Directory Services
1 1 (4.55%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (4.55%) Ansible
1 1 (4.55%) Grafana
1 1 (4.55%) Kubernetes
1 1 (4.55%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (27.27%) Splunk
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle