ServiceNow Architect Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

ServiceNow Architect
UK > UK excluding London

The median ServiceNow Architect daily rate in the UK excluding London is £625, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 368 345 374
Rank change year-on-year -23 +29 +132
Contract jobs requiring a ServiceNow Architect 12 20 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.079% 0.11% 0.22%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.088% 0.12% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 13 33
10th Percentile £498 £470 £513
25th Percentile £500 - £530
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £500 £600
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% -16.67% -17.24%
75th Percentile £700 £650 £676
90th Percentile £745 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £615 £563 £650
% change year-on-year +9.33% -13.46% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 13,712 16,275 20,396
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.83% 92.25% 94.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,420 9,402 13,621
10th Percentile £213 £220 £225
25th Percentile £361 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £598 £600
90th Percentile £663 £676 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,267 1,386 1,212
10th Percentile £13.50 £14.41 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.28 £19.52 £17.78
Median hourly rate £25.11 £43.90 £43.75
Median % change year-on-year -42.80% +0.34% +98.86%
75th Percentile £51.65 £66.25 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.06 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%

ServiceNow Architect
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured ServiceNow Architect in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for ServiceNow Architect in the UK excluding London

ServiceNow Architect
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for ServiceNow Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for ServiceNow Architect job vacancies in the UK excluding London

ServiceNow Architect
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ServiceNow Architect in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ServiceNow Architect in the UK excluding London

ServiceNow Architect
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ServiceNow Architect within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 22 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
North of England -20 7 £663 +8.16% 2
North West -5 5 £675 -10.00% 2
South East +19 3 £500 -23.08% 5
South West +24 2 £615 +17.14%
Yorkshire -17 2 £663 +39.47%
ServiceNow Architect
UK

ServiceNow Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 22 September 2025, ServiceNow Architect contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring ServiceNow Architect in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
2 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
3 5 (41.67%) ITSM
4 4 (33.33%) Service Management
4 4 (33.33%) REST
4 4 (33.33%) Data Centre
5 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
5 3 (25.00%) Public Cloud
5 3 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
5 3 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
5 3 (25.00%) IT Asset Management
5 3 (25.00%) CMDB
6 2 (16.67%) Scrum
6 2 (16.67%) Agile
6 2 (16.67%) SaaS
6 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
6 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
6 2 (16.67%) SOAP
6 2 (16.67%) Web Services
6 2 (16.67%) ITIL
6 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
6 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
6 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (16.67%) Cost Reduction
6 2 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
6 2 (16.67%) API Integration
6 2 (16.67%) Case Management
6 2 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme

ServiceNow Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) SaaS
2 1 (8.33%) Power Automate
2 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (8.33%) PowerApps
2 1 (8.33%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (8.33%) HTTP
General
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Telecoms
3 1 (8.33%) Legal
3 1 (8.33%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) REST
2 2 (16.67%) SOAP
2 2 (16.67%) Web Services
3 1 (8.33%) Ajax
3 1 (8.33%) CSS
3 1 (8.33%) HTML
3 1 (8.33%) Middleware
3 1 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (33.33%) Data Centre
2 3 (25.00%) CMDB
2 3 (25.00%) Public Cloud
3 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (41.67%) ITSM
2 4 (33.33%) Service Management
3 3 (25.00%) Integration Patterns
3 3 (25.00%) IT Asset Management
3 3 (25.00%) Platform Engineering
3 3 (25.00%) Portfolio Management
4 2 (16.67%) Agile
4 2 (16.67%) API Integration
4 2 (16.67%) Case Management
4 2 (16.67%) Cost Reduction
4 2 (16.67%) Data Modelling
4 2 (16.67%) Design Patterns
4 2 (16.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (16.67%) ITIL
4 2 (16.67%) Risk Management
4 2 (16.67%) Scrum
4 2 (16.67%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (8.33%) Enterprise Architecture
5 1 (8.33%) Incident Management
5 1 (8.33%) Network Design
Qualifications
1 6 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 12 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 2 (16.67%) Zscaler
3 1 (8.33%) Microsoft