ServiceNow Developer Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

ServiceNow Developer
UK > UK excluding London

The median ServiceNow Developer daily rate in the UK excluding London is £507, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 November 2025.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 366 309 350
Rank change year-on-year -57 +41 +90
Contract jobs requiring a ServiceNow Developer 35 53 62
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.32% 0.30%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.23% 0.34% 0.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 29 47
10th Percentile £377 £400 £513
25th Percentile £437 £425 £569
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £507 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -7.91% -8.33% -4.38%
75th Percentile £568 £575 £720
90th Percentile £600 £595 -
UK median daily rate £526 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +0.10% -8.70% -1.71%

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 15,117 15,415 19,317
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.69% 92.14% 93.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,363 8,846 12,797
10th Percentile £208 £219 £213
25th Percentile £363 £375 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £490 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £588 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,468 1,059 1,254
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.00 £19.44 £18.38
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +85.42%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.75 £73.75 £77.35
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £37.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -32.03% -17.78% +55.71%

ServiceNow Developer
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'ServiceNow Developer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

ServiceNow Developer job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

ServiceNow Developer
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

ServiceNow Developer
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ServiceNow Developer in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 6 November 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ServiceNow Developer in the UK excluding London

ServiceNow Developer
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for ServiceNow Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for ServiceNow Developer job vacancies in the UK excluding London

ServiceNow Developer
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 Developer within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 6 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
East of England -2 13 £530 - 1
North of England -31 12 £450 -18.18% 11
North West -12 7 £450 +10.57% 10
Yorkshire -29 5 £375 -31.82% 1
South West +13 4 £446 -20.71%
West Midlands -22 3 £485 -19.17% 5
Midlands -29 3 £485 -19.17% 5
Scotland -5 2 - -
South East -21 2 - - 7
ServiceNow Developer
UK

ServiceNow Developer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

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

1 35 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 18 (51.43%) ITSM
3 15 (42.86%) Customer Requirements
3 15 (42.86%) Security Cleared
4 13 (37.14%) Knowledge Transfer
5 12 (34.29%) SC Cleared
6 10 (28.57%) Service Management
7 9 (25.71%) JavaScript
7 9 (25.71%) User Acceptance Testing
8 8 (22.86%) Agile
8 8 (22.86%) Product Strategy
8 8 (22.86%) System Testing
9 7 (20.00%) ITIL
10 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
10 6 (17.14%) Service Catalogue
11 5 (14.29%) DevOps
11 5 (14.29%) Time Management
12 4 (11.43%) CSS
12 4 (11.43%) HTML
12 4 (11.43%) Java
12 4 (11.43%) QA
12 4 (11.43%) REST
12 4 (11.43%) SOAP
12 4 (11.43%) Web Services
13 3 (8.57%) Computacenter
13 3 (8.57%) Computer Science
13 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
13 3 (8.57%) CTC Cleared
13 3 (8.57%) Customer Service
13 3 (8.57%) Degree

ServiceNow Developer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 1 (2.86%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.86%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 2 (5.71%) IaaS
1 2 (5.71%) SaaS
2 1 (2.86%) Azure
2 1 (2.86%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.86%) SSL
Development Applications
1 2 (5.71%) JIRA
2 1 (2.86%) Git
General
1 7 (20.00%) Social Skills
2 5 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (11.43%) Public Sector
4 1 (2.86%) Finance
4 1 (2.86%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (11.43%) CSS
1 4 (11.43%) HTML
1 4 (11.43%) REST
1 4 (11.43%) SOAP
1 4 (11.43%) Web Services
2 2 (5.71%) AngularJS
2 2 (5.71%) LDAP
3 1 (2.86%) Apache Camel
3 1 (2.86%) HTML5
3 1 (2.86%) JDBC
3 1 (2.86%) jQuery
3 1 (2.86%) JSON
3 1 (2.86%) ODBC
3 1 (2.86%) RabbitMQ
3 1 (2.86%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (17.14%) CMDB
2 2 (5.71%) Private Cloud
3 1 (2.86%) Management Information System
3 1 (2.86%) Onboarding
3 1 (2.86%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (51.43%) ITSM
2 15 (42.86%) Customer Requirements
3 13 (37.14%) Knowledge Transfer
4 10 (28.57%) Service Management
5 9 (25.71%) User Acceptance Testing
6 8 (22.86%) Agile
6 8 (22.86%) Product Strategy
6 8 (22.86%) System Testing
7 7 (20.00%) ITIL
8 6 (17.14%) Problem-Solving
8 6 (17.14%) Service Catalogue
9 5 (14.29%) DevOps
9 5 (14.29%) Time Management
10 3 (8.57%) Computer Science
10 3 (8.57%) Customer Service
10 3 (8.57%) Mentoring
10 3 (8.57%) Project Management
11 2 (5.71%) CI/CD
11 2 (5.71%) Deployment Automation
11 2 (5.71%) SIAM
Programming Languages
1 9 (25.71%) JavaScript
2 4 (11.43%) Java
3 2 (5.71%) Python
Qualifications
1 15 (42.86%) Security Cleared
2 12 (34.29%) SC Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (8.57%) CTC Cleared
3 3 (8.57%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (11.43%) QA
2 1 (2.86%) SLA
Systems Management
1 2 (5.71%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 35 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 3 (8.57%) Computacenter
3 1 (2.86%) BMC
3 1 (2.86%) HP
3 1 (2.86%) Ivanti
3 1 (2.86%) Microsoft
3 1 (2.86%) Remedy
3 1 (2.86%) Snow