ServiceNow Architect Contracts

ServiceNow Architect
UK

The median ServiceNow Architect daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 15 May 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
15 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 452 502 602
Rank change year-on-year +50 +100 +142
Contract jobs requiring a ServiceNow Architect 70 85 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.24% 0.20% 0.18%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.26% 0.21% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 38 71
10th Percentile £450 - £513
25th Percentile £500 £463 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £650
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% -16.92% +6.56%
75th Percentile £663 £684 £763
90th Percentile £700 £788 £925
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £613
% change year-on-year +5.26% -22.45% -5.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 - -
75th Percentile £68.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 26,916 39,591 54,569
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 92.78% 94.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,509 25,748 38,105
10th Percentile £296 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,043 2,669 1,523
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.30 £19.45
Median hourly rate £28.60 £37.18 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -23.08% -17.38% +88.21%
75th Percentile £62.25 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.02 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £40.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -31.25% -5.88% +112.50%

ServiceNow Architect
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for ServiceNow Architect in the UK

ServiceNow Architect
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for ServiceNow Architect in the UK

ServiceNow Architect
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ServiceNow Architect over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ServiceNow Architect in the UK

ServiceNow Architect
Top 8 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 15 May 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
England +63 60 £513 -5.09% 25
London +51 47 £606 +1.04% 16
Work from Home +48 30 £564 +4.49% 12
UK excluding London +39 16 £500 +5.26% 9
South East +56 10 £500 - 4
Scotland +13 5 £528 +3.12%
North of England +3 1 - - 1
Yorkshire +2 1 - -

ServiceNow Architect Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 15 May 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 featuring ServiceNow Architect in the job title.

1 70 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 43 (61.43%) ITSM
3 30 (42.86%) CMDB
4 25 (35.71%) Service Management
5 21 (30.00%) HTML
6 20 (28.57%) JavaScript
6 20 (28.57%) ITIL
6 20 (28.57%) Agile
7 16 (22.86%) CSS
7 16 (22.86%) Web Services
8 15 (21.43%) Social Skills
9 14 (20.00%) IT Asset Management
9 14 (20.00%) AngularJS
9 14 (20.00%) Security Cleared
10 13 (18.57%) Service Catalogue
11 12 (17.14%) SC Cleared
11 12 (17.14%) Finance
11 12 (17.14%) Change Management
12 11 (15.71%) Mentoring
13 10 (14.29%) REST
13 10 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
13 10 (14.29%) Configuration Management
13 10 (14.29%) SOAP
13 10 (14.29%) Business Strategy
13 10 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
13 10 (14.29%) Architectural Design
14 9 (12.86%) Banking
15 8 (11.43%) Analytics
15 8 (11.43%) XML
15 8 (11.43%) RBAC

ServiceNow Architect Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 1 (1.43%) CMS
1 1 (1.43%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (2.86%) assyst
Cloud Services
1 4 (5.71%) AWS
1 4 (5.71%) Azure
1 4 (5.71%) SaaS
2 3 (4.29%) GCP
3 1 (1.43%) IaaS
3 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Purview
3 1 (1.43%) PaaS
3 1 (1.43%) Stripe
Communications & Networking
1 7 (10.00%) HTTP
2 2 (2.86%) SNMP
3 1 (1.43%) Internet
3 1 (1.43%) Intranet
Development Applications
1 1 (1.43%) JIRA
General
1 15 (21.43%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.14%) Finance
3 9 (12.86%) Banking
4 7 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (10.00%) Telecoms
5 4 (5.71%) Legal
5 4 (5.71%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.29%) Investment Banking
7 2 (2.86%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Publishing
8 1 (1.43%) Aviation
8 1 (1.43%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Electronics
8 1 (1.43%) Games
8 1 (1.43%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.43%) Marketing
8 1 (1.43%) Portuguese Language
8 1 (1.43%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (30.00%) HTML
2 16 (22.86%) CSS
2 16 (22.86%) Web Services
3 14 (20.00%) AngularJS
4 10 (14.29%) REST
4 10 (14.29%) SOAP
5 8 (11.43%) XML
6 5 (7.14%) Ajax
7 2 (2.86%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 30 (42.86%) CMDB
2 3 (4.29%) Distributed Systems
2 3 (4.29%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.86%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.86%) Legacy Systems
3 2 (2.86%) Private Cloud
3 2 (2.86%) Virtual Team
4 1 (1.43%) Cloud Native
4 1 (1.43%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.43%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.43%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.43%) Operational Technology
4 1 (1.43%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (61.43%) ITSM
2 25 (35.71%) Service Management
3 20 (28.57%) Agile
3 20 (28.57%) ITIL
4 14 (20.00%) IT Asset Management
5 13 (18.57%) Service Catalogue
6 12 (17.14%) Change Management
7 11 (15.71%) Mentoring
8 10 (14.29%) Architectural Design
8 10 (14.29%) Business Strategy
8 10 (14.29%) Configuration Management
8 10 (14.29%) Enterprise Architecture
8 10 (14.29%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (11.43%) Analytics
9 8 (11.43%) Collaborative Working
9 8 (11.43%) RBAC
10 7 (10.00%) Asset Management
10 7 (10.00%) Incident Management
10 7 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (8.57%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 20 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 6 (8.57%) Java
3 1 (1.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (20.00%) Security Cleared
2 12 (17.14%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.71%) Degree
4 2 (2.86%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.43%) CISA
5 1 (1.43%) CISM
5 1 (1.43%) CISSP
5 1 (1.43%) DV Cleared
5 1 (1.43%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) QA
2 3 (4.29%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.43%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (1.43%) GRC
3 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
3 1 (1.43%) NIST
3 1 (1.43%) NIST 800
System Software
1 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (1.43%) Nagios
1 1 (1.43%) SCCM
Vendors
1 70 (100.00%) ServiceNow
2 4 (5.71%) Microsoft
3 2 (2.86%) Google
4 1 (1.43%) Altiris
4 1 (1.43%) Avaya
4 1 (1.43%) Qualys
4 1 (1.43%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.43%) SAP
4 1 (1.43%) Snow
4 1 (1.43%) Workday
29 ServiceNow Architect jobs Nationwide