ServiceNow Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

ServiceNow
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands 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 30 September 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
30 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 48 48
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 +67
Contract jobs citing ServiceNow 78 65 82
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 4.25% 3.47% 3.98%
As % of the Vendors category 8.19% 7.24% 7.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 46 62
10th Percentile £249 £190 £180
25th Percentile £430 £193 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £413
Median % change year-on-year - +15.15% -8.33%
75th Percentile £528 £634 £584
90th Percentile £575 £756 £725
England median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £19.45 - -
25th Percentile £21.63 £40.50 -
Median hourly rate £26.50 £43.00 -
Median % change year-on-year -38.37% - -
75th Percentile £32.63 £45.50 -
90th Percentile £35.55 - -
England median hourly rate £18.82 £17.00 £19.00
% change year-on-year +10.71% -10.53% +22.58%

All Vendors
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for knowledge or experience of vendor products and services 952 898 1,047
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 51.82% 47.94% 50.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 623 584 663
10th Percentile £243 £213 £213
25th Percentile £386 £363 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -4.04%
75th Percentile £584 £614 £600
90th Percentile £650 £713 £688
England median daily rate £508 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -3.33% - -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 32 13 19
10th Percentile £15.18 £14.40 £17.40
25th Percentile £17.97 £15.22 £17.75
Median hourly rate £30.00 £26.13 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.83% +13.59% +35.29%
75th Percentile £35.63 £45.50 £34.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.75 £44.55
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £43.84
% change year-on-year -28.14% -20.16% +82.67%

ServiceNow
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing ServiceNow as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for ServiceNow in the West Midlands

ServiceNow
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing ServiceNow.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing ServiceNow

ServiceNow
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing ServiceNow in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for ServiceNow in the West Midlands

ServiceNow
Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing ServiceNow.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the West Midlands citing ServiceNow

ServiceNow
Hourly Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing ServiceNow in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 30 September 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for ServiceNow in the West Midlands

ServiceNow
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing ServiceNow within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 30 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
Birmingham +9 35 £475 +18.75% 6
Coventry +2 14 £500 +32.45%
Warwickshire -23 9 £525 +5.00% 1
Shropshire -17 8 £492 +320.51% 5
Wolverhampton - 5 £269 - 1
Solihull - 3 £450 -
Staffordshire +7 2 £200 - 4
ServiceNow
England

ServiceNow
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 25 (32.05%) Confluence
2 12 (15.38%) nginx
3 2 (2.56%) HCL Notes
3 2 (2.56%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.28%) Tuxedo
4 1 (1.28%) WebLogic
Applications
1 12 (15.38%) Mozilla Thunderbird
2 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 5 (6.41%) Microsoft Project
3 4 (5.13%) Microsoft Office
4 2 (2.56%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.28%) Remedy ITSM
1 1 (1.28%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 38 (48.72%) AWS
2 25 (32.05%) Amazon CloudWatch
2 25 (32.05%) Azure
3 24 (30.77%) Amazon EC2
3 24 (30.77%) Amazon ELB
3 24 (30.77%) Amazon S3
3 24 (30.77%) AWS KMS
3 24 (30.77%) Virtual Private Cloud
4 14 (17.95%) Microsoft 365
5 12 (15.38%) Amazon ECS
5 12 (15.38%) Amazon Glacier
5 12 (15.38%) Route 53
6 5 (6.41%) GCP
7 2 (2.56%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.28%) GitHub
8 1 (1.28%) GitHub Actions
8 1 (1.28%) Nutanix
8 1 (1.28%) OpenShift
8 1 (1.28%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 27 (34.62%) Firewall
2 26 (33.33%) DNS
3 24 (30.77%) SMTP
4 22 (28.21%) FTP
4 22 (28.21%) HTTP
4 22 (28.21%) SSH
5 12 (15.38%) IMAP
5 12 (15.38%) OpenLDAP
6 6 (7.69%) Cisco ISE
7 4 (5.13%) BIG-IP
7 4 (5.13%) Cisco ASA
7 4 (5.13%) WebEx
8 3 (3.85%) DHCP
8 3 (3.85%) Network Security
8 3 (3.85%) Wireless
9 2 (2.56%) BGP
9 2 (2.56%) Cisco Wireless
9 2 (2.56%) NX-OS
9 2 (2.56%) VXLAN
10 1 (1.28%) SNMP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (30.77%) Amazon RDS
2 12 (15.38%) Amazon Aurora
2 12 (15.38%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (1.28%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 33 (42.31%) JIRA
2 24 (30.77%) Git
2 24 (30.77%) Jenkins
2 24 (30.77%) Vagrant
3 1 (1.28%) GitLab
3 1 (1.28%) ScriptRunner
General
1 26 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 22 (28.21%) Public Sector
3 13 (16.67%) Finance
4 11 (14.10%) Analytical Skills
5 10 (12.82%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.13%) Documentation Skills
7 3 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.56%) Banking
8 2 (2.56%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.56%) Law
9 1 (1.28%) Advertising
9 1 (1.28%) Aerospace
9 1 (1.28%) Legal
9 1 (1.28%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.28%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 23 (29.49%) DevOps Engineer
2 19 (24.36%) AWS Engineer
2 19 (24.36%) Cloud Platform Engineer
2 19 (24.36%) Platform Engineer
3 17 (21.79%) AWS DevOps
3 17 (21.79%) AWS DevOps Engineer
4 12 (15.38%) AWS Platform Engineer
5 10 (12.82%) Analyst
5 10 (12.82%) DevOps Platform Engineer
6 7 (8.97%) Network Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) Infrastructure Engineer
7 6 (7.69%) SAP Manager
8 5 (6.41%) 2nd Line Support
8 5 (6.41%) Senior
9 4 (5.13%) Cisco Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) Cisco Network Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) IT Analyst
9 4 (5.13%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
9 4 (5.13%) SAP Engagement Manager
9 4 (5.13%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (15.38%) LDAP
2 4 (5.13%) Flash
3 1 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (1.28%) JSON
3 1 (1.28%) NETCONF
3 1 (1.28%) OpenAPI
3 1 (1.28%) OpenTelemetry
3 1 (1.28%) REST
3 1 (1.28%) SOAP
3 1 (1.28%) Spring
3 1 (1.28%) Spring Boot
3 1 (1.28%) Swagger
3 1 (1.28%) WireMock
3 1 (1.28%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 26 (33.33%) Replication
2 7 (8.97%) Onboarding
3 5 (6.41%) Data Centre
4 4 (5.13%) Linux Command Line
5 3 (3.85%) CMDB
6 2 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (2.56%) Video Conferencing
7 1 (1.28%) Driving Licence
7 1 (1.28%) Product Ownership
7 1 (1.28%) Public Cloud
7 1 (1.28%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 29 (37.18%) Linux
1 29 (37.18%) Windows
2 25 (32.05%) VMS
3 24 (30.77%) Amazon Linux
4 10 (12.82%) Ubuntu
5 3 (3.85%) Mac OS
6 1 (1.28%) Windows 10
6 1 (1.28%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 32 (41.03%) DevOps
2 30 (38.46%) Change Management
3 25 (32.05%) Cloud Security
3 25 (32.05%) Configuration Management
4 24 (30.77%) Platform Engineering
5 22 (28.21%) Patch Management
6 21 (26.92%) Agile
7 19 (24.36%) CI/CD
7 19 (24.36%) ITIL
8 14 (17.95%) Migration
8 14 (17.95%) Problem-Solving
8 14 (17.95%) Service Management
9 13 (16.67%) Performance Tuning
10 12 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
10 12 (15.38%) ITSM
11 8 (10.26%) Project Management
11 8 (10.26%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (10.26%) Waterfall
12 6 (7.69%) Machine Learning
12 6 (7.69%) Root Cause Analysis
Programming Languages
1 32 (41.03%) PowerShell
2 30 (38.46%) Python
3 25 (32.05%) Groovy
4 17 (21.79%) Perl
5 13 (16.67%) Java
5 13 (16.67%) SQL
6 6 (7.69%) Shell Script
7 2 (2.56%) Bash
7 2 (2.56%) Lisp
8 1 (1.28%) C
8 1 (1.28%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.28%) Korn
8 1 (1.28%) PL/SQL
8 1 (1.28%) Scala
Qualifications
1 32 (41.03%) SC Cleared
1 32 (41.03%) Security Cleared
2 12 (15.38%) AWS Certification
3 11 (14.10%) Azure Certification
3 11 (14.10%) Degree
4 3 (3.85%) Cisco Certification
5 2 (2.56%) CCNP
5 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.28%) A+ Certification
6 1 (1.28%) AWS Certified SysOps Administrator
6 1 (1.28%) CCNA
6 1 (1.28%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.28%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (1.28%) GRC
2 1 (1.28%) PCI DSS
2 1 (1.28%) SLA
System Software
1 24 (30.77%) Docker
2 22 (28.21%) DFS Replication
3 19 (24.36%) Active Directory
4 12 (15.38%) Dovecot
4 12 (15.38%) Postfix
4 12 (15.38%) Squid
5 5 (6.41%) VMware Infrastructure
6 4 (5.13%) GPFS
6 4 (5.13%) NFS
6 4 (5.13%) VMware ESXi
6 4 (5.13%) vSphere
7 2 (2.56%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 25 (32.05%) Grafana
1 25 (32.05%) Prometheus
1 25 (32.05%) Terraform
2 12 (15.38%) Nessus
3 10 (12.82%) Proxmox
4 5 (6.41%) Ansible
5 4 (5.13%) vRealize
6 2 (2.56%) FortiGate
6 2 (2.56%) Jamf Pro
6 2 (2.56%) Microsoft Intune
7 1 (1.28%) Kubernetes
7 1 (1.28%) RSA Archer
7 1 (1.28%) SCCM
Vendors
1 14 (17.95%) Microsoft
2 12 (15.38%) Jaspersoft
3 11 (14.10%) Cisco
4 6 (7.69%) SAP
4 6 (7.69%) Splunk
5 5 (6.41%) Oracle
5 5 (6.41%) Sage
5 5 (6.41%) VMware
6 4 (5.13%) CheckPoint
6 4 (5.13%) Citrix
6 4 (5.13%) F5
6 4 (5.13%) IBM
6 4 (5.13%) Palo Alto
6 4 (5.13%) SolarWinds
7 3 (3.85%) Remedy
7 3 (3.85%) Workday
8 2 (2.56%) Ekahau
8 2 (2.56%) Logitech
8 2 (2.56%) Lotus
8 2 (2.56%) OpenAI