Service Owner Contracts

Service Owner
UK

The median Service Owner daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 570 625 810
Rank change year-on-year +55 +185 -109
Contract jobs requiring a Service Owner 9 59 31
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.10% 0.035%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.022% 0.11% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 55 20
10th Percentile - £532 £412
25th Percentile £550 £570 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £600 £555
Median % change year-on-year - +8.11% +5.11%
75th Percentile £687 £745 £629
90th Percentile £754 - £740
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £570 £455
% change year-on-year -3.51% +25.27% -11.48%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,001 53,325 83,708
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,880 37,256 59,003
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,851 1,473 1,957
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.41
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.45 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Service Owner
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Service Owner in the UK

Service Owner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Owner.

Daily rate trend for Service Owner in the UK

Service Owner
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Owner over the 6 months to 2 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Service Owner in the UK

Service Owner
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Service Owner within the UK over the 6 months to 2 June 2024. 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 +43 5 £799 +33.17% 7
London +53 4 £799 +10.36% 1
UK excluding London +44 3 £550 -3.51% 5
Scotland - 3 £550 -
Work from Home +70 2 £550 -26.17% 5

Service Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 2 June 2024, Service Owner 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 Service Owner in the job title.

1 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) Azure
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
3 2 (22.22%) Product Backlog
3 2 (22.22%) Business Case
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) Power BI
3 2 (22.22%) Confluence
3 2 (22.22%) JIRA
3 2 (22.22%) Atlassian
3 2 (22.22%) ADO
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Finance
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) User Stories
4 1 (11.11%) Information Security
4 1 (11.11%) SLA
4 1 (11.11%) Windows
4 1 (11.11%) Project Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365

Service Owner 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 2 (22.22%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (33.33%) Azure
1 3 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
3 1 (11.11%) Azure AKS
3 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 2 (22.22%) Finance
1 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 3 (33.33%) DevOps
3 2 (22.22%) Business Case
3 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
3 2 (22.22%) ITIL
3 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (22.22%) Product Backlog
3 2 (22.22%) Scrum
3 2 (22.22%) Service Delivery
3 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (22.22%) User Stories
4 1 (11.11%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (11.11%) Information Security
4 1 (11.11%) Project Planning
4 1 (11.11%) Service Design
Qualifications
1 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (11.11%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Atlassian