Service Owner Contracts

Service Owner
UK

The median Service Owner daily rate in the UK is £799 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 May 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 583 664 829
Rank change year-on-year +81 +165 -157
Contract jobs requiring a Service Owner 8 54 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.019% 0.091% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.020% 0.096% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 50 15
10th Percentile £694 £520 £411
25th Percentile £760 £564 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £799 £600 £525
Median % change year-on-year +33.17% +14.29% -1.32%
75th Percentile - £745 £575
90th Percentile - - £577
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £570 £425
% change year-on-year +14.04% +34.12% -17.32%

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 40,021 55,966 84,699
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,056 39,104 59,482
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,666 1,571 2,084
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.30 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%
75th Percentile £61.29 £65.75 £49.19
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.71
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%

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
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 4 May 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 +62 6 £799 +33.17% 4
London +60 5 £799 +12.22% 3
Work from Home +96 2 - - 2
UK excluding London +59 1 £650 +14.04% 1
Scotland - 1 £650 -

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

For the 6 months to 4 May 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 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
3 4 (50.00%) Service Delivery
3 4 (50.00%) Agile
4 3 (37.50%) Windows
4 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (37.50%) Business Case
4 3 (37.50%) Windows 10
5 2 (25.00%) DevOps
5 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (25.00%) ITIL
5 2 (25.00%) Confluence
5 2 (25.00%) JIRA
5 2 (25.00%) Atlassian
6 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
6 1 (12.50%) Project Planning
6 1 (12.50%) SLA
6 1 (12.50%) Information Security
6 1 (12.50%) Azure
6 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
6 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
6 1 (12.50%) Service Design
6 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
6 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
6 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
6 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
6 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
6 1 (12.50%) Budget Management

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 (25.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (37.50%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (12.50%) Azure
2 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
2 1 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 5 (62.50%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
1 1 (12.50%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 3 (37.50%) Windows
1 3 (37.50%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (50.00%) Agile
1 4 (50.00%) Service Delivery
2 3 (37.50%) Business Case
3 2 (25.00%) DevOps
3 2 (25.00%) ITIL
3 2 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 1 (12.50%) Artificial Intelligence
4 1 (12.50%) Budget Management
4 1 (12.50%) Collaborative Working
4 1 (12.50%) Information Security
4 1 (12.50%) Project Planning
4 1 (12.50%) Service Design
4 1 (12.50%) Strategic Thinking
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (12.50%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) SLA
Systems Management
1 1 (12.50%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Atlassian