Service Owner Contract Job Trends in Reading

Service Owner
Berkshire > Reading

As of 13 July 2026, there is not enough information available from job vacancies posted within the last 6 months to determine the median Service Owner daily rate in Reading.

6 months to
13 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 93 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Service Owner 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 0.18% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.19% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
Berkshire median daily rate - - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £85.00 - -
Berkshire median hourly rate £85.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 1,053 553 1,119
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.19% 94.37% 91.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 583 349 602
10th Percentile £319 £345 £313
25th Percentile £455 £450 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £644
90th Percentile £725 £700 £688
Berkshire median daily rate £520 £502 £525
% change year-on-year +3.59% -4.38% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 20 64
10th Percentile £30.00 - £37.10
25th Percentile £69.65 £14.75 £55.04
Median hourly rate £83.58 £32.89 £61.60
Median % change year-on-year +154.10% -46.61% -6.67%
75th Percentile £88.00 £68.75 £87.46
90th Percentile £107.00 £70.00 £99.25
Berkshire median hourly rate £83.00 £55.00 £61.60
% change year-on-year +50.91% -10.71% +8.29%

Service Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Service Owner' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Service Owner job vacancy trend in Reading

Service Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 13 July 2026, Service Owner 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 Reading region featuring Service Owner in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (50.00%) BMC
2 1 (50.00%) CISSP
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) Epics
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) ITSM
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) PLM
2 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Product Vision

Service Owner Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) AWS
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Aerospace
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Hybrid Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) ITIL
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Service Management
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Architecture
2 1 (50.00%) FinOps
2 1 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) PLM
2 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
2 1 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) TOGAF
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) AWS Certification
1 1 (50.00%) Azure Certification
1 1 (50.00%) CISSP
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) TOGAF Certification
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) BMC
1 1 (50.00%) Remedy