Culture of Ownership Contract Job Trends

Culture of Ownership (Ownership Culture)
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Culture of Ownership in contract job vacancies. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Culture of Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 21 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 584 534 602
Rank change year-on-year -50 +68 -
Contract jobs citing Culture of Ownership 2 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.005% 0.003% 0.002%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 0.016% 0.009% 0.007%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £469 - -
25th Percentile £511 - £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £595 - £400
75th Percentile £691 - £450
90th Percentile £742 - -
UK excluding London median daily rate - - -

All Generic Skills
UK

Culture of Ownership falls under the General and Transferable Skills category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 12,826 10,854 13,798
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 34.92% 31.96% 31.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,018 6,487 9,182
10th Percentile £275 £268 £263
25th Percentile £406 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £503 £535 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.93% -2.73% -
75th Percentile £625 £662 £668
90th Percentile £738 £775 £766
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 646 338 492
10th Percentile £13.72 £17.43 £16.50
25th Percentile £17.99 £22.72 £20.44
Median hourly rate £27.00 £32.75 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.56% -22.94% +21.43%
75th Percentile £60.52 £64.94 £65.00
90th Percentile £74.26 £79.13 £76.73
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.21 £32.50 £45.21
% change year-on-year -16.28% -28.11% +53.25%

Culture of Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Culture of Ownership relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Culture of Ownership job vacancy trend in the UK

Culture of Ownership
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Culture of Ownership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Culture of Ownership

Culture of Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Culture of Ownership over the 6 months to 21 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Culture of Ownership in the UK

Culture of Ownership
Top 3 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Culture of Ownership within the UK over the 6 months to 21 December 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 -30 1 £750 - 2
Work from Home - 1 £440 - 3
London - 1 £750 - 2

Culture of Ownership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Cloudflare
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Couchbase
1 1 (50.00%) Redis
General
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Delivery Manager
1 1 (50.00%) Head of Operations
1 1 (50.00%) Head of Technical Operations
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Security
2 1 (50.00%) Cost Optimisation
2 1 (50.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) E-Commerce
2 1 (50.00%) Kanban
2 1 (50.00%) Observability
2 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Tech Ops
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) New Relic
1 1 (50.00%) Rollbar