Service Owner Contracts

Service Owner
UK

The median Service Owner daily rate in the UK is £400, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 550 555 608
Rank change year-on-year +5 +53 +214
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Service Owner 5 18 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.015% 0.046% 0.091%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.017% 0.050% 0.097%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 45
10th Percentile - £411 £520
25th Percentile - £522 £570
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -27.27% -8.33% -6.25%
75th Percentile £519 £594 £745
90th Percentile £590 £706 -
UK excluding London median daily rate - £550 £570
% change year-on-year - -3.51% -7.64%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 29,897 36,109 48,486
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.24% 92.98% 94.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,856 22,958 33,401
10th Percentile £278 £300 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -2.01%
75th Percentile £622 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,579 1,930 1,501
10th Percentile £13.68 £14.16 £14.65
25th Percentile £17.08 £19.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.63
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -1.44% +67.81%
75th Percentile £53.81 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.46 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £40.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% +7.50% +86.05%

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
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Owner job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Service Owner job vacancies in the UK

Service Owner
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Service Owner over the 6 months to 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Service Owner in the UK

Service Owner
Top 5 DemandTrendContract 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 26 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +29 2 £625 -24.24% 1
Work from Home +20 2 £400 -25.58% 5
England -10 2 £625 +13.64% 4
UK excluding London -4 1 - - 3
Scotland -7 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 26 August 2025, 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 4 (80.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) Product Management
2 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Retail
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Derivative
3 1 (20.00%) JIRA
3 1 (20.00%) Reference Data
3 1 (20.00%) Law
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Scrum
3 1 (20.00%) Fixed Income
3 1 (20.00%) Equities
3 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (20.00%) User Experience
3 1 (20.00%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (20.00%) Fintech
3 1 (20.00%) Minimum Viable Product
3 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Observability
3 1 (20.00%) Product Vision
3 1 (20.00%) Commercialisation
3 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
3 1 (20.00%) Azure
3 1 (20.00%) Confluence

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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Law
2 1 (20.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Derivative
2 1 (20.00%) Equities
2 1 (20.00%) Fixed Income
2 1 (20.00%) NHS
2 1 (20.00%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (40.00%) Agile
1 2 (40.00%) Product Management
1 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (20.00%) Analytics
2 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (20.00%) Commercialisation
2 1 (20.00%) Customer Experience
2 1 (20.00%) Fintech
2 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
2 1 (20.00%) Minimum Viable Product
2 1 (20.00%) Observability
2 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) Product Vision
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum
2 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
2 1 (20.00%) User Experience
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) Netcool
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) CA Agile Central
1 1 (20.00%) SolarWinds
1 1 (20.00%) Splunk