Technology Owner Contract Job Trends

Technology Owner
UK

The median Technology Owner daily rate in the UK is £545, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 22 September 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
22 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 538 561 648
Rank change year-on-year +23 +87 +196
Contract jobs requiring a Technology Owner 2 1 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% 0.003% 0.004%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% 0.003% 0.004%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 2
10th Percentile £473 - £393
25th Percentile £496 - £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 - £475
Median % change year-on-year - - -20.83%
75th Percentile £596 - £519
90th Percentile £621 - £538
UK excluding London median daily rate £465 - -

All Contract 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.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 29,559 35,319 46,870
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.02% 92.93% 94.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,644 21,679 32,085
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,577 1,630 1,509
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.29 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%
75th Percentile £51.80 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.79 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.11 £43.90 £43.75
% change year-on-year -42.80% +0.34% +98.86%

Technology Owner
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technology Owner in the UK

Technology Owner
Daily Rate Trend

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

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

Technology Owner
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technology Owner over the 6 months to 22 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technology Owner in the UK

Technology Owner
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technology Owner within the UK over the 6 months to 22 September 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 +34 2 £545 - 1
London +26 1 £625 -
North West - 1 £465 - 1
UK excluding London - 1 £465 - 2
North of England - 1 £465 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 22 September 2025, Technology 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 Technology Owner in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) User Stories
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) Java
2 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
2 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (50.00%) Front Office
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
2 1 (50.00%) Games
2 1 (50.00%) Banking
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) Document Management
2 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
2 1 (50.00%) MiFID
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (50.00%) Pega
2 1 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) FATCA
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) KYC
2 1 (50.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR

Technology 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 (50.00%) Appian
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Front Office
1 1 (50.00%) Games
1 1 (50.00%) Investment Banking
1 1 (50.00%) Legal
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) Reference Data
2 1 (50.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Anti-Money Laundering
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (50.00%) Client Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) Coaching
2 1 (50.00%) Data Governance
2 1 (50.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Document Management
2 1 (50.00%) Due Diligence
2 1 (50.00%) Epics
2 1 (50.00%) KYC
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (50.00%) Refactoring
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Java
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) FATCA
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) MiFID
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Pega
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce