Service Owner Contracts in the UK excluding London

Service Owner
UK > UK excluding London

The median Service Owner daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 June 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
2 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 395 439 498
Rank change year-on-year +44 +59 -67
Contract jobs requiring a Service Owner 3 8 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.014% 0.035% 0.029%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.016% 0.037% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 6
10th Percentile - £454 £368
25th Percentile - £493 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £455
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +25.27% -11.48%
75th Percentile £600 - £502
90th Percentile £630 £585 £571
UK median daily rate £600 £600 £555
% change year-on-year - +8.11% +5.11%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 19,265 21,604 29,212
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.41% 94.27% 95.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,031 20,565
10th Percentile £213 £225 £206
25th Percentile £363 £390 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +9.45%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,432 1,082 1,393
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.01 £14.88
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £45.20
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.50 £61.19
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +14.34%

Service Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Service Owner in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Service Owner in the UK excluding London

Service Owner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Service Owner in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Service Owner in the UK excluding London

Service Owner
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 June 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
Scotland - 3 £550 -
Service Owner
UK

Service Owner Skill Set
Top 23 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 June 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 across the UK excluding London region featuring Service Owner in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) ADO
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Power BI
2 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
2 2 (66.67%) Product Backlog
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
3 1 (33.33%) Business Case
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Confluence
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
3 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared

Service Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (66.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (66.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (66.67%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
2 2 (66.67%) DevOps
2 2 (66.67%) Product Backlog
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Business Case
3 1 (33.33%) ITIL
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Atlassian