Product Ownership Contracts in the North of England

Product Ownership
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Ownership over the 6 months to 8 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 102 87 56
Rank change year-on-year -15 -31 +14
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 85 146 281
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.81% 2.56% 3.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.81% 8.30% 11.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 99 204
10th Percentile £361 £443 £408
25th Percentile £425 £506 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £585 £625 £575
90th Percentile £818 £650 £632
England median daily rate £555 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -1.77% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £46.18 - £46.72
England median hourly rate £57.44 £85.00 £58.75
% change year-on-year -32.42% +44.68% +4.44%

All Generic Skills
North of England

Product Ownership is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,248 1,760 2,442
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 26.59% 30.83% 34.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 761 1,189 1,828
10th Percentile £265 £288 £200
25th Percentile £400 £411 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £513 £475
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +7.89% +11.76%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £575
90th Percentile £656 £688 £650
England median daily rate £550 £573 £550
% change year-on-year -3.93% +4.09% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 82 103
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £11.36
25th Percentile £13.00 £10.63 £14.13
Median hourly rate £15.14 £16.85 £18.70
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% -9.89% +5.65%
75th Percentile £26.62 £47.98 £26.50
90th Percentile £48.75 £66.62 £43.98
England median hourly rate £32.25 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +43.43% -15.15% +1.50%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Job postings citing Product Ownership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the North of England

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in the North of England

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in the North of England

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in the North of England

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Ownership within the North of England region over the 6 months to 8 May 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
North West +5 55 £550 -4.35% 43
Yorkshire -15 24 £450 -16.67% 25
North East +24 10 £454 - 11
Product Ownership
England

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 7 (8.24%) Confluence
2 2 (2.35%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (3.53%) InVision
1 3 (3.53%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.35%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (2.35%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (2.35%) Photoshop
Business Applications
1 3 (3.53%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 20 (23.53%) Azure
2 6 (7.06%) AWS
2 6 (7.06%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (7.06%) Azure Stack
2 6 (7.06%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (3.53%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (3.53%) GCP
4 2 (2.35%) Azure Functions
4 2 (2.35%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (2.35%) GitHub
4 2 (2.35%) Google Analytics
4 2 (2.35%) Serverless
5 1 (1.18%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.59%) Firewall
1 9 (10.59%) VPN
2 2 (2.35%) DNS
2 2 (2.35%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.06%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (7.06%) Snowflake Schema
2 5 (5.88%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.35%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.35%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.18%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 10 (11.76%) JIRA
2 4 (4.71%) Git
2 4 (4.71%) JUnit
3 3 (3.53%) Axure RP
3 3 (3.53%) Octopus Deploy
3 3 (3.53%) TeamCity
4 2 (2.35%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.35%) Cucumber
4 2 (2.35%) Gatling
4 2 (2.35%) GitLab
4 2 (2.35%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.35%) JMeter
4 2 (2.35%) REST Assured
4 2 (2.35%) Selenium
4 2 (2.35%) WebDriver
General
1 18 (21.18%) Social Skills
2 13 (15.29%) Public Sector
3 12 (14.12%) Finance
4 10 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 8 (9.41%) Influencing Skills
6 7 (8.24%) Legal
6 7 (8.24%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (5.88%) Retail
8 4 (4.71%) Banking
8 4 (4.71%) Marketing
9 1 (1.18%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.18%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (17.65%) Architect
1 15 (17.65%) Lead
2 14 (16.47%) Senior
3 13 (15.29%) Analyst
3 13 (15.29%) Business Analyst
4 12 (14.12%) Product Owner
5 10 (11.76%) Technical Leader
6 9 (10.59%) Lead Architect
6 9 (10.59%) Technical Architect
7 8 (9.41%) Designer
8 6 (7.06%) Data Architect
8 6 (7.06%) Product Manager
8 6 (7.06%) Test Engineer
9 5 (5.88%) Data Manager
9 5 (5.88%) DevOps Engineer
10 4 (4.71%) Developer
10 4 (4.71%) Senior DevOps
10 4 (4.71%) Senior DevOps Engineer
11 3 (3.53%) C# Developer
11 3 (3.53%) Platform Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.59%) Node.js
2 8 (9.41%) REST
3 6 (7.06%) JSON
3 6 (7.06%) XML
4 4 (4.71%) Gherkin
5 3 (3.53%) .NET
5 3 (3.53%) .NET Framework
5 3 (3.53%) Web Services
6 2 (2.35%) .NET Core
6 2 (2.35%) ActiveMQ
6 2 (2.35%) CSS
6 2 (2.35%) Entity Framework
6 2 (2.35%) HTML
6 2 (2.35%) Kafka
6 2 (2.35%) SAML
7 1 (1.18%) OAuth
7 1 (1.18%) OpenID
7 1 (1.18%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.94%) Reference Data
2 9 (10.59%) Public Cloud
3 7 (8.24%) Mobile App
4 6 (7.06%) Data Structures
5 5 (5.88%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.71%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.53%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.53%) e-Learning
7 3 (3.53%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
8 1 (1.18%) IoT
8 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.18%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.59%) Android
1 9 (10.59%) Apple iOS
1 9 (10.59%) Windows
1 9 (10.59%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.35%) Mac OS X
2 2 (2.35%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 57 (67.06%) Agile
2 23 (27.06%) DevOps
2 23 (27.06%) Roadmaps
3 19 (22.35%) CI/CD
4 17 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
5 16 (18.82%) Microservices
6 15 (17.65%) Analytics
6 15 (17.65%) Data Modelling
7 14 (16.47%) User Stories
8 13 (15.29%) Scrum
9 12 (14.12%) Product Roadmap
9 12 (14.12%) Strategic Roadmap
9 12 (14.12%) User Experience
10 11 (12.94%) Stakeholder Management
11 10 (11.76%) Design Patterns
11 10 (11.76%) Product Strategy
11 10 (11.76%) Risk Management
11 10 (11.76%) TDD
11 10 (11.76%) Test Automation
12 9 (10.59%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 8 (9.41%) Java
2 7 (8.24%) PowerShell
3 6 (7.06%) SQL
4 5 (5.88%) C#
4 5 (5.88%) Go
4 5 (5.88%) Python
5 2 (2.35%) Groovy
5 2 (2.35%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.35%) Scala
5 2 (2.35%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 12 (14.12%) SC Cleared
1 12 (14.12%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.88%) Degree
3 1 (1.18%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (10.59%) QA
2 6 (7.06%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.35%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.35%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.35%) NIST
3 2 (2.35%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (2.35%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.53%) Terraform
2 2 (2.35%) Ansible
2 2 (2.35%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (8.24%) Google
2 5 (5.88%) Apple
3 3 (3.53%) Adobe
3 3 (3.53%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.53%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.18%) Databricks
5 1 (1.18%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.18%) ServiceNow