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 in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 97 77 59
Rank change year-on-year -20 -18 0
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 89 144 287
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 1.84% 2.65% 4.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.17% 8.80% 11.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 58 100 212
10th Percentile £374 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £501 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +4.76% +10.53%
75th Percentile £596 £616 £575
90th Percentile £736 £650 £624
England median daily rate £563 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £46.18 £40.59 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.77% - -
England median hourly rate £59.45 £67.50 £56.13
% change year-on-year -11.93% +20.27% -6.46%

All Generic Skills
North of England

Product 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 in the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,242 1,637 2,455
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 25.63% 30.08% 34.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 732 1,088 1,868
10th Percentile £263 £275 £205
25th Percentile £400 £410 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £495 £513 £480
Median % change year-on-year -3.41% +6.77% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £606 £575
90th Percentile £674 £688 £663
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 150 81 94
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £11.40
25th Percentile £13.00 £10.63 £14.25
Median hourly rate £15.14 £16.85 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.16% -11.32% +11.76%
75th Percentile £28.23 £33.75 £26.00
90th Percentile £48.75 £65.75 £44.03
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

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 12 June 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 12 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
North West -5 52 £556 -3.26% 38
Yorkshire -21 29 £550 +1.85% 15
North East +18 12 £533 +33.13% 4
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 (7.87%) Confluence
2 2 (2.25%) WordPress
Applications
1 3 (3.37%) InVision
1 3 (3.37%) MS Visio
2 2 (2.25%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (2.25%) Adobe Illustrator
2 2 (2.25%) Photoshop
3 1 (1.12%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (3.37%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 19 (21.35%) Azure
2 6 (6.74%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (6.74%) Azure Stack
2 6 (6.74%) Microsoft Purview
3 5 (5.62%) AWS
4 3 (3.37%) Dynamics 365
4 3 (3.37%) GCP
5 2 (2.25%) Azure Functions
5 2 (2.25%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (2.25%) GitHub
5 2 (2.25%) Google Analytics
5 2 (2.25%) Serverless
6 1 (1.12%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (10.11%) Firewall
1 9 (10.11%) VPN
2 2 (2.25%) DNS
2 2 (2.25%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (6.74%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (6.74%) Snowflake Schema
2 5 (5.62%) Data Lake
3 2 (2.25%) MongoDB
3 2 (2.25%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.12%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 12 (13.48%) JIRA
2 8 (8.99%) JUnit
3 4 (4.49%) Git
4 3 (3.37%) Axure RP
4 3 (3.37%) Octopus Deploy
4 3 (3.37%) TeamCity
5 2 (2.25%) Bitbucket
5 2 (2.25%) Cucumber
5 2 (2.25%) Gatling
5 2 (2.25%) GitLab
5 2 (2.25%) Jenkins
5 2 (2.25%) JMeter
5 2 (2.25%) REST Assured
5 2 (2.25%) Selenium
5 2 (2.25%) WebDriver
General
1 17 (19.10%) Finance
1 17 (19.10%) Social Skills
2 14 (15.73%) Public Sector
3 9 (10.11%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (8.99%) Influencing Skills
5 7 (7.87%) Pharmaceutical
6 6 (6.74%) Legal
7 5 (5.62%) Retail
8 4 (4.49%) Banking
8 4 (4.49%) Marketing
9 1 (1.12%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.12%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.12%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (16.85%) Architect
2 14 (15.73%) Lead
2 14 (15.73%) Senior
3 13 (14.61%) Analyst
3 13 (14.61%) Business Analyst
4 12 (13.48%) Product Owner
5 9 (10.11%) Lead Architect
5 9 (10.11%) Technical Architect
5 9 (10.11%) Technical Leader
5 9 (10.11%) Test Engineer
6 8 (8.99%) Designer
7 6 (6.74%) Data Architect
7 6 (6.74%) Product Manager
8 5 (5.62%) Data Manager
8 5 (5.62%) DevOps Engineer
9 4 (4.49%) Delivery Manager
9 4 (4.49%) Developer
9 4 (4.49%) Senior DevOps
9 4 (4.49%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 3 (3.37%) C# Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (10.11%) Node.js
2 8 (8.99%) Gherkin
2 8 (8.99%) REST
3 6 (6.74%) JSON
3 6 (6.74%) XML
4 3 (3.37%) .NET
4 3 (3.37%) .NET Framework
4 3 (3.37%) Web Services
5 2 (2.25%) .NET Core
5 2 (2.25%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (2.25%) CSS
5 2 (2.25%) Entity Framework
5 2 (2.25%) HTML
5 2 (2.25%) Kafka
5 2 (2.25%) SAML
6 1 (1.12%) OAuth
6 1 (1.12%) OpenID
6 1 (1.12%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (12.36%) Reference Data
2 9 (10.11%) Public Cloud
3 7 (7.87%) Mobile App
4 6 (6.74%) Data Structures
5 5 (5.62%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (4.49%) Distributed Systems
7 3 (3.37%) Cloud Native
7 3 (3.37%) e-Learning
7 3 (3.37%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.12%) IoT
8 1 (1.12%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.12%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 9 (10.11%) Android
1 9 (10.11%) Apple iOS
1 9 (10.11%) Windows
1 9 (10.11%) Windows Server
2 2 (2.25%) Mac OS X
2 2 (2.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (69.66%) Agile
2 23 (25.84%) DevOps
3 22 (24.72%) Roadmaps
4 19 (21.35%) CI/CD
4 19 (21.35%) Scrum
5 18 (20.22%) Problem-Solving
6 17 (19.10%) User Stories
7 16 (17.98%) Analytics
7 16 (17.98%) Microservices
8 15 (16.85%) Data Modelling
9 14 (15.73%) Kanban
9 14 (15.73%) Test Automation
10 13 (14.61%) Product Roadmap
10 13 (14.61%) TDD
11 12 (13.48%) Stakeholder Management
11 12 (13.48%) User Experience
12 11 (12.36%) Software Testing
12 11 (12.36%) Strategic Roadmap
13 10 (11.24%) Collaborative Culture
13 10 (11.24%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (13.48%) Java
2 7 (7.87%) PowerShell
3 6 (6.74%) SQL
4 5 (5.62%) C#
4 5 (5.62%) Go
4 5 (5.62%) Python
5 2 (2.25%) Groovy
5 2 (2.25%) JavaScript
5 2 (2.25%) Scala
5 2 (2.25%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 13 (14.61%) Security Cleared
2 12 (13.48%) SC Cleared
3 6 (6.74%) Degree
4 1 (1.12%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (1.12%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (13.48%) QA
2 6 (6.74%) Data Quality
3 2 (2.25%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.25%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (2.25%) NIST
3 2 (2.25%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (2.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (3.37%) Terraform
2 2 (2.25%) Ansible
2 2 (2.25%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (7.87%) Google
2 5 (5.62%) Apple
3 3 (3.37%) Adobe
3 3 (3.37%) Atlassian
3 3 (3.37%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (1.12%) Databricks
5 1 (1.12%) Microsoft
5 1 (1.12%) ServiceNow