Product Ownership Contracts in the North West

Product Ownership
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies advertised in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Ownership over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 83 84 67
Rank change year-on-year +1 -17 +2
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 54 73 134
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.95% 2.27% 3.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.35% 6.72% 9.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 48 94
10th Percentile £385 £439 £403
25th Percentile £472 £519 £436
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% +9.52% +17.71%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £606
90th Percentile £850 £650 £675
England median daily rate £571 £570 £550
% change year-on-year +0.22% +3.64% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
Median hourly rate £46.18 - £46.72
England median hourly rate £57.44 £85.00 £62.15
% change year-on-year -32.42% +36.77% +15.09%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 735 1,087 1,412
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 26.60% 33.83% 34.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 489 727 1,077
10th Percentile £295 £298 £213
25th Percentile £413 £400 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +23.70%
75th Percentile £584 £625 £588
90th Percentile £672 £675 £673
England median daily rate £550 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -4.35% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 74 48 63
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.60 £11.36
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.17 £12.27
Median hourly rate £25.25 £27.84 £18.50
Median % change year-on-year -9.30% +50.49% +3.35%
75th Percentile £42.19 £65.00 £39.14
90th Percentile £57.50 £70.00 £48.19
England median hourly rate £30.00 £22.50 £26.98
% change year-on-year +33.33% -16.60% +1.24%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the North West

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in the North West

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in the North West over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in the North West

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in the North West

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 27 April 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
Manchester -3 40 £550 -4.35% 36
Cheshire +9 9 £475 +5.56% 6
Lancashire +5 3 £539 -13.80% 4
Product Ownership
England

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 4 (7.41%) Confluence
2 2 (3.70%) WordPress
Business Applications
1 1 (1.85%) Dynamics AX
1 1 (1.85%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 18 (33.33%) Azure
2 6 (11.11%) AWS
2 6 (11.11%) Azure Stack
2 6 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (7.41%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.56%) GCP
5 2 (3.70%) Azure Functions
5 2 (3.70%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (3.70%) GitHub
5 2 (3.70%) Google Analytics
5 2 (3.70%) Serverless
6 1 (1.85%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.85%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.85%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 9 (16.67%) Firewall
1 9 (16.67%) VPN
2 2 (3.70%) DNS
2 2 (3.70%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (12.96%) Data Warehouse
2 6 (11.11%) Snowflake Schema
3 4 (7.41%) Data Lake
4 2 (3.70%) MongoDB
4 2 (3.70%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.85%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 4 (7.41%) Git
1 4 (7.41%) JIRA
2 3 (5.56%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (5.56%) TeamCity
3 2 (3.70%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.70%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.70%) Gatling
3 2 (3.70%) GitLab
3 2 (3.70%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.70%) JMeter
3 2 (3.70%) Selenium
3 2 (3.70%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (16.67%) Public Sector
2 7 (12.96%) Legal
3 5 (9.26%) Social Skills
4 4 (7.41%) Banking
4 4 (7.41%) Finance
4 4 (7.41%) Pharmaceutical
5 3 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (3.70%) Retail
7 1 (1.85%) French Language
7 1 (1.85%) Manufacturing
7 1 (1.85%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (27.78%) Architect
2 13 (24.07%) Lead
3 10 (18.52%) Technical Leader
4 9 (16.67%) Lead Architect
4 9 (16.67%) Product Owner
4 9 (16.67%) Senior
4 9 (16.67%) Technical Architect
5 6 (11.11%) Data Architect
6 5 (9.26%) DevOps Engineer
7 4 (7.41%) Designer
7 4 (7.41%) Developer
7 4 (7.41%) Product Manager
7 4 (7.41%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (7.41%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) C# Developer
8 3 (5.56%) Data Manager
8 3 (5.56%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.56%) Test Engineer
9 2 (3.70%) Data Protection Officer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (16.67%) Node.js
2 8 (14.81%) REST
3 6 (11.11%) JSON
3 6 (11.11%) XML
4 3 (5.56%) .NET
4 3 (5.56%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.70%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.70%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (3.70%) Entity Framework
5 2 (3.70%) Kafka
5 2 (3.70%) SAML
5 2 (3.70%) Web Services
6 1 (1.85%) React
Miscellaneous
1 9 (16.67%) Public Cloud
1 9 (16.67%) Reference Data
2 6 (11.11%) Data Structures
3 5 (9.26%) Enterprise Software
3 5 (9.26%) Mobile App
4 4 (7.41%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (5.56%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.85%) IoT
6 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.85%) NHS
Operating Systems
1 9 (16.67%) Android
1 9 (16.67%) Apple iOS
1 9 (16.67%) Windows
1 9 (16.67%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.70%) Mac OS X
2 2 (3.70%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (64.81%) Agile
2 19 (35.19%) CI/CD
2 19 (35.19%) Roadmaps
3 17 (31.48%) DevOps
4 15 (27.78%) Microservices
5 11 (20.37%) Strategic Roadmap
6 10 (18.52%) Data Modelling
6 10 (18.52%) Design Patterns
7 9 (16.67%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
7 9 (16.67%) Data Protection
7 9 (16.67%) Mobile Device Management
7 9 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
7 9 (16.67%) Product Strategy
7 9 (16.67%) Risk Management
7 9 (16.67%) Security Architecture
7 9 (16.67%) Threat Intelligence
7 9 (16.67%) Zero Trust
8 8 (14.81%) Analytics
8 8 (14.81%) Technical Leadership
8 8 (14.81%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (12.96%) PowerShell
1 7 (12.96%) SQL
2 5 (9.26%) C#
2 5 (9.26%) Go
2 5 (9.26%) Python
3 3 (5.56%) Java
4 2 (3.70%) Groovy
4 2 (3.70%) Scala
4 2 (3.70%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.85%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.85%) X++
Qualifications
1 10 (18.52%) SC Cleared
1 10 (18.52%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.70%) Degree
3 1 (1.85%) Chartered Engineer
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 3 (5.56%) QA
3 2 (3.70%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.70%) NIST
3 2 (3.70%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (3.70%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.56%) Terraform
2 2 (3.70%) Ansible
2 2 (3.70%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (12.96%) Google
2 5 (9.26%) Apple
3 3 (5.56%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.85%) ServiceNow