Product Ownership Contracts

Product Ownership
UK

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies. 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 89 69 60
Rank change year-on-year -20 -9 +15
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 1,041 1,934 3,560
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 2.40% 3.23% 4.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.92% 9.71% 12.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 701 1,361 2,421
10th Percentile £400 £415 £413
25th Percentile £463 £488 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.44%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £738 £750 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £515
% change year-on-year - +6.80% +14.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 27 31
10th Percentile £51.25 £43.14 £25.00
25th Percentile £57.33 £61.50 £41.00
Median hourly rate £57.44 £80.00 £49.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.20% +63.27% -7.11%
75th Percentile £85.00 £85.00 £64.06
90th Percentile - £88.00 £85.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £68.72 £85.00 £47.86
% change year-on-year -19.15% +77.60% +87.69%

All Generic Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 13,143 19,914 29,327
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 30.35% 33.30% 33.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,422 13,704 20,462
10th Percentile £263 £308 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £656 £680 £653
90th Percentile £788 £800 £756
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 903 647 727
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.11
25th Percentile £15.17 £10.63 £16.88
Median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%
75th Percentile £60.00 £64.75 £50.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £66.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Product Ownership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the UK

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in the UK

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in the UK

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in the UK

Product Ownership
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Product Ownership over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Ownership in the UK

Product Ownership
Top 17 Contract Locations

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 UK 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
England -30 861 £571 +0.22% 510
London -8 528 £575 -4.17% 210
UK excluding London -32 414 £550 - 322
Work from Home -30 337 £545 -4.39% 272
South East -36 123 £650 +18.18% 78
North of England -22 83 £525 -4.55% 79
Scotland +14 82 £475 -5.00% 19
North West +1 54 £550 -4.35% 48
Midlands -8 44 £550 +21.88% 53
South West -42 44 £550 -2.65% 54
West Midlands +7 34 £556 +5.95% 42
Wales +31 22 £513 +19.19% 17
Yorkshire -33 22 £450 -16.67% 19
East of England -27 20 £428 -18.57% 29
North East +24 11 £490 -18.42% 12
East Midlands +2 8 £500 +17.65% 11
Isle of Man - 2 - -

Product Ownership
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 51 (4.90%) Confluence
2 17 (1.63%) CMS
3 8 (0.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 7 (0.67%) SharePoint
5 4 (0.38%) Oracle Workflow
6 3 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
7 2 (0.19%) Apache Airflow
7 2 (0.19%) Apache Solr
7 2 (0.19%) OpenStack
7 2 (0.19%) WordPress
8 1 (0.096%) Apache
8 1 (0.096%) ArcGIS
8 1 (0.096%) Camunda
8 1 (0.096%) CICS
8 1 (0.096%) Cloud Foundry
8 1 (0.096%) Tornado
Applications
1 29 (2.79%) Microsoft Excel
2 26 (2.50%) Microsoft Office
3 22 (2.11%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 14 (1.34%) Sketch
5 11 (1.06%) MS Visio
6 8 (0.77%) Trello
7 6 (0.58%) InVision
8 5 (0.48%) Chatbot
9 4 (0.38%) Adobe XD
9 4 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
10 2 (0.19%) Adobe Creative Suite
10 2 (0.19%) Adobe Illustrator
10 2 (0.19%) Photoshop
11 1 (0.096%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (1.73%) Dynamics CRM
2 11 (1.06%) Aladdin
3 10 (0.96%) Salesforce CRM
4 7 (0.67%) SAP S/4HANA
5 6 (0.58%) Loan IQ
6 4 (0.38%) SAP HR
6 4 (0.38%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.29%) Endur
7 3 (0.29%) SAP QM
7 3 (0.29%) Shopify
8 2 (0.19%) Magento
8 2 (0.19%) Softmar
8 2 (0.19%) VisionPLUS
9 1 (0.096%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.096%) Dynamics AX
9 1 (0.096%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.096%) SAP APO
9 1 (0.096%) SAP IBP
9 1 (0.096%) SAP MM
9 1 (0.096%) SAP Travel Management
Cloud Services
1 241 (23.15%) Azure
2 119 (11.43%) Azure DevOps
3 90 (8.65%) AWS
4 50 (4.80%) Power Platform
5 44 (4.23%) Entra ID
6 41 (3.94%) GitHub
7 39 (3.75%) Serverless
8 30 (2.88%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 29 (2.79%) Figma
10 28 (2.69%) Azure Data Factory
10 28 (2.69%) SaaS
11 27 (2.59%) Azure Monitor
11 27 (2.59%) Dynamics 365
12 26 (2.50%) Azure Service Bus
13 23 (2.21%) Azure Functions
14 18 (1.73%) GCP
15 15 (1.44%) PaaS
16 14 (1.34%) Microsoft Purview
17 12 (1.15%) Azure Stack
18 11 (1.06%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 22 (2.11%) Firewall
2 14 (1.34%) VPN
3 5 (0.48%) Broadband
3 5 (0.48%) LAN
3 5 (0.48%) WAN
3 5 (0.48%) Wireless
4 4 (0.38%) DMZ
4 4 (0.38%) DNS
5 3 (0.29%) FTP
5 3 (0.29%) Wi-Fi
6 2 (0.19%) 4G
6 2 (0.19%) 5G
6 2 (0.19%) DHCP
6 2 (0.19%) HTTP
6 2 (0.19%) Network Security
6 2 (0.19%) Unified Communications
7 1 (0.096%) 3G
7 1 (0.096%) DSL
7 1 (0.096%) LTE
7 1 (0.096%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 66 (6.34%) SQL Server
2 46 (4.42%) Power BI
3 33 (3.17%) NoSQL
4 26 (2.50%) Data Warehouse
5 20 (1.92%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.34%) Data Lake
6 14 (1.34%) PostgreSQL
7 12 (1.15%) MySQL
8 11 (1.06%) Metadata
8 11 (1.06%) MongoDB
8 11 (1.06%) Snowflake Schema
9 10 (0.96%) Azure SQL Database
10 8 (0.77%) Big Data
11 7 (0.67%) Redis
12 5 (0.48%) DynamoDB
12 5 (0.48%) Oracle Database
12 5 (0.48%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.48%) Tableau
13 4 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.38%) Siebel EIM
Development Applications
1 99 (9.51%) JIRA
2 41 (3.94%) Git
3 31 (2.98%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.31%) Selenium
5 23 (2.21%) Postman
6 19 (1.83%) GitLab
7 16 (1.54%) Cypress.io
8 13 (1.25%) TeamCity
9 11 (1.06%) JMeter
9 11 (1.06%) SpecFlow
10 9 (0.86%) Bitbucket
11 8 (0.77%) WebDriver
12 6 (0.58%) Artifactory
12 6 (0.58%) CircleCI
12 6 (0.58%) Visual Studio
12 6 (0.58%) Visual Studio Code
13 5 (0.48%) Axure RP
13 5 (0.48%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.48%) Gradle
13 5 (0.48%) JUnit
General
1 324 (31.12%) Social Skills
2 231 (22.19%) Finance
3 128 (12.30%) Analytical Skills
4 113 (10.85%) Public Sector
5 91 (8.74%) Banking
6 55 (5.28%) Marketing
7 41 (3.94%) Presentation Skills
8 40 (3.84%) Investment Banking
9 35 (3.36%) Front Office
10 34 (3.27%) Back Office
11 32 (3.07%) Retail
12 31 (2.98%) Influencing Skills
13 28 (2.69%) Telecoms
14 26 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 26 (2.50%) Manufacturing
15 23 (2.21%) Pharmaceutical
16 17 (1.63%) Retail Banking
17 16 (1.54%) Billing
17 16 (1.54%) Legal
18 11 (1.06%) Corporate Banking
Job Titles
1 238 (22.86%) Product Owner
2 172 (16.52%) Analyst
3 150 (14.41%) Developer
4 143 (13.74%) Senior
5 140 (13.45%) Business Analyst
6 112 (10.76%) Architect
7 79 (7.59%) Lead
8 57 (5.48%) Product Manager
9 47 (4.51%) Scrum Master
10 45 (4.32%) Senior Developer
11 41 (3.94%) Designer
12 35 (3.36%) Product Analyst
12 35 (3.36%) Product Business Analyst
13 34 (3.27%) Project Manager
13 34 (3.27%) Solutions Architect
14 33 (3.17%) Azure Developer
15 29 (2.79%) Data Business Analyst
16 28 (2.69%) Digital Product Owner
16 28 (2.69%) Senior Product Owner
16 28 (2.69%) Technical Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 80 (7.68%) React
2 79 (7.59%) .NET
3 59 (5.67%) XML
4 45 (4.32%) HTML
5 42 (4.03%) CSS
6 35 (3.36%) REST
7 32 (3.07%) Node.js
8 27 (2.59%) .NET Core
9 26 (2.50%) JSON
10 24 (2.31%) .NET Framework
10 24 (2.31%) AngularJS
11 16 (1.54%) ASP.NET
11 16 (1.54%) RESTful
12 15 (1.44%) Vue
13 14 (1.34%) jQuery
13 14 (1.34%) Lightning Web Components
14 13 (1.25%) ADO
14 13 (1.25%) Laravel
15 11 (1.06%) Web Services
16 9 (0.86%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 37 (3.55%) Derivative
2 34 (3.27%) Fixed Income
2 34 (3.27%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 30 (2.88%) Mobile App
4 27 (2.59%) Equities
4 27 (2.59%) Hedge funds
5 19 (1.83%) Data Protection Act
6 18 (1.73%) Data Structures
6 18 (1.73%) Legacy Applications
7 16 (1.54%) Management Information System
7 16 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
8 15 (1.44%) Enterprise Software
8 15 (1.44%) Public Cloud
9 14 (1.34%) Reference Data
10 13 (1.25%) Onboarding
10 13 (1.25%) Wiki
11 12 (1.15%) Cloud Native
12 11 (1.06%) Reinsurance
13 10 (0.96%) Greenfield Project
14 9 (0.86%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 41 (3.94%) Android
1 41 (3.94%) Apple iOS
2 38 (3.65%) Linux
3 30 (2.88%) Windows
4 21 (2.02%) Unix
5 15 (1.44%) Windows Server
6 2 (0.19%) Mac OS X
6 2 (0.19%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 646 (62.06%) Agile
2 275 (26.42%) Scrum
3 231 (22.19%) DevOps
4 220 (21.13%) Roadmaps
5 184 (17.68%) Problem-Solving
6 177 (17.00%) User Stories
7 138 (13.26%) CI/CD
8 123 (11.82%) User Experience
9 121 (11.62%) Product Backlog
10 109 (10.47%) Continuous Improvement
11 104 (9.99%) Stakeholder Management
12 101 (9.70%) Analytics
13 89 (8.55%) Product Roadmap
13 89 (8.55%) Test Automation
14 88 (8.45%) Product Management
15 86 (8.26%) Project Management
16 80 (7.68%) Microservices
17 79 (7.59%) Change Management
18 77 (7.40%) Acceptance Criteria
19 70 (6.72%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 127 (12.20%) SQL
2 108 (10.37%) Python
3 73 (7.01%) C#
4 69 (6.63%) Java
5 66 (6.34%) JavaScript
6 47 (4.51%) PowerShell
7 39 (3.75%) TypeScript
8 28 (2.69%) Bicep
9 13 (1.25%) Apex Code
10 11 (1.06%) PHP
11 9 (0.86%) C
12 8 (0.77%) Go
12 8 (0.77%) Groovy
13 7 (0.67%) Kotlin
14 6 (0.58%) C++
14 6 (0.58%) Shell Script
14 6 (0.58%) SOQL
15 3 (0.29%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.19%) ABAP
16 2 (0.19%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 105 (10.09%) Security Cleared
2 82 (7.88%) Degree
3 65 (6.24%) SC Cleared
4 33 (3.17%) DV Cleared
5 10 (0.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (0.77%) CSPO
7 7 (0.67%) Master's Degree
8 4 (0.38%) APMP
8 4 (0.38%) AWS Certification
8 4 (0.38%) BPSS Clearance
8 4 (0.38%) CBAP
8 4 (0.38%) MBA
8 4 (0.38%) Numerate Degree
8 4 (0.38%) PMP
8 4 (0.38%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.29%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.19%) CISA
10 2 (0.19%) CISSP
10 2 (0.19%) ISEB
10 2 (0.19%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 102 (9.80%) QA
2 30 (2.88%) Accessibility
3 24 (2.31%) Data Quality
4 16 (1.54%) GDPR
4 16 (1.54%) PMO
5 11 (1.06%) WCAG
6 9 (0.86%) Disclosure Scotland
6 9 (0.86%) NIST
6 9 (0.86%) PCI DSS
7 7 (0.67%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.48%) Good Clinical Practice
8 5 (0.48%) GxP
8 5 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.38%) Software Quality Assurance
10 3 (0.29%) NCSC
11 2 (0.19%) NIST 800
11 2 (0.19%) SLA
12 1 (0.096%) ISO 9001
12 1 (0.096%) MiFID
12 1 (0.096%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 61 (5.86%) Active Directory
2 30 (2.88%) Docker
3 1 (0.096%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.096%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 32 (3.07%) Kubernetes
2 21 (2.02%) Ansible
2 21 (2.02%) Terraform
3 7 (0.67%) Puppet
3 7 (0.67%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.29%) Rancher
5 2 (0.19%) HP ALM
5 2 (0.19%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.19%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.096%) Active Directory Federation Services
6 1 (0.096%) AppManager
6 1 (0.096%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.096%) Matomo
6 1 (0.096%) OPNET
6 1 (0.096%) PowerCLI
6 1 (0.096%) SCCM
Vendors
1 149 (14.31%) Microsoft
2 53 (5.09%) Salesforce
3 34 (3.27%) SAP
4 24 (2.31%) Adobe
5 23 (2.21%) Google
6 20 (1.92%) Atlassian
7 17 (1.63%) Oracle
8 13 (1.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
9 12 (1.15%) Bloomberg
9 12 (1.15%) ServiceNow
10 11 (1.06%) BISAM
11 10 (0.96%) Splunk
12 7 (0.67%) Apple
12 7 (0.67%) Centrify
12 7 (0.67%) CyberArk
13 6 (0.58%) CA Agile Central
13 6 (0.58%) MuleSoft
14 5 (0.48%) Ariba
14 5 (0.48%) Databricks
15 4 (0.38%) Workday