Product Ownership Contracts with Work from Home Options

Product Ownership
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). 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 91 71 57
Rank change year-on-year -20 -14 +17
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 349 815 1,852
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.31% 3.24% 4.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.07% 10.30% 13.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 575 1,282
10th Percentile £408 £426 £408
25th Percentile £463 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 16
10th Percentile £58.38 £49.50 £25.00
25th Percentile £69.06 £61.50 £38.75
Median hourly rate £80.00 £85.00 £53.63
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +58.51% -0.69%
75th Percentile £86.25 - £63.13
90th Percentile £88.50 £86.65 £78.88
UK median hourly rate £57.44 £80.00 £49.50
% change year-on-year -28.20% +61.62% -10.00%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,324 7,910 13,903
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.64% 31.48% 31.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,949 5,561 9,934
10th Percentile £325 £363 £360
25th Percentile £431 £454 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £684 £650
90th Percentile £800 £792 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 154 221
10th Percentile £15.50 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.75 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £55.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.27% +23.60% +28.99%
75th Percentile £66.38 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £30.58 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +36.00% -18.24% +4.90%

Product Ownership
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Product Ownership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Product Ownership trend for jobs with a WFH option

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Product Ownership.

Product Ownership daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Product Ownership over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Product Ownership daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Product Ownership
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Product Ownership.

Product Ownership hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Product Ownership
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Product Ownership over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Product Ownership hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 18 (5.16%) Confluence
2 6 (1.72%) CMS
3 4 (1.15%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.86%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (4.87%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.87%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.29%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.86%) Trello
6 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (2.87%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.01%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (1.15%) Loan IQ
3 4 (1.15%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.86%) Endur
5 2 (0.57%) Magento
6 1 (0.29%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.29%) SAP APO
6 1 (0.29%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.29%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.29%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 92 (26.36%) Azure
2 43 (12.32%) AWS
2 43 (12.32%) Azure DevOps
3 18 (5.16%) Entra ID
4 17 (4.87%) Power Platform
5 14 (4.01%) Azure Service Bus
5 14 (4.01%) SaaS
6 13 (3.72%) Dynamics 365
7 12 (3.44%) Serverless
8 11 (3.15%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 11 (3.15%) Azure Monitor
8 11 (3.15%) GitHub
9 9 (2.58%) Azure Data Factory
9 9 (2.58%) PaaS
10 7 (2.01%) Azure AKS
10 7 (2.01%) Azure Stack
10 7 (2.01%) Microsoft Purview
11 6 (1.72%) Azure Functions
12 5 (1.43%) Figma
12 5 (1.43%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.15%) Firewall
2 1 (0.29%) Broadband
2 1 (0.29%) DMZ
2 1 (0.29%) DNS
2 1 (0.29%) LAN
2 1 (0.29%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (0.29%) WAN
2 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.45%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.01%) Power BI
3 11 (3.15%) Data Warehouse
3 11 (3.15%) NoSQL
3 11 (3.15%) Relational Database
4 8 (2.29%) Data Lake
5 6 (1.72%) MySQL
5 6 (1.72%) Snowflake Schema
6 5 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
6 5 (1.43%) Oracle Database
6 5 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
7 4 (1.15%) Siebel EIM
8 3 (0.86%) CockroachDB
8 3 (0.86%) Redis
9 2 (0.57%) BigQuery
9 2 (0.57%) DynamoDB
9 2 (0.57%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
9 2 (0.57%) Looker
9 2 (0.57%) Metadata
9 2 (0.57%) Parquet
Development Applications
1 24 (6.88%) JIRA
2 20 (5.73%) Git
3 8 (2.29%) GitLab
3 8 (2.29%) Postman
4 7 (2.01%) Bitbucket
4 7 (2.01%) Jenkins
5 6 (1.72%) Cypress.io
5 6 (1.72%) TeamCity
6 5 (1.43%) Artifactory
7 4 (1.15%) Selenium
7 4 (1.15%) SpecFlow
7 4 (1.15%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (1.15%) WebDriver
8 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.57%) JUnit
10 1 (0.29%) Axure RP
10 1 (0.29%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.29%) Gerrit
10 1 (0.29%) NUnit
10 1 (0.29%) TestNG
General
1 106 (30.37%) Social Skills
2 85 (24.36%) Finance
3 52 (14.90%) Public Sector
4 31 (8.88%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (7.45%) Banking
6 18 (5.16%) Marketing
7 17 (4.87%) Back Office
8 13 (3.72%) Front Office
9 11 (3.15%) Presentation Skills
10 10 (2.87%) Retail
11 9 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (2.29%) Investment Banking
12 8 (2.29%) Telecoms
13 7 (2.01%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (1.72%) Manufacturing
15 5 (1.43%) Billing
15 5 (1.43%) Financial Institution
16 4 (1.15%) Electronics
16 4 (1.15%) Legal
17 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 80 (22.92%) Product Owner
2 69 (19.77%) Analyst
3 68 (19.48%) Developer
4 60 (17.19%) Business Analyst
5 41 (11.75%) Senior
6 37 (10.60%) Architect
7 23 (6.59%) Lead
7 23 (6.59%) Product Manager
8 18 (5.16%) Azure Developer
8 18 (5.16%) Product Analyst
8 18 (5.16%) Product Business Analyst
9 16 (4.58%) Senior Developer
10 14 (4.01%) .NET Developer
10 14 (4.01%) Full Stack Developer
10 14 (4.01%) Scrum Master
11 13 (3.72%) Finance Business Analyst
11 13 (3.72%) Financial Analyst
11 13 (3.72%) Project Manager
12 12 (3.44%) Business Manager
12 12 (3.44%) Data Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 41 (11.75%) React
2 34 (9.74%) .NET
3 23 (6.59%) XML
4 17 (4.87%) CSS
5 15 (4.30%) HTML
6 13 (3.72%) JSON
7 12 (3.44%) .NET Core
8 11 (3.15%) REST
9 10 (2.87%) .NET Framework
10 9 (2.58%) ASP.NET
10 9 (2.58%) Node.js
11 8 (2.29%) AngularJS
12 6 (1.72%) HTML5
12 6 (1.72%) jQuery
12 6 (1.72%) Kafka
12 6 (1.72%) Lightning Web Components
12 6 (1.72%) OpenID
13 5 (1.43%) SAML
13 5 (1.43%) Vue
13 5 (1.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 16 (4.58%) Derivative
1 16 (4.58%) Fixed Income
2 15 (4.30%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (3.44%) Equities
3 12 (3.44%) Hedge funds
4 9 (2.58%) Data Structures
4 9 (2.58%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.01%) Reference Data
6 6 (1.72%) Educational Technology
6 6 (1.72%) Greenfield Project
7 5 (1.43%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.43%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.43%) Onboarding
7 5 (1.43%) Wiki
8 4 (1.15%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.15%) Legacy Applications
8 4 (1.15%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.86%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
9 3 (0.86%) VHDL
Operating Systems
1 14 (4.01%) Linux
2 7 (2.01%) Unix
2 7 (2.01%) Windows
3 6 (1.72%) Android
4 5 (1.43%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 226 (64.76%) Agile
2 88 (25.21%) Scrum
3 80 (22.92%) DevOps
4 75 (21.49%) User Stories
5 63 (18.05%) Roadmaps
6 53 (15.19%) Problem-Solving
7 48 (13.75%) CI/CD
8 44 (12.61%) Analytics
9 43 (12.32%) Product Management
10 42 (12.03%) Microservices
11 40 (11.46%) Product Backlog
12 39 (11.17%) Test Automation
13 37 (10.60%) User Experience
14 35 (10.03%) Continuous Improvement
15 32 (9.17%) Acceptance Criteria
15 32 (9.17%) Requirements Gathering
16 30 (8.60%) Change Management
16 30 (8.60%) Stakeholder Management
17 29 (8.31%) Sprint Planning
17 29 (8.31%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 46 (13.18%) SQL
2 42 (12.03%) Python
3 34 (9.74%) JavaScript
4 31 (8.88%) C#
5 22 (6.30%) TypeScript
6 15 (4.30%) PowerShell
7 13 (3.72%) Java
8 12 (3.44%) Bicep
9 5 (1.43%) Apex Code
9 5 (1.43%) PHP
10 4 (1.15%) SOQL
11 3 (0.86%) C
11 3 (0.86%) C++
12 2 (0.57%) ABAP
12 2 (0.57%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.57%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.29%) Go
13 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (6.88%) Degree
2 22 (6.30%) Security Cleared
3 19 (5.44%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.15%) APMP
4 4 (1.15%) BPSS Clearance
4 4 (1.15%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (0.86%) CSPO
6 2 (0.57%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.29%) CBAP
7 1 (0.29%) CCIP
7 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.29%) MBA
7 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.29%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.32%) QA
2 14 (4.01%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.87%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.58%) PMO
5 6 (1.72%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.86%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.86%) Disclosure Scotland
6 3 (0.86%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 3 (0.86%) NIST
6 3 (0.86%) WCAG
7 2 (0.57%) GDPR
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.29%) NCSC
8 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (7.45%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.44%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (4.30%) Kubernetes
2 8 (2.29%) Terraform
3 7 (2.01%) Ansible
4 6 (1.72%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.29%) AppManager
5 1 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.29%) Matomo
5 1 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 56 (16.05%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.58%) Salesforce
3 14 (4.01%) Oracle
3 14 (4.01%) SAP
4 7 (2.01%) Google
5 5 (1.43%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.15%) Ariba
6 4 (1.15%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (1.15%) CrowdStrike
6 4 (1.15%) Okta
6 4 (1.15%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 4 (1.15%) Siebel
6 4 (1.15%) Splunk
6 4 (1.15%) Zscaler
7 3 (0.86%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.57%) Databricks
8 2 (0.57%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.57%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.57%) TSYS
9 1 (0.29%) Centrify