Product Ownership Contracts in Birmingham

Product Ownership
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in Birmingham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 56 58
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 +13
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 6 11 22
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 1.15% 1.42% 2.44%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.11% 4.72% 6.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 9 16
10th Percentile £512 £484 £488
25th Percentile £512 £525 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -8.33% +41.18%
75th Percentile £569 £575 £601
90th Percentile £588 £605 £650
West Midlands median daily rate £514 £563 £525
% change year-on-year -8.71% +7.14% +5.00%

All Generic Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 146 233 316
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 27.92% 30.18% 34.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 105 154 205
10th Percentile £160 £259 £263
25th Percentile £363 £350 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £600 £573 £650
90th Percentile £675 £719 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £500 £500
% change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 12 8
10th Percentile £30.05 £18.88 £14.10
25th Percentile £30.11 £22.33 £17.44
Median hourly rate £30.45 £26.00 £22.35
Median % change year-on-year +17.12% +16.32% +26.29%
75th Percentile £30.68 £40.81 £64.69
90th Percentile - £54.80 £98.25
West Midlands median hourly rate £28.18 £22.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year +25.24% -6.25% +51.32%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in Birmingham

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in Birmingham

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (16.67%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (16.67%) Apigee
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Datadog
2 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (16.67%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) GIS
1 1 (16.67%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Atlassian Bamboo
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) Jenkins
General
1 3 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Legal
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Product Owner
2 2 (33.33%) Lead
2 2 (33.33%) Product Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Apigee Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Developer
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Product Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Lead Product Owner
3 1 (16.67%) Operations Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Product Operations Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) AWS CDK
1 1 (16.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Cloud Native
1 1 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
1 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 1 (16.67%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
2 5 (83.33%) Scrum
3 3 (50.00%) Backlog Management
3 3 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (50.00%) DevOps
3 3 (50.00%) Product Management
3 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (33.33%) Agile Project Management
4 2 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
4 2 (33.33%) Kanban
4 2 (33.33%) Knowledge Management
4 2 (33.33%) PLM
4 2 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (33.33%) Product Operations
4 2 (33.33%) Project Management
4 2 (33.33%) Release Management
4 2 (33.33%) SDLC
4 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (33.33%) User Stories
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Python
1 1 (16.67%) SQL
1 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Splunk