Product Ownership Contract Job Trends 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 26 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 64 61
Rank change year-on-year -3 -3 +2
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 10 3 5
As % of all contract jobs in Birmingham 1.33% 0.44% 0.69%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 3.29% 1.64% 1.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 1 2
10th Percentile £463 - £528
25th Percentile £488 £513 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £600 £538 £569
90th Percentile £680 - £573
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £475 £573
% change year-on-year +5.26% -17.03% +13.37%

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 304 183 274
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 40.53% 26.72% 37.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 118 161
10th Percentile £250 £158 £270
25th Percentile £390 £381 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £450
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% +16.67% -
75th Percentile £538 £650 £575
90th Percentile £600 £729 £663
West Midlands median daily rate £488 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -11.36% +10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 10 11
10th Percentile £18.54 £19.65 £31.04
25th Percentile - £24.00 £62.50
Median hourly rate £18.87 £30.45 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.03% -53.15% +220.51%
75th Percentile £20.03 £53.94 £67.50
90th Percentile £23.54 £57.53 £68.75
West Midlands median hourly rate £21.00 £24.18 £23.00
% change year-on-year -13.15% +5.13% +29.80%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Product Ownership relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham.

Product Ownership job vacancy trend in Birmingham

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Product Ownership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Birmingham citing Product Ownership

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in Birmingham

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in Birmingham over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in Birmingham

Product Ownership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Birmingham by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 3 (30.00%) OpenStack
2 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (30.00%) GitHub
1 3 (30.00%) GitHub Actions
2 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (10.00%) AWS
3 1 (10.00%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (30.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 4 (40.00%) JIRA
2 3 (30.00%) GitLab
2 3 (30.00%) Jenkins
3 2 (20.00%) CircleCI
4 1 (10.00%) TestDirector
General
1 8 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 6 (60.00%) Telecoms
3 4 (40.00%) Finance
4 3 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (30.00%) Marketing
5 2 (20.00%) Legal
6 1 (10.00%) Documentation Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Senior
2 3 (30.00%) Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Consultant
2 3 (30.00%) Pega Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Pega Consultant
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Architect
2 3 (30.00%) Senior Consultant
3 2 (20.00%) Engineering Specialist
3 2 (20.00%) Product Owner
4 1 (10.00%) Development Director
4 1 (10.00%) DevOps Engineer
4 1 (10.00%) Scrum Master
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps
4 1 (10.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (30.00%) Elastic Stack
1 3 (30.00%) Kafka
1 3 (30.00%) RabbitMQ
1 3 (30.00%) REST
1 3 (30.00%) SOAP
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (20.00%) Linux
1 2 (20.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Mentoring
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Technical Leadership
3 4 (40.00%) CI/CD
3 4 (40.00%) DevOps
3 4 (40.00%) Product Backlog
3 4 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (30.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 3 (30.00%) Coaching
4 3 (30.00%) Data Integration
4 3 (30.00%) Data Science
4 3 (30.00%) End-to-End Testing
4 3 (30.00%) Performance Tuning
4 3 (30.00%) Personalization
4 3 (30.00%) Predictive Modelling
4 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
4 3 (30.00%) SIEM
4 3 (30.00%) Software Delivery
4 3 (30.00%) Unit Testing
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) Go
1 3 (30.00%) JavaScript
1 3 (30.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CEH
1 1 (10.00%) CISM
1 1 (10.00%) CISSP
1 1 (10.00%) CSSLP
1 1 (10.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (10.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (60.00%) QA
2 1 (10.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
2 1 (10.00%) NIST
2 1 (10.00%) SLA
System Software
1 3 (30.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (30.00%) Ansible
1 3 (30.00%) Argo
1 3 (30.00%) Grafana
1 3 (30.00%) Kubernetes
1 3 (30.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Pega
2 2 (20.00%) Microsoft