Product Ownership Contract Job Trends in Cambridge

Product Ownership
Cambridgeshire > Cambridge

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in Cambridge. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 25 February 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 32 27 22
Rank change year-on-year -5 -5 -5
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 2 1 9
As % of all contract jobs in Cambridge 0.94% 0.61% 4.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.02% 1.67% 10.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 8
10th Percentile - - £396
25th Percentile £463 £463 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £410
Median % change year-on-year - +15.85% -21.90%
75th Percentile £488 £488 £522
90th Percentile - - £615
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £475 £495 £410
% change year-on-year -4.04% +20.73% -21.90%

All Generic Skills
Cambridge

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 Cambridge.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 99 60 84
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cambridge 46.70% 36.59% 40.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 43 58
10th Percentile £211 £313 £230
25th Percentile £378 £415 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £500 £478
Median % change year-on-year -1.75% +4.71% +0.53%
75th Percentile £619 £588 £548
90th Percentile £675 £690 £600
Cambridgeshire median daily rate £413 £471 £500
% change year-on-year -12.47% -5.75% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 10
10th Percentile £23.00 £16.60 £24.01
25th Percentile £25.06 £19.00 £33.44
Median hourly rate £33.75 £23.00 £62.50
Median % change year-on-year +46.74% -63.20% +19.05%
75th Percentile £41.56 £44.00 £77.50
90th Percentile £67.50 £56.60 -
Cambridgeshire median hourly rate £32.25 £23.00 £55.00
% change year-on-year +40.22% -58.18% +39.93%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Cambridge

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

Product Ownership job vacancy trend in Cambridge

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Trend in Cambridge

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

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

Product Ownership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cambridge 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (100.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) AWS
2 1 (50.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
General
1 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Front-End Engineer (Client-Side Engineer)
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) Node.js
1 1 (50.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Code Quality
1 1 (50.00%) DevOps
1 1 (50.00%) Fintech
1 1 (50.00%) Front End Development
1 1 (50.00%) Full-Stack Development
1 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
1 1 (50.00%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GAMP
1 1 (50.00%) GxP