Product Ownership Contracts in Cardiff

Product Ownership
South Wales > Cardiff

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in Cardiff. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 24 13 37
Rank change year-on-year -11 +24 +4
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 5 20 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cardiff 3.09% 10.00% 1.89%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.20% 22.99% 4.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 4
10th Percentile £429 £462 £324
25th Percentile £463 £489 £341
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £509 £390
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +30.38% -14.52%
75th Percentile £530 £545 £484
90th Percentile - £551 £554
South Wales median daily rate £509 £509 £465
% change year-on-year +0.05% +9.35% -0.80%

All Generic Skills
Cardiff

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 Cardiff.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 61 87 130
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cardiff 37.65% 43.50% 41.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 72 95
10th Percentile £188 £364 £166
25th Percentile £305 £413 £306
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £501 £450
Median % change year-on-year -20.20% +11.39% +1.58%
75th Percentile £475 £551 £543
90th Percentile £568 £586 £608
South Wales median daily rate £383 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -23.50% +5.26% +5.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £18.73
25th Percentile - £11.75 £19.77
Median hourly rate £18.51 £13.50 £21.53
Median % change year-on-year +37.11% -37.30% -
75th Percentile - £15.25 £23.27
90th Percentile - - £24.31
South Wales median hourly rate £37.50 £52.50 £18.10
% change year-on-year -28.57% +190.06% +27.64%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Cardiff

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in Cardiff

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cardiff

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

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in Cardiff

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cardiff 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Development Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Test Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Development Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Development Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) XML
1 1 (20.00%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Project Governance
2 3 (60.00%) Project Management
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Kanban
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Client Onboarding
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
4 1 (20.00%) Scenario Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
4 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Go
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) ISEB
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) SEPA
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft