Product Ownership Contracts in Central London

Product Ownership
London > Central London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in Central London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 19 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 49 71
Rank change year-on-year -21 +22 -17
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 56 86 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Central London 2.85% 3.59% 3.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.52% 11.44% 8.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 63 67
10th Percentile £413 £431 £446
25th Percentile £468 £484 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £625
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% -10.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £694 £675 £750
90th Percentile £725 £775 £825
London median daily rate £575 £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% +4.35%

All Generic Skills
Central London

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 Central London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 657 752 1,340
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Central London 33.49% 31.36% 35.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 422 521 922
10th Percentile £350 £263 £326
25th Percentile £467 £430 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £575 £616
Median % change year-on-year - -6.66% +7.13%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £813 £838 £850
London median daily rate £575 £585 £600
% change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 9 17
10th Percentile £23.52 £12.75 £18.78
25th Percentile £25.39 £16.00 -
Median hourly rate £27.76 £23.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +20.70% -34.29% -24.73%
75th Percentile £30.52 £27.00 £83.75
90th Percentile £65.50 £32.05 £88.30
London median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -19.54%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Central London

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in Central London

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Central London

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

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in Central London

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in Central London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in Central London over the 6 months to 19 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in Central London

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Central London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in Central London.

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in Central London

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in Central London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Ownership within the Central London region over the 6 months to 19 May 2025. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 6 month period last year.

Location Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
City of London -16 49 £600 +4.80% 34
City of Westminster - 3 - - 4
West End of London - 1 £550 - 8
Camden - 1 £550 - 3
Product Ownership
London

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Central London 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 5 (8.93%) Confluence
2 3 (5.36%) CMS
2 3 (5.36%) Headless CMS
3 2 (3.57%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.79%) Apache
4 1 (1.79%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (5.36%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 3 (5.36%) MS Visio
2 2 (3.57%) Chatbot
2 2 (3.57%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (1.79%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 3 (5.36%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.79%) Fidessa
2 1 (1.79%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (1.79%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 12 (21.43%) Azure
2 7 (12.50%) Azure DevOps
3 6 (10.71%) SaaS
4 5 (8.93%) AWS
5 3 (5.36%) Contentful
5 3 (5.36%) Contentstack
5 3 (5.36%) prismic.io
6 1 (1.79%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (1.79%) Apple Pay
6 1 (1.79%) Azure AKS
6 1 (1.79%) dbt
6 1 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.79%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.79%) GCP
6 1 (1.79%) Google Pay
6 1 (1.79%) Miro
6 1 (1.79%) OCI
6 1 (1.79%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.79%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.79%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.79%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.36%) CockroachDB
1 3 (5.36%) Relational Database
2 2 (3.57%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.57%) MySQL
2 2 (3.57%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (3.57%) Star Schema
3 1 (1.79%) BigQuery
3 1 (1.79%) Data Hub
3 1 (1.79%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.79%) Data Vault
3 1 (1.79%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (1.79%) Looker
3 1 (1.79%) NoSQL
3 1 (1.79%) Power BI
3 1 (1.79%) SQL Server
3 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (1.79%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (16.07%) JIRA
2 2 (3.57%) Bitbucket
2 2 (3.57%) Git
2 2 (3.57%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (1.79%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (1.79%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.79%) Jenkins
3 1 (1.79%) Terragrunt
3 1 (1.79%) Visual Studio
General
1 18 (32.14%) Social Skills
2 12 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (21.43%) Finance
3 7 (12.50%) Banking
4 6 (10.71%) Investment Banking
4 6 (10.71%) Presentation Skills
5 5 (8.93%) Retail
6 4 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
7 3 (5.36%) Back Office
7 3 (5.36%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (3.57%) Billing
8 2 (3.57%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (3.57%) Front Office
8 2 (3.57%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (3.57%) Marketing
8 2 (3.57%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.79%) Automotive
9 1 (1.79%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.79%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.79%) Manufacturing
Job Titles
1 17 (30.36%) Product Owner
2 7 (12.50%) Analyst
3 5 (8.93%) Business Analyst
3 5 (8.93%) Developer
4 4 (7.14%) Lead
4 4 (7.14%) Project Manager
5 3 (5.36%) CMS Developer
5 3 (5.36%) Consultant
5 3 (5.36%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (5.36%) Digital Product Owner
5 3 (5.36%) Senior
6 2 (3.57%) Architect
6 2 (3.57%) Python Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Python Software Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) QA Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Software Engineer
6 2 (3.57%) Software Tester
6 2 (3.57%) Technical Leader
6 2 (3.57%) Tester
6 2 (3.57%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (8.93%) .NET
2 4 (7.14%) ADO
3 2 (3.57%) ASP.NET
3 2 (3.57%) React
3 2 (3.57%) REST
3 2 (3.57%) YAML
4 1 (1.79%) AngularJS
4 1 (1.79%) Apache Beam
4 1 (1.79%) ASP.NET MVC
4 1 (1.79%) Bootstrap
4 1 (1.79%) Django
4 1 (1.79%) Elastic Stack
4 1 (1.79%) Kafka
4 1 (1.79%) LDAP
4 1 (1.79%) Node.js
4 1 (1.79%) OAuth
4 1 (1.79%) RESTful
4 1 (1.79%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (5.36%) Acoustics
2 2 (3.57%) Data Structures
2 2 (3.57%) Derivative
2 2 (3.57%) Onboarding
2 2 (3.57%) Private Cloud
2 2 (3.57%) Public Cloud
2 2 (3.57%) Replication
3 1 (1.79%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.79%) Cloud Native
3 1 (1.79%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.79%) Digital Wallet
3 1 (1.79%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (1.79%) Equities
3 1 (1.79%) Fixed Income
3 1 (1.79%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.79%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 1 (1.79%) Market Risk
3 1 (1.79%) PMI
3 1 (1.79%) Reference Data
3 1 (1.79%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.57%) Linux
1 2 (3.57%) Unix
2 1 (1.79%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (1.79%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (55.36%) Agile
2 12 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
3 10 (17.86%) Roadmaps
4 9 (16.07%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (16.07%) DevOps
4 9 (16.07%) User Experience
5 8 (14.29%) Scrum
5 8 (14.29%) Test Automation
5 8 (14.29%) User Stories
6 7 (12.50%) Acceptance Criteria
6 7 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 7 (12.50%) Project Management
6 7 (12.50%) Software Engineering
7 6 (10.71%) CI/CD
7 6 (10.71%) Data Modelling
7 6 (10.71%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 5 (8.93%) Product Strategy
8 5 (8.93%) Software Testing
8 5 (8.93%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (8.93%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (25.00%) SQL
2 7 (12.50%) Python
3 4 (7.14%) C#
3 4 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 3 (5.36%) Shell Script
5 2 (3.57%) Java
5 2 (3.57%) JavaScript
5 2 (3.57%) T-SQL
6 1 (1.79%) R
6 1 (1.79%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 6 (10.71%) Security Cleared
2 5 (8.93%) Degree
3 4 (7.14%) SC Cleared
4 3 (5.36%) PMI Certification
5 2 (3.57%) Master's Degree
5 2 (3.57%) PMP
6 1 (1.79%) CISM
6 1 (1.79%) CISSP
6 1 (1.79%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (10.71%) QA
2 2 (3.57%) MiFID
3 1 (1.79%) EMIR
3 1 (1.79%) GRC
3 1 (1.79%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.79%) PMO
3 1 (1.79%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (1.79%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.79%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.36%) Ansible
2 2 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.57%) Terraform
3 1 (1.79%) Argo
3 1 (1.79%) Rancher
3 1 (1.79%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (8.93%) Oracle
3 3 (5.36%) Workday
4 2 (3.57%) Red Hat
4 2 (3.57%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.79%) Adobe
5 1 (1.79%) Bloomberg
5 1 (1.79%) CQG
5 1 (1.79%) Databricks
5 1 (1.79%) Google
5 1 (1.79%) IBM
5 1 (1.79%) ION Trading
5 1 (1.79%) Klarna
5 1 (1.79%) Planview
5 1 (1.79%) Reuters
5 1 (1.79%) ServiceNow