Product Ownership Contract Job Trends in Cheltenham

Product Ownership
Gloucestershire > Cheltenham

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in Cheltenham. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 28 - 44
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Cheltenham 1.60% - 0.40%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.25% - 2.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £340 - -
Gloucestershire median daily rate £450 £640 £750
% change year-on-year -29.69% -14.67% +100.00%

All Generic Skills
Cheltenham

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 Cheltenham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 48 35 38
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheltenham 25.53% 39.33% 15.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 16 26
10th Percentile £380 £281 £400
25th Percentile £463 £522 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £553 £666
Median % change year-on-year -0.45% -17.07% -1.30%
75th Percentile £565 £650 £676
90th Percentile £613 £663 £731
Gloucestershire median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £72.25 - -
Median hourly rate £74.50 - -
75th Percentile £76.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Gloucestershire median hourly rate £32.50 £36.00 £70.00
% change year-on-year -9.72% -48.57% -10.26%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheltenham

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

Product Ownership job vacancy trend in Cheltenham

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Trend in Cheltenham

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

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

Product Ownership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheltenham 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 2 (66.67%) Apache
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Windchill
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
1 2 (66.67%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Git
2 2 (66.67%) GitLab
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 1 (33.33%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Administrator
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) JDBC
Operating Systems
1 2 (66.67%) Debian
1 2 (66.67%) Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (66.67%) Rocky
1 2 (66.67%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
1 2 (66.67%) CI/CD
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science
1 2 (66.67%) Containerisation
1 2 (66.67%) Open Source
1 2 (66.67%) Performance Optimisation
1 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (66.67%) Software Engineering
1 2 (66.67%) Technical Leadership
2 1 (33.33%) API Development
2 1 (33.33%) Data Migration
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Migration
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 2 (66.67%) Go
2 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
2 1 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (66.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (66.67%) Degree
System Software
1 2 (66.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (66.67%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Oracle
1 1 (33.33%) PTC