Product Ownership Contracts in Cheshire

Product Ownership
North West > Cheshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in Cheshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 29 43 56
Rank change year-on-year +14 +13 -23
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 28 13 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 5.75% 2.44% 0.97%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 17.18% 8.02% 2.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 24 8 3
10th Percentile £343 £370 £343
25th Percentile £358 £431 £369
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £381 £475 £425
Median % change year-on-year -19.79% +11.76% -10.53%
75th Percentile £402 £585 £444
90th Percentile £473 - £448
North West median daily rate £402 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -26.91% -4.35% +12.09%

All Generic Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 163 162 226
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 33.47% 30.45% 43.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 123 102 123
10th Percentile £283 £297 £288
25th Percentile £358 £400 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £489 £480
Median % change year-on-year -4.91% +1.88% +4.35%
75th Percentile £545 £550 £586
90th Percentile £625 £637 £628
North West median daily rate £456 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -7.61% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 17 8
10th Percentile £33.82 £14.15 £22.21
25th Percentile £39.85 £17.72 £23.15
Median hourly rate £49.90 £36.50 £33.99
Median % change year-on-year +36.71% +7.38% +56.06%
75th Percentile £59.95 £43.75 £53.94
90th Percentile £65.98 - £66.13
North West median hourly rate £29.90 £25.25 £31.49
% change year-on-year +18.42% -19.82% +63.58%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in Cheshire

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in Cheshire

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in Cheshire over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in Cheshire

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 30 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
Knutsford +13 22 £375 +2.74% 5
Chester - 4 £588 - 40
Product Ownership
North West

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 (17.86%) Confluence
2 3 (10.71%) JBoss
2 3 (10.71%) Tomcat
2 3 (10.71%) WebLogic
2 3 (10.71%) WebSphere
3 1 (3.57%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (3.57%) InVision
1 1 (3.57%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 11 (39.29%) AWS
2 1 (3.57%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (3.57%) AWS CloudFormation
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (3.57%) OpenShift
2 1 (3.57%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) DB2
2 1 (3.57%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 5 (17.86%) JIRA
2 4 (14.29%) Git
3 3 (10.71%) Bitbucket
4 2 (7.14%) JUnit
5 1 (3.57%) Axure RP
5 1 (3.57%) TeamCity
General
1 12 (42.86%) Finance
2 7 (25.00%) Banking
3 6 (21.43%) Social Skills
4 4 (14.29%) Legal
5 3 (10.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
7 1 (3.57%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (3.57%) Marketing
7 1 (3.57%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Scrum Master
2 3 (10.71%) Lead
2 3 (10.71%) Project Manager
3 2 (7.14%) Analyst
3 2 (7.14%) Banking Project Manager
3 2 (7.14%) Business Analyst
3 2 (7.14%) Java Scrum Master
3 2 (7.14%) Payments Project Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Agile Scrum Master
4 1 (3.57%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Cloud Engineer
4 1 (3.57%) Consultant
4 1 (3.57%) Lead Developer
4 1 (3.57%) Management Consultant
4 1 (3.57%) Product Owner
4 1 (3.57%) Senior Developer
4 1 (3.57%) Software Consultant
4 1 (3.57%) Software Manager
4 1 (3.57%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (3.57%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (21.43%) Spring Boot
2 4 (14.29%) RAML
2 4 (14.29%) REST
2 4 (14.29%) Spring
3 3 (10.71%) AngularJS
3 3 (10.71%) EJB
3 3 (10.71%) J2EE
3 3 (10.71%) JSP
3 3 (10.71%) Kafka
3 3 (10.71%) React
3 3 (10.71%) Servlets
3 3 (10.71%) SOAP
3 3 (10.71%) Web Services
3 3 (10.71%) WSDL
4 2 (7.14%) CSS
4 2 (7.14%) HTML
5 1 (3.57%) CSS3
5 1 (3.57%) jBPM
5 1 (3.57%) JSON
5 1 (3.57%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 6 (21.43%) Mainframe
2 4 (14.29%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Client/Server
3 1 (3.57%) Cloud Native
3 1 (3.57%) Data Structures
3 1 (3.57%) Enterprise Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.14%) Android
1 2 (7.14%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.57%) Linux
2 1 (3.57%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (78.57%) Agile
2 14 (50.00%) Scrum
3 10 (35.71%) Continuous Improvement
4 9 (32.14%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 8 (28.57%) SDLC
5 8 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (21.43%) Backlog Management
6 6 (21.43%) Budget Control
6 6 (21.43%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (21.43%) Servant Leadership
6 6 (21.43%) Validation
7 5 (17.86%) Conflict Resolution
7 5 (17.86%) Customer Experience
7 5 (17.86%) Kanban
7 5 (17.86%) Situational Awareness
8 4 (14.29%) CI/CD
8 4 (14.29%) Migration
9 3 (10.71%) End-to-End Testing
9 3 (10.71%) Product Roadmap
9 3 (10.71%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 10 (35.71%) Java
2 5 (17.86%) JavaScript
3 4 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (7.14%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) AWS Certification
2 1 (3.57%) CBAP
2 1 (3.57%) CSPO
2 1 (3.57%) PMI Certification
2 1 (3.57%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (3.57%) Accessibility
1 1 (3.57%) GDPR
1 1 (3.57%) PSD2
System Software
1 6 (21.43%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (7.14%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (3.57%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 6 (21.43%) IBM
2 3 (10.71%) Oracle
3 1 (3.57%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (3.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (3.57%) TIBCO