Product Ownership Contracts in the City of London

Product Ownership
Central London > City of London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Ownership over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 57 63 59
Rank change year-on-year +6 -4 +6
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 69 124 177
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.13% 3.41% 4.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.12% 9.50% 11.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 49 70 141
10th Percentile £427 £461 £416
25th Percentile £481 £514 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £570 £626 £550
Median % change year-on-year -8.95% +13.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £750 £663
90th Percentile £730 £853 £713
Central London median daily rate £566 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -9.40% +13.64% +10.00%

All Generic Skills
City of London

Product Ownership is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 682 1,305 1,509
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 30.97% 35.88% 35.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 465 891 1,104
10th Percentile £279 £350 £410
25th Percentile £425 £500 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £625 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +8.70% +4.55%
75th Percentile £700 £750 £700
90th Percentile £845 £860 £805
Central London median daily rate £575 £603 £575
% change year-on-year -4.56% +4.78% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 12 24
10th Percentile £12.75 £16.97 £20.53
25th Percentile £16.00 £31.31 £38.75
Median hourly rate £23.00 £43.25 £48.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.82% -9.90% +167.04%
75th Percentile £27.50 £88.30 £61.75
90th Percentile £54.95 - £64.78
Central London median hourly rate £23.00 £35.00 £48.00
% change year-on-year -34.29% -27.08% +140.00%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the City of London

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in the City of London

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in the City of London over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in the City of London

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in the City of London.

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in the City of London

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of 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 7 (10.14%) Confluence
2 4 (5.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 4 (5.80%) Oracle Workflow
3 2 (2.90%) CMS
Applications
1 2 (2.90%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.45%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.45%) InVision
2 1 (1.45%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (1.45%) Salesforce CRM
1 1 (1.45%) Softmar
Cloud Services
1 24 (34.78%) Azure
2 13 (18.84%) Azure DevOps
3 5 (7.25%) SaaS
4 3 (4.35%) AWS
4 3 (4.35%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.90%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.90%) Amazon EventBridge
5 2 (2.90%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.90%) Amazon SQS
5 2 (2.90%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (2.90%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.90%) Azure Monitor
5 2 (2.90%) Azure Pipelines
5 2 (2.90%) Azure Service Bus
5 2 (2.90%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.90%) GitHub
5 2 (2.90%) Google Analytics
5 2 (2.90%) Serverless
6 1 (1.45%) GCP
6 1 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.45%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.70%) SQL Server
2 4 (5.80%) Oracle Database
2 4 (5.80%) Siebel EIM
3 3 (4.35%) Power BI
3 3 (4.35%) Relational Database
4 2 (2.90%) Data Mart
4 2 (2.90%) Data Warehouse
4 2 (2.90%) NoSQL
4 2 (2.90%) RDBMS
4 2 (2.90%) Redis
5 1 (1.45%) Big Data
5 1 (1.45%) BusinessObjects
5 1 (1.45%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.45%) Metadata
5 1 (1.45%) MySQL
5 1 (1.45%) OLAP
5 1 (1.45%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 7 (10.14%) JIRA
2 5 (7.25%) Selenium
3 3 (4.35%) Git
3 3 (4.35%) Postman
4 2 (2.90%) Artifactory
4 2 (2.90%) Bitbucket
4 2 (2.90%) Jenkins
4 2 (2.90%) JMeter
4 2 (2.90%) SpecFlow
4 2 (2.90%) TeamCity
5 1 (1.45%) Appium
5 1 (1.45%) CircleCI
5 1 (1.45%) Cypress.io
5 1 (1.45%) GitLab
5 1 (1.45%) Gradle
5 1 (1.45%) JUnit
5 1 (1.45%) Team Foundation Server
5 1 (1.45%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 23 (33.33%) Finance
1 23 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (7.25%) Banking
3 4 (5.80%) Investment Banking
3 4 (5.80%) Presentation Skills
4 3 (4.35%) Marketing
4 3 (4.35%) Public Sector
4 3 (4.35%) Retail
5 2 (2.90%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (2.90%) Corporate Banking
5 2 (2.90%) Financial Institution
5 2 (2.90%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.45%) Advertising
6 1 (1.45%) Back Office
6 1 (1.45%) Digital Health
6 1 (1.45%) Digital Healthcare
6 1 (1.45%) Front Office
6 1 (1.45%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 23 (33.33%) Product Owner
2 12 (17.39%) Senior
3 10 (14.49%) Analyst
3 10 (14.49%) Developer
4 9 (13.04%) Product Manager
5 8 (11.59%) Business Analyst
6 6 (8.70%) Digital Product Owner
7 5 (7.25%) Senior Product Owner
8 4 (5.80%) Architect
8 4 (5.80%) Lead
8 4 (5.80%) Siebel Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Senior Developer
9 3 (4.35%) Technical Product Owner
10 2 (2.90%) AWS Architect
10 2 (2.90%) DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) Digital Product Manager
10 2 (2.90%) Project Manager
10 2 (2.90%) Scrum Master
10 2 (2.90%) Senior DevOps Engineer
10 2 (2.90%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.14%) .NET
2 5 (7.25%) Web Services
3 4 (5.80%) .NET Core
3 4 (5.80%) HTML
4 3 (4.35%) CSS
4 3 (4.35%) React
4 3 (4.35%) REST
4 3 (4.35%) XML
5 2 (2.90%) ADO
5 2 (2.90%) ASP.NET
5 2 (2.90%) ASP.NET Core
5 2 (2.90%) FIX Protocol
5 2 (2.90%) Playwright
6 1 (1.45%) Android Jetpack
6 1 (1.45%) Dagger
6 1 (1.45%) Jetpack Compose
6 1 (1.45%) JSON
6 1 (1.45%) Lightning Web Components
6 1 (1.45%) OkHttp
6 1 (1.45%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.80%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 3 (4.35%) Reinsurance
3 2 (2.90%) Derivative
3 2 (2.90%) Educational Technology
4 1 (1.45%) Legacy Code
4 1 (1.45%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.45%) Public Cloud
4 1 (1.45%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.45%) Taxonomies
4 1 (1.45%) Video on Demand
4 1 (1.45%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.90%) Android
1 2 (2.90%) Linux
1 2 (2.90%) Windows
2 1 (1.45%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.45%) Unix
2 1 (1.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (76.81%) Agile
2 21 (30.43%) Scrum
3 18 (26.09%) User Stories
4 16 (23.19%) DevOps
5 15 (21.74%) Roadmaps
6 13 (18.84%) Product Management
7 12 (17.39%) Acceptance Criteria
7 12 (17.39%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 12 (17.39%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (15.94%) Business Case
8 11 (15.94%) Product Backlog
8 11 (15.94%) Product Vision
9 10 (14.49%) Analytics
9 10 (14.49%) Product Strategy
9 10 (14.49%) Stakeholder Management
9 10 (14.49%) Workflow
10 8 (11.59%) Data Modelling
10 8 (11.59%) Project Management
10 8 (11.59%) User Acceptance Testing
10 8 (11.59%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 7 (10.14%) C#
2 6 (8.70%) SQL
3 5 (7.25%) JavaScript
3 5 (7.25%) Python
4 4 (5.80%) PowerShell
4 4 (5.80%) TypeScript
5 3 (4.35%) Bicep
6 1 (1.45%) Apex Code
6 1 (1.45%) Java
6 1 (1.45%) Kotlin
6 1 (1.45%) PHP
6 1 (1.45%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 9 (13.04%) Degree
2 2 (2.90%) AWS Certification
3 1 (1.45%) Azure Certification
3 1 (1.45%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.45%) ISEB
3 1 (1.45%) ISTQB
3 1 (1.45%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.45%) MBA
3 1 (1.45%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.45%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (14.49%) QA
2 2 (2.90%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.90%) WCAG
3 1 (1.45%) GDPR
3 1 (1.45%) PMO
System Software
1 7 (10.14%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (5.80%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.90%) Ansible
2 2 (2.90%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.90%) Terraform
3 1 (1.45%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (1.45%) SCCM
Vendors
1 15 (21.74%) Microsoft
2 5 (7.25%) Adobe
2 5 (7.25%) CA Agile Central
3 4 (5.80%) Oracle
3 4 (5.80%) Siebel
4 3 (4.35%) Google
4 3 (4.35%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.90%) Murex
6 1 (1.45%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.45%) IBM
6 1 (1.45%) MicroStrategy
6 1 (1.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.45%) Zoho