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 in the City of London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 69 51 62
Rank change year-on-year -18 +11 -12
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 50 80 117
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 3.00% 3.71% 3.35%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.67% 11.83% 9.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 59 65
10th Percentile £400 £459 £476
25th Percentile £446 £488 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £544 £575 £650
Median % change year-on-year -5.43% -11.54% +18.18%
75th Percentile £713 £675 £750
90th Percentile £743 £775 £810
Central London median daily rate £563 £563 £625
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +13.64%

All Generic Skills
City of 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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 577 676 1,219
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.63% 31.38% 34.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 364 454 827
10th Percentile £359 £268 £358
25th Percentile £475 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £703 £700 £750
90th Percentile £813 £838 £853
Central London median daily rate £575 £565 £625
% change year-on-year +1.77% -9.60% +8.70%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 7 13
10th Percentile £18.15 £12.75 £17.33
25th Percentile £20.63 £14.38 £35.00
Median hourly rate £26.50 £23.00 £39.83
Median % change year-on-year +15.22% -42.25% -14.34%
75th Percentile £48.25 £27.25 £88.30
90th Percentile £79.30 £36.60 -
Central London median hourly rate £26.45 £23.40 £35.00
% change year-on-year +13.03% -33.14% -24.73%

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 28 May 2025.

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 5 (10.00%) Confluence
2 3 (6.00%) CMS
2 3 (6.00%) Headless CMS
3 2 (4.00%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.00%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (6.00%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.00%) Chatbot
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.00%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.00%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.00%) Fidessa
2 1 (2.00%) Oracle EBS
Cloud Services
1 9 (18.00%) Azure
2 6 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.00%) AWS
3 4 (8.00%) SaaS
4 3 (6.00%) Contentful
4 3 (6.00%) Contentstack
4 3 (6.00%) prismic.io
5 1 (2.00%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.00%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.00%) GCP
5 1 (2.00%) Miro
5 1 (2.00%) OCI
5 1 (2.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.00%) CockroachDB
1 3 (6.00%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.00%) MySQL
2 2 (4.00%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.00%) Star Schema
3 1 (2.00%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.00%) Data Hub
3 1 (2.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.00%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.00%) Looker
3 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.00%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (18.00%) JIRA
2 2 (4.00%) Bitbucket
2 2 (4.00%) Git
2 2 (4.00%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (2.00%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.00%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.00%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.00%) Terragrunt
3 1 (2.00%) Visual Studio
General
1 14 (28.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.00%) Finance
3 10 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (16.00%) Banking
5 6 (12.00%) Investment Banking
6 4 (8.00%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (6.00%) Retail
8 2 (4.00%) Back Office
8 2 (4.00%) Billing
8 2 (4.00%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (4.00%) Front Office
8 2 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (4.00%) Retail Banking
9 1 (2.00%) Automotive
9 1 (2.00%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (2.00%) Financial Institution
9 1 (2.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
9 1 (2.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 11 (22.00%) Product Owner
2 8 (16.00%) Analyst
3 5 (10.00%) Business Analyst
3 5 (10.00%) Developer
4 4 (8.00%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.00%) CMS Developer
5 3 (6.00%) Consultant
5 3 (6.00%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.00%) Lead
6 2 (4.00%) Digital Product Owner
6 2 (4.00%) Functional Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Python Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Python Software Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) QA Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Senior
6 2 (4.00%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.00%) Software Tester
6 2 (4.00%) Tester
6 2 (4.00%) User Researcher
6 2 (4.00%) Workday Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.00%) .NET
1 4 (8.00%) ADO
2 2 (4.00%) ASP.NET
2 2 (4.00%) React
2 2 (4.00%) REST
2 2 (4.00%) YAML
3 1 (2.00%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.00%) Apache Beam
3 1 (2.00%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (2.00%) Bootstrap
3 1 (2.00%) Django
3 1 (2.00%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.00%) Kafka
3 1 (2.00%) Node.js
3 1 (2.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.00%) Acoustics
2 2 (4.00%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.00%) Derivative
2 2 (4.00%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.00%) Private Cloud
2 2 (4.00%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.00%) Replication
2 2 (4.00%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (2.00%) Cloud Native
3 1 (2.00%) Digital Media
3 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.00%) Equities
3 1 (2.00%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.00%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 1 (2.00%) Market Risk
3 1 (2.00%) PMI
3 1 (2.00%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.00%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Linux
1 2 (4.00%) Unix
2 1 (2.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.00%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (58.00%) Agile
2 11 (22.00%) Problem-Solving
3 9 (18.00%) Roadmaps
3 9 (18.00%) Scrum
4 8 (16.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (16.00%) DevOps
4 8 (16.00%) Project Management
4 8 (16.00%) Test Automation
4 8 (16.00%) User Experience
4 8 (16.00%) User Stories
5 7 (14.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 7 (14.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 7 (14.00%) Software Engineering
6 6 (12.00%) CI/CD
6 6 (12.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 6 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (10.00%) Data Modelling
7 5 (10.00%) Product Strategy
7 5 (10.00%) Software Testing
7 5 (10.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.00%) SQL
2 6 (12.00%) Python
3 3 (6.00%) C#
3 3 (6.00%) Shell Script
4 2 (4.00%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.00%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.00%) Java
5 1 (2.00%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.00%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (10.00%) Degree
1 5 (10.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (8.00%) SC Cleared
3 3 (6.00%) PMI Certification
4 2 (4.00%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.00%) PMP
5 1 (2.00%) CISM
5 1 (2.00%) CISSP
5 1 (2.00%) CRISC
5 1 (2.00%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.00%) QA
2 2 (4.00%) MiFID
3 1 (2.00%) EMIR
3 1 (2.00%) GRC
3 1 (2.00%) PMO
3 1 (2.00%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.00%) Ansible
2 2 (4.00%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.00%) Terraform
3 1 (2.00%) Argo
3 1 (2.00%) Rancher
Vendors
1 5 (10.00%) Microsoft
1 5 (10.00%) Oracle
2 4 (8.00%) Workday
3 2 (4.00%) Red Hat
3 2 (4.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.00%) Adobe
4 1 (2.00%) Bloomberg
4 1 (2.00%) CQG
4 1 (2.00%) Databricks
4 1 (2.00%) Google
4 1 (2.00%) IBM
4 1 (2.00%) ION Trading
4 1 (2.00%) Planview
4 1 (2.00%) Reuters