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 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 69 53 65
Rank change year-on-year -16 +12 -6
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 49 80 116
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 2.82% 3.70% 3.29%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.22% 11.75% 9.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 58 64
10th Percentile £408 £440 £472
25th Percentile £450 £483 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £573 £638
Median % change year-on-year +4.80% -10.20% +15.91%
75th Percentile £713 £675 £750
90th Percentile £750 £775 £825
Central London median daily rate £600 £563 £625
% change year-on-year +6.67% -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 596 681 1,232
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 34.33% 31.45% 34.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 374 460 842
10th Percentile £352 £263 £363
25th Percentile £475 £425 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £575 £625
Median % change year-on-year +4.35% -8.00% +6.84%
75th Percentile £700 £700 £750
90th Percentile £820 £838 £860
Central London median daily rate £575 £575 £616
% change year-on-year - -6.66% +7.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 14
10th Percentile £23.80 £12.75 £17.69
25th Percentile £26.50 £14.38 £35.00
Median hourly rate £31.00 £23.00 £37.42
Median % change year-on-year +34.78% -38.53% -19.54%
75th Percentile £65.50 £27.25 £87.16
90th Percentile £86.20 £36.60 £88.30
Central London median hourly rate £27.76 £23.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +20.70% -34.29% -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 19 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 (10.20%) Confluence
2 3 (6.12%) CMS
2 3 (6.12%) Headless CMS
3 2 (4.08%) SharePoint
4 1 (2.04%) Apache
Applications
1 3 (6.12%) MS Visio
2 2 (4.08%) Chatbot
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (4.08%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (2.04%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 2 (4.08%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.04%) Fidessa
2 1 (2.04%) Oracle EBS
2 1 (2.04%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 10 (20.41%) Azure
2 6 (12.24%) Azure DevOps
3 4 (8.16%) AWS
3 4 (8.16%) SaaS
4 3 (6.12%) Contentful
4 3 (6.12%) Contentstack
4 3 (6.12%) prismic.io
5 1 (2.04%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (2.04%) Apple Pay
5 1 (2.04%) Azure AKS
5 1 (2.04%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.04%) Entra ID
5 1 (2.04%) GCP
5 1 (2.04%) Google Pay
5 1 (2.04%) Miro
5 1 (2.04%) OCI
5 1 (2.04%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.04%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.12%) CockroachDB
1 3 (6.12%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.08%) MySQL
2 2 (4.08%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (4.08%) Star Schema
3 1 (2.04%) BigQuery
3 1 (2.04%) Data Hub
3 1 (2.04%) Data Lake
3 1 (2.04%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.04%) Elasticsearch
3 1 (2.04%) Looker
3 1 (2.04%) NoSQL
3 1 (2.04%) SQL Server
3 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Integration Services
3 1 (2.04%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 9 (18.37%) JIRA
2 2 (4.08%) Bitbucket
2 2 (4.08%) Git
2 2 (4.08%) Visual Studio Team System
3 1 (2.04%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (2.04%) Eclipse
3 1 (2.04%) Jenkins
3 1 (2.04%) Terragrunt
3 1 (2.04%) Visual Studio
General
1 13 (26.53%) Social Skills
2 11 (22.45%) Finance
3 9 (18.37%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (14.29%) Banking
5 6 (12.24%) Investment Banking
6 4 (8.16%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (8.16%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (8.16%) Retail
7 2 (4.08%) Back Office
7 2 (4.08%) Billing
7 2 (4.08%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (4.08%) Front Office
7 2 (4.08%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (4.08%) Retail Banking
8 1 (2.04%) Automotive
8 1 (2.04%) Documentation Skills
8 1 (2.04%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (2.04%) Manufacturing
8 1 (2.04%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 12 (24.49%) Product Owner
2 7 (14.29%) Analyst
3 5 (10.20%) Business Analyst
3 5 (10.20%) Developer
4 4 (8.16%) Project Manager
5 3 (6.12%) CMS Developer
5 3 (6.12%) Consultant
5 3 (6.12%) DevOps Engineer
5 3 (6.12%) Digital Product Owner
5 3 (6.12%) Lead
5 3 (6.12%) Senior
6 2 (4.08%) Python Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Python Software Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) QA Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Software Engineer
6 2 (4.08%) Software Tester
6 2 (4.08%) Tester
6 2 (4.08%) User Researcher
7 1 (2.04%) Analyst Developer
7 1 (2.04%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (8.16%) .NET
1 4 (8.16%) ADO
2 2 (4.08%) ASP.NET
2 2 (4.08%) React
2 2 (4.08%) REST
2 2 (4.08%) YAML
3 1 (2.04%) AngularJS
3 1 (2.04%) Apache Beam
3 1 (2.04%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (2.04%) Bootstrap
3 1 (2.04%) Django
3 1 (2.04%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.04%) Kafka
3 1 (2.04%) LDAP
3 1 (2.04%) Node.js
3 1 (2.04%) OAuth
3 1 (2.04%) RESTful
3 1 (2.04%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 3 (6.12%) Acoustics
2 2 (4.08%) Data Structures
2 2 (4.08%) Derivative
2 2 (4.08%) Onboarding
2 2 (4.08%) Private Cloud
2 2 (4.08%) Public Cloud
2 2 (4.08%) Replication
3 1 (2.04%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (2.04%) Digital Media
3 1 (2.04%) Digital Wallet
3 1 (2.04%) Enterprise Cloud
3 1 (2.04%) Equities
3 1 (2.04%) Fixed Income
3 1 (2.04%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (2.04%) Interest Rate Derivative
3 1 (2.04%) Market Risk
3 1 (2.04%) PMI
3 1 (2.04%) Reference Data
3 1 (2.04%) Reinsurance
3 1 (2.04%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.08%) Linux
1 2 (4.08%) Unix
2 1 (2.04%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
2 1 (2.04%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (61.22%) Agile
2 10 (20.41%) Problem-Solving
2 10 (20.41%) Roadmaps
3 8 (16.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 8 (16.33%) DevOps
3 8 (16.33%) Scrum
3 8 (16.33%) Test Automation
3 8 (16.33%) User Stories
4 7 (14.29%) Acceptance Criteria
4 7 (14.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 7 (14.29%) Project Management
4 7 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 7 (14.29%) User Experience
5 6 (12.24%) CI/CD
5 6 (12.24%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 5 (10.20%) Data Modelling
6 5 (10.20%) Product Strategy
6 5 (10.20%) Software Testing
6 5 (10.20%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (10.20%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 12 (24.49%) SQL
2 6 (12.24%) Python
3 3 (6.12%) C#
3 3 (6.12%) PowerShell
3 3 (6.12%) Shell Script
4 2 (4.08%) T-SQL
5 1 (2.04%) Java
5 1 (2.04%) JavaScript
5 1 (2.04%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 5 (10.20%) Degree
2 4 (8.16%) SC Cleared
2 4 (8.16%) Security Cleared
3 3 (6.12%) PMI Certification
4 2 (4.08%) Master's Degree
4 2 (4.08%) PMP
5 1 (2.04%) CISM
5 1 (2.04%) CISSP
5 1 (2.04%) CRISC
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (12.24%) QA
2 2 (4.08%) MiFID
3 1 (2.04%) EMIR
3 1 (2.04%) GRC
3 1 (2.04%) PMO
3 1 (2.04%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (2.04%) Active Directory
1 1 (2.04%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (6.12%) Ansible
2 2 (4.08%) Kubernetes
2 2 (4.08%) Terraform
3 1 (2.04%) Argo
3 1 (2.04%) Rancher
3 1 (2.04%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 6 (12.24%) Microsoft
2 5 (10.20%) Oracle
3 3 (6.12%) Workday
4 2 (4.08%) Red Hat
4 2 (4.08%) Salesforce
5 1 (2.04%) Adobe
5 1 (2.04%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.04%) CQG
5 1 (2.04%) Databricks
5 1 (2.04%) Google
5 1 (2.04%) IBM
5 1 (2.04%) ION Trading
5 1 (2.04%) Klarna
5 1 (2.04%) Planview
5 1 (2.04%) Reuters