Product Ownership Contracts in the East Midlands

Product Ownership
England > East Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in the East Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 42 58 64
Rank change year-on-year +16 +6 -12
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 13 8 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.36% 1.03% 2.00%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.33% 4.00% 7.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 8 19
10th Percentile £356 £325 £253
25th Percentile £363 £385 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% +11.11% -4.86%
75th Percentile £491 £570 £509
90th Percentile £530 £596 £650
England median daily rate £550 £556 £565
% change year-on-year -1.08% -1.59% +2.73%

All Generic Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 156 200 298
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 28.36% 25.81% 28.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 103 137 214
10th Percentile £250 £167 £202
25th Percentile £356 £230 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +12.50% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £544 £563 £550
90th Percentile £598 £625 £674
England median daily rate £550 £550 £573
% change year-on-year - -3.93% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 15 22
10th Percentile - £11.75 £16.80
25th Percentile - £12.28 £18.34
Median hourly rate £13.81 £14.00 £21.97
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -36.26% +28.41%
75th Percentile £18.69 £18.32 £62.50
90th Percentile £23.46 £24.59 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.91 £31.75 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.80% +41.21% -16.66%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the East Midlands

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in the East Midlands

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in the East Midlands

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 7 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
Northamptonshire +6 6 £363 -7.35% 7
Nottinghamshire +14 5 £518 -13.75% 9
Derbyshire +9 1 - - 1
Product Ownership
England

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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 1 (7.69%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) SaaS
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (15.38%) Amazon S3
2 2 (15.38%) AWS
2 2 (15.38%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (15.38%) Azure
2 2 (15.38%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (15.38%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (15.38%) Serverless
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (15.38%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (15.38%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (15.38%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (15.38%) Jenkins
1 2 (15.38%) Postman
2 1 (7.69%) Git
2 1 (7.69%) JIRA
General
1 4 (30.77%) Finance
1 4 (30.77%) Social Skills
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Aerospace
4 1 (7.69%) Banking
4 1 (7.69%) Financial Institution
4 1 (7.69%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (30.77%) Product Owner
1 4 (30.77%) Senior
2 3 (23.08%) Digital Product Owner
3 2 (15.38%) Cloud Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) QA Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) QA Test Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior QA Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Senior Test Engineer
3 2 (15.38%) Test Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Android Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Data Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Finance Manager
4 1 (7.69%) IT Business Analyst
4 1 (7.69%) Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Android Developer
4 1 (7.69%) Senior Platform Engineer
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Technical Programme Manager
4 1 (7.69%) Test Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (15.38%) .NET
1 2 (15.38%) Kafka
2 1 (7.69%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (7.69%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (7.69%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (7.69%) Middleware
2 1 (7.69%) REST
2 1 (7.69%) SOAP
2 1 (7.69%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 2 (15.38%) Cloud Native
2 1 (7.69%) Management Information System
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
2 1 (7.69%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (15.38%) Linux
2 1 (7.69%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (92.31%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) Problem-Solving
3 5 (38.46%) Technical Leadership
3 5 (38.46%) User Experience
4 4 (30.77%) Analytics
4 4 (30.77%) Continuous Improvement
4 4 (30.77%) Decision-Making
4 4 (30.77%) DevOps
4 4 (30.77%) Mentoring
4 4 (30.77%) Product Management
4 4 (30.77%) Scrum
4 4 (30.77%) SDLC
4 4 (30.77%) User Stories
5 3 (23.08%) Business Analysis
5 3 (23.08%) Computer Science
5 3 (23.08%) Data Governance
5 3 (23.08%) Data Security
5 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (23.08%) Test Automation
5 3 (23.08%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (30.77%) Java
2 2 (15.38%) Python
2 2 (15.38%) Scala
2 2 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (7.69%) Apex Code
3 1 (7.69%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 6 (46.15%) Degree
2 3 (23.08%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certification
3 2 (15.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (7.69%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) Data Quality
1 3 (23.08%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (15.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (15.38%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 1 (7.69%) Microsoft
1 1 (7.69%) Salesforce