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 18 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 40 61 59
Rank change year-on-year +21 -2 -8
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 15 6 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 2.60% 0.78% 2.09%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.72% 2.97% 7.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 6 19
10th Percentile £356 £293 £253
25th Percentile £358 £377 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £433 £424 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.06% -5.83% -5.26%
75th Percentile £459 £525 £509
90th Percentile £529 £556 £650
England median daily rate £525 £559 £565
% change year-on-year -6.12% -1.02% +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 172 202 293
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 29.76% 26.13% 29.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 115 141 209
10th Percentile £250 £168 £198
25th Percentile £356 £230 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year +5.88% -5.56% -
75th Percentile £538 £550 £550
90th Percentile £595 £600 £688
England median daily rate £538 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -2.27% -3.93% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 21 15 19
10th Percentile - £11.75 £16.49
25th Percentile - £12.28 £18.13
Median hourly rate £13.81 £14.00 £21.67
Median % change year-on-year -1.36% -35.39% +23.41%
75th Percentile £18.87 £18.32 £65.00
90th Percentile £21.39 £24.59 -
England median hourly rate £33.91 £34.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year -0.26% +51.21% -16.69%

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 18 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 18 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 -2 7 £358 -8.50% 5
Nottinghamshire - 6 £515 - 11
Derbyshire - 1 - - 5
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 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) JBoss
1 1 (6.67%) Tomcat
1 1 (6.67%) WebLogic
1 1 (6.67%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 3 (20.00%) AWS
1 3 (20.00%) SaaS
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon EMR
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon Kinesis
2 2 (13.33%) Amazon S3
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Lambda
2 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 2 (13.33%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (13.33%) Cloud Computing
2 2 (13.33%) Serverless
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 2 (13.33%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (13.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (6.67%) DB2
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) Git
1 2 (13.33%) Jenkins
1 2 (13.33%) Postman
2 1 (6.67%) Bitbucket
2 1 (6.67%) JIRA
General
1 5 (33.33%) Finance
2 4 (26.67%) Social Skills
3 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (6.67%) Aerospace
5 1 (6.67%) Banking
5 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
5 1 (6.67%) Marketing
5 1 (6.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 5 (33.33%) Senior
2 4 (26.67%) Product Owner
3 3 (20.00%) Digital Product Owner
4 2 (13.33%) Cloud Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) QA Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) QA Test Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior QA Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Senior Test Engineer
4 2 (13.33%) Test Engineer
5 1 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Business IT Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) IT Business Analyst
5 1 (6.67%) Programme Manager
5 1 (6.67%) QA Tester
5 1 (6.67%) Scrum Master
5 1 (6.67%) Senior QA Tester
5 1 (6.67%) Senior Tester
5 1 (6.67%) Technical Manager
5 1 (6.67%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) .NET
1 2 (13.33%) Kafka
1 2 (13.33%) REST
1 2 (13.33%) SOAP
2 1 (6.67%) Android Jetpack
2 1 (6.67%) Jetpack Compose
2 1 (6.67%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (6.67%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) RAML
2 1 (6.67%) Visualforce
2 1 (6.67%) Web Services
2 1 (6.67%) WSDL
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
2 1 (6.67%) Mobile App
2 1 (6.67%) Onboarding
2 1 (6.67%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Android
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (86.67%) Agile
2 8 (53.33%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 5 (33.33%) Scrum
4 5 (33.33%) SDLC
4 5 (33.33%) Technical Leadership
4 5 (33.33%) User Experience
5 4 (26.67%) Analytics
5 4 (26.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 4 (26.67%) Decision-Making
5 4 (26.67%) DevOps
5 4 (26.67%) Mentoring
5 4 (26.67%) Product Management
5 4 (26.67%) Test Automation
5 4 (26.67%) User Stories
6 3 (20.00%) Business Analysis
6 3 (20.00%) Business Process Modelling
6 3 (20.00%) Computer Science
6 3 (20.00%) Data Governance
6 3 (20.00%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 4 (26.67%) Java
2 3 (20.00%) SQL
3 2 (13.33%) Python
3 2 (13.33%) Scala
4 1 (6.67%) Apex Code
4 1 (6.67%) Kotlin
Qualifications
1 6 (40.00%) Degree
2 3 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
3 2 (13.33%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
4 1 (6.67%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
4 1 (6.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (26.67%) QA
2 3 (20.00%) Data Quality
3 1 (6.67%) California Consumer Privacy Act
3 1 (6.67%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (13.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (13.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (13.33%) Oracle
2 1 (6.67%) Salesforce