Product Ownership Contracts in the East of England

Product Ownership
England > East of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in the East of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 85 93 81
Rank change year-on-year +8 -12 -13
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Product Ownership 11 10 35
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East of England 0.87% 0.63% 1.83%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 2.57% 2.84% 5.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 7 24
10th Percentile £411 £403 £450
25th Percentile £457 £405 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £425 £538
Median % change year-on-year +13.24% -20.93% +4.37%
75th Percentile £566 £625 £650
90th Percentile £610 £715 £807
England median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 4
10th Percentile - - £40.75
25th Percentile - - £47.50
Median hourly rate - - £68.75
75th Percentile - - £85.00
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £56.75 £60.83 £63.00
% change year-on-year -6.71% -3.44% +10.77%

All Generic Skills
East of England

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 of England.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 428 352 611
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England 34.02% 22.29% 31.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 164 346
10th Percentile £195 £180 £198
25th Percentile £363 £299 £301
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £553 £588
90th Percentile £676 £650 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 67 54
10th Percentile £16.95 £26.15 £20.65
25th Percentile £23.80 £46.25 £25.63
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +60.00%
75th Percentile £75.94 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £87.50 £85.00 £70.00
England median hourly rate £32.05 £48.75 £43.00
% change year-on-year -34.26% +13.37% +65.38%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the East of England

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Product Ownership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Product Ownership

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in the East of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in the East of England over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in the East of England

Product Ownership
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Product Ownership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the East of England citing Product Ownership

Product Ownership
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Hertfordshire +12 7 £525 -6.67% 12
Essex +2 2 £460 -18.22% 4
Bedfordshire - 1 - - 6
Suffolk - 1 £500 - 2
Product Ownership
England

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East of England 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 2 (18.18%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (9.09%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Azure
1 1 (9.09%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SAP BW
1 2 (18.18%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (9.09%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (9.09%) Metadata
2 1 (9.09%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (9.09%) SAP HANA
2 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
2 1 (9.09%) Visual Studio
General
1 4 (36.36%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 1 (9.09%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Product Owner
3 2 (18.18%) Consultant
3 2 (18.18%) Lead Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Agile Delivery Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Analytics Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Author
4 1 (9.09%) Cloud Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Product Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Product Manager
4 1 (9.09%) SAP Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Technical Author
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
1 1 (9.09%) .NET Framework
1 1 (9.09%) AngularJS
1 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET
1 1 (9.09%) ASP.NET Web API
1 1 (9.09%) CSS
1 1 (9.09%) CSS3
1 1 (9.09%) Entity Framework
1 1 (9.09%) Express.js
1 1 (9.09%) HTML
1 1 (9.09%) HTML5
1 1 (9.09%) jQuery
1 1 (9.09%) NgRx
1 1 (9.09%) RxJS
1 1 (9.09%) WCF
Miscellaneous
1 2 (18.18%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (9.09%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (54.55%) Agile
2 5 (45.45%) Scrum
2 5 (45.45%) Sprint Planning
3 4 (36.36%) Cybersecurity
3 4 (36.36%) DevOps
3 4 (36.36%) Sprint Retrospective
3 4 (36.36%) Use Case
4 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
4 3 (27.27%) Sprint Review
4 3 (27.27%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 3 (27.27%) User Stories
5 2 (18.18%) Analytics
5 2 (18.18%) Backlog Management
5 2 (18.18%) Capacity Management
5 2 (18.18%) Decision-Making
5 2 (18.18%) Planning and Forecasting
5 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (18.18%) Product Backlog
5 2 (18.18%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (18.18%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) C#
1 1 (9.09%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (9.09%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (9.09%) Degree
1 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
1 1 (9.09%) PMI Certification
1 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) Progress
1 2 (18.18%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) Atlassian