Product Ownership Contract Job Trends in Edinburgh

Product Ownership
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in Edinburgh. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 9 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 38 49 51
Rank change year-on-year +11 +2 +3
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 26 21 38
As % of all contract jobs in Edinburgh 4.35% 3.19% 4.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.45% 8.97% 11.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 13 24
10th Percentile £376 £416 £432
25th Percentile £406 £450 £452
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.53% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £513 £538 £588
90th Percentile £595 £588 £600
Scotland median daily rate £440 £475 £525
% change year-on-year -7.47% -9.52% +16.67%

All Generic Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 227 234 344
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 37.96% 35.51% 36.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 112 109 176
10th Percentile £153 £192 £300
25th Percentile £262 £363 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £450 £480
Median % change year-on-year -5.56% -6.25% +1.05%
75th Percentile £510 £538 £550
90th Percentile £573 £619 £625
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 16 6
10th Percentile £14.35 £18.92 £14.69
25th Percentile £15.69 £21.74 £19.01
Median hourly rate £23.75 £23.59 £28.94
Median % change year-on-year +0.68% -18.47% +27.55%
75th Percentile £63.75 £24.18 £53.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £26.28 £60.75
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £23.59 £19.18
% change year-on-year +6.61% +22.99% -8.67%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Product Ownership relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Product Ownership job vacancy trend in Edinburgh

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Product Ownership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Product Ownership

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 9 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in Edinburgh

Product Ownership
Hourly Rate Trend in Edinburgh

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Product Ownership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Edinburgh citing Product Ownership

Product Ownership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Edinburgh by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 7 (26.92%) Confluence
2 1 (3.85%) Apache
2 1 (3.85%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (7.69%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 10 (38.46%) Azure
2 9 (34.62%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (7.69%) AWS
3 2 (7.69%) Figma
3 2 (7.69%) GitHub
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon S3
4 1 (3.85%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (3.85%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (3.85%) Dagster
4 1 (3.85%) GCP
4 1 (3.85%) npm
4 1 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.85%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 10 (38.46%) JIRA
2 2 (7.69%) Subversion
2 2 (7.69%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (3.85%) Cucumber
3 1 (3.85%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.85%) Git
3 1 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 1 (3.85%) Maven
3 1 (3.85%) MLflow
3 1 (3.85%) webpack
General
1 10 (38.46%) Social Skills
2 9 (34.62%) Finance
3 7 (26.92%) Public Sector
4 5 (19.23%) Banking
5 4 (15.38%) Analytical Skills
6 3 (11.54%) Billing
7 2 (7.69%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (7.69%) Financial Institution
7 2 (7.69%) Investment Banking
7 2 (7.69%) Retail
7 2 (7.69%) Retail Banking
8 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (3.85%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (30.77%) Developer
2 6 (23.08%) .NET Developer
3 5 (19.23%) Delivery Manager
4 4 (15.38%) Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) Business Analyst
4 4 (15.38%) Product Owner
5 3 (11.54%) Agile Scrum Master
5 3 (11.54%) Designer
5 3 (11.54%) Lead
5 3 (11.54%) Product Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) Product Business Analyst
5 3 (11.54%) React Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Scrum Master
5 3 (11.54%) Senior
5 3 (11.54%) Senior .NET Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior Developer
5 3 (11.54%) Senior React Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (7.69%) Technical Leader
6 2 (7.69%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (26.92%) React
2 6 (23.08%) .NET
3 3 (11.54%) FastAPI
3 3 (11.54%) REST
4 1 (3.85%) AWS CDK
4 1 (3.85%) boto
4 1 (3.85%) Hugging Face
4 1 (3.85%) Jest
4 1 (3.85%) JWT
4 1 (3.85%) NumPy
4 1 (3.85%) OAuth
4 1 (3.85%) OpenCV
4 1 (3.85%) Pandas
4 1 (3.85%) PyTorch
4 1 (3.85%) RESTful
4 1 (3.85%) Spring
4 1 (3.85%) Spring Boot
4 1 (3.85%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 6 (23.08%) Legacy Applications
1 6 (23.08%) Wiki
2 4 (15.38%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (11.54%) Derivative
3 3 (11.54%) Self-Motivation
3 3 (11.54%) Virtual Team
4 2 (7.69%) OTC Derivatives
5 1 (3.85%) Algorithms
5 1 (3.85%) Cloud Native
5 1 (3.85%) Data Structures
5 1 (3.85%) Equities
5 1 (3.85%) Fixed Income
5 1 (3.85%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (3.85%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Linux
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (76.92%) Agile
2 14 (53.85%) DevOps
3 10 (38.46%) Continuous Improvement
3 10 (38.46%) Scrum
4 8 (30.77%) Code Quality
4 8 (30.77%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (30.77%) User Experience
5 6 (23.08%) Knowledge Transfer
5 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (19.23%) CI/CD
6 5 (19.23%) Project Delivery
6 5 (19.23%) Test Automation
7 4 (15.38%) AI
7 4 (15.38%) Coaching
7 4 (15.38%) Configuration Management
7 4 (15.38%) Data Protection
7 4 (15.38%) Kanban
7 4 (15.38%) Work Breakdown Structure
8 3 (11.54%) Microservices
8 3 (11.54%) Software Engineering
Programming Languages
1 3 (11.54%) Java
1 3 (11.54%) Python
1 3 (11.54%) TypeScript
2 2 (7.69%) C++
3 1 (3.85%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.85%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (3.85%) Accessibility
System Software
1 1 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (15.38%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.85%) Grafana
2 1 (3.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (11.54%) CA Agile Central
1 3 (11.54%) Spotify
2 2 (7.69%) Atlassian
3 1 (3.85%) Bloomberg
3 1 (3.85%) Reuters