Product Ownership Contracts in England

Product Ownership
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 96 67
Rank change year-on-year -3 -29 -11
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 623 873 1,674
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.55% 2.35% 3.33%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.49% 7.64% 9.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 429 612 1,182
10th Percentile £374 £405 £425
25th Percentile £447 £475 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £650
90th Percentile £767 £738 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 11 24
10th Percentile £44.51 £51.25 £59.87
25th Percentile £45.35 £57.33 £65.00
Median hourly rate £56.75 £57.44 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.20% -32.42% +44.68%
75th Percentile £66.75 £85.00 £85.41
90th Percentile £95.50 - £89.00
UK median hourly rate £56.75 £57.44 £80.00
% change year-on-year -1.20% -28.20% +63.27%

All Generic Skills
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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 8,318 11,425 16,915
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.11% 30.80% 33.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,441 7,484 11,737
10th Percentile £300 £263 £313
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £695
90th Percentile £788 £800 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 334 825 589
10th Percentile £15.84 £12.25 £9.80
25th Percentile £21.00 £15.17 £10.63
Median hourly rate £33.46 £31.50 £22.49
Median % change year-on-year +6.21% +40.09% -16.66%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.82 £70.00 £75.65
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.16 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.27% +34.13% -18.24%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in England

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in England.

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in England

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in England

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in England.

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in England

Product Ownership
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Product Ownership in England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Ownership in England

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in 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 England region over the 6 months to 3 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
London -19 364 £600 +4.35% 456
North of England +9 83 £423 -19.52% 170
South East -10 72 £531 -18.27% 202
North West +7 50 £402 -26.91% 120
South West +25 40 £588 +6.82% 73
Midlands +10 38 £500 -9.09% 87
West Midlands +1 23 £514 -8.71% 65
Yorkshire +3 19 £450 - 44
East Midlands +20 14 £442 -11.55% 17
North East -2 14 £438 -10.62% 6
East of England +28 10 £463 +8.19% 31
Product Ownership
UK

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 60 (9.63%) Confluence
2 11 (1.77%) CMS
3 9 (1.44%) SharePoint
4 7 (1.12%) WebLogic
5 5 (0.80%) JBoss
5 5 (0.80%) Tomcat
5 5 (0.80%) WebSphere
6 4 (0.64%) Apache
6 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Exchange
7 3 (0.48%) Headless CMS
8 2 (0.32%) Apache Airflow
8 2 (0.32%) Apache Solr
8 2 (0.32%) Apache Spark
8 2 (0.32%) Camunda
8 2 (0.32%) Oracle SOA Suite
9 1 (0.16%) Jupyter
9 1 (0.16%) nginx
9 1 (0.16%) Sitecore CMS
9 1 (0.16%) Tuxedo
9 1 (0.16%) WordPress
Applications
1 16 (2.57%) MS Visio
2 13 (2.09%) Microsoft Excel
3 11 (1.77%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 7 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
5 6 (0.96%) Autodesk Smoke
6 5 (0.80%) Chatbot
7 3 (0.48%) Adobe XD
8 2 (0.32%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.32%) Sketch
9 1 (0.16%) InVision
9 1 (0.16%) Trello
9 1 (0.16%) UserZoom
9 1 (0.16%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 10 (1.61%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
2 4 (0.64%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.48%) Oracle EBS
3 3 (0.48%) Shopify
4 2 (0.32%) Endur
4 2 (0.32%) Primavera
4 2 (0.32%) SAP IBP
4 2 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.32%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.16%) Aligne
5 1 (0.16%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.16%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.16%) Front Arena
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle EBS R12
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.16%) Oracle iProcurement
5 1 (0.16%) Remedy ITSM
5 1 (0.16%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 111 (17.82%) Azure
2 58 (9.31%) AWS
3 55 (8.83%) Azure DevOps
4 32 (5.14%) SaaS
5 20 (3.21%) Figma
6 19 (3.05%) Serverless
7 14 (2.25%) Power Platform
8 12 (1.93%) GCP
9 10 (1.61%) Cloud Computing
9 10 (1.61%) Entra ID
10 9 (1.44%) Azure Functions
10 9 (1.44%) Miro
11 8 (1.28%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (1.28%) Dynamics 365
12 7 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (0.96%) Apigee
13 6 (0.96%) Azure Cosmos DB
13 6 (0.96%) Azure Monitor
13 6 (0.96%) Azure Stack
14 5 (0.80%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.28%) POP3
1 8 (1.28%) SMTP
2 6 (0.96%) Firewall
3 5 (0.80%) HTTP
4 4 (0.64%) Network Security
5 3 (0.48%) Broadband
5 3 (0.48%) WAN
6 2 (0.32%) SD-WAN
7 1 (0.16%) Converged Networks
7 1 (0.16%) DHCP
7 1 (0.16%) DNS
7 1 (0.16%) LAN
7 1 (0.16%) MQTT
7 1 (0.16%) SMS
7 1 (0.16%) VLAN
7 1 (0.16%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.16%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 40 (6.42%) Data Lake
2 20 (3.21%) Data Warehouse
3 18 (2.89%) NoSQL
4 15 (2.41%) Relational Database
5 11 (1.77%) MongoDB
5 11 (1.77%) Power BI
6 8 (1.28%) SQL Server
7 6 (0.96%) Big Data
7 6 (0.96%) PostgreSQL
8 5 (0.80%) DB2
9 4 (0.64%) CockroachDB
9 4 (0.64%) Data Vault
9 4 (0.64%) GIS
9 4 (0.64%) MySQL
9 4 (0.64%) Tableau
10 2 (0.32%) Amazon Athena
10 2 (0.32%) Amazon Aurora
10 2 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
10 2 (0.32%) Azure SQL Database
10 2 (0.32%) Redis
Development Applications
1 102 (16.37%) JIRA
2 34 (5.46%) Git
3 18 (2.89%) Jenkins
4 12 (1.93%) Bitbucket
4 12 (1.93%) Cypress.io
4 12 (1.93%) Selenium
5 10 (1.61%) Postman
6 7 (1.12%) Visual Studio Code
7 6 (0.96%) GitLab
7 6 (0.96%) REST Assured
7 6 (0.96%) Visual Studio
8 5 (0.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
8 5 (0.80%) JUnit
9 4 (0.64%) Maven
9 4 (0.64%) Oracle Forms
9 4 (0.64%) Rational Rhapsody
10 3 (0.48%) Axure RP
10 3 (0.48%) Balsamiq
10 3 (0.48%) JMeter
10 3 (0.48%) SpecFlow
General
1 208 (33.39%) Social Skills
2 197 (31.62%) Finance
3 88 (14.13%) Analytical Skills
4 61 (9.79%) Banking
5 59 (9.47%) Front Office
6 40 (6.42%) Public Sector
7 32 (5.14%) Marketing
7 32 (5.14%) Presentation Skills
8 27 (4.33%) Retail
9 23 (3.69%) Telecoms
10 18 (2.89%) Legal
11 15 (2.41%) Back Office
11 15 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
11 15 (2.41%) Organisational Skills
12 14 (2.25%) Documentation Skills
13 13 (2.09%) Investment Banking
14 12 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 12 (1.93%) Manufacturing
15 8 (1.28%) Electronics
16 6 (0.96%) Wearables
Job Titles
1 128 (20.55%) Product Owner
2 100 (16.05%) Analyst
3 74 (11.88%) Business Analyst
4 63 (10.11%) Senior
5 62 (9.95%) Product Manager
6 57 (9.15%) Developer
6 57 (9.15%) Lead
7 34 (5.46%) Architect
8 28 (4.49%) Scrum Master
9 26 (4.17%) Project Manager
10 25 (4.01%) Product Analyst
11 22 (3.53%) Data Governance Analyst
11 22 (3.53%) Data Governance Manager
11 22 (3.53%) Governance Manager
12 19 (3.05%) Product Business Analyst
13 18 (2.89%) Designer
13 18 (2.89%) Programme Manager
14 17 (2.73%) Consultant
14 17 (2.73%) Senior Product Owner
15 16 (2.57%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (5.62%) .NET
2 29 (4.65%) React
3 26 (4.17%) CSS
4 25 (4.01%) HTML
4 25 (4.01%) REST
5 21 (3.37%) AngularJS
6 18 (2.89%) Web Services
7 17 (2.73%) RESTful
8 14 (2.25%) SOAP
9 13 (2.09%) JSON
9 13 (2.09%) LDAP
9 13 (2.09%) Spring Boot
10 11 (1.77%) Bootstrap
10 11 (1.77%) Kafka
10 11 (1.77%) Node.js
11 10 (1.61%) ADO
11 10 (1.61%) Spring
11 10 (1.61%) YAML
12 9 (1.44%) CSS3
13 8 (1.28%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 54 (8.67%) Fixed Income
2 52 (8.35%) Derivative
2 52 (8.35%) Equities
2 52 (8.35%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 48 (7.70%) Hedge funds
4 14 (2.25%) Self-Motivation
5 13 (2.09%) Cloud Native
6 11 (1.77%) Onboarding
6 11 (1.77%) Virtual Team
7 9 (1.44%) IoT
7 9 (1.44%) Mobile App
7 9 (1.44%) Private Cloud
7 9 (1.44%) SCADA
8 8 (1.28%) Greenfield Project
8 8 (1.28%) Mainframe
8 8 (1.28%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
9 7 (1.12%) Data Structures
10 6 (0.96%) Legacy Applications
10 6 (0.96%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 21 (3.37%) Apple iOS
2 18 (2.89%) Linux
3 16 (2.57%) Windows
4 6 (0.96%) Unix
5 5 (0.80%) Android
6 4 (0.64%) Windows 10
7 3 (0.48%) Windows 7
7 3 (0.48%) Windows XP
8 2 (0.32%) AIX
9 1 (0.16%) Mac OS
9 1 (0.16%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
9 1 (0.16%) SUSE
9 1 (0.16%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 424 (68.06%) Agile
2 188 (30.18%) Roadmaps
3 154 (24.72%) Scrum
4 114 (18.30%) User Stories
5 112 (17.98%) Problem-Solving
6 98 (15.73%) DevOps
7 94 (15.09%) Continuous Improvement
8 93 (14.93%) Stakeholder Management
9 91 (14.61%) Product Backlog
10 85 (13.64%) User Experience
11 78 (12.52%) Analytics
12 72 (11.56%) Product Roadmap
13 70 (11.24%) CI/CD
14 67 (10.75%) Backlog Management
15 62 (9.95%) Project Management
16 60 (9.63%) Migration
17 56 (8.99%) Acceptance Criteria
17 56 (8.99%) Backlog Prioritisation
18 53 (8.51%) Investment Management
19 47 (7.54%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 75 (12.04%) SQL
2 60 (9.63%) JavaScript
3 46 (7.38%) Python
4 43 (6.90%) Java
5 31 (4.98%) C#
6 27 (4.33%) PowerShell
7 24 (3.85%) TypeScript
8 10 (1.61%) PL/SQL
9 8 (1.28%) Scala
10 5 (0.80%) R
10 5 (0.80%) Rust
11 4 (0.64%) Perl
12 3 (0.48%) Bash
12 3 (0.48%) COBOL
12 3 (0.48%) Go
12 3 (0.48%) Shell Script
13 2 (0.32%) RPG
13 2 (0.32%) T-SQL
13 2 (0.32%) XPath
14 1 (0.16%) REXX
Qualifications
1 84 (13.48%) Degree
2 61 (9.79%) Security Cleared
3 45 (7.22%) SC Cleared
4 13 (2.09%) Computer Science Degree
5 10 (1.61%) PMI Certification
6 9 (1.44%) CISSP
6 9 (1.44%) CSPO
7 8 (1.28%) DV Cleared
8 7 (1.12%) Master's Degree
9 6 (0.96%) AWS Certification
10 5 (0.80%) CBAP
10 5 (0.80%) CISM
11 4 (0.64%) PMP
12 3 (0.48%) BPSS Clearance
12 3 (0.48%) CRISC
13 2 (0.32%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
13 2 (0.32%) Azure Certification
13 2 (0.32%) CISA
13 2 (0.32%) IIBA
14 1 (0.16%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 54 (8.67%) QA
2 14 (2.25%) Accessibility
3 12 (1.93%) Data Quality
4 7 (1.12%) GRC
5 6 (0.96%) NIST
5 6 (0.96%) PCI DSS
6 5 (0.80%) GDPR
7 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 3 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 3 (0.48%) PMO
8 2 (0.32%) Actionable Recommendations
8 2 (0.32%) MiFID
8 2 (0.32%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.32%) SLA
8 2 (0.32%) WCAG
9 1 (0.16%) Automotive SPICE
9 1 (0.16%) California Consumer Privacy Act
9 1 (0.16%) COPPA
9 1 (0.16%) ISO 26262
9 1 (0.16%) PSD2
System Software
1 23 (3.69%) Active Directory
2 15 (2.41%) Docker
3 11 (1.77%) Virtual Machines
4 6 (0.96%) VMware Infrastructure
5 2 (0.32%) Hyper-V
6 1 (0.16%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 20 (3.21%) Terraform
2 18 (2.89%) Kubernetes
3 13 (2.09%) Single Sign-On
4 9 (1.44%) Ansible
5 6 (0.96%) SCCM
6 5 (0.80%) HP ALM
6 5 (0.80%) Progress Chef
7 4 (0.64%) Microsoft Intune
7 4 (0.64%) Puppet
8 2 (0.32%) Grafana
8 2 (0.32%) NetBackup
9 1 (0.16%) Argo
9 1 (0.16%) Control-M
9 1 (0.16%) HP Data Protector
9 1 (0.16%) Kibana
9 1 (0.16%) Prometheus
9 1 (0.16%) Rancher
Vendors
1 75 (12.04%) Microsoft
2 33 (5.30%) Oracle
3 20 (3.21%) ServiceNow
4 19 (3.05%) Salesforce
5 18 (2.89%) SAP
6 15 (2.41%) IBM
7 14 (2.25%) Adobe
8 9 (1.44%) MuleSoft
9 8 (1.28%) Atlassian
9 8 (1.28%) Databricks
9 8 (1.28%) VMware
9 8 (1.28%) Workday
10 7 (1.12%) Google
10 7 (1.12%) Splunk
11 5 (0.80%) HP
11 5 (0.80%) Palantir
12 4 (0.64%) Sitecore
12 4 (0.64%) Snow
13 3 (0.48%) Perforce
14 2 (0.32%) Virgin Media