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 16 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 98 86 72
Rank change year-on-year -12 -14 -15
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 720 900 1,520
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.65% 2.46% 3.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.62% 7.98% 9.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 505 626 1,084
10th Percentile £356 £400 £425
25th Percentile £405 £463 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -11.11% -2.17% +4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £688 £650
90th Percentile £725 £775 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -9.09% -3.51% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 11 18
10th Percentile £44.51 £56.52 £37.33
25th Percentile £46.18 £57.02 £53.81
Median hourly rate £56.75 £61.06 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -7.06% -12.77% +42.86%
75th Percentile £64.52 £85.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £65.70 - £86.50
UK median hourly rate £56.75 £61.06 £65.00
% change year-on-year -7.06% -6.06% +44.44%

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 9,455 11,284 15,787
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 34.77% 30.87% 32.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 5,988 7,267 11,058
10th Percentile £305 £290 £310
25th Percentile £408 £420 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £656 £675 £688
90th Percentile £788 £825 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 473 782 459
10th Percentile £15.36 £12.28 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.62 £18.38
Median hourly rate £33.00 £40.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.50% +14.29% +32.08%
75th Percentile £60.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.50 £79.30
UK median hourly rate £30.00 £36.50 £31.05
% change year-on-year -17.81% +17.55% +15.09%

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 16 July 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 16 July 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 16 July 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 -23 403 £525 -8.70% 547
North of England +38 114 £450 -18.18% 206
North West +42 74 £429 -26.67% 111
Midlands +37 74 £442 -19.59% 105
South East -10 68 £500 -13.04% 157
South West +34 44 £510 -7.27% 69
West Midlands +17 38 £501 -10.93% 67
East Midlands +24 35 £402 +1.13% 37
Yorkshire +8 31 £500 -9.09% 74
North East -4 9 £588 +29.48% 21
East of England +7 8 £450 +5.57% 38
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 78 (10.83%) Confluence
2 22 (3.06%) CMS
3 9 (1.25%) SharePoint
4 7 (0.97%) Apache Spark
4 7 (0.97%) JBoss
4 7 (0.97%) Tomcat
4 7 (0.97%) WebLogic
4 7 (0.97%) WebSphere
5 5 (0.69%) Apache
5 5 (0.69%) WordPress
6 4 (0.56%) Drupal
7 3 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
7 3 (0.42%) Headless CMS
7 3 (0.42%) Microsoft Exchange
8 2 (0.28%) ArcGIS
8 2 (0.28%) Oracle Spatial
8 2 (0.28%) Sitecore CMS
8 2 (0.28%) Smallworld
9 1 (0.14%) Tuxedo
9 1 (0.14%) Umbraco
Applications
1 18 (2.50%) Microsoft Excel
1 18 (2.50%) MS Visio
2 10 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 9 (1.25%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.97%) Adobe XD
4 7 (0.97%) Sketch
5 4 (0.56%) Autodesk Smoke
5 4 (0.56%) Chatbot
6 3 (0.42%) UserZoom
7 2 (0.28%) InVision
7 2 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
8 1 (0.14%) Adobe Premiere
8 1 (0.14%) Trello
8 1 (0.14%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 11 (1.53%) Dynamics CRM
2 8 (1.11%) Endur
2 8 (1.11%) Oracle ERP
3 6 (0.83%) Payment Gateway
3 6 (0.83%) SAP S/4HANA
4 5 (0.69%) Oracle Retail
4 5 (0.69%) Oracle SCM
5 4 (0.56%) Fidessa
5 4 (0.56%) SAP IBP
6 3 (0.42%) Aladdin
6 3 (0.42%) Oracle EBS R12
6 3 (0.42%) Oracle iProcurement
6 3 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
6 3 (0.42%) SAP HR
6 3 (0.42%) SAP PM
6 3 (0.42%) thinkFolio
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Assets
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Payables
7 2 (0.28%) Oracle Receivables
7 2 (0.28%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 113 (15.69%) Azure
2 97 (13.47%) AWS
3 50 (6.94%) Azure DevOps
4 31 (4.31%) Figma
5 28 (3.89%) Serverless
6 27 (3.75%) GCP
7 26 (3.61%) SaaS
8 17 (2.36%) Power Platform
9 15 (2.08%) Dynamics 365
10 14 (1.94%) AWS Lambda
10 14 (1.94%) Miro
11 13 (1.81%) Amazon S3
11 13 (1.81%) GitHub
12 11 (1.53%) Salesforce Service Cloud
13 10 (1.39%) Apigee
13 10 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
14 8 (1.11%) OCI
14 8 (1.11%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
15 7 (0.97%) Cloud Computing
15 7 (0.97%) Datadog
Communications & Networking
1 11 (1.53%) Firewall
2 7 (0.97%) Network Security
3 4 (0.56%) HTTP
3 4 (0.56%) POP3
3 4 (0.56%) SMTP
4 3 (0.42%) Broadband
4 3 (0.42%) DHCP
4 3 (0.42%) DNS
4 3 (0.42%) VLAN
4 3 (0.42%) Wireless
5 2 (0.28%) BGP
5 2 (0.28%) EIGRP
5 2 (0.28%) IPsec
5 2 (0.28%) OSPF
5 2 (0.28%) SD-WAN
5 2 (0.28%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.28%) SSL
5 2 (0.28%) TACACS
5 2 (0.28%) VPN
5 2 (0.28%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 24 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
1 24 (3.33%) NoSQL
2 17 (2.36%) Data Lake
3 16 (2.22%) MongoDB
4 14 (1.94%) SQL Server
5 12 (1.67%) PostgreSQL
5 12 (1.67%) Relational Database
6 10 (1.39%) Power BI
7 8 (1.11%) DB2
8 6 (0.83%) Amazon Redshift
8 6 (0.83%) MySQL
9 5 (0.69%) Data Vault
10 4 (0.56%) Apache Hive
10 4 (0.56%) CockroachDB
10 4 (0.56%) GIS
10 4 (0.56%) Star Schema
10 4 (0.56%) Tableau
11 3 (0.42%) Elasticsearch
11 3 (0.42%) Hadoop
11 3 (0.42%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 132 (18.33%) JIRA
2 37 (5.14%) Git
3 31 (4.31%) Jenkins
4 14 (1.94%) Selenium
5 11 (1.53%) Cypress.io
5 11 (1.53%) Postman
6 10 (1.39%) Bitbucket
7 9 (1.25%) JUnit
8 8 (1.11%) GitLab
8 8 (1.11%) REST Assured
9 7 (0.97%) Atlassian Bamboo
9 7 (0.97%) Axure RP
10 6 (0.83%) Cucumber
10 6 (0.83%) Zephyr
11 5 (0.69%) TestRail
12 4 (0.56%) Eclipse
12 4 (0.56%) Oracle Forms
12 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio
12 4 (0.56%) Visual Studio Code
13 3 (0.42%) TestNG
General
1 276 (38.33%) Social Skills
2 240 (33.33%) Finance
3 105 (14.58%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (12.36%) Banking
5 49 (6.81%) Public Sector
6 41 (5.69%) Marketing
7 34 (4.72%) Retail
8 33 (4.58%) Presentation Skills
9 26 (3.61%) Telecoms
10 24 (3.33%) Investment Banking
11 23 (3.19%) Legal
12 22 (3.06%) Front Office
12 22 (3.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 21 (2.92%) Influencing Skills
14 20 (2.78%) Documentation Skills
15 11 (1.53%) Manufacturing
16 10 (1.39%) Back Office
16 10 (1.39%) Electronics
17 8 (1.11%) Corporate Banking
17 8 (1.11%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 145 (20.14%) Product Owner
2 123 (17.08%) Analyst
3 84 (11.67%) Business Analyst
4 83 (11.53%) Senior
5 75 (10.42%) Architect
6 63 (8.75%) Developer
7 56 (7.78%) Lead
8 44 (6.11%) Scrum Master
9 31 (4.31%) Product Manager
10 30 (4.17%) Project Manager
11 28 (3.89%) Designer
12 21 (2.92%) Tester
13 20 (2.78%) Senior Developer
13 20 (2.78%) Solutions Architect
14 17 (2.36%) Consultant
14 17 (2.36%) Technical Architect
15 16 (2.22%) Senior Analyst
16 15 (2.08%) Software Engineer
16 15 (2.08%) Technical Analyst
17 14 (1.94%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (6.39%) REST
2 30 (4.17%) .NET
3 28 (3.89%) HTML
4 26 (3.61%) CSS
5 25 (3.47%) React
6 24 (3.33%) SOAP
7 19 (2.64%) RESTful
8 18 (2.50%) Middleware
8 18 (2.50%) Web Services
9 17 (2.36%) AngularJS
9 17 (2.36%) Kafka
10 16 (2.22%) .NET Core
10 16 (2.22%) JSON
11 15 (2.08%) Node.js
11 15 (2.08%) Spring Boot
12 14 (1.94%) Spring
13 10 (1.39%) GraphQL
13 10 (1.39%) Lightning Web Components
13 10 (1.39%) Playwright
14 9 (1.25%) RAML
Miscellaneous
1 35 (4.86%) Cloud Native
2 18 (2.50%) Management Information System
2 18 (2.50%) Mobile App
2 18 (2.50%) Onboarding
3 17 (2.36%) Self-Motivation
4 16 (2.22%) Fixed Income
5 14 (1.94%) Virtual Team
6 13 (1.81%) Analytical Mindset
6 13 (1.81%) Derivative
6 13 (1.81%) Greenfield Project
7 12 (1.67%) Private Cloud
8 11 (1.53%) Data Structures
9 10 (1.39%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 10 (1.39%) PMI
9 10 (1.39%) SCADA
10 9 (1.25%) Algorithms
10 9 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
10 9 (1.25%) Mainframe
11 8 (1.11%) Equities
11 8 (1.11%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 16 (2.22%) Linux
2 15 (2.08%) Windows
3 10 (1.39%) Android
3 10 (1.39%) Apple iOS
4 4 (0.56%) Windows 10
5 3 (0.42%) Unix
5 3 (0.42%) Windows 7
5 3 (0.42%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.14%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.14%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.14%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 463 (64.31%) Agile
2 212 (29.44%) Scrum
3 172 (23.89%) Roadmaps
4 145 (20.14%) Problem-Solving
4 145 (20.14%) Stakeholder Management
5 139 (19.31%) User Stories
6 124 (17.22%) DevOps
7 119 (16.53%) Continuous Improvement
8 103 (14.31%) Product Backlog
9 98 (13.61%) CI/CD
10 92 (12.78%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 90 (12.50%) Backlog Management
11 90 (12.50%) User Experience
12 84 (11.67%) Product Roadmap
13 76 (10.56%) Sprint Planning
14 71 (9.86%) Analytics
15 62 (8.61%) Acceptance Criteria
16 61 (8.47%) Project Management
16 61 (8.47%) Test Automation
17 56 (7.78%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 101 (14.03%) SQL
2 66 (9.17%) JavaScript
3 58 (8.06%) Python
4 54 (7.50%) Java
5 32 (4.44%) C#
6 30 (4.17%) TypeScript
7 18 (2.50%) PowerShell
8 12 (1.67%) PL/SQL
9 11 (1.53%) Apex Code
10 7 (0.97%) Scala
11 5 (0.69%) R
11 5 (0.69%) Rust
12 4 (0.56%) Perl
13 3 (0.42%) Bash
13 3 (0.42%) COBOL
13 3 (0.42%) Go
13 3 (0.42%) Kotlin
13 3 (0.42%) Ruby
14 2 (0.28%) C++
14 2 (0.28%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 91 (12.64%) Degree
2 74 (10.28%) Security Cleared
3 49 (6.81%) SC Cleared
4 24 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 15 (2.08%) Master's Degree
6 14 (1.94%) DV Cleared
6 14 (1.94%) PMI Certification
7 12 (1.67%) BPSS Clearance
7 12 (1.67%) CSPO
8 9 (1.25%) AWS Certification
8 9 (1.25%) CBAP
9 8 (1.11%) CISSP
10 7 (0.97%) ISTQB
11 5 (0.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 5 (0.69%) CISM
12 4 (0.56%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
12 4 (0.56%) PMP
13 2 (0.28%) CISA
13 2 (0.28%) CRISC
13 2 (0.28%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 72 (10.00%) QA
2 23 (3.19%) Accessibility
3 19 (2.64%) GDPR
4 17 (2.36%) Data Quality
5 15 (2.08%) GRC
6 10 (1.39%) MiFID
7 8 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 8 (1.11%) PMO
8 7 (0.97%) NIST
9 5 (0.69%) NIST 800
9 5 (0.69%) SLA
10 4 (0.56%) California Consumer Privacy Act
10 4 (0.56%) Sarbanes-Oxley
11 3 (0.42%) EMIR
11 3 (0.42%) HIPAA
11 3 (0.42%) ISO/IEC 27005
12 2 (0.28%) COBIT
12 2 (0.28%) WCAG
13 1 (0.14%) GxP
13 1 (0.14%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 25 (3.47%) Docker
2 8 (1.11%) Virtual Machines
3 7 (0.97%) Active Directory
4 6 (0.83%) VMware Infrastructure
5 1 (0.14%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 34 (4.72%) Kubernetes
2 33 (4.58%) Terraform
3 11 (1.53%) Single Sign-On
4 10 (1.39%) Ansible
5 4 (0.56%) HP ALM
5 4 (0.56%) Microsoft Intune
5 4 (0.56%) SCCM
6 3 (0.42%) Progress Chef
7 2 (0.28%) Nagios
7 2 (0.28%) NetBackup
7 2 (0.28%) Puppet
8 1 (0.14%) Control-M
8 1 (0.14%) Grafana
8 1 (0.14%) HP Data Protector
8 1 (0.14%) Kibana
8 1 (0.14%) Prometheus
8 1 (0.14%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 102 (14.17%) Microsoft
2 53 (7.36%) Oracle
3 36 (5.00%) Salesforce
4 24 (3.33%) SAP
5 20 (2.78%) ServiceNow
6 12 (1.67%) Adobe
6 12 (1.67%) Google
6 12 (1.67%) Workday
7 11 (1.53%) Databricks
8 10 (1.39%) MuleSoft
9 9 (1.25%) IBM
10 8 (1.11%) Palantir
11 6 (0.83%) Duck Creek
11 6 (0.83%) Splunk
11 6 (0.83%) VMware
12 5 (0.69%) Cisco
12 5 (0.69%) Foundry
13 4 (0.56%) CA Agile Central
13 4 (0.56%) F5
13 4 (0.56%) HP