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 advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Ownership over the 6 months to 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 89 68 57
Rank change year-on-year -21 -11 +9
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 890 1,578 2,924
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.42% 3.31% 4.11%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.95% 9.80% 12.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 1,132 2,021
10th Percentile £405 £425 £413
25th Percentile £475 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £575 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £570 £550
% change year-on-year -3.51% +3.64% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 14 22
10th Percentile £56.79 £36.71 £25.05
25th Percentile £57.33 £53.81 £42.00
Median hourly rate £60.60 £67.50 £58.00
Median % change year-on-year -10.22% +16.38% -4.13%
75th Percentile £85.00 £83.75 £72.98
90th Percentile - £88.50 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £60.60 £63.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -3.81% +28.57% -18.67%

All Generic Skills
England

Product Ownership is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,191 16,096 24,105
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.47% 33.72% 33.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,271 11,236 17,266
10th Percentile £270 £313 £313
25th Percentile £415 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £569 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.25% +3.36% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.18% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 834 556 610
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.19 £10.63 £17.29
Median hourly rate £36.27 £22.49 £26.39
Median % change year-on-year +61.32% -14.78% +3.47%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.27 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.31 £75.00 £65.04
UK median hourly rate £35.50 £22.00 £26.98
% change year-on-year +61.36% -18.46% +5.80%

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 June 2024.

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 June 2024.

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 June 2024. 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 +1 555 £575 -4.17% 211
South East -41 123 £625 +13.64% 76
North of England -21 86 £550 - 66
North West -16 52 £556 -3.26% 42
South West -36 48 £550 -8.33% 30
Midlands -7 38 £563 +12.50% 67
West Midlands -8 31 £563 +4.65% 53
Yorkshire -22 27 £525 -2.78% 18
East of England -22 16 £426 -20.70% 17
North East +20 11 £454 +13.44% 7
East Midlands -3 5 £398 -11.67% 14
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 43 (4.83%) Confluence
2 17 (1.91%) CMS
3 7 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 7 (0.79%) Apache
4 4 (0.45%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.34%) nginx
5 3 (0.34%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.22%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.22%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.22%) Cloud Foundry
6 2 (0.22%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.22%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.22%) WordPress
7 1 (0.11%) Appian
7 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.11%) CICS
7 1 (0.11%) Drupal
Applications
1 16 (1.80%) Microsoft Excel
2 12 (1.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 10 (1.12%) Microsoft Office
4 7 (0.79%) Trello
5 6 (0.67%) Adobe XD
5 6 (0.67%) MS Visio
6 5 (0.56%) InVision
7 4 (0.45%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.45%) Sketch
8 2 (0.22%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.22%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.22%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
9 1 (0.11%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 18 (2.02%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.35%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.90%) Salesforce CRM
4 4 (0.45%) SAP HR
4 4 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (0.45%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 3 (0.34%) SAP QM
6 2 (0.22%) Remedy ITSM
6 2 (0.22%) SAP ERP
6 2 (0.22%) Shopify
6 2 (0.22%) Softmar
6 2 (0.22%) VisionPLUS
7 1 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
7 1 (0.11%) Loan IQ
7 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
7 1 (0.11%) SAP CO
7 1 (0.11%) SAP FI
7 1 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 216 (24.27%) Azure
2 104 (11.69%) Azure DevOps
3 86 (9.66%) AWS
4 48 (5.39%) Power Platform
5 47 (5.28%) Entra ID
6 43 (4.83%) Serverless
7 34 (3.82%) Azure Service Bus
8 31 (3.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 30 (3.37%) Azure Monitor
10 26 (2.92%) Azure Data Factory
10 26 (2.92%) Azure Functions
11 24 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
12 22 (2.47%) GitHub
13 20 (2.25%) GCP
13 20 (2.25%) SaaS
14 18 (2.02%) PaaS
15 15 (1.69%) Figma
16 12 (1.35%) Microsoft Purview
17 10 (1.12%) Azure Stack
17 10 (1.12%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 25 (2.81%) Firewall
2 17 (1.91%) VPN
3 5 (0.56%) Broadband
4 4 (0.45%) DNS
4 4 (0.45%) WAN
5 3 (0.34%) AMQP
5 3 (0.34%) DMZ
5 3 (0.34%) FTP
5 3 (0.34%) LAN
5 3 (0.34%) Wireless
6 2 (0.22%) DHCP
6 2 (0.22%) HTTP
6 2 (0.22%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.22%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.11%) 3G
7 1 (0.11%) 4G
7 1 (0.11%) 5G
7 1 (0.11%) Internet
7 1 (0.11%) Intranet
7 1 (0.11%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 62 (6.97%) SQL Server
2 47 (5.28%) Power BI
3 40 (4.49%) NoSQL
4 22 (2.47%) Data Warehouse
5 21 (2.36%) Data Lake
6 16 (1.80%) Relational Database
7 12 (1.35%) Big Data
8 11 (1.24%) Metadata
9 10 (1.12%) PostgreSQL
9 10 (1.12%) Redis
9 10 (1.12%) Tableau
10 9 (1.01%) Snowflake Schema
11 7 (0.79%) Apache Arrow
11 7 (0.79%) Azure SQL Database
11 7 (0.79%) Dremio
12 6 (0.67%) MongoDB
12 6 (0.67%) RDBMS
13 5 (0.56%) DynamoDB
13 5 (0.56%) MySQL
14 4 (0.45%) Amazon RDS
Development Applications
1 82 (9.21%) JIRA
2 49 (5.51%) Git
3 30 (3.37%) Jenkins
4 28 (3.15%) Selenium
5 17 (1.91%) Postman
6 15 (1.69%) Bitbucket
7 14 (1.57%) TeamCity
8 12 (1.35%) JUnit
9 11 (1.24%) SpecFlow
10 10 (1.12%) Artifactory
11 9 (1.01%) JMeter
12 8 (0.90%) GitLab
12 8 (0.90%) WebDriver
13 6 (0.67%) Axure RP
13 6 (0.67%) Cypress.io
14 5 (0.56%) Eclipse
14 5 (0.56%) PyCharm
14 5 (0.56%) Visual Studio
15 4 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
15 4 (0.45%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 260 (29.21%) Social Skills
2 221 (24.83%) Finance
3 115 (12.92%) Analytical Skills
4 88 (9.89%) Banking
5 82 (9.21%) Public Sector
6 51 (5.73%) Back Office
7 47 (5.28%) Front Office
8 46 (5.17%) Marketing
9 40 (4.49%) Investment Banking
10 31 (3.48%) Influencing Skills
11 30 (3.37%) Presentation Skills
11 30 (3.37%) Telecoms
12 29 (3.26%) Retail
13 26 (2.92%) Manufacturing
14 19 (2.13%) Pharmaceutical
15 16 (1.80%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 16 (1.80%) Retail Banking
16 13 (1.46%) Legal
17 11 (1.24%) Billing
17 11 (1.24%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 210 (23.60%) Product Owner
2 155 (17.42%) Senior
3 152 (17.08%) Analyst
4 130 (14.61%) Developer
5 124 (13.93%) Business Analyst
6 117 (13.15%) Architect
7 72 (8.09%) Lead
8 64 (7.19%) Product Manager
9 42 (4.72%) Solutions Architect
10 40 (4.49%) Senior Developer
11 37 (4.16%) Finance Business Analyst
11 37 (4.16%) Financial Analyst
12 36 (4.04%) Senior Product Owner
13 35 (3.93%) Azure Developer
14 32 (3.60%) Scrum Master
15 28 (3.15%) Product Analyst
15 28 (3.15%) Senior Analyst
16 27 (3.03%) Product Business Analyst
16 27 (3.03%) Technical Leader
17 26 (2.92%) Data Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 78 (8.76%) .NET
2 63 (7.08%) React
3 60 (6.74%) XML
4 47 (5.28%) HTML
5 45 (5.06%) CSS
6 33 (3.71%) .NET Core
7 32 (3.60%) Node.js
7 32 (3.60%) REST
8 27 (3.03%) .NET Framework
9 26 (2.92%) AngularJS
10 19 (2.13%) ASP.NET
10 19 (2.13%) RESTful
11 17 (1.91%) JSON
12 13 (1.46%) Web Services
13 11 (1.24%) ADO
14 10 (1.12%) jQuery
14 10 (1.12%) Kafka
15 9 (1.01%) ASP.NET Core
15 9 (1.01%) GraphQL
15 9 (1.01%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 43 (4.83%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 41 (4.61%) Derivative
2 41 (4.61%) Fixed Income
3 40 (4.49%) Hedge funds
4 36 (4.04%) Equities
5 35 (3.93%) Mobile App
6 17 (1.91%) Management Information System
6 17 (1.91%) Public Cloud
7 16 (1.80%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.69%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.69%) Reference Data
9 12 (1.35%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.24%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.24%) Virtual Team
11 10 (1.12%) Data Protection Act
11 10 (1.12%) IoT
12 9 (1.01%) Greenfield Project
12 9 (1.01%) Reinsurance
13 8 (0.90%) Cloud Native
13 8 (0.90%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 36 (4.04%) Android
2 29 (3.26%) Apple iOS
3 28 (3.15%) Linux
4 27 (3.03%) Windows
5 21 (2.36%) Unix
6 15 (1.69%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.22%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 578 (64.94%) Agile
2 231 (25.96%) Scrum
3 228 (25.62%) DevOps
4 200 (22.47%) Roadmaps
5 161 (18.09%) User Stories
6 145 (16.29%) Problem-Solving
7 144 (16.18%) CI/CD
8 117 (13.15%) Product Backlog
9 114 (12.81%) Stakeholder Management
10 102 (11.46%) Continuous Improvement
11 95 (10.67%) Analytics
12 86 (9.66%) Test Automation
13 83 (9.33%) User Experience
14 82 (9.21%) Acceptance Criteria
15 75 (8.43%) Microservices
16 74 (8.31%) Product Management
17 71 (7.98%) Product Roadmap
18 67 (7.53%) Project Management
19 66 (7.42%) Data Modelling
20 65 (7.30%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 129 (14.49%) SQL
2 115 (12.92%) Python
3 77 (8.65%) C#
4 72 (8.09%) Java
5 67 (7.53%) JavaScript
6 52 (5.84%) PowerShell
7 40 (4.49%) TypeScript
8 35 (3.93%) Bicep
9 13 (1.46%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.12%) C
11 9 (1.01%) Apex Code
12 8 (0.90%) Go
13 7 (0.79%) Groovy
14 6 (0.67%) C++
15 5 (0.56%) PHP
16 3 (0.34%) Bash
16 3 (0.34%) T-SQL
17 2 (0.22%) PL/SQL
17 2 (0.22%) Shell Script
17 2 (0.22%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 99 (11.12%) Security Cleared
2 66 (7.42%) Degree
3 58 (6.52%) SC Cleared
4 38 (4.27%) DV Cleared
5 10 (1.12%) CISM
5 10 (1.12%) CISSP
6 9 (1.01%) Computer Science Degree
6 9 (1.01%) Master's Degree
7 7 (0.79%) CSPO
8 4 (0.45%) PMP
8 4 (0.45%) TOGAF Certification
9 3 (0.34%) Azure Certification
9 3 (0.34%) CBAP
10 2 (0.22%) AWS Certification
10 2 (0.22%) ISEB
10 2 (0.22%) ISTQB
10 2 (0.22%) MBA
11 1 (0.11%) Chartered Engineer
11 1 (0.11%) CISA
11 1 (0.11%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 80 (8.99%) QA
2 26 (2.92%) Data Quality
3 25 (2.81%) Accessibility
4 20 (2.25%) PCI DSS
5 16 (1.80%) GDPR
5 16 (1.80%) WCAG
6 11 (1.24%) NIST
7 7 (0.79%) PMO
8 5 (0.56%) Cyber Essentials
8 5 (0.56%) Good Clinical Practice
8 5 (0.56%) GxP
8 5 (0.56%) ISO 20022
9 4 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 4 (0.45%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.11%) GRC
10 1 (0.11%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.11%) MiFID
10 1 (0.11%) NCSC
10 1 (0.11%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.11%) SLA
System Software
1 63 (7.08%) Active Directory
2 33 (3.71%) Docker
3 4 (0.45%) VMware Infrastructure
3 4 (0.45%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 36 (4.04%) Kubernetes
2 28 (3.15%) Ansible
3 27 (3.03%) Terraform
4 8 (0.90%) Single Sign-On
5 5 (0.56%) Puppet
6 4 (0.45%) OPNET
6 4 (0.45%) PowerCLI
7 3 (0.34%) Grafana
7 3 (0.34%) Prometheus
8 2 (0.22%) Rundeck
9 1 (0.11%) AppManager
9 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
9 1 (0.11%) Matomo
9 1 (0.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 136 (15.28%) Microsoft
2 39 (4.38%) Salesforce
3 32 (3.60%) SAP
4 25 (2.81%) Google
5 23 (2.58%) Adobe
6 17 (1.91%) Bloomberg
7 12 (1.35%) BISAM
7 12 (1.35%) Oracle
7 12 (1.35%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 10 (1.12%) Atlassian
8 10 (1.12%) ServiceNow
9 8 (0.90%) Splunk
10 6 (0.67%) Apple
10 6 (0.67%) CA Agile Central
10 6 (0.67%) MuleSoft
11 5 (0.56%) Centrify
11 5 (0.56%) Cisco
11 5 (0.56%) CyberArk
11 5 (0.56%) Databricks
12 4 (0.45%) Sparx