Product Ownership Contract Job Trends in Glasgow

Product Ownership
Scotland > Glasgow

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in Glasgow. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 29 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 63 60 44
Rank change year-on-year -3 -16 +18
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 12 18 37
As % of all contract jobs in Glasgow 1.71% 2.38% 4.25%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.17% 6.59% 12.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 15 21
10th Percentile £391 £350 £400
25th Percentile £425 £356 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £444 £500
Median % change year-on-year +4.17% -11.20% +6.38%
75th Percentile £568 £500 £600
90th Percentile £597 £639 £650
Scotland median daily rate £450 £453 £525
% change year-on-year -0.66% -13.71% +16.67%

All Generic Skills
Glasgow

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 Glasgow.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 288 273 289
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Glasgow 41.14% 36.16% 33.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 153 175
10th Percentile £223 £334 £250
25th Percentile £400 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year - -10.00% -
75th Percentile £555 £538 £650
90th Percentile £644 £648 £700
Scotland median daily rate £450 £450 £500
% change year-on-year - -10.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 7 7
10th Percentile £15.38 £19.63 £15.42
25th Percentile £16.13 £22.26 £15.71
Median hourly rate £25.92 £24.18 £18.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.20% +34.33% +20.00%
75th Percentile £53.13 £35.90 £19.50
90th Percentile £63.05 £59.70 -
Scotland median hourly rate £25.15 £24.17 £18.00
% change year-on-year +4.08% +34.25% -14.29%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Glasgow

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

Product Ownership job vacancy trend in Glasgow

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in Glasgow

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in Glasgow over the 6 months to 29 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in Glasgow

Product Ownership
Hourly Rate Trend in Glasgow

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

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

Product Ownership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Glasgow 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 1 (8.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 3 (25.00%) AWS
1 3 (25.00%) Azure
2 1 (8.33%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 3 (25.00%) MySQL
1 3 (25.00%) Relational Database
2 1 (8.33%) Electronic Patient Records
2 1 (8.33%) NoSQL
2 1 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Jenkins
2 2 (16.67%) webpack
3 1 (8.33%) Git
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
1 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 4 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Banking
2 1 (8.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (8.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Developer
2 3 (25.00%) Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Business Analyst
3 2 (16.67%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Full-Stack Java Developer
3 2 (16.67%) Operations Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Agile Product Owner
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Finance Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Financial Control Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Product Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Product Control Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Product Owner
4 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Site Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Site Reliability Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (33.33%) React
2 3 (25.00%) Kafka
2 3 (25.00%) RESTful
2 3 (25.00%) Spring
2 3 (25.00%) Spring Boot
3 2 (16.67%) AngularJS
3 2 (16.67%) CSS
3 2 (16.67%) CSS3
3 2 (16.67%) HTML
3 2 (16.67%) HTML5
3 2 (16.67%) Middleware
3 2 (16.67%) Node.js
3 2 (16.67%) Redux
4 1 (8.33%) RabbitMQ
Miscellaneous
1 3 (25.00%) Distributed Applications
1 3 (25.00%) Public Cloud
2 1 (8.33%) Cloud Native
2 1 (8.33%) Distributed Computing
2 1 (8.33%) Wiki
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (66.67%) Microservices
2 6 (50.00%) Agile
3 5 (41.67%) CI/CD
3 5 (41.67%) Design Patterns
3 5 (41.67%) SDLC
3 5 (41.67%) User Acceptance Testing
4 3 (25.00%) Architectural Patterns
4 3 (25.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 3 (25.00%) DevOps
4 3 (25.00%) Observability
4 3 (25.00%) Runbook
4 3 (25.00%) Test Automation
5 2 (16.67%) Coaching
5 2 (16.67%) Computer Science
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (16.67%) Continuous Integration
5 2 (16.67%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (16.67%) Service Management
5 2 (16.67%) Software Engineering
5 2 (16.67%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (50.00%) Java
2 4 (33.33%) TypeScript
3 2 (16.67%) JavaScript
4 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (25.00%) Degree
2 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (16.67%) SC Cleared
2 2 (16.67%) Security Cleared
3 1 (8.33%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (33.33%) QA
System Software
1 1 (8.33%) Docker
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (8.33%) Oracle
2 1 (8.33%) SAP