Product Ownership Contracts in Hertfordshire

Product Ownership
East of England > Hertfordshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in Hertfordshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 47 59 59
Rank change year-on-year +12 0 -8
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Product Ownership 7 4 15
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 1.57% 0.58% 2.01%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.52% 2.99% 5.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 2 8
10th Percentile £408 £441 £475
25th Percentile £434 £484 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £563 £600
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% -6.25% +9.09%
75th Percentile £588 £634 £838
90th Percentile £640 £674 -
East of England median daily rate £481 £425 £538
% change year-on-year +13.24% -20.93% +4.37%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - £58.00
25th Percentile - - £68.13
Median hourly rate - - £85.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
East of England median hourly rate - - £68.75
% change year-on-year - - +4.55%

All Generic Skills
Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 155 134 279
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 34.83% 19.59% 37.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 56 46 165
10th Percentile £235 £263 £231
25th Percentile £400 £325 £275
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £450 £523
Median % change year-on-year +18.61% -13.88% -0.48%
75th Percentile £625 £556 £631
90th Percentile £684 £668 £709
East of England median daily rate £500 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +11.11% -5.26% -5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 53 41 42
10th Percentile £16.95 £30.00 £21.00
25th Percentile £30.61 £60.00 £46.00
Median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -3.85% +16.07%
75th Percentile £75.00 £85.00 £65.75
90th Percentile £83.62 - £73.38
East of England median hourly rate £65.00 £62.50 £60.00
% change year-on-year +4.00% +4.17% +60.00%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in Hertfordshire

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in Hertfordshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in Hertfordshire over the 6 months to 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in Hertfordshire

Product Ownership
Hourly Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

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

Product Ownership
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 21 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Watford +3 2 £588 +4.44% 7
Welwyn Garden City -1 1 £400 -
Hatfield - 1 £650 -
Hemel Hempstead - 1 £463 - 1
Product Ownership
East of England

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (14.29%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 2 (28.57%) SAP S/4HANA
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) SAP BW
1 2 (28.57%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (14.29%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (14.29%) Metadata
2 1 (14.29%) SAP Data Services
2 1 (14.29%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (42.86%) Social Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Lead
1 3 (42.86%) Product Owner
2 2 (28.57%) Consultant
2 2 (28.57%) Lead Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Delivery Lead
3 1 (14.29%) Analytics Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Cloud Consultant
3 1 (14.29%) Digital Product Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Product Manager
3 1 (14.29%) SAP Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Cybersecurity
1 4 (57.14%) Use Case
2 3 (42.86%) Agile
2 3 (42.86%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) Sprint Planning
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 3 (42.86%) User Stories
3 2 (28.57%) Analytics
3 2 (28.57%) Backlog Management
3 2 (28.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (28.57%) Customer Experience
3 2 (28.57%) Data Modelling
3 2 (28.57%) Data Pipeline
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) Product Backlog
3 2 (28.57%) Product Vision
3 2 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) Scrum
3 2 (28.57%) Sprint Retrospective
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) PMI Certification
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) SAP
2 1 (14.29%) Atlassian