Product Ownership Contract Job Trends in London

Product Ownership
England > London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 16 September 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 73 78 74
Rank change year-on-year +5 -4 -1
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 784 451 539
As % of all contract jobs in London 3.88% 3.36% 3.34%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.26% 8.78% 9.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 474 304 358
10th Percentile £400 £331 £413
25th Percentile £457 £409 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £553 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year +5.29% -8.70% -4.17%
75th Percentile £650 £638 £725
90th Percentile £750 £750 £788
England median daily rate £525 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 0
10th Percentile £59.50 - -
25th Percentile £71.88 - -
Median hourly rate £95.00 £43.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +120.93% - -
75th Percentile £97.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £72.25 £62.50 £58.30
% change year-on-year +15.60% +7.20% -15.26%

All Generic Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 7,645 5,139 5,458
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 37.87% 38.26% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 4,795 3,326 3,616
10th Percentile £350 £333 £325
25th Percentile £450 £438 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.81% -3.57% -4.17%
75th Percentile £675 £700 £738
90th Percentile £788 £825 £850
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 191 118 69
10th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £17.25
25th Percentile £22.50 £23.71 £23.80
Median hourly rate £33.60 £27.50 £31.00
Median % change year-on-year +22.18% -11.29% +0.81%
75th Percentile £56.25 £46.55 £53.75
90th Percentile £88.75 £70.88 £71.38
England median hourly rate £37.50 £33.05 £57.35
% change year-on-year +13.46% -42.37% +24.59%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Product Ownership job vacancy trend in London

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in London over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in London

Product Ownership
Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

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

Product Ownership
Hourly Rate Histogram in London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Product Ownership in London over the 6 months to 16 September 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Ownership in London

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 16 September 2026. 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
Central London -1 99 £625 +19.05% 157
West London -3 35 £520 +22.35% 34
South London +4 13 £775 +39.64% 13
East London 0 4 £608 +2.27% 5
North London - 4 £563 -
Product Ownership
England

Product Ownership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London 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 88 (11.22%) Confluence
2 31 (3.95%) CMS
3 18 (2.30%) Apache Airflow
4 13 (1.66%) Apache Spark
5 11 (1.40%) SharePoint
6 10 (1.28%) Apache
7 6 (0.77%) Adobe Experience Manager
8 4 (0.51%) Ethereum
8 4 (0.51%) Headless CMS
8 4 (0.51%) Hyperledger
8 4 (0.51%) Jupyter
9 3 (0.38%) Cloud Foundry
10 2 (0.26%) Camunda
10 2 (0.26%) Moodle
10 2 (0.26%) SAS
11 1 (0.13%) Anypoint
11 1 (0.13%) Apache Superset
11 1 (0.13%) EPiServer
11 1 (0.13%) MQSeries
11 1 (0.13%) Mule
Applications
1 18 (2.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 13 (1.66%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (0.77%) Microsoft Project
3 6 (0.77%) MS Visio
4 5 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
5 4 (0.51%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.26%) Spreadsheet
7 1 (0.13%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.13%) Notion
7 1 (0.13%) Sketch
7 1 (0.13%) UserZoom
7 1 (0.13%) Windchill
Business Applications
1 23 (2.93%) Dynamics CRM
2 5 (0.64%) Oracle ERP
2 5 (0.64%) ProductWriter
2 5 (0.64%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (0.51%) Endur
3 4 (0.51%) HFM
3 4 (0.51%) Oracle Payables
3 4 (0.51%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (0.51%) Quorum
3 4 (0.51%) R3 Corda
3 4 (0.51%) Ripple
4 3 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.38%) Salesforce CRM
4 3 (0.38%) SAP SD
5 2 (0.26%) Aladdin
5 2 (0.26%) FLEXCUBE
5 2 (0.26%) IBM Operational Decision Manager
5 2 (0.26%) Oracle Applications
5 2 (0.26%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
5 2 (0.26%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 160 (20.41%) Azure
2 124 (15.82%) AWS
3 63 (8.04%) Power Platform
4 52 (6.63%) Azure DevOps
5 39 (4.97%) GCP
6 37 (4.72%) GitHub
7 36 (4.59%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 34 (4.34%) Dynamics 365
9 33 (4.21%) Serverless
10 29 (3.70%) Snowflake
11 24 (3.06%) Amazon S3
12 23 (2.93%) AWS Lambda
13 22 (2.81%) SaaS
13 22 (2.81%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
14 18 (2.30%) Power Automate
15 17 (2.17%) Amazon ECS
15 17 (2.17%) dbt
16 16 (2.04%) Figma
17 14 (1.79%) GitHub Actions
18 13 (1.66%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.26%) SD-WAN
1 2 (0.26%) WAN
1 2 (0.26%) Wireless
2 1 (0.13%) Intranet
2 1 (0.13%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 41 (5.23%) Metadata
1 41 (5.23%) Power BI
2 31 (3.95%) Data Warehouse
3 25 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
4 24 (3.06%) Relational Database
5 23 (2.93%) Delta Lake
6 22 (2.81%) SQL Server
7 13 (1.66%) Amazon RDS
7 13 (1.66%) MongoDB
8 11 (1.40%) MySQL
8 11 (1.40%) Tableau
9 10 (1.28%) Data Lake
9 10 (1.28%) NoSQL
9 10 (1.28%) Parquet
10 9 (1.15%) Amazon Redshift
10 9 (1.15%) Data Vault
10 9 (1.15%) Oracle Database
11 8 (1.02%) Amazon Aurora
12 7 (0.89%) Big Data
12 7 (0.89%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 127 (16.20%) JIRA
2 44 (5.61%) Git
3 37 (4.72%) Jenkins
4 19 (2.42%) Postman
5 15 (1.91%) GitLab
6 12 (1.53%) Bitbucket
6 12 (1.53%) Selenium
7 10 (1.28%) REST Assured
8 9 (1.15%) Cypress.io
8 9 (1.15%) Maven
9 8 (1.02%) Gradle
10 6 (0.77%) ER Studio
10 6 (0.77%) ERwin
11 4 (0.51%) Atlassian Bamboo
11 4 (0.51%) Team Foundation Server
11 4 (0.51%) WebDriver
12 3 (0.38%) IBM UrbanCode
12 3 (0.38%) JUnit
12 3 (0.38%) TeamCity
13 2 (0.26%) Claude Code
General
1 302 (38.52%) Finance
2 282 (35.97%) Social Skills
3 172 (21.94%) Banking
4 143 (18.24%) Analytical Skills
5 60 (7.65%) Public Sector
6 58 (7.40%) Influencing Skills
6 58 (7.40%) Marketing
7 52 (6.63%) Retail
8 32 (4.08%) Investment Banking
9 29 (3.70%) Front Office
10 27 (3.44%) Corporate Banking
11 26 (3.32%) Retail Banking
12 24 (3.06%) Documentation Skills
13 20 (2.55%) Organisational Skills
14 18 (2.30%) Legal
15 16 (2.04%) Billing
16 15 (1.91%) Presentation Skills
17 11 (1.40%) Law
18 9 (1.15%) Local Government
18 9 (1.15%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 152 (19.39%) Product Owner
2 145 (18.49%) Analyst
3 116 (14.80%) Senior
4 113 (14.41%) Business Analyst
5 107 (13.65%) Lead
6 81 (10.33%) Developer
7 68 (8.67%) Architect
8 50 (6.38%) Product Manager
9 42 (5.36%) Scrum Master
10 34 (4.34%) Senior Business Analyst
11 32 (4.08%) Senior Analyst
12 29 (3.70%) Solutions Architect
13 28 (3.57%) Senior Developer
14 27 (3.44%) Technical Leader
15 21 (2.68%) Product Lead
16 20 (2.55%) Project Manager
16 20 (2.55%) Technical Architect
17 19 (2.42%) Senior Manager
18 18 (2.30%) Technical Product Owner
19 17 (2.17%) Data Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 72 (9.18%) REST
2 42 (5.36%) RESTful
3 37 (4.72%) Spring
4 33 (4.21%) Kafka
4 33 (4.21%) React
5 31 (3.95%) Spring Boot
6 28 (3.57%) Terraform
7 26 (3.32%) .NET
8 22 (2.81%) Lightning Web Components
9 21 (2.68%) HTML
9 21 (2.68%) Node.js
9 21 (2.68%) SOAP
10 19 (2.42%) AngularJS
10 19 (2.42%) CSS
11 18 (2.30%) PySpark
12 15 (1.91%) JSON
12 15 (1.91%) Middleware
13 13 (1.66%) XML
14 12 (1.53%) OAuth
15 10 (1.28%) JMS
Miscellaneous
1 57 (7.27%) Cloud Native
2 43 (5.48%) Onboarding
3 20 (2.55%) Data Structures
3 20 (2.55%) Legacy Systems
4 18 (2.30%) Enterprise Software
5 17 (2.17%) AI Agents
6 14 (1.79%) Data Protection Act
6 14 (1.79%) Virtual Team
7 13 (1.66%) Life Science
8 12 (1.53%) Analytical Mindset
8 12 (1.53%) Distributed Systems
8 12 (1.53%) Mobile App
9 11 (1.40%) Credit Risk
9 11 (1.40%) Distributed Computing
9 11 (1.40%) SWIFT Messaging Network
10 10 (1.28%) Management Information System
10 10 (1.28%) NHS
11 9 (1.15%) Algorithms
11 9 (1.15%) FMCG
11 9 (1.15%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 12 (1.53%) Linux
2 11 (1.40%) Unix
3 6 (0.77%) Android
4 2 (0.26%) Apple iOS
4 2 (0.26%) Windows
5 1 (0.13%) SUSE Linux Enterprise Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 525 (66.96%) Agile
2 314 (40.05%) Stakeholder Management
3 230 (29.34%) Scrum
4 226 (28.83%) User Stories
5 223 (28.44%) Roadmaps
6 217 (27.68%) Continuous Improvement
7 197 (25.13%) DevOps
8 162 (20.66%) CI/CD
9 141 (17.98%) Acceptance Criteria
10 139 (17.73%) AI
11 135 (17.22%) Sprint Planning
12 133 (16.96%) Backlog Prioritisation
13 126 (16.07%) Problem-Solving
13 126 (16.07%) Product Backlog
14 120 (15.31%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 117 (14.92%) Analytics
16 115 (14.67%) Backlog Management
17 105 (13.39%) Decision-Making
18 101 (12.88%) Data Modelling
19 93 (11.86%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 139 (17.73%) SQL
2 85 (10.84%) Python
3 84 (10.71%) Java
4 58 (7.40%) JavaScript
5 33 (4.21%) TypeScript
6 21 (2.68%) Apex Code
6 21 (2.68%) C#
7 7 (0.89%) Kotlin
8 6 (0.77%) Korn
8 6 (0.77%) PowerShell
9 5 (0.64%) PL/SQL
9 5 (0.64%) Scala
10 4 (0.51%) Solidity
11 3 (0.38%) Bash
12 2 (0.26%) Bicep
12 2 (0.26%) PHP
12 2 (0.26%) R
12 2 (0.26%) SOQL
13 1 (0.13%) BeanShell
13 1 (0.13%) Rust
Qualifications
1 105 (13.39%) Security Cleared
2 83 (10.59%) SC Cleared
3 53 (6.76%) Degree
4 18 (2.30%) BPSS Clearance
4 18 (2.30%) PMI Certification
5 17 (2.17%) Computer Science Degree
5 17 (2.17%) PMP
6 14 (1.79%) DV Cleared
7 12 (1.53%) CSPO
8 9 (1.15%) AWS Certification
9 7 (0.89%) Master's Degree
10 5 (0.64%) ACCA
10 5 (0.64%) CBAP
10 5 (0.64%) CIMA
11 3 (0.38%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
11 3 (0.38%) Azure Certification
11 3 (0.38%) MBA
11 3 (0.38%) Microsoft Certification
12 2 (0.26%) SAFe Agilist
12 2 (0.26%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 98 (12.50%) QA
2 72 (9.18%) Data Quality
3 19 (2.42%) GDPR
4 13 (1.66%) Accessibility
5 10 (1.28%) GRC
5 10 (1.28%) ISO 20022
6 8 (1.02%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 7 (0.89%) SEPA
8 6 (0.77%) PMO
9 5 (0.64%) IFRS
9 5 (0.64%) WCAG
10 4 (0.51%) ISO/IEC 27001
10 4 (0.51%) PSD2
11 3 (0.38%) 21 CFR Part 11
11 3 (0.38%) Basel III
11 3 (0.38%) GxP
12 2 (0.26%) PCI DSS
12 2 (0.26%) SLA
12 2 (0.26%) SOC 2
13 1 (0.13%) HIPAA
System Software
1 51 (6.51%) Docker
2 6 (0.77%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.13%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 41 (5.23%) Kubernetes
2 6 (0.77%) Ansible
2 6 (0.77%) Grafana
3 5 (0.64%) Kibana
4 4 (0.51%) Single Sign-On
5 3 (0.38%) Prometheus
6 2 (0.26%) Argo
7 1 (0.13%) HP ALM
7 1 (0.13%) Istio
7 1 (0.13%) Kustomize
7 1 (0.13%) PingFederate
7 1 (0.13%) RSA Archer
7 1 (0.13%) Systems Management Server (SMS)
Vendors
1 84 (10.71%) Microsoft
2 68 (8.67%) Salesforce
3 40 (5.10%) Oracle
4 39 (4.97%) Databricks
5 27 (3.44%) ServiceNow
6 24 (3.06%) SAP
7 23 (2.93%) Google
8 10 (1.28%) Atlassian
9 9 (1.15%) Adobe
9 9 (1.15%) IBM
10 8 (1.02%) Workday
11 7 (0.89%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
12 6 (0.77%) MuleSoft
13 5 (0.64%) Anaplan
14 4 (0.51%) Brio
14 4 (0.51%) Hyperion
14 4 (0.51%) Informatica
14 4 (0.51%) OneTrust
14 4 (0.51%) Planview
14 4 (0.51%) Splunk