Product Ownership Contracts 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 68 66
Rank change year-on-year -34 -2 -11
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 333 550 918
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 2.69% 3.15% 3.53%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.47% 9.44% 9.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 400 644
10th Percentile £379 £413 £450
25th Percentile £456 £484 £506
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £572 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.52% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £713 £675 £675
90th Percentile £938 £750 £775
England median daily rate £525 £559 £565
% change year-on-year -6.12% -1.02% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 3
10th Percentile - - £62.20
25th Percentile £89.68 £51.25 £63.25
Median hourly rate £93.08 £52.50 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +77.30% -19.23% +10.64%
75th Percentile £96.49 £53.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £56.75 £57.44 £72.50
% change year-on-year -1.20% -20.77% +25.00%

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 4,456 5,827 9,351
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 35.96% 33.35% 35.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,009 4,123 6,756
10th Percentile £336 £313 £375
25th Percentile £455 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £585 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.71% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £738 £725 £743
90th Percentile £850 £850 £838
England median daily rate £538 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -2.27% -3.51% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 148 112
10th Percentile £15.84 £15.48 £18.93
25th Percentile £23.42 £18.41 £21.24
Median hourly rate £34.50 £26.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.69% -25.71% -19.54%
75th Percentile £49.94 £49.13 £63.88
90th Percentile £74.01 £69.50 £84.88
England median hourly rate £33.00 £34.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year -2.94% +51.21% -16.66%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in London

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in London.

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in London

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in London over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in London

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in London.

Hourly rate trend 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 20 May 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
Central London -21 55 £600 +6.67% 51
West London +5 7 £402 -22.64% 17
East London +9 4 £597 +11.07% 4
South London +4 1 £555 - 4
Product Ownership
England

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 27 (8.11%) Confluence
2 10 (3.00%) CMS
3 6 (1.80%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.20%) Apache
4 4 (1.20%) Microsoft Exchange
5 3 (0.90%) Headless CMS
6 2 (0.60%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.60%) Apache Spark
7 1 (0.30%) JBoss
7 1 (0.30%) Jupyter
7 1 (0.30%) nginx
7 1 (0.30%) Sitecore CMS
7 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
7 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
7 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
7 1 (0.30%) WordPress
Applications
1 9 (2.70%) MS Visio
2 7 (2.10%) Microsoft Excel
2 7 (2.10%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 6 (1.80%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (1.50%) Autodesk Smoke
5 3 (0.90%) Chatbot
6 2 (0.60%) Adobe XD
6 2 (0.60%) Microsoft Project
7 1 (0.30%) Sketch
7 1 (0.30%) Trello
7 1 (0.30%) Zeplin
Business Applications
1 7 (2.10%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.20%) Salesforce CRM
3 3 (0.90%) Endur
3 3 (0.90%) Shopify
4 2 (0.60%) Oracle EBS
4 2 (0.60%) Workday HCM
5 1 (0.30%) Aligne
5 1 (0.30%) Dynamics NAV
5 1 (0.30%) Fidessa
5 1 (0.30%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 46 (13.81%) Azure
2 29 (8.71%) AWS
3 25 (7.51%) Azure DevOps
4 19 (5.71%) Figma
5 15 (4.50%) SaaS
6 8 (2.40%) Power Platform
6 8 (2.40%) Serverless
7 7 (2.10%) Apigee
7 7 (2.10%) GCP
7 7 (2.10%) Miro
8 6 (1.80%) Datadog
8 6 (1.80%) Dynamics 365
9 5 (1.50%) Contentful
9 5 (1.50%) Microsoft 365
10 4 (1.20%) Google Analytics
10 4 (1.20%) OneDrive
10 4 (1.20%) Salesforce Service Cloud
11 3 (0.90%) Azure AKS
11 3 (0.90%) BigCommerce
11 3 (0.90%) Contentstack
Communications & Networking
1 3 (0.90%) Firewall
1 3 (0.90%) POP3
1 3 (0.90%) SMTP
2 2 (0.60%) SD-WAN
2 2 (0.60%) WAN
3 1 (0.30%) DHCP
3 1 (0.30%) DNS
3 1 (0.30%) HTTP
3 1 (0.30%) MQTT
3 1 (0.30%) Network Security
3 1 (0.30%) SMS
3 1 (0.30%) VLAN
3 1 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 32 (9.61%) Data Lake
2 12 (3.60%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (2.70%) NoSQL
4 8 (2.40%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.10%) Power BI
6 5 (1.50%) Data Vault
7 4 (1.20%) Big Data
7 4 (1.20%) MongoDB
8 3 (0.90%) CockroachDB
8 3 (0.90%) PostgreSQL
8 3 (0.90%) SQL Server
9 2 (0.60%) Elasticsearch
9 2 (0.60%) GIS
9 2 (0.60%) MySQL
9 2 (0.60%) Star Schema
10 1 (0.30%) Apache Cassandra
10 1 (0.30%) Apache Hive
10 1 (0.30%) Couchbase
10 1 (0.30%) Snowflake Schema
10 1 (0.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 44 (13.21%) JIRA
2 15 (4.50%) Git
3 14 (4.20%) Jenkins
4 8 (2.40%) Bitbucket
5 6 (1.80%) Atlassian Bamboo
5 6 (1.80%) Postman
5 6 (1.80%) REST Assured
6 5 (1.50%) GitLab
6 5 (1.50%) Selenium
7 4 (1.20%) Cypress.io
8 3 (0.90%) JUnit
9 2 (0.60%) Eclipse
9 2 (0.60%) Gatling
9 2 (0.60%) JMeter
9 2 (0.60%) Maven
9 2 (0.60%) Storybook
9 2 (0.60%) Subversion
9 2 (0.60%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.60%) TestCafe
9 2 (0.60%) Visual Studio Team System
General
1 126 (37.84%) Finance
2 121 (36.34%) Social Skills
3 53 (15.92%) Analytical Skills
4 45 (13.51%) Front Office
5 41 (12.31%) Banking
6 27 (8.11%) Marketing
6 27 (8.11%) Presentation Skills
7 20 (6.01%) Retail
8 14 (4.20%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (3.90%) Legal
10 11 (3.30%) Investment Banking
10 11 (3.30%) Organisational Skills
10 11 (3.30%) Public Sector
11 7 (2.10%) Back Office
11 7 (2.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 7 (2.10%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.50%) Wearables
13 4 (1.20%) Electronics
13 4 (1.20%) Telecoms
14 3 (0.90%) Billing
Job Titles
1 71 (21.32%) Product Owner
2 61 (18.32%) Analyst
3 40 (12.01%) Business Analyst
4 29 (8.71%) Developer
5 25 (7.51%) Senior
6 22 (6.61%) Lead
6 22 (6.61%) Product Manager
7 20 (6.01%) Architect
8 19 (5.71%) Data Governance Analyst
8 19 (5.71%) Data Governance Manager
8 19 (5.71%) Governance Manager
9 18 (5.41%) Designer
10 15 (4.50%) Programme Manager
10 15 (4.50%) Project Manager
11 14 (4.20%) Finance Manager
12 13 (3.90%) Consultant
13 12 (3.60%) Software Engineer
14 11 (3.30%) Product Analyst
15 9 (2.70%) Product Business Analyst
15 9 (2.70%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (4.20%) .NET
2 12 (3.60%) React
3 11 (3.30%) CSS
3 11 (3.30%) REST
4 10 (3.00%) HTML
5 9 (2.70%) ADO
6 8 (2.40%) Node.js
7 6 (1.80%) AngularJS
7 6 (1.80%) Spring Boot
8 5 (1.50%) OpenFin
8 5 (1.50%) Redux
8 5 (1.50%) Spring
8 5 (1.50%) Web Services
8 5 (1.50%) YAML
9 4 (1.20%) .NET Core
9 4 (1.20%) Bootstrap
9 4 (1.20%) LDAP
9 4 (1.20%) Playwright
10 3 (0.90%) Jest
10 3 (0.90%) Next.js
Miscellaneous
1 39 (11.71%) Fixed Income
2 38 (11.41%) Equities
3 37 (11.11%) Derivative
3 37 (11.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 33 (9.91%) Hedge funds
5 9 (2.70%) Onboarding
5 9 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
6 7 (2.10%) Cloud Native
6 7 (2.10%) Greenfield Project
6 7 (2.10%) PMI
7 6 (1.80%) IoT
7 6 (1.80%) Mobile App
8 5 (1.50%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.50%) Data Structures
8 5 (1.50%) Reinsurance
8 5 (1.50%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.20%) Legacy Applications
9 4 (1.20%) Marketing Technology
9 4 (1.20%) Private Cloud
10 3 (0.90%) Operational Technology
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.10%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.20%) Linux
2 4 (1.20%) Windows
3 3 (0.90%) Unix
4 1 (0.30%) Android
4 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
4 1 (0.30%) SUSE
Processes & Methodologies
1 208 (62.46%) Agile
2 93 (27.93%) Roadmaps
3 66 (19.82%) Scrum
4 58 (17.42%) User Experience
5 55 (16.52%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (15.62%) User Stories
7 45 (13.51%) DevOps
7 45 (13.51%) Stakeholder Management
8 43 (12.91%) Product Backlog
9 38 (11.41%) Investment Management
10 36 (10.81%) Analytics
10 36 (10.81%) Backlog Management
11 35 (10.51%) Migration
12 33 (9.91%) Acceptance Criteria
12 33 (9.91%) Continuous Improvement
12 33 (9.91%) Data Governance
13 32 (9.61%) Decision-Making
14 31 (9.31%) Project Management
15 29 (8.71%) Regulatory Compliance
16 28 (8.41%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 46 (13.81%) SQL
2 29 (8.71%) JavaScript
3 26 (7.81%) Python
4 16 (4.80%) Java
5 14 (4.20%) TypeScript
6 13 (3.90%) C#
7 10 (3.00%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.50%) R
9 3 (0.90%) Scala
9 3 (0.90%) Shell Script
10 2 (0.60%) RPG
10 2 (0.60%) T-SQL
11 1 (0.30%) Bash
11 1 (0.30%) Go
11 1 (0.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 48 (14.41%) Degree
2 21 (6.31%) Security Cleared
3 17 (5.11%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.00%) PMI Certification
5 9 (2.70%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (1.80%) CISSP
6 6 (1.80%) CSPO
6 6 (1.80%) Master's Degree
7 5 (1.50%) CBAP
7 5 (1.50%) CISM
8 3 (0.90%) CRISC
8 3 (0.90%) PMP
9 2 (0.60%) BPSS Clearance
9 2 (0.60%) CISA
10 1 (0.30%) AWS Certification
10 1 (0.30%) IIBA
10 1 (0.30%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 30 (9.01%) QA
2 10 (3.00%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.20%) Data Quality
4 3 (0.90%) GRC
4 3 (0.90%) ISO/IEC 27005
4 3 (0.90%) NIST
5 2 (0.60%) GDPR
5 2 (0.60%) MiFID
5 2 (0.60%) NIST 800
5 2 (0.60%) WCAG
6 1 (0.30%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.30%) COPPA
6 1 (0.30%) EMIR
6 1 (0.30%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.30%) PCI DSS
6 1 (0.30%) PMO
6 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 7 (2.10%) Docker
2 5 (1.50%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.30%) Microsoft App-V
Systems Management
1 13 (3.90%) Terraform
2 12 (3.60%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.20%) Ansible
3 4 (1.20%) Single Sign-On
4 3 (0.90%) SCCM
5 1 (0.30%) Argo
5 1 (0.30%) Grafana
5 1 (0.30%) Kibana
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.30%) Prometheus
5 1 (0.30%) Rancher
Vendors
1 30 (9.01%) Microsoft
2 15 (4.50%) Salesforce
3 11 (3.30%) Workday
4 10 (3.00%) Adobe
4 10 (3.00%) Databricks
5 9 (2.70%) Oracle
5 9 (2.70%) SAP
6 7 (2.10%) ServiceNow
7 5 (1.50%) Splunk
8 4 (1.20%) Sitecore
9 3 (0.90%) Google
9 3 (0.90%) IBM
9 3 (0.90%) Palantir
10 2 (0.60%) Citrix
10 2 (0.60%) Foundry
10 2 (0.60%) Red Hat
11 1 (0.30%) Atlassian
11 1 (0.30%) Bloomberg
11 1 (0.30%) Planview
11 1 (0.30%) Reuters