Product Ownership Contracts in Manchester

Product Ownership
North West > Manchester

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in Manchester. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 58 56 56
Rank change year-on-year -2 0 +2
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 21 40 62
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 2.27% 2.64% 3.28%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.89% 9.55% 9.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 27 42
10th Percentile £404 £395 £478
25th Percentile £431 £500 £527
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% -4.35% +7.48%
75th Percentile £597 £663 £638
90th Percentile £664 £850 £649
North West median daily rate £402 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -26.91% -4.35% +9.52%

All Generic Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 266 419 629
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 28.73% 27.62% 33.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 190 283 435
10th Percentile £203 £300 £320
25th Percentile £382 £404 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% -2.44% +5.13%
75th Percentile £602 £588 £631
90th Percentile £700 £725 £686
North West median daily rate £473 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 32 31
10th Percentile £20.75 £13.08 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.82 £20.74
Median hourly rate £32.50 £25.25 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +28.71% -27.86% +141.38%
75th Percentile £56.25 £57.50 £65.50
90th Percentile £76.00 £62.50 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
% change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in Manchester

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in Manchester

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in Manchester

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in Manchester

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (4.76%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) Akamai
1 1 (4.76%) Azure
1 1 (4.76%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.76%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 5 (23.81%) Social Skills
2 4 (19.05%) Finance
2 4 (19.05%) Public Sector
3 2 (9.52%) Banking
4 1 (4.76%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Legal
4 1 (4.76%) Marketing
4 1 (4.76%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (4.76%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (28.57%) Product Manager
2 4 (19.05%) Architect
3 3 (14.29%) Product Owner
3 3 (14.29%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Integration Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Lead
4 2 (9.52%) Security Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Technical Architect
4 2 (9.52%) User Researcher
5 1 (4.76%) .NET Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Agile Business Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) C# Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Delivery Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Payroll Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Senior .NET Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Senior C# Developer
5 1 (4.76%) Senior Security Architect
5 1 (4.76%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) .NET
1 1 (4.76%) .NET Core
1 1 (4.76%) .NET Framework
1 1 (4.76%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 1 (4.76%) Blog
1 1 (4.76%) Cloud Native
1 1 (4.76%) IoT
1 1 (4.76%) Mainframe
1 1 (4.76%) Onboarding
1 1 (4.76%) Social Media
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (57.14%) Agile
2 8 (38.10%) Roadmaps
3 5 (23.81%) Product Roadmap
3 5 (23.81%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (19.05%) Change Management
4 4 (19.05%) Product Management
4 4 (19.05%) Product Vision
4 4 (19.05%) Waterfall
5 3 (14.29%) Business Case
5 3 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
5 3 (14.29%) Customer Engagement
5 3 (14.29%) Migration
5 3 (14.29%) Product Strategy
5 3 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 3 (14.29%) User Experience
5 3 (14.29%) WFM
6 2 (9.52%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (9.52%) Project Governance
6 2 (9.52%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) C#
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) Accessibility
2 1 (4.76%) GRC
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) NetBackup
Vendors
1 2 (9.52%) SAP
2 1 (4.76%) Dell
2 1 (4.76%) F5
2 1 (4.76%) Google
2 1 (4.76%) IBM
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) Oracle