Product Ownership Contract Job Trends in Merseyside

Product Ownership
North West > Merseyside

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in Merseyside. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 11 October 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 35 27 30
Rank change year-on-year -8 +3 -2
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 4 2 4
As % of all contract jobs in Merseyside 1.30% 1.01% 1.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.40% 3.28% 8.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
10th Percentile £520 £416 -
25th Percentile £531 £416 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £433 -
Median % change year-on-year +27.02% - -
75th Percentile £594 £451 -
90th Percentile £620 £452 -
North West median daily rate £518 £449 £456
% change year-on-year +15.38% -1.70% -20.65%

All Generic Skills
Merseyside

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 Merseyside.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 91 61 45
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Merseyside 29.55% 30.65% 19.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 29 15
10th Percentile £263 £213 £148
25th Percentile £413 £413 £194
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £250
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% +100.00% -50.00%
75th Percentile £598 £550 £419
90th Percentile £638 £708 £525
North West median daily rate £500 £450 £490
% change year-on-year +11.11% -8.16% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 2 2
10th Percentile £14.23 £17.50 £18.25
25th Percentile £22.00 £17.80 £18.57
Median hourly rate £43.96 £18.67 £19.13
Median % change year-on-year +135.46% -2.39% -35.16%
75th Percentile - £19.92 £19.67
90th Percentile - £20.44 £19.98
North West median hourly rate £43.96 £35.00 £32.50
% change year-on-year +25.60% +7.69% -23.30%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Merseyside

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

Product Ownership job vacancy trend in Merseyside

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Trend in Merseyside

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

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

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in Merseyside

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 Merseyside region over the 6 months to 11 October 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
Liverpool -9 4 £550 +27.02% 11
Product Ownership
North West

Product Ownership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Merseyside 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) GCP
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Git
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Ranorex
1 1 (25.00%) SpecFlow
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Banking
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (25.00%) Retail
Job Titles
1 1 (25.00%) Agile Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Automation Test Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Finance Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Finance Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) IT Finance Manager
1 1 (25.00%) IT Manager
1 1 (25.00%) IT Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Lead
1 1 (25.00%) Migration Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Migration Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (25.00%) Systems Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Technical Analyst
1 1 (25.00%) Test Leader
1 1 (25.00%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Credit Risk
1 1 (25.00%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) Defect Management
2 2 (50.00%) Migration
2 2 (50.00%) Test Planning
3 1 (25.00%) BDD
3 1 (25.00%) Coaching
3 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (25.00%) CRM
3 1 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 1 (25.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 1 (25.00%) E-Commerce
3 1 (25.00%) Exploratory Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Project Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Project Management
3 1 (25.00%) Regression Testing
3 1 (25.00%) Scrum
3 1 (25.00%) Software Delivery
3 1 (25.00%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce