Product Ownership Contracts in the Midlands

Product Ownership
England > Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 74 90 91
Rank change year-on-year +16 +1 -19
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 37 43 79
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.93% 1.56% 2.30%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.38% 5.02% 7.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 38 58
10th Percentile £363 £384 £374
25th Percentile £422 £506 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £451
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% +21.88% -7.44%
75th Percentile £534 £611 £573
90th Percentile £585 £688 £600
England median daily rate £550 £563 £573
% change year-on-year -2.22% -1.75% +4.09%

All Generic Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 580 857 1,116
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 30.30% 31.08% 32.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 385 557 737
10th Percentile £200 £220 £237
25th Percentile £375 £350 £373
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% -
75th Percentile £594 £611 £600
90th Percentile £662 £750 £700
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 35 62 41
10th Percentile - £10.47 £16.70
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.93 £18.13
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -7.03% -13.33% +36.36%
75th Percentile £30.34 £28.88 £53.75
90th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £65.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the Midlands

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in the Midlands

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in the Midlands

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in the Midlands

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 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
West Midlands +3 22 £514 -7.69% 148
East Midlands +16 14 £442 -11.55% 79
Product Ownership
England

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (5.41%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.70%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 2 (5.41%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (2.70%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle EBS R12
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle ERP
2 1 (2.70%) Oracle iProcurement
2 1 (2.70%) Primavera
2 1 (2.70%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 6 (16.22%) AWS
1 6 (16.22%) Azure
2 4 (10.81%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (10.81%) SaaS
3 3 (8.11%) Serverless
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon EMR
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon Kinesis
4 2 (5.41%) Amazon S3
4 2 (5.41%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (5.41%) Cloud Computing
4 2 (5.41%) GCP
5 1 (2.70%) Apigee
5 1 (2.70%) Datadog
5 1 (2.70%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.70%) OCI
5 1 (2.70%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 1 (2.70%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.70%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (13.51%) NoSQL
2 2 (5.41%) Amazon Redshift
2 2 (5.41%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (2.70%) GIS
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (2.70%) Oracle Discoverer
3 1 (2.70%) PostgreSQL
3 1 (2.70%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (27.03%) JIRA
2 4 (10.81%) Git
3 3 (8.11%) Jenkins
3 3 (8.11%) Postman
4 2 (5.41%) Cypress.io
5 1 (2.70%) Atlassian Bamboo
General
1 9 (24.32%) Social Skills
2 8 (21.62%) Finance
3 6 (16.22%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (13.51%) Documentation Skills
5 4 (10.81%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (5.41%) Marketing
7 1 (2.70%) Aerospace
7 1 (2.70%) Banking
7 1 (2.70%) Financial Institution
7 1 (2.70%) Humanities
7 1 (2.70%) Legal
7 1 (2.70%) Retail
Job Titles
1 9 (24.32%) Senior
2 8 (21.62%) Product Owner
3 5 (13.51%) Tester
4 4 (10.81%) Developer
4 4 (10.81%) Lead
4 4 (10.81%) Product Manager
4 4 (10.81%) QA Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Digital Product Owner
5 3 (8.11%) QA Test Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior Developer
5 3 (8.11%) Senior QA Engineer
5 3 (8.11%) Test Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Analyst
6 2 (5.41%) Cloud Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Programme Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 2 (5.41%) Senior Test Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) Technical Manager
6 2 (5.41%) Technical Programme Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (16.22%) Middleware
2 3 (8.11%) .NET
2 3 (8.11%) RESTful
3 2 (5.41%) Kafka
3 2 (5.41%) Node.js
3 2 (5.41%) React
3 2 (5.41%) REST
4 1 (2.70%) .NET Framework
4 1 (2.70%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (2.70%) AngularJS
4 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.70%) AWS CDK
4 1 (2.70%) Django
4 1 (2.70%) Entity Framework
4 1 (2.70%) Flask
4 1 (2.70%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (2.70%) SOAP
4 1 (2.70%) Visualforce
4 1 (2.70%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (13.51%) SCADA
2 3 (8.11%) Cloud Native
3 2 (5.41%) Management Information System
3 2 (5.41%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.70%) Educational Technology
4 1 (2.70%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.70%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.70%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.70%) Public Cloud
4 1 (2.70%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (2.70%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (2.70%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (10.81%) Windows
1 4 (10.81%) Windows 10
2 3 (8.11%) Windows 7
2 3 (8.11%) Windows XP
3 2 (5.41%) Linux
4 1 (2.70%) Android
4 1 (2.70%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (78.38%) Agile
2 15 (40.54%) Problem-Solving
2 15 (40.54%) Scrum
3 12 (32.43%) User Stories
4 10 (27.03%) Continuous Improvement
4 10 (27.03%) DevOps
5 9 (24.32%) SDLC
5 9 (24.32%) Stakeholder Management
6 8 (21.62%) Test Strategy
7 7 (18.92%) CI/CD
7 7 (18.92%) Product Management
7 7 (18.92%) Technical Leadership
7 7 (18.92%) Test Automation
8 6 (16.22%) Roadmaps
8 6 (16.22%) User Experience
9 5 (13.51%) Decision-Making
9 5 (13.51%) Defect Management
9 5 (13.51%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 5 (13.51%) System Integration Testing
9 5 (13.51%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 7 (18.92%) Python
2 6 (16.22%) SQL
3 4 (10.81%) Java
3 4 (10.81%) TypeScript
4 3 (8.11%) PowerShell
5 2 (5.41%) Go
5 2 (5.41%) JavaScript
5 2 (5.41%) Scala
6 1 (2.70%) Apex Code
6 1 (2.70%) C#
6 1 (2.70%) Kotlin
6 1 (2.70%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 8 (21.62%) Degree
2 4 (10.81%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (5.41%) AWS Certification
3 2 (5.41%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
3 2 (5.41%) DV Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) SC Cleared
3 2 (5.41%) Security Cleared
4 1 (2.70%) Master's Degree
4 1 (2.70%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (16.22%) QA
2 3 (8.11%) Data Quality
3 2 (5.41%) GDPR
4 1 (2.70%) California Consumer Privacy Act
System Software
1 5 (13.51%) Docker
2 3 (8.11%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (8.11%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (13.51%) HP ALM
2 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
3 3 (8.11%) Terraform
4 1 (2.70%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (2.70%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (16.22%) Oracle
2 5 (13.51%) HP
2 5 (13.51%) MuleSoft
3 4 (10.81%) Microsoft
4 3 (8.11%) VMware
5 2 (5.41%) Splunk
6 1 (2.70%) CrowdStrike
6 1 (2.70%) Remedy
6 1 (2.70%) Salesforce
6 1 (2.70%) Siemens
6 1 (2.70%) Symantec