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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 97 93
Rank change year-on-year +30 -4 -13
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 75 34 60
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 3.02% 1.29% 1.93%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.82% 4.24% 6.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 31 41
10th Percentile £352 £213 £413
25th Percentile £358 £347 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £429 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -22.05% - +10.00%
75th Percentile £500 £650 £600
90th Percentile £589 £688 £638
England median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +4.55%

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 850 802 977
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 34.25% 30.38% 31.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 536 514 649
10th Percentile £248 £273 £274
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £626 £600
90th Percentile £648 £738 £705
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 70 27 32
10th Percentile £13.81 £12.07 £19.10
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.12 £20.50
Median hourly rate £25.04 £19.00 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +31.78% -30.91% +44.74%
75th Percentile £38.82 £45.25 £56.56
90th Percentile £50.00 £57.25 £90.88
England median hourly rate £31.00 £47.50 £40.59
% change year-on-year -34.74% +17.02% +56.12%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +15 39 £508 -7.64% 57
East Midlands +18 36 £401 +2.17% 33
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 3 (4.00%) Confluence
2 1 (1.33%) JBoss
2 1 (1.33%) Tomcat
2 1 (1.33%) WebLogic
2 1 (1.33%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (2.67%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (5.33%) SAP HR
1 4 (5.33%) SAP PM
2 3 (4.00%) Oracle EBS R12
2 3 (4.00%) Oracle ERP
2 3 (4.00%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle Assets
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle EBS
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle General Ledger
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle Payables
3 2 (2.67%) Oracle Receivables
3 2 (2.67%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (1.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 1 (1.33%) Primavera
4 1 (1.33%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 15 (20.00%) Azure
2 12 (16.00%) AWS
3 8 (10.67%) SaaS
4 6 (8.00%) GCP
4 6 (8.00%) Salesforce Service Cloud
5 4 (5.33%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (5.33%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (4.00%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 2 (2.67%) Amazon EMR
7 2 (2.67%) Amazon Kinesis
7 2 (2.67%) Amazon S3
7 2 (2.67%) AWS Lambda
7 2 (2.67%) Cloud Computing
7 2 (2.67%) Power Platform
7 2 (2.67%) Serverless
8 1 (1.33%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.33%) OCI
8 1 (1.33%) Power Automate
8 1 (1.33%) PowerApps
8 1 (1.33%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (5.33%) Firewall
2 2 (2.67%) BGP
2 2 (2.67%) DHCP
2 2 (2.67%) DNS
2 2 (2.67%) EIGRP
2 2 (2.67%) HTTP
2 2 (2.67%) IPsec
2 2 (2.67%) Network Security
2 2 (2.67%) OSPF
2 2 (2.67%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (2.67%) SSL
2 2 (2.67%) TACACS
2 2 (2.67%) VLAN
2 2 (2.67%) VPN
2 2 (2.67%) Wireless
3 1 (1.33%) Converged Networks
3 1 (1.33%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (5.33%) NoSQL
1 4 (5.33%) SQL Server Integration Services
2 3 (4.00%) Data Warehouse
3 2 (2.67%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (1.33%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.33%) DB2
4 1 (1.33%) GIS
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle BI Publisher
4 1 (1.33%) Oracle Discoverer
4 1 (1.33%) Power BI
4 1 (1.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (20.00%) JIRA
2 3 (4.00%) Git
3 2 (2.67%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.67%) Postman
3 2 (2.67%) TestPartner
4 1 (1.33%) Bitbucket
4 1 (1.33%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.33%) Ranorex
General
1 31 (41.33%) Social Skills
2 22 (29.33%) Finance
3 16 (21.33%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (10.67%) Public Sector
5 6 (8.00%) Banking
5 6 (8.00%) Documentation Skills
5 6 (8.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (5.33%) Marketing
6 4 (5.33%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (2.67%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.33%) Aerospace
8 1 (1.33%) Automotive
8 1 (1.33%) Humanities
8 1 (1.33%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.33%) Legal
8 1 (1.33%) Retail
Job Titles
1 26 (34.67%) Product Owner
2 12 (16.00%) Senior
3 8 (10.67%) Analyst
4 7 (9.33%) Architect
4 7 (9.33%) Product Manager
5 6 (8.00%) Digital Product Owner
5 6 (8.00%) Salesforce Architect
5 6 (8.00%) Scrum Master
6 5 (6.67%) Tester
7 4 (5.33%) Salesforce Technical Architect
7 4 (5.33%) Technical Architect
8 3 (4.00%) Developer
8 3 (4.00%) Lead
8 3 (4.00%) Product Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) QA Engineer
8 3 (4.00%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (4.00%) Senior QA Engineer
9 2 (2.67%) QA Analyst
9 2 (2.67%) QA Test Analyst
9 2 (2.67%) Senior QA Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (9.33%) Lightning Web Components
1 7 (9.33%) Middleware
1 7 (9.33%) Visualforce
2 4 (5.33%) GraphQL
2 4 (5.33%) REST
2 4 (5.33%) SAP PI
2 4 (5.33%) SOAP
3 3 (4.00%) .NET
3 3 (4.00%) FIDO
3 3 (4.00%) Flash
4 2 (2.67%) Kafka
4 2 (2.67%) Node.js
4 2 (2.67%) React
4 2 (2.67%) RESTful
5 1 (1.33%) HTML
5 1 (1.33%) RAML
5 1 (1.33%) Web Services
5 1 (1.33%) WSDL
5 1 (1.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.00%) Onboarding
2 5 (6.67%) SCADA
3 3 (4.00%) Management Information System
4 2 (2.67%) Cloud Native
4 2 (2.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Data Protection Act
5 1 (1.33%) Educational Technology
5 1 (1.33%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.33%) IoT
5 1 (1.33%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.33%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.33%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.33%) Reference Data
5 1 (1.33%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.00%) Windows
2 4 (5.33%) Windows 10
3 3 (4.00%) Windows 7
3 3 (4.00%) Windows XP
4 2 (2.67%) Linux
5 1 (1.33%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (73.33%) Agile
2 36 (48.00%) Scrum
3 25 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
4 24 (32.00%) Continuous Improvement
5 22 (29.33%) User Stories
6 20 (26.67%) Product Management
6 20 (26.67%) Roadmaps
6 20 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 17 (22.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 16 (21.33%) Backlog Management
9 13 (17.33%) DevOps
9 13 (17.33%) Product Strategy
10 12 (16.00%) Product Backlog
10 12 (16.00%) SDLC
10 12 (16.00%) Sprint Planning
10 12 (16.00%) User Experience
11 11 (14.67%) Migration
11 11 (14.67%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 11 (14.67%) Translating Business Requirements
12 10 (13.33%) ITIL
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.67%) SQL
2 7 (9.33%) Apex Code
3 5 (6.67%) Python
4 4 (5.33%) Java
5 3 (4.00%) JavaScript
5 3 (4.00%) PL/SQL
5 3 (4.00%) PowerShell
5 3 (4.00%) TypeScript
6 2 (2.67%) Go
6 2 (2.67%) Scala
7 1 (1.33%) C#
7 1 (1.33%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 18 (24.00%) Degree
2 7 (9.33%) Security Cleared
3 5 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
4 4 (5.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 4 (5.33%) SC Cleared
5 3 (4.00%) Master's Degree
6 2 (2.67%) AWS Certification
6 2 (2.67%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.67%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (2.67%) DV Cleared
7 1 (1.33%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.67%) QA
2 6 (8.00%) GDPR
3 5 (6.67%) Data Quality
4 3 (4.00%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (4.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 3 (4.00%) NIST
4 3 (4.00%) NIST 800
5 2 (2.67%) PMO
5 2 (2.67%) SLA
6 1 (1.33%) Automotive SPICE
6 1 (1.33%) EMIR
6 1 (1.33%) GRC
6 1 (1.33%) ISO 26262
6 1 (1.33%) MiFID
System Software
1 6 (8.00%) Docker
2 3 (4.00%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (4.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (8.00%) Kubernetes
2 3 (4.00%) HP ALM
2 3 (4.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 3 (4.00%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.67%) Nagios
3 2 (2.67%) Terraform
4 1 (1.33%) RSA Archer
4 1 (1.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 20 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 11 (14.67%) Salesforce
3 10 (13.33%) Oracle
4 5 (6.67%) SAP
5 4 (5.33%) Cisco
5 4 (5.33%) MuleSoft
6 3 (4.00%) HP
6 3 (4.00%) VMware
7 2 (2.67%) Apple
7 2 (2.67%) Arista
7 2 (2.67%) Google
7 2 (2.67%) Juniper
7 2 (2.67%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.33%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (1.33%) Remedy
8 1 (1.33%) ServiceNow
8 1 (1.33%) Symantec
8 1 (1.33%) Trayport