Product Ownership Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Product Ownership
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 40 32 18
Rank change year-on-year -8 -14 +31
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 9 4 10
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.59% 2.00% 5.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.69% 5.19% 20.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 4 8
10th Percentile £355 £348 £463
25th Percentile £410 £381 £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £400 £505
Median % change year-on-year +31.25% -20.79% -15.83%
75th Percentile £568 £422 £549
90th Percentile £569 £461 £570
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £525 £400 £505
% change year-on-year +31.25% -20.79% -6.48%

All Generic Skills
Newcastle upon Tyne

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 Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 77 77 48
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 22.19% 38.50% 27.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 32 30
10th Percentile £140 £314 £131
25th Percentile £167 £400 £364
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £400 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -17.95% +2.63% -13.64%
75th Percentile £548 £631 £546
90th Percentile £600 £740 £719
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £400 £500 £454
% change year-on-year -20.00% +10.13% -17.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £17.70
25th Percentile - - £24.75
Median hourly rate - - £36.50
75th Percentile - - £48.25
90th Percentile - - £55.30
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate - - £17.50

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

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

Product Ownership job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Product Ownership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne citing Product Ownership

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in Newcastle upon Tyne

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in Newcastle upon Tyne over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in Newcastle upon Tyne

Product Ownership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne 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 2 (22.22%) GitHub
1 2 (22.22%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon EMR
2 1 (11.11%) Amazon S3
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) AWS Step Functions
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Purview
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) Cucumber
2 2 (22.22%) Gatling
2 2 (22.22%) JIRA
2 2 (22.22%) JMeter
2 2 (22.22%) Postman
2 2 (22.22%) Selenium
2 2 (22.22%) TestRail
3 1 (11.11%) Cypress.io
3 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 6 (66.67%) Public Sector
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Test Automation Engineer
1 4 (44.44%) Test Engineer
2 3 (33.33%) Product Manager
3 2 (22.22%) QA Automation Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) QA Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) QA Test Engineer
3 2 (22.22%) Quality Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Lead
4 1 (11.11%) Lead Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Python Data Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) Python Engineer
4 1 (11.11%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) Gherkin
1 2 (22.22%) Playwright
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (77.78%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) CI/CD
2 5 (55.56%) Scrum
3 4 (44.44%) Test Automation
4 3 (33.33%) Regression Testing
4 3 (33.33%) SDLC
5 2 (22.22%) API Testing
5 2 (22.22%) BDD
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Kanban
5 2 (22.22%) Manual Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Mentoring
5 2 (22.22%) Performance Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) QA Automation
5 2 (22.22%) Roadmaps
5 2 (22.22%) Scenario Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Security Testing
5 2 (22.22%) Test Management
5 2 (22.22%) Test Strategy
Programming Languages
1 3 (33.33%) Java
2 2 (22.22%) Ruby
3 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
3 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) SC Cleared
1 4 (44.44%) Security Cleared
2 2 (22.22%) ISTQB
2 2 (22.22%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
3 1 (11.11%) BPSS Clearance
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (44.44%) QA
2 2 (22.22%) Accessibility
3 1 (11.11%) GDPR
3 1 (11.11%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) Databricks