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 23 October 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
23 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 24 22
Rank change year-on-year -11 -2 +28
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 6 4 6
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 2.47% 2.29% 3.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.70% 5.88% 13.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 1 6
10th Percentile £436 - £434
25th Percentile £473 - £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £523 £560 £485
Median % change year-on-year -6.70% +15.46% +7.78%
75th Percentile £546 - £538
90th Percentile £613 - £583
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £523 £560 £485
% change year-on-year -6.70% +15.46% -3.00%

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 69 68 46
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne 28.40% 38.86% 30.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 22 30
10th Percentile £156 £310 £145
25th Percentile £173 £355 £353
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -10.53% -12.04%
75th Percentile £550 £547 £597
90th Percentile £600 £650 £751
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £438 £425 £450
% change year-on-year +2.94% -5.56% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 3
10th Percentile £14.03 - £16.65
25th Percentile £15.02 £18.00 £22.13
Median hourly rate £16.73 £19.00 £32.00
Median % change year-on-year -11.95% -40.63% -
75th Percentile £18.38 £20.00 £32.88
90th Percentile £19.33 - £33.40
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £16.73 £19.00 £32.00
% change year-on-year -11.95% -40.63% -

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 23 October 2025.

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 1 (16.67%) Amazon EMR
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon S3
1 1 (16.67%) AWS
1 1 (16.67%) AWS Step Functions
1 1 (16.67%) Azure
1 1 (16.67%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (16.67%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Athena
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cucumber
1 1 (16.67%) Gatling
1 1 (16.67%) Git
1 1 (16.67%) JIRA
1 1 (16.67%) JMeter
1 1 (16.67%) Selenium
1 1 (16.67%) TestRail
General
1 5 (83.33%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Product Manager
2 1 (16.67%) Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Lead
2 1 (16.67%) Lead Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Product Owner
2 1 (16.67%) Python Data Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Python Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) QA Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) QA Test Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (16.67%) Test Automation Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Gherkin
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Enterprise Software
1 1 (16.67%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 3 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 3 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Backlog Management
3 2 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Business Analysis
4 1 (16.67%) Data Pipeline
4 1 (16.67%) DataOps
4 1 (16.67%) ETL
4 1 (16.67%) Impact Assessments
4 1 (16.67%) Incident Response
4 1 (16.67%) Information Security
4 1 (16.67%) MLOps
4 1 (16.67%) Performance Testing
4 1 (16.67%) Product Backlog
4 1 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) Product Vision
4 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
4 1 (16.67%) Usability Testing
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Java
2 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 2 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 1 (16.67%) CSPO
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB
2 1 (16.67%) ISTQB Advanced Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (16.67%) GDPR
1 1 (16.67%) NCSC
1 1 (16.67%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Databricks