Product Ownership Contracts in the North East

Product Ownership
England > North East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in the North East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 8 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 27 28 53
Rank change year-on-year +1 +25 -20
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 15 11 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 4.63% 3.24% 0.74%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 14.15% 12.09% 2.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 1
10th Percentile £341 £365 -
25th Percentile £400 £375 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -9.52% -12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £675 £549 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £550 £555 £565
% change year-on-year -0.90% -1.77% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £46.53 - -
25th Percentile £47.04 - -
Median hourly rate £49.90 - -
75th Percentile £54.74 - -
90th Percentile £56.45 - -
England median hourly rate £56.75 £57.44 £85.00
% change year-on-year -1.20% -32.42% +44.68%

All Generic Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 106 91 103
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 32.72% 26.76% 25.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 52 80
10th Percentile £325 £164 £204
25th Percentile £400 £314 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £534 £475 £594
Median % change year-on-year +12.42% -20.00% +20.25%
75th Percentile £625 £559 £705
90th Percentile £670 £698 £781
England median daily rate £549 £550 £573
% change year-on-year -0.27% -3.93% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 8 0
10th Percentile £27.06 £11.44 -
25th Percentile £39.35 £15.05 -
Median hourly rate £49.09 £32.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +51.05% - -
75th Percentile £53.40 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £55.91 £52.13 -
England median hourly rate £34.50 £32.12 £22.49
% change year-on-year +7.43% +42.83% -15.91%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the North East

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in the North East

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in the North East over the 6 months to 8 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in the North East

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North East

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in the North East

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 8 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
Tyne and Wear -8 9 £475 -9.52% 4
Northumberland - 6 - -
Product Ownership
England

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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 1 (6.67%) Apache
1 1 (6.67%) Apache Spark
1 1 (6.67%) Confluence
1 1 (6.67%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) MongoDB
1 2 (13.33%) Redis
2 1 (6.67%) SQL Server
2 1 (6.67%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 4 (26.67%) Rational Rhapsody
2 3 (20.00%) Git
2 3 (20.00%) JIRA
2 3 (20.00%) Visual Studio
2 3 (20.00%) Visual Studio Code
3 1 (6.67%) git-flow
General
1 6 (40.00%) Public Sector
2 3 (20.00%) French Language
3 1 (6.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Lead
2 3 (20.00%) Product Manager
3 2 (13.33%) Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) Business Analyst
3 2 (13.33%) C# Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Developer
3 2 (13.33%) Systems Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Cybersecurity Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Delivery Manager
4 1 (6.67%) Full-Stack Engineer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead C# Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Lead Developer
4 1 (6.67%) Scrum Master
4 1 (6.67%) Security Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (20.00%) .NET
1 3 (20.00%) CSS
1 3 (20.00%) HTML
1 3 (20.00%) RESTful
2 1 (6.67%) ASP.NET
2 1 (6.67%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) Data Protection Act
1 2 (13.33%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (53.33%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 5 (33.33%) Digital Engineering
3 5 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
3 5 (33.33%) Scrum
4 4 (26.67%) Cybersecurity
4 4 (26.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
5 3 (20.00%) CI/CD
5 3 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 3 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
6 2 (13.33%) API Integration
6 2 (13.33%) Data Protection
6 2 (13.33%) Decision-Making
6 2 (13.33%) Microservices
6 2 (13.33%) SDLC
6 2 (13.33%) User Stories
7 1 (6.67%) Agile Project Management
7 1 (6.67%) Coaching
7 1 (6.67%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 3 (20.00%) C#
2 1 (6.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (20.00%) CSPO
2 2 (13.33%) AWS Certification
2 2 (13.33%) Azure Certification
3 1 (6.67%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (20.00%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 4 (26.67%) IBM
1 4 (26.67%) Microsoft
2 2 (13.33%) New Relic
2 2 (13.33%) Virgin Media
3 1 (6.67%) Atlassian
3 1 (6.67%) Databricks