Product Ownership Contracts in the North of England

Product Ownership
England > North of England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in the North of England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 88 97 81
Rank change year-on-year +9 -16 -22
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 83 85 152
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.51% 1.80% 2.62%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.19% 6.64% 8.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 61 54 104
10th Percentile £358 £362 £450
25th Percentile £368 £425 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £423 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -19.52% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £575 £625
90th Percentile £625 £801 £650
England median daily rate £550 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -2.22% -2.17% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 0
10th Percentile £46.53 - -
25th Percentile £47.04 - -
Median hourly rate £49.90 £46.18 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.04% - -
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 of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,013 1,280 1,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 30.68% 27.10% 30.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 648 781 1,216
10th Percentile £213 £263 £285
25th Percentile £366 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -5.71% +10.53%
75th Percentile £581 £584 £623
90th Percentile £663 £656 £688
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 155 86
10th Percentile £22.20 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £31.76 £15.17 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +109.36% -24.15% +6.95%
75th Percentile £46.18 £26.66 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.50 £48.75 £66.35
England median hourly rate £33.46 £31.50 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.21% +40.09% -16.66%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the North of England

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in the North of England

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in the North of England over the 6 months to 3 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in the North of England

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in the North of England

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 3 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
North West +7 50 £402 -26.91% 121
Yorkshire +3 19 £450 - 44
North East -2 14 £438 -10.62% 6
Product Ownership
England

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 13 (15.66%) Confluence
2 4 (4.82%) JBoss
2 4 (4.82%) Tomcat
2 4 (4.82%) WebLogic
2 4 (4.82%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.20%) Apache
3 1 (1.20%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.20%) Camunda
3 1 (1.20%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.20%) Tuxedo
Applications
1 3 (3.61%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.20%) InVision
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.20%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.20%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.20%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 15 (18.07%) AWS
2 5 (6.02%) Azure
3 2 (2.41%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.20%) Akamai
4 1 (1.20%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.20%) AWS CloudFormation
4 1 (1.20%) AWS Lambda
4 1 (1.20%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.20%) GCP
4 1 (1.20%) Lucidchart
4 1 (1.20%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.20%) Serverless
4 1 (1.20%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.20%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.20%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.82%) DB2
2 2 (2.41%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.41%) Power BI
2 2 (2.41%) Redis
2 2 (2.41%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.41%) Tableau
3 1 (1.20%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (21.69%) JIRA
2 8 (9.64%) Git
3 4 (4.82%) Bitbucket
3 4 (4.82%) Rational Rhapsody
4 3 (3.61%) Oracle Forms
4 3 (3.61%) Visual Studio
4 3 (3.61%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (2.41%) JUnit
6 1 (1.20%) Axure RP
6 1 (1.20%) git-flow
6 1 (1.20%) TeamCity
General
1 29 (34.94%) Finance
2 20 (24.10%) Social Skills
3 13 (15.66%) Banking
4 10 (12.05%) Public Sector
5 5 (6.02%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (6.02%) Legal
6 4 (4.82%) Retail
7 3 (3.61%) French Language
7 3 (3.61%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.61%) Marketing
8 2 (2.41%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.41%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.20%) Back Office
9 1 (1.20%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.20%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.20%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.20%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 11 (13.25%) Lead
2 10 (12.05%) Scrum Master
3 9 (10.84%) Analyst
3 9 (10.84%) Project Manager
4 8 (9.64%) Business Analyst
4 8 (9.64%) Product Manager
5 7 (8.43%) Product Owner
6 6 (7.23%) Architect
7 5 (6.02%) Developer
7 5 (6.02%) Senior
8 3 (3.61%) C# Developer
8 3 (3.61%) Technical Architect
9 2 (2.41%) Delivery Manager
9 2 (2.41%) Development Engineer
9 2 (2.41%) Security Architect
9 2 (2.41%) Security Engineer
9 2 (2.41%) Senior Developer
9 2 (2.41%) Software Development Engineer
9 2 (2.41%) Systems Engineer
9 2 (2.41%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.43%) Spring Boot
2 5 (6.02%) CSS
2 5 (6.02%) HTML
2 5 (6.02%) RAML
2 5 (6.02%) REST
2 5 (6.02%) Spring
3 4 (4.82%) .NET
3 4 (4.82%) EJB
3 4 (4.82%) J2EE
3 4 (4.82%) JSP
3 4 (4.82%) React
3 4 (4.82%) RESTful
3 4 (4.82%) Servlets
3 4 (4.82%) SOAP
3 4 (4.82%) Web Services
3 4 (4.82%) WSDL
4 3 (3.61%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.61%) Kafka
5 1 (1.20%) CSS3
5 1 (1.20%) OAuth2
Miscellaneous
1 8 (9.64%) Mainframe
2 5 (6.02%) Private Cloud
3 4 (4.82%) Enterprise Software
4 3 (3.61%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (2.41%) Cloud Native
5 2 (2.41%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.20%) Blog
6 1 (1.20%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.20%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.20%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.20%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.20%) IoT
6 1 (1.20%) Onboarding
6 1 (1.20%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.41%) Android
1 2 (2.41%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.20%) Linux
2 1 (1.20%) Unix
2 1 (1.20%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 54 (65.06%) Agile
2 26 (31.33%) Scrum
3 21 (25.30%) Stakeholder Management
4 19 (22.89%) Continuous Improvement
4 19 (22.89%) Roadmaps
5 14 (16.87%) Problem-Solving
5 14 (16.87%) Product Roadmap
6 12 (14.46%) SDLC
7 11 (13.25%) Backlog Management
7 11 (13.25%) Decision-Making
8 10 (12.05%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 10 (12.05%) User Stories
9 9 (10.84%) Change Management
9 9 (10.84%) CI/CD
10 8 (9.64%) Conflict Resolution
10 8 (9.64%) Kanban
10 8 (9.64%) Project Management
10 8 (9.64%) Validation
11 7 (8.43%) Budget Control
11 7 (8.43%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 11 (13.25%) Java
2 9 (10.84%) SQL
3 6 (7.23%) JavaScript
4 4 (4.82%) C#
5 3 (3.61%) COBOL
5 3 (3.61%) PL/SQL
6 1 (1.20%) JCL
6 1 (1.20%) REXX
6 1 (1.20%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (4.82%) Security Cleared
2 3 (3.61%) AWS Certification
2 3 (3.61%) Degree
2 3 (3.61%) SC Cleared
3 2 (2.41%) Azure Certification
3 2 (2.41%) CSPO
4 1 (1.20%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.20%) CBAP
4 1 (1.20%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.20%) PMP
4 1 (1.20%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.82%) Accessibility
1 4 (4.82%) QA
2 2 (2.41%) PMO
3 1 (1.20%) GDPR
3 1 (1.20%) GRC
3 1 (1.20%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (1.20%) PSD2
System Software
1 6 (7.23%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.41%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.41%) NetBackup
2 1 (1.20%) Ansible
2 1 (1.20%) Control-M
2 1 (1.20%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (1.20%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 12 (14.46%) IBM
2 8 (9.64%) Oracle
3 7 (8.43%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.61%) Perforce
5 2 (2.41%) Dell
5 2 (2.41%) Google
5 2 (2.41%) New Relic
5 2 (2.41%) SAP
5 2 (2.41%) Virgin Media
6 1 (1.20%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.20%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (1.20%) Databricks
6 1 (1.20%) F5
6 1 (1.20%) MuleSoft
6 1 (1.20%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.20%) TIBCO
6 1 (1.20%) Veeam
6 1 (1.20%) Veritas