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 31 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 79 97 79
Rank change year-on-year +18 -18 -21
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 92 87 146
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 2.75% 1.85% 2.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.84% 7.00% 8.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 56 105
10th Percentile £358 £369 £413
25th Percentile £381 £444 £501
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £541 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.41% -1.59% +4.76%
75th Percentile £500 £585 £625
90th Percentile £641 £769 £650
England median daily rate £500 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -11.07% -2.17% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 1
10th Percentile £46.53 - -
25th Percentile £47.04 - £37.80
Median hourly rate £49.90 £46.18 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year +8.04% +13.77% -
75th Percentile £54.74 - £43.39
90th Percentile £56.45 - -
England median hourly rate £56.75 £60.60 £70.00
% change year-on-year -6.35% -13.43% +20.69%

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 1,041 1,243 1,671
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 31.13% 26.41% 30.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 674 753 1,119
10th Percentile £222 £263 £285
25th Percentile £374 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £510
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% -3.33% +6.25%
75th Percentile £575 £585 £606
90th Percentile £641 £656 £688
England median daily rate £533 £550 £572
% change year-on-year -3.09% -3.89% +4.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 153 83
10th Percentile £20.38 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £24.25 £13.00 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.80 £15.17 £16.85
Median % change year-on-year +96.44% -9.97% -11.32%
75th Percentile £57.59 £34.21 £42.19
90th Percentile £75.50 £48.24 £66.55
England median hourly rate £33.91 £35.65 £22.34
% change year-on-year -4.88% +59.61% -15.72%

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 31 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 31 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 +10 54 £402 -26.91% 155
Yorkshire +13 26 £488 -7.14% 90
North East +2 12 £500 +10.19% 25
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 16 (17.39%) Confluence
2 4 (4.35%) JBoss
2 4 (4.35%) Tomcat
2 4 (4.35%) WebLogic
2 4 (4.35%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.09%) Apache
3 1 (1.09%) Apache Spark
3 1 (1.09%) Camunda
3 1 (1.09%) SharePoint
3 1 (1.09%) Tuxedo
3 1 (1.09%) Umbraco
Applications
1 3 (3.26%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.09%) InVision
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.09%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.09%) Trello
2 1 (1.09%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 18 (19.57%) AWS
2 9 (9.78%) Azure
3 4 (4.35%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.17%) AWS CloudFormation
4 2 (2.17%) AWS Lambda
4 2 (2.17%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (2.17%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (2.17%) GCP
4 2 (2.17%) GitHub
4 2 (2.17%) SaaS
4 2 (2.17%) Serverless
5 1 (1.09%) Akamai
5 1 (1.09%) Amazon ECS
5 1 (1.09%) Amazon S3
5 1 (1.09%) Lucidchart
5 1 (1.09%) OpenShift
5 1 (1.09%) Slack
5 1 (1.09%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.09%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (4.35%) DB2
2 2 (2.17%) MongoDB
2 2 (2.17%) MySQL
2 2 (2.17%) NoSQL
2 2 (2.17%) PostgreSQL
2 2 (2.17%) Power BI
2 2 (2.17%) SQL Server
2 2 (2.17%) Tableau
3 1 (1.09%) DynamoDB
Development Applications
1 20 (21.74%) JIRA
2 8 (8.70%) Git
3 4 (4.35%) Bitbucket
4 3 (3.26%) Jenkins
4 3 (3.26%) Oracle Forms
5 2 (2.17%) GitLab
5 2 (2.17%) JUnit
5 2 (2.17%) Rational Rhapsody
5 2 (2.17%) SonarQube
6 1 (1.09%) Artifactory
6 1 (1.09%) Axure RP
6 1 (1.09%) git-flow
6 1 (1.09%) Sonatype Nexus
6 1 (1.09%) TeamCity
6 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.09%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 34 (36.96%) Finance
2 26 (28.26%) Social Skills
3 15 (16.30%) Banking
4 11 (11.96%) Public Sector
5 6 (6.52%) Analytical Skills
6 5 (5.43%) Legal
7 3 (3.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 3 (3.26%) Retail
8 2 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.17%) Investment Banking
8 2 (2.17%) Marketing
9 1 (1.09%) Back Office
9 1 (1.09%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.09%) Documentation Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.09%) French Language
9 1 (1.09%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.09%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 12 (13.04%) Scrum Master
2 10 (10.87%) Lead
2 10 (10.87%) Product Manager
2 10 (10.87%) Project Manager
3 9 (9.78%) Analyst
4 7 (7.61%) Architect
4 7 (7.61%) Business Analyst
4 7 (7.61%) Developer
4 7 (7.61%) Product Owner
4 7 (7.61%) Senior
5 3 (3.26%) Delivery Manager
5 3 (3.26%) Senior Developer
5 3 (3.26%) Software Engineer
5 3 (3.26%) Technical Architect
6 2 (2.17%) C# Developer
6 2 (2.17%) Integration Architect
6 2 (2.17%) IT Manager
6 2 (2.17%) Lead Developer
6 2 (2.17%) Solutions Architect
6 2 (2.17%) Systems Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (7.61%) REST
1 7 (7.61%) Spring Boot
2 5 (5.43%) Node.js
2 5 (5.43%) RAML
2 5 (5.43%) React
2 5 (5.43%) Spring
2 5 (5.43%) Web Services
3 4 (4.35%) CSS
3 4 (4.35%) EJB
3 4 (4.35%) HTML
3 4 (4.35%) J2EE
3 4 (4.35%) JSP
3 4 (4.35%) RESTful
3 4 (4.35%) Servlets
3 4 (4.35%) SOAP
3 4 (4.35%) WSDL
4 3 (3.26%) .NET
4 3 (3.26%) AngularJS
4 3 (3.26%) Kafka
5 2 (2.17%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 9 (9.78%) Mainframe
2 5 (5.43%) Private Cloud
3 4 (4.35%) Cloud Native
4 3 (3.26%) Enterprise Software
5 2 (2.17%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.09%) Acoustics
6 1 (1.09%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.09%) Blog
6 1 (1.09%) Client/Server
6 1 (1.09%) Cyber Threat
6 1 (1.09%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.09%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.09%) Enterprise Cloud
6 1 (1.09%) IBM Mainframe
6 1 (1.09%) IoT
6 1 (1.09%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.09%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.09%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.17%) Android
1 2 (2.17%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.09%) Linux
2 1 (1.09%) Unix
2 1 (1.09%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (68.48%) Agile
2 33 (35.87%) Scrum
3 24 (26.09%) Continuous Improvement
3 24 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
4 22 (23.91%) Roadmaps
5 15 (16.30%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 14 (15.22%) Problem-Solving
6 14 (15.22%) Product Roadmap
7 13 (14.13%) Backlog Management
8 12 (13.04%) Decision-Making
8 12 (13.04%) DevOps
8 12 (13.04%) User Stories
9 11 (11.96%) CI/CD
9 11 (11.96%) SDLC
9 11 (11.96%) Sprint Planning
10 10 (10.87%) Change Management
10 10 (10.87%) Kanban
11 9 (9.78%) Conflict Resolution
11 9 (9.78%) Project Management
12 8 (8.70%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 13 (14.13%) Java
2 12 (13.04%) SQL
3 10 (10.87%) JavaScript
4 3 (3.26%) C#
4 3 (3.26%) COBOL
4 3 (3.26%) PL/SQL
4 3 (3.26%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.09%) JCL
5 1 (1.09%) REXX
Qualifications
1 6 (6.52%) Security Cleared
2 5 (5.43%) SC Cleared
3 4 (4.35%) CSPO
3 4 (4.35%) Degree
4 1 (1.09%) AWS Certification
4 1 (1.09%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (1.09%) CBAP
4 1 (1.09%) PMI Certification
4 1 (1.09%) PMP
4 1 (1.09%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (4.35%) Accessibility
2 3 (3.26%) QA
3 2 (2.17%) PMO
4 1 (1.09%) GDPR
4 1 (1.09%) GRC
4 1 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.09%) PSD2
System Software
1 6 (6.52%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (3.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (2.17%) NetBackup
2 1 (1.09%) Ansible
2 1 (1.09%) Control-M
2 1 (1.09%) HP Data Protector
2 1 (1.09%) Progress Chef
2 1 (1.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (10.87%) IBM
2 8 (8.70%) Microsoft
2 8 (8.70%) Oracle
3 3 (3.26%) Google
3 3 (3.26%) Perforce
4 2 (2.17%) Dell
4 2 (2.17%) Virgin Media
5 1 (1.09%) Atlassian
5 1 (1.09%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (1.09%) Cisco
5 1 (1.09%) Databricks
5 1 (1.09%) F5
5 1 (1.09%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.09%) Ping Identity
5 1 (1.09%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.09%) TIBCO
5 1 (1.09%) Veeam
5 1 (1.09%) Veritas