Product Ownership Contracts in the North West

Product Ownership
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in the North West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 83 86
Rank change year-on-year +13 +3 -24
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 50 54 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 2.54% 1.96% 2.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.93% 7.28% 6.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 34 49
10th Percentile £358 £385 £443
25th Percentile £367 £472 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -26.91% -4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £450 £650 £638
90th Percentile £625 £850 £650
England median daily rate £550 £563 £573
% change year-on-year -2.22% -1.75% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £46.18 -
England median hourly rate £56.75 £57.44 £85.00
% change year-on-year -1.20% -32.42% +36.77%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 560 742 1,080
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 28.46% 26.93% 33.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 493 722
10th Percentile £203 £289 £296
25th Percentile £360 £413 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £473 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £580 £584 £625
90th Percentile £653 £672 £675
England median daily rate £548 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.36% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 38 77 47
10th Percentile £22.05 £13.00 £16.85
25th Percentile £24.25 £15.00 £20.74
Median hourly rate £29.52 £25.25 £27.98
Median % change year-on-year +16.89% -9.76% +51.24%
75th Percentile £33.75 £37.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.75 £57.50 £70.00
England median hourly rate £33.00 £30.16 £22.50
% change year-on-year +9.42% +34.04% -16.67%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the North West

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in the North West

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in the North West over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in the North West

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in the North West

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 1 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
Cheshire +16 26 £378 -20.42% 16
Manchester -2 21 £450 -18.18% 95
Lancashire +1 1 £400 -25.75% 49
Merseyside - 1 £425 - 6
Product Ownership
England

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 6 (12.00%) Confluence
2 4 (8.00%) JBoss
2 4 (8.00%) Tomcat
2 4 (8.00%) WebLogic
2 4 (8.00%) WebSphere
3 1 (2.00%) Camunda
Applications
1 1 (2.00%) InVision
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (2.00%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.00%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 12 (24.00%) AWS
2 2 (4.00%) Azure
3 1 (2.00%) Akamai
3 1 (2.00%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (2.00%) AWS CloudFormation
3 1 (2.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.00%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (2.00%) OpenShift
3 1 (2.00%) Serverless
3 1 (2.00%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (8.00%) DB2
2 1 (2.00%) NoSQL
2 1 (2.00%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 8 (16.00%) JIRA
2 5 (10.00%) Git
3 4 (8.00%) Bitbucket
4 2 (4.00%) JUnit
5 1 (2.00%) Axure RP
5 1 (2.00%) TeamCity
General
1 15 (30.00%) Finance
2 11 (22.00%) Social Skills
3 8 (16.00%) Banking
4 5 (10.00%) Legal
5 4 (8.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 3 (6.00%) Marketing
7 2 (4.00%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (4.00%) Retail
8 1 (2.00%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (2.00%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.00%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (18.00%) Scrum Master
2 6 (12.00%) Product Manager
3 5 (10.00%) Architect
3 5 (10.00%) Lead
4 4 (8.00%) Analyst
4 4 (8.00%) Product Owner
4 4 (8.00%) Project Manager
4 4 (8.00%) Senior
5 3 (6.00%) Business Analyst
6 2 (4.00%) Banking Project Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Integration Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Java Scrum Master
6 2 (4.00%) Payments Project Manager
6 2 (4.00%) Security Architect
6 2 (4.00%) Senior Developer
6 2 (4.00%) Technical Architect
6 2 (4.00%) User Researcher
7 1 (2.00%) ScrumMaster Project Manager
7 1 (2.00%) Service Transition Leader
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (14.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (10.00%) RAML
2 5 (10.00%) REST
2 5 (10.00%) Spring
3 4 (8.00%) EJB
3 4 (8.00%) J2EE
3 4 (8.00%) JSP
3 4 (8.00%) Servlets
3 4 (8.00%) SOAP
3 4 (8.00%) Web Services
3 4 (8.00%) WSDL
4 3 (6.00%) AngularJS
4 3 (6.00%) Kafka
4 3 (6.00%) React
5 2 (4.00%) CSS
5 2 (4.00%) HTML
6 1 (2.00%) .NET
6 1 (2.00%) .NET Framework
6 1 (2.00%) jBPM
6 1 (2.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 7 (14.00%) Mainframe
2 5 (10.00%) Private Cloud
3 2 (4.00%) Cloud Native
4 1 (2.00%) Blog
4 1 (2.00%) Client/Server
4 1 (2.00%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.00%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (2.00%) IoT
4 1 (2.00%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.00%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.00%) Android
1 2 (4.00%) Apple iOS
2 1 (2.00%) Linux
2 1 (2.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (68.00%) Agile
2 16 (32.00%) Scrum
3 14 (28.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 13 (26.00%) Stakeholder Management
5 10 (20.00%) Roadmaps
5 10 (20.00%) SDLC
6 9 (18.00%) Backlog Management
6 9 (18.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 9 (18.00%) Problem-Solving
7 8 (16.00%) Validation
8 7 (14.00%) Budget Control
8 7 (14.00%) Migration
8 7 (14.00%) Product Roadmap
8 7 (14.00%) Servant Leadership
9 6 (12.00%) Change Management
9 6 (12.00%) Conflict Resolution
9 6 (12.00%) Situational Awareness
10 5 (10.00%) Kanban
10 5 (10.00%) User Experience
10 5 (10.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 11 (22.00%) Java
2 6 (12.00%) JavaScript
3 5 (10.00%) SQL
4 1 (2.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 3 (6.00%) SC Cleared
3 2 (4.00%) Degree
4 1 (2.00%) AWS Certification
4 1 (2.00%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (2.00%) CBAP
4 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
4 1 (2.00%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) GDPR
2 1 (2.00%) GRC
2 1 (2.00%) PSD2
System Software
1 6 (12.00%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (4.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) NetBackup
1 1 (2.00%) Progress Chef
Vendors
1 7 (14.00%) IBM
2 5 (10.00%) Oracle
3 3 (6.00%) Microsoft
4 2 (4.00%) SAP
5 1 (2.00%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (2.00%) Dell
5 1 (2.00%) F5
5 1 (2.00%) Google
5 1 (2.00%) TIBCO