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 3 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 57 87 70
Rank change year-on-year +30 -17 +18
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 70 38 83
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 3.19% 1.60% 2.75%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.31% 6.03% 9.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 60 23 61
10th Percentile £355 £400 £400
25th Percentile £377 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £434 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year -25.81% +1.74% +12.09%
75th Percentile £519 £763 £625
90th Percentile £691 £850 £650
England median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.80
Median hourly rate - £46.18 £40.59
Median % change year-on-year - +13.77% +7.38%
75th Percentile - - £44.78
90th Percentile - - £45.62
England median hourly rate £56.75 £60.83 £66.50
% change year-on-year -6.71% -8.53% +20.91%

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 679 630 901
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 30.91% 26.46% 29.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 446 393 596
10th Percentile £270 £309 £266
25th Percentile £367 £425 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £498 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.54% -0.50% +2.56%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £610
90th Percentile £650 £715 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 38 42
10th Percentile £21.77 £12.48 £16.29
25th Percentile £26.88 £15.92 £17.95
Median hourly rate £35.50 £27.25 £36.50
Median % change year-on-year +30.28% -25.34% +84.81%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £49.05
90th Percentile £79.20 £76.12 £66.90
England median hourly rate £31.00 £47.50 £40.59
% change year-on-year -34.74% +17.02% +56.12%

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 3 August 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 3 August 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 +1 35 £420 -6.67% 13
Manchester +18 31 £450 -47.06% 82
Lancashire -3 1 £400 -38.46% 69
Merseyside - 1 £431 - 12
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 11 (15.71%) Confluence
2 5 (7.14%) JBoss
2 5 (7.14%) Tomcat
2 5 (7.14%) WebLogic
2 5 (7.14%) WebSphere
3 1 (1.43%) Camunda
Applications
1 2 (2.86%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.43%) InVision
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.43%) Trello
2 1 (1.43%) UserZoom
Cloud Services
1 11 (15.71%) AWS
2 3 (4.29%) AWS Lambda
2 3 (4.29%) Azure
2 3 (4.29%) BrowserStack
2 3 (4.29%) Serverless
3 2 (2.86%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (2.86%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (2.86%) GitHub
3 2 (2.86%) SaaS
4 1 (1.43%) Akamai
4 1 (1.43%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (1.43%) Amazon S3
4 1 (1.43%) Entra ID
4 1 (1.43%) Fastly
4 1 (1.43%) Heroku
4 1 (1.43%) Lucidchart
4 1 (1.43%) OpenShift
4 1 (1.43%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.43%) DNS
1 1 (1.43%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (8.57%) DB2
2 1 (1.43%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.43%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.43%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.43%) NoSQL
2 1 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 13 (18.57%) JIRA
2 6 (8.57%) Git
3 5 (7.14%) Bitbucket
4 3 (4.29%) Selenium
5 1 (1.43%) Axure RP
5 1 (1.43%) TeamCity
General
1 30 (42.86%) Finance
2 26 (37.14%) Social Skills
3 10 (14.29%) Banking
4 6 (8.57%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (7.14%) Legal
5 5 (7.14%) Public Sector
6 4 (5.71%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 1 (1.43%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.43%) Marketing
8 1 (1.43%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.43%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 13 (18.57%) Scrum Master
2 10 (14.29%) Product Owner
3 9 (12.86%) Architect
3 9 (12.86%) Senior
4 8 (11.43%) Business Analyst
5 7 (10.00%) Analyst
5 7 (10.00%) Lead
6 6 (8.57%) Security Architect
7 5 (7.14%) Product Manager
7 5 (7.14%) Project Manager
7 5 (7.14%) User Researcher
8 4 (5.71%) Senior Architect
8 4 (5.71%) Senior Security Architect
9 3 (4.29%) Automation Test Lead
9 3 (4.29%) Service Transition Leader
9 3 (4.29%) Test Leader
10 2 (2.86%) Agile Scrum Master
10 2 (2.86%) Banking Project Manager
10 2 (2.86%) Java Scrum Master
10 2 (2.86%) Payments Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.71%) REST
2 7 (10.00%) RAML
2 7 (10.00%) Web Services
3 6 (8.57%) SOAP
3 6 (8.57%) WSDL
4 5 (7.14%) Spring
4 5 (7.14%) Spring Boot
5 4 (5.71%) EJB
5 4 (5.71%) J2EE
5 4 (5.71%) JSON
5 4 (5.71%) JSP
5 4 (5.71%) SailPoint
5 4 (5.71%) Servlets
6 3 (4.29%) CSS
6 3 (4.29%) HTML
6 3 (4.29%) Node.js
7 2 (2.86%) HTML5
7 2 (2.86%) React
7 2 (2.86%) RESTful
8 1 (1.43%) CSS3
Miscellaneous
1 6 (8.57%) Private Cloud
2 4 (5.71%) Cyberattack
3 3 (4.29%) Cloud Native
3 3 (4.29%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.43%) Client/Server
4 1 (1.43%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (1.43%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.43%) Enterprise Cloud
4 1 (1.43%) IoT
4 1 (1.43%) Mainframe
4 1 (1.43%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.43%) PMI
4 1 (1.43%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.86%) Android
1 2 (2.86%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.43%) Linux
2 1 (1.43%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 51 (72.86%) Agile
2 24 (34.29%) Scrum
3 23 (32.86%) Continuous Improvement
4 22 (31.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 20 (28.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 20 (28.57%) Roadmaps
6 16 (22.86%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (18.57%) Backlog Management
8 12 (17.14%) CI/CD
8 12 (17.14%) SDLC
8 12 (17.14%) User Stories
9 10 (14.29%) Conflict Resolution
9 10 (14.29%) Servant Leadership
10 9 (12.86%) Change Management
10 9 (12.86%) Sprint Planning
11 8 (11.43%) Budget Control
11 8 (11.43%) Product Backlog
11 8 (11.43%) Product Roadmap
11 8 (11.43%) Requirements Gathering
12 7 (10.00%) Situational Awareness
Programming Languages
1 12 (17.14%) Java
2 8 (11.43%) JavaScript
2 8 (11.43%) SQL
3 2 (2.86%) TypeScript
4 1 (1.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 7 (10.00%) Degree
2 6 (8.57%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.29%) CBAP
3 3 (4.29%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.86%) PMI Certification
5 1 (1.43%) AWS Certification
5 1 (1.43%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.43%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.43%) CSPO
5 1 (1.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.71%) GDPR
2 3 (4.29%) Accessibility
3 2 (2.86%) GRC
3 2 (2.86%) Sarbanes-Oxley
4 1 (1.43%) COBIT
4 1 (1.43%) HIPAA
4 1 (1.43%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (1.43%) PSD2
4 1 (1.43%) QA
System Software
1 1 (1.43%) Active Directory
1 1 (1.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (1.43%) NetBackup
1 1 (1.43%) Progress Chef
1 1 (1.43%) Single Sign-On
1 1 (1.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (15.71%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.00%) Oracle
3 2 (2.86%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.43%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.43%) Dell
4 1 (1.43%) F5
4 1 (1.43%) Google
4 1 (1.43%) IBM
4 1 (1.43%) Okta
4 1 (1.43%) Ping Identity
4 1 (1.43%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.43%) TIBCO