Product Ownership Contracts in Reading

Product Ownership
Berkshire > Reading

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in Reading. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 19 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
19 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 50 44 48
Rank change year-on-year -6 +4 -15
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Product Ownership 17 47 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 2.84% 4.25% 3.94%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.72% 16.04% 13.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 28 30
10th Percentile £400 £514 £457
25th Percentile £461 £572 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £631 £573
Median % change year-on-year -16.83% +10.26% -7.59%
75th Percentile £538 £672 £688
90th Percentile £628 £715 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £625 £550
% change year-on-year -20.00% +13.64% -9.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £60.83 -
Berkshire median hourly rate - £59.45 £63.00
% change year-on-year - -5.63% -

All Generic Skills
Reading

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 Reading.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 195 293 320
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Reading 32.61% 26.47% 29.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 128 161 229
10th Percentile £350 £313 £294
25th Percentile £423 £465 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £583 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.95% +6.00% +7.58%
75th Percentile £589 £638 £638
90th Percentile £650 £711 £708
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £555 £515
% change year-on-year -9.91% +7.77% +3.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 7 7
10th Percentile £24.80 £42.05 £45.28
25th Percentile £31.44 £56.25 £63.48
Median hourly rate £45.00 £60.60 £67.75
Median % change year-on-year -25.74% -10.55% +160.58%
75th Percentile £51.25 £65.37 £76.60
90th Percentile £53.50 £71.76 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £62.50 £41.50 £64.90
% change year-on-year +50.60% -36.06% +5.53%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

Job postings citing Product Ownership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Reading.

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in Reading

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Product Ownership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Reading citing Product Ownership

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in Reading

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in Reading over the 6 months to 19 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in Reading

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 (5.88%) ArcGIS
1 1 (5.88%) CMS
1 1 (5.88%) Oracle Spatial
1 1 (5.88%) Smallworld
Business Applications
1 2 (11.76%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (5.88%) SAP HR
2 1 (5.88%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 3 (17.65%) AWS
2 2 (11.76%) Azure
2 2 (11.76%) Dynamics 365
2 2 (11.76%) Oracle CX
3 1 (5.88%) Boomi
3 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (11.76%) Firewall
2 1 (5.88%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.88%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (5.88%) Data Hub
1 1 (5.88%) Data Lake
1 1 (5.88%) GIS
1 1 (5.88%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (5.88%) Spatial Data
1 1 (5.88%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 4 (23.53%) Social Skills
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
2 3 (17.65%) Marketing
3 2 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (11.76%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.88%) Legal
4 1 (5.88%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (35.29%) Product Owner
2 3 (17.65%) Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Architect
3 2 (11.76%) Business Analyst
3 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Engineer
3 2 (11.76%) Lead
3 2 (11.76%) Scrum Master
4 1 (5.88%) Agile Delivery Lead
4 1 (5.88%) Agile Scrum Master
4 1 (5.88%) GIS Architect
4 1 (5.88%) IT Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) IT Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Solutions Architect
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (5.88%) Technical Product Owner
4 1 (5.88%) Workstream Lead
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.88%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (5.88%) Middleware
1 1 (5.88%) PostGIS
1 1 (5.88%) SAP PI
1 1 (5.88%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 2 (11.76%) Cloud Native
2 1 (5.88%) Cyberattack
2 1 (5.88%) Management Information System
2 1 (5.88%) Onboarding
2 1 (5.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (11.76%) Linux
1 2 (11.76%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (76.47%) Agile
2 8 (47.06%) Scrum
3 7 (41.18%) Roadmaps
4 6 (35.29%) CRM
4 6 (35.29%) User Stories
5 5 (29.41%) Sprint Planning
6 4 (23.53%) Migration
6 4 (23.53%) Product Backlog
6 4 (23.53%) Product Roadmap
7 3 (17.65%) Backlog Refinement
7 3 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
7 3 (17.65%) Data Migration
7 3 (17.65%) Sprint Retrospective
7 3 (17.65%) Sprint Review
7 3 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (11.76%) Business Case
8 2 (11.76%) DevOps
8 2 (11.76%) Infrastructure Automation
8 2 (11.76%) Requirements Gathering
8 2 (11.76%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 2 (11.76%) Bash
1 2 (11.76%) PowerShell
1 2 (11.76%) Python
2 1 (5.88%) Apex Code
2 1 (5.88%) Java
2 1 (5.88%) Magik
Qualifications
1 2 (11.76%) Degree
2 1 (5.88%) IIBA
2 1 (5.88%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.88%) GDPR
System Software
1 1 (5.88%) Virtual Machines
1 1 (5.88%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (11.76%) Ansible
1 2 (11.76%) Progress Chef
1 2 (11.76%) Puppet
1 2 (11.76%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (23.53%) Microsoft
1 4 (23.53%) Salesforce
2 3 (17.65%) Oracle
3 2 (11.76%) HubSpot
3 2 (11.76%) SAP
3 2 (11.76%) ServiceNow
4 1 (5.88%) Dell
4 1 (5.88%) ESRI
4 1 (5.88%) VMware