Product Ownership Contracts in Scotland

Product Ownership
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in Scotland. 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 72 50 63
Rank change year-on-year -22 +13 -26
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 46 84 113
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 2.83% 3.79% 3.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.44% 11.48% 10.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 30 52 85
10th Percentile £352 £400 £390
25th Percentile £406 £406 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £525 £578 £560
90th Percentile £573 £600 £622
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £47.73
UK median hourly rate £56.75 £57.44 £80.00
% change year-on-year -1.20% -28.20% +60.00%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 618 732 1,037
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 38.03% 33.02% 36.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 426 712
10th Percentile £221 £203 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £467 £475 £488
Median % change year-on-year -1.68% -2.56% +2.63%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £560
90th Percentile £600 £675 £675
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.33% -2.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 28 36 23
10th Percentile - £13.75 -
25th Percentile £17.30 £16.25 £10.63
Median hourly rate £22.00 £18.14 £12.30
Median % change year-on-year +21.31% +47.44% -71.40%
75th Percentile £24.66 £38.25 £28.81
90th Percentile £42.00 £60.38 £52.55
UK median hourly rate £32.05 £30.00 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.83% +33.42% -18.24%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in Scotland

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in Scotland

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in Scotland

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in Scotland.

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in Scotland

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh +1 27 £469 +0.86% 37
Glasgow -11 17 £413 +3.13% 28
West Lothian +13 1 - - 5
Product Ownership
UK

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 3 (6.52%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) JBoss
2 1 (2.17%) Tomcat
2 1 (2.17%) WebLogic
2 1 (2.17%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Office
1 2 (4.35%) MS Visio
1 2 (4.35%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (2.17%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.17%) Dynamics GP
Cloud Services
1 11 (23.91%) Azure
2 7 (15.22%) Azure DevOps
2 7 (15.22%) IaaS
3 6 (13.04%) AWS
4 4 (8.70%) Figma
5 3 (6.52%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (2.17%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 4 (8.70%) DHCP
1 4 (8.70%) DNS
2 1 (2.17%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (6.52%) Relational Database
2 2 (4.35%) CockroachDB
2 2 (4.35%) MongoDB
3 1 (2.17%) DB2
Development Applications
1 9 (19.57%) JIRA
2 2 (4.35%) Git
2 2 (4.35%) Toad
3 1 (2.17%) Bitbucket
3 1 (2.17%) JUnit
3 1 (2.17%) MSTest
3 1 (2.17%) NUnit
3 1 (2.17%) Postman
3 1 (2.17%) Ranorex
3 1 (2.17%) Selenium
General
1 20 (43.48%) Finance
2 19 (41.30%) Social Skills
3 13 (28.26%) Public Sector
4 9 (19.57%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (13.04%) Banking
6 4 (8.70%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (8.70%) Investment Banking
6 4 (8.70%) Law
7 3 (6.52%) Marketing
8 1 (2.17%) Financial Institution
8 1 (2.17%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (2.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 8 (17.39%) Developer
1 8 (17.39%) Scrum Master
1 8 (17.39%) Senior
2 7 (15.22%) Product Owner
3 6 (13.04%) .NET Developer
3 6 (13.04%) Analyst
4 5 (10.87%) Designer
4 5 (10.87%) Senior Developer
5 4 (8.70%) React Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Senior React Developer
6 3 (6.52%) Server Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Business Systems Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Delivery Manager
7 2 (4.35%) Deployment Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Linux Engineer
7 2 (4.35%) Python Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Business Analyst
7 2 (4.35%) Senior Python Developer
7 2 (4.35%) Systems Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (19.57%) React
2 7 (15.22%) .NET
3 4 (8.70%) REST
4 2 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 2 (4.35%) Django
4 2 (4.35%) SOAP
5 1 (2.17%) JSON
5 1 (2.17%) Playwright
5 1 (2.17%) RAML
5 1 (2.17%) React Native
5 1 (2.17%) Web Services
5 1 (2.17%) WebSockets
5 1 (2.17%) WSDL
5 1 (2.17%) XML
5 1 (2.17%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (13.04%) Legacy Applications
1 6 (13.04%) Wiki
2 5 (10.87%) Virtual Team
3 3 (6.52%) Data Structures
4 1 (2.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.17%) Cyber Threat
4 1 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.17%) Derivative
4 1 (2.17%) Equities
4 1 (2.17%) Fixed Income
4 1 (2.17%) Mobile App
4 1 (2.17%) NHS
4 1 (2.17%) PKI
4 1 (2.17%) Private Cloud
4 1 (2.17%) Reference Data
4 1 (2.17%) Security Posture
Operating Systems
1 10 (21.74%) Linux
2 8 (17.39%) Windows
3 5 (10.87%) Windows Server
4 4 (8.70%) Amazon Linux
5 2 (4.35%) Android
5 2 (4.35%) Apple iOS
6 1 (2.17%) AIX
6 1 (2.17%) Ubuntu
6 1 (2.17%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 27 (58.70%) Agile
2 14 (30.43%) User Experience
3 12 (26.09%) Backlog Management
3 12 (26.09%) DevOps
3 12 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (23.91%) Continuous Improvement
5 9 (19.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 9 (19.57%) Kanban
5 9 (19.57%) Scrum
5 9 (19.57%) User Stories
6 8 (17.39%) Roadmaps
6 8 (17.39%) Service Delivery
7 7 (15.22%) Conflict Resolution
7 7 (15.22%) ITIL
7 7 (15.22%) Project Delivery
8 6 (13.04%) Code Quality
8 6 (13.04%) Knowledge Transfer
8 6 (13.04%) UX Design
9 5 (10.87%) Customer Experience
9 5 (10.87%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 7 (15.22%) SQL
2 5 (10.87%) Python
3 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
3 2 (4.35%) PL/SQL
4 1 (2.17%) C#
4 1 (2.17%) Java
4 1 (2.17%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (6.52%) SC Cleared
1 3 (6.52%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.35%) Degree
3 1 (2.17%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (6.52%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (2.17%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.17%) NIST
2 1 (2.17%) QA
System Software
1 5 (10.87%) Virtual Servers
2 2 (4.35%) Hyper-V
3 1 (2.17%) Active Directory
3 1 (2.17%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Intune
1 4 (8.70%) SCCM
2 1 (2.17%) Ansible
2 1 (2.17%) Kubernetes
2 1 (2.17%) Progress Chef
2 1 (2.17%) Puppet
Vendors
1 5 (10.87%) VMware
2 4 (8.70%) Red Hat
3 3 (6.52%) Microsoft
3 3 (6.52%) Oracle
4 2 (4.35%) HP
5 1 (2.17%) Alteryx
5 1 (2.17%) Bloomberg
5 1 (2.17%) Reuters
5 1 (2.17%) Salesforce