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

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 71 72
Rank change year-on-year +5 +1 0
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Product Ownership 57 47 81
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.41% 2.52% 3.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.38% 7.34% 8.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 29 64
10th Percentile £311 £400 £407
25th Percentile £358 £413 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year -14.00% -1.48% +6.84%
75th Percentile £550 £550 £562
90th Percentile £610 £631 £596
UK median daily rate £500 £551 £575
% change year-on-year -9.26% -4.17% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £47.73
UK median hourly rate £56.75 £60.60 £63.00
% change year-on-year -6.35% -3.81% +7.23%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 680 640 944
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 40.72% 34.30% 37.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 392 624
10th Percentile £190 £200 £205
25th Percentile £358 £361 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £453 £495
Median % change year-on-year -0.66% -8.39% +3.02%
75th Percentile £538 £588 £550
90th Percentile £588 £700 £650
UK median daily rate £520 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -5.45% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 24 15
10th Percentile £16.03 £12.30 £11.84
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.25 £13.83
Median hourly rate £18.67 £18.20 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year +2.55% +2.71% -56.25%
75th Percentile £24.66 £21.74 £27.56
90th Percentile £57.50 £53.46 £51.34
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £45.00 £43.75
% change year-on-year -34.44% +2.86% +65.09%

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
Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

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

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in Scotland over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in Scotland

Product Ownership
Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Product Ownership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Scotland citing Product Ownership

Product Ownership
DemandTrendContract 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 24 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +7 26 £488 -9.30% 40
Glasgow -10 26 £400 -5.88% 11
Perthshire - 3 £600 -
West Lothian - 1 - - 1
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 8 (14.04%) Confluence
2 3 (5.26%) JBoss
2 3 (5.26%) Tomcat
2 3 (5.26%) WebLogic
2 3 (5.26%) WebSphere
Applications
1 2 (3.51%) Sketch
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.75%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (1.75%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 16 (28.07%) Azure
2 12 (21.05%) Azure DevOps
3 7 (12.28%) AWS
4 3 (5.26%) Azure AI
4 3 (5.26%) Azure Cognitive Search
4 3 (5.26%) Azure Cognitive Services
4 3 (5.26%) Figma
4 3 (5.26%) GitHub
5 2 (3.51%) IaaS
6 1 (1.75%) Entra ID
6 1 (1.75%) OCI
6 1 (1.75%) PaaS
6 1 (1.75%) SaaS
6 1 (1.75%) Serverless
6 1 (1.75%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (7.02%) MongoDB
1 4 (7.02%) Relational Database
2 3 (5.26%) DB2
2 3 (5.26%) Metadata
3 2 (3.51%) CockroachDB
Development Applications
1 9 (15.79%) JIRA
2 5 (8.77%) Git
3 3 (5.26%) Bitbucket
3 3 (5.26%) Postman
3 3 (5.26%) Selenium
4 2 (3.51%) Jenkins
4 2 (3.51%) JUnit
4 2 (3.51%) MSTest
4 2 (3.51%) NUnit
4 2 (3.51%) Ranorex
4 2 (3.51%) Subversion
4 2 (3.51%) Team Foundation Server
4 2 (3.51%) webpack
5 1 (1.75%) SpecFlow
General
1 19 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 17 (29.82%) Finance
3 12 (21.05%) Public Sector
4 11 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (7.02%) Law
6 3 (5.26%) Legal
7 2 (3.51%) Banking
7 2 (3.51%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.75%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.75%) Financial Institution
Job Titles
1 12 (21.05%) Developer
2 11 (19.30%) Analyst
3 10 (17.54%) Product Owner
4 9 (15.79%) Business Analyst
5 6 (10.53%) .NET Developer
5 6 (10.53%) Scrum Master
6 5 (8.77%) Delivery Manager
6 5 (8.77%) Senior
6 5 (8.77%) Senior Developer
7 4 (7.02%) Architect
7 4 (7.02%) Product Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) Artificial Intelligence Architect
8 3 (5.26%) Designer
8 3 (5.26%) Lead
8 3 (5.26%) Product Business Analyst
8 3 (5.26%) React Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Senior .NET Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Senior React Developer
8 3 (5.26%) Server Engineer
8 3 (5.26%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 12 (21.05%) React
2 11 (19.30%) .NET
3 6 (10.53%) REST
4 5 (8.77%) RESTful
5 4 (7.02%) AngularJS
5 4 (7.02%) SOAP
5 4 (7.02%) Web Services
6 3 (5.26%) Middleware
6 3 (5.26%) RAML
6 3 (5.26%) WSDL
7 2 (3.51%) CSS
7 2 (3.51%) CSS3
7 2 (3.51%) Django
7 2 (3.51%) HTML
7 2 (3.51%) HTML5
7 2 (3.51%) Kafka
7 2 (3.51%) Node.js
7 2 (3.51%) Spring
7 2 (3.51%) Spring Boot
7 2 (3.51%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (10.53%) Legacy Applications
1 6 (10.53%) Wiki
2 5 (8.77%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (7.02%) Derivative
3 4 (7.02%) Virtual Team
4 3 (5.26%) Private Cloud
4 3 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (3.51%) Distributed Applications
5 2 (3.51%) Equities
5 2 (3.51%) Fixed Income
5 2 (3.51%) OTC Derivatives
5 2 (3.51%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.75%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (1.75%) Data Structures
6 1 (1.75%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.75%) NHS
6 1 (1.75%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (10.53%) Linux
1 6 (10.53%) Windows
2 4 (7.02%) Amazon Linux
2 4 (7.02%) Windows Server
3 2 (3.51%) Android
3 2 (3.51%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (57.89%) Agile
2 21 (36.84%) DevOps
3 18 (31.58%) Scrum
4 16 (28.07%) Continuous Improvement
5 15 (26.32%) CI/CD
6 12 (21.05%) Project Delivery
6 12 (21.05%) User Experience
7 11 (19.30%) SDLC
7 11 (19.30%) Test Automation
8 10 (17.54%) User Stories
9 9 (15.79%) Microservices
9 9 (15.79%) Problem-Solving
10 8 (14.04%) Backlog Management
10 8 (14.04%) Continuous Integration
10 8 (14.04%) Data Modelling
11 7 (12.28%) Knowledge Transfer
11 7 (12.28%) Problem Management
12 6 (10.53%) Code Quality
12 6 (10.53%) Conflict Resolution
12 6 (10.53%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.79%) Python
1 9 (15.79%) SQL
2 5 (8.77%) C#
2 5 (8.77%) Java
3 3 (5.26%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.51%) C++
4 2 (3.51%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.75%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 3 (5.26%) Degree
1 3 (5.26%) Security Cleared
2 2 (3.51%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (3.51%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (5.26%) Accessibility
1 3 (5.26%) Data Quality
1 3 (5.26%) QA
2 1 (1.75%) Disclosure Scotland
2 1 (1.75%) GDPR
2 1 (1.75%) HIPAA
2 1 (1.75%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 1 (1.75%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 3 (5.26%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.75%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 5 (8.77%) Microsoft
1 5 (8.77%) Oracle
2 4 (7.02%) Red Hat
2 4 (7.02%) VMware
3 3 (5.26%) OpenAI
4 2 (3.51%) Atlassian
4 2 (3.51%) Bloomberg
4 2 (3.51%) Reuters
4 2 (3.51%) Spotify
5 1 (1.75%) Alteryx
5 1 (1.75%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.75%) Okta
5 1 (1.75%) Salesforce
5 1 (1.75%) ServiceNow