Product Ownership Contracts in Sheffield

Product Ownership
South Yorkshire > Sheffield

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in Sheffield. 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 43 50 50
Rank change year-on-year +7 0 -27
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 7 5 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Sheffield 2.19% 1.32% 1.32%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.74% 3.76% 4.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 3 4
10th Percentile £365 - £418
25th Percentile £379 - £567
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £446 £400 £650
Median % change year-on-year +11.50% -38.46% +23.81%
75th Percentile £492 - -
90th Percentile £578 - -
South Yorkshire median daily rate £446 £400 £650
% change year-on-year +11.50% -38.46% +23.81%

All Generic Skills
Sheffield

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 Sheffield.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 122 133 121
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 38.24% 35.09% 26.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 76 99
10th Percentile £306 £395 £417
25th Percentile £375 £429 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £480 £600
Median % change year-on-year -1.04% -20.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £613 £588 £694
90th Percentile £650 £648 £700
South Yorkshire median daily rate £475 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +5.56% -25.00% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 8 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £10.90 £17.50
Median hourly rate - £17.63 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year - -11.88% +13.38%
75th Percentile - £23.75 £22.50
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate - £12.75 £10.63
% change year-on-year - +19.94% -44.41%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in Sheffield

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in Sheffield

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

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

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in Sheffield

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Sheffield 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 (14.29%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
1 1 (14.29%) Azure
1 1 (14.29%) GCP
1 1 (14.29%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
General
1 6 (85.71%) Finance
2 4 (57.14%) Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Investment Banking
3 2 (28.57%) Retail
3 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Back Office
4 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Project Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) Business Analyst
2 2 (28.57%) IT Manager
2 2 (28.57%) IT Project Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Chief Technology Officer
3 1 (14.29%) Payments Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Payments Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) SQL Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Test Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
1 2 (28.57%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) IBM Mainframe
2 1 (14.29%) Mainframe
Operating Systems
1 1 (14.29%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) Decision-Making
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
3 3 (42.86%) Programme Management
3 3 (42.86%) Project Management
4 2 (28.57%) Backlog Management
4 2 (28.57%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (28.57%) Business Transformation
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) Financial Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) Kanban
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Project Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Project Governance
4 2 (28.57%) Project Planning
4 2 (28.57%) Quality Management
4 2 (28.57%) Resource Management
4 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) JCL
1 1 (14.29%) REXX
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) PMO
2 1 (14.29%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Ansible
1 1 (14.29%) Control-M
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) IBM
1 1 (14.29%) MuleSoft
1 1 (14.29%) ServiceNow
1 1 (14.29%) Veeam