Product Ownership Contract Job Trends 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 7 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 48 43 40
Rank change year-on-year -5 -3 +12
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 36 7 11
As % of all contract jobs in Sheffield 5.19% 1.99% 3.04%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.37% 4.93% 9.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 6 9
10th Percentile £442 £488 -
25th Percentile £473 £508 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £574 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.76% +14.86% -16.67%
75th Percentile £530 £600 £561
90th Percentile £575 £681 £702
South Yorkshire median daily rate £513 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -14.58% +20.00% -16.67%

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 347 142 112
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield 50.07% 40.34% 30.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 211 93 71
10th Percentile £325 £220 £388
25th Percentile £405 £400 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £478 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.28% -1.90% -8.70%
75th Percentile £537 £600 £589
90th Percentile £600 £650 £688
South Yorkshire median daily rate £480 £511 £500
% change year-on-year -6.16% +2.25% -9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £11.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £13.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -40.00% +18.42%
75th Percentile - £15.25 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
South Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.00 £13.50 £22.50
% change year-on-year +11.11% -40.00% +18.42%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Sheffield

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Product Ownership relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Sheffield.

Product Ownership job vacancy trend in Sheffield

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Trend in Sheffield

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

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

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in Sheffield

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in Sheffield over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in Sheffield

Product Ownership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Sheffield by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 14 (38.89%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (25.00%) CloudBees
2 6 (16.67%) AWS
2 6 (16.67%) Azure
3 5 (13.89%) OpenShift
4 4 (11.11%) GCP
5 3 (8.33%) Cohesity
5 3 (8.33%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.78%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (38.89%) JIRA
2 11 (30.56%) Jenkins
3 10 (27.78%) GitLab
4 3 (8.33%) Git
5 2 (5.56%) JUnit
5 2 (5.56%) Selenium
5 2 (5.56%) TestNG
General
1 11 (30.56%) Finance
2 5 (13.89%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (13.89%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.33%) Banking
4 2 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.56%) Legal
5 1 (2.78%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (33.33%) Automation Engineer
1 12 (33.33%) Product Owner
2 9 (25.00%) Data Protection Engineer
3 8 (22.22%) Data Engineer
4 3 (8.33%) Lead
4 3 (8.33%) Product Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Technical Manager
4 3 (8.33%) Technical Product Manager
5 2 (5.56%) DevOps Automation Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) DevOps Engineer
5 2 (5.56%) QA Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Architect
6 1 (2.78%) Full-Stack Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Java Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) JIRA Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Linux/Unix DevOps
6 1 (2.78%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.78%) SCM Engineer
6 1 (2.78%) Senior
6 1 (2.78%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.33%) RESTful
2 2 (5.56%) Hibernate
2 2 (5.56%) Spring
3 1 (2.78%) .NET
3 1 (2.78%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (2.78%) CSS
3 1 (2.78%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.78%) HTML
3 1 (2.78%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 13 (36.11%) Onboarding
2 4 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (11.11%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.78%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.56%) Linux
2 1 (2.78%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (50.00%) DevOps
2 17 (47.22%) CI/CD
3 16 (44.44%) Data Protection
3 16 (44.44%) Roadmaps
3 16 (44.44%) Scrum
4 15 (41.67%) Test Automation
5 14 (38.89%) Sprint Retrospective
5 14 (38.89%) User Stories
6 12 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
6 12 (33.33%) Configuration Management
6 12 (33.33%) KYC
7 11 (30.56%) Product Backlog
8 9 (25.00%) Agile
8 9 (25.00%) Backlog Management
9 8 (22.22%) Decision-Making
9 8 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (22.22%) Product Vision
10 6 (16.67%) Objectives and Key Results
10 6 (16.67%) Product Strategy
11 5 (13.89%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 13 (36.11%) Python
2 10 (27.78%) Bash
3 2 (5.56%) Java
4 1 (2.78%) C#
4 1 (2.78%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.56%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.78%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.33%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.56%) QA
Systems Management
1 13 (36.11%) Ansible
2 12 (33.33%) NetBackup
3 4 (11.11%) Kubernetes
4 3 (8.33%) Puppet
5 1 (2.78%) Grafana
5 1 (2.78%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.78%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (33.33%) Commvault
1 12 (33.33%) Red Hat
2 9 (25.00%) Veritas
3 8 (22.22%) Microsoft