Product Ownership Contract Job Trends in Somerset

Product Ownership
South West > Somerset

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in Somerset. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 33 29 27
Rank change year-on-year -4 -2 -3
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 3 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in Somerset 1.38% 0.63% 2.19%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.55% 2.27% 10.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 4
10th Percentile - - £408
25th Percentile - £710 £411
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £720 £506
Median % change year-on-year -9.72% +42.22% -23.35%
75th Percentile - £730 £633
90th Percentile - - £705
South West median daily rate £725 £620 £594
% change year-on-year +16.94% +4.42% +7.95%

All Generic Skills
Somerset

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 Somerset.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 66 44 40
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Somerset 30.28% 27.67% 21.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 24 26
10th Percentile £225 £168 £142
25th Percentile £263 £244 £289
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £325 £563 £538
Median % change year-on-year -42.22% +4.55% -11.26%
75th Percentile £559 £638 £584
90th Percentile £600 £665 £631
South West median daily rate £525 £548 £550
% change year-on-year -4.20% -0.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
Median hourly rate - - £35.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +84.21%
South West median hourly rate £33.50 £65.01 £62.50
% change year-on-year -48.47% +4.02% +537.76%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Somerset

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

Product Ownership job vacancy trend in Somerset

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Trend in Somerset

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

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

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in Somerset

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 Somerset region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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
Street - 1 - - 1
Taunton - 1 - -
Product Ownership
South West

Product Ownership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Somerset 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) AWS
2 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
2 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
2 1 (33.33%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) SQL Server
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Banking
2 1 (33.33%) Finance
2 1 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (33.33%) Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Architect
1 1 (33.33%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Cloud Native
1 1 (33.33%) Low-Code
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) PMI
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (33.33%) Creative Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Critical Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure Automation
3 1 (33.33%) People Management
3 1 (33.33%) Product Vision
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Service Design
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
3 1 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) JavaScript
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
1 1 (33.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (33.33%) PMI Certification
1 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
1 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) Accessibility
1 1 (33.33%) Government Security Classifications
1 1 (33.33%) NCSC
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft