Product Ownership Contracts in the South East

Product Ownership
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in the South East. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 86 82 42
Rank change year-on-year -4 -40 +23
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 67 122 262
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.23% 2.22% 4.61%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.82% 7.87% 13.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 86 188
10th Percentile £416 £438 £359
25th Percentile £470 £504 £469
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £625 £553
Median % change year-on-year -19.44% +13.12% +5.24%
75th Percentile £622 £738 £650
90th Percentile £658 - £700
England median daily rate £550 £555 £570
% change year-on-year -0.90% -2.63% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 8 0 2
10th Percentile £39.41 - £65.53
25th Percentile £44.51 - £71.56
Median hourly rate £56.75 - £83.25
75th Percentile £65.88 - £95.06
90th Percentile £76.60 - £101.18
England median hourly rate £56.75 £57.44 £85.00
% change year-on-year -1.20% -32.42% +44.68%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 the South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 983 1,550 1,942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 32.72% 28.16% 34.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 616 930 1,317
10th Percentile £205 £205 £213
25th Percentile £350 £363 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £515
Median % change year-on-year - -2.91% +3.00%
75th Percentile £600 £608 £638
90th Percentile £662 £688 £725
England median daily rate £547 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -0.55% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 65 152 92
10th Percentile £16.95 £11.72 £18.08
25th Percentile £23.50 £18.35 £19.00
Median hourly rate £48.00 £47.50 £49.04
Median % change year-on-year +1.05% -3.14% +128.09%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £66.34
90th Percentile £85.50 £65.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £34.25 £32.12 £22.49
% change year-on-year +6.65% +42.83% -16.69%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Product Ownership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the South East

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in the South East

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in the South East over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in the South East

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in the South East

Product Ownership
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South East

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Product Ownership in the South East over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Ownership in the South East

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 9 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
Thames Valley +4 32 £527 -8.39% 53
Berkshire -1 26 £502 -19.72% 38
Hampshire +8 15 £613 -15.52% 30
Surrey +11 8 £656 +7.14% 13
Buckinghamshire +12 6 £550 - 11
West Sussex +6 2 £438 -12.50% 6
East Sussex -5 1 £500 -35.48% 2
Product Ownership
England

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (4.48%) Confluence
2 2 (2.99%) Apache Solr
2 2 (2.99%) Oracle SOA Suite
2 2 (2.99%) WebLogic
3 1 (1.49%) CMS
Business Applications
1 3 (4.48%) SAP IBP
1 3 (4.48%) SAP S/4HANA
2 1 (1.49%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 10 (14.93%) Azure
2 8 (11.94%) SaaS
3 5 (7.46%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.48%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 3 (4.48%) Azure Data Factory
4 3 (4.48%) Azure Functions
4 3 (4.48%) Azure Monitor
4 3 (4.48%) Oracle CX
4 3 (4.48%) Serverless
5 2 (2.99%) AWS
5 2 (2.99%) Azure Stack
5 2 (2.99%) Entra ID
5 2 (2.99%) Microsoft 365
5 2 (2.99%) Power Automate
5 2 (2.99%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.99%) PowerApps
6 1 (1.49%) Figma
Communications & Networking
1 3 (4.48%) Broadband
2 2 (2.99%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.99%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.99%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (1.49%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 12 (17.91%) JIRA
2 6 (8.96%) Git
3 5 (7.46%) Selenium
4 4 (5.97%) Cypress.io
4 4 (5.97%) Visual Studio Code
5 2 (2.99%) Balsamiq
5 2 (2.99%) GitLab
5 2 (2.99%) Maven
5 2 (2.99%) Moq
5 2 (2.99%) Sonatype Nexus
5 2 (2.99%) SpecFlow
5 2 (2.99%) Visual Studio
6 1 (1.49%) Axure RP
6 1 (1.49%) Oracle Forms
General
1 20 (29.85%) Social Skills
2 12 (17.91%) Analytical Skills
3 10 (14.93%) Telecoms
4 6 (8.96%) Finance
5 3 (4.48%) Public Sector
6 2 (2.99%) Legal
7 1 (1.49%) Banking
7 1 (1.49%) Retail
Job Titles
1 16 (23.88%) Product Owner
2 10 (14.93%) Developer
3 8 (11.94%) Analyst
4 7 (10.45%) Business Analyst
4 7 (10.45%) Lead
4 7 (10.45%) Product Manager
5 5 (7.46%) Rust Engineer
5 5 (7.46%) Scrum Master
5 5 (7.46%) Senior
6 4 (5.97%) Full-Stack Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Principal Engineer
6 4 (5.97%) Senior Developer
6 4 (5.97%) Tester
7 3 (4.48%) Azure Developer
7 3 (4.48%) Consultant
7 3 (4.48%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (4.48%) Python Developer
7 3 (4.48%) React Developer
7 3 (4.48%) SAP Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (10.45%) React
2 4 (5.97%) AngularJS
2 4 (5.97%) CSS
2 4 (5.97%) HTML
2 4 (5.97%) JSON
2 4 (5.97%) RESTful
2 4 (5.97%) XML
2 4 (5.97%) YAML
3 2 (2.99%) .NET
3 2 (2.99%) Ajax
3 2 (2.99%) ASP.NET
3 2 (2.99%) Bootstrap
3 2 (2.99%) JAXB
3 2 (2.99%) JAX-RS
3 2 (2.99%) JAX-WS
3 2 (2.99%) SOAP
3 2 (2.99%) Web Services
3 2 (2.99%) XSD
3 2 (2.99%) XSL
3 2 (2.99%) XSLT
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.97%) SCADA
2 3 (4.48%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.99%) Cloud Native
3 2 (2.99%) Cyberattack
3 2 (2.99%) Low-Code
3 2 (2.99%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.49%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (1.49%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.49%) Replication
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.96%) Linux
1 6 (8.96%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 50 (74.63%) Agile
2 25 (37.31%) Roadmaps
3 24 (35.82%) Scrum
4 19 (28.36%) User Stories
5 15 (22.39%) Sprint Planning
6 14 (20.90%) Continuous Improvement
6 14 (20.90%) Product Backlog
7 13 (19.40%) CI/CD
7 13 (19.40%) Problem-Solving
8 12 (17.91%) Software Engineering
8 12 (17.91%) Sprint Retrospective
8 12 (17.91%) Wireframes
9 11 (16.42%) Product Roadmap
10 10 (14.93%) User Experience
11 9 (13.43%) Acceptance Criteria
11 9 (13.43%) DevOps
11 9 (13.43%) Test Automation
12 8 (11.94%) Backlog Prioritisation
12 8 (11.94%) Validation
13 7 (10.45%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 8 (11.94%) JavaScript
2 7 (10.45%) SQL
3 6 (8.96%) TypeScript
4 5 (7.46%) Python
4 5 (7.46%) Rust
5 4 (5.97%) C#
5 4 (5.97%) Perl
5 4 (5.97%) PL/SQL
5 4 (5.97%) PowerShell
6 3 (4.48%) Java
7 2 (2.99%) Bash
7 2 (2.99%) XPath
Qualifications
1 19 (28.36%) Security Cleared
2 15 (22.39%) SC Cleared
3 11 (16.42%) Degree
4 1 (1.49%) CISSP
4 1 (1.49%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (11.94%) QA
2 2 (2.99%) Accessibility
System Software
1 5 (7.46%) Active Directory
2 2 (2.99%) Virtual Machines
2 2 (2.99%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (2.99%) Ansible
1 2 (2.99%) Progress Chef
1 2 (2.99%) Puppet
1 2 (2.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 11 (16.42%) Microsoft
2 7 (10.45%) Oracle
3 3 (4.48%) Adobe
3 3 (4.48%) SAP
4 2 (2.99%) Palantir
4 2 (2.99%) Salesforce
4 2 (2.99%) VMware