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

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 74 56
Rank change year-on-year -28 -18 -5
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Product Ownership 64 115 202
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 1.82% 2.39% 3.64%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.73% 8.08% 11.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 41 79 142
10th Percentile £400 £350 £400
25th Percentile £406 £469 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £590
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% -2.54% +7.27%
75th Percentile £538 £681 £680
90th Percentile £625 £738 £750
England median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 4
10th Percentile £46.75 £53.36 £39.98
25th Percentile £48.99 £56.52 £53.81
Median hourly rate £59.63 £58.30 £66.54
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -12.38% -
75th Percentile £64.88 £60.60 £78.87
90th Percentile £66.75 £60.88 £94.70
England median hourly rate £56.75 £60.83 £63.00
% change year-on-year -6.71% -3.44% +10.77%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,116 1,424 1,794
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 31.67% 29.54% 32.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 693 838 1,248
10th Percentile £204 £213 £205
25th Percentile £358 £392 £358
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £503 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% +0.50% -
75th Percentile £600 £629 £613
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 101 142 95
10th Percentile £15.13 £11.96 £16.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £22.43 £20.00
Median hourly rate £33.89 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -40.92% +14.70% +118.91%
75th Percentile £62.24 £65.00 £64.13
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.16 £74.15
England median hourly rate £32.05 £48.75 £43.00
% change year-on-year -34.26% +13.37% +65.38%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Product Ownership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Product Ownership

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 21 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in the South East

Product Ownership
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Product Ownership.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Product Ownership

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 21 August 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Ownership in the South East

Product Ownership
DemandTrendContract 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 21 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
Thames Valley -34 28 £500 -16.67% 68
Berkshire -25 23 £500 -20.00% 49
Hampshire +4 19 £423 -26.48% 12
West Sussex +3 5 £450 - 9
Surrey +11 4 £413 -6.25% 14
Buckinghamshire +1 4 £438 -16.67% 10
East Sussex -2 2 £650 +106.35% 7
Middlesex - 2 £560 - 4
Oxfordshire -7 1 £588 +125.96% 9
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 (4.69%) Confluence
2 2 (3.13%) ArcGIS
2 2 (3.13%) CMS
2 2 (3.13%) Oracle Spatial
2 2 (3.13%) Smallworld
3 1 (1.56%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 4 (6.25%) Payment Gateway
1 4 (6.25%) SAP IBP
1 4 (6.25%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (3.13%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.56%) SAP HR
3 1 (1.56%) SAP PM
Cloud Services
1 5 (7.81%) AWS
2 4 (6.25%) Amazon S3
2 4 (6.25%) AWS Lambda
2 4 (6.25%) Serverless
3 3 (4.69%) Amazon EMR
3 3 (4.69%) Amazon Kinesis
3 3 (4.69%) Azure
3 3 (4.69%) Cloud Computing
3 3 (4.69%) Figma
3 3 (4.69%) GitHub
3 3 (4.69%) Power Platform
3 3 (4.69%) Salesforce Service Cloud
4 2 (3.13%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (3.13%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (3.13%) Oracle CX
4 2 (3.13%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (1.56%) GitHub Actions
5 1 (1.56%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.56%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.56%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (6.25%) Amazon Redshift
2 3 (4.69%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (4.69%) NoSQL
3 2 (3.13%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.13%) GIS
3 2 (3.13%) Spatial Data
4 1 (1.56%) Data Hub
4 1 (1.56%) DynamoDB
4 1 (1.56%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (1.56%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.56%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.56%) SQL Server Integration Services
Development Applications
1 10 (15.63%) JIRA
2 4 (6.25%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.13%) Git
3 2 (3.13%) Visual Studio Code
4 1 (1.56%) Cucumber
4 1 (1.56%) Cypress.io
4 1 (1.56%) git-flow
4 1 (1.56%) Postman
General
1 22 (34.38%) Social Skills
2 11 (17.19%) Finance
3 10 (15.63%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (7.81%) Marketing
5 4 (6.25%) Banking
5 4 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (6.25%) Public Sector
6 3 (4.69%) Automotive
7 2 (3.13%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.56%) Legal
8 1 (1.56%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.56%) Retail
Job Titles
1 22 (34.38%) Product Owner
2 15 (23.44%) Analyst
3 13 (20.31%) Business Analyst
4 6 (9.38%) Lead
5 5 (7.81%) Architect
5 5 (7.81%) Technical Analyst
6 4 (6.25%) Consultant
6 4 (6.25%) Lead Consultant
6 4 (6.25%) Principal Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) Rust Engineer
6 4 (6.25%) SAP Consultant
6 4 (6.25%) Senior
6 4 (6.25%) Tester
7 3 (4.69%) Data Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Data Business Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) Developer
7 3 (4.69%) Salesforce Business Analyst
7 3 (4.69%) SAP Supply Chain Consultant
7 3 (4.69%) Supply Chain Consultant
7 3 (4.69%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.69%) Kafka
1 3 (4.69%) Lightning Web Components
2 2 (3.13%) HTML
2 2 (3.13%) jQuery
2 2 (3.13%) JSON
2 2 (3.13%) Middleware
2 2 (3.13%) PostGIS
2 2 (3.13%) REST
2 2 (3.13%) XML
3 1 (1.56%) Playwright
3 1 (1.56%) SAP PI
3 1 (1.56%) SOAP
3 1 (1.56%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.25%) SCADA
2 3 (4.69%) Cloud Native
3 2 (3.13%) Management Information System
3 2 (3.13%) Onboarding
3 2 (3.13%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.56%) Cyberattack
4 1 (1.56%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (1.56%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (1.56%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.56%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.56%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.94%) Linux
2 4 (6.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 48 (75.00%) Agile
2 20 (31.25%) Scrum
2 20 (31.25%) User Stories
3 15 (23.44%) Roadmaps
4 13 (20.31%) Validation
5 11 (17.19%) CI/CD
5 11 (17.19%) Problem-Solving
5 11 (17.19%) Sprint Planning
6 10 (15.63%) Migration
6 10 (15.63%) Product Backlog
7 9 (14.06%) Acceptance Criteria
7 9 (14.06%) Analytics
7 9 (14.06%) DevOps
8 8 (12.50%) Data Migration
8 8 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
9 7 (10.94%) Backlog Management
9 7 (10.94%) Continuous Improvement
9 7 (10.94%) Software Engineering
9 7 (10.94%) Sprint Review
9 7 (10.94%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 11 (17.19%) SQL
2 5 (7.81%) Java
3 4 (6.25%) JavaScript
3 4 (6.25%) Perl
3 4 (6.25%) PL/SQL
3 4 (6.25%) Rust
4 3 (4.69%) Apex Code
4 3 (4.69%) Python
4 3 (4.69%) Scala
5 2 (3.13%) Magik
5 2 (3.13%) SOQL
6 1 (1.56%) Korn
6 1 (1.56%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 12 (18.75%) Security Cleared
2 7 (10.94%) Degree
3 5 (7.81%) SC Cleared
4 3 (4.69%) AWS Certification
4 3 (4.69%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
5 2 (3.13%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.56%) CSPO
6 1 (1.56%) IIBA
6 1 (1.56%) OCP
6 1 (1.56%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (14.06%) QA
2 3 (4.69%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.56%) GDPR
3 1 (1.56%) PCI DSS
3 1 (1.56%) PSD2
System Software
1 3 (4.69%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.25%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.56%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 9 (14.06%) Salesforce
2 6 (9.38%) Microsoft
2 6 (9.38%) SAP
3 4 (6.25%) Oracle
4 2 (3.13%) ESRI
4 2 (3.13%) HubSpot
4 2 (3.13%) Palantir
4 2 (3.13%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.56%) Adobe
5 1 (1.56%) Dell