Product Ownership Contract Job Trends in South London

Product Ownership
London > South London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in South London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 38 42
Rank change year-on-year +1 +4 +17
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 9 2 3
As % of all contract jobs in South London 4.41% 0.85% 1.16%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 11.11% 3.08% 4.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 2 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £463 -
Median % change year-on-year +8.11% - -
London median daily rate £550 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -8.33% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 0 0
10th Percentile £57.43 - -
25th Percentile £61.75 - -
Median hourly rate £66.00 - -
75th Percentile £66.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
London median hourly rate £63.50 - £60.80
% change year-on-year - - +5.74%

All Generic Skills
South London

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 South London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 81 65 64
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South London 39.71% 27.78% 24.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 47 36
10th Percentile £163 £217 £137
25th Percentile £413 £344 £207
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £565 £488
Median % change year-on-year -11.50% +15.90% -4.88%
75th Percentile £564 £708 £600
90th Percentile £638 £938 £650
London median daily rate £550 £575 £588
% change year-on-year -4.35% -2.13% -2.08%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 5 14
10th Percentile £54.46 - £18.60
25th Percentile £56.35 £17.25 £21.75
Median hourly rate £64.75 £73.60 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -12.02% +206.67% +6.67%
75th Percentile £66.50 £78.40 £46.86
90th Percentile - £81.28 £60.54
London median hourly rate £26.30 £34.50 £30.00
% change year-on-year -23.77% +15.00% -11.30%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in South London

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

Product Ownership job vacancy trend in South London

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Trend in South London

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

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

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in South London

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 London region over the 6 months to 1 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
Kingston Upon Thames - 6 £500 - 1
Merton - 5 - - 1
Bromley -5 3 £500 +11.11% 3
Product Ownership
London

Product Ownership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South London 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:

Applications
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (33.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (44.44%) JIRA
2 1 (11.11%) Git
General
1 6 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 4 (44.44%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (33.33%) Banking
Job Titles
1 5 (55.56%) Senior
1 5 (55.56%) Senior Software Engineer
1 5 (55.56%) Software Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Rust Engineer
2 4 (44.44%) Rust Software Engineer
3 3 (33.33%) Business Analyst
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum Master
4 1 (11.11%) Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Penetration Tester
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Technical Business Analyst
4 1 (11.11%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) .NET
1 1 (11.11%) .NET Framework
1 1 (11.11%) AngularJS
1 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET
1 1 (11.11%) ASP.NET Core
1 1 (11.11%) Entity Framework
1 1 (11.11%) React
1 1 (11.11%) REST
1 1 (11.11%) RESTful
1 1 (11.11%) Vue
1 1 (11.11%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 1 (11.11%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (100.00%) Agile
2 8 (88.89%) Scrum
3 5 (55.56%) Software Engineering
4 4 (44.44%) Problem-Solving
5 3 (33.33%) Anti-Money Laundering
5 3 (33.33%) Change Management
5 3 (33.33%) CI/CD
5 3 (33.33%) Project Delivery
5 3 (33.33%) Risk Management
5 3 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 3 (33.33%) Service Delivery
5 3 (33.33%) Software Testing
5 3 (33.33%) Test Automation
6 2 (22.22%) UML
7 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
7 1 (11.11%) DevOps
7 1 (11.11%) OOP
7 1 (11.11%) Project Management
7 1 (11.11%) Requirements Analysis
7 1 (11.11%) SOLID
Programming Languages
1 4 (44.44%) Rust
2 1 (11.11%) C#
2 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
2 1 (11.11%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (44.44%) Degree
2 3 (33.33%) PMI Certification
2 3 (33.33%) PMP
2 3 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 3 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Terraform
Vendors
1 4 (44.44%) Microsoft
2 3 (33.33%) Remedy