Product Ownership Contracts in South Wales

Product Ownership
Wales > South Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in South Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 16 49
Rank change year-on-year -15 +33 0
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 5 20 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 2.16% 6.31% 1.22%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.95% 16.00% 3.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 5
10th Percentile £429 £462 £354
25th Percentile £463 £489 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £509 £500
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +1.70% +5.26%
75th Percentile £530 £545 £600
90th Percentile - £551 £623
Wales median daily rate £509 £509 £535
% change year-on-year +0.05% -4.95% +12.63%

All Generic Skills
South Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 101 125 197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 43.53% 39.43% 39.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 85 140
10th Percentile £160 £150 £179
25th Percentile £250 £406 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +5.26% +5.56%
75th Percentile £472 £550 £550
90th Percentile £544 £573 £626
Wales median daily rate £375 £500 £450
% change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 4 8
10th Percentile £24.70 £13.89 £12.59
25th Percentile £33.75 £17.11 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.70 £18.82
Median % change year-on-year +5.06% +89.72% +17.19%
75th Percentile £45.00 £61.81 £22.75
90th Percentile £47.50 £76.33 £32.93
Wales median hourly rate £37.50 £18.89 £18.10
% change year-on-year +98.52% +4.36% +12.74%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in South Wales

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in South Wales

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in South Wales

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 28 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
Cardiff -12 5 £509 +0.05% 13
Product Ownership
Wales

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in South Wales 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) AWS
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (20.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (20.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Postman
2 1 (20.00%) Zephyr
General
1 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (20.00%) Finance
1 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (40.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Agile Development Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Business Test Analyst
3 1 (20.00%) Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Development Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (20.00%) Software Development Manager
3 1 (20.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) JSON
1 1 (20.00%) Kafka
1 1 (20.00%) Node.js
1 1 (20.00%) REST
1 1 (20.00%) SOAP
1 1 (20.00%) XML
1 1 (20.00%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (20.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Project Governance
2 3 (60.00%) Project Management
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Kanban
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
3 2 (40.00%) Test Automation
4 1 (20.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
4 1 (20.00%) Data Protection
4 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
4 1 (20.00%) Microservices
4 1 (20.00%) Pair Programming
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 1 (20.00%) TDD
4 1 (20.00%) Test Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Go
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (20.00%) ISEB
2 1 (20.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (20.00%) SEPA
1 1 (20.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Atlassian
2 2 (40.00%) Microsoft