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

6 months to
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 31 19 40
Rank change year-on-year -12 +21 +13
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Product Ownership 4 25 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in South Wales 1.60% 7.58% 1.96%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.17% 19.23% 5.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 24 7
10th Percentile £412 £455 £458
25th Percentile £420 £488 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £444 £513 £625
Median % change year-on-year -13.41% -18.00% +13.64%
75th Percentile £470 £545 £719
90th Percentile £481 £551 £768
Wales median daily rate £444 £513 £625
% change year-on-year -13.41% -18.00% +13.64%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 96 130 156
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 38.40% 39.39% 38.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 62 83 114
10th Percentile £186 £140 £165
25th Percentile £270 £211 £273
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £331 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year -26.41% -7.69% -2.50%
75th Percentile £445 £550 £600
90th Percentile £488 £588 £663
Wales median daily rate £375 £450 £450
% change year-on-year -16.67% - -5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 10 8
10th Percentile - £18.18 £16.00
25th Percentile £13.08 £23.28 £16.73
Median hourly rate £20.50 £25.60 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.92% +13.78% +25.00%
75th Percentile £20.75 £27.03 £30.50
90th Percentile - £55.75 £45.18
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £24.33 £20.00
% change year-on-year -15.74% +21.65% +15.94%

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
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

Product Ownership
Hourly Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

Product Ownership
DemandTrendContract 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 20 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
Cardiff -17 3 £444 -13.41% 9
Glamorgan - 1 - - 7
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (25.00%) MongoDB
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
1 1 (25.00%) Postman
1 1 (25.00%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (25.00%) Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Business Test Analyst
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Senior Java Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Product Owner
2 1 (25.00%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) .NET
1 1 (25.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (25.00%) CSS
1 1 (25.00%) Flutter
1 1 (25.00%) HTML
1 1 (25.00%) JSON
1 1 (25.00%) Kafka
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) REST
1 1 (25.00%) RESTful
1 1 (25.00%) SOAP
1 1 (25.00%) XML
1 1 (25.00%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (25.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (50.00%) Agile
1 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
1 2 (50.00%) Microservices
1 2 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 2 (50.00%) Test Automation
2 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (25.00%) Code Quality
2 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection
2 1 (25.00%) Design Patterns
2 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
2 1 (25.00%) Pair Programming
2 1 (25.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (25.00%) Software Engineering
2 1 (25.00%) Software Testing
2 1 (25.00%) TDD
2 1 (25.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (25.00%) User Research
2 1 (25.00%) Verification and Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) C#
1 1 (25.00%) Go
1 1 (25.00%) Java
1 1 (25.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (25.00%) Korn
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
1 1 (25.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
1 1 (25.00%) ISEB
1 1 (25.00%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility
1 1 (25.00%) SEPA
1 1 (25.00%) WCAG