Product Ownership Contracts in the South West

Product Ownership
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in the South West. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 5 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 102 68
Rank change year-on-year +30 -34 +2
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 40 45 121
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.38% 1.41% 3.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.18% 4.29% 12.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 26 92
10th Percentile £356 £398 £439
25th Percentile £455 £452 £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £588 £550 £565
Median % change year-on-year +6.82% -2.65% +2.73%
75th Percentile £673 £600 £650
90th Percentile £700 £681 £682
England median daily rate £550 £555 £565
% change year-on-year -0.90% -1.77% +2.73%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 9 12
10th Percentile - - £70.00
25th Percentile - £57.33 £81.25
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year - -5.88% +102.38%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £85.41
90th Percentile - £86.00 £86.66
England median hourly rate £56.75 £57.44 £85.00
% change year-on-year -1.20% -32.42% +44.68%

All Generic Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 489 1,049 1,005
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 29.12% 32.98% 27.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 321 644 701
10th Percentile £263 £300 £270
25th Percentile £400 £450 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £545 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.20% -0.91% +10.00%
75th Percentile £613 £600 £664
90th Percentile £676 £695 £738
England median daily rate £550 £550 £573
% change year-on-year - -3.93% +4.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 34 167 135
10th Percentile £18.51 £13.69 -
25th Percentile £18.87 £15.75 -
Median hourly rate £43.00 £45.00 £9.80
Median % change year-on-year -4.44% +359.18% -80.30%
75th Percentile £68.63 £70.00 £68.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £83.36
England median hourly rate £33.91 £31.50 £22.49
% change year-on-year +7.65% +40.09% -15.15%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the South West

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in the South West

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in the South West over the 6 months to 5 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in the South West

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in the South West

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West region over the 6 months to 5 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
Bristol +24 14 £500 -11.11% 22
Wiltshire +33 9 £644 +7.29% 5
Gloucestershire +17 6 £650 +18.18% 27
Somerset +5 5 £720 +80.00% 6
Devon +14 3 £338 -17.49% 13
Dorset -1 2 - - 3
Product Ownership
England

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 7 (17.50%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Adobe XD
1 1 (2.50%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.50%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (2.50%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 9 (22.50%) Azure
2 7 (17.50%) AWS
3 4 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (7.50%) Serverless
5 2 (5.00%) Amazon S3
5 2 (5.00%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (5.00%) GCP
6 1 (2.50%) Akamai
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (2.50%) Azure Functions
6 1 (2.50%) Figma
6 1 (2.50%) GitHub
6 1 (2.50%) Google Analytics
6 1 (2.50%) Pendo
6 1 (2.50%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.50%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (7.50%) MongoDB
3 2 (5.00%) Amazon Athena
3 2 (5.00%) Amazon Aurora
3 2 (5.00%) Amazon RDS
3 2 (5.00%) Data Lake
3 2 (5.00%) MySQL
3 2 (5.00%) NoSQL
3 2 (5.00%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (2.50%) CockroachDB
4 1 (2.50%) DynamoDB
4 1 (2.50%) Power BI
4 1 (2.50%) Relational Database
4 1 (2.50%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (25.00%) JIRA
2 2 (5.00%) Git
3 1 (2.50%) GitLab
3 1 (2.50%) Jenkins
General
1 14 (35.00%) Social Skills
2 12 (30.00%) Finance
3 9 (22.50%) Public Sector
4 6 (15.00%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (10.00%) Electronics
5 4 (10.00%) Manufacturing
5 4 (10.00%) Marketing
5 4 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (2.50%) Back Office
6 1 (2.50%) Banking
6 1 (2.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (2.50%) Influencing Skills
6 1 (2.50%) Legal
6 1 (2.50%) Retail
Job Titles
1 10 (25.00%) Lead
2 8 (20.00%) Analyst
3 6 (15.00%) Product Owner
3 6 (15.00%) Senior
4 5 (12.50%) Architect
4 5 (12.50%) Business Analyst
4 5 (12.50%) Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Author
5 4 (10.00%) Senior Developer
5 4 (10.00%) Technical Author
6 3 (7.50%) Product Lead
7 2 (5.00%) Agile Delivery Manager
7 2 (5.00%) Agile Product Owner
7 2 (5.00%) Data Migration Lead
7 2 (5.00%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
7 2 (5.00%) Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Lead .NET Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Lead Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
7 2 (5.00%) Technical Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.50%) React
2 2 (5.00%) .NET
2 2 (5.00%) AngularJS
2 2 (5.00%) Node.js
2 2 (5.00%) RESTful
3 1 (2.50%) .NET Core
3 1 (2.50%) .NET Framework
3 1 (2.50%) CSS
3 1 (2.50%) Django
3 1 (2.50%) HTML
3 1 (2.50%) jQuery
3 1 (2.50%) Kafka
3 1 (2.50%) OpenAPI
3 1 (2.50%) REST
3 1 (2.50%) SailPoint
3 1 (2.50%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 2 (5.00%) Virtual Team
2 1 (2.50%) Data Structures
2 1 (2.50%) EPoS
2 1 (2.50%) Legacy Applications
2 1 (2.50%) Mobile App
2 1 (2.50%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.50%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (62.50%) Agile
2 15 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
2 15 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 13 (32.50%) Problem-Solving
4 11 (27.50%) Product Backlog
5 10 (25.00%) DevOps
6 9 (22.50%) Scrum
7 8 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
8 7 (17.50%) Coaching
8 7 (17.50%) Project Management
8 7 (17.50%) User Stories
9 6 (15.00%) Backlog Management
9 6 (15.00%) ITIL
9 6 (15.00%) Project Delivery
9 6 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (12.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 5 (12.50%) Business Intelligence
10 5 (12.50%) Data Modelling
10 5 (12.50%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 4 (10.00%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 8 (20.00%) SQL
2 5 (12.50%) JavaScript
2 5 (12.50%) Python
3 2 (5.00%) C#
3 2 (5.00%) Go
3 2 (5.00%) PL/SQL
3 2 (5.00%) TypeScript
4 1 (2.50%) Java
4 1 (2.50%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 15 (37.50%) Security Cleared
2 10 (25.00%) SC Cleared
3 7 (17.50%) DV Cleared
4 1 (2.50%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (5.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (2.50%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.50%) Actionable Recommendations
2 1 (2.50%) GRC
2 1 (2.50%) QA
System Software
1 2 (5.00%) Docker
2 1 (2.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (12.50%) Terraform
2 2 (5.00%) Kubernetes
3 1 (2.50%) Grafana
Vendors
1 4 (10.00%) Atlassian
1 4 (10.00%) SAP
2 3 (7.50%) MuleSoft
2 3 (7.50%) Oracle
3 2 (5.00%) Google
3 2 (5.00%) Microsoft
4 1 (2.50%) Adobe
4 1 (2.50%) F5
4 1 (2.50%) Hotjar
4 1 (2.50%) Salesforce
4 1 (2.50%) ServiceNow
4 1 (2.50%) Splunk
4 1 (2.50%) Sun
4 1 (2.50%) VMware