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

6 months to
26 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 72 103 71
Rank change year-on-year +31 -32 +11
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Product Ownership 42 32 94
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 2.18% 1.17% 2.81%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.79% 4.00% 10.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 17 75
10th Percentile £374 £468 £418
25th Percentile £444 £525 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +4.35% +4.55%
75th Percentile £634 £713 £663
90th Percentile £660 £793 £688
England median daily rate £500 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -13.04% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 5 3
10th Percentile - - £65.40
25th Percentile - £75.00 £67.13
Median hourly rate - £80.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - +14.29% +10.06%
75th Percentile - £85.00 £78.88
90th Percentile - £88.00 £82.55
England median hourly rate £56.75 £60.60 £65.75
% change year-on-year -6.35% -7.83% +7.48%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 619 800 881
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 32.16% 29.18% 26.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 377 498 651
10th Percentile £225 £279 £300
25th Percentile £375 £460 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - +4.76%
75th Percentile £640 £650 £669
90th Percentile £700 £700 £738
England median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 54 114 50
10th Percentile £6.00 £13.69 £18.95
25th Percentile £15.48 £42.81 £54.38
Median hourly rate £18.87 £70.00 £71.49
Median % change year-on-year -73.04% -2.08% +60.65%
75th Percentile £53.06 £72.50 £83.40
90th Percentile £77.59 £75.00 £83.52
England median hourly rate £32.71 £50.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -34.58% +11.11% +73.08%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

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 26 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in the South West

Product Ownership
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Product Ownership
DemandTrendContract 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 26 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
Bristol +13 21 £500 -23.08% 15
Gloucestershire +29 8 £640 +16.36% 15
Wiltshire +16 6 £421 -11.55% 3
Somerset +2 3 £488 -18.75% 8
Devon +5 2 £329 -17.81%
Dorset - 2 - - 1
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 3 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (2.38%) Adobe XD
1 1 (2.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (2.38%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (14.29%) Oracle ERP
1 6 (14.29%) Oracle SCM
2 1 (2.38%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (19.05%) Azure
2 6 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 6 (14.29%) OCI
3 3 (7.14%) Akamai
4 2 (4.76%) AWS
5 1 (2.38%) Figma
5 1 (2.38%) GitHub
5 1 (2.38%) Google Analytics
5 1 (2.38%) Pendo
5 1 (2.38%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (7.14%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (4.76%) CockroachDB
1 2 (4.76%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (4.76%) Relational Database
2 1 (2.38%) Power BI
2 1 (2.38%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (9.52%) JIRA
2 1 (2.38%) GitLab
2 1 (2.38%) Jenkins
General
1 22 (52.38%) Finance
2 9 (21.43%) Public Sector
2 9 (21.43%) Social Skills
3 5 (11.90%) Aerospace
4 3 (7.14%) Banking
4 3 (7.14%) Electronics
4 3 (7.14%) Legal
4 3 (7.14%) Manufacturing
4 3 (7.14%) Marketing
4 3 (7.14%) Telecoms
5 1 (2.38%) Back Office
5 1 (2.38%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 1 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Military
5 1 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (2.38%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (33.33%) Product Owner
2 8 (19.05%) Senior
3 6 (14.29%) Developer
4 5 (11.90%) Architect
4 5 (11.90%) Lead
4 5 (11.90%) Senior Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Analyst
5 4 (9.52%) Author
5 4 (9.52%) C# Developer
5 4 (9.52%) Technical Author
6 3 (7.14%) .NET Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Lead .NET Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Lead C# Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Lead Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Security Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Senior .NET Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Senior Architect
6 3 (7.14%) Senior C# .NET Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Senior C# Developer
6 3 (7.14%) Senior Security Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (9.52%) .NET
2 3 (7.14%) .NET Core
2 3 (7.14%) React
2 3 (7.14%) SailPoint
3 2 (4.76%) AngularJS
3 2 (4.76%) Django
3 2 (4.76%) REST
4 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET
4 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET Core
4 1 (2.38%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (2.38%) CSS
4 1 (2.38%) HTML
4 1 (2.38%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 1 (2.38%) Data Centre
1 1 (2.38%) EPoS
1 1 (2.38%) Mobile App
1 1 (2.38%) PKI
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.38%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (50.00%) Agile
2 14 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 11 (26.19%) Product Roadmap
4 9 (21.43%) DevOps
4 9 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
5 8 (19.05%) Analytics
6 7 (16.67%) ERP
6 7 (16.67%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (16.67%) Product Backlog
6 7 (16.67%) Project Delivery
6 7 (16.67%) Project Management
7 6 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (11.90%) Agile Project Management
8 5 (11.90%) Artificial Intelligence
8 5 (11.90%) Decision-Making
8 5 (11.90%) ITIL
8 5 (11.90%) Pair Programming
8 5 (11.90%) SOLID
8 5 (11.90%) TDD
9 4 (9.52%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 6 (14.29%) SQL
2 4 (9.52%) C#
3 3 (7.14%) PowerShell
4 2 (4.76%) JavaScript
4 2 (4.76%) Python
5 1 (2.38%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 11 (26.19%) Security Cleared
2 8 (19.05%) SC Cleared
3 4 (9.52%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.14%) GRC
2 1 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.38%) PMO
2 1 (2.38%) QA
Systems Management
1 3 (7.14%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (21.43%) Oracle
2 7 (16.67%) Microsoft
3 4 (9.52%) Google
4 3 (7.14%) F5
4 3 (7.14%) SAP
5 1 (2.38%) Adobe
5 1 (2.38%) Hotjar
5 1 (2.38%) NetApp