Product Ownership Contract Job Trends in South Yorkshire

Product Ownership
Yorkshire > South Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in South Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 7 December 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 41 45
Rank change year-on-year -11 +4 +7
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 37 8 11
As % of all contract jobs in South Yorkshire 4.91% 2.09% 2.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.00% 5.06% 8.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 7 9
10th Percentile £442 £490 -
25th Percentile £473 £522 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -14.58% +20.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £530 £653 £561
90th Percentile £575 £729 £702
Yorkshire median daily rate £500 £588 £516
% change year-on-year -14.89% +13.86% -1.71%

All Generic Skills
South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 370 158 129
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Yorkshire 49.14% 41.36% 31.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 224 102 77
10th Percentile £317 £210 £328
25th Percentile £402 £311 £419
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £511 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.16% +2.25% -9.09%
75th Percentile £538 £600 £588
90th Percentile £638 £650 £666
Yorkshire median daily rate £497 £500 £488
% change year-on-year -0.70% +2.56% -4.88%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £11.75 £21.25
Median hourly rate £15.00 £13.50 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -40.00% +18.42%
75th Percentile - £15.25 £23.75
90th Percentile - - -
Yorkshire median hourly rate £15.55 £32.50 £21.31
% change year-on-year -52.15% +52.51% +12.16%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in South Yorkshire

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

Product Ownership job vacancy trend in South Yorkshire

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Trend in South Yorkshire

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

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

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in South Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in South Yorkshire over the 6 months to 7 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in South Yorkshire

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in South Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 7 December 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
Sheffield -5 36 £513 -10.76% 12
Product Ownership
Yorkshire

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

Application Platforms
1 14 (37.84%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 9 (24.32%) CloudBees
2 6 (16.22%) AWS
2 6 (16.22%) Azure
3 5 (13.51%) OpenShift
4 4 (10.81%) GCP
5 3 (8.11%) Cohesity
5 3 (8.11%) GitHub
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.70%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 14 (37.84%) JIRA
2 11 (29.73%) Jenkins
3 10 (27.03%) GitLab
4 3 (8.11%) Git
5 2 (5.41%) JUnit
5 2 (5.41%) Selenium
5 2 (5.41%) TestNG
General
1 11 (29.73%) Finance
2 5 (13.51%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (13.51%) Social Skills
3 3 (8.11%) Banking
3 3 (8.11%) Influencing Skills
4 2 (5.41%) Legal
5 1 (2.70%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 12 (32.43%) Automation Engineer
1 12 (32.43%) Product Owner
2 9 (24.32%) Data Protection Engineer
3 8 (21.62%) Data Engineer
4 4 (10.81%) Lead
5 3 (8.11%) Product Manager
5 3 (8.11%) Technical Manager
5 3 (8.11%) Technical Product Manager
6 2 (5.41%) DevOps Automation Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) DevOps Engineer
6 2 (5.41%) QA Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Architect
7 1 (2.70%) Full-Stack Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Java Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) JIRA Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Linux/Unix DevOps
7 1 (2.70%) Project Manager
7 1 (2.70%) SCM Engineer
7 1 (2.70%) Senior
7 1 (2.70%) Storage Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (8.11%) RESTful
2 2 (5.41%) Hibernate
2 2 (5.41%) Spring
3 1 (2.70%) .NET
3 1 (2.70%) ASP.NET Web API
3 1 (2.70%) CSS
3 1 (2.70%) Elastic Stack
3 1 (2.70%) HTML
3 1 (2.70%) jQuery
Miscellaneous
1 13 (35.14%) Onboarding
2 4 (10.81%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (10.81%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (2.70%) Cloud Native
Operating Systems
1 2 (5.41%) Linux
2 1 (2.70%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 18 (48.65%) DevOps
2 17 (45.95%) CI/CD
3 16 (43.24%) Data Protection
3 16 (43.24%) Roadmaps
3 16 (43.24%) Scrum
4 15 (40.54%) Test Automation
5 14 (37.84%) Sprint Retrospective
5 14 (37.84%) User Stories
6 12 (32.43%) Backlog Refinement
6 12 (32.43%) Configuration Management
6 12 (32.43%) KYC
6 12 (32.43%) Product Backlog
7 10 (27.03%) Backlog Management
8 9 (24.32%) Agile
9 8 (21.62%) Decision-Making
9 8 (21.62%) Problem-Solving
9 8 (21.62%) Product Vision
10 6 (16.22%) Product Strategy
10 6 (16.22%) SDLC
10 6 (16.22%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 13 (35.14%) Python
2 10 (27.03%) Bash
3 2 (5.41%) Java
4 1 (2.70%) C#
4 1 (2.70%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 2 (5.41%) ISTQB
2 1 (2.70%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (8.11%) Data Quality
2 2 (5.41%) QA
Systems Management
1 13 (35.14%) Ansible
2 12 (32.43%) NetBackup
3 4 (10.81%) Kubernetes
4 3 (8.11%) Puppet
5 1 (2.70%) Grafana
5 1 (2.70%) Prometheus
5 1 (2.70%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (32.43%) Commvault
1 12 (32.43%) Red Hat
2 9 (24.32%) Veritas
3 8 (21.62%) Microsoft