Product Ownership Contract Job Trends in Southampton

Product Ownership
Hampshire > Southampton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in Southampton. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 7 March 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 21 - 28
Rank change year-on-year - - -5
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 3 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in Southampton 1.62% - 0.57%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.36% - 2.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - -
Hampshire median daily rate £550 £643 £725
% change year-on-year -14.40% -11.38% +42.16%

All Generic Skills
Southampton

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 Southampton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 56 45 35
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Southampton 30.27% 40.54% 20.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 27 24
10th Percentile £165 £175 £177
25th Percentile £250 £275 £239
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £400 £438
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% -8.57% -18.60%
75th Percentile £569 £494 £550
90th Percentile £598 £588 £631
Hampshire median daily rate £525 £573 £570
% change year-on-year -8.30% +0.44% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 0 3
10th Percentile £22.50 - £23.60
25th Percentile £23.13 - £39.13
Median hourly rate £41.75 - £70.00
Median % change year-on-year - - +194.24%
75th Percentile £81.06 - £77.50
90th Percentile £88.00 - £79.00
Hampshire median hourly rate £25.00 £33.75 £47.50
% change year-on-year -25.93% -28.95% +13.77%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Southampton

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

Product Ownership job vacancy trend in Southampton

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Trend in Southampton

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Southampton citing Product Ownership

Product Ownership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Southampton 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 1 (33.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (33.33%) Adobe Illustrator
1 1 (33.33%) InVision
1 1 (33.33%) OmniGraffle
1 1 (33.33%) Photoshop
1 1 (33.33%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
Development Applications
1 2 (66.67%) JIRA
2 1 (33.33%) Axure RP
General
1 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Product Owner
2 1 (33.33%) Designer
2 1 (33.33%) UI Designer
2 1 (33.33%) UI/UX Designer
2 1 (33.33%) UX Designer
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (33.33%) Business Strategy
2 1 (33.33%) DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Market Research
2 1 (33.33%) Mobile First
2 1 (33.33%) Process Improvement
2 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
2 1 (33.33%) Product Requirements
2 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) User Experience
2 1 (33.33%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) UX Design
2 1 (33.33%) Wireframes
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) Terraform