Product Ownership Contract Job Trends in Taunton

Product Ownership
Somerset > Taunton

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in Taunton. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 31 July 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 27 - 8
Rank change year-on-year - - +4
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 7 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Taunton 6.14% - 6.45%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 14.29% - 33.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 0 2
10th Percentile £470 - -
25th Percentile £500 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - -10.38%
75th Percentile £600 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median daily rate £503 £488 £400
% change year-on-year +3.08% +21.88% -5.88%

All Generic Skills
Taunton

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 Taunton.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 49 8 6
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Taunton 42.98% 47.06% 19.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 8 3
10th Percentile £406 £585 -
25th Percentile £425 £615 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £460 £648 £600
Median % change year-on-year -28.96% +7.92% -11.31%
75th Percentile £559 £715 £644
90th Percentile £730 - £670
Somerset median daily rate £525 £633 £450
% change year-on-year -17.00% +40.56% -2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £12.50
Median hourly rate - - £13.00
75th Percentile - - £13.50
90th Percentile - - -
Somerset median hourly rate £20.69 £43.01 £25.00
% change year-on-year -51.89% +72.02% -28.57%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Taunton

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

Product Ownership job vacancy trend in Taunton

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Trend in Taunton

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

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

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in Taunton

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in Taunton over the 6 months to 31 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in Taunton

Product Ownership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Taunton 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 3 (42.86%) SharePoint
2 2 (28.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (28.57%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 7 (100.00%) Azure
2 4 (57.14%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Key Vault
3 3 (42.86%) Azure Service Bus
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub
3 3 (42.86%) GitHub Copilot
3 3 (42.86%) PaaS
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Logic Apps
4 2 (28.57%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
5 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (28.57%) Azure SQL Database
1 2 (28.57%) Geospatial Data
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Git
2 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
1 2 (28.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
1 2 (28.57%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) .NET Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Agile Delivery Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Architect
1 2 (28.57%) Azure Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Delivery Manager
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Solutions Architect
2 1 (14.29%) C# .NET Developer
2 1 (14.29%) C# Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Lead
2 1 (14.29%) PowerShell Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (42.86%) .NET
1 3 (42.86%) .NET Framework
2 2 (28.57%) GeoJSON
2 2 (28.57%) OpenAPI
2 2 (28.57%) RESTful
2 2 (28.57%) Swagger
3 1 (14.29%) .NET Core
3 1 (14.29%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 5 (71.43%) Cloud Native
2 3 (42.86%) Wiki
3 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) DevOps
2 4 (57.14%) Decision-Making
2 4 (57.14%) DevSecOps
2 4 (57.14%) Technical Leadership
3 3 (42.86%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (42.86%) CI/CD
3 3 (42.86%) Continuous Improvement
3 3 (42.86%) Deployment Automation
3 3 (42.86%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (42.86%) Test Automation
4 2 (28.57%) API Design
4 2 (28.57%) Budgeting
4 2 (28.57%) Hydrography
4 2 (28.57%) Kanban
4 2 (28.57%) Project Planning
4 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
4 2 (28.57%) Service Design
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Architecture
Programming Languages
1 3 (42.86%) C#
2 2 (28.57%) Bicep
2 2 (28.57%) SQL
3 1 (14.29%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) SC Cleared
1 4 (57.14%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (28.57%) NCSC
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (71.43%) Microsoft