Product Ownership Contracts in the Thames Valley

Product Ownership
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Ownership over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 77 37 71
Rank change year-on-year -40 +34 -3
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 65 165 108
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.42% 5.62% 3.09%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.16% 17.59% 9.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 44 120 70
10th Percentile £433 £361 £387
25th Percentile £511 £450 £441
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +2.73% +15.79% +11.76%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £597
90th Percentile £688 £688 £675
South East median daily rate £650 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +18.18% +4.76% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £61.50 £57.13
Median hourly rate - £63.00 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year - +10.04% +124.51%
75th Percentile - £64.50 £57.38
90th Percentile - - -
South East median hourly rate - £83.25 £62.15
% change year-on-year - +33.95% +143.73%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

Product Ownership is in the General and Transferable Skills category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 797 938 1,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 29.71% 31.94% 31.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 464 617 692
10th Percentile £205 £280 £200
25th Percentile £281 £406 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £500
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% +2.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £619 £588
90th Percentile £675 £700 £662
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 62 24 30
10th Percentile £11.79 £18.08 £17.42
25th Percentile £22.50 £19.63 £17.50
Median hourly rate £30.00 £48.75 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -38.46% +143.75% -21.57%
75th Percentile £59.97 £70.90 £26.88
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.93 £67.57
South East median hourly rate £47.19 £51.25 £21.50
% change year-on-year -7.93% +138.37% -33.85%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the Thames Valley

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in the Thames Valley

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in the Thames Valley

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in the Thames Valley

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 29 April 2024. 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
Berkshire -35 52 £625 +19.22% 18
Buckinghamshire -17 11 £550 -8.33% 8
Oxfordshire +2 2 £488 -2.50% 6
Product Ownership
South East

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 2 (3.08%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 1 (1.54%) CICS
2 1 (1.54%) Confluence
2 1 (1.54%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.54%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.54%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.54%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 25 (38.46%) Azure
2 19 (29.23%) Azure Data Factory
3 15 (23.08%) Azure Monitor
4 14 (21.54%) Azure Functions
4 14 (21.54%) Serverless
5 13 (20.00%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 12 (18.46%) Entra ID
7 6 (9.23%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (9.23%) Figma
8 5 (7.69%) PaaS
9 4 (6.15%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (6.15%) Power Platform
10 2 (3.08%) AWS
10 2 (3.08%) Azure AKS
10 2 (3.08%) Azure API Management
10 2 (3.08%) Azure Logic Apps
10 2 (3.08%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (1.54%) IaaS
11 1 (1.54%) Microsoft Purview
11 1 (1.54%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.54%) 3G
1 1 (1.54%) 4G
1 1 (1.54%) 5G
1 1 (1.54%) ATM
1 1 (1.54%) Broadband
1 1 (1.54%) DSL
1 1 (1.54%) Network Security
1 1 (1.54%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (21.54%) NoSQL
2 6 (9.23%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (6.15%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (6.15%) Power BI
4 2 (3.08%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.54%) DB2
5 1 (1.54%) DynamoDB
5 1 (1.54%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.54%) Redis
5 1 (1.54%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 15 (23.08%) Git
2 7 (10.77%) JIRA
3 2 (3.08%) Postman
4 1 (1.54%) Selenium
General
1 17 (26.15%) Analytical Skills
2 13 (20.00%) Finance
3 12 (18.46%) Social Skills
4 9 (13.85%) Billing
5 8 (12.31%) Telecoms
6 6 (9.23%) Marketing
7 5 (7.69%) Pharmaceutical
8 3 (4.62%) Manufacturing
8 3 (4.62%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.54%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.54%) Legal
9 1 (1.54%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (26.15%) Developer
2 15 (23.08%) Azure Developer
3 13 (20.00%) Full Stack Developer
4 10 (15.38%) Product Owner
5 8 (12.31%) Analyst
6 6 (9.23%) Designer
6 6 (9.23%) Product Designer
7 5 (7.69%) Business Analyst
7 5 (7.69%) Full Stack Python Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Lead
7 5 (7.69%) Python Developer
7 5 (7.69%) Scrum Master
7 5 (7.69%) Technical Leader
8 4 (6.15%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (6.15%) C# Developer
8 4 (6.15%) Delivery Manager
8 4 (6.15%) UI Designer
8 4 (6.15%) UI/UX Designer
8 4 (6.15%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (20.00%) React
2 4 (6.15%) XML
3 3 (4.62%) HTML
4 2 (3.08%) OpenAPI
4 2 (3.08%) Swagger
5 1 (1.54%) .NET
5 1 (1.54%) CSS
5 1 (1.54%) OAuth
5 1 (1.54%) OpenID
5 1 (1.54%) REST
5 1 (1.54%) Smarty
Miscellaneous
1 4 (6.15%) IoT
1 4 (6.15%) Smart Meter
2 3 (4.62%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (1.54%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.54%) Graphic Design
3 1 (1.54%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.54%) iPad
3 1 (1.54%) Legacy Applications
3 1 (1.54%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.54%) Virtual Team
3 1 (1.54%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 7 (10.77%) Linux
2 5 (7.69%) Windows
3 4 (6.15%) Unix
4 1 (1.54%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (63.08%) Agile
2 30 (46.15%) Scrum
3 22 (33.85%) Product Backlog
4 21 (32.31%) DevOps
5 16 (24.62%) CI/CD
6 15 (23.08%) Microservices
6 15 (23.08%) SDLC
7 14 (21.54%) Full Stack Development
7 14 (21.54%) User Stories
8 13 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
9 10 (15.38%) User Experience
10 9 (13.85%) Backlog Management
10 9 (13.85%) Problem-Solving
10 9 (13.85%) Project Delivery
10 9 (13.85%) Roadmaps
10 9 (13.85%) Test Automation
11 8 (12.31%) Change Management
11 8 (12.31%) Product Roadmap
11 8 (12.31%) Unit Testing
12 7 (10.77%) Customer Experience
Programming Languages
1 14 (21.54%) Python
1 14 (21.54%) SQL
2 5 (7.69%) C#
3 4 (6.15%) Java
4 2 (3.08%) C
4 2 (3.08%) JavaScript
4 2 (3.08%) T-SQL
5 1 (1.54%) COBOL
5 1 (1.54%) JCL
Qualifications
1 3 (4.62%) Degree
2 1 (1.54%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (1.54%) CSPO
2 1 (1.54%) DV Cleared
2 1 (1.54%) ISTQB
2 1 (1.54%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
2 1 (1.54%) SAP Certification
2 1 (1.54%) SC Cleared
2 1 (1.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (12.31%) GDPR
2 5 (7.69%) QA
3 2 (3.08%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.54%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 14 (21.54%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.54%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 7 (10.77%) Microsoft
2 4 (6.15%) Ab Initio
3 2 (3.08%) Adobe
4 1 (1.54%) Ariba
4 1 (1.54%) Citrix
4 1 (1.54%) Concur
4 1 (1.54%) HP
4 1 (1.54%) Juniper
4 1 (1.54%) SAP