Product Ownership Contracts in Tyne and Wear

Product Ownership
North East > Tyne and Wear

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 21 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 28 21 41
Rank change year-on-year -7 +20 -5
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 8 10 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 3.24% 4.44% 0.70%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.52% 17.54% 2.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 4 0
10th Percentile £384 £363 -
25th Percentile £400 £371 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £454 -
Median % change year-on-year +10.19% - -
75th Percentile £675 £549 -
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £500 £454 -
% change year-on-year +10.19% - -

All Generic Skills
Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 84 57 71
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear 34.01% 25.33% 24.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 33 55
10th Percentile £325 £324 £222
25th Percentile £394 £363 £503
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £475 £650
Median % change year-on-year +10.53% -26.92% +25.30%
75th Percentile £625 £549 £723
90th Percentile £650 £640 £842
North East median daily rate £534 £450 £550
% change year-on-year +18.67% -18.18% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 0
10th Percentile £23.17 £25.25 -
25th Percentile £27.98 £38.75 -
Median hourly rate £35.99 £47.50 -
Median % change year-on-year -24.24% - -
75th Percentile £43.99 £48.75 -
90th Percentile £48.80 - -
North East median hourly rate £46.18 £32.50 -
% change year-on-year +42.09% - -

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

Job postings citing Product Ownership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Tyne and Wear.

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in Tyne and Wear

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in Tyne and Wear.

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in Tyne and Wear

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in Tyne and Wear

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in Tyne and Wear over the 6 months to 21 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in Tyne and Wear

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 21 May 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
Newcastle upon Tyne -6 7 £525 +15.70% 21
Product Ownership
North East

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 1 (12.50%) Apache
1 1 (12.50%) Apache Spark
1 1 (12.50%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Dynamics 365
1 1 (12.50%) Power Platform
1 1 (12.50%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) SQL Server
1 1 (12.50%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (12.50%) Git
1 1 (12.50%) git-flow
1 1 (12.50%) JIRA
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio
1 1 (12.50%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 6 (75.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (12.50%) French Language
2 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (37.50%) Product Manager
2 2 (25.00%) Analyst
2 2 (25.00%) Business Analyst
3 1 (12.50%) Delivery Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Full-Stack Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (12.50%) .NET
1 1 (12.50%) ASP.NET
1 1 (12.50%) CSS
1 1 (12.50%) HTML
1 1 (12.50%) React
1 1 (12.50%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (12.50%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (75.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
2 4 (50.00%) Scrum
3 3 (37.50%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (37.50%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 2 (25.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (25.00%) User Stories
5 1 (12.50%) Agile Project Management
5 1 (12.50%) Backlog Management
5 1 (12.50%) Continuous Improvement
5 1 (12.50%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 1 (12.50%) Decision-Making
5 1 (12.50%) DevOps
5 1 (12.50%) Performance Metrics
5 1 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (12.50%) Project Management
5 1 (12.50%) Service Design
5 1 (12.50%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (12.50%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) C#
1 1 (12.50%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 3 (37.50%) CSPO
2 1 (12.50%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Accessibility
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Virgin Media
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft