Product Ownership Contracts in the UK excluding London

Product Ownership
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Ownership over the 6 months to 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 106 71 65
Rank change year-on-year -35 -6 +12
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 414 782 1,123
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.00% 3.25% 3.63%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.81% 10.01% 11.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 285 565 789
10th Percentile £400 £400 £401
25th Percentile £450 £453 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year - +6.80% +14.44%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £588
90th Percentile £738 £675 £668
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 21 16
10th Percentile £56.22 £59.17 -
25th Percentile £57.33 £70.00 £42.00
Median hourly rate £68.72 £85.00 £47.86
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% +77.60% +87.69%
75th Percentile £85.00 £86.65 £62.51
90th Percentile £85.50 £90.00 £74.68
UK median hourly rate £57.44 £80.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.20% +63.27% -10.09%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 6,081 7,809 9,799
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 29.43% 32.44% 31.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,631 5,283 6,773
10th Percentile £208 £213 £204
25th Percentile £375 £387 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £600 £618 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £669
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 715 439 466
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.02
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.25
Median hourly rate £27.50 £22.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +10.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £45.15
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +28.97% -18.24% +3.19%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Product Ownership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the UK excluding London

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in the UK excluding London

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in the UK excluding London

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in the UK excluding London

Product Ownership
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Product Ownership in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Ownership in the UK excluding London

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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
South East -39 123 £650 +18.18% 82
North of England -22 83 £525 -4.55% 84
Scotland +12 82 £475 -5.00% 20
North West +6 54 £550 -4.35% 50
Midlands -6 44 £550 +21.88% 58
South West -46 44 £550 -2.65% 57
West Midlands +7 34 £556 +5.95% 47
Wales +29 22 £513 +19.19% 16
Yorkshire -29 22 £450 -16.67% 20
East of England -34 20 £428 -18.57% 29
North East +25 11 £490 -18.42% 14
East Midlands +3 8 £500 +17.65% 11
Isle of Man - 2 - -
Product Ownership
UK

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 26 (6.28%) Confluence
2 5 (1.21%) SharePoint
3 3 (0.72%) Microsoft Exchange
4 2 (0.48%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.48%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.48%) WordPress
5 1 (0.24%) CICS
5 1 (0.24%) CMS
Applications
1 14 (3.38%) Microsoft Office
2 9 (2.17%) Microsoft Excel
3 8 (1.93%) Sketch
4 6 (1.45%) MS Visio
5 5 (1.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
6 3 (0.72%) InVision
7 2 (0.48%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.48%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.48%) Photoshop
7 2 (0.48%) Trello
8 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.21%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.97%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.72%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.48%) VisionPLUS
5 1 (0.24%) Dynamics AX
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 87 (21.01%) Azure
2 32 (7.73%) Azure DevOps
3 23 (5.56%) AWS
4 22 (5.31%) Azure Data Factory
5 20 (4.83%) Power Platform
6 18 (4.35%) GitHub
6 18 (4.35%) Serverless
7 16 (3.86%) Azure Functions
7 16 (3.86%) Azure Monitor
8 15 (3.62%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 15 (3.62%) Entra ID
8 15 (3.62%) Figma
9 11 (2.66%) Dynamics 365
10 9 (2.17%) GitHub Actions
11 8 (1.93%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (1.69%) Azure AKS
12 7 (1.69%) SaaS
13 6 (1.45%) Azure Service Bus
13 6 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
13 6 (1.45%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 10 (2.42%) Firewall
1 10 (2.42%) VPN
2 3 (0.72%) Broadband
3 2 (0.48%) 4G
3 2 (0.48%) 5G
3 2 (0.48%) DNS
3 2 (0.48%) HTTP
4 1 (0.24%) 3G
4 1 (0.24%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.24%) ATM
4 1 (0.24%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.24%) DSL
4 1 (0.24%) GSM
4 1 (0.24%) LAN
4 1 (0.24%) LTE
4 1 (0.24%) Network Security
4 1 (0.24%) SMS
4 1 (0.24%) TETRA
4 1 (0.24%) UMTS
4 1 (0.24%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (4.11%) NoSQL
2 16 (3.86%) Power BI
3 12 (2.90%) Relational Database
4 11 (2.66%) Data Warehouse
5 10 (2.42%) MongoDB
5 10 (2.42%) SQL Server
6 9 (2.17%) Metadata
6 9 (2.17%) MySQL
7 8 (1.93%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.45%) Snowflake Schema
9 4 (0.97%) Amazon RDS
9 4 (0.97%) Data Lake
10 3 (0.72%) DB2
11 2 (0.48%) CockroachDB
11 2 (0.48%) Couchbase
11 2 (0.48%) OLAP
11 2 (0.48%) OLTP
11 2 (0.48%) Redis
11 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Integration Services
11 2 (0.48%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 47 (11.35%) JIRA
2 20 (4.83%) Git
3 14 (3.38%) Cypress.io
4 12 (2.90%) Postman
5 11 (2.66%) GitLab
6 5 (1.21%) Eclipse
6 5 (1.21%) Jenkins
6 5 (1.21%) PyCharm
6 5 (1.21%) Storybook
7 4 (0.97%) Rational DOORS
8 3 (0.72%) Axure RP
8 3 (0.72%) Bitbucket
8 3 (0.72%) CircleCI
8 3 (0.72%) JUnit
8 3 (0.72%) Octopus Deploy
8 3 (0.72%) Selenium
8 3 (0.72%) TeamCity
9 2 (0.48%) Gatling
9 2 (0.48%) JMeter
9 2 (0.48%) kappa
General
1 138 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 74 (17.87%) Analytical Skills
3 68 (16.43%) Finance
4 50 (12.08%) Public Sector
5 21 (5.07%) Marketing
6 19 (4.59%) Manufacturing
7 18 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
7 18 (4.35%) Telecoms
8 16 (3.86%) Pharmaceutical
9 12 (2.90%) Retail
10 11 (2.66%) Banking
10 11 (2.66%) Legal
11 9 (2.17%) Billing
11 9 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
12 8 (1.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.93%) Organisational Skills
13 4 (0.97%) Military
14 3 (0.72%) Publishing
15 2 (0.48%) Automotive
15 2 (0.48%) Games
Job Titles
1 63 (15.22%) Developer
2 62 (14.98%) Product Owner
3 61 (14.73%) Architect
4 49 (11.84%) Analyst
5 48 (11.59%) Senior
6 36 (8.70%) Business Analyst
7 32 (7.73%) Lead
8 31 (7.49%) Designer
8 31 (7.49%) Solutions Architect
9 23 (5.56%) Java Architect
9 23 (5.56%) Java Solutions Architect
10 19 (4.59%) Full Stack Developer
10 19 (4.59%) UX Designer
11 17 (4.11%) Azure Developer
12 16 (3.86%) Scrum Master
13 15 (3.62%) Technical Leader
14 14 (3.38%) Product Manager
15 13 (3.14%) React Developer
16 12 (2.90%) .NET Developer
16 12 (2.90%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 46 (11.11%) React
2 24 (5.80%) .NET
3 18 (4.35%) REST
4 17 (4.11%) XML
5 14 (3.38%) HTML
5 14 (3.38%) RESTful
6 11 (2.66%) CSS
6 11 (2.66%) Laravel
6 11 (2.66%) Vue
7 9 (2.17%) JSON
7 9 (2.17%) Node.js
8 8 (1.93%) AngularJS
9 7 (1.69%) Playwright
10 6 (1.45%) Lightning Web Components
11 5 (1.21%) .NET Framework
11 5 (1.21%) Kafka
12 4 (0.97%) ADO
12 4 (0.97%) OpenID
12 4 (0.97%) SAML
12 4 (0.97%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 14 (3.38%) Legacy Applications
2 12 (2.90%) Wiki
3 11 (2.66%) Enterprise Software
3 11 (2.66%) Mobile App
3 11 (2.66%) Public Cloud
4 9 (2.17%) Data Protection Act
4 9 (2.17%) Reference Data
5 7 (1.69%) Data Structures
5 7 (1.69%) IoT
5 7 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
6 6 (1.45%) Management Information System
7 5 (1.21%) Taxonomies
7 5 (1.21%) Verilog
7 5 (1.21%) VHDL
8 4 (0.97%) Distributed Systems
8 4 (0.97%) Greenfield Project
8 4 (0.97%) Smart Meter
9 3 (0.72%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (0.72%) Security Posture
9 3 (0.72%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 27 (6.52%) Linux
2 21 (5.07%) Android
2 21 (5.07%) Apple iOS
2 21 (5.07%) Windows
3 10 (2.42%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.17%) Unix
5 2 (0.48%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.24%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 239 (57.73%) Agile
2 95 (22.95%) Scrum
3 91 (21.98%) Problem-Solving
4 88 (21.26%) DevOps
5 78 (18.84%) Roadmaps
6 63 (15.22%) User Experience
7 62 (14.98%) User Stories
8 57 (13.77%) CI/CD
9 55 (13.29%) Product Backlog
10 51 (12.32%) Project Management
11 48 (11.59%) Continuous Improvement
12 45 (10.87%) Stakeholder Management
13 43 (10.39%) Microservices
14 40 (9.66%) Test Automation
15 36 (8.70%) SDLC
16 35 (8.45%) Analytics
16 35 (8.45%) Change Management
17 34 (8.21%) Product Roadmap
18 33 (7.97%) GAP Analysis
19 32 (7.73%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 45 (10.87%) SQL
2 43 (10.39%) Java
3 42 (10.14%) Python
4 23 (5.56%) JavaScript
5 18 (4.35%) C#
6 11 (2.66%) PowerShell
6 11 (2.66%) TypeScript
7 9 (2.17%) PHP
8 8 (1.93%) Groovy
9 7 (1.69%) C
10 6 (1.45%) C++
11 5 (1.21%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.21%) Bicep
11 5 (1.21%) Go
11 5 (1.21%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.48%) Scala
12 2 (0.48%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.24%) COBOL
13 1 (0.24%) JCL
13 1 (0.24%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 74 (17.87%) Security Cleared
2 38 (9.18%) SC Cleared
3 34 (8.21%) Degree
4 33 (7.97%) DV Cleared
5 4 (0.97%) TOGAF Certification
6 3 (0.72%) CSPO
7 2 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.48%) PMP
8 1 (0.24%) CBAP
8 1 (0.24%) Chartered Engineer
8 1 (0.24%) CISA
8 1 (0.24%) CISM
8 1 (0.24%) CISSP
8 1 (0.24%) IIBA
8 1 (0.24%) ISEB
8 1 (0.24%) ISTQB
8 1 (0.24%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
8 1 (0.24%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.24%) PMI Certification
8 1 (0.24%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 48 (11.59%) QA
2 13 (3.14%) GDPR
3 12 (2.90%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.17%) Disclosure Scotland
5 8 (1.93%) Accessibility
5 8 (1.93%) NIST
6 7 (1.69%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.21%) Good Clinical Practice
7 5 (1.21%) GxP
7 5 (1.21%) ISO/IEC 27001
7 5 (1.21%) PMO
8 2 (0.48%) NCSC
8 2 (0.48%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.48%) Software Quality Assurance
9 1 (0.24%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.24%) NIST 800
9 1 (0.24%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 20 (4.83%) Active Directory
2 11 (2.66%) Docker
3 1 (0.24%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.24%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 5 (1.21%) Kubernetes
1 5 (1.21%) Terraform
2 4 (0.97%) Ansible
3 2 (0.48%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.24%) Active Directory Federation Services
4 1 (0.24%) AppManager
4 1 (0.24%) HP Quality Center
4 1 (0.24%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.24%) OPNET
4 1 (0.24%) PowerCLI
Vendors
1 38 (9.18%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.59%) Salesforce
3 17 (4.11%) Atlassian
4 9 (2.17%) Google
5 6 (1.45%) Adobe
5 6 (1.45%) Apple
6 5 (1.21%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 4 (0.97%) Ab Initio
7 4 (0.97%) SAP
7 4 (0.97%) Sparx
8 3 (0.72%) Cadence
8 3 (0.72%) Oracle
8 3 (0.72%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.48%) Citrix
9 2 (0.48%) CrowdStrike
9 2 (0.48%) Greenplum
9 2 (0.48%) Okta
9 2 (0.48%) Progress
9 2 (0.48%) Zscaler
10 1 (0.24%) Databricks