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 in the UK excluding London. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 103 106 73
Rank change year-on-year +3 -33 -8
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 306 404 737
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 2.38% 1.99% 3.20%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.14% 6.85% 9.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 212 284 540
10th Percentile £346 £400 £400
25th Percentile £400 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -17.36% - +6.80%
75th Percentile £571 £628 £625
90th Percentile £656 £738 £675
UK median daily rate £514 £550 £563
% change year-on-year -6.59% -2.22% +2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 10 17
10th Percentile £44.51 £56.22 £43.76
25th Percentile £46.88 £57.33 £61.50
Median hourly rate £56.75 £68.72 £85.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.42% -19.15% +48.47%
75th Percentile £67.63 £85.00 £86.66
90th Percentile £80.17 £85.50 £90.00
UK median hourly rate £56.75 £57.44 £70.00
% change year-on-year -1.20% -17.94% +30.54%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,288 5,894 7,486
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 33.32% 29.09% 32.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,603 3,538 5,020
10th Percentile £205 £210 £220
25th Percentile £363 £378 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £597 £613
90th Percentile £656 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £550
% change year-on-year -3.23% -1.36% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 304 717 421
10th Percentile £16.46 £12.15 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.89 £14.06 £10.63
Median hourly rate £29.53 £28.50 £22.00
Median % change year-on-year +3.60% +29.55% +3.53%
75th Percentile £64.50 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £83.35 £70.00 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £31.76 £31.25 £22.49
% change year-on-year +1.63% +38.98% -18.24%

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 16 May 2025.

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 16 May 2025.

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 16 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
North of England +21 86 £445 -16.43% 235
South East +5 68 £502 -19.72% 274
North West +6 51 £402 -26.91% 131
Midlands +16 45 £500 -9.09% 117
South West +39 43 £575 +4.55% 74
Scotland -25 43 £450 -5.26% 53
West Midlands +6 29 £507 -9.96% 77
Yorkshire +10 21 £463 -5.13% 82
East Midlands +18 15 £433 +2.06% 34
North East +3 14 £475 +4.68% 22
Northern Ireland - 11 £325 - 16
East of England +18 9 £463 +8.19% 49
Wales -12 6 £509 +0.05% 21
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 33 (10.78%) Confluence
2 8 (2.61%) WebLogic
3 6 (1.96%) JBoss
3 6 (1.96%) Tomcat
3 6 (1.96%) WebSphere
4 2 (0.65%) Apache Solr
4 2 (0.65%) ArcGIS
4 2 (0.65%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 2 (0.65%) Oracle Spatial
4 2 (0.65%) Smallworld
5 1 (0.33%) Apache
5 1 (0.33%) Apache Spark
5 1 (0.33%) Camunda
5 1 (0.33%) CMS
5 1 (0.33%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.33%) Tuxedo
5 1 (0.33%) Umbraco
Applications
1 6 (1.96%) Microsoft Office
2 5 (1.63%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.98%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 3 (0.98%) MS Visio
3 3 (0.98%) Sketch
4 2 (0.65%) Chatbot
5 1 (0.33%) Adobe XD
5 1 (0.33%) InVision
5 1 (0.33%) Trello
5 1 (0.33%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 4 (1.31%) SAP IBP
1 4 (1.31%) SAP S/4HANA
2 3 (0.98%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.65%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.65%) Oracle EBS R12
3 2 (0.65%) Oracle ERP
3 2 (0.65%) Oracle iProcurement
3 2 (0.65%) Primavera
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Assets
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle EBS
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle General Ledger
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Payables
4 1 (0.33%) Oracle Receivables
4 1 (0.33%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.33%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 48 (15.69%) Azure
2 40 (13.07%) AWS
3 24 (7.84%) Azure DevOps
4 11 (3.59%) Serverless
5 10 (3.27%) SaaS
6 8 (2.61%) Microsoft 365
7 7 (2.29%) GCP
7 7 (2.29%) IaaS
8 6 (1.96%) Figma
8 6 (1.96%) Power Platform
9 5 (1.63%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.63%) Azure Data Factory
9 5 (1.63%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.31%) Amazon S3
10 4 (1.31%) Azure Functions
11 3 (0.98%) Azure Cosmos DB
11 3 (0.98%) Azure Monitor
11 3 (0.98%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (0.98%) Oracle CX
12 2 (0.65%) Amazon EMR
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.29%) Firewall
2 6 (1.96%) DHCP
2 6 (1.96%) DNS
3 4 (1.31%) Network Security
4 3 (0.98%) Broadband
5 2 (0.65%) BGP
5 2 (0.65%) EIGRP
5 2 (0.65%) HTTP
5 2 (0.65%) IPsec
5 2 (0.65%) OSPF
5 2 (0.65%) Software-Defined Networking
5 2 (0.65%) SSL
5 2 (0.65%) TACACS
5 2 (0.65%) VLAN
5 2 (0.65%) VPN
5 2 (0.65%) Wireless
6 1 (0.33%) LAN
6 1 (0.33%) Modbus
6 1 (0.33%) RTP
6 1 (0.33%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.58%) NoSQL
2 10 (3.27%) MongoDB
3 6 (1.96%) Data Warehouse
3 6 (1.96%) DB2
3 6 (1.96%) SQL Server
4 4 (1.31%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.31%) Power BI
4 4 (1.31%) Relational Database
5 3 (0.98%) CockroachDB
5 3 (0.98%) GIS
5 3 (0.98%) PostgreSQL
6 2 (0.65%) Amazon Athena
6 2 (0.65%) Amazon Aurora
6 2 (0.65%) Amazon RDS
6 2 (0.65%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.65%) Azure SQL Database
6 2 (0.65%) MySQL
6 2 (0.65%) Oracle Reports
6 2 (0.65%) Redis
6 2 (0.65%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 65 (21.24%) JIRA
2 28 (9.15%) Git
3 9 (2.94%) Jenkins
4 6 (1.96%) Bitbucket
4 6 (1.96%) Maven
4 6 (1.96%) Visual Studio Code
5 5 (1.63%) Selenium
5 5 (1.63%) Visual Studio
6 4 (1.31%) Ant
6 4 (1.31%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.31%) Oracle Forms
6 4 (1.31%) Postman
6 4 (1.31%) Subversion
7 3 (0.98%) GitLab
7 3 (0.98%) JUnit
7 3 (0.98%) Rational Rhapsody
8 2 (0.65%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.65%) Moq
8 2 (0.65%) Sonatype Nexus
8 2 (0.65%) Toad
General
1 93 (30.39%) Finance
2 90 (29.41%) Social Skills
3 43 (14.05%) Public Sector
4 42 (13.73%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (8.50%) Banking
6 17 (5.56%) Telecoms
7 14 (4.58%) Marketing
8 13 (4.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 11 (3.59%) Presentation Skills
10 9 (2.94%) Front Office
10 9 (2.94%) Legal
11 7 (2.29%) Documentation Skills
11 7 (2.29%) Retail
12 6 (1.96%) Electronics
12 6 (1.96%) Investment Banking
12 6 (1.96%) Manufacturing
13 4 (1.31%) Financial Institution
13 4 (1.31%) Law
13 4 (1.31%) Wholesale Banking
14 3 (0.98%) French Language
Job Titles
1 47 (15.36%) Product Owner
2 43 (14.05%) Developer
3 39 (12.75%) Analyst
4 36 (11.76%) Senior
5 34 (11.11%) Lead
6 27 (8.82%) Business Analyst
6 27 (8.82%) Scrum Master
7 22 (7.19%) Product Manager
8 18 (5.88%) Senior Developer
9 15 (4.90%) .NET Developer
10 14 (4.58%) Architect
11 13 (4.25%) Project Manager
11 13 (4.25%) Software Engineer
12 12 (3.92%) C# Developer
13 10 (3.27%) Tester
14 8 (2.61%) C# .NET Developer
14 8 (2.61%) Delivery Manager
14 8 (2.61%) Designer
14 8 (2.61%) Developer/Software Engineer
15 7 (2.29%) Full-Stack Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 28 (9.15%) React
2 27 (8.82%) .NET
3 19 (6.21%) RESTful
4 16 (5.23%) REST
4 16 (5.23%) Web Services
5 15 (4.90%) AngularJS
6 12 (3.92%) JSON
6 12 (3.92%) XML
7 11 (3.59%) SOAP
7 11 (3.59%) Spring Boot
8 9 (2.94%) CSS
8 9 (2.94%) HTML
8 9 (2.94%) Middleware
9 8 (2.61%) Kafka
10 7 (2.29%) .NET Core
10 7 (2.29%) RAML
11 6 (1.96%) ASP.NET
11 6 (1.96%) Node.js
11 6 (1.96%) WSDL
12 5 (1.63%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 10 (3.27%) Derivative
1 10 (3.27%) Equities
1 10 (3.27%) SCADA
2 8 (2.61%) Cloud Native
2 8 (2.61%) Equity Derivative
2 8 (2.61%) Legacy Applications
2 8 (2.61%) Mainframe
2 8 (2.61%) Virtual Team
3 7 (2.29%) Private Cloud
4 6 (1.96%) Onboarding
4 6 (1.96%) Wiki
5 5 (1.63%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (1.63%) Data Structures
5 5 (1.63%) Self-Motivation
6 4 (1.31%) Enterprise Software
6 4 (1.31%) Management Information System
7 2 (0.65%) Data Centre
7 2 (0.65%) Fixed Income
7 2 (0.65%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (0.65%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 24 (7.84%) Linux
2 20 (6.54%) Windows
3 5 (1.63%) Android
3 5 (1.63%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.63%) Unix
4 4 (1.31%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (1.31%) Windows 10
4 4 (1.31%) Windows Server
5 3 (0.98%) Windows 7
5 3 (0.98%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.33%) Mac OS
6 1 (0.33%) Ubuntu
6 1 (0.33%) zOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 211 (68.95%) Agile
2 101 (33.01%) Scrum
3 75 (24.51%) Continuous Improvement
4 74 (24.18%) Roadmaps
5 71 (23.20%) Problem-Solving
6 62 (20.26%) DevOps
7 60 (19.61%) User Stories
8 46 (15.03%) Stakeholder Management
9 42 (13.73%) User Experience
10 41 (13.40%) Backlog Management
10 41 (13.40%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 40 (13.07%) CI/CD
11 40 (13.07%) Product Backlog
12 37 (12.09%) SDLC
13 36 (11.76%) Product Roadmap
14 33 (10.78%) Project Management
15 31 (10.13%) Kanban
16 28 (9.15%) Product Vision
17 26 (8.50%) Decision-Making
17 26 (8.50%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 52 (16.99%) SQL
2 26 (8.50%) Java
3 22 (7.19%) JavaScript
4 20 (6.54%) C#
4 20 (6.54%) Python
5 13 (4.25%) PL/SQL
6 12 (3.92%) TypeScript
7 11 (3.59%) PowerShell
8 5 (1.63%) Rust
9 4 (1.31%) Perl
10 3 (0.98%) COBOL
10 3 (0.98%) Go
11 2 (0.65%) Bash
11 2 (0.65%) Magik
11 2 (0.65%) Scala
11 2 (0.65%) XPath
12 1 (0.33%) Apex Code
12 1 (0.33%) JCL
12 1 (0.33%) REXX
12 1 (0.33%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 41 (13.40%) Security Cleared
2 29 (9.48%) SC Cleared
3 26 (8.50%) Degree
4 7 (2.29%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.63%) AWS Certification
5 5 (1.63%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (1.31%) CSPO
7 3 (0.98%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.65%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.65%) Azure Certification
8 2 (0.65%) CISSP
8 2 (0.65%) IIBA
9 1 (0.33%) CBAP
9 1 (0.33%) ISEB
9 1 (0.33%) ISTQB
9 1 (0.33%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
9 1 (0.33%) Oracle Certification
9 1 (0.33%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.33%) PMP
9 1 (0.33%) Tableau Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 18 (5.88%) QA
2 7 (2.29%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.96%) Data Quality
4 4 (1.31%) GDPR
5 2 (0.65%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.65%) GRC
5 2 (0.65%) PMO
6 1 (0.33%) Actionable Recommendations
6 1 (0.33%) Automotive SPICE
6 1 (0.33%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.33%) GxP
6 1 (0.33%) ISO 26262
6 1 (0.33%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.33%) PSD2
6 1 (0.33%) SEPA
6 1 (0.33%) SLA
6 1 (0.33%) WCAG
System Software
1 11 (3.59%) Virtual Machines
2 9 (2.94%) Docker
3 6 (1.96%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.96%) VMware Infrastructure
4 5 (1.63%) Virtual Servers
Systems Management
1 11 (3.59%) Terraform
2 10 (3.27%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.29%) HP ALM
4 3 (0.98%) Ansible
4 3 (0.98%) Microsoft Intune
4 3 (0.98%) Progress Chef
4 3 (0.98%) SCCM
5 2 (0.65%) Nagios
5 2 (0.65%) NetBackup
5 2 (0.65%) Puppet
6 1 (0.33%) Control-M
6 1 (0.33%) Grafana
6 1 (0.33%) HP Data Protector
Vendors
1 44 (14.38%) Microsoft
2 32 (10.46%) Oracle
3 12 (3.92%) SAP
4 11 (3.59%) IBM
5 10 (3.27%) VMware
6 9 (2.94%) Atlassian
6 9 (2.94%) HP
6 9 (2.94%) MuleSoft
6 9 (2.94%) Salesforce
7 6 (1.96%) Google
8 5 (1.63%) Cisco
9 4 (1.31%) Adobe
9 4 (1.31%) Red Hat
10 3 (0.98%) Perforce
10 3 (0.98%) ServiceNow
11 2 (0.65%) F5
11 2 (0.65%) New Relic
11 2 (0.65%) Palantir
11 2 (0.65%) SolarWinds
11 2 (0.65%) Splunk