Product Ownership Contracts in Wales

Product Ownership
UK > Wales

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in Wales. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 23 50
Rank change year-on-year -9 +27 0
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 7 20 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Wales 2.40% 5.26% 1.18%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.65% 14.39% 2.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 19 6
10th Percentile £429 £462 £364
25th Percentile £463 £489 £424
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £509 £509 £535
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% -4.95% +12.63%
75th Percentile £530 £545 £595
90th Percentile - £551 £619
UK median daily rate £500 £550 £564
% change year-on-year -9.09% -2.40% +2.45%

All Generic Skills
Wales

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 Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 124 139 246
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 42.47% 36.58% 41.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 84 93 170
10th Percentile £160 £140 £162
25th Percentile £250 £380 £233
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 £500 £450
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +11.11% -
75th Percentile £462 £550 £549
90th Percentile £544 £585 £614
UK median daily rate £525 £538 £550
% change year-on-year -2.42% -2.18% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 10 10
10th Percentile £18.96 - £12.61
25th Percentile £21.01 £11.75 £15.25
Median hourly rate £33.38 £18.95 £18.10
Median % change year-on-year +76.17% +4.67% +12.74%
75th Percentile £44.06 £45.06 £21.50
90th Percentile £45.00 £74.98 £27.64
UK median hourly rate £31.91 £34.00 £22.00
% change year-on-year -6.16% +54.55% -18.46%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

Job postings citing Product Ownership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Wales.

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in Wales

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in Wales.

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in Wales

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Wales

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in Wales.

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in Wales

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 29 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
South Wales -11 6 £509 +0.05% 17
Product Ownership
UK

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Wales 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 (28.57%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (42.86%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 1 (14.29%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
2 1 (14.29%) AWS
2 1 (14.29%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) dbt
Communications & Networking
1 1 (14.29%) RTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Elasticsearch
1 1 (14.29%) MongoDB
1 1 (14.29%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (42.86%) JIRA
2 1 (14.29%) Postman
2 1 (14.29%) Zephyr
General
1 2 (28.57%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 1 (14.29%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (42.86%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Agile Delivery Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Agile Development Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Test Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Development Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Finance Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Financial Services Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Product Owner
3 1 (14.29%) Senior
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Senior Java Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Software Development Manager
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Test Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (14.29%) JSON
1 1 (14.29%) Kafka
1 1 (14.29%) Node.js
1 1 (14.29%) REST
1 1 (14.29%) SOAP
1 1 (14.29%) XML
1 1 (14.29%) XML Messaging
Miscellaneous
1 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
1 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
1 1 (14.29%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) Scrum
2 3 (42.86%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (42.86%) Project Governance
2 3 (42.86%) Project Management
2 3 (42.86%) SDLC
3 2 (28.57%) Business Strategy
3 2 (28.57%) Kanban
3 2 (28.57%) Risk Management
3 2 (28.57%) Test Automation
4 1 (14.29%) Computer Science
4 1 (14.29%) Data Architecture
4 1 (14.29%) Data Protection
4 1 (14.29%) Pair Programming
4 1 (14.29%) Software Engineering
4 1 (14.29%) Software Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) TDD
4 1 (14.29%) User Acceptance Testing
4 1 (14.29%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (14.29%) Go
1 1 (14.29%) Java
1 1 (14.29%) Korn
1 1 (14.29%) SQL
1 1 (14.29%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 4 (57.14%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (14.29%) ISEB
2 1 (14.29%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) SEPA
1 1 (14.29%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 3 (42.86%) Atlassian
2 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
3 1 (14.29%) HP
3 1 (14.29%) Sparx