Product Ownership Contracts in the West Midlands

Product Ownership
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in the West Midlands. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 74 78 82
Rank change year-on-year +4 +4 -16
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 23 35 56
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.71% 1.81% 2.38%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.50% 5.43% 7.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 14 30 39
10th Percentile £436 £381 £419
25th Percentile £491 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £556 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +5.95% +5.00%
75th Percentile £566 £611 £600
90th Percentile £670 £650 £601
England median daily rate £550 £556 £575
% change year-on-year -1.08% -3.30% +4.55%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 418 644 781
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 31.01% 33.28% 33.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 277 409 512
10th Percentile £197 £299 £263
25th Percentile £406 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £605 £626 £638
90th Percentile £675 £750 £700
England median daily rate £550 £550 £575
% change year-on-year - -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 47 20
10th Percentile £16.23 £10.42 £17.36
25th Percentile £18.13 £14.71 £18.12
Median hourly rate £28.18 £22.50 £25.50
Median % change year-on-year +25.24% -11.76% +60.78%
75th Percentile £31.49 £40.25 £52.50
90th Percentile £33.91 £58.75 £61.50
England median hourly rate £33.91 £32.12 £22.49
% change year-on-year +5.59% +42.83% -16.66%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the West Midlands

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in the West Midlands

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 4 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in the West Midlands

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in the West Midlands

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 4 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
Warwickshire 0 12 £488 -19.69% 17
Birmingham +9 6 £525 -4.55% 16
Worcestershire - 3 £700 - 3
Herefordshire - 2 £700 -
Coventry +4 1 £500 -11.11% 2
Solihull - 1 £550 - 2
Product Ownership
England

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (4.35%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 1 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle EBS R12
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle ERP
1 1 (4.35%) Oracle iProcurement
1 1 (4.35%) Primavera
1 1 (4.35%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (17.39%) AWS
1 4 (17.39%) Azure
2 2 (8.70%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (8.70%) GCP
3 1 (4.35%) Apigee
3 1 (4.35%) Datadog
3 1 (4.35%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (4.35%) OCI
3 1 (4.35%) SaaS
3 1 (4.35%) Serverless
3 1 (4.35%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.35%) Converged Networks
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (13.04%) NoSQL
2 1 (4.35%) GIS
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Discoverer
2 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 9 (39.13%) JIRA
2 3 (13.04%) Git
3 1 (4.35%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (4.35%) Cypress.io
3 1 (4.35%) Jenkins
General
1 5 (21.74%) Documentation Skills
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (8.70%) Finance
3 2 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.35%) Automotive
4 1 (4.35%) Humanities
4 1 (4.35%) Legal
4 1 (4.35%) Retail
Job Titles
1 5 (21.74%) Senior
1 5 (21.74%) Tester
2 4 (17.39%) Product Manager
2 4 (17.39%) Product Owner
3 3 (13.04%) Developer
3 3 (13.04%) Lead
4 2 (8.70%) Full-Stack Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Developer
4 2 (8.70%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.35%) Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Applications Tester
5 1 (4.35%) Infrastructure Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Lead Product Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Operations Manager
5 1 (4.35%) QA Engineer
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (4.35%) Senior Manager
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.35%) Technical Specialist
5 1 (4.35%) Wintel Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (21.74%) Middleware
2 3 (13.04%) RESTful
3 2 (8.70%) Node.js
3 2 (8.70%) React
4 1 (4.35%) .NET
4 1 (4.35%) .NET Framework
4 1 (4.35%) AngularJS
4 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET
4 1 (4.35%) ASP.NET Web API
4 1 (4.35%) AWS CDK
4 1 (4.35%) Django
4 1 (4.35%) Entity Framework
4 1 (4.35%) Flask
4 1 (4.35%) REST
4 1 (4.35%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 5 (21.74%) SCADA
2 1 (4.35%) Cloud Native
2 1 (4.35%) Educational Technology
2 1 (4.35%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
2 1 (4.35%) Onboarding
2 1 (4.35%) Public Cloud
2 1 (4.35%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (4.35%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (4.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 4 (17.39%) Windows
1 4 (17.39%) Windows 10
2 3 (13.04%) Windows 7
2 3 (13.04%) Windows XP
3 1 (4.35%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 17 (73.91%) Agile
2 12 (52.17%) Scrum
3 8 (34.78%) Test Strategy
3 8 (34.78%) User Stories
4 7 (30.43%) Continuous Improvement
5 6 (26.09%) DevOps
5 6 (26.09%) Problem-Solving
5 6 (26.09%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (21.74%) Backlog Management
6 5 (21.74%) Change Management
6 5 (21.74%) Defect Management
6 5 (21.74%) Roadmaps
6 5 (21.74%) Scenario Testing
6 5 (21.74%) System Integration Testing
6 5 (21.74%) Systems Engineering
6 5 (21.74%) Test Assurance
6 5 (21.74%) Test Management
7 4 (17.39%) CI/CD
7 4 (17.39%) Network Monitoring
7 4 (17.39%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 5 (21.74%) Python
2 4 (17.39%) SQL
2 4 (17.39%) TypeScript
3 3 (13.04%) PowerShell
4 2 (8.70%) Go
4 2 (8.70%) JavaScript
5 1 (4.35%) C#
5 1 (4.35%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Degree
1 2 (8.70%) DV Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) SC Cleared
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) Automotive SPICE
2 1 (4.35%) GDPR
2 1 (4.35%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 3 (13.04%) Docker
1 3 (13.04%) Virtual Machines
1 3 (13.04%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (21.74%) HP ALM
2 3 (13.04%) Terraform
3 2 (8.70%) Kubernetes
4 1 (4.35%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (4.35%) SCCM
Vendors
1 6 (26.09%) Oracle
2 5 (21.74%) HP
2 5 (21.74%) MuleSoft
3 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
3 3 (13.04%) VMware
4 1 (4.35%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (4.35%) Remedy
4 1 (4.35%) Siemens
4 1 (4.35%) Splunk
4 1 (4.35%) Symantec