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 2 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 67 85 75
Rank change year-on-year +18 -10 -7
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 31 31 55
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 2.20% 1.59% 2.46%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.58% 4.94% 7.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 30 37
10th Percentile £425 £398 £438
25th Percentile £469 £525 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £501 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year -11.02% +7.14% +3.19%
75th Percentile £562 £611 £600
90th Percentile £630 £676 £601
England median daily rate £501 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -11.02% -2.17% +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 471 628 748
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 33.48% 32.29% 33.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 295 393 479
10th Percentile £187 £265 £273
25th Percentile £398 £363 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £513
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +2.44% +2.50%
75th Percentile £600 £645 £638
90th Percentile £649 £750 £700
England median daily rate £533 £550 £570
% change year-on-year -3.18% -3.51% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 45 23
10th Percentile £17.40 £10.42 £17.72
25th Percentile £21.30 £14.71 £20.74
Median hourly rate £33.91 £24.65 £27.50
Median % change year-on-year +37.57% -10.36% +66.67%
75th Percentile £50.00 £40.50 £30.00
90th Percentile - £58.75 £56.75
England median hourly rate £33.91 £35.65 £22.49
% change year-on-year -4.88% +58.55% -15.15%

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 2 June 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 2 June 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 +8 17 £500 -17.63% 23
Birmingham +4 5 £556 +1.09% 95
Solihull - 5 £550 - 3
Worcestershire - 3 £700 - 75
Herefordshire - 2 £700 - 10
Coventry 0 1 £500 -11.11% 86
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 (3.23%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (9.68%) Oracle EBS R12
1 3 (9.68%) Oracle ERP
1 3 (9.68%) Oracle iProcurement
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle Assets
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle EBS
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle General Ledger
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle Payables
2 2 (6.45%) Oracle Receivables
3 1 (3.23%) Primavera
3 1 (3.23%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 7 (22.58%) AWS
1 7 (22.58%) Azure
2 6 (19.35%) GCP
3 4 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.23%) Apigee
4 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (3.23%) Datadog
4 1 (3.23%) OCI
4 1 (3.23%) SaaS
4 1 (3.23%) Serverless
4 1 (3.23%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) Firewall
2 2 (6.45%) BGP
2 2 (6.45%) DHCP
2 2 (6.45%) DNS
2 2 (6.45%) EIGRP
2 2 (6.45%) HTTP
2 2 (6.45%) IPsec
2 2 (6.45%) Network Security
2 2 (6.45%) OSPF
2 2 (6.45%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (6.45%) SSL
2 2 (6.45%) TACACS
2 2 (6.45%) VLAN
2 2 (6.45%) VPN
2 2 (6.45%) Wireless
3 1 (3.23%) Converged Networks
3 1 (3.23%) Modbus
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (9.68%) NoSQL
2 1 (3.23%) GIS
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle BI Publisher
2 1 (3.23%) Oracle Discoverer
Development Applications
1 10 (32.26%) JIRA
2 3 (9.68%) Git
3 1 (3.23%) Atlassian Bamboo
3 1 (3.23%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
General
1 10 (32.26%) Finance
2 9 (29.03%) Social Skills
3 7 (22.58%) Documentation Skills
4 6 (19.35%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (12.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
6 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.23%) Automotive
7 1 (3.23%) Humanities
7 1 (3.23%) Legal
7 1 (3.23%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (22.58%) Product Owner
1 7 (22.58%) Senior
2 6 (19.35%) Product Manager
3 5 (16.13%) Analyst
3 5 (16.13%) Tester
4 3 (9.68%) Developer
4 3 (9.68%) Product Analyst
4 3 (9.68%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (6.45%) Full-Stack Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Lead
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Developer
5 2 (6.45%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (3.23%) Applications Tester
6 1 (3.23%) Infrastructure Specialist
6 1 (3.23%) Operations Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Product Operations Manager
6 1 (3.23%) QA Engineer
6 1 (3.23%) Senior Manager
6 1 (3.23%) Systems Analyst
6 1 (3.23%) Technical Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (16.13%) Middleware
2 2 (6.45%) Node.js
2 2 (6.45%) React
2 2 (6.45%) RESTful
3 1 (3.23%) AWS CDK
3 1 (3.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 6 (19.35%) SCADA
2 3 (9.68%) Onboarding
3 2 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
4 1 (3.23%) Cloud Native
4 1 (3.23%) Educational Technology
4 1 (3.23%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (3.23%) Learning Management System
4 1 (3.23%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.23%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (19.35%) Windows
2 4 (12.90%) Windows 10
3 3 (9.68%) Windows 7
3 3 (9.68%) Windows XP
4 1 (3.23%) Mac OS
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (67.74%) Agile
2 16 (51.61%) Scrum
3 9 (29.03%) Change Management
3 9 (29.03%) Continuous Improvement
3 9 (29.03%) ITIL
3 9 (29.03%) Test Strategy
4 8 (25.81%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (25.81%) Product Management
4 8 (25.81%) Product Strategy
4 8 (25.81%) User Stories
5 7 (22.58%) Product Vision
5 7 (22.58%) Roadmaps
6 6 (19.35%) DevOps
6 6 (19.35%) Network Monitoring
6 6 (19.35%) Product Backlog
6 6 (19.35%) Stakeholder Management
7 5 (16.13%) Coaching
7 5 (16.13%) Project Management
7 5 (16.13%) System Integration Testing
7 5 (16.13%) Test Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (19.35%) SQL
2 4 (12.90%) Python
2 4 (12.90%) TypeScript
3 3 (9.68%) PL/SQL
3 3 (9.68%) PowerShell
4 2 (6.45%) Go
4 2 (6.45%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (12.90%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 3 (9.68%) Degree
2 3 (9.68%) SC Cleared
2 3 (9.68%) Security Cleared
3 2 (6.45%) DV Cleared
4 1 (3.23%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (9.68%) GDPR
2 2 (6.45%) PMO
2 2 (6.45%) SLA
3 1 (3.23%) Automotive SPICE
3 1 (3.23%) ISO 26262
3 1 (3.23%) QA
System Software
1 4 (12.90%) Docker
2 3 (9.68%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (9.68%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (19.35%) HP ALM
2 4 (12.90%) Kubernetes
3 3 (9.68%) Microsoft Intune
3 3 (9.68%) Terraform
4 2 (6.45%) Nagios
5 1 (3.23%) SCCM
Vendors
1 9 (29.03%) Microsoft
2 8 (25.81%) Oracle
3 6 (19.35%) HP
4 5 (16.13%) MuleSoft
5 4 (12.90%) Cisco
5 4 (12.90%) Salesforce
6 3 (9.68%) VMware
7 2 (6.45%) Apple
7 2 (6.45%) Arista
7 2 (6.45%) Google
7 2 (6.45%) Juniper
7 2 (6.45%) SolarWinds
8 1 (3.23%) CrowdStrike
8 1 (3.23%) Remedy
8 1 (3.23%) SAP
8 1 (3.23%) Splunk
8 1 (3.23%) Symantec