Product Ownership Contracts with Work from Home Options

Product Ownership
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Ownership over the 6 months to 27 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
27 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 100 70 57
Rank change year-on-year -30 -13 +19
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 337 840 1,857
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.21% 3.24% 4.17%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.72% 10.29% 13.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 220 599 1,283
10th Percentile £409 £429 £408
25th Percentile £461 £500 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £570 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.39% +3.64% +10.00%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £638
90th Percentile £746 £750 £700
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.44%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 17 15
10th Percentile £58.38 £49.50 £25.00
25th Percentile £69.06 £61.50 £37.50
Median hourly rate £80.00 £85.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +70.00% -7.41%
75th Percentile £86.25 - £63.58
90th Percentile £88.50 £86.65 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £57.44 £80.00 £49.00
% change year-on-year -28.20% +63.27% -7.11%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,363 8,167 13,894
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.56% 31.50% 31.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,941 5,752 9,905
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £431 £454 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year - +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £638
90th Percentile £800 £800 £750
UK median daily rate £538 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -2.27% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 190 152 229
10th Percentile £15.42 £19.00 £12.21
25th Percentile £25.50 £32.06 £20.75
Median hourly rate £49.25 £57.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.35% +29.21% +28.84%
75th Percentile £65.00 £70.00 £57.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.05
UK median hourly rate £28.50 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +26.75% -18.24% +3.19%

Product Ownership
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Product Ownership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Product Ownership trend for jobs with a WFH option

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Product Ownership.

Product Ownership daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Product Ownership over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Product Ownership daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Product Ownership
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Product Ownership.

Product Ownership hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Product Ownership
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Product Ownership over the 6 months to 27 April 2024.

Product Ownership hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 16 (4.75%) Confluence
2 6 (1.78%) CMS
3 4 (1.19%) Oracle Workflow
3 4 (1.19%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Airflow
4 1 (0.30%) Apache Solr
4 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 14 (4.15%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.97%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.37%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.37%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.19%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.89%) Trello
6 1 (0.30%) Chatbot
6 1 (0.30%) InVision
6 1 (0.30%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (2.67%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.78%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (1.19%) Loan IQ
3 4 (1.19%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.89%) Endur
5 2 (0.59%) Magento
6 1 (0.30%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.30%) SAP APO
6 1 (0.30%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.30%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.30%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.30%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 88 (26.11%) Azure
2 44 (13.06%) Azure DevOps
3 41 (12.17%) AWS
4 16 (4.75%) Power Platform
5 15 (4.45%) Entra ID
6 14 (4.15%) SaaS
7 13 (3.86%) Azure Service Bus
8 12 (3.56%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 12 (3.56%) Dynamics 365
8 12 (3.56%) Serverless
9 11 (3.26%) Azure Monitor
9 11 (3.26%) GitHub
10 10 (2.97%) Azure Data Factory
11 7 (2.08%) Azure Stack
11 7 (2.08%) Figma
11 7 (2.08%) Microsoft Purview
11 7 (2.08%) PaaS
12 6 (1.78%) Azure Functions
13 5 (1.48%) Azure Logic Apps
13 5 (1.48%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.59%) Firewall
2 1 (0.30%) DMZ
2 1 (0.30%) DNS
2 1 (0.30%) LAN
2 1 (0.30%) RTP
2 1 (0.30%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (0.30%) WAN
2 1 (0.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 22 (6.53%) SQL Server
2 14 (4.15%) Power BI
3 11 (3.26%) Data Warehouse
4 10 (2.97%) NoSQL
4 10 (2.97%) Relational Database
5 7 (2.08%) Data Lake
6 6 (1.78%) MySQL
6 6 (1.78%) Snowflake Schema
7 5 (1.48%) Oracle Database
7 5 (1.48%) PostgreSQL
8 4 (1.19%) Azure SQL Database
8 4 (1.19%) Siebel EIM
9 3 (0.89%) Big Data
9 3 (0.89%) CockroachDB
10 2 (0.59%) BigQuery
10 2 (0.59%) DynamoDB
10 2 (0.59%) Looker
10 2 (0.59%) Metadata
10 2 (0.59%) Parquet
10 2 (0.59%) Redis
Development Applications
1 21 (6.23%) JIRA
2 18 (5.34%) Git
3 8 (2.37%) GitLab
4 7 (2.08%) Postman
5 6 (1.78%) Cypress.io
6 5 (1.48%) Bitbucket
6 5 (1.48%) Jenkins
7 4 (1.19%) Selenium
7 4 (1.19%) SpecFlow
7 4 (1.19%) TeamCity
7 4 (1.19%) Visual Studio Code
7 4 (1.19%) WebDriver
8 3 (0.89%) Artifactory
8 3 (0.89%) Visual Studio
9 2 (0.59%) JUnit
10 1 (0.30%) Balsamiq
10 1 (0.30%) Gerrit
10 1 (0.30%) NUnit
10 1 (0.30%) Octopus Deploy
10 1 (0.30%) TestNG
General
1 103 (30.56%) Social Skills
2 84 (24.93%) Finance
3 46 (13.65%) Public Sector
4 31 (9.20%) Analytical Skills
5 26 (7.72%) Banking
6 20 (5.93%) Marketing
7 14 (4.15%) Back Office
8 12 (3.56%) Front Office
8 12 (3.56%) Presentation Skills
9 8 (2.37%) Investment Banking
9 8 (2.37%) Retail
10 7 (2.08%) Influencing Skills
10 7 (2.08%) Telecoms
11 6 (1.78%) Financial Institution
11 6 (1.78%) Manufacturing
11 6 (1.78%) Pharmaceutical
12 5 (1.48%) Billing
12 5 (1.48%) Legal
13 3 (0.89%) Electronics
13 3 (0.89%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 75 (22.26%) Product Owner
2 66 (19.58%) Analyst
3 63 (18.69%) Developer
4 59 (17.51%) Business Analyst
5 36 (10.68%) Senior
6 35 (10.39%) Architect
7 19 (5.64%) Lead
8 18 (5.34%) Product Manager
9 17 (5.04%) Azure Developer
10 16 (4.75%) Product Analyst
10 16 (4.75%) Product Business Analyst
10 16 (4.75%) Senior Developer
11 14 (4.15%) Project Manager
11 14 (4.15%) Scrum Master
12 12 (3.56%) Data Architect
13 11 (3.26%) .NET Developer
13 11 (3.26%) Business Manager
13 11 (3.26%) Designer
13 11 (3.26%) Finance Manager
13 11 (3.26%) Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 35 (10.39%) React
2 30 (8.90%) .NET
3 22 (6.53%) XML
4 17 (5.04%) CSS
5 15 (4.45%) HTML
6 13 (3.86%) JSON
7 11 (3.26%) .NET Core
7 11 (3.26%) REST
8 10 (2.97%) .NET Framework
9 8 (2.37%) AngularJS
9 8 (2.37%) ASP.NET
9 8 (2.37%) Node.js
10 6 (1.78%) HTML5
10 6 (1.78%) jQuery
10 6 (1.78%) Kafka
10 6 (1.78%) Lightning Web Components
11 5 (1.48%) Laravel
11 5 (1.48%) Vue
12 4 (1.19%) Entity Framework
12 4 (1.19%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 15 (4.45%) Derivative
1 15 (4.45%) Fixed Income
2 14 (4.15%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 11 (3.26%) Equities
3 11 (3.26%) Hedge funds
4 9 (2.67%) Data Structures
4 9 (2.67%) Mobile App
5 7 (2.08%) Greenfield Project
6 6 (1.78%) Educational Technology
6 6 (1.78%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.78%) Reference Data
6 6 (1.78%) Wiki
7 5 (1.48%) Cloud Native
7 5 (1.48%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.48%) Legacy Applications
7 5 (1.48%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.19%) Virtual Team
9 3 (0.89%) CMDB
9 3 (0.89%) Cyber Threat
9 3 (0.89%) Data Protection Act
Operating Systems
1 12 (3.56%) Linux
2 6 (1.78%) Android
2 6 (1.78%) Apple iOS
3 5 (1.48%) Unix
3 5 (1.48%) Windows
4 1 (0.30%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 215 (63.80%) Agile
2 88 (26.11%) Scrum
3 74 (21.96%) DevOps
3 74 (21.96%) User Stories
4 59 (17.51%) Roadmaps
5 48 (14.24%) Problem-Solving
6 44 (13.06%) Analytics
7 40 (11.87%) CI/CD
8 39 (11.57%) Product Backlog
8 39 (11.57%) Product Management
9 38 (11.28%) Microservices
10 35 (10.39%) User Experience
11 32 (9.50%) Continuous Improvement
11 32 (9.50%) Test Automation
12 31 (9.20%) Acceptance Criteria
12 31 (9.20%) Change Management
13 30 (8.90%) Requirements Gathering
14 28 (8.31%) Project Delivery
14 28 (8.31%) Sprint Planning
14 28 (8.31%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 46 (13.65%) SQL
2 40 (11.87%) Python
3 31 (9.20%) JavaScript
4 27 (8.01%) C#
5 16 (4.75%) TypeScript
6 13 (3.86%) Java
6 13 (3.86%) PowerShell
7 7 (2.08%) Bicep
8 5 (1.48%) Apex Code
8 5 (1.48%) PHP
9 4 (1.19%) SOQL
10 3 (0.89%) C
10 3 (0.89%) C++
11 2 (0.59%) ABAP
11 2 (0.59%) PL/SQL
11 2 (0.59%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.30%) Go
12 1 (0.30%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.30%) VBA
Qualifications
1 23 (6.82%) Degree
2 21 (6.23%) Security Cleared
3 18 (5.34%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.19%) APMP
4 4 (1.19%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (0.89%) AWS Certification
5 3 (0.89%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.59%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.59%) CSPO
7 1 (0.30%) AWS Certified Cloud Practitioner
7 1 (0.30%) CBAP
7 1 (0.30%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.30%) MBA
7 1 (0.30%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.30%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 37 (10.98%) QA
2 13 (3.86%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.97%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.67%) PMO
5 4 (1.19%) PCI DSS
6 3 (0.89%) Cyber Essentials
6 3 (0.89%) NIST
6 3 (0.89%) WCAG
7 2 (0.59%) Disclosure Scotland
7 2 (0.59%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 1 (0.30%) GDPR
8 1 (0.30%) ISO 9001
8 1 (0.30%) NCSC
8 1 (0.30%) Sarbanes-Oxley
8 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 23 (6.82%) Active Directory
2 11 (3.26%) Docker
Systems Management
1 12 (3.56%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.48%) Ansible
3 4 (1.19%) Terraform
4 3 (0.89%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.30%) AppManager
5 1 (0.30%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.30%) Matomo
5 1 (0.30%) Puppet
Vendors
1 57 (16.91%) Microsoft
2 16 (4.75%) Salesforce
3 13 (3.86%) Oracle
3 13 (3.86%) SAP
4 7 (2.08%) Google
5 5 (1.48%) Atlassian
6 4 (1.19%) Ariba
6 4 (1.19%) CA Agile Central
6 4 (1.19%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 4 (1.19%) Siebel
6 4 (1.19%) Splunk
7 3 (0.89%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.59%) CrowdStrike
8 2 (0.59%) Databricks
8 2 (0.59%) Dynatrace
8 2 (0.59%) MuleSoft
8 2 (0.59%) Okta
8 2 (0.59%) TSYS
8 2 (0.59%) Zscaler
9 1 (0.30%) Centrify