Product Ownership Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Product Ownership
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in remote or hybrid contract work. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 77 90 74
Rank change year-on-year +13 -16 -3
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 328 325 643
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 3.26% 2.49% 2.95%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.25% 8.33% 9.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 245 216 470
10th Percentile £340 £400 £425
25th Percentile £402 £462 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £545 £566
Median % change year-on-year -10.55% -3.75% +2.95%
75th Percentile £575 £715 £650
90th Percentile £725 £800 £725
UK median daily rate £500 £551 £570
% change year-on-year -9.21% -3.38% +3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 9
10th Percentile - £42.50 £29.60
25th Percentile £44.51 £60.60 £61.50
Median hourly rate £56.75 £80.00 £70.00
Median % change year-on-year -29.06% +14.29% +9.80%
75th Percentile £64.52 £85.00 £85.00
90th Percentile £66.91 £88.00 -
UK median hourly rate £56.75 £60.83 £57.75
% change year-on-year -6.71% +5.33% +1.54%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 3,546 3,903 6,775
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 35.25% 29.95% 31.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,290 2,628 4,834
10th Percentile £340 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £446 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% - -
75th Percentile £650 £700 £688
90th Percentile £813 £850 £788
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 108 116 135
10th Percentile £13.60 £19.00 £19.40
25th Percentile £22.69 £29.65 £25.71
Median hourly rate £33.89 £62.00 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -45.35% +24.00% -
75th Percentile £65.00 £72.50 £68.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £76.05
UK median hourly rate £29.50 £45.00 £40.16
% change year-on-year -34.44% +12.04% +51.56%

Product Ownership
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Product Ownership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Product Ownership trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options 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 remote working options citing Product Ownership over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

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 remote working options 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 remote working options citing Product Ownership over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

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 44 (13.41%) Confluence
2 7 (2.13%) CMS
3 4 (1.22%) Drupal
4 3 (0.91%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (0.91%) Apache Spark
4 3 (0.91%) WordPress
5 1 (0.30%) Apache
5 1 (0.30%) JBoss
5 1 (0.30%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.30%) Tomcat
5 1 (0.30%) Umbraco
5 1 (0.30%) WebLogic
5 1 (0.30%) WebSphere
Applications
1 6 (1.83%) MS Visio
2 5 (1.52%) Sketch
2 5 (1.52%) Trello
3 4 (1.22%) Adobe XD
3 4 (1.22%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (0.91%) InVision
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe Creative Suite
5 1 (0.30%) Adobe Premiere
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Office
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 1 (0.30%) Microsoft Project
5 1 (0.30%) UserZoom
Business Applications
1 7 (2.13%) Dynamics CRM
2 6 (1.83%) SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (1.22%) Fidessa
3 4 (1.22%) Oracle Retail
3 4 (1.22%) SAP IBP
4 3 (0.91%) Aladdin
4 3 (0.91%) Payment Gateway
4 3 (0.91%) thinkFolio
5 2 (0.61%) Distributed Ledger
5 2 (0.61%) Salesforce CRM
6 1 (0.30%) ION Anvil
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Assets
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Cash Management
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle ERP
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle General Ledger
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Payables
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Procure-to-Pay
6 1 (0.30%) Oracle Receivables
6 1 (0.30%) SAP HR
6 1 (0.30%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
Cloud Services
1 63 (19.21%) Azure
2 62 (18.90%) AWS
3 30 (9.15%) Azure DevOps
4 22 (6.71%) Serverless
5 17 (5.18%) GCP
5 17 (5.18%) GitHub
6 15 (4.57%) AWS Lambda
7 13 (3.96%) Figma
8 9 (2.74%) Amazon S3
8 9 (2.74%) GitHub Actions
9 8 (2.44%) Amazon EC2
10 7 (2.13%) Amazon CloudWatch
10 7 (2.13%) Apigee
10 7 (2.13%) Dynamics 365
10 7 (2.13%) SaaS
11 6 (1.83%) AWS CloudFormation
11 6 (1.83%) Miro
12 5 (1.52%) AWS Fargate
12 5 (1.52%) Salesforce Service Cloud
12 5 (1.52%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.22%) Firewall
2 2 (0.61%) DNS
3 1 (0.30%) Converged Networks
3 1 (0.30%) Modbus
3 1 (0.30%) MQTT
3 1 (0.30%) SSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (3.96%) NoSQL
2 12 (3.66%) Data Warehouse
3 8 (2.44%) Data Lake
4 7 (2.13%) PostgreSQL
4 7 (2.13%) SQL Server
5 5 (1.52%) MongoDB
5 5 (1.52%) Relational Database
6 4 (1.22%) Amazon RDS
6 4 (1.22%) MySQL
6 4 (1.22%) Star Schema
7 3 (0.91%) DynamoDB
7 3 (0.91%) RDBMS
8 2 (0.61%) Amazon Aurora
8 2 (0.61%) Amazon Redshift
8 2 (0.61%) BigQuery
8 2 (0.61%) CockroachDB
8 2 (0.61%) Data Vault
8 2 (0.61%) Metadata
8 2 (0.61%) SAP BW
8 2 (0.61%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 67 (20.43%) JIRA
2 23 (7.01%) Jenkins
3 21 (6.40%) Git
4 12 (3.66%) GitLab
5 10 (3.05%) Selenium
6 9 (2.74%) REST Assured
7 8 (2.44%) Cypress.io
8 6 (1.83%) Postman
9 5 (1.52%) JUnit
10 4 (1.22%) Maven
11 3 (0.91%) Axure RP
11 3 (0.91%) Cucumber
11 3 (0.91%) TestNG
11 3 (0.91%) TestRail
12 2 (0.61%) Atlassian Bamboo
12 2 (0.61%) Gatling
12 2 (0.61%) Gradle
12 2 (0.61%) SonarLint
12 2 (0.61%) SonarQube
12 2 (0.61%) Zephyr
General
1 127 (38.72%) Social Skills
2 85 (25.91%) Finance
3 40 (12.20%) Analytical Skills
4 32 (9.76%) Banking
5 31 (9.45%) Public Sector
6 15 (4.57%) Marketing
7 14 (4.27%) Retail
8 13 (3.96%) Front Office
9 12 (3.66%) Presentation Skills
10 11 (3.35%) Influencing Skills
11 10 (3.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 9 (2.74%) Investment Banking
12 9 (2.74%) Legal
13 7 (2.13%) Organisational Skills
13 7 (2.13%) Telecoms
14 6 (1.83%) Documentation Skills
14 6 (1.83%) Electronics
15 5 (1.52%) Law
15 5 (1.52%) Manufacturing
16 4 (1.22%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 53 (16.16%) Product Owner
2 50 (15.24%) Analyst
3 43 (13.11%) Architect
4 39 (11.89%) Business Analyst
5 34 (10.37%) Senior
6 33 (10.06%) Developer
6 33 (10.06%) Lead
7 27 (8.23%) Scrum Master
8 15 (4.57%) Consultant
9 12 (3.66%) Solutions Architect
10 11 (3.35%) Designer
11 10 (3.05%) .NET Developer
11 10 (3.05%) C# Developer
11 10 (3.05%) Project Manager
11 10 (3.05%) Technical Architect
12 8 (2.44%) Data Analyst
12 8 (2.44%) Lead C# Developer
12 8 (2.44%) Lead Developer
12 8 (2.44%) Senior Developer
12 8 (2.44%) Tester
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 21 (6.40%) .NET
2 20 (6.10%) REST
3 16 (4.88%) RESTful
4 14 (4.27%) React
5 12 (3.66%) HTML
5 12 (3.66%) Node.js
6 11 (3.35%) .NET Core
6 11 (3.35%) CSS
7 10 (3.05%) Playwright
8 8 (2.44%) Middleware
9 7 (2.13%) SOAP
9 7 (2.13%) Swagger
10 6 (1.83%) .NET Framework
10 6 (1.83%) Kafka
10 6 (1.83%) Lightning Web Components
10 6 (1.83%) Spring Boot
11 5 (1.52%) Next.js
11 5 (1.52%) OAuth
11 5 (1.52%) OpenFin
11 5 (1.52%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 27 (8.23%) Cloud Native
2 11 (3.35%) Greenfield Project
3 10 (3.05%) Data Structures
3 10 (3.05%) Fixed Income
4 9 (2.74%) Onboarding
4 9 (2.74%) Virtual Team
5 7 (2.13%) Mobile App
6 6 (1.83%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.83%) Reinsurance
7 5 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
8 4 (1.22%) Derivative
8 4 (1.22%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 4 (1.22%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (0.91%) Credit Risk
9 3 (0.91%) Distributed Systems
9 3 (0.91%) PMI
9 3 (0.91%) Private Cloud
10 2 (0.61%) Algorithms
10 2 (0.61%) Enterprise Cloud
10 2 (0.61%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 10 (3.05%) Linux
2 9 (2.74%) Windows
3 5 (1.52%) Windows Server
4 4 (1.22%) Amazon Linux
4 4 (1.22%) Android
4 4 (1.22%) Apple iOS
5 2 (0.61%) Unix
5 2 (0.61%) Windows 10
5 2 (0.61%) Windows 7
5 2 (0.61%) Windows XP
6 1 (0.30%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
6 1 (0.30%) VMS
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2012
6 1 (0.30%) Windows Server 2016
Processes & Methodologies
1 216 (65.85%) Agile
2 91 (27.74%) Scrum
3 78 (23.78%) User Stories
4 77 (23.48%) DevOps
5 75 (22.87%) CI/CD
6 58 (17.68%) Stakeholder Management
7 56 (17.07%) Problem-Solving
8 53 (16.16%) Roadmaps
9 51 (15.55%) Continuous Improvement
10 50 (15.24%) Sprint Planning
11 45 (13.72%) Test Automation
12 42 (12.80%) Mentoring
13 41 (12.50%) User Experience
14 38 (11.59%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 36 (10.98%) Backlog Management
15 36 (10.98%) Product Backlog
16 34 (10.37%) Backlog Prioritisation
17 33 (10.06%) Software Engineering
18 32 (9.76%) Acceptance Criteria
18 32 (9.76%) Microservices
Programming Languages
1 39 (11.89%) SQL
2 37 (11.28%) Python
3 30 (9.15%) JavaScript
4 25 (7.62%) Java
5 18 (5.49%) C#
5 18 (5.49%) TypeScript
6 9 (2.74%) PowerShell
7 7 (2.13%) Apex Code
8 5 (1.52%) Bash
8 5 (1.52%) Rust
9 4 (1.22%) Go
10 3 (0.91%) Scala
11 2 (0.61%) FoxPro (VFP)
11 2 (0.61%) R
11 2 (0.61%) Ruby
11 2 (0.61%) Shell Script
12 1 (0.30%) Ada
12 1 (0.30%) PHP
12 1 (0.30%) T-SQL
12 1 (0.30%) VB.NET
Qualifications
1 36 (10.98%) Degree
2 30 (9.15%) Security Cleared
3 20 (6.10%) SC Cleared
4 14 (4.27%) Computer Science Degree
5 6 (1.83%) BPSS Clearance
5 6 (1.83%) ISTQB
5 6 (1.83%) Master's Degree
6 4 (1.22%) AWS Certification
6 4 (1.22%) CISSP
6 4 (1.22%) DV Cleared
7 3 (0.91%) CISM
7 3 (0.91%) CSPO
7 3 (0.91%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.61%) AWS Certified Solutions Architect
8 2 (0.61%) CBAP
8 2 (0.61%) CRISC
8 2 (0.61%) IIBA
9 1 (0.30%) CSSLP
9 1 (0.30%) GPEN
9 1 (0.30%) GWAPT
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 39 (11.89%) QA
2 20 (6.10%) Accessibility
3 12 (3.66%) GDPR
4 7 (2.13%) Data Quality
5 5 (1.52%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (1.22%) MiFID
7 3 (0.91%) California Consumer Privacy Act
7 3 (0.91%) HIPAA
7 3 (0.91%) ISO/IEC 27005
7 3 (0.91%) NIST
7 3 (0.91%) Sarbanes-Oxley
7 3 (0.91%) WCAG
8 2 (0.61%) NCSC
8 2 (0.61%) NIST 800
8 2 (0.61%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.61%) PMO
9 1 (0.30%) COBIT
9 1 (0.30%) GxP
9 1 (0.30%) PSD2
9 1 (0.30%) SLA
System Software
1 18 (5.49%) Docker
2 3 (0.91%) Virtual Machines
2 3 (0.91%) VMware Infrastructure
3 1 (0.30%) Hyper-V
Systems Management
1 21 (6.40%) Terraform
2 18 (5.49%) Kubernetes
3 7 (2.13%) Ansible
4 6 (1.83%) Single Sign-On
5 4 (1.22%) HP ALM
5 4 (1.22%) NetBackup
6 2 (0.61%) Grafana
6 2 (0.61%) Progress Chef
6 2 (0.61%) Prometheus
7 1 (0.30%) Argo
7 1 (0.30%) HP Quality Center
7 1 (0.30%) Netcool
7 1 (0.30%) Puppet
7 1 (0.30%) SCCM
Vendors
1 27 (8.23%) Microsoft
2 19 (5.79%) SAP
3 18 (5.49%) Salesforce
4 12 (3.66%) Oracle
5 10 (3.05%) Red Hat
6 8 (2.44%) Databricks
6 8 (2.44%) VMware
7 6 (1.83%) Adobe
7 6 (1.83%) Google
7 6 (1.83%) ServiceNow
8 4 (1.22%) Charles River
8 4 (1.22%) Commvault
8 4 (1.22%) CyberArk
8 4 (1.22%) HP
8 4 (1.22%) Palantir
8 4 (1.22%) Veritas
9 3 (0.91%) Bloomberg
9 3 (0.91%) Okta
9 3 (0.91%) Progress
9 3 (0.91%) Splunk