Product Ownership Contract Job Trends in Yorkshire

Product Ownership
England > Yorkshire

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in Yorkshire. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 11 January 2026, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 46 68 70
Rank change year-on-year +22 +2 -11
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 87 14 34
As % of all contract jobs in Yorkshire 4.65% 1.35% 1.90%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 12.61% 3.92% 7.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 10 22
10th Percentile £402 £476 £400
25th Percentile £463 £508 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £492 £600 £521
Median % change year-on-year -18.00% +15.27% -2.02%
75th Percentile £534 £686 £572
90th Percentile £575 £729 £623
England median daily rate £525 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -8.70% - +4.07%

All Generic Skills
Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 690 357 471
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire 36.90% 34.53% 26.39%
Number of daily rates quoted 428 222 288
10th Percentile £316 £180 £275
25th Percentile £412 £300 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £488 £450
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +8.33% -14.29%
75th Percentile £550 £587 £575
90th Percentile £625 £700 £629
England median daily rate £513 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -6.82% - -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 6 25
10th Percentile £14.25 £13.49 £11.01
25th Percentile £14.90 £20.48 £13.17
Median hourly rate £21.30 £38.75 £17.50
Median % change year-on-year -45.03% +121.43% +78.57%
75th Percentile £56.63 £42.25 £22.75
90th Percentile £57.25 £69.57 £23.75
England median hourly rate £28.56 £37.50 £37.63
% change year-on-year -23.83% -0.33% +50.50%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in Yorkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Product Ownership relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Yorkshire.

Product Ownership job vacancy trend in Yorkshire

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Trend in Yorkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Product Ownership.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Yorkshire citing Product Ownership

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in Yorkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in Yorkshire over the 6 months to 11 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in Yorkshire

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in Yorkshire

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 Yorkshire region over the 6 months to 11 January 2026. 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 Yorkshire -13 49 £492 -18.00% 8
West Yorkshire +11 34 £525 -19.23% 7
North Yorkshire +6 3 - - 2
Product Ownership
England

Product Ownership
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Yorkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 18 (20.69%) Confluence
2 1 (1.15%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.15%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (3.45%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (2.30%) Oracle Payroll
Cloud Services
1 18 (20.69%) Azure
2 16 (18.39%) AWS
3 14 (16.09%) GCP
4 9 (10.34%) CloudBees
4 9 (10.34%) OpenShift
5 5 (5.75%) GitHub
6 3 (3.45%) Cohesity
7 2 (2.30%) Cloud Composer
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon ECR
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon ECS
8 1 (1.15%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.15%) Apigee
8 1 (1.15%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.15%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (1.15%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.15%) IaaS
8 1 (1.15%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.15%) PaaS
8 1 (1.15%) SaaS
8 1 (1.15%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.30%) BigQuery
1 2 (2.30%) Cloud Spanner
1 2 (2.30%) MongoDB
1 2 (2.30%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.30%) Relational Database
2 1 (1.15%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.15%) MySQL
2 1 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.15%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 19 (21.84%) JIRA
2 13 (14.94%) Jenkins
3 11 (12.64%) GitLab
4 6 (6.90%) Git
5 4 (4.60%) Selenium
6 3 (3.45%) JUnit
6 3 (3.45%) TestNG
7 2 (2.30%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.30%) SonarQube
8 1 (1.15%) Appium
8 1 (1.15%) Bundler
8 1 (1.15%) Cucumber
8 1 (1.15%) ESLint
8 1 (1.15%) Jasmine
8 1 (1.15%) Karma Test Runner
8 1 (1.15%) Maven
8 1 (1.15%) Postman
8 1 (1.15%) webpack
General
1 37 (42.53%) Social Skills
2 23 (26.44%) Finance
3 20 (22.99%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (13.79%) Public Sector
5 10 (11.49%) Banking
6 6 (6.90%) Telecoms
7 4 (4.60%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.45%) Digital Health
8 3 (3.45%) Legal
9 1 (1.15%) Front Office
9 1 (1.15%) Military
9 1 (1.15%) Retail
Job Titles
1 21 (24.14%) Product Owner
2 12 (13.79%) Automation Engineer
3 9 (10.34%) Data Protection Engineer
4 8 (9.20%) Data Engineer
4 8 (9.20%) Senior
5 7 (8.05%) Lead
5 7 (8.05%) Scrum Master
6 6 (6.90%) Product Manager
7 5 (5.75%) Architect
7 5 (5.75%) Design Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Voice Design Engineer
7 5 (5.75%) Voice Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Cloud Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Integration Engineer
8 4 (4.60%) Project Manager
9 3 (3.45%) Analyst
9 3 (3.45%) Consultant
9 3 (3.45%) Developer
9 3 (3.45%) QA Engineer
9 3 (3.45%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (8.05%) RESTful
2 6 (6.90%) Spring
3 3 (3.45%) AngularJS
3 3 (3.45%) Hibernate
3 3 (3.45%) React
3 3 (3.45%) Spring Boot
4 2 (2.30%) .NET
4 2 (2.30%) CSS
4 2 (2.30%) Elastic Stack
4 2 (2.30%) GraphQL
4 2 (2.30%) HTML
4 2 (2.30%) Jest
4 2 (2.30%) LangChain
4 2 (2.30%) LangGraph
5 1 (1.15%) Enzyme
5 1 (1.15%) FastAPI
5 1 (1.15%) FHIR
5 1 (1.15%) gRPC
5 1 (1.15%) PySpark
5 1 (1.15%) WebdriverIO
Miscellaneous
1 14 (16.09%) Onboarding
2 7 (8.05%) Hybrid Cloud
3 5 (5.75%) Cloud Native
4 4 (4.60%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (3.45%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (2.30%) NHS
7 1 (1.15%) Data Structures
7 1 (1.15%) Fixed Income
7 1 (1.15%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.45%) Linux
2 2 (2.30%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 45 (51.72%) Agile
2 36 (41.38%) Roadmaps
3 34 (39.08%) CI/CD
4 31 (35.63%) DevOps
5 29 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
5 29 (33.33%) Scrum
6 28 (32.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 28 (32.18%) User Stories
7 27 (31.03%) Test Automation
8 26 (29.89%) Stakeholder Management
9 22 (25.29%) Product Backlog
10 19 (21.84%) Decision-Making
10 19 (21.84%) Sprint Retrospective
11 18 (20.69%) Backlog Refinement
12 17 (19.54%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 16 (18.39%) Data Protection
13 16 (18.39%) Product Vision
14 15 (17.24%) Backlog Management
14 15 (17.24%) Risk Management
15 13 (14.94%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 15 (17.24%) Python
2 10 (11.49%) Bash
3 6 (6.90%) Java
4 2 (2.30%) JavaScript
4 2 (2.30%) SQL
4 2 (2.30%) TypeScript
5 1 (1.15%) C#
5 1 (1.15%) FoxPro (VFP)
Qualifications
1 5 (5.75%) BPSS Clearance
1 5 (5.75%) Security Cleared
2 2 (2.30%) CSPO
2 2 (2.30%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.90%) QA
2 4 (4.60%) Data Quality
3 3 (3.45%) GRC
4 2 (2.30%) Accessibility
5 1 (1.15%) Actionable Recommendations
System Software
1 5 (5.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 14 (16.09%) Ansible
2 12 (13.79%) NetBackup
3 11 (12.64%) Kubernetes
4 4 (4.60%) Terraform
5 3 (3.45%) Puppet
6 2 (2.30%) Grafana
6 2 (2.30%) Prometheus
7 1 (1.15%) HP Fortify
Vendors
1 14 (16.09%) Microsoft
2 12 (13.79%) Commvault
2 12 (13.79%) Red Hat
3 9 (10.34%) Veritas
4 4 (4.60%) Google
5 2 (2.30%) Oracle
5 2 (2.30%) Salesforce
6 1 (1.15%) MarketAxess
6 1 (1.15%) Progress
6 1 (1.15%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.15%) Tradeweb