Product Ownership Contracts in England

Product Ownership
UK > England

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies advertised in England. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Ownership over the 6 months to 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period over the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 92 67 57
Rank change year-on-year -25 -10 +16
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 878 1,618 2,874
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 2.41% 3.36% 4.09%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.89% 9.97% 12.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 624 1,145 1,956
10th Percentile £405 £425 £413
25th Percentile £475 £500 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £559 £565 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.02% +2.73% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £745 £743 £725
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 11 20 27
10th Percentile £51.25 £53.28 £25.30
25th Percentile £57.33 £61.50 £42.00
Median hourly rate £57.44 £72.50 £62.15
Median % change year-on-year -20.77% +16.65% +8.09%
75th Percentile £85.00 £86.65 £75.39
90th Percentile - £90.00 £85.00
UK median hourly rate £57.44 £70.00 £53.63
% change year-on-year -17.94% +30.54% -4.67%

All Generic Skills
England

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 advertised in England with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 11,131 16,221 23,822
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 30.59% 33.66% 33.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,299 11,282 16,987
10th Percentile £268 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £571 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.64% +3.77% +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £695 £675
90th Percentile £800 £800 £775
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 810 575 635
10th Percentile £12.25 £9.80 £14.25
25th Percentile £15.14 £10.63 £17.42
Median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £27.00
Median % change year-on-year +52.15% -16.72% +2.99%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.50 £49.67
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £65.77
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +4.05%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Product Ownership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in England

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in England.

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in England

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in England

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in England.

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in England

Product Ownership
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Product Ownership in England over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Ownership in England

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 16 May 2024. 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
London -4 551 £575 -4.17% 177
South East -38 119 £625 +13.64% 71
North of England -21 84 £533 -3.18% 80
North West -6 53 £550 -4.35% 41
South West -44 46 £550 - 53
Midlands -2 41 £550 +18.92% 62
West Midlands +6 33 £563 +2.27% 48
Yorkshire -23 25 £488 -9.72% 27
East of England -23 16 £428 -18.57% 15
North East +19 10 £454 - 13
East Midlands -2 6 £424 -5.83% 14
Product Ownership
UK

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 41 (4.67%) Confluence
2 16 (1.82%) CMS
3 7 (0.80%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 4 (0.46%) Oracle Workflow
5 3 (0.34%) SharePoint
6 2 (0.23%) Apache
6 2 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
6 2 (0.23%) Apache Solr
6 2 (0.23%) nginx
6 2 (0.23%) OpenStack
6 2 (0.23%) WordPress
7 1 (0.11%) Appian
7 1 (0.11%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.11%) Camunda
7 1 (0.11%) CICS
7 1 (0.11%) Cloud Foundry
7 1 (0.11%) Drupal
7 1 (0.11%) Tornado
Applications
1 21 (2.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 17 (1.94%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 14 (1.59%) Microsoft Office
4 9 (1.03%) MS Visio
5 7 (0.80%) Trello
6 5 (0.57%) Adobe XD
6 5 (0.57%) InVision
6 5 (0.57%) Sketch
7 4 (0.46%) Chatbot
7 4 (0.46%) Microsoft Project
8 2 (0.23%) Adobe Creative Suite
8 2 (0.23%) Adobe Illustrator
8 2 (0.23%) Photoshop
8 2 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 18 (2.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 12 (1.37%) Aladdin
3 8 (0.91%) Salesforce CRM
4 6 (0.68%) Loan IQ
5 5 (0.57%) SAP S/4HANA
6 4 (0.46%) SAP HR
6 4 (0.46%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
7 3 (0.34%) Endur
7 3 (0.34%) SAP QM
8 2 (0.23%) Remedy ITSM
8 2 (0.23%) Shopify
8 2 (0.23%) Softmar
8 2 (0.23%) VisionPLUS
9 1 (0.11%) Distributed Ledger
9 1 (0.11%) Oracle ERP
9 1 (0.11%) SAP CO
9 1 (0.11%) SAP FI
9 1 (0.11%) SAP FI/CO
Cloud Services
1 217 (24.72%) Azure
2 104 (11.85%) Azure DevOps
3 81 (9.23%) AWS
4 47 (5.35%) Entra ID
5 44 (5.01%) Power Platform
5 44 (5.01%) Serverless
6 33 (3.76%) Azure Service Bus
7 31 (3.53%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 29 (3.30%) Azure Monitor
9 28 (3.19%) Azure Data Factory
10 26 (2.96%) Azure Functions
11 24 (2.73%) Dynamics 365
12 21 (2.39%) SaaS
13 20 (2.28%) GCP
13 20 (2.28%) GitHub
14 17 (1.94%) Figma
14 17 (1.94%) PaaS
15 11 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
16 10 (1.14%) Azure Stack
16 10 (1.14%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 24 (2.73%) Firewall
2 15 (1.71%) VPN
3 5 (0.57%) Broadband
4 4 (0.46%) DNS
4 4 (0.46%) LAN
4 4 (0.46%) WAN
5 3 (0.34%) DMZ
5 3 (0.34%) FTP
5 3 (0.34%) Wireless
6 2 (0.23%) AMQP
6 2 (0.23%) DHCP
6 2 (0.23%) HTTP
6 2 (0.23%) Unified Communications
6 2 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
7 1 (0.11%) 3G
7 1 (0.11%) 4G
7 1 (0.11%) DSL
7 1 (0.11%) Intranet
7 1 (0.11%) SMS
7 1 (0.11%) Software-Defined Networking
Database & Business Intelligence
1 63 (7.18%) SQL Server
2 43 (4.90%) Power BI
3 39 (4.44%) NoSQL
4 23 (2.62%) Data Warehouse
5 15 (1.71%) Data Lake
5 15 (1.71%) Relational Database
6 14 (1.59%) PostgreSQL
7 11 (1.25%) Redis
8 10 (1.14%) Metadata
9 9 (1.03%) Azure SQL Database
9 9 (1.03%) Snowflake Schema
10 8 (0.91%) Big Data
11 6 (0.68%) DynamoDB
11 6 (0.68%) RDBMS
12 5 (0.57%) MongoDB
13 4 (0.46%) Amazon RDS
13 4 (0.46%) GIS
13 4 (0.46%) SAP HANA
13 4 (0.46%) Siebel EIM
13 4 (0.46%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 81 (9.23%) JIRA
2 46 (5.24%) Git
3 27 (3.08%) Jenkins
4 24 (2.73%) Selenium
5 16 (1.82%) Postman
6 13 (1.48%) TeamCity
7 12 (1.37%) Bitbucket
8 11 (1.25%) SpecFlow
9 9 (1.03%) Artifactory
9 9 (1.03%) JMeter
9 9 (1.03%) JUnit
10 8 (0.91%) WebDriver
11 7 (0.80%) GitLab
12 6 (0.68%) Axure RP
13 5 (0.57%) Eclipse
13 5 (0.57%) PyCharm
13 5 (0.57%) Visual Studio
14 4 (0.46%) CircleCI
14 4 (0.46%) Team Foundation Server
14 4 (0.46%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 269 (30.64%) Social Skills
2 226 (25.74%) Finance
3 120 (13.67%) Analytical Skills
4 89 (10.14%) Banking
5 82 (9.34%) Public Sector
6 49 (5.58%) Back Office
7 47 (5.35%) Marketing
8 43 (4.90%) Investment Banking
9 40 (4.56%) Front Office
10 34 (3.87%) Influencing Skills
10 34 (3.87%) Retail
11 31 (3.53%) Presentation Skills
12 28 (3.19%) Telecoms
13 25 (2.85%) Manufacturing
14 21 (2.39%) Pharmaceutical
15 19 (2.16%) Retail Banking
16 15 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
17 14 (1.59%) Legal
18 13 (1.48%) Corporate Banking
19 11 (1.25%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 212 (24.15%) Product Owner
2 149 (16.97%) Analyst
3 145 (16.51%) Senior
4 126 (14.35%) Developer
5 124 (14.12%) Business Analyst
6 106 (12.07%) Architect
7 70 (7.97%) Lead
8 62 (7.06%) Product Manager
9 42 (4.78%) Scrum Master
10 39 (4.44%) Senior Developer
11 35 (3.99%) Azure Developer
11 35 (3.99%) Solutions Architect
12 33 (3.76%) Finance Business Analyst
12 33 (3.76%) Financial Analyst
12 33 (3.76%) Senior Product Owner
13 30 (3.42%) Senior Analyst
14 28 (3.19%) Product Analyst
14 28 (3.19%) Technical Leader
15 27 (3.08%) Data Business Analyst
15 27 (3.08%) Product Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 75 (8.54%) .NET
2 61 (6.95%) XML
3 59 (6.72%) React
4 44 (5.01%) HTML
5 42 (4.78%) CSS
6 32 (3.64%) .NET Core
6 32 (3.64%) REST
7 29 (3.30%) Node.js
8 25 (2.85%) .NET Framework
9 24 (2.73%) AngularJS
10 19 (2.16%) ASP.NET
10 19 (2.16%) JSON
11 17 (1.94%) RESTful
12 13 (1.48%) Web Services
13 12 (1.37%) ADO
13 12 (1.37%) jQuery
13 12 (1.37%) Lightning Web Components
14 10 (1.14%) Kafka
15 9 (1.03%) ASP.NET Core
16 7 (0.80%) GraphQL
Miscellaneous
1 41 (4.67%) Derivative
2 39 (4.44%) Fixed Income
3 38 (4.33%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 33 (3.76%) Hedge funds
4 33 (3.76%) Mobile App
5 31 (3.53%) Equities
6 18 (2.05%) Management Information System
7 16 (1.82%) Data Structures
8 15 (1.71%) Onboarding
8 15 (1.71%) Public Cloud
8 15 (1.71%) Reference Data
9 12 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
10 11 (1.25%) Data Protection Act
10 11 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
10 11 (1.25%) Virtual Team
11 9 (1.03%) Greenfield Project
11 9 (1.03%) Reinsurance
12 8 (0.91%) Cloud Native
12 8 (0.91%) Taxonomies
13 7 (0.80%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 34 (3.87%) Android
2 30 (3.42%) Apple iOS
3 26 (2.96%) Windows
4 23 (2.62%) Linux
5 20 (2.28%) Unix
6 15 (1.71%) Windows Server
7 2 (0.23%) Mac OS X
Processes & Methodologies
1 580 (66.06%) Agile
2 240 (27.33%) Scrum
3 218 (24.83%) DevOps
4 202 (23.01%) Roadmaps
5 158 (18.00%) User Stories
6 153 (17.43%) Problem-Solving
7 134 (15.26%) CI/CD
8 123 (14.01%) Product Backlog
9 99 (11.28%) Continuous Improvement
10 97 (11.05%) Stakeholder Management
11 89 (10.14%) Analytics
12 87 (9.91%) User Experience
13 82 (9.34%) Acceptance Criteria
14 79 (9.00%) Product Management
15 77 (8.77%) Product Roadmap
15 77 (8.77%) Test Automation
16 73 (8.31%) Microservices
17 66 (7.52%) Data Modelling
18 65 (7.40%) Project Management
18 65 (7.40%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 122 (13.90%) SQL
2 103 (11.73%) Python
3 78 (8.88%) C#
4 65 (7.40%) JavaScript
5 64 (7.29%) Java
6 50 (5.69%) PowerShell
7 37 (4.21%) TypeScript
8 34 (3.87%) Bicep
9 11 (1.25%) Apex Code
9 11 (1.25%) Kotlin
10 10 (1.14%) C
11 8 (0.91%) Go
12 7 (0.80%) Groovy
13 6 (0.68%) C++
14 4 (0.46%) PHP
14 4 (0.46%) SOQL
15 3 (0.34%) T-SQL
16 2 (0.23%) PL/SQL
16 2 (0.23%) Scala
16 2 (0.23%) Shell Script
Qualifications
1 86 (9.79%) Security Cleared
2 68 (7.74%) Degree
3 54 (6.15%) SC Cleared
4 31 (3.53%) DV Cleared
5 9 (1.03%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (0.91%) Master's Degree
7 7 (0.80%) CSPO
8 5 (0.57%) CISM
8 5 (0.57%) CISSP
9 4 (0.46%) APMP
9 4 (0.46%) Azure Certification
9 4 (0.46%) MBA
9 4 (0.46%) Numerate Degree
9 4 (0.46%) PMP
9 4 (0.46%) TOGAF Certification
10 3 (0.34%) AWS Certification
10 3 (0.34%) CBAP
11 2 (0.23%) CISA
11 2 (0.23%) ISEB
11 2 (0.23%) ISTQB
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 79 (9.00%) QA
2 27 (3.08%) Accessibility
3 22 (2.51%) Data Quality
4 19 (2.16%) PCI DSS
5 16 (1.82%) GDPR
6 14 (1.59%) WCAG
7 12 (1.37%) PMO
8 7 (0.80%) NIST
9 5 (0.57%) Good Clinical Practice
9 5 (0.57%) GxP
10 4 (0.46%) Cyber Essentials
10 4 (0.46%) ISO 20022
10 4 (0.46%) Software Quality Assurance
11 3 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
12 2 (0.23%) NIST 800
13 1 (0.11%) Dodd-Frank
13 1 (0.11%) GRC
13 1 (0.11%) ISO 31000
13 1 (0.11%) MiFID
13 1 (0.11%) NCSC
System Software
1 62 (7.06%) Active Directory
2 28 (3.19%) Docker
3 2 (0.23%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.23%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 31 (3.53%) Kubernetes
2 22 (2.51%) Ansible
2 22 (2.51%) Terraform
3 7 (0.80%) Single Sign-On
4 5 (0.57%) Puppet
5 2 (0.23%) Grafana
5 2 (0.23%) OPNET
5 2 (0.23%) PowerCLI
5 2 (0.23%) Prometheus
5 2 (0.23%) Rundeck
6 1 (0.11%) AppManager
6 1 (0.11%) HP Quality Center
6 1 (0.11%) Matomo
6 1 (0.11%) Rancher
Vendors
1 130 (14.81%) Microsoft
2 43 (4.90%) Salesforce
3 30 (3.42%) SAP
4 23 (2.62%) Google
5 22 (2.51%) Adobe
6 15 (1.71%) Bloomberg
6 15 (1.71%) Oracle
7 12 (1.37%) BISAM
7 12 (1.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 11 (1.25%) ServiceNow
9 10 (1.14%) Splunk
10 8 (0.91%) Atlassian
11 6 (0.68%) Apple
11 6 (0.68%) CA Agile Central
11 6 (0.68%) MuleSoft
12 5 (0.57%) Centrify
12 5 (0.57%) CyberArk
12 5 (0.57%) Databricks
13 4 (0.46%) Sparx
13 4 (0.46%) Workday