Product Ownership Contracts in Scotland

Product Ownership
UK > Scotland

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 52 68 45
Rank change year-on-year +16 -23 +1
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 77 102 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 3.58% 3.77% 5.24%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 10.71% 10.36% 15.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 79 150
10th Percentile - £397 £406
25th Percentile £400 £415 £415
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +13.96%
75th Percentile £544 £563 £550
90th Percentile £590 £633 £619
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £42.50
Median hourly rate - £47.73 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year - +11.00% -
75th Percentile - - £43.50
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.44 £70.00 £53.63
% change year-on-year -17.94% +30.54% -4.67%

All Generic Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 719 985 1,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 33.43% 36.44% 33.80%
Number of daily rates quoted 430 667 798
10th Percentile £200 £231 £263
25th Percentile £363 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £461 £488 £475
Median % change year-on-year -5.38% +2.63% +11.76%
75th Percentile £575 £551 £559
90th Percentile £651 £650 £638
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 25 21
10th Percentile £12.49 - £15.63
25th Percentile £16.25 £10.63 £20.00
Median hourly rate £18.13 £13.16 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +37.77% -69.40% -5.49%
75th Percentile £35.00 £22.63 £52.50
90th Percentile £60.10 £51.34 £57.50
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 Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in Scotland

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in Scotland

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

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

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in Scotland

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in Scotland

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in Scotland

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland 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
Edinburgh +26 30 £475 +8.94% 7
Glasgow +8 29 £400 -14.67% 14
South Lanarkshire -3 7 £575 -4.96%
West Lothian - 1 - -
Product Ownership
UK

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 5 (6.49%) Confluence
2 3 (3.90%) Microsoft Exchange
3 2 (2.60%) SharePoint
4 1 (1.30%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 10 (12.99%) Sketch
2 9 (11.69%) Microsoft Excel
3 6 (7.79%) Microsoft Office
4 5 (6.49%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 3 (3.90%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 21 (27.27%) Azure
2 10 (12.99%) Figma
3 9 (11.69%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (7.79%) AWS
5 5 (6.49%) Entra ID
6 4 (5.19%) Power Platform
7 3 (3.90%) SaaS
8 1 (1.30%) Amazon EKS
8 1 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
8 1 (1.30%) IaaS
8 1 (1.30%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.30%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.60%) Broadband
2 1 (1.30%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (12.99%) MongoDB
2 3 (3.90%) Power BI
3 2 (2.60%) DB2
3 2 (2.60%) Relational Database
3 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
4 1 (1.30%) Metadata
4 1 (1.30%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 7 (9.09%) JIRA
2 3 (3.90%) Jenkins
3 2 (2.60%) CircleCI
3 2 (2.60%) GitLab
4 1 (1.30%) Git
4 1 (1.30%) Gradle
4 1 (1.30%) Maven
General
1 24 (31.17%) Public Sector
2 19 (24.68%) Social Skills
3 11 (14.29%) Finance
4 7 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 7 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (2.60%) Banking
5 2 (2.60%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 2 (2.60%) Law
6 1 (1.30%) Documentation Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (1.30%) Retail Banking
6 1 (1.30%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 18 (23.38%) Designer
2 15 (19.48%) UX Designer
3 10 (12.99%) Senior
4 9 (11.69%) Analyst
4 9 (11.69%) Product Owner
5 7 (9.09%) Developer
6 6 (7.79%) .NET Developer
6 6 (7.79%) Architect
6 6 (7.79%) Change Manager
6 6 (7.79%) Senior .NET Developer
6 6 (7.79%) Senior Developer
7 5 (6.49%) IT Change Manager
7 5 (6.49%) IT Manager
7 5 (6.49%) Lead
7 5 (6.49%) React Developer
7 5 (6.49%) Senior React Developer
8 4 (5.19%) Cybersecurity Analyst
8 4 (5.19%) Security Advisor
8 4 (5.19%) Security Analyst
9 3 (3.90%) Exchange Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 17 (22.08%) React
2 8 (10.39%) .NET
3 4 (5.19%) OpenID
3 4 (5.19%) SAML
4 2 (2.60%) ADO
4 2 (2.60%) Java EE
4 2 (2.60%) JSON
4 2 (2.60%) Spring
Miscellaneous
1 7 (9.09%) Legacy Applications
1 7 (9.09%) Wiki
2 3 (3.90%) Cyber Threat
2 3 (3.90%) Self-Motivation
3 2 (2.60%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (2.60%) Security Posture
4 1 (1.30%) iPad
4 1 (1.30%) iPhone
Operating Systems
1 11 (14.29%) Apple iOS
2 10 (12.99%) Android
3 6 (7.79%) Linux
3 6 (7.79%) Windows
4 3 (3.90%) Unix
5 1 (1.30%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (37.66%) Agile
2 23 (29.87%) User Experience
3 16 (20.78%) User Stories
4 15 (19.48%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
4 15 (19.48%) UX Design
5 13 (16.88%) Scrum
6 12 (15.58%) Roadmaps
7 11 (14.29%) DevOps
8 10 (12.99%) Problem-Solving
8 10 (12.99%) Visualisation
8 10 (12.99%) Workshop Facilitation
9 9 (11.69%) Prototyping
10 8 (10.39%) Continuous Improvement
10 8 (10.39%) Cybersecurity
11 7 (9.09%) Change Management
11 7 (9.09%) Code Quality
11 7 (9.09%) Knowledge Transfer
12 6 (7.79%) Mentoring
12 6 (7.79%) Stakeholder Map
12 6 (7.79%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.29%) Python
2 5 (6.49%) SQL
3 4 (5.19%) Java
4 3 (3.90%) Shell Script
5 2 (2.60%) PowerShell
6 1 (1.30%) Bash
6 1 (1.30%) C#
6 1 (1.30%) Groovy
6 1 (1.30%) Ruby
Qualifications
1 13 (16.88%) Security Cleared
2 10 (12.99%) SC Cleared
3 6 (7.79%) Degree
4 1 (1.30%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (11.69%) Disclosure Scotland
2 5 (6.49%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.19%) Cyber Essentials
3 4 (5.19%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 4 (5.19%) NIST
4 3 (3.90%) PMO
5 1 (1.30%) Data Quality
5 1 (1.30%) NCSC
System Software
1 7 (9.09%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 4 (5.19%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (1.30%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (1.30%) Ansible
2 1 (1.30%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.30%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (7.79%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.19%) Atlassian
2 4 (5.19%) CrowdStrike
2 4 (5.19%) Okta
2 4 (5.19%) Zscaler
3 2 (2.60%) Greenplum
4 1 (1.30%) Adobe
4 1 (1.30%) Apple
4 1 (1.30%) Cadence
4 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
4 1 (1.30%) TSYS