Product Ownership Contracts in the South East

Product Ownership
England > South East

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 81 43 64
Rank change year-on-year -38 +21 +4
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 119 257 289
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 2.19% 4.60% 3.78%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.84% 13.44% 11.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 85 188 184
10th Percentile £435 £359 £406
25th Percentile £515 £466 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% +4.76% +14.75%
75th Percentile £738 £650 £625
90th Percentile - £700 £675
England median daily rate £559 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -1.02% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 3
10th Percentile - £65.53 £58.13
25th Percentile - £71.56 £59.64
Median hourly rate - £83.25 £62.15
Median % change year-on-year - +33.95% +143.73%
75th Percentile - £95.06 -
90th Percentile - £101.18 -
England median hourly rate £57.44 £72.50 £62.15
% change year-on-year -20.77% +16.65% +8.09%

All Generic Skills
South East

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 the South East with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,517 1,912 2,578
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 27.89% 34.22% 33.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 918 1,306 1,662
10th Percentile £205 £213 £220
25th Percentile £363 £374 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% +8.70%
75th Percentile £608 £638 £600
90th Percentile £691 £723 £675
England median daily rate £550 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +3.77% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 147 86 118
10th Percentile £11.71 £17.92 £13.46
25th Percentile £18.00 £19.00 £16.41
Median hourly rate £47.50 £50.00 £21.45
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% +133.15% -34.02%
75th Percentile £61.30 £67.31 £44.74
90th Percentile £65.00 £75.00 £61.50
England median hourly rate £34.21 £22.49 £27.00
% change year-on-year +52.15% -16.72% +2.99%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Job postings citing Product Ownership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the South East

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in the South East

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in the South East

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in the South East

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East 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
Thames Valley -51 62 £575 +4.55% 39
Berkshire -39 50 £625 +19.05% 20
Hampshire -1 36 £725 +38.10% 14
Surrey -6 11 £675 +12.50% 8
Buckinghamshire -13 10 £550 -8.33% 13
West Sussex +6 7 £500 -13.79% 1
Oxfordshire +9 2 £488 +3.72% 6
East Sussex -1 2 £775 +19.23% 3
Kent +7 1 £825 +52.78% 4
Product Ownership
England

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 4 (3.36%) Confluence
2 2 (1.68%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 2 (1.68%) CMS
3 1 (0.84%) Apache Solr
3 1 (0.84%) CICS
3 1 (0.84%) Drupal
3 1 (0.84%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (1.68%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.84%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.84%) MS Visio
2 1 (0.84%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.68%) SAP S/4HANA
1 2 (1.68%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 28 (23.53%) Azure
2 21 (17.65%) Azure Data Factory
3 17 (14.29%) Azure Monitor
4 16 (13.45%) Azure Functions
4 16 (13.45%) Serverless
5 15 (12.61%) Azure Cosmos DB
6 13 (10.92%) Entra ID
7 6 (5.04%) Azure DevOps
7 6 (5.04%) Figma
8 5 (4.20%) PaaS
9 4 (3.36%) Azure Service Bus
9 4 (3.36%) Power Platform
10 3 (2.52%) SaaS
11 2 (1.68%) AWS
11 2 (1.68%) Azure AKS
11 2 (1.68%) Azure API Management
11 2 (1.68%) Azure Logic Apps
11 2 (1.68%) Dynamics 365
11 2 (1.68%) Miro
12 1 (0.84%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.68%) Broadband
2 1 (0.84%) 3G
2 1 (0.84%) 4G
2 1 (0.84%) 5G
2 1 (0.84%) ATM
2 1 (0.84%) DSL
2 1 (0.84%) Intranet
2 1 (0.84%) LAN
2 1 (0.84%) Network Security
2 1 (0.84%) SMS
2 1 (0.84%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 17 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 6 (5.04%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (3.36%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (3.36%) Power BI
4 2 (1.68%) Redis
4 2 (1.68%) Relational Database
5 1 (0.84%) Couchbase
5 1 (0.84%) DB2
5 1 (0.84%) DynamoDB
5 1 (0.84%) Metadata
5 1 (0.84%) MySQL
5 1 (0.84%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (0.84%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.84%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 17 (14.29%) Git
2 14 (11.76%) JIRA
3 3 (2.52%) Selenium
4 2 (1.68%) Postman
5 1 (0.84%) CircleCI
5 1 (0.84%) Gradle
5 1 (0.84%) JUnit
General
1 47 (39.50%) Social Skills
2 44 (36.97%) Analytical Skills
3 23 (19.33%) Finance
4 12 (10.08%) Marketing
5 9 (7.56%) Billing
6 8 (6.72%) Telecoms
7 5 (4.20%) Pharmaceutical
7 5 (4.20%) Retail
8 4 (3.36%) Banking
8 4 (3.36%) Manufacturing
9 3 (2.52%) Legal
9 3 (2.52%) Organisational Skills
10 2 (1.68%) French Language
10 2 (1.68%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.68%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.68%) Public Sector
11 1 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
11 1 (0.84%) General Ledger
11 1 (0.84%) Local Government
11 1 (0.84%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 30 (25.21%) Architect
2 27 (22.69%) Solutions Architect
3 22 (18.49%) Java Architect
3 22 (18.49%) Java Solutions Architect
4 21 (17.65%) Product Owner
5 19 (15.97%) Developer
6 17 (14.29%) Azure Developer
7 15 (12.61%) Full Stack Developer
8 13 (10.92%) Analyst
9 10 (8.40%) Business Analyst
10 6 (5.04%) Designer
10 6 (5.04%) Full Stack Python Developer
10 6 (5.04%) Product Designer
10 6 (5.04%) Python Developer
10 6 (5.04%) Scrum Master
11 5 (4.20%) Lead
11 5 (4.20%) Technical Leader
12 4 (3.36%) Azure Data Engineer
12 4 (3.36%) C# Developer
12 4 (3.36%) Delivery Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (12.61%) React
2 4 (3.36%) HTML
2 4 (3.36%) XML
3 2 (1.68%) .NET
3 2 (1.68%) OpenAPI
3 2 (1.68%) REST
3 2 (1.68%) RESTful
3 2 (1.68%) Swagger
4 1 (0.84%) .NET Framework
4 1 (0.84%) Android Jetpack
4 1 (0.84%) Dagger
4 1 (0.84%) Jetpack Compose
4 1 (0.84%) Ktor
4 1 (0.84%) Laravel
4 1 (0.84%) OkHttp
4 1 (0.84%) RAML
4 1 (0.84%) Retrofit
4 1 (0.84%) RxJava
4 1 (0.84%) Smarty
4 1 (0.84%) WireMock
Miscellaneous
1 4 (3.36%) IoT
1 4 (3.36%) Smart Meter
2 3 (2.52%) Management Information System
2 3 (2.52%) Virtual Team
3 2 (1.68%) Cyberattack
3 2 (1.68%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (1.68%) Mobile App
4 1 (0.84%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.84%) EPoS
4 1 (0.84%) FMCG
4 1 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 1 (0.84%) Graphic Design
4 1 (0.84%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.84%) Legacy Applications
4 1 (0.84%) Legacy Code
4 1 (0.84%) Taxonomies
4 1 (0.84%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 8 (6.72%) Linux
2 6 (5.04%) Windows
3 4 (3.36%) Unix
4 2 (1.68%) Android
5 1 (0.84%) Apple iOS
5 1 (0.84%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 60 (50.42%) Agile
2 36 (30.25%) Scrum
3 35 (29.41%) Product Backlog
4 33 (27.73%) Problem-Solving
5 31 (26.05%) DevOps
6 26 (21.85%) Translating Business Requirements
7 23 (19.33%) GAP Analysis
8 21 (17.65%) Roadmaps
9 19 (15.97%) CI/CD
9 19 (15.97%) SDLC
9 19 (15.97%) User Stories
10 18 (15.13%) Continuous Improvement
11 17 (14.29%) Microservices
12 15 (12.61%) Full Stack Development
13 13 (10.92%) Backlog Management
14 12 (10.08%) Product Roadmap
14 12 (10.08%) Project Management
14 12 (10.08%) Stakeholder Management
14 12 (10.08%) Test Automation
15 11 (9.24%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 28 (23.53%) Java
2 16 (13.45%) Python
3 14 (11.76%) SQL
4 5 (4.20%) C#
5 3 (2.52%) C
5 3 (2.52%) JavaScript
6 2 (1.68%) T-SQL
7 1 (0.84%) COBOL
7 1 (0.84%) JCL
7 1 (0.84%) Kotlin
7 1 (0.84%) PHP
Qualifications
1 27 (22.69%) Security Cleared
2 22 (18.49%) DV Cleared
3 10 (8.40%) Degree
4 4 (3.36%) CSPO
5 3 (2.52%) SC Cleared
6 2 (1.68%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.84%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.84%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.84%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.84%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (10.92%) QA
2 8 (6.72%) GDPR
3 3 (2.52%) Accessibility
4 2 (1.68%) PMO
5 1 (0.84%) ISO 9001
5 1 (0.84%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 1 (0.84%) WCAG
System Software
1 16 (13.45%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (0.84%) AppManager
1 1 (0.84%) HP Quality Center
Vendors
1 9 (7.56%) Microsoft
2 4 (3.36%) Ab Initio
3 2 (1.68%) Adobe
3 2 (1.68%) Salesforce
3 2 (1.68%) SAP
4 1 (0.84%) Ariba
4 1 (0.84%) Atlassian
4 1 (0.84%) BT
4 1 (0.84%) Citrix
4 1 (0.84%) Concur
4 1 (0.84%) Google
4 1 (0.84%) HP