Product Ownership Contracts in the South West

Product Ownership
England > South West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies advertised in the South West. 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 107 63 69
Rank change year-on-year -44 +6 +4
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 46 121 111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 1.46% 3.49% 3.05%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.48% 12.58% 11.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 27 94 68
10th Percentile £399 £441 £433
25th Percentile £453 £549 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £606 £650 £616
90th Percentile £698 £678 £679
England median daily rate £559 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -1.02% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 9 8
10th Percentile - £67.83 -
25th Percentile £57.33 £70.00 £42.00
Median hourly rate £80.00 £85.00 £52.80
Median % change year-on-year -5.88% +60.98% -4.00%
75th Percentile £85.00 £86.65 £68.95
90th Percentile £86.00 £86.66 £85.23
England median hourly rate £57.44 £72.50 £62.15
% change year-on-year -20.77% +16.65% +8.09%

All Generic Skills
South West

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 West with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 1,026 962 942
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 32.55% 27.72% 25.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 628 673 664
10th Percentile £300 £275 £205
25th Percentile £462 £425 £362
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £500
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% +10.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £666 £588
90th Percentile £694 £738 £661
England median daily rate £550 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +3.77% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 174 131 56
10th Percentile £13.69 - £15.19
25th Percentile £16.29 - £22.81
Median hourly rate £50.00 £9.80 £49.75
Median % change year-on-year +410.20% -80.30% +5.36%
75th Percentile £70.00 £66.00 £64.96
90th Percentile £72.50 £83.31 £75.00
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 West

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the South West

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in the South West

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in the South West

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in the South West

Product Ownership
Hourly Rate Histogram in the South West

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

Hourly rate histogram for Product Ownership in the South West

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 West 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
Bristol -4 17 £550 - 24
Wiltshire -28 9 £558 +1.36% 6
Dorset - 6 £525 - 4
Somerset +2 5 £400 -38.46% 3
Gloucestershire 0 5 £550 -22.81% 6
Devon -23 3 £409 -25.63% 9
Product Ownership
England

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (4.35%) Confluence
2 1 (2.17%) Apache Solr
Applications
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft Excel
1 2 (4.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.17%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
2 2 (4.35%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (4.35%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (2.17%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (2.17%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 6 (13.04%) Azure
2 4 (8.70%) Azure Stack
2 4 (8.70%) Microsoft Purview
3 3 (6.52%) Dynamics 365
3 3 (6.52%) Power Platform
4 2 (4.35%) AWS
4 2 (4.35%) GCP
4 2 (4.35%) OpenShift
4 2 (4.35%) PaaS
5 1 (2.17%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (4.35%) VPN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (10.87%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (8.70%) Snowflake Schema
3 2 (4.35%) Power BI
4 1 (2.17%) CockroachDB
4 1 (2.17%) Couchbase
4 1 (2.17%) MySQL
4 1 (2.17%) NoSQL
4 1 (2.17%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 4 (8.70%) Rational DOORS
2 3 (6.52%) JIRA
3 2 (4.35%) Bitbucket
4 1 (2.17%) Visual Studio Code
General
1 10 (21.74%) Finance
2 8 (17.39%) Public Sector
3 7 (15.22%) Social Skills
4 5 (10.87%) Telecoms
5 4 (8.70%) Military
5 4 (8.70%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (4.35%) Banking
6 2 (4.35%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.17%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (2.17%) Retail
Job Titles
1 14 (30.43%) Architect
2 5 (10.87%) Data Architect
2 5 (10.87%) Product Manager
2 5 (10.87%) Software Architect
3 4 (8.70%) Developer
3 4 (8.70%) Product Owner
3 4 (8.70%) Python Software Architect
3 4 (8.70%) Senior
3 4 (8.70%) Systems Engineer
4 3 (6.52%) Administrator
4 3 (6.52%) Salesforce Administrator
5 2 (4.35%) Analyst
5 2 (4.35%) Automation Architect
5 2 (4.35%) Business Analyst
5 2 (4.35%) Office Automation Architect
5 2 (4.35%) QA Engineer
5 2 (4.35%) QA Tester
5 2 (4.35%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (4.35%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (4.35%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (23.91%) XML
2 7 (15.22%) REST
2 7 (15.22%) RESTful
3 5 (10.87%) JSON
4 2 (4.35%) .NET
4 2 (4.35%) .NET Framework
4 2 (4.35%) ModSecurity
5 1 (2.17%) AngularJS
5 1 (2.17%) Django
5 1 (2.17%) jQuery
5 1 (2.17%) Kafka
5 1 (2.17%) Laravel
5 1 (2.17%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (2.17%) React
Miscellaneous
1 5 (10.87%) Data Structures
1 5 (10.87%) Verilog
1 5 (10.87%) VHDL
2 4 (8.70%) Reference Data
3 3 (6.52%) Self-Motivation
4 2 (4.35%) PKI
4 2 (4.35%) Public Cloud
4 2 (4.35%) Security Posture
4 2 (4.35%) Virtual Team
5 1 (2.17%) Derivative
5 1 (2.17%) Legacy Applications
Operating Systems
1 2 (4.35%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 35 (76.09%) Agile
2 11 (23.91%) DevOps
3 9 (19.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (17.39%) Continuous Improvement
4 8 (17.39%) Data Modelling
5 7 (15.22%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 7 (15.22%) User Stories
6 6 (13.04%) Acceptance Criteria
6 6 (13.04%) ArchiMate
6 6 (13.04%) Change Management
6 6 (13.04%) GAP Analysis
6 6 (13.04%) Microservices
6 6 (13.04%) Problem-Solving
6 6 (13.04%) Product Management
6 6 (13.04%) Scrum
6 6 (13.04%) Software Architecture
6 6 (13.04%) Software Delivery
6 6 (13.04%) TOGAF
7 5 (10.87%) Business Case
8 4 (8.70%) Event-Driven
Programming Languages
1 9 (19.57%) Python
2 6 (13.04%) C++
3 5 (10.87%) C
4 4 (8.70%) SQL
5 2 (4.35%) JavaScript
5 2 (4.35%) PowerShell
6 1 (2.17%) Apex Code
6 1 (2.17%) PHP
6 1 (2.17%) R
6 1 (2.17%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 19 (41.30%) Security Cleared
2 13 (28.26%) SC Cleared
3 9 (19.57%) DV Cleared
4 6 (13.04%) Degree
5 4 (8.70%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (4.35%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (10.87%) QA
2 4 (8.70%) Data Quality
3 2 (4.35%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 8 (17.39%) Docker
2 2 (4.35%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (4.35%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 2 (4.35%) Ansible
1 2 (4.35%) Kubernetes
1 2 (4.35%) OPNET
1 2 (4.35%) PowerCLI
1 2 (4.35%) Terraform
Vendors
1 6 (13.04%) Salesforce
2 4 (8.70%) Sparx
3 2 (4.35%) Atlassian
3 2 (4.35%) Cisco
3 2 (4.35%) Google
3 2 (4.35%) Microsoft
3 2 (4.35%) Oracle
3 2 (4.35%) Remedy
3 2 (4.35%) VMware
4 1 (2.17%) Ceridian
4 1 (2.17%) MuleSoft
4 1 (2.17%) ServiceNow