Product Ownership Contracts in the Thames Valley

Product Ownership
South East > Thames Valley

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in the Thames Valley. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Ownership over the 6 months leading up to 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 67 33 76
Rank change year-on-year -34 +43 -15
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 73 177 104
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 2.72% 6.15% 2.92%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 9.42% 18.93% 9.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 50 122 71
10th Percentile £448 £350 £390
25th Percentile £476 £450 £449
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £555 £550 £485
Median % change year-on-year +0.91% +13.40% +14.12%
75th Percentile £669 £650 £631
90th Percentile £688 £687 £663
South East median daily rate £600 £550 £525
% change year-on-year +9.09% +4.76% +10.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £56.56 - -
25th Percentile £56.62 £61.50 £57.13
Median hourly rate £59.45 £63.00 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year -5.63% +10.04% +33.14%
75th Percentile £60.72 £64.50 £57.38
90th Percentile £60.92 - -
South East median hourly rate £59.45 £63.00 £57.25
% change year-on-year -5.63% +10.04% -0.43%

All Generic Skills
Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 775 935 1,077
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 28.90% 32.50% 30.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 457 619 680
10th Percentile £205 £303 £226
25th Percentile £313 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% +11.11%
75th Percentile £600 £623 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £664
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £500
% change year-on-year -0.10% +0.10% +8.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 24 33
10th Percentile £11.79 £18.08 £16.12
25th Percentile £20.50 £18.50 £17.50
Median hourly rate £28.00 £60.88 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -54.00% +204.38% -42.03%
75th Percentile £59.57 £73.69 £29.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £77.93 £67.47
South East median hourly rate £54.00 £54.37 £21.50
% change year-on-year -0.68% +152.88% -40.45%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the Thames Valley

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in the Thames Valley

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Ownership in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in the Thames Valley

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in the Thames Valley

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 12 June 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
Berkshire -32 60 £613 +16.67% 13
Buckinghamshire -12 11 £550 -8.33% 7
Oxfordshire +2 2 £488 +12.00% 3
Product Ownership
South East

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 3 (4.11%) Confluence
2 2 (2.74%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 1 (1.37%) Appian
3 1 (1.37%) CICS
3 1 (1.37%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.37%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 26 (35.62%) Azure
2 20 (27.40%) Azure Data Factory
3 17 (23.29%) Azure Monitor
4 16 (21.92%) Azure Cosmos DB
4 16 (21.92%) Azure Functions
4 16 (21.92%) Serverless
5 12 (16.44%) Entra ID
6 8 (10.96%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (6.85%) Figma
8 4 (5.48%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (5.48%) Power Platform
9 3 (4.11%) Azure Service Bus
9 3 (4.11%) PaaS
10 2 (2.74%) Dynamics 365
11 1 (1.37%) Azure AKS
11 1 (1.37%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (1.37%) Azure Logic Apps
11 1 (1.37%) Azure Storage
11 1 (1.37%) IaaS
11 1 (1.37%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) Broadband
2 1 (1.37%) 3G
2 1 (1.37%) 4G
2 1 (1.37%) 5G
2 1 (1.37%) ATM
2 1 (1.37%) DSL
2 1 (1.37%) Network Security
2 1 (1.37%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 15 (20.55%) NoSQL
2 6 (8.22%) Azure SQL Database
3 4 (5.48%) Amazon RDS
3 4 (5.48%) Power BI
4 1 (1.37%) DB2
4 1 (1.37%) Relational Database
4 1 (1.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 16 (21.92%) Git
2 9 (12.33%) JIRA
3 5 (6.85%) Selenium
4 1 (1.37%) Postman
General
1 14 (19.18%) Analytical Skills
2 12 (16.44%) Social Skills
3 11 (15.07%) Finance
3 11 (15.07%) Telecoms
4 9 (12.33%) Billing
5 6 (8.22%) Marketing
6 4 (5.48%) Pharmaceutical
7 3 (4.11%) Manufacturing
7 3 (4.11%) Public Sector
8 2 (2.74%) Military
8 2 (2.74%) Presentation Skills
9 1 (1.37%) General Ledger
9 1 (1.37%) Legal
Job Titles
1 18 (24.66%) Developer
2 16 (21.92%) Azure Developer
3 15 (20.55%) Full Stack Developer
4 9 (12.33%) Product Owner
5 8 (10.96%) Analyst
5 8 (10.96%) Senior
6 7 (9.59%) Full Stack Python Developer
6 7 (9.59%) Python Developer
7 5 (6.85%) Business Analyst
7 5 (6.85%) Delivery Manager
7 5 (6.85%) Designer
7 5 (6.85%) Lead
7 5 (6.85%) Product Designer
7 5 (6.85%) Technical Leader
8 4 (5.48%) Azure Data Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Azure Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Data Engineer
8 4 (5.48%) Scrum Master
8 4 (5.48%) UI Designer
8 4 (5.48%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 15 (20.55%) React
2 4 (5.48%) XML
3 3 (4.11%) HTML
4 1 (1.37%) .NET
4 1 (1.37%) CSS
4 1 (1.37%) OpenAPI
4 1 (1.37%) Swagger
Miscellaneous
1 4 (5.48%) IoT
1 4 (5.48%) Smart Meter
2 1 (1.37%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (1.37%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (1.37%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (1.37%) Graphic Design
2 1 (1.37%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
2 1 (1.37%) Virtual Team
2 1 (1.37%) VSAM
Operating Systems
1 6 (8.22%) Linux
2 5 (6.85%) Windows
3 4 (5.48%) Unix
4 1 (1.37%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (57.53%) Agile
2 24 (32.88%) Product Backlog
2 24 (32.88%) Scrum
3 22 (30.14%) DevOps
4 21 (28.77%) Change Management
5 18 (24.66%) CI/CD
5 18 (24.66%) Microservices
5 18 (24.66%) Roadmaps
6 17 (23.29%) SDLC
7 16 (21.92%) Continuous Improvement
8 15 (20.55%) Full Stack Development
9 13 (17.81%) Stakeholder Management
9 13 (17.81%) User Stories
10 11 (15.07%) PLM
10 11 (15.07%) Test Automation
10 11 (15.07%) Unit Testing
11 9 (12.33%) Information Exploitation
11 9 (12.33%) Information Management
11 9 (12.33%) Project Delivery
11 9 (12.33%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 16 (21.92%) Python
2 12 (16.44%) SQL
3 7 (9.59%) Java
4 3 (4.11%) C
4 3 (4.11%) C#
5 1 (1.37%) COBOL
5 1 (1.37%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.37%) JCL
5 1 (1.37%) Kusto Query Language
5 1 (1.37%) T-SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (16.44%) Security Cleared
2 9 (12.33%) DV Cleared
3 5 (6.85%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.74%) Degree
5 1 (1.37%) CSPO
5 1 (1.37%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.37%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
5 1 (1.37%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (10.96%) GDPR
2 4 (5.48%) QA
3 2 (2.74%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.37%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 16 (21.92%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 1 (1.37%) HP Quality Center
1 1 (1.37%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 14 (19.18%) Microsoft
2 4 (5.48%) Ab Initio
3 2 (2.74%) Adobe
3 2 (2.74%) Cisco
4 1 (1.37%) Ariba
4 1 (1.37%) Blue Prism
4 1 (1.37%) Citrix
4 1 (1.37%) Concur
4 1 (1.37%) HP
4 1 (1.37%) Nokia
4 1 (1.37%) Rakuten
4 1 (1.37%) SAP