Product Ownership Contracts in the UK excluding London

Product Ownership
UK > UK excluding London

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 112 75 64
Rank change year-on-year -37 -11 +8
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 399 734 1,111
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 1.97% 3.19% 3.65%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 6.78% 9.85% 11.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 281 539 790
10th Percentile £400 £400 £401
25th Percentile £450 £456 £446
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £515
Median % change year-on-year - +6.80% +14.44%
75th Percentile £638 £625 £588
90th Percentile £738 £675 £663
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 17 19
10th Percentile £56.22 £43.76 £42.00
25th Percentile £57.33 £61.50 £42.25
Median hourly rate £68.72 £85.00 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year -19.15% +48.47% +42.24%
75th Percentile £85.00 £86.66 £64.68
90th Percentile £85.50 £90.00 £85.15
UK median hourly rate £57.44 £70.00 £53.63
% change year-on-year -17.94% +30.54% -4.67%

All Generic Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 5,883 7,452 9,695
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 28.99% 32.39% 31.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,537 5,017 6,733
10th Percentile £210 £220 £205
25th Percentile £378 £388 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £595 £613 £575
90th Percentile £688 £700 £672
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 716 420 456
10th Percentile £12.15 £9.80 £12.43
25th Percentile £14.06 £10.63 £15.63
Median hourly rate £29.25 £22.00 £21.13
Median % change year-on-year +32.95% +4.14% -11.98%
75th Percentile £61.30 £64.63 £46.54
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £61.83
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 the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Product Ownership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the UK excluding London

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in the UK excluding London

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in the UK excluding London

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Ownership in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in the UK excluding London

Product Ownership
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate histogram for Product Ownership in the UK excluding London

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London 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
South East -38 119 £625 +13.64% 75
North of England -21 84 £533 -3.18% 82
Scotland +16 77 £475 -5.00% 27
North West -6 53 £550 -4.35% 43
South West -44 46 £550 - 53
Midlands -2 41 £550 +18.92% 67
West Midlands +6 33 £563 +2.27% 55
Yorkshire -23 25 £488 -9.72% 26
Wales +29 20 £509 +1.70% 12
East of England -23 16 £428 -18.57% 16
North East +19 10 £454 - 14
East Midlands -2 6 £424 -5.83% 12
Isle of Man - 2 - -
Product Ownership
UK

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 26 (6.52%) Confluence
2 3 (0.75%) Adobe Experience Manager
2 3 (0.75%) Microsoft Exchange
2 3 (0.75%) SharePoint
3 2 (0.50%) Apache Solr
3 2 (0.50%) CMS
3 2 (0.50%) WordPress
4 1 (0.25%) Appian
4 1 (0.25%) CICS
4 1 (0.25%) Drupal
Applications
1 14 (3.51%) Microsoft Excel
2 11 (2.76%) Microsoft Office
3 10 (2.51%) Sketch
4 8 (2.01%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 7 (1.75%) MS Visio
6 3 (0.75%) InVision
6 3 (0.75%) Trello
7 2 (0.50%) Adobe Creative Suite
7 2 (0.50%) Adobe Illustrator
7 2 (0.50%) Photoshop
8 1 (0.25%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.25%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.00%) Sparx Enterprise Architect
3 3 (0.75%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.50%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.50%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (0.50%) VisionPLUS
5 1 (0.25%) Oracle ERP
Cloud Services
1 82 (20.55%) Azure
2 27 (6.77%) Azure DevOps
3 22 (5.51%) Azure Data Factory
4 21 (5.26%) AWS
5 20 (5.01%) Serverless
6 19 (4.76%) GitHub
7 18 (4.51%) Azure Functions
7 18 (4.51%) Entra ID
7 18 (4.51%) Power Platform
8 17 (4.26%) Azure Monitor
9 16 (4.01%) Azure Cosmos DB
9 16 (4.01%) Figma
10 10 (2.51%) Dynamics 365
10 10 (2.51%) GitHub Actions
11 9 (2.26%) SaaS
12 7 (1.75%) Azure AKS
12 7 (1.75%) Microsoft Purview
12 7 (1.75%) PaaS
13 6 (1.50%) Azure Stack
14 5 (1.25%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 11 (2.76%) VPN
2 10 (2.51%) Firewall
3 4 (1.00%) Broadband
4 2 (0.50%) DNS
4 2 (0.50%) HTTP
5 1 (0.25%) 3G
5 1 (0.25%) 4G
5 1 (0.25%) 5G
5 1 (0.25%) ATM
5 1 (0.25%) DSL
5 1 (0.25%) Intranet
5 1 (0.25%) LAN
5 1 (0.25%) Network Security
5 1 (0.25%) SMS
5 1 (0.25%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 19 (4.76%) NoSQL
2 16 (4.01%) Power BI
3 12 (3.01%) MongoDB
4 11 (2.76%) Relational Database
5 10 (2.51%) Data Warehouse
6 9 (2.26%) Metadata
6 9 (2.26%) MySQL
7 7 (1.75%) Azure SQL Database
8 6 (1.50%) Snowflake Schema
8 6 (1.50%) SQL Server
9 5 (1.25%) Data Lake
10 4 (1.00%) Amazon RDS
11 3 (0.75%) DB2
12 2 (0.50%) Couchbase
12 2 (0.50%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
12 2 (0.50%) OLAP
12 2 (0.50%) OLTP
12 2 (0.50%) Redis
13 1 (0.25%) CockroachDB
13 1 (0.25%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 47 (11.78%) JIRA
2 22 (5.51%) Git
3 15 (3.76%) Cypress.io
4 12 (3.01%) Postman
5 11 (2.76%) GitLab
6 7 (1.75%) JUnit
7 6 (1.50%) Storybook
8 5 (1.25%) Eclipse
8 5 (1.25%) Jenkins
8 5 (1.25%) PyCharm
8 5 (1.25%) Selenium
9 4 (1.00%) Bitbucket
9 4 (1.00%) Rational DOORS
10 3 (0.75%) Axure RP
10 3 (0.75%) CircleCI
10 3 (0.75%) Octopus Deploy
10 3 (0.75%) TeamCity
11 2 (0.50%) Cucumber
11 2 (0.50%) Gradle
11 2 (0.50%) WebDriver
General
1 125 (31.33%) Social Skills
2 77 (19.30%) Analytical Skills
3 70 (17.54%) Finance
4 49 (12.28%) Public Sector
5 20 (5.01%) Manufacturing
5 20 (5.01%) Marketing
6 18 (4.51%) Pharmaceutical
6 18 (4.51%) Telecoms
7 15 (3.76%) Presentation Skills
8 14 (3.51%) Banking
9 12 (3.01%) Retail
10 11 (2.76%) Influencing Skills
11 9 (2.26%) Billing
11 9 (2.26%) Legal
12 7 (1.75%) Organisational Skills
13 5 (1.25%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (1.00%) Military
15 3 (0.75%) Retail Banking
16 2 (0.50%) Games
16 2 (0.50%) Law
Job Titles
1 66 (16.54%) Architect
2 62 (15.54%) Product Owner
3 60 (15.04%) Developer
4 48 (12.03%) Analyst
5 38 (9.52%) Senior
6 35 (8.77%) Business Analyst
7 31 (7.77%) Designer
7 31 (7.77%) Lead
7 31 (7.77%) Solutions Architect
8 22 (5.51%) Java Architect
8 22 (5.51%) Java Solutions Architect
9 21 (5.26%) Full Stack Developer
10 20 (5.01%) UX Designer
11 19 (4.76%) Azure Developer
12 16 (4.01%) Product Manager
13 15 (3.76%) Scrum Master
13 15 (3.76%) Technical Leader
14 10 (2.51%) Data Architect
14 10 (2.51%) Technical Architect
15 9 (2.26%) Senior Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 45 (11.28%) React
2 20 (5.01%) .NET
3 17 (4.26%) REST
3 17 (4.26%) XML
4 15 (3.76%) RESTful
5 14 (3.51%) HTML
6 12 (3.01%) Laravel
6 12 (3.01%) Vue
7 11 (2.76%) CSS
8 9 (2.26%) JSON
8 9 (2.26%) Node.js
9 8 (2.01%) Playwright
10 7 (1.75%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.50%) .NET Framework
11 6 (1.50%) Lightning Web Components
11 6 (1.50%) SAML
12 5 (1.25%) ADO
12 5 (1.25%) Gherkin
12 5 (1.25%) OpenID
13 4 (1.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 11 (2.76%) Enterprise Software
1 11 (2.76%) Public Cloud
1 11 (2.76%) Reference Data
2 9 (2.26%) Legacy Applications
2 9 (2.26%) Mobile App
3 7 (1.75%) Data Protection Act
3 7 (1.75%) Data Structures
3 7 (1.75%) IoT
3 7 (1.75%) Wiki
4 6 (1.50%) Management Information System
4 6 (1.50%) Self-Motivation
4 6 (1.50%) Taxonomies
5 5 (1.25%) Verilog
5 5 (1.25%) VHDL
5 5 (1.25%) Virtual Team
6 4 (1.00%) Distributed Systems
6 4 (1.00%) Greenfield Project
6 4 (1.00%) Security Posture
6 4 (1.00%) Smart Meter
7 3 (0.75%) Cyber Threat
Operating Systems
1 23 (5.76%) Linux
2 21 (5.26%) Android
2 21 (5.26%) Apple iOS
2 21 (5.26%) Windows
3 10 (2.51%) Windows Server
4 9 (2.26%) Unix
5 2 (0.50%) Mac OS X
6 1 (0.25%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (57.39%) Agile
2 90 (22.56%) Scrum
3 87 (21.80%) Problem-Solving
4 86 (21.55%) DevOps
5 77 (19.30%) Roadmaps
6 68 (17.04%) User Stories
7 63 (15.79%) CI/CD
8 60 (15.04%) Product Backlog
9 57 (14.29%) User Experience
10 53 (13.28%) Continuous Improvement
11 50 (12.53%) Stakeholder Management
12 47 (11.78%) Project Management
13 46 (11.53%) Test Automation
14 43 (10.78%) Microservices
15 37 (9.27%) Analytics
16 33 (8.27%) Change Management
16 33 (8.27%) Product Management
17 32 (8.02%) GAP Analysis
17 32 (8.02%) Product Roadmap
17 32 (8.02%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 47 (11.78%) Java
2 46 (11.53%) Python
3 40 (10.03%) SQL
4 21 (5.26%) JavaScript
5 17 (4.26%) C#
6 12 (3.01%) TypeScript
7 11 (2.76%) PowerShell
8 9 (2.26%) PHP
9 8 (2.01%) C
9 8 (2.01%) Groovy
10 6 (1.50%) C++
11 5 (1.25%) Apex Code
11 5 (1.25%) Bicep
11 5 (1.25%) Go
11 5 (1.25%) Shell Script
12 2 (0.50%) Scala
12 2 (0.50%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.25%) Bash
13 1 (0.25%) R
13 1 (0.25%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 71 (17.79%) Security Cleared
2 38 (9.52%) SC Cleared
3 33 (8.27%) Degree
4 32 (8.02%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.00%) CSPO
5 4 (1.00%) TOGAF Certification
6 2 (0.50%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.50%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.50%) PMP
7 1 (0.25%) AWS Certification
7 1 (0.25%) CBAP
7 1 (0.25%) Chartered Engineer
7 1 (0.25%) CISA
7 1 (0.25%) CISM
7 1 (0.25%) CISSP
7 1 (0.25%) ISEB
7 1 (0.25%) ISTQB
7 1 (0.25%) ISTQB Foundation Certification
7 1 (0.25%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.25%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 52 (13.03%) QA
2 13 (3.26%) GDPR
3 10 (2.51%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.51%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.26%) Disclosure Scotland
5 7 (1.75%) NIST
6 6 (1.50%) Cyber Essentials
7 5 (1.25%) Good Clinical Practice
7 5 (1.25%) GxP
7 5 (1.25%) PMO
8 4 (1.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
9 2 (0.50%) PCI DSS
9 2 (0.50%) Software Quality Assurance
10 1 (0.25%) ISO 9001
10 1 (0.25%) NCSC
10 1 (0.25%) NIST 800
10 1 (0.25%) Sarbanes-Oxley
10 1 (0.25%) WCAG
System Software
1 24 (6.02%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.01%) Docker
3 2 (0.50%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (0.50%) VMware NSX
Systems Management
1 6 (1.50%) Terraform
2 5 (1.25%) Ansible
2 5 (1.25%) Kubernetes
3 4 (1.00%) Single Sign-On
4 2 (0.50%) OPNET
4 2 (0.50%) PowerCLI
5 1 (0.25%) Active Directory Federation Services
5 1 (0.25%) AppManager
5 1 (0.25%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.25%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 30 (7.52%) Microsoft
2 19 (4.76%) Salesforce
3 13 (3.26%) Atlassian
4 10 (2.51%) Google
5 6 (1.50%) Adobe
5 6 (1.50%) Apple
6 5 (1.25%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 4 (1.00%) Ab Initio
7 4 (1.00%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (1.00%) Okta
7 4 (1.00%) SAP
7 4 (1.00%) Sparx
7 4 (1.00%) Zscaler
8 3 (0.75%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.50%) Cadence
9 2 (0.50%) Greenplum
9 2 (0.50%) Oracle
9 2 (0.50%) Progress
9 2 (0.50%) Remedy
9 2 (0.50%) VMware