Product Ownership Contracts in the West Midlands

Product Ownership
England > West Midlands

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands. 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 75 81 73
Rank change year-on-year +6 -8 +8
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 33 53 114
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.75% 2.34% 3.21%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 5.39% 7.14% 11.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 37 82
10th Percentile £400 £420 £400
25th Percentile £525 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £509
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% +8.11% +37.31%
75th Percentile £611 £600 £586
90th Percentile £650 £601 £698
England median daily rate £559 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -1.02% +2.73% +10.00%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands with a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 612 742 1,010
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 32.38% 32.79% 28.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 387 491 723
10th Percentile £300 £263 £263
25th Percentile £366 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £488
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% +2.56% +14.44%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £587
90th Percentile £750 £700 £688
England median daily rate £550 £571 £550
% change year-on-year -3.64% +3.77% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 26 21
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.67 £12.38
25th Percentile £14.71 £20.48 £15.00
Median hourly rate £22.50 £27.50 £16.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +66.67% -0.84%
75th Percentile £40.50 £49.94 £17.70
90th Percentile £58.75 £55.63 £24.50
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 West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the West Midlands

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in the West Midlands

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in the West Midlands

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in the West Midlands

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands 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
Warwickshire +8 11 £607 +34.89% 11
Birmingham +3 10 £550 -8.33% 21
Coventry +17 7 £563 +2.27% 3
Staffordshire +5 3 £215 -66.92% 8
Shropshire +13 2 £400 -5.88%
Product Ownership
England

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (6.06%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 8 (24.24%) Azure
2 5 (15.15%) Azure AKS
2 5 (15.15%) Azure App Service
2 5 (15.15%) Azure DevOps
3 2 (6.06%) Serverless
3 2 (6.06%) SuccessFactors
4 1 (3.03%) AWS
4 1 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (3.03%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (3.03%) Miro
4 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
4 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.06%) Data Warehouse
1 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Data Warehouse
1 2 (6.06%) Metadata
1 2 (6.06%) OLAP
1 2 (6.06%) OLTP
Development Applications
1 4 (12.12%) JIRA
2 2 (6.06%) kappa
General
1 21 (63.64%) Social Skills
2 7 (21.21%) Finance
3 6 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (12.12%) Public Sector
5 3 (9.09%) Manufacturing
5 3 (9.09%) Telecoms
6 2 (6.06%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (30.30%) Product Owner
2 9 (27.27%) Developer
3 5 (15.15%) Angular Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Architect
4 4 (12.12%) Lead
4 4 (12.12%) Lead Product Owner
4 4 (12.12%) React Developer
4 4 (12.12%) Senior
5 3 (9.09%) Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Business Analyst
5 3 (9.09%) Data Architect
5 3 (9.09%) Junior
5 3 (9.09%) Junior Product Owner
5 3 (9.09%) Scrum Master
6 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Enterprise Data Architect
6 2 (6.06%) Finance Business Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (6.06%) Product Manager
6 2 (6.06%) Senior Financial Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (15.15%) .NET
1 5 (15.15%) AngularJS
1 5 (15.15%) RESTful
2 4 (12.12%) CSS
2 4 (12.12%) HTML
2 4 (12.12%) React
3 3 (9.09%) ADO
4 1 (3.03%) Lightning Web Components
Miscellaneous
1 5 (15.15%) Enterprise Software
1 5 (15.15%) Taxonomies
2 2 (6.06%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (3.03%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (69.70%) Agile
2 14 (42.42%) Roadmaps
3 12 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
3 12 (36.36%) Product Backlog
4 11 (33.33%) User Experience
5 9 (27.27%) Scrum
5 9 (27.27%) Stakeholder Management
6 7 (21.21%) Product Vision
7 6 (18.18%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 6 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
7 6 (18.18%) DevOps
7 6 (18.18%) User Stories
7 6 (18.18%) UX Design
8 5 (15.15%) Backlog Management
8 5 (15.15%) Coaching
8 5 (15.15%) Critical Thinking
8 5 (15.15%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (15.15%) Microservices
8 5 (15.15%) Product Management
8 5 (15.15%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 6 (18.18%) SQL
2 5 (15.15%) Bicep
2 5 (15.15%) C#
2 5 (15.15%) TypeScript
3 4 (12.12%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (3.03%) AWS Certification
1 1 (3.03%) Azure Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.18%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.03%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (9.09%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.03%) Guidewire
2 1 (3.03%) SAP