Product Ownership Contracts with Work from Home Options

Product Ownership
UK > Work from Home

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH). 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 89 68 58
Rank change year-on-year -21 -10 +16
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 350 803 1,823
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 2.36% 3.26% 4.15%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 8.23% 10.32% 13.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 237 573 1,258
10th Percentile £409 £428 £412
25th Percentile £463 £495 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 13 17
10th Percentile £58.38 £39.83 £25.00
25th Percentile £69.06 £61.50 £40.00
Median hourly rate £80.00 £70.00 £57.25
Median % change year-on-year +14.29% +22.27% +6.02%
75th Percentile £86.25 £85.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £88.50 £86.66 £85.30
UK median hourly rate £57.44 £70.00 £53.63
% change year-on-year -17.94% +30.54% -4.67%

All Generic Skills
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for generic IT skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 4,251 7,781 13,858
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 28.72% 31.57% 31.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,907 5,495 9,916
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £438 £456 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £540
Median % change year-on-year - +1.85% +9.09%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £825 £797 £750
UK median daily rate £540 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -1.82% - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 186 150 225
10th Percentile £15.88 £19.00 £13.66
25th Percentile £25.50 £25.71 £20.75
Median hourly rate £51.00 £52.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% +17.98% +29.93%
75th Percentile £69.38 £70.00 £60.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £85.00 £66.90
UK median hourly rate £31.38 £22.49 £27.50
% change year-on-year +39.54% -18.24% +4.05%

Product Ownership
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Product Ownership as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Product Ownership trend for jobs with a WFH option

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Product Ownership.

Product Ownership daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Product Ownership over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Product Ownership daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Product Ownership
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Product Ownership.

Product Ownership hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Product Ownership
Hourly Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Hourly rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Product Ownership over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Product Ownership hourly rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 18 (5.14%) Confluence
2 5 (1.43%) CMS
3 4 (1.14%) Oracle Workflow
4 3 (0.86%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.29%) Apache
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Airflow
5 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
5 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
Applications
1 17 (4.86%) Microsoft Excel
2 10 (2.86%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 8 (2.29%) Microsoft Office
3 8 (2.29%) MS Visio
4 4 (1.14%) Microsoft Project
5 3 (0.86%) Trello
6 2 (0.57%) Sketch
7 1 (0.29%) Adobe XD
7 1 (0.29%) Chatbot
7 1 (0.29%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 10 (2.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 7 (2.00%) Salesforce CRM
3 4 (1.14%) Loan IQ
3 4 (1.14%) SAP S/4HANA
4 3 (0.86%) Endur
5 2 (0.57%) Magento
6 1 (0.29%) Distributed Ledger
6 1 (0.29%) SAP APO
6 1 (0.29%) SAP IBP
6 1 (0.29%) SAP MM
6 1 (0.29%) SAP QM
6 1 (0.29%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 93 (26.57%) Azure
2 45 (12.86%) AWS
3 42 (12.00%) Azure DevOps
4 18 (5.14%) Entra ID
4 18 (5.14%) Power Platform
5 15 (4.29%) Azure Service Bus
5 15 (4.29%) SaaS
6 13 (3.71%) Serverless
7 12 (3.43%) Dynamics 365
8 11 (3.14%) Azure Cosmos DB
8 11 (3.14%) Azure Monitor
8 11 (3.14%) GitHub
9 10 (2.86%) PaaS
10 9 (2.57%) Azure Data Factory
11 8 (2.29%) Figma
12 7 (2.00%) Azure AKS
12 7 (2.00%) Azure Functions
12 7 (2.00%) Azure Stack
12 7 (2.00%) Microsoft Purview
13 5 (1.43%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.43%) Firewall
2 1 (0.29%) Broadband
2 1 (0.29%) DMZ
2 1 (0.29%) DNS
2 1 (0.29%) LAN
2 1 (0.29%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (0.29%) WAN
2 1 (0.29%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 26 (7.43%) SQL Server
2 16 (4.57%) Power BI
3 12 (3.43%) Data Warehouse
4 11 (3.14%) NoSQL
5 10 (2.86%) Relational Database
6 9 (2.57%) Data Lake
7 6 (1.71%) MySQL
7 6 (1.71%) Snowflake Schema
8 5 (1.43%) Azure SQL Database
8 5 (1.43%) Oracle Database
8 5 (1.43%) PostgreSQL
9 4 (1.14%) Siebel EIM
10 3 (0.86%) Big Data
10 3 (0.86%) Redis
11 2 (0.57%) BigQuery
11 2 (0.57%) DynamoDB
11 2 (0.57%) Looker
11 2 (0.57%) MongoDB
11 2 (0.57%) SAP HANA
11 2 (0.57%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 25 (7.14%) JIRA
2 21 (6.00%) Git
3 8 (2.29%) Bitbucket
3 8 (2.29%) GitLab
3 8 (2.29%) Jenkins
3 8 (2.29%) Postman
4 7 (2.00%) TeamCity
5 6 (1.71%) Artifactory
5 6 (1.71%) Cypress.io
6 4 (1.14%) Selenium
6 4 (1.14%) SpecFlow
6 4 (1.14%) Visual Studio Code
6 4 (1.14%) WebDriver
7 3 (0.86%) Visual Studio
8 2 (0.57%) Axure RP
8 2 (0.57%) Balsamiq
8 2 (0.57%) JUnit
9 1 (0.29%) Gerrit
9 1 (0.29%) kappa
9 1 (0.29%) Octopus Deploy
General
1 104 (29.71%) Social Skills
2 91 (26.00%) Finance
3 52 (14.86%) Public Sector
4 29 (8.29%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (8.00%) Banking
6 19 (5.43%) Back Office
7 18 (5.14%) Marketing
8 15 (4.29%) Front Office
9 11 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (3.14%) Retail
10 10 (2.86%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (2.86%) Investment Banking
11 8 (2.29%) Pharmaceutical
11 8 (2.29%) Telecoms
12 7 (2.00%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.43%) Billing
13 5 (1.43%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.14%) Electronics
14 4 (1.14%) Legal
15 3 (0.86%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 87 (24.86%) Product Owner
2 70 (20.00%) Analyst
3 65 (18.57%) Developer
4 61 (17.43%) Business Analyst
5 43 (12.29%) Senior
6 36 (10.29%) Architect
7 25 (7.14%) Product Manager
8 23 (6.57%) Lead
9 19 (5.43%) Product Analyst
9 19 (5.43%) Product Business Analyst
10 18 (5.14%) Azure Developer
11 15 (4.29%) Finance Business Analyst
11 15 (4.29%) Financial Analyst
12 14 (4.00%) Full Stack Developer
12 14 (4.00%) Scrum Master
12 14 (4.00%) Senior Developer
12 14 (4.00%) Senior Product Owner
13 13 (3.71%) Business Manager
13 13 (3.71%) Finance Manager
13 13 (3.71%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 40 (11.43%) React
2 32 (9.14%) .NET
3 23 (6.57%) XML
4 18 (5.14%) CSS
5 16 (4.57%) HTML
6 13 (3.71%) JSON
7 12 (3.43%) .NET Core
8 10 (2.86%) .NET Framework
8 10 (2.86%) REST
9 9 (2.57%) ASP.NET
9 9 (2.57%) Node.js
10 7 (2.00%) AngularJS
11 6 (1.71%) HTML5
11 6 (1.71%) jQuery
11 6 (1.71%) Lightning Web Components
11 6 (1.71%) OpenID
12 5 (1.43%) Kafka
12 5 (1.43%) Laravel
12 5 (1.43%) SAML
12 5 (1.43%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (5.14%) Derivative
1 18 (5.14%) Fixed Income
2 17 (4.86%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 14 (4.00%) Equities
3 14 (4.00%) Hedge funds
4 10 (2.86%) Mobile App
5 9 (2.57%) Data Structures
6 7 (2.00%) Reference Data
7 6 (1.71%) Educational Technology
7 6 (1.71%) Greenfield Project
8 5 (1.43%) Cloud Native
8 5 (1.43%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.43%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.14%) Enterprise Software
9 4 (1.14%) Virtual Team
10 3 (0.86%) Data Protection Act
10 3 (0.86%) Verilog
10 3 (0.86%) VHDL
10 3 (0.86%) Wiki
11 2 (0.57%) CMDB
Operating Systems
1 15 (4.29%) Linux
2 10 (2.86%) Android
3 8 (2.29%) Apple iOS
3 8 (2.29%) Unix
3 8 (2.29%) Windows
4 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (65.14%) Agile
2 87 (24.86%) Scrum
3 80 (22.86%) DevOps
4 75 (21.43%) User Stories
5 62 (17.71%) Roadmaps
6 50 (14.29%) CI/CD
6 50 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
7 46 (13.14%) Analytics
8 43 (12.29%) Product Management
9 42 (12.00%) Product Backlog
10 41 (11.71%) Microservices
11 39 (11.14%) Test Automation
12 36 (10.29%) User Experience
13 35 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
14 33 (9.43%) Requirements Gathering
15 32 (9.14%) Acceptance Criteria
16 31 (8.86%) Stakeholder Management
17 30 (8.57%) User Acceptance Testing
18 29 (8.29%) Change Management
18 29 (8.29%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 47 (13.43%) SQL
2 46 (13.14%) Python
3 35 (10.00%) JavaScript
4 31 (8.86%) C#
5 22 (6.29%) TypeScript
6 15 (4.29%) PowerShell
7 13 (3.71%) Java
8 12 (3.43%) Bicep
9 5 (1.43%) Apex Code
9 5 (1.43%) PHP
10 4 (1.14%) SOQL
11 3 (0.86%) C
11 3 (0.86%) C++
12 2 (0.57%) ABAP
12 2 (0.57%) PL/SQL
12 2 (0.57%) T-SQL
13 1 (0.29%) Go
13 1 (0.29%) Kotlin
13 1 (0.29%) Shell Script
13 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 24 (6.86%) Degree
2 20 (5.71%) Security Cleared
3 17 (4.86%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.14%) APMP
4 4 (1.14%) Numerate Degree
5 3 (0.86%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (0.86%) CSPO
6 2 (0.57%) AWS Certification
6 2 (0.57%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.29%) CBAP
7 1 (0.29%) CCIP
7 1 (0.29%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.29%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.29%) MBA
7 1 (0.29%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.29%) SAP Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 43 (12.29%) QA
2 14 (4.00%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.86%) Data Quality
4 9 (2.57%) PMO
5 7 (2.00%) PCI DSS
6 4 (1.14%) WCAG
7 3 (0.86%) Disclosure Scotland
8 2 (0.57%) Cyber Essentials
8 2 (0.57%) GDPR
8 2 (0.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
8 2 (0.57%) NIST
9 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.29%) ISO 9001
9 1 (0.29%) Sarbanes-Oxley
9 1 (0.29%) SLA
System Software
1 26 (7.43%) Active Directory
2 12 (3.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 15 (4.29%) Kubernetes
2 9 (2.57%) Terraform
3 8 (2.29%) Ansible
4 6 (1.71%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.29%) AppManager
5 1 (0.29%) HP Quality Center
5 1 (0.29%) Matomo
5 1 (0.29%) Puppet
Vendors
1 56 (16.00%) Microsoft
2 17 (4.86%) Salesforce
3 15 (4.29%) SAP
4 14 (4.00%) Oracle
5 7 (2.00%) Google
6 5 (1.43%) Atlassian
7 4 (1.14%) Ariba
7 4 (1.14%) CA Agile Central
7 4 (1.14%) CrowdStrike
7 4 (1.14%) Okta
7 4 (1.14%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 4 (1.14%) Siebel
7 4 (1.14%) Splunk
7 4 (1.14%) Zscaler
8 3 (0.86%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.57%) Adobe
9 2 (0.57%) Databricks
9 2 (0.57%) Dynatrace
9 2 (0.57%) MuleSoft
10 1 (0.29%) Centrify