Product Ownership Contracts in the North West

Product Ownership
England > North West

The table below looks at the prevalence of the term Product Ownership in contract job vacancies in the North West. 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 83 78 78
Rank change year-on-year -5 0 -14
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 52 77 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 1.86% 2.56% 2.98%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 7.48% 7.96% 8.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 56 83
10th Percentile £415 £381 £413
25th Percentile £491 £505 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £556 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.26% +9.52% +16.67%
75th Percentile £650 £625 £588
90th Percentile £850 £650 £644
England median daily rate £563 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 0
Median hourly rate £46.18 £40.59 -
Median % change year-on-year +13.77% - -
England median hourly rate £59.45 £67.50 £56.13
% change year-on-year -11.93% +20.27% -6.46%

All Generic Skills
North West

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 North West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 695 967 1,410
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 24.89% 32.10% 35.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 437 633 1,075
10th Percentile £292 £295 £210
25th Percentile £413 £400 £355
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -1.40% +5.26% +16.71%
75th Percentile £581 £606 £588
90th Percentile £690 £675 £675
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 72 39 56
10th Percentile £13.00 £16.50 £11.63
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.11 £14.25
Median hourly rate £25.25 £27.50 £19.25
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +42.86% +7.24%
75th Percentile £39.06 £58.18 £27.25
90th Percentile £57.50 £67.60 £61.88
England median hourly rate £36.50 £22.49 £26.50
% change year-on-year +62.33% -15.15% +6.00%

Product Ownership
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Ownership in the North West

Product Ownership
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Product Ownership in the North West

Product Ownership
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

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

Daily rate histogram for Product Ownership in the North West

Product Ownership
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Ownership in the North West

Product Ownership
Contract Job Locations in the North 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 North West 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
Manchester -14 34 £569 -1.09% 27
Cheshire +4 13 £475 +11.76% 4
Lancashire +5 3 £539 -13.80% 4
Product Ownership
England

Product Ownership
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North 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 4 (7.69%) Confluence
2 2 (3.85%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 16 (30.77%) Azure
2 6 (11.54%) Azure Stack
2 6 (11.54%) Microsoft Purview
3 4 (7.69%) AWS
3 4 (7.69%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (5.77%) GCP
5 2 (3.85%) Azure Functions
5 2 (3.85%) Azure Logic Apps
5 2 (3.85%) GitHub
5 2 (3.85%) Google Analytics
5 2 (3.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 9 (17.31%) Firewall
1 9 (17.31%) VPN
2 2 (3.85%) DNS
2 2 (3.85%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (11.54%) Data Warehouse
1 6 (11.54%) Snowflake Schema
2 5 (9.62%) Data Lake
3 2 (3.85%) MongoDB
3 2 (3.85%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (7.69%) Git
1 4 (7.69%) JIRA
2 3 (5.77%) Octopus Deploy
2 3 (5.77%) TeamCity
3 2 (3.85%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.85%) Cucumber
3 2 (3.85%) Gatling
3 2 (3.85%) GitLab
3 2 (3.85%) Jenkins
3 2 (3.85%) JMeter
3 2 (3.85%) Selenium
3 2 (3.85%) WebDriver
General
1 9 (17.31%) Public Sector
2 7 (13.46%) Pharmaceutical
3 6 (11.54%) Legal
4 5 (9.62%) Influencing Skills
5 4 (7.69%) Analytical Skills
5 4 (7.69%) Banking
5 4 (7.69%) Social Skills
6 3 (5.77%) Finance
7 2 (3.85%) Retail
8 1 (1.92%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.92%) Retail Banking
Job Titles
1 15 (28.85%) Architect
2 12 (23.08%) Lead
3 10 (19.23%) Product Owner
4 9 (17.31%) Lead Architect
4 9 (17.31%) Senior
4 9 (17.31%) Technical Architect
4 9 (17.31%) Technical Leader
5 6 (11.54%) Data Architect
6 5 (9.62%) DevOps Engineer
6 5 (9.62%) Product Manager
7 4 (7.69%) Data Manager
7 4 (7.69%) Developer
7 4 (7.69%) Senior DevOps
7 4 (7.69%) Senior DevOps Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) C# Developer
8 3 (5.77%) Designer
8 3 (5.77%) DevOps Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Platform Engineer
8 3 (5.77%) Test Engineer
9 2 (3.85%) Senior Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (17.31%) Node.js
2 8 (15.38%) REST
3 6 (11.54%) JSON
3 6 (11.54%) XML
4 3 (5.77%) .NET
4 3 (5.77%) .NET Framework
5 2 (3.85%) .NET Core
5 2 (3.85%) ActiveMQ
5 2 (3.85%) Entity Framework
5 2 (3.85%) Kafka
5 2 (3.85%) SAML
5 2 (3.85%) Web Services
6 1 (1.92%) React
Miscellaneous
1 11 (21.15%) Reference Data
2 9 (17.31%) Public Cloud
3 6 (11.54%) Data Structures
4 5 (9.62%) Enterprise Software
4 5 (9.62%) Mobile App
5 4 (7.69%) Distributed Systems
6 3 (5.77%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (1.92%) IoT
7 1 (1.92%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 9 (17.31%) Android
1 9 (17.31%) Apple iOS
1 9 (17.31%) Windows
1 9 (17.31%) Windows Server
2 2 (3.85%) Mac OS X
2 2 (3.85%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 36 (69.23%) Agile
2 20 (38.46%) Roadmaps
3 19 (36.54%) CI/CD
4 17 (32.69%) DevOps
5 15 (28.85%) Microservices
6 11 (21.15%) Data Modelling
6 11 (21.15%) Product Roadmap
6 11 (21.15%) Strategic Roadmap
7 10 (19.23%) Risk Management
8 9 (17.31%) Cyber Threat Intelligence
8 9 (17.31%) Design Patterns
8 9 (17.31%) Mobile Device Management
8 9 (17.31%) Product Strategy
8 9 (17.31%) Security Architecture
8 9 (17.31%) Threat Intelligence
8 9 (17.31%) Zero Trust
9 8 (15.38%) Analytics
9 8 (15.38%) Technical Leadership
9 8 (15.38%) User Experience
10 7 (13.46%) Data Protection
Programming Languages
1 7 (13.46%) PowerShell
2 6 (11.54%) SQL
3 5 (9.62%) C#
3 5 (9.62%) Go
3 5 (9.62%) Python
4 3 (5.77%) Java
5 2 (3.85%) Groovy
5 2 (3.85%) Scala
5 2 (3.85%) Shell Script
6 1 (1.92%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 11 (21.15%) Security Cleared
2 10 (19.23%) SC Cleared
3 5 (9.62%) Degree
4 1 (1.92%) Chartered Engineer
4 1 (1.92%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (11.54%) Data Quality
2 4 (7.69%) QA
3 2 (3.85%) Cyber Essentials
3 2 (3.85%) NIST
3 2 (3.85%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 2 (3.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.77%) Terraform
2 2 (3.85%) Ansible
2 2 (3.85%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (13.46%) Google
2 5 (9.62%) Apple
3 3 (5.77%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.92%) Salesforce
4 1 (1.92%) ServiceNow