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 in the West Midlands. 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 82 75 70
Rank change year-on-year -7 -5 +15
Contract jobs citing Product Ownership 29 54 120
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 1.42% 2.44% 3.36%
As % of the Miscellaneous category 4.62% 7.34% 11.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 28 36 88
10th Percentile £355 - £400
25th Percentile £525 £450 £414
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £538 £519
Median % change year-on-year +4.65% +3.61% +23.51%
75th Percentile £611 £600 £583
90th Percentile £679 £620 £683
England median daily rate £563 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -2.17% +4.55% +10.00%

All Generic Skills
West Midlands

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 West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for generic IT skills 628 736 1,027
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 30.75% 33.26% 28.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 388 478 734
10th Percentile £271 £263 £275
25th Percentile £363 £413 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £513 £500
Median % change year-on-year +2.44% +2.50% +14.29%
75th Percentile £646 £638 £588
90th Percentile £750 £700 £700
England median daily rate £550 £565 £550
% change year-on-year -2.65% +2.73% +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 22 18
10th Percentile £10.42 £17.77 £13.95
25th Percentile £14.71 £21.54 £15.06
Median hourly rate £23.58 £27.50 £17.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.27% +61.76% +3.37%
75th Percentile £40.38 £30.00 £23.25
90th Percentile £58.75 £57.13 £36.58
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 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 12 June 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 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
Birmingham +6 13 £550 -8.33% 19
Warwickshire -3 9 £607 +34.14% 17
Coventry +11 4 £563 +2.27%
Staffordshire +5 3 £215 -66.92% 6
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:

Applications
1 2 (6.90%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 5 (17.24%) Azure
1 5 (17.24%) Azure AKS
1 5 (17.24%) Azure App Service
1 5 (17.24%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (6.90%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (3.45%) Dynamics 365
Development Applications
1 2 (6.90%) JIRA
General
1 18 (62.07%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Finance
2 5 (17.24%) Manufacturing
3 4 (13.79%) Public Sector
4 3 (10.34%) Telecoms
5 2 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
6 1 (3.45%) Billing
Job Titles
1 13 (44.83%) Product Owner
2 9 (31.03%) Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Angular Developer
3 5 (17.24%) Lead
3 5 (17.24%) Lead Product Owner
4 4 (13.79%) React Developer
5 3 (10.34%) Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Business Analyst
5 3 (10.34%) Junior
5 3 (10.34%) Junior Product Owner
5 3 (10.34%) Senior
6 2 (6.90%) Finance Business Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Financial Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Scrum Master
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Business Analyst
6 2 (6.90%) Senior Financial Analyst
7 1 (3.45%) Business Consultant
7 1 (3.45%) Senior Business Consultant
7 1 (3.45%) Service Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) .NET
1 5 (17.24%) AngularJS
1 5 (17.24%) RESTful
2 4 (13.79%) CSS
2 4 (13.79%) HTML
2 4 (13.79%) React
3 2 (6.90%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.24%) Enterprise Software
2 3 (10.34%) Taxonomies
3 2 (6.90%) IoT
3 2 (6.90%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (3.45%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (68.97%) Agile
2 12 (41.38%) Roadmaps
3 11 (37.93%) Product Backlog
3 11 (37.93%) User Experience
4 10 (34.48%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (31.03%) Problem-Solving
6 7 (24.14%) DevOps
6 7 (24.14%) Product Vision
6 7 (24.14%) User Stories
7 6 (20.69%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 6 (20.69%) Product Management
7 6 (20.69%) Scrum
7 6 (20.69%) UX Design
8 5 (17.24%) Backlog Management
8 5 (17.24%) Coaching
8 5 (17.24%) Critical Thinking
8 5 (17.24%) Decision-Making
8 5 (17.24%) Infrastructure as Code
8 5 (17.24%) Microservices
8 5 (17.24%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 6 (20.69%) SQL
2 5 (17.24%) Bicep
2 5 (17.24%) C#
2 5 (17.24%) TypeScript
3 4 (13.79%) JavaScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (17.24%) QA
System Software
1 1 (3.45%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 3 (10.34%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.45%) Guidewire