Product Owner Contracts in England

Product Owner
UK > England

The median Product Owner daily rate in England is £585 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 327 367 351
Rank change year-on-year +40 -16 +42
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 223 306 516
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.61% 0.63% 0.73%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.66% 0.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 233 391
10th Percentile £406 £450 £413
25th Percentile £500 £513 £495
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +9.09% +7.32%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £638
90th Percentile £757 £698 £705
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £103.50 -
UK median hourly rate - £64.25 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in England with a recognized job title 34,087 46,245 67,040
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.72% 94.62% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,605 32,838 47,758
10th Percentile £281 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £645 £663 £644
90th Percentile £750 £761 £740
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,443 1,370 1,849
10th Percentile £12.87 £14.49 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £37.50 £44.77 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.23% +94.63% +4.55%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £77.00 £64.80
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.27%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings that featured Product Owner in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in England

Product Owner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Owner in England.

Daily rate trend for Product Owner in England

Product Owner
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Owner in England over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Owner in England

Product Owner
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Owner in England.

Hourly rate trend for Product Owner in England

Product Owner
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Owner within the England region over the 6 months to 11 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
London +78 160 £600 - 44
South East -4 21 £550 +4.76% 19
Midlands +27 16 £556 +1.14% 16
North of England +16 12 £525 -2.33% 9
North West +13 11 £525 -2.33% 6
West Midlands +14 10 £550 -8.33% 13
East of England +12 5 £410 -14.81% 1
East Midlands +18 4 £569 +26.39% 3
South West -2 4 £600 -7.69% 8
Yorkshire +3 1 - - 2
Product Owner
UK

Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 11 May 2024, Product Owner contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the England region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 219 (98.21%) Product Ownership
2 142 (63.68%) Agile
3 86 (38.57%) Roadmaps
4 64 (28.70%) Finance
5 59 (26.46%) User Stories
6 56 (25.11%) Product Backlog
7 53 (23.77%) Scrum
8 51 (22.87%) Social Skills
9 47 (21.08%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 45 (20.18%) Stakeholder Management
11 40 (17.94%) Product Management
12 38 (17.04%) Analytics
13 37 (16.59%) Backlog Management
14 35 (15.70%) Product Roadmap
15 32 (14.35%) Azure
16 31 (13.90%) Requirements Gathering
16 31 (13.90%) Acceptance Criteria
17 27 (12.11%) Product Strategy
18 26 (11.66%) Product Vision
18 26 (11.66%) DevOps
19 25 (11.21%) Machine Learning
19 25 (11.21%) Python
19 25 (11.21%) Artificial Intelligence
19 25 (11.21%) Problem-Solving
20 23 (10.31%) Translating Business Requirements
21 22 (9.87%) Asset Management
21 22 (9.87%) Product Requirements
22 21 (9.42%) Customer Experience
23 20 (8.97%) Backlog Refinement
23 20 (8.97%) Banking

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 19 (8.52%) Confluence
2 5 (2.24%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.90%) CMS
3 2 (0.90%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.90%) WordPress
4 1 (0.45%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.35%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.90%) VisionPLUS
4 1 (0.45%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.45%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.45%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 32 (14.35%) Azure
2 16 (7.17%) AWS
3 12 (5.38%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (4.48%) Azure Service Bus
5 8 (3.59%) Power Platform
5 8 (3.59%) SaaS
6 5 (2.24%) PaaS
7 4 (1.79%) Collibra
7 4 (1.79%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (1.35%) Asana
9 2 (0.90%) Google Analytics
9 2 (0.90%) Serverless
9 2 (0.90%) SuccessFactors
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Functions
10 1 (0.45%) Azure Stack
10 1 (0.45%) BigCommerce
10 1 (0.45%) Bloomreach
10 1 (0.45%) Figma
10 1 (0.45%) GCP
10 1 (0.45%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 5 (2.24%) Firewall
2 3 (1.35%) Broadband
2 3 (1.35%) Wi-Fi
3 2 (0.90%) 4G
3 2 (0.90%) 5G
3 2 (0.90%) DHCP
3 2 (0.90%) DNS
4 1 (0.45%) 3G
4 1 (0.45%) 3GPP
4 1 (0.45%) Bluetooth
4 1 (0.45%) DSL
4 1 (0.45%) GSM
4 1 (0.45%) LAN
4 1 (0.45%) LTE
4 1 (0.45%) SMS
4 1 (0.45%) TETRA
4 1 (0.45%) UMTS
4 1 (0.45%) WAN
4 1 (0.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.14%) Power BI
2 5 (2.24%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.24%) Metadata
3 4 (1.79%) Big Data
4 3 (1.35%) GIS
5 2 (0.90%) Data Lake
5 2 (0.90%) NoSQL
6 1 (0.45%) BigQuery
6 1 (0.45%) Looker
6 1 (0.45%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (7.17%) JIRA
2 4 (1.79%) Artifactory
2 4 (1.79%) Eclipse
2 4 (1.79%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.79%) PyCharm
2 4 (1.79%) Team Foundation Server
2 4 (1.79%) TeamCity
3 3 (1.35%) Bitbucket
3 3 (1.35%) Git
General
1 64 (28.70%) Finance
2 51 (22.87%) Social Skills
3 20 (8.97%) Banking
4 19 (8.52%) Front Office
5 17 (7.62%) Back Office
6 16 (7.17%) Retail
7 13 (5.83%) Analytical Skills
7 13 (5.83%) Marketing
7 13 (5.83%) Public Sector
8 11 (4.93%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 11 (4.93%) Manufacturing
8 11 (4.93%) Retail Banking
9 10 (4.48%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (4.04%) Investment Banking
10 9 (4.04%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (3.59%) Corporate Banking
12 6 (2.69%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (2.24%) Billing
13 5 (2.24%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.90%) Automotive
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.35%) React Native
2 2 (0.90%) .NET
2 2 (0.90%) LDAP
2 2 (0.90%) Node.js
3 1 (0.45%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.45%) HTML
3 1 (0.45%) VML
3 1 (0.45%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 219 (98.21%) Product Ownership
2 18 (8.07%) Derivative
2 18 (8.07%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 17 (7.62%) Equities
3 17 (7.62%) Fixed Income
3 17 (7.62%) Hedge funds
4 6 (2.69%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.24%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (2.24%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.79%) Algorithms
6 4 (1.79%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.35%) Freedom of Information
7 3 (1.35%) Freedom of Information Act
7 3 (1.35%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.35%) IoT
7 3 (1.35%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.90%) Clustering
8 2 (0.90%) Data Centre
8 2 (0.90%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.90%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 10 (4.48%) Apple iOS
2 6 (2.69%) Android
2 6 (2.69%) Linux
3 5 (2.24%) Windows
4 3 (1.35%) Unix
5 2 (0.90%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 142 (63.68%) Agile
2 86 (38.57%) Roadmaps
3 59 (26.46%) User Stories
4 56 (25.11%) Product Backlog
5 53 (23.77%) Scrum
6 47 (21.08%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 45 (20.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 40 (17.94%) Product Management
9 38 (17.04%) Analytics
10 37 (16.59%) Backlog Management
11 35 (15.70%) Product Roadmap
12 31 (13.90%) Acceptance Criteria
12 31 (13.90%) Requirements Gathering
13 27 (12.11%) Product Strategy
14 26 (11.66%) DevOps
14 26 (11.66%) Product Vision
15 25 (11.21%) Artificial Intelligence
15 25 (11.21%) Machine Learning
15 25 (11.21%) Problem-Solving
16 23 (10.31%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 25 (11.21%) Python
2 18 (8.07%) SQL
3 4 (1.79%) Groovy
3 4 (1.79%) Java
3 4 (1.79%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.90%) C
4 2 (0.90%) Go
5 1 (0.45%) C#
5 1 (0.45%) VBA
Qualifications
1 13 (5.83%) Degree
2 9 (4.04%) Security Cleared
3 6 (2.69%) SC Cleared
4 4 (1.79%) CSPO
4 4 (1.79%) DV Cleared
5 1 (0.45%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (5.38%) PCI DSS
2 6 (2.69%) QA
3 4 (1.79%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.79%) GDPR
3 4 (1.79%) Good Clinical Practice
3 4 (1.79%) GxP
4 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.45%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (2.24%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.90%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (2.24%) Ansible
1 5 (2.24%) Kubernetes
2 3 (1.35%) Terraform
3 1 (0.45%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 9 (4.04%) Microsoft
2 7 (3.14%) Adobe
3 5 (2.24%) Salesforce
4 4 (1.79%) Google
4 4 (1.79%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.35%) Informatica
5 3 (1.35%) SAP
6 1 (0.45%) Aprimo
6 1 (0.45%) Ariba
6 1 (0.45%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.45%) BigPanda
6 1 (0.45%) Citrix
6 1 (0.45%) Concur
6 1 (0.45%) Dell
6 1 (0.45%) Intel
6 1 (0.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.45%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.45%) TSYS