Product Owner Contracts in the North of England

Product Owner
England > North of England

The median Product Owner daily rate in the North of England is £525 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 8 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
8 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 172 182 197
Rank change year-on-year +10 +15 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 12 31 50
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.26% 0.54% 0.70%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.27% 0.57% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 17 39
10th Percentile £443 £458 £410
25th Percentile £488 £506 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +5.00%
75th Percentile £573 £588 £581
90th Percentile £590 - £600
England median daily rate £575 £594 £550
% change year-on-year -3.16% +7.95% +7.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
North of England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 4,373 5,442 6,917
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.18% 95.34% 96.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,731 3,843 5,087
10th Percentile £263 £285 £200
25th Percentile £382 £413 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £580 £600 £554
90th Percentile £672 £687 £638
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 400 155 280
10th Percentile £11.07 £14.00 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.53 £18.54 £14.19
Median hourly rate £20.60 £30.76 £18.59
Median % change year-on-year -33.02% +65.42% +3.87%
75th Percentile £46.18 £51.19 £28.94
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.41 £51.48
England median hourly rate £37.18 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -17.38% +100.00% +2.27%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in the North of England

Product Owner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Product Owner in the North of England

Product Owner
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Owner in the North of England over the 6 months to 8 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Owner in the North of England

Product Owner
Contract Job Locations in the North of 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 North of England region over the 6 months to 8 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
North West +20 11 £525 -2.33% 4
Yorkshire +12 1 - - 2
Product Owner
England

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

For the 6 months to 8 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 North of England region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 12 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (33.33%) E-Commerce
4 3 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 3 (25.00%) Agile
4 3 (25.00%) Analytics
4 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
5 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (16.67%) Google Analytics
5 2 (16.67%) Google
5 2 (16.67%) WordPress
5 2 (16.67%) Product Management
5 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 2 (16.67%) Retail
5 2 (16.67%) B2C
6 1 (8.33%) ITIL
6 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
6 1 (8.33%) ETL
6 1 (8.33%) Service Management
6 1 (8.33%) ITSM
6 1 (8.33%) Risk Management
6 1 (8.33%) Finance
6 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (8.33%) Content Management
6 1 (8.33%) Data Analysis
6 1 (8.33%) Supply Chain Management
6 1 (8.33%) Banking
6 1 (8.33%) Visualisation

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of 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 2 (16.67%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (16.67%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Data Lake
General
1 3 (25.00%) Pharmaceutical
1 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (16.67%) Retail
3 1 (8.33%) Banking
3 1 (8.33%) Finance
3 1 (8.33%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (8.33%) Manufacturing
3 1 (8.33%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 12 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (8.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (8.33%) IoT
2 1 (8.33%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 4 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 3 (25.00%) Agile
3 3 (25.00%) Analytics
3 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (16.67%) B2C
4 2 (16.67%) Product Management
4 2 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (8.33%) Business Case
5 1 (8.33%) Customer Experience
5 1 (8.33%) Customer Service
5 1 (8.33%) Data Interpretation
5 1 (8.33%) Data Modelling
5 1 (8.33%) ETL
5 1 (8.33%) ITIL
5 1 (8.33%) ITSM
5 1 (8.33%) Product Vision
5 1 (8.33%) Risk Management
5 1 (8.33%) Service Management
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow