Product Owner Contracts in the South East

Product Owner
England > South East

The median Product Owner daily rate in the South East is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 170 165 216
Rank change year-on-year -5 +51 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 21 46 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.38% 0.81% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.42% 0.85% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 29 29
10th Percentile £403 £343 £461
25th Percentile £456 £406 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £687 £625 £625
90th Percentile £715 £668 £650
England median daily rate £575 £594 £550
% change year-on-year -3.16% +7.95% +7.32%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £103.50 -
England median hourly rate - £103.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,056 5,391 7,377
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.25% 94.75% 95.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,042 3,766 4,994
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £400 £400 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £619 £606 £588
90th Percentile £688 £700 £673
England median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 479 241 330
10th Percentile £12.78 £16.84 £12.25
25th Percentile £18.32 £21.94 £16.03
Median hourly rate £47.50 £48.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.21% +140.40% -18.37%
75th Percentile £62.50 £65.00 £43.50
90th Percentile £77.50 £75.00 £58.42
England median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £22.50
% change year-on-year -18.89% +100.00% +2.27%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in the South East

Product Owner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Owner in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Product Owner in the South East

Product Owner
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Owner in the South East over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Owner in the South East

Product Owner
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 7 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
Thames Valley -16 8 £625 +34.41% 13
Berkshire -32 7 £650 +44.44% 7
Surrey +20 5 £481 - 2
Hampshire +1 5 £450 -25.00% 6
West Sussex - 2 £400 -
Buckinghamshire +22 1 £550 -1.79% 3
Kent - 1 £825 - 1
Product Owner
England

Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

For the 6 months to 7 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 South East region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 21 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 16 (76.19%) Agile
3 15 (71.43%) Roadmaps
4 13 (61.90%) Product Backlog
5 11 (52.38%) Backlog Management
5 11 (52.38%) Product Roadmap
6 9 (42.86%) Finance
6 9 (42.86%) Scrum
6 9 (42.86%) User Stories
7 8 (38.10%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
8 7 (33.33%) Product Management
9 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
9 6 (28.57%) Epics
9 6 (28.57%) Matrix Organization
10 5 (23.81%) Product Requirements
10 5 (23.81%) Business Strategy
10 5 (23.81%) Marketing
10 5 (23.81%) Billing
11 4 (19.05%) Product Vision
11 4 (19.05%) Backlog Refinement
11 4 (19.05%) Sprint Planning
11 4 (19.05%) Contingency Planning
11 4 (19.05%) Acceptance Criteria
12 3 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
12 3 (14.29%) Sprint Review
12 3 (14.29%) Technology Roadmap
12 3 (14.29%) CSPO
12 3 (14.29%) JIRA
13 2 (9.52%) Telecoms

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (9.52%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (9.52%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 1 (4.76%) AWS
1 1 (4.76%) Google Workspace
1 1 (4.76%) Miro
1 1 (4.76%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.52%) Broadband
2 1 (4.76%) 3G
2 1 (4.76%) 4G
2 1 (4.76%) 5G
2 1 (4.76%) DSL
2 1 (4.76%) LAN
2 1 (4.76%) SMS
2 1 (4.76%) WAN
Development Applications
1 3 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 9 (42.86%) Finance
2 7 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 5 (23.81%) Billing
3 5 (23.81%) Marketing
4 2 (9.52%) Banking
4 2 (9.52%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.76%) French Language
Miscellaneous
1 21 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.76%) EPoS
2 1 (4.76%) FMCG
2 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.76%) Linux
1 1 (4.76%) Windows
1 1 (4.76%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 16 (76.19%) Agile
2 15 (71.43%) Roadmaps
3 13 (61.90%) Product Backlog
4 11 (52.38%) Backlog Management
4 11 (52.38%) Product Roadmap
5 9 (42.86%) Scrum
5 9 (42.86%) User Stories
6 8 (38.10%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 7 (33.33%) Product Management
8 6 (28.57%) Epics
8 6 (28.57%) Matrix Organization
8 6 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (23.81%) Business Strategy
9 5 (23.81%) Product Requirements
10 4 (19.05%) Acceptance Criteria
10 4 (19.05%) Backlog Refinement
10 4 (19.05%) Contingency Planning
10 4 (19.05%) Product Vision
10 4 (19.05%) Sprint Planning
11 3 (14.29%) Data-Driven Decision Making
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) CSPO
2 2 (9.52%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) DV Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (9.52%) QA
System Software
1 1 (4.76%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 1 (4.76%) Atlassian
1 1 (4.76%) Citrix
1 1 (4.76%) Google
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
1 1 (4.76%) Salesforce