Technical Product Owner Contracts

Technical Product Owner
UK

The median Technical Product Owner daily rate in the UK is £529 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 12 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
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 572 679 820
Rank change year-on-year +107 +141 -146
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Product Owner 14 19 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.033% 0.033% 0.051%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.035% 0.035% 0.054%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 11 36
10th Percentile £400 £350 £438
25th Percentile £434 £467 £498
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £550 £581
Median % change year-on-year -3.91% -5.38% +19.85%
75th Percentile £610 £625 £688
90th Percentile £672 - £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £650 £350 £538
% change year-on-year +85.71% -34.88% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 UK with a recognized job title 39,893 55,060 83,598
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.65% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,957 38,445 58,715
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,673 1,534 2,047
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.89
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +5.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.90 £76.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
% change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +2.56%

Technical Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Product Owner in the UK

Technical Product Owner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Product Owner in the UK

Technical Product Owner
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Product Owner over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Product Owner in the UK

Technical Product Owner
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Product Owner within the UK over the 6 months to 12 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
England +106 14 £529 -3.91% 6
London +92 11 £529 -3.91% 2
Work from Home +105 4 £550 - 4
UK excluding London +62 4 £650 +85.71% 5
South East +18 3 £650 +85.71% 4
North of England +24 1 - -
Yorkshire - 1 - -

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

For the 6 months to 12 May 2024, Technical 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 featuring Technical Product Owner in the job title.

1 14 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 9 (64.29%) Roadmaps
3 8 (57.14%) Agile
4 5 (35.71%) JIRA
4 5 (35.71%) User Stories
5 4 (28.57%) Scrum
5 4 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
5 4 (28.57%) Product Vision
6 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
6 3 (21.43%) Product Requirements
6 3 (21.43%) Backlog Management
6 3 (21.43%) Product Backlog
6 3 (21.43%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 3 (21.43%) Personalization
6 3 (21.43%) Epics
6 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
6 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
6 3 (21.43%) Finance
6 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
6 3 (21.43%) Content Management
6 3 (21.43%) Use Case
6 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
6 3 (21.43%) SQL
6 3 (21.43%) Python
6 3 (21.43%) DevOps
6 3 (21.43%) Kanban
6 3 (21.43%) SaaS
6 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 3 (21.43%) Analytics
7 2 (14.29%) Linux

Technical Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (14.29%) OpenStack
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
2 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 3 (21.43%) SaaS
2 2 (14.29%) AWS
2 2 (14.29%) PaaS
3 1 (7.14%) Azure
3 1 (7.14%) Azure Stack
3 1 (7.14%) GCP
3 1 (7.14%) Google Workspace
3 1 (7.14%) Miro
Communications & Networking
1 2 (14.29%) Broadband
1 2 (14.29%) DHCP
1 2 (14.29%) DNS
1 2 (14.29%) Firewall
1 2 (14.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (14.29%) NoSQL
2 1 (7.14%) BigQuery
2 1 (7.14%) Looker
Development Applications
1 5 (35.71%) JIRA
General
1 3 (21.43%) Finance
1 3 (21.43%) Social Skills
1 3 (21.43%) Telecoms
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Banking
3 1 (7.14%) Influencing Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
1 2 (14.29%) LDAP
1 2 (14.29%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 14 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (14.29%) Algorithms
2 2 (14.29%) Client/Server
2 2 (14.29%) Clustering
2 2 (14.29%) Data Centre
2 2 (14.29%) Data Structures
3 1 (7.14%) Public Cloud
Operating Systems
1 2 (14.29%) Linux
2 1 (7.14%) Windows
2 1 (7.14%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Roadmaps
2 8 (57.14%) Agile
3 5 (35.71%) User Stories
4 4 (28.57%) Product Vision
4 4 (28.57%) Scrum
4 4 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
5 3 (21.43%) Analytics
5 3 (21.43%) Backlog Management
5 3 (21.43%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 3 (21.43%) Content Management
5 3 (21.43%) Customer Service
5 3 (21.43%) DevOps
5 3 (21.43%) Epics
5 3 (21.43%) Kanban
5 3 (21.43%) Personalization
5 3 (21.43%) Product Backlog
5 3 (21.43%) Product Requirements
5 3 (21.43%) Software Engineering
5 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
5 3 (21.43%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (21.43%) Python
1 3 (21.43%) SQL
2 2 (14.29%) C
2 2 (14.29%) Go
3 1 (7.14%) C#
3 1 (7.14%) VBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) QA
System Software
1 2 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Google
2 1 (7.14%) Atlassian
2 1 (7.14%) Microsoft