Product Owner Contracts in Berkshire

Product Owner
South East > Berkshire

The median Product Owner daily rate in Berkshire is £504, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 91 101 96
Rank change year-on-year +10 -5 +28
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 9 12 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.75% 0.68% 1.16%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.73% 1.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 10 14
10th Percentile £378 £459 £313
25th Percentile £438 £500 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £575 £431
Median % change year-on-year -12.43% +33.33% -28.13%
75th Percentile £538 £692 £553
90th Percentile - £715 £661
South East median daily rate £450 £500 £458
% change year-on-year -10.00% +9.29% -16.82%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Berkshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Berkshire. 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 Berkshire with a recognized job title 1,114 1,633 1,723
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.22% 92.05% 95.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 693 880 1,088
10th Percentile £325 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £434 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.73% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £625
90th Percentile £685 £693 £706
South East median daily rate £500 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 44 90 58
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.73 £17.11
25th Percentile £18.48 £49.63 £23.38
Median hourly rate £48.00 £61.60 £56.03
Median % change year-on-year -22.08% +9.94% +131.05%
75th Percentile £70.00 £83.31 £70.00
90th Percentile £87.43 £90.75 £75.38
South East median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
% change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +136.13%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in Berkshire

Product Owner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

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

Daily rate trend for Product Owner in Berkshire

Product Owner
Daily Rate Histogram in Berkshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Owner in Berkshire over the 6 months to 1 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Owner in Berkshire

Product Owner
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

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 Berkshire region over the 6 months to 1 August 2025. 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
Reading +27 7 £504 -24.40% 2
Slough - 1 - - 1
Bracknell - 1 £350 -
Product Owner
South East

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

For the 6 months to 1 August 2025, 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 Berkshire region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 6 (66.67%) Agile
3 4 (44.44%) Scrum
3 4 (44.44%) Telecoms
3 4 (44.44%) Marketing
3 4 (44.44%) User Stories
4 3 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
4 3 (33.33%) Sprint Review
4 3 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
4 3 (33.33%) Product Backlog
4 3 (33.33%) CRM
5 2 (22.22%) B2B
5 2 (22.22%) Salesforce
5 2 (22.22%) Migration
5 2 (22.22%) PLM
5 2 (22.22%) Dynamics CRM
5 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
5 2 (22.22%) HubSpot
5 2 (22.22%) JIRA
5 2 (22.22%) Wireframes
5 2 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (22.22%) Customer-Centricity
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
5 2 (22.22%) Epics
5 2 (22.22%) Sprint Retrospective
5 2 (22.22%) Business Strategy
6 1 (11.11%) Customer Experience

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (22.22%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (11.11%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (11.11%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (22.22%) JIRA
General
1 4 (44.44%) Marketing
1 4 (44.44%) Telecoms
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Automotive
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (11.11%) Management Information System
2 1 (11.11%) Onboarding
2 1 (11.11%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (66.67%) Agile
1 6 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 4 (44.44%) Scrum
2 4 (44.44%) User Stories
3 3 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
3 3 (33.33%) CRM
3 3 (33.33%) Product Backlog
3 3 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (33.33%) Sprint Review
4 2 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (22.22%) B2B
4 2 (22.22%) Business Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (22.22%) Epics
4 2 (22.22%) Migration
4 2 (22.22%) PLM
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (22.22%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (22.22%) Wireframes
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) HubSpot
1 2 (22.22%) Salesforce
2 1 (11.11%) Microsoft
2 1 (11.11%) ServiceNow