Product Owner Contracts in Birmingham

Product Owner
West Midlands > Birmingham

The median Product Owner daily rate in Birmingham is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 3 May 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
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 49 63 70
Rank change year-on-year +14 +7 +17
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 3 2 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.57% 0.26% 0.89%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.28% 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 7
10th Percentile - - £570
25th Percentile £513 £419 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £438 £600
Median % change year-on-year +20.00% -27.08% +14.29%
75th Percentile £538 £456 -
90th Percentile - - -
West Midlands median daily rate £520 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -5.45% -8.33% +14.29%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Birmingham

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Birmingham. 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 Birmingham with a recognized job title 469 707 863
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.85% 92.54% 96.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 326 498 577
10th Percentile £160 £258 £263
25th Percentile £366 £335 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £450 £500
Median % change year-on-year +7.78% -10.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £486 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -0.77% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 31 40 35
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.10 £11.40
25th Percentile £13.31 £15.88 £12.50
Median hourly rate £14.00 £28.50 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -50.88% +42.50% +14.35%
75th Percentile £22.91 £48.75 £24.94
90th Percentile £30.68 £57.91 £60.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £22.00 £19.50
% change year-on-year -17.89% +12.82% +12.85%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in Birmingham

Product Owner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

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

Daily rate trend for Product Owner in Birmingham

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 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 Birmingham region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Management
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (33.33%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Data Development
3 1 (33.33%) Technical Debt
3 1 (33.33%) Infrastructure as Code
3 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) PLM
3 1 (33.33%) CRM
3 1 (33.33%) Primavera
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Legal

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 1 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (33.33%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Azure
1 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Legal
2 1 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (33.33%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (33.33%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Management
2 2 (66.67%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (66.67%) Roadmaps
2 2 (66.67%) Scrum
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
3 1 (33.33%) Agile Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Deployment
3 1 (33.33%) Data Development
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (33.33%) Product Operations
3 1 (33.33%) Product Vision
3 1 (33.33%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 1 (33.33%) SDLC
3 1 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements