Product Owner Contract Job Trends in Cheshire

Product Owner
North West > Cheshire

The median Product Owner daily rate in Cheshire is £491, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 January 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 70 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Cheshire 0.32% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £410 - -
25th Percentile £440 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 - -
75th Percentile £543 - -
90th Percentile £573 - -
North West median daily rate £500 £600 £525
% change year-on-year -16.67% +14.29% -2.33%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Cheshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Cheshire. 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 Cheshire with a recognized job title 560 398 364
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 88.75% 88.64% 88.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 400 235 238
10th Percentile £270 £300 £265
25th Percentile £356 £356 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £551 £575 £550
90th Percentile £688 £651 £588
North West median daily rate £450 £475 £500
% change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 39 19 29
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.33 £16.20
25th Percentile £19.00 £16.00 £17.14
Median hourly rate £23.50 £22.09 £23.61
Median % change year-on-year +6.38% -6.44% +33.69%
75th Percentile £34.13 £26.71 £35.00
90th Percentile £69.45 £86.00 £40.75
North West median hourly rate £31.25 £24.76 £35.25
% change year-on-year +26.19% -29.76% +62.07%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Product Owner' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire.

Product Owner job vacancy trend in Cheshire

Product Owner
Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Product Owner job vacancies in Cheshire.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Product Owner job vacancies in Cheshire

Product Owner
Daily Rate Histogram in Cheshire

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Owner in Cheshire over the 6 months to 1 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Owner in Cheshire

Product Owner
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 1 January 2026. 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
Knutsford - 2 £491 - 1
Product Owner
North West

Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire

For the 6 months to 1 January 2026, Product Owner contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Cheshire region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Business Case
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) CBAP
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Confluence
2 1 (50.00%) Containerisation
2 1 (50.00%) CSPO
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Feasibility Study
2 1 (50.00%) GDPR
2 1 (50.00%) IBM
2 1 (50.00%) IBM Sterling
2 1 (50.00%) ISO 20022
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Kafka
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 1 (50.00%) Product Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Cheshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Kafka
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) CMDB
2 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (50.00%) SWIFT Messaging Network
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 1 (50.00%) Change Management
2 1 (50.00%) Configuration Management
2 1 (50.00%) Data Security
2 1 (50.00%) Decision-Making
2 1 (50.00%) Microservices
2 1 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Traceability Matrix
2 1 (50.00%) User Acceptance Testing
2 1 (50.00%) Workshop Facilitation
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) CBAP
1 1 (50.00%) CSPO
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
1 1 (50.00%) ISO 20022
1 1 (50.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (50.00%) SEPA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) IBM
1 1 (50.00%) IBM Sterling
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (50.00%) ServiceNow