Product Owner Contracts in Cheshire

Product Owner
North West > Cheshire

The median Product Owner daily rate in Cheshire is £554, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 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
20 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 70 49 46
Rank change year-on-year -21 -3 -
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Product Owner 5 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 0.80% 0.81% 0.23%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.90% 0.86% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 3 1
10th Percentile £445 £410 -
25th Percentile £496 £425 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £554 £450 £450
Median % change year-on-year +23.06% - -
75th Percentile £621 £518 -
90th Percentile £705 £558 -
North West median daily rate £558 £518 £569
% change year-on-year +7.73% -9.01% +22.97%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Cheshire with a recognized job title 554 464 378
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.07% 94.50% 86.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 421 306 235
10th Percentile £270 £308 £242
25th Percentile £358 £382 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £430 £465 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.53% -7.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £519 £573 £586
90th Percentile £650 £645 £638
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 24 22 28
10th Percentile £12.82 £11.47 £14.70
25th Percentile £22.07 £13.49 £22.31
Median hourly rate £30.99 £35.00 £30.65
Median % change year-on-year -11.46% +14.20% +40.71%
75th Percentile £37.89 £43.75 £35.00
90th Percentile £62.08 £47.13 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £26.08 £35.00 £30.00
% change year-on-year -25.50% +16.67% +33.33%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner 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 20 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Owner in Cheshire

Product Owner
DemandTrendContract 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 20 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Knutsford -14 4 £558 +39.38% 1
Product Owner
North West

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

For the 6 months to 20 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 Cheshire region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) User Stories
1 5 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 5 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 5 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (80.00%) PLM
2 4 (80.00%) Translating Business Requirements
2 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) Data Management
4 2 (40.00%) Finance
4 2 (40.00%) Banking
5 1 (20.00%) GRC
5 1 (20.00%) Product Vision
5 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
5 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
5 1 (20.00%) Scrum
5 1 (20.00%) JIRA
5 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
5 1 (20.00%) Confluence
5 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
5 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
5 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (20.00%) Sprint Review
5 1 (20.00%) Digital Banking
5 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
5 1 (20.00%) CSPO

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 5 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 5 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 5 (100.00%) User Stories
2 4 (80.00%) PLM
2 4 (80.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (80.00%) Translating Business Requirements
3 3 (60.00%) Business Intelligence
3 3 (60.00%) Data Management
4 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Banking
4 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (20.00%) Product Vision
4 1 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 1 (20.00%) Scrum
4 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
4 1 (20.00%) Sprint Review
4 1 (20.00%) Technical Debt
Qualifications
1 1 (20.00%) CSPO
1 1 (20.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GRC