Product Owner Contract Job Trends in Chester

Product Owner
Cheshire > Chester

The median Product Owner daily rate in Chester is £725, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026.

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

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 29 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Chester 0.74% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.82% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £713 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £725 - -
75th Percentile £738 - -
90th Percentile - - -
Cheshire median daily rate £593 - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
Chester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Chester. 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 Chester with a recognized job title 122 66 41
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.37% 91.67% 89.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 52 24 14
10th Percentile £194 £405 £240
25th Percentile £413 £425 £321
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £550 £513
Median % change year-on-year -2.27% +7.32% +36.67%
75th Percentile £627 £678 £638
90th Percentile £736 £718 £675
Cheshire median daily rate £450 £473 £500
% change year-on-year -4.76% -5.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 13 12
10th Percentile £19.50 £16.00 £17.20
25th Percentile £21.73 £19.00 £22.14
Median hourly rate £26.86 £24.19 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +11.04% -39.53% +148.91%
75th Percentile £40.00 £86.00 £43.75
90th Percentile £82.13 - -
Cheshire median hourly rate £22.85 £24.09 £22.50
% change year-on-year -5.15% +7.07% +19.55%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in Chester

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 Chester.

Product Owner job vacancy trend in Chester

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

For the 6 months to 11 February 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 Chester region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) Epics
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) Mule
1 1 (100.00%) Mule ESB
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Chester 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 (100.00%) Mule
1 1 (100.00%) Mule ESB
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Cucumber
1 1 (100.00%) JUnit
1 1 (100.00%) REST Assured
General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) J2EE
1 1 (100.00%) JSON
1 1 (100.00%) Web Services
1 1 (100.00%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) AI
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) Epics
1 1 (100.00%) Generative AI
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (100.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
1 1 (100.00%) SDLC
1 1 (100.00%) TDD
1 1 (100.00%) Unit Testing
1 1 (100.00%) Waterfall
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Java
1 1 (100.00%) PL/SQL
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (100.00%) Oracle