Product Owner Contracts in the City of London

Product Owner
Central London > City of London

The median Product Owner daily rate in the City of London is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 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
18 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 111 107 146
Rank change year-on-year -4 +39 +27
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 13 17 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.70% 0.82% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.87% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 7
10th Percentile £369 £513 £660
25th Percentile £405 £597 £675
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £640 £725
Median % change year-on-year -29.69% -11.72% +28.89%
75th Percentile £613 £681 £756
90th Percentile £647 £725 £773
Central London median daily rate £625 £640 £725
% change year-on-year -2.34% -11.72% +28.89%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,739 1,954 3,042
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.65% 94.81% 94.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,144 1,296 2,094
10th Percentile £331 £363 £350
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +5.26%
75th Percentile £686 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £788 £813
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +2.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 14 11
10th Percentile £17.35 £15.87 £14.18
25th Percentile £23.98 £20.88 £18.93
Median hourly rate £28.33 £27.00 £38.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.91% -28.95% -8.43%
75th Percentile £53.50 £89.06 £60.63
90th Percentile £65.39 £137.50 £83.75
Central London median hourly rate £28.50 £27.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year +5.56% -22.86% -15.66%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in the City of London

Product Owner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Owner in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Product Owner in the City of London

Product Owner
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Owner in the City of London over the 6 months to 18 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Owner in the City of London

Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 18 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 City of London region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 13 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 10 (76.92%) Agile
3 8 (61.54%) User Stories
4 7 (53.85%) Backlog Management
4 7 (53.85%) Roadmaps
5 6 (46.15%) Product Backlog
5 6 (46.15%) JIRA
6 5 (38.46%) Finance
6 5 (38.46%) Product Roadmap
6 5 (38.46%) Product Vision
7 4 (30.77%) Strategic Roadmap
8 3 (23.08%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
8 3 (23.08%) Figma
8 3 (23.08%) Miro
8 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 3 (23.08%) CMS
8 3 (23.08%) Scrum
8 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
8 3 (23.08%) Drupal
8 3 (23.08%) WordPress
8 3 (23.08%) QA
8 3 (23.08%) Analytics
8 3 (23.08%) Confluence
8 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
8 3 (23.08%) Prototyping
9 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
9 2 (15.38%) Acceptance Criteria
9 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 3 (23.08%) CMS
1 3 (23.08%) Confluence
1 3 (23.08%) Drupal
1 3 (23.08%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Adobe XD
1 1 (7.69%) InVision
1 1 (7.69%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (7.69%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (23.08%) Figma
1 3 (23.08%) Miro
2 1 (7.69%) AWS
2 1 (7.69%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (7.69%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (7.69%) Power Automate
2 1 (7.69%) Power Platform
2 1 (7.69%) PowerApps
2 1 (7.69%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.69%) Data Hub
1 1 (7.69%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 6 (46.15%) JIRA
General
1 5 (38.46%) Finance
2 3 (23.08%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (15.38%) Banking
3 2 (15.38%) Retail
3 2 (15.38%) Social Skills
4 1 (7.69%) Influencing Skills
Miscellaneous
1 13 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.69%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (7.69%) Educational Technology
2 1 (7.69%) e-Learning
2 1 (7.69%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (7.69%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (76.92%) Agile
2 8 (61.54%) User Stories
3 7 (53.85%) Backlog Management
3 7 (53.85%) Roadmaps
4 6 (46.15%) Product Backlog
5 5 (38.46%) Product Roadmap
5 5 (38.46%) Product Vision
6 4 (30.77%) Strategic Roadmap
7 3 (23.08%) Analytics
7 3 (23.08%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 3 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
7 3 (23.08%) Prototyping
7 3 (23.08%) Scrum
7 3 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (15.38%) Business Intelligence
8 2 (15.38%) CRM
8 2 (15.38%) E-Commerce
8 2 (15.38%) Mentoring
8 2 (15.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 2 (15.38%) User Acceptance Testing
Qualifications
1 1 (7.69%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (23.08%) QA
2 1 (7.69%) Accessibility
2 1 (7.69%) GDPR
2 1 (7.69%) GRC
Vendors
1 3 (23.08%) Microsoft
2 2 (15.38%) Adobe
3 1 (7.69%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (7.69%) Databricks
3 1 (7.69%) IBM