Product Owner Contracts in England

Product Owner
UK > England

The median Product Owner daily rate in England is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 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
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 357 330 365
Rank change year-on-year -27 +35 -6
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 123 223 312
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.50% 0.60% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.54% 0.65% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 77 167 234
10th Percentile £404 £406 £450
25th Percentile £477 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £594
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -3.16% +7.95%
75th Percentile £673 £675 £650
90th Percentile £713 £751 £696
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £39.70 - -
25th Percentile £58.00 - £101.75
Median hourly rate £92.00 - £103.50
75th Percentile £95.99 - £105.25
90th Percentile £96.29 - -
UK median hourly rate £92.00 - £64.25

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 22,569 34,367 47,263
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.55% 92.70% 94.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,022 22,840 33,555
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £409 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £643 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £760
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 914 2,442 1,404
10th Percentile £14.20 £13.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £18.51 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £31.17 £36.50 £44.32
Median % change year-on-year -14.60% -17.64% +96.98%
75th Percentile £63.75 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.86 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.55% -18.89% +88.21%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in England

Product Owner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Product Owner in England

Product Owner
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Owner in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Owner in England

Product Owner
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Owner in England.

Hourly rate trend for Product Owner in England

Product Owner
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Product Owner in England over the 6 months to 7 May 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Owner in England

Product Owner
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 7 May 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London -24 79 £618 +2.92% 85
South East +28 17 £504 -8.45% 40
Midlands +16 10 £395 -28.94% 23
North of England +14 7 £600 +14.29% 40
South West +36 6 £456 -24.00% 18
West Midlands +14 6 £520 -5.45% 19
North West +11 4 £613 +16.67% 29
East Midlands +11 4 £357 -37.23% 4
Yorkshire +17 3 £600 - 10
East of England +26 1 - - 6
Product Owner
UK

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

For the 6 months to 7 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 England region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 123 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 80 (65.04%) Agile
3 60 (48.78%) Roadmaps
4 43 (34.96%) Social Skills
4 43 (34.96%) User Stories
5 37 (30.08%) Product Backlog
6 32 (26.02%) Finance
7 31 (25.20%) Product Roadmap
8 30 (24.39%) Scrum
9 29 (23.58%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 26 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
11 25 (20.33%) Backlog Management
12 24 (19.51%) User Experience
13 22 (17.89%) Analytical Skills
13 22 (17.89%) Product Management
13 22 (17.89%) Product Vision
14 21 (17.07%) Azure
14 21 (17.07%) Acceptance Criteria
15 20 (16.26%) Product Strategy
16 19 (15.45%) Stakeholder Management
17 18 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
18 15 (12.20%) SaaS
18 15 (12.20%) Analytics
18 15 (12.20%) JIRA
19 14 (11.38%) DevOps
20 13 (10.57%) Data Governance
20 13 (10.57%) Sprint Planning
21 12 (9.76%) Public Sector
21 12 (9.76%) Degree
21 12 (9.76%) Scaled Agile Framework

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 6 (4.88%) Confluence
2 2 (1.63%) CMS
3 1 (0.81%) Appian
3 1 (0.81%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (0.81%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.81%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (2.44%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (0.81%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.81%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.81%) Primavera
2 1 (0.81%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (17.07%) Azure
2 15 (12.20%) SaaS
3 11 (8.94%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (3.25%) AWS
5 3 (2.44%) Dynamics 365
5 3 (2.44%) Figma
5 3 (2.44%) Microsoft 365
5 3 (2.44%) Miro
6 2 (1.63%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (1.63%) Azure AKS
6 2 (1.63%) GCP
6 2 (1.63%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.63%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 2 (1.63%) Serverless
7 1 (0.81%) Apple Pay
7 1 (0.81%) Azure Functions
7 1 (0.81%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (0.81%) Cloud Computing
7 1 (0.81%) Google Pay
7 1 (0.81%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.63%) Firewall
2 1 (0.81%) BGP
2 1 (0.81%) DHCP
2 1 (0.81%) DNS
2 1 (0.81%) EIGRP
2 1 (0.81%) HTTP
2 1 (0.81%) IPsec
2 1 (0.81%) MQTT
2 1 (0.81%) Network Security
2 1 (0.81%) OSPF
2 1 (0.81%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (0.81%) SSL
2 1 (0.81%) TACACS
2 1 (0.81%) VLAN
2 1 (0.81%) VPN
2 1 (0.81%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (7.32%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.81%) Big Data
2 1 (0.81%) Data Hub
2 1 (0.81%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.81%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (0.81%) GIS
2 1 (0.81%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.81%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 15 (12.20%) JIRA
2 2 (1.63%) Balsamiq
2 2 (1.63%) Storybook
3 1 (0.81%) Eclipse
General
1 43 (34.96%) Social Skills
2 32 (26.02%) Finance
3 22 (17.89%) Analytical Skills
4 12 (9.76%) Public Sector
5 11 (8.94%) Banking
6 10 (8.13%) Telecoms
7 8 (6.50%) Front Office
7 8 (6.50%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (5.69%) Organisational Skills
9 6 (4.88%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 6 (4.88%) Retail
10 4 (3.25%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (2.44%) Marketing
12 2 (1.63%) Automotive
12 2 (1.63%) Legal
13 1 (0.81%) Back Office
13 1 (0.81%) Billing
13 1 (0.81%) Electronics
13 1 (0.81%) Financial Institution
13 1 (0.81%) Manufacturing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.44%) ADO
2 2 (1.63%) .NET
2 2 (1.63%) EDI
3 1 (0.81%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.81%) REST
3 1 (0.81%) RESTful
3 1 (0.81%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (0.81%) VML
3 1 (0.81%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 123 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 10 (8.13%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (6.50%) Derivative
3 8 (6.50%) Equities
3 8 (6.50%) Fixed Income
3 8 (6.50%) Hedge funds
4 2 (1.63%) Mobile App
5 1 (0.81%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (0.81%) Digital Media
5 1 (0.81%) Digital Wallet
5 1 (0.81%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (0.81%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (0.81%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (0.81%) IoT
5 1 (0.81%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (0.81%) Onboarding
5 1 (0.81%) Reinsurance
5 1 (0.81%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (0.81%) Replication
5 1 (0.81%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.81%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 80 (65.04%) Agile
2 60 (48.78%) Roadmaps
3 43 (34.96%) User Stories
4 37 (30.08%) Product Backlog
5 31 (25.20%) Product Roadmap
6 30 (24.39%) Scrum
7 29 (23.58%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 26 (21.14%) Problem-Solving
9 25 (20.33%) Backlog Management
10 24 (19.51%) User Experience
11 22 (17.89%) Product Management
11 22 (17.89%) Product Vision
12 21 (17.07%) Acceptance Criteria
13 20 (16.26%) Product Strategy
14 19 (15.45%) Stakeholder Management
15 18 (14.63%) Continuous Improvement
16 15 (12.20%) Analytics
17 14 (11.38%) DevOps
18 13 (10.57%) Data Governance
18 13 (10.57%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 3 (2.44%) SQL
2 1 (0.81%) C#
2 1 (0.81%) Java
2 1 (0.81%) Python
2 1 (0.81%) R
Qualifications
1 12 (9.76%) Degree
2 9 (7.32%) Security Cleared
3 6 (4.88%) SC Cleared
4 2 (1.63%) CSPO
5 1 (0.81%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.81%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.81%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.81%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (8.94%) QA
2 3 (2.44%) GRC
3 2 (1.63%) Accessibility
3 2 (1.63%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.81%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.81%) COPPA
4 1 (0.81%) GDPR
4 1 (0.81%) WCAG
System Software
1 1 (0.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (2.44%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.81%) Nagios
2 1 (0.81%) SCCM
2 1 (0.81%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (5.69%) Salesforce
1 7 (5.69%) ServiceNow
2 6 (4.88%) Microsoft
3 4 (3.25%) SAP
4 3 (2.44%) Cisco
4 3 (2.44%) Google
4 3 (2.44%) IBM
5 2 (1.63%) Adobe
5 2 (1.63%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.63%) Snow
6 1 (0.81%) Arista
6 1 (0.81%) Blue Prism
6 1 (0.81%) Citrix
6 1 (0.81%) Juniper
6 1 (0.81%) Klarna
6 1 (0.81%) Kronos
6 1 (0.81%) Nokia
6 1 (0.81%) OneTrust
6 1 (0.81%) Rakuten
6 1 (0.81%) SolarWinds