Product Owner Contracts in England

Product Owner
UK > England

The median Product Owner daily rate in England is £504, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 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
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 372 328 372
Rank change year-on-year -44 +44 -25
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 114 215 286
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.47% 0.58% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.51% 0.63% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 73 162 227
10th Percentile £356 £406 £450
25th Percentile £416 £500 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -16.08% - +9.09%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £650
90th Percentile £675 £774 £700
UK median daily rate £504 £588 £588
% change year-on-year -14.30% - +6.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £88.62 - -
25th Percentile £88.79 - £101.75
Median hourly rate £92.54 - £103.50
75th Percentile £96.24 - £105.25
90th Percentile £96.39 - -
UK median hourly rate £92.54 - £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 22,374 34,092 44,934
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.74% 94.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,795 22,500 31,965
10th Percentile £293 £285 £313
25th Percentile £406 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £518 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £663
90th Percentile £750 £750 £763
UK median daily rate £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 931 2,543 1,312
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.21 £16.30 £20.00
Median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% +89.04%
75th Percentile £60.00 £61.60 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £28.17 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.89% -16.67% +87.50%

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 31 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
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 31 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 -36 65 £525 -12.50% 89
South East +41 17 £498 -9.55% 15
Midlands +13 16 £380 -32.44% 32
East Midlands +17 9 £358 +59.11% 9
North of England +15 7 £600 +20.00% 51
West Midlands +7 7 £515 -7.42% 23
South West +47 6 £456 -24.00% 13
North West +3 3 £625 +25.00% 25
Yorkshire - 3 £600 - 20
East of England +21 1 - - 8
North East - 1 £475 - 6
Product Owner
UK

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

For the 6 months to 31 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.

1 114 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 75 (65.79%) Agile
3 53 (46.49%) Roadmaps
4 41 (35.96%) Product Backlog
4 41 (35.96%) User Stories
5 39 (34.21%) Social Skills
6 36 (31.58%) Scrum
7 35 (30.70%) Product Roadmap
8 29 (25.44%) Backlog Management
9 28 (24.56%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 28 (24.56%) Product Vision
10 27 (23.68%) Product Management
10 27 (23.68%) Finance
11 26 (22.81%) User Experience
12 25 (21.93%) Problem-Solving
13 22 (19.30%) Stakeholder Management
13 22 (19.30%) Azure
14 21 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
15 20 (17.54%) Continuous Improvement
16 19 (16.67%) JIRA
17 18 (15.79%) Acceptance Criteria
17 18 (15.79%) Product Strategy
18 15 (13.16%) Public Sector
18 15 (13.16%) SaaS
19 13 (11.40%) DevOps
19 13 (11.40%) Scaled Agile Framework
19 13 (11.40%) Decision-Making
20 11 (9.65%) Security Cleared
20 11 (9.65%) Project Management
20 11 (9.65%) Microsoft

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 9 (7.89%) Confluence
2 4 (3.51%) CMS
3 2 (1.75%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (1.75%) WordPress
4 1 (0.88%) Apache
4 1 (0.88%) Apache Spark
Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.88%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.88%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (0.88%) Primavera
1 1 (0.88%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 22 (19.30%) Azure
2 15 (13.16%) SaaS
3 9 (7.89%) AWS
4 7 (6.14%) Azure DevOps
5 5 (4.39%) Figma
5 5 (4.39%) Microsoft 365
6 4 (3.51%) GCP
6 4 (3.51%) Miro
6 4 (3.51%) Power Platform
7 3 (2.63%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (1.75%) Amazon EKS
8 2 (1.75%) Azure AKS
8 2 (1.75%) Serverless
9 1 (0.88%) Azure Event Grid
9 1 (0.88%) Azure Functions
9 1 (0.88%) Azure Service Bus
9 1 (0.88%) BigCommerce
9 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Copilot
9 1 (0.88%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (0.88%) Pendo
Communications & Networking
1 4 (3.51%) Firewall
2 3 (2.63%) Network Security
3 2 (1.75%) BGP
3 2 (1.75%) DHCP
3 2 (1.75%) DNS
3 2 (1.75%) EIGRP
3 2 (1.75%) HTTP
3 2 (1.75%) IPsec
3 2 (1.75%) OSPF
3 2 (1.75%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (1.75%) SSL
3 2 (1.75%) TACACS
3 2 (1.75%) VLAN
3 2 (1.75%) VPN
3 2 (1.75%) Wireless
4 1 (0.88%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (1.75%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (1.75%) Power BI
2 1 (0.88%) Big Data
2 1 (0.88%) Data Hub
2 1 (0.88%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.88%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.88%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (0.88%) GIS
2 1 (0.88%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 19 (16.67%) JIRA
2 3 (2.63%) GitLab
3 2 (1.75%) Storybook
4 1 (0.88%) Eclipse
General
1 39 (34.21%) Social Skills
2 27 (23.68%) Finance
3 21 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
4 15 (13.16%) Public Sector
5 9 (7.89%) Banking
5 9 (7.89%) Presentation Skills
6 8 (7.02%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 8 (7.02%) Marketing
7 7 (6.14%) Telecoms
8 6 (5.26%) Retail
9 3 (2.63%) Automotive
10 2 (1.75%) Influencing Skills
10 2 (1.75%) Legal
11 1 (0.88%) Back Office
11 1 (0.88%) Billing
11 1 (0.88%) Electronics
11 1 (0.88%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.88%) Investment Banking
11 1 (0.88%) Organisational Skills
11 1 (0.88%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (2.63%) ADO
1 3 (2.63%) EDI
2 2 (1.75%) FIDO
3 1 (0.88%) .NET
3 1 (0.88%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.88%) RESTful
3 1 (0.88%) VML
3 1 (0.88%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 114 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (2.63%) Mobile App
3 2 (1.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 2 (1.75%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (1.75%) Onboarding
4 1 (0.88%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (0.88%) Digital Media
4 1 (0.88%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (0.88%) Enterprise Software
4 1 (0.88%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (0.88%) IoT
4 1 (0.88%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (0.88%) Management Information System
4 1 (0.88%) PMI
4 1 (0.88%) Reinsurance
4 1 (0.88%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (0.88%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.88%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 75 (65.79%) Agile
2 53 (46.49%) Roadmaps
3 41 (35.96%) Product Backlog
3 41 (35.96%) User Stories
4 36 (31.58%) Scrum
5 35 (30.70%) Product Roadmap
6 29 (25.44%) Backlog Management
7 28 (24.56%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 28 (24.56%) Product Vision
8 27 (23.68%) Product Management
9 26 (22.81%) User Experience
10 25 (21.93%) Problem-Solving
11 22 (19.30%) Stakeholder Management
12 20 (17.54%) Continuous Improvement
13 18 (15.79%) Acceptance Criteria
13 18 (15.79%) Product Strategy
14 13 (11.40%) Decision-Making
14 13 (11.40%) DevOps
14 13 (11.40%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 11 (9.65%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (5.26%) SQL
2 1 (0.88%) C#
2 1 (0.88%) Java
2 1 (0.88%) Korn
2 1 (0.88%) Python
2 1 (0.88%) R
Qualifications
1 11 (9.65%) Security Cleared
2 10 (8.77%) Degree
3 7 (6.14%) SC Cleared
4 3 (2.63%) CSPO
5 1 (0.88%) (ISC)2 CCSP
5 1 (0.88%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (0.88%) CCSP
5 1 (0.88%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (0.88%) CISM
5 1 (0.88%) CISMP
5 1 (0.88%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (0.88%) Master's Degree
5 1 (0.88%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (5.26%) QA
2 3 (2.63%) Accessibility
2 3 (2.63%) GRC
3 2 (1.75%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 2 (1.75%) NIST
3 2 (1.75%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.88%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (0.88%) COPPA
4 1 (0.88%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.88%) GDPR
4 1 (0.88%) WCAG
System Software
1 2 (1.75%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (3.51%) Kubernetes
2 3 (2.63%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (1.75%) Nagios
3 2 (1.75%) Terraform
4 1 (0.88%) SCCM
Vendors
1 11 (9.65%) Microsoft
2 6 (5.26%) Salesforce
3 4 (3.51%) Cisco
3 4 (3.51%) Databricks
4 3 (2.63%) IBM
4 3 (2.63%) Sitecore
5 2 (1.75%) Adobe
5 2 (1.75%) Arista
5 2 (1.75%) Google
5 2 (1.75%) Juniper
5 2 (1.75%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.75%) SolarWinds
6 1 (0.88%) Citrix
6 1 (0.88%) Kronos
6 1 (0.88%) OneTrust
6 1 (0.88%) SAP
6 1 (0.88%) Zscaler