Product Owner Contracts in Hertfordshire

Product Owner
East of England > Hertfordshire

The median Product Owner daily rate in Hertfordshire is £425, 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 49 - 65
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 3 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Hertfordshire 0.68% - 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.80% - 0.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £403 - £484
25th Percentile £406 - £497
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £538
Median % change year-on-year - - -6.52%
75th Percentile £488 - £572
90th Percentile £518 - £581
East of England median daily rate £425 £410 £500
% change year-on-year +3.66% -18.00% -9.09%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Hertfordshire

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Hertfordshire. 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 Hertfordshire with a recognized job title 376 615 707
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.88% 88.74% 94.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 167 240 417
10th Percentile £220 £224 £250
25th Percentile £425 £322 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £444 £505
Median % change year-on-year +18.31% -12.13% +1.00%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £675
90th Percentile £688 £625 £738
East of England median daily rate £500 £425 £475
% change year-on-year +17.65% -10.53% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 121 237 127
10th Percentile £20.64 £16.04 £16.82
25th Percentile £36.00 £43.00 £47.00
Median hourly rate £55.00 £50.00 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -23.08% +16.07%
75th Percentile £67.00 £65.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £70.00 £90.00
East of England median hourly rate £43.00 £47.50 £26.48
% change year-on-year -9.47% +79.41% +33.64%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in Hertfordshire

Product Owner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Hertfordshire

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

Daily rate trend for Product Owner in Hertfordshire

Product Owner
Contract Job Locations in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region over the 6 months to 18 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Welwyn Garden City - 1 £400 -
Product Owner
East of England

Product Owner Skill Set
Top 26 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire

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 Hertfordshire region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
2 2 (66.67%) Use Case
2 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Management
2 2 (66.67%) Product Backlog
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (33.33%) Product Vision
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (33.33%) Confluence
3 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
3 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (33.33%) Workflow
3 1 (33.33%) Scrum
3 1 (33.33%) Agile
3 1 (33.33%) Retail
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Management
3 1 (33.33%) JIRA
3 1 (33.33%) SOAR
3 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
3 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Hertfordshire 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 (33.33%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (33.33%) JIRA
General
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Backlog Management
1 2 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 2 (66.67%) Cybersecurity
1 2 (66.67%) Product Backlog
1 2 (66.67%) Requirements Gathering
1 2 (66.67%) Sprint Planning
1 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 2 (66.67%) Use Case
1 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 1 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (33.33%) Agile
2 1 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
2 1 (33.33%) Customer Experience
2 1 (33.33%) Incident Response
2 1 (33.33%) Product Vision
2 1 (33.33%) Scrum
2 1 (33.33%) SOAR
2 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
2 1 (33.33%) Threat Detection
2 1 (33.33%) Workflow