Product Owner Contracts in London

Product Owner
England > London

The median Product Owner daily rate in London is £597, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 270 240 313
Rank change year-on-year -30 +73 -1
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 72 160 181
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.58% 0.91% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.62% 0.98% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 117 143
10th Percentile £428 £425 £464
25th Percentile £511 £525 £525
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £597 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -0.50% - +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £650
90th Percentile £725 £788 £738
England median daily rate £550 £580 £600
% change year-on-year -5.17% -3.33% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £89.68 - -
Median hourly rate £93.08 - -
75th Percentile £96.49 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £92.54 - £103.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 London with a recognized job title 11,540 16,387 25,121
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.32% 93.37% 95.21%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,895 11,838 18,239
10th Percentile £345 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £444 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £677 £688 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 143 324 285
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.01 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.42 £20.02 £22.75
Median hourly rate £34.00 £27.25 £35.50
Median % change year-on-year +24.77% -23.24% +1.43%
75th Percentile £50.97 £45.18 £62.50
90th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £80.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £44.06
% change year-on-year -20.00% -14.88% +91.54%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in London

Product Owner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Product Owner in London

Product Owner
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Owner in London over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Owner in London

Product Owner
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Owner in London

Product Owner
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 14 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
Central London -7 18 £650 +9.47% 5
East London +15 1 £594 +3.30%
Product Owner
England

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

For the 6 months to 14 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 London region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 72 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 41 (56.94%) Agile
3 31 (43.06%) Roadmaps
4 23 (31.94%) Finance
5 22 (30.56%) Social Skills
6 18 (25.00%) User Stories
7 17 (23.61%) Product Backlog
7 17 (23.61%) Analytical Skills
8 15 (20.83%) Backlog Management
8 15 (20.83%) Product Roadmap
9 14 (19.44%) User Experience
10 13 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
10 13 (18.06%) Azure
10 13 (18.06%) Scrum
11 12 (16.67%) Data Governance
12 11 (15.28%) Backlog Prioritisation
13 10 (13.89%) Product Vision
13 10 (13.89%) Acceptance Criteria
13 10 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (13.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
14 9 (12.50%) SaaS
14 9 (12.50%) JIRA
14 9 (12.50%) Data Lake
15 8 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
15 8 (11.11%) Decision-Making
15 8 (11.11%) Product Strategy
15 8 (11.11%) Investment Management
15 8 (11.11%) Hedge funds
15 8 (11.11%) Migration
15 8 (11.11%) Fixed Income

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in 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 4 (5.56%) Confluence
2 2 (2.78%) CMS
3 1 (1.39%) Sitecore CMS
3 1 (1.39%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.39%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.39%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 3 (4.17%) Salesforce CRM
2 1 (1.39%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.39%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 13 (18.06%) Azure
2 9 (12.50%) SaaS
3 6 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (4.17%) Figma
4 3 (4.17%) Miro
5 2 (2.78%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.78%) AWS
5 2 (2.78%) Azure AKS
5 2 (2.78%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.78%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.78%) Salesforce Service Cloud
6 1 (1.39%) Apple Pay
6 1 (1.39%) Azure Event Grid
6 1 (1.39%) Azure Functions
6 1 (1.39%) Azure Service Bus
6 1 (1.39%) BigCommerce
6 1 (1.39%) Google Pay
6 1 (1.39%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.39%) Microsoft Copilot
6 1 (1.39%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.39%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (12.50%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.39%) Big Data
2 1 (1.39%) Data Hub
2 1 (1.39%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.39%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (1.39%) GIS
2 1 (1.39%) MongoDB
2 1 (1.39%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 9 (12.50%) JIRA
2 2 (2.78%) Storybook
3 1 (1.39%) Eclipse
3 1 (1.39%) GitLab
General
1 23 (31.94%) Finance
2 22 (30.56%) Social Skills
3 17 (23.61%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (11.11%) Banking
4 8 (11.11%) Front Office
5 7 (9.72%) Presentation Skills
6 5 (6.94%) Organisational Skills
7 4 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (5.56%) Retail
8 3 (4.17%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (4.17%) Marketing
8 3 (4.17%) Public Sector
9 2 (2.78%) Automotive
10 1 (1.39%) Back Office
10 1 (1.39%) Billing
10 1 (1.39%) Electronics
10 1 (1.39%) Investment Banking
10 1 (1.39%) Legal
10 1 (1.39%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.39%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (4.17%) ADO
2 2 (2.78%) EDI
3 1 (1.39%) .NET
3 1 (1.39%) .NET Framework
3 1 (1.39%) SAP Fiori
3 1 (1.39%) VML
3 1 (1.39%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 72 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 10 (13.89%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 8 (11.11%) Derivative
3 8 (11.11%) Equities
3 8 (11.11%) Fixed Income
3 8 (11.11%) Hedge funds
4 2 (2.78%) Mobile App
5 1 (1.39%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.39%) Digital Media
5 1 (1.39%) Digital Wallet
5 1 (1.39%) Embedded Systems
5 1 (1.39%) IoT
5 1 (1.39%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.39%) PMI
5 1 (1.39%) Reinsurance
5 1 (1.39%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.39%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (56.94%) Agile
2 31 (43.06%) Roadmaps
3 18 (25.00%) User Stories
4 17 (23.61%) Product Backlog
5 15 (20.83%) Backlog Management
5 15 (20.83%) Product Roadmap
6 14 (19.44%) User Experience
7 13 (18.06%) Problem-Solving
7 13 (18.06%) Scrum
8 12 (16.67%) Data Governance
9 11 (15.28%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 10 (13.89%) Acceptance Criteria
10 10 (13.89%) Product Vision
10 10 (13.89%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (11.11%) Decision-Making
11 8 (11.11%) Investment Management
11 8 (11.11%) Migration
11 8 (11.11%) Product Strategy
11 8 (11.11%) Regulatory Compliance
12 7 (9.72%) Requirements Gathering
Programming Languages
1 3 (4.17%) SQL
2 1 (1.39%) C#
2 1 (1.39%) Java
2 1 (1.39%) Python
2 1 (1.39%) R
Qualifications
1 6 (8.33%) Degree
2 5 (6.94%) Security Cleared
3 3 (4.17%) SC Cleared
4 2 (2.78%) CSPO
5 1 (1.39%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.39%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.39%) Master's Degree
5 1 (1.39%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (8.33%) QA
2 3 (4.17%) GRC
3 2 (2.78%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.39%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.39%) Actionable Recommendations
4 1 (1.39%) COPPA
4 1 (1.39%) GDPR
4 1 (1.39%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (2.78%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.39%) SCCM
2 1 (1.39%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (6.94%) Salesforce
1 5 (6.94%) ServiceNow
2 3 (4.17%) IBM
3 2 (2.78%) Adobe
3 2 (2.78%) Google
3 2 (2.78%) SAP
3 2 (2.78%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.39%) Citrix
4 1 (1.39%) Databricks
4 1 (1.39%) Klarna
4 1 (1.39%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.39%) OneTrust
4 1 (1.39%) Snow