Product Owner Contracts in Manchester

Product Owner
North West > Manchester

The median Product Owner daily rate in Manchester is £580, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 25 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
25 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 83 88 100
Rank change year-on-year +5 +12 +37
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Product Owner 5 1 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 0.49% 0.083% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.53% 0.086% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 7
10th Percentile £470 - £506
25th Percentile £489 - £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% +4.35% +24.32%
75th Percentile £700 - £588
90th Percentile £718 - -
North West median daily rate £554 £518 £569
% change year-on-year +7.00% -9.01% +22.97%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in Manchester with a recognized job title 942 1,162 1,627
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 95.95% 94.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 594 739 1,197
10th Percentile £300 £313 £300
25th Percentile £400 £411 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £713 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -8.72% -1.40% +2.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 77 48 57
10th Percentile £13.00 £15.59 £15.72
25th Percentile £14.13 £21.81 £16.85
Median hourly rate £21.10 £43.75 £19.50
Median % change year-on-year -51.77% +124.36% +11.43%
75th Percentile £50.00 £62.50 £40.00
90th Percentile £73.00 £86.00 £67.60
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £34.00 £30.65
% change year-on-year -26.03% +10.94% +32.93%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in Manchester

Product Owner
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Product Owner job vacancies in Manchester.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Product Owner job vacancies in Manchester

Product Owner
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Owner in Manchester over the 6 months to 25 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Owner in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 25 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 Manchester region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 5 (100.00%) Agile
1 5 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (80.00%) Product Backlog
2 4 (80.00%) Backlog Management
3 3 (60.00%) Product Vision
3 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
3 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (60.00%) User Stories
4 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
4 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (40.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (20.00%) Process Improvement
5 1 (20.00%) Analytics
5 1 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
5 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
5 1 (20.00%) Finance
5 1 (20.00%) Games
5 1 (20.00%) PLM
5 1 (20.00%) Data Management
5 1 (20.00%) Supplier Management
5 1 (20.00%) Data Extraction
5 1 (20.00%) Mentoring
5 1 (20.00%) Coaching
5 1 (20.00%) Dashboard Development
5 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
5 1 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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:

Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (20.00%) Data Warehouse
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Games
2 1 (20.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Agile
2 4 (80.00%) Backlog Management
2 4 (80.00%) Product Backlog
3 3 (60.00%) Product Vision
3 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (60.00%) User Stories
4 2 (40.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
5 1 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
5 1 (20.00%) Data Extraction
5 1 (20.00%) Data Management
5 1 (20.00%) Identity Access Management
5 1 (20.00%) PLM
5 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
5 1 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
5 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 1 (20.00%) Supplier Management
5 1 (20.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft