Product Owner Contract Job Trends in Newcastle upon Tyne

Product Owner
Tyne and Wear > Newcastle upon Tyne

The median Product Owner daily rate in Newcastle upon Tyne is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - +28
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 3 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Newcastle upon Tyne 0.74% - 1.05%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.76% - 1.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £423 - -
25th Percentile £438 - £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £485
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.00%
75th Percentile £488 - £503
90th Percentile - - -
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £475 - £485
% change year-on-year - - -3.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Newcastle upon Tyne

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne. 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 Newcastle upon Tyne with a recognized job title 393 202 177
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 97.52% 88.99% 92.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 270 130 98
10th Percentile £163 £259 £224
25th Percentile £346 £343 £378
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £428 £495
Median % change year-on-year +2.34% -13.64% -10.00%
75th Percentile £513 £575 £597
90th Percentile £588 £650 £717
Tyne and Wear median daily rate £438 £425 £481
% change year-on-year +2.94% -11.64% -12.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 18 3 20
10th Percentile £17.88 £14.70 £12.26
25th Percentile £28.69 £14.72 £16.25
Median hourly rate £52.50 £16.50 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year +218.18% -65.26% +171.43%
75th Percentile £58.75 £33.50 £52.50
90th Percentile £62.83 £42.65 £68.75
Tyne and Wear median hourly rate £50.25 £18.75 £13.99
% change year-on-year +168.00% +34.02% -20.06%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Product Owner' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Product Owner job vacancy trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Product Owner
Daily Rate Trend in Newcastle upon Tyne

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Product Owner job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Product Owner job vacancies in Newcastle upon Tyne

Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne

For the 6 months to 6 February 2026, Product Owner contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the Newcastle upon Tyne region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (100.00%) Product Vision
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Use Case
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Product Backlog
2 2 (66.67%) Product Requirements
2 2 (66.67%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
3 1 (33.33%) AWS
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
3 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (33.33%) Batch Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data Engineering
3 1 (33.33%) Data Governance
3 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
3 1 (33.33%) Databricks
3 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Newcastle upon Tyne by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon S3
1 1 (33.33%) AWS
1 1 (33.33%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (33.33%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (33.33%) Data Lake
1 1 (33.33%) Metadata
General
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 3 (100.00%) Analytics
1 3 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (100.00%) Product Vision
1 3 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (100.00%) Use Case
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Agile
2 2 (66.67%) AI
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (66.67%) Product Backlog
2 2 (66.67%) Product Requirements
2 2 (66.67%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Batch Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (33.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (33.33%) AWS Certification
2 1 (33.33%) SC Cleared
2 1 (33.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (100.00%) Data Quality
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Databricks