Technical Product Owner Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Technical Product Owner
England > North of England

The median Technical Product Owner daily rate in the North of England is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 June 2026.

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

6 months to
2 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 237 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Product Owner 5 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.076% - -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.083% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 0
10th Percentile £431 - -
25th Percentile £476 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 - -
75th Percentile £524 - -
90th Percentile £567 - -
England median daily rate £520 £475 £515
% change year-on-year +9.47% -7.72% -6.41%

All Contract IT Job Roles
North of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the North of 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 the North of England with a recognized job title 6,046 3,108 4,410
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.76% 93.31% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,583 2,054 2,721
10th Percentile £313 £250 £263
25th Percentile £400 £375 £386
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £469 £480
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% -2.40% -4.00%
75th Percentile £575 £550 £580
90th Percentile £669 £638 £670
England median daily rate £518 £519 £525
% change year-on-year -0.19% -1.24% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 470 165 435
10th Percentile £17.01 £12.75 £11.09
25th Percentile £25.49 £14.13 £13.00
Median hourly rate £46.65 £22.14 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year +110.70% -1.60% -21.60%
75th Percentile £70.00 £47.12 £47.50
90th Percentile £78.75 £74.50 £66.61
England median hourly rate £45.00 £30.00 £37.75
% change year-on-year +50.00% -20.53% -16.11%

Technical Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Product Owner' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Technical Product Owner job vacancy trend in the North of England

Technical Product Owner
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Product Owner job vacancies in the North of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Technical Product Owner job vacancies in the North of England

Technical Product Owner
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Product Owner in the North of England over the 6 months to 2 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Product Owner in the North of England

Technical Product Owner
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Product Owner within the North of England region over the 6 months to 2 June 2026. 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
North West - 4 £500 - 2
Yorkshire - 1 £500 - 1
Technical Product Owner
England

Technical Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England

For the 6 months to 2 June 2026, Technical 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 North of England region featuring Technical Product Owner in the job title.

1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) Product Backlog
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) User Stories
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Backlog Management
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) JIRA
3 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (40.00%) Product Management
3 2 (40.00%) Product Vision
3 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) 802.1X
4 1 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 1 (20.00%) AI
4 1 (20.00%) Asset Management
4 1 (20.00%) Big Data
4 1 (20.00%) Business Process Modelling
4 1 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 1 (20.00%) Campaign Management
4 1 (20.00%) CASB
4 1 (20.00%) CI/CD
4 1 (20.00%) Cloud Security
4 1 (20.00%) Collaborative Working

Technical Product Owner Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Dynamics CRM
Communications & Networking
1 1 (20.00%) Firewall
1 1 (20.00%) Intrusion Detection
1 1 (20.00%) Network Security
1 1 (20.00%) NGFW
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) Big Data
Development Applications
1 2 (40.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (20.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (20.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (20.00%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
2 3 (60.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
2 3 (60.00%) Decision-Making
2 3 (60.00%) Product Backlog
2 3 (60.00%) Risk Management
2 3 (60.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) User Stories
3 2 (40.00%) Analytics
3 2 (40.00%) Backlog Management
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Product Management
3 2 (40.00%) Product Vision
3 2 (40.00%) Security Operations
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
4 1 (20.00%) Open Source
4 1 (20.00%) Problem Management
4 1 (20.00%) Use Case
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 1 (20.00%) ISO/IEC 27002 (supersedes ISO/IEC 17799)
1 1 (20.00%) NIST
1 1 (20.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (20.00%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 1 (20.00%) CASB
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Optimizely