Product Owner Contracts in Reading

Product Owner
Berkshire > Reading

The median Product Owner daily rate in Reading is £504, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 53 91 69
Rank change year-on-year +38 -22 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 7 6 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Reading 1.18% 0.50% 1.85%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.25% 0.54% 1.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 9
10th Percentile - £595 -
25th Percentile £477 £625 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £504 £682 £500
Median % change year-on-year -26.17% +36.40% -2.75%
75th Percentile £550 £715 £588
90th Percentile - £715 £690
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £650 £450
% change year-on-year -22.54% +44.44% -13.38%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Reading

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Reading. 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 Reading with a recognized job title 559 1,110 984
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.11% 93.28% 95.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 337 632 658
10th Percentile £319 £213 £363
25th Percentile £450 £413 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £533 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.19% -3.09% +10.00%
75th Percentile £638 £623 £654
90th Percentile £700 £688 £721
Berkshire median daily rate £504 £513 £525
% change year-on-year -1.76% -2.38% +7.03%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 51 23
10th Percentile - £35.00 £45.50
25th Percentile - £52.90 £53.00
Median hourly rate £70.00 £61.60 £65.00
Median % change year-on-year +13.64% -5.23% +150.00%
75th Percentile £71.80 £74.66 £74.40
90th Percentile £75.03 £87.46 £79.19
Berkshire median hourly rate £63.37 £59.00 £56.89
% change year-on-year +7.41% +3.72% +170.88%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in Reading

Product Owner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

Daily rate trend for Product Owner in Reading

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 Reading region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Telecoms
1 7 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (85.71%) Roadmaps
3 4 (57.14%) Scrum
3 4 (57.14%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 4 (57.14%) B2B
3 4 (57.14%) Agile
3 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
4 2 (28.57%) User Stories
4 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Blue Prism
4 2 (28.57%) Wireframes
4 2 (28.57%) Rakuten
4 2 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (28.57%) Customer-Centricity
4 2 (28.57%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
4 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (28.57%) Appian
4 2 (28.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
4 2 (28.57%) Thought Leadership
4 2 (28.57%) Epics
4 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
4 2 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (28.57%) JIRA
4 2 (28.57%) Lean Six Sigma
4 2 (28.57%) Use Case
4 2 (28.57%) Cisco

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Reading 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 2 (28.57%) Appian
Development Applications
1 2 (28.57%) JIRA
General
1 7 (100.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (85.71%) Roadmaps
2 4 (57.14%) Agile
2 4 (57.14%) B2B
2 4 (57.14%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 4 (57.14%) Scrum
2 4 (57.14%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (28.57%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (28.57%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (28.57%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 2 (28.57%) Decision-Making
3 2 (28.57%) Epics
3 2 (28.57%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (28.57%) Root Cause Analysis
3 2 (28.57%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 2 (28.57%) Software Delivery
3 2 (28.57%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (28.57%) Thought Leadership
3 2 (28.57%) User Stories
3 2 (28.57%) Wireframes
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Blue Prism
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Microsoft
1 2 (28.57%) Nokia
1 2 (28.57%) Rakuten