Product Owner Contract Job Trends in Reading

Product Owner
Berkshire > Reading

The median Product Owner daily rate in Reading is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 October 2025.

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

6 months to
12 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 56 84 -
Rank change year-on-year +28 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 6 11 0
As % of all contract jobs in Reading 1.03% 1.01% -
As % of the Job Titles category 1.13% 1.13% -
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 0
10th Percentile £425 £538 -
25th Percentile £466 £594 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £675 -
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% - -
75th Percentile £538 £700 -
90th Percentile - - -
Berkshire median daily rate £525 £575 £375
% change year-on-year -8.70% +53.33% -31.03%

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 531 973 1,023
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.08% 89.02% 93.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 345 540 696
10th Percentile £325 £329 £263
25th Percentile £450 £469 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +9.52% +5.00%
75th Percentile £609 £650 £626
90th Percentile £650 £700 £700
Berkshire median daily rate £500 £540 £520
% change year-on-year -7.41% +3.85% +4.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 29 14
10th Percentile - £48.18 £59.44
25th Percentile £14.75 £57.50 £61.22
Median hourly rate £28.00 £61.60 £65.56
Median % change year-on-year -54.55% -6.04% +19.20%
75th Percentile £62.50 £97.50 £74.59
90th Percentile £68.75 £100.00 £75.18
Berkshire median hourly rate £32.31 £61.50 £62.40
% change year-on-year -47.46% -1.44% +23.55%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in Reading

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 Reading.

Product Owner job vacancy trend in Reading

Product Owner
Daily Rate Trend in Reading

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

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

Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading

For the 6 months to 12 October 2025, 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 Reading region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (66.67%) Scrum
2 4 (66.67%) Agile
3 3 (50.00%) Marketing
3 3 (50.00%) CRM
3 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 3 (50.00%) User Stories
3 3 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
3 3 (50.00%) Sprint Review
3 3 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 2 (33.33%) Product Backlog
4 2 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
4 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) Salesforce
4 2 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
4 2 (33.33%) HubSpot
5 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (16.67%) Procure-to-Pay
5 1 (16.67%) Order to Cash
5 1 (16.67%) Record to Report
5 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
5 1 (16.67%) AWS
5 1 (16.67%) ITSM
5 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
5 1 (16.67%) Finance
5 1 (16.67%) Migration
5 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (16.67%) Microsoft

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Reading 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (33.33%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (16.67%) PostgreSQL
General
1 3 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Miscellaneous
1 6 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Agile
1 4 (66.67%) Scrum
2 3 (50.00%) Backlog Refinement
2 3 (50.00%) CRM
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
2 3 (50.00%) Sprint Review
2 3 (50.00%) User Stories
3 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Product Backlog
3 2 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
4 1 (16.67%) Data Migration
4 1 (16.67%) ITSM
4 1 (16.67%) Migration
4 1 (16.67%) Order to Cash
4 1 (16.67%) Procure-to-Pay
4 1 (16.67%) Record to Report
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) HubSpot
1 2 (33.33%) Salesforce
2 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
2 1 (16.67%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow