Product Owner Contracts in the South East

Product Owner
England > South East

The median Product Owner daily rate in the South East is £450, 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 138 160 178
Rank change year-on-year +22 +18 +51
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Product Owner 23 28 28
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.65% 0.59% 0.50%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.72% 0.64% 0.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 17 25 18
10th Percentile £324 £340 £350
25th Percentile £400 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £538 £575 £620
90th Percentile £565 £708 £691
England median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £101.75
Median hourly rate - - £103.50
75th Percentile - - £105.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate - - £103.50

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
South East

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the South East. 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 the South East with a recognized job title 3,185 4,402 5,290
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.28% 92.25% 95.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,050 2,665 3,629
10th Percentile £205 £251 £213
25th Percentile £375 £400 £380
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% +3.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £634 £613
90th Percentile £675 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 289 363 232
10th Percentile £13.75 £16.00 £16.00
25th Percentile £15.50 £27.25 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.35 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -56.15% +14.70% +122.22%
75th Percentile £57.50 £74.31 £65.44
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.86
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.60% +68.69%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in the South East

Product Owner
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Product Owner job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Product Owner job vacancies in the South East

Product Owner
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Product Owner in the South East

Product Owner
Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Product Owner job vacancies in the South East.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Product Owner job vacancies in the South East

Product Owner
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Owner within the South East region over the 6 months to 25 August 2025. 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Thames Valley -4 9 £525 -8.70% 28
Berkshire +11 8 £525 -8.70% 22
Hampshire +17 7 £358 +2.14% 1
West Sussex +5 5 £450 -45.45% 4
Surrey +9 2 £410 -18.00% 2
Oxfordshire - 1 £588 - 2
Product Owner
England

Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 South East region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 22 (95.65%) Product Ownership
2 15 (65.22%) Agile
3 11 (47.83%) Scrum
4 10 (43.48%) Roadmaps
5 9 (39.13%) User Stories
6 7 (30.43%) Product Backlog
7 5 (21.74%) Backlog Management
7 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
7 5 (21.74%) Product Roadmap
7 5 (21.74%) Product Management
7 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (17.39%) Marketing
8 4 (17.39%) Finance
8 4 (17.39%) Sprint Planning
8 4 (17.39%) Sprint Review
8 4 (17.39%) Acceptance Criteria
9 3 (13.04%) Scaled Agile Framework
9 3 (13.04%) Backlog Refinement
9 3 (13.04%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 3 (13.04%) Business Strategy
9 3 (13.04%) Product Strategy
9 3 (13.04%) Product Vision
9 3 (13.04%) Sprint Retrospective
9 3 (13.04%) Migration
9 3 (13.04%) CRM
9 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
9 3 (13.04%) Banking
9 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
9 3 (13.04%) Security Operations
10 2 (8.70%) Fintech

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 1 (4.35%) WebSphere
Business Applications
1 2 (8.70%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (8.70%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.70%) AWS
1 2 (8.70%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (4.35%) Amazon S3
2 1 (4.35%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (4.35%) Azure
2 1 (4.35%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.35%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (4.35%) DynamoDB
1 1 (4.35%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (4.35%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (8.70%) JIRA
2 1 (4.35%) git-flow
General
1 5 (21.74%) Social Skills
2 4 (17.39%) Finance
2 4 (17.39%) Marketing
3 3 (13.04%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (13.04%) Banking
4 2 (8.70%) Public Sector
4 2 (8.70%) Telecoms
5 1 (4.35%) Automotive
5 1 (4.35%) Presentation Skills
5 1 (4.35%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 22 (95.65%) Product Ownership
2 2 (8.70%) Onboarding
3 1 (4.35%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.35%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (4.35%) Management Information System
3 1 (4.35%) Mobile App
3 1 (4.35%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (65.22%) Agile
2 11 (47.83%) Scrum
3 10 (43.48%) Roadmaps
4 9 (39.13%) User Stories
5 7 (30.43%) Product Backlog
6 5 (21.74%) Backlog Management
6 5 (21.74%) Product Management
6 5 (21.74%) Product Roadmap
6 5 (21.74%) Stakeholder Management
7 4 (17.39%) Acceptance Criteria
7 4 (17.39%) Sprint Planning
7 4 (17.39%) Sprint Review
8 3 (13.04%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 3 (13.04%) Backlog Refinement
8 3 (13.04%) Business Strategy
8 3 (13.04%) Product Strategy
8 3 (13.04%) Product Vision
8 3 (13.04%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 3 (13.04%) Security Operations
8 3 (13.04%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 2 (8.70%) SQL
2 1 (4.35%) Java
2 1 (4.35%) Korn
Qualifications
1 2 (8.70%) Security Cleared
2 1 (4.35%) CSPO
2 1 (4.35%) OCP
2 1 (4.35%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.70%) QA
2 1 (4.35%) PCI DSS
2 1 (4.35%) PSD2
Systems Management
1 1 (4.35%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (13.04%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.70%) HubSpot
2 2 (8.70%) Salesforce
3 1 (4.35%) SAP
3 1 (4.35%) ServiceNow