Product Owner Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Product Owner
Wales > South Wales

The median Product Owner daily rate in South Wales is £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 37 - 40
Rank change year-on-year - - +16
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 1 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.31% - 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.33% - 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £535
25th Percentile £425 - £550
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 - £600
Median % change year-on-year - - +37.14%
75th Percentile £475 - £650
90th Percentile - - £665
Wales median daily rate £450 - £600
% change year-on-year - - +37.14%

All Contract IT Job Roles
South Wales

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in South Wales. 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 South Wales with a recognized job title 305 277 321
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.14% 89.07% 94.97%
Number of daily rates quoted 196 175 243
10th Percentile £193 £173 £160
25th Percentile £290 £213 £220
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £413
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% +3.03% -13.16%
75th Percentile £525 £550 £551
90th Percentile £638 £691 £638
Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £388
% change year-on-year -2.94% +9.68% -15.99%
Number of hourly rates quoted 33 29 22
10th Percentile £13.16 £19.13 £13.70
25th Percentile £15.00 £20.12 £21.27
Median hourly rate £18.18 £25.36 £29.83
Median % change year-on-year -28.31% -14.99% +81.41%
75th Percentile £22.00 £40.00 £53.44
90th Percentile £33.00 £42.75 £55.25
Wales median hourly rate £18.75 £25.18 £29.83
% change year-on-year -25.54% -15.60% +96.14%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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 South Wales.

Product Owner job vacancy trend in South Wales

Product Owner
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

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

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

Product Owner
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 12 January 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
Cardiff - 1 £450 - 1
Product Owner
Wales

Product Owner Skill Set
Top 16 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales

For the 6 months to 12 January 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 South Wales region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Flutter
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Application Development
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
1 1 (100.00%) SQL

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) AngularJS
1 1 (100.00%) CSS
1 1 (100.00%) Flutter
1 1 (100.00%) HTML
1 1 (100.00%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) API Design
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Microservices
1 1 (100.00%) Mobile Application Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) C#
1 1 (100.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (100.00%) SQL