Product Owner Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Product Owner
South East > Thames Valley

The median Product Owner daily rate in the Thames Valley is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 99 96 132
Rank change year-on-year -3 +36 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 11 29 10
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.64% 1.35% 0.37%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.71% 1.47% 0.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 16 6
10th Percentile £393 £481 £388
25th Percentile £453 £522 £401
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £418
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% +37.72% -20.48%
75th Percentile £538 £628 £512
90th Percentile £613 £688 £599
South East median daily rate £456 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -17.05% +4.76% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Thames Valley

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Thames Valley. 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 Thames Valley with a recognized job title 1,551 1,968 2,519
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.65% 91.45% 94.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 989 1,111 1,702
10th Percentile £254 £263 £213
25th Percentile £394 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
75th Percentile £588 £608 £615
90th Percentile £663 £675 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £505 £510
% change year-on-year -0.99% -0.98% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 94 87 96
10th Percentile £14.75 £18.50 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.91 £26.00 £24.88
Median hourly rate £25.15 £58.05 £51.48
Median % change year-on-year -56.67% +12.76% +195.42%
75th Percentile £55.00 £64.08 £68.63
90th Percentile £85.98 £95.25 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £24.00 £58.49 £52.50
% change year-on-year -58.97% +11.41% +81.66%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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 the Thames Valley.

Product Owner job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Product Owner
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Product Owner job vacancies in the Thames Valley.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Product Owner job vacancies in the Thames Valley

Product Owner
Daily Rate Histogram in the Thames Valley

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Owner in the Thames Valley over the 6 months to 14 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Owner in the Thames Valley

Product Owner
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Berkshire -6 10 £525 -8.70% 9
Oxfordshire - 1 £588 -
Product Owner
South East

Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley

For the 6 months to 14 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 Thames Valley region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 11 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 8 (72.73%) Agile
3 7 (63.64%) Scrum
3 7 (63.64%) Roadmaps
4 6 (54.55%) User Stories
5 5 (45.45%) Sprint Planning
5 5 (45.45%) Backlog Refinement
6 4 (36.36%) Product Backlog
6 4 (36.36%) Sprint Retrospective
6 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
6 4 (36.36%) Marketing
7 3 (27.27%) Azure
7 3 (27.27%) CRM
7 3 (27.27%) Product Vision
7 3 (27.27%) Sprint Review
7 3 (27.27%) Product Roadmap
7 3 (27.27%) Backlog Management
8 2 (18.18%) Product Strategy
8 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (18.18%) DevOps
8 2 (18.18%) HubSpot
8 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
8 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
8 2 (18.18%) Migration
8 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
8 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
8 2 (18.18%) Dynamics CRM
8 2 (18.18%) Product Management

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (9.09%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (18.18%) Dynamics CRM
Cloud Services
1 3 (27.27%) Azure
2 2 (18.18%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (9.09%) AWS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (9.09%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (9.09%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (9.09%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 2 (18.18%) JIRA
General
1 4 (36.36%) Marketing
1 4 (36.36%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Influencing Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Telecoms
3 1 (9.09%) Automotive
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Law
3 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 11 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) Roadmaps
2 7 (63.64%) Scrum
3 6 (54.55%) User Stories
4 5 (45.45%) Backlog Refinement
4 5 (45.45%) Sprint Planning
5 4 (36.36%) Product Backlog
5 4 (36.36%) Sprint Retrospective
6 3 (27.27%) Backlog Management
6 3 (27.27%) CRM
6 3 (27.27%) Product Roadmap
6 3 (27.27%) Product Vision
6 3 (27.27%) Sprint Review
7 2 (18.18%) Acceptance Criteria
7 2 (18.18%) Business Strategy
7 2 (18.18%) DevOps
7 2 (18.18%) Migration
7 2 (18.18%) Product Management
7 2 (18.18%) Product Strategy
7 2 (18.18%) Stakeholder Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (9.09%) Java
Vendors
1 2 (18.18%) HubSpot
1 2 (18.18%) Salesforce
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) SAP
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow