Product Owner Contract Job Trends in Tyne and Wear

Product Owner
North East > Tyne and Wear

The median Product Owner daily rate in Tyne and Wear is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 February 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 52 - 29
Rank change year-on-year - - +29
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 4 0 2
As % of all contract jobs in Tyne and Wear 0.91% - 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% - 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 2
10th Percentile £423 - -
25th Percentile £438 - £468
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 - £485
Median % change year-on-year - - -3.00%
75th Percentile £488 - £503
90th Percentile - - -
North East median daily rate £475 - £485
% change year-on-year - - -3.00%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Tyne and Wear

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Tyne and Wear. 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 Tyne and Wear with a recognized job title 426 223 214
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 96.60% 89.20% 93.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 292 145 110
10th Percentile £163 £268 £187
25th Percentile £344 £335 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £425 £481
Median % change year-on-year +2.94% -11.64% -12.55%
75th Percentile £508 £575 £588
90th Percentile £588 £645 £702
North East median daily rate £450 £457 £450
% change year-on-year -1.53% +1.56% -18.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 20 4 39
10th Percentile £14.42 £14.71 £11.50
25th Percentile £20.41 £14.74 £12.13
Median hourly rate £50.25 £18.75 £13.99
Median % change year-on-year +168.00% +34.02% -20.06%
75th Percentile £56.25 £31.31 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.94 £41.78 £60.00
North East median hourly rate £50.25 £46.18 £15.73
% change year-on-year +8.81% +193.58% -56.00%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear.

Product Owner job vacancy trend in Tyne and Wear

Product Owner
Daily Rate Trend in Tyne and Wear

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Product Owner job vacancies in Tyne and Wear.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Product Owner job vacancies in Tyne and Wear

Product Owner
Contract Job Locations in Tyne and Wear

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 Tyne and Wear region over the 6 months to 6 February 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
Newcastle upon Tyne - 3 £475 - 4
Sunderland - 1 - -
Product Owner
North East

Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear

For the 6 months to 6 February 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 Tyne and Wear region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 3 (75.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) BPSS Clearance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
1 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (75.00%) Product Vision
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (75.00%) Use Case
1 3 (75.00%) User Stories
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 2 (50.00%) Product Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
3 1 (25.00%) AWS
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
3 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (25.00%) Batch Processing
3 1 (25.00%) Cost Optimisation
3 1 (25.00%) Data Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Data Governance
3 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
3 1 (25.00%) Data Management
3 1 (25.00%) Databricks

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Tyne and Wear 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 (25.00%) Amazon S3
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
1 1 (25.00%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (25.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (25.00%) Metadata
General
1 1 (25.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Analytics
1 3 (75.00%) Decision-Making
1 3 (75.00%) Product Vision
1 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
1 3 (75.00%) Use Case
1 3 (75.00%) User Stories
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
2 2 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 2 (50.00%) Product Requirements
2 2 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (25.00%) Internal Audit
3 1 (25.00%) Mentoring
3 1 (25.00%) Sprint Planning
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (75.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Certification
2 1 (25.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (25.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (75.00%) Data Quality
2 1 (25.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Databricks
1 1 (25.00%) Workday