Agile Product Owner Contracts in the UK excluding London

Agile Product Owner
UK > UK excluding London

The median Agile Product Owner daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 May 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 335 398 443
Rank change year-on-year +63 +45 +60
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Product Owner 4 1 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.031% 0.005% 0.017%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.034% 0.005% 0.018%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 0 4
10th Percentile £450 - £439
25th Percentile £488 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 - £544
Median % change year-on-year - - -19.44%
75th Percentile - - £644
90th Percentile - - £655
UK median daily rate £550 £613 £550
% change year-on-year -10.20% +11.36% +4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 11,790 19,217 22,597
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.17% 92.60% 94.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,554 11,733 15,842
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £599 £598
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 829 2,245 1,162
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £17.79 £15.75 £18.08
Median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
Median % change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%
75th Percentile £64.52 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
% change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%

Agile Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Agile Product Owner in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Agile Product Owner in the UK excluding London

Agile Product Owner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile Product Owner in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Agile Product Owner in the UK excluding London

Agile Product Owner
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Agile Product Owner within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 2 May 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
South East +47 2 £550 -
South West - 2 £450 -
Agile Product Owner
UK

Agile Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, Agile 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 UK excluding London region featuring Agile Product Owner in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (75.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (75.00%) User Stories
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 2 (50.00%) Software Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Product Backlog
4 1 (25.00%) Pendo
4 1 (25.00%) Human-Centred Design
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Wealth Management
4 1 (25.00%) Market Research
4 1 (25.00%) Product Management
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Straight-Through Processing
4 1 (25.00%) Agile Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Finance
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management

Agile Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (25.00%) Pendo
General
1 3 (75.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (50.00%) Telecoms
3 1 (25.00%) Finance
3 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (75.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (75.00%) User Stories
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Software Delivery
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (25.00%) Agile Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) DevOps
4 1 (25.00%) Market Research
4 1 (25.00%) Product Backlog
4 1 (25.00%) Product Management
4 1 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (25.00%) Project Delivery
4 1 (25.00%) Project Management
4 1 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (25.00%) Straight-Through Processing
4 1 (25.00%) Wealth Management
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) Microsoft