Digital Product Owner Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Digital Product Owner
UK > UK excluding London

The median Digital Product Owner daily rate in the UK excluding London is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 December 2025.

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

6 months to
13 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 396 354 406
Rank change year-on-year -42 +52 +88
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Product Owner 3 6 6
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.017% 0.038% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.019% 0.041% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 3
10th Percentile £475 £320 £633
25th Percentile £494 £339 £644
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £350 £675
Median % change year-on-year +57.14% -48.15% +42.11%
75th Percentile £613 £372 £694
90th Percentile £635 £411 £698
UK median daily rate £550 £425 £640
% change year-on-year +29.41% -33.59% +28.00%

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 16,071 14,630 18,984
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.00% 92.33% 93.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,915 8,581 12,451
10th Percentile £209 £213 £214
25th Percentile £363 £369 £381
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £495 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,589 927 1,250
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.22 £14.36
25th Percentile £17.29 £20.12 £18.26
Median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%
75th Percentile £56.69 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £72.50 £77.05
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £34.75 £44.00
% change year-on-year -27.63% -21.02% +40.98%

Digital Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Digital Product Owner' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Digital Product Owner job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Digital Product Owner
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Digital Product Owner job vacancies in the UK excluding London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Digital Product Owner job vacancies in the UK excluding London

Digital Product Owner
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Product Owner in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Product Owner in the UK excluding London

Digital 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 Digital Product Owner within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 December 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 -15 2 £600 +71.43% 3
North West -15 1 £475 +11.76%
North of England -40 1 £475 +11.76%
Digital Product Owner
UK

Digital Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 13 December 2025, Digital 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 UK excluding London region featuring Digital Product Owner in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) UX Design
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) B2C
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (33.33%) Change Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Customer-Centric Approach
3 1 (33.33%) Decision-Making
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) E-Commerce
3 1 (33.33%) Epics
3 1 (33.33%) Front End Development
3 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
3 1 (33.33%) Product Discovery
3 1 (33.33%) Product Management
3 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Product Vision
3 1 (33.33%) Project Management
3 1 (33.33%) QA
3 1 (33.33%) Responsive Web Design

Digital Product Owner Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

General
1 3 (100.00%) Finance
2 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Influencing Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Online Banking
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Customer-Centricity
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) Business Strategy
2 2 (66.67%) Customer Experience
2 2 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (66.67%) User Experience
2 2 (66.67%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) UX Design
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (33.33%) Digital Banking
3 1 (33.33%) Epics
3 1 (33.33%) Product Backlog
3 1 (33.33%) Product Discovery
3 1 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Planning
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (33.33%) Sprint Review
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA