Product Owner Contracts in the UK excluding London

Product Owner
UK > UK excluding London

The median Product Owner daily rate in the UK excluding London is £456, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 28 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
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 290 330 305
Rank change year-on-year +40 -25 -8
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 51 63 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.40% 0.31% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.43% 0.33% 0.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 34 48 97
10th Percentile £356 £341 £406
25th Percentile £403 £416 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £456 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -17.09% +2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £545 £595 £600
90th Percentile £623 £688 £654
UK median daily rate £514 £580 £575
% change year-on-year -11.42% +0.87% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £88.50 - £101.75
Median hourly rate £92.00 - £103.50
75th Percentile £95.50 - £105.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £92.54 - £64.25

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 11,743 18,990 21,702
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.70% 92.39% 94.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,480 11,558 15,099
10th Percentile £213 £213 £225
25th Percentile £363 £363 £394
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.56% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £594 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £508 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.33% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 830 2,352 1,089
10th Percentile £13.78 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.75 £17.79
Median hourly rate £25.23 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -36.94% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.64 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% -18.89% +87.50%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in the UK excluding London

Product Owner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Product Owner in the UK excluding London

Product Owner
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Owner in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Owner in the UK excluding London

Product Owner
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Owner in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Product Owner in the UK excluding London

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 Product Owner within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 28 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 +41 15 £500 -9.09% 18
Midlands +17 15 £402 -26.91% 32
East Midlands +11 8 £380 +68.89% 7
North of England +10 7 £600 +20.00% 39
West Midlands +4 7 £515 -6.36% 25
Scotland +4 7 £500 +1.52% 7
South West +47 6 £456 -24.00% 13
Yorkshire +13 3 £600 - 11
North West -4 3 £625 +25.00% 21
East of England +26 1 - - 4
North East - 1 £475 - 7
Product Owner
UK

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

For the 6 months to 28 May 2025, 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 Product Owner in the job title.

1 51 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 42 (82.35%) Agile
3 22 (43.14%) Product Management
3 22 (43.14%) Roadmaps
4 21 (41.18%) Product Backlog
4 21 (41.18%) Social Skills
4 21 (41.18%) Scrum
4 21 (41.18%) User Stories
5 20 (39.22%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 18 (35.29%) Finance
7 17 (33.33%) Product Vision
8 15 (29.41%) Product Roadmap
9 14 (27.45%) Backlog Management
9 14 (27.45%) Continuous Improvement
10 11 (21.57%) User Experience
10 11 (21.57%) Product Strategy
10 11 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
11 10 (19.61%) Public Sector
11 10 (19.61%) Acceptance Criteria
12 9 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
13 8 (15.69%) UX Design
13 8 (15.69%) JIRA
13 8 (15.69%) Project Management
13 8 (15.69%) Azure
13 8 (15.69%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 7 (13.73%) Decision-Making
15 6 (11.76%) Sprint Planning
15 6 (11.76%) Customer Experience
15 6 (11.76%) Objectives and Key Results
15 6 (11.76%) AWS

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:

Application Platforms
1 4 (7.84%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.96%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.96%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 8 (15.69%) Azure
2 6 (11.76%) AWS
3 5 (9.80%) SaaS
4 4 (7.84%) GCP
4 4 (7.84%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.96%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.96%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.96%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.96%) Pendo
5 1 (1.96%) Power Platform
5 1 (1.96%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.84%) Firewall
2 2 (3.92%) BGP
2 2 (3.92%) DHCP
2 2 (3.92%) DNS
2 2 (3.92%) EIGRP
2 2 (3.92%) HTTP
2 2 (3.92%) IPsec
2 2 (3.92%) Network Security
2 2 (3.92%) OSPF
2 2 (3.92%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (3.92%) SSL
2 2 (3.92%) TACACS
2 2 (3.92%) VLAN
2 2 (3.92%) VPN
2 2 (3.92%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 8 (15.69%) JIRA
General
1 21 (41.18%) Social Skills
2 18 (35.29%) Finance
3 10 (19.61%) Public Sector
4 6 (11.76%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (9.80%) Banking
5 5 (9.80%) Telecoms
6 4 (7.84%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (7.84%) Marketing
7 2 (3.92%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Automotive
8 1 (1.96%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.96%) Humanities
8 1 (1.96%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Legal
8 1 (1.96%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.96%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.92%) FIDO
2 1 (1.96%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 51 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.92%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (3.92%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.96%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.96%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.96%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.96%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.96%) NHS
3 1 (1.96%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.96%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (82.35%) Agile
2 22 (43.14%) Product Management
2 22 (43.14%) Roadmaps
3 21 (41.18%) Product Backlog
3 21 (41.18%) Scrum
3 21 (41.18%) User Stories
4 20 (39.22%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 17 (33.33%) Product Vision
6 15 (29.41%) Product Roadmap
7 14 (27.45%) Backlog Management
7 14 (27.45%) Continuous Improvement
8 11 (21.57%) Problem-Solving
8 11 (21.57%) Product Strategy
8 11 (21.57%) User Experience
9 10 (19.61%) Acceptance Criteria
10 9 (17.65%) Stakeholder Management
11 8 (15.69%) Project Management
11 8 (15.69%) Scaled Agile Framework
11 8 (15.69%) UX Design
12 7 (13.73%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.96%) SQL
Qualifications
1 6 (11.76%) Degree
2 5 (9.80%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.84%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.96%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.92%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.92%) NIST
1 2 (3.92%) NIST 800
1 2 (3.92%) QA
2 1 (1.96%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (3.92%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.88%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.92%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.92%) Nagios
Vendors
1 6 (11.76%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.84%) Cisco
2 4 (7.84%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.92%) Arista
3 2 (3.92%) Google
3 2 (3.92%) Juniper
3 2 (3.92%) SolarWinds