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 £450, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 29 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
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 282 332 301
Rank change year-on-year +50 -31 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 53 65 132
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.41% 0.32% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.34% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 50 96
10th Percentile £352 £341 £406
25th Percentile £402 £420 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +2.33% +2.38%
75th Percentile £540 £600 £600
90th Percentile £623 £688 £655
UK median daily rate £513 £586 £575
% change year-on-year -12.58% +1.96% +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 11,802 19,038 21,534
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.73% 92.39% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,509 11,591 14,985
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 £505 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -3.81% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 844 2,364 1,082
10th Percentile £13.76 £12.50 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.75 £17.81
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +112.50%
75th Percentile £62.24 £62.14 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £73.75 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £27.97 £37.18 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.78% -17.38% +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 29 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 29 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 +38 16 £500 -9.09% 18
Midlands +12 16 £380 -32.44% 27
East Midlands +15 9 £358 +59.11% 6
West Midlands +9 7 £515 -7.42% 21
Scotland +8 7 £500 +1.52% 7
North of England +5 7 £600 +20.00% 44
South West +45 6 £456 -24.00% 11
Yorkshire +12 3 £600 - 12
North West -2 3 £625 +25.00% 26
East of England +28 1 - - 6
Wales - 1 - - 4
North East - 1 £475 - 6
Product Owner
UK

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

For the 6 months to 29 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 53 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 44 (83.02%) Agile
3 24 (45.28%) Roadmaps
4 23 (43.40%) Scrum
5 22 (41.51%) Product Management
5 22 (41.51%) User Stories
5 22 (41.51%) Social Skills
5 22 (41.51%) Product Backlog
6 20 (37.74%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 19 (35.85%) Finance
8 17 (32.08%) Product Vision
9 15 (28.30%) Backlog Management
9 15 (28.30%) Product Roadmap
10 14 (26.42%) Continuous Improvement
11 12 (22.64%) User Experience
11 12 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
12 11 (20.75%) Acceptance Criteria
12 11 (20.75%) Product Strategy
12 11 (20.75%) Stakeholder Management
13 10 (18.87%) Public Sector
14 9 (16.98%) Scaled Agile Framework
15 8 (15.09%) JIRA
15 8 (15.09%) Project Management
15 8 (15.09%) UX Design
15 8 (15.09%) Azure
16 7 (13.21%) Analytics
16 7 (13.21%) Microsoft
16 7 (13.21%) Degree
16 7 (13.21%) Decision-Making
17 6 (11.32%) Sprint Planning

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 (7.55%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (1.89%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.89%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 8 (15.09%) Azure
2 6 (11.32%) AWS
2 6 (11.32%) SaaS
3 4 (7.55%) GCP
3 4 (7.55%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (1.89%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.89%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (1.89%) Dynamics 365
4 1 (1.89%) Pendo
4 1 (1.89%) Power Platform
4 1 (1.89%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (7.55%) Firewall
2 2 (3.77%) BGP
2 2 (3.77%) DHCP
2 2 (3.77%) DNS
2 2 (3.77%) EIGRP
2 2 (3.77%) HTTP
2 2 (3.77%) IPsec
2 2 (3.77%) Network Security
2 2 (3.77%) OSPF
2 2 (3.77%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (3.77%) SSL
2 2 (3.77%) TACACS
2 2 (3.77%) VLAN
2 2 (3.77%) VPN
2 2 (3.77%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 8 (15.09%) JIRA
General
1 22 (41.51%) Social Skills
2 19 (35.85%) Finance
3 10 (18.87%) Public Sector
4 6 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (9.43%) Banking
5 5 (9.43%) Telecoms
6 4 (7.55%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (7.55%) Marketing
7 2 (3.77%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Automotive
8 1 (1.89%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.89%) Humanities
8 1 (1.89%) Influencing Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Legal
8 1 (1.89%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.89%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (3.77%) FIDO
2 1 (1.89%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 53 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.77%) Hybrid Cloud
2 2 (3.77%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.89%) Enterprise Software
3 1 (1.89%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (1.89%) Management Information System
3 1 (1.89%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.89%) NHS
3 1 (1.89%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (1.89%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (83.02%) Agile
2 24 (45.28%) Roadmaps
3 23 (43.40%) Scrum
4 22 (41.51%) Product Backlog
4 22 (41.51%) Product Management
4 22 (41.51%) User Stories
5 20 (37.74%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 17 (32.08%) Product Vision
7 15 (28.30%) Backlog Management
7 15 (28.30%) Product Roadmap
8 14 (26.42%) Continuous Improvement
9 12 (22.64%) Problem-Solving
9 12 (22.64%) User Experience
10 11 (20.75%) Acceptance Criteria
10 11 (20.75%) Product Strategy
10 11 (20.75%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (16.98%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 8 (15.09%) Project Management
12 8 (15.09%) UX Design
13 7 (13.21%) Analytics
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.89%) Korn
1 1 (1.89%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (13.21%) Degree
2 5 (9.43%) Security Cleared
3 4 (7.55%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.89%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (3.77%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (3.77%) NIST
1 2 (3.77%) NIST 800
1 2 (3.77%) QA
2 1 (1.89%) Accessibility
System Software
1 2 (3.77%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (5.66%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (3.77%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.77%) Nagios
Vendors
1 7 (13.21%) Microsoft
2 4 (7.55%) Cisco
2 4 (7.55%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.77%) Arista
3 2 (3.77%) Google
3 2 (3.77%) Juniper
3 2 (3.77%) SolarWinds