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 £464, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 August 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
4 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 279 302 332
Rank change year-on-year +23 +30 +2
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 84 69 102
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.55% 0.37% 0.46%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.41% 0.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 68 59 75
10th Percentile £349 £322 £402
25th Percentile £402 £405 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.68% - +2.33%
75th Percentile £541 £603 £600
90th Percentile £660 £690 £658
UK median daily rate £504 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.08% - +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £101.75
Median hourly rate - - £103.50
75th Percentile - - £105.25
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - - £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 13,732 16,995 21,083
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.35% 92.01% 94.68%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,406 10,368 14,278
10th Percentile £215 £219 £230
25th Percentile £363 £375 £390
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £684 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -0.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,206 1,772 1,162
10th Percentile £13.36 £14.00 £14.00
25th Percentile £16.50 £18.35 £17.72
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.90 £38.95
Median % change year-on-year -42.71% +12.71% +83.08%
75th Percentile £55.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -41.51% - +67.45%

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 4 August 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 4 August 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
Midlands 0 26 £400 -27.27% 18
South East +19 18 £450 -10.00% 32
East Midlands +5 18 £379 -20.21% 9
South West +34 14 £568 -5.33% 8
North of England -4 13 £550 -5.98% 24
North West +3 10 £591 +14.25% 13
Scotland 0 10 £463 -15.91% 8
West Midlands -5 8 £515 -6.36% 9
East of England +3 2 £413 +0.61% 8
Yorkshire -5 2 £513 -12.77% 10
Wales - 2 £475 - 3
North East - 1 £475 - 1
Product Owner
UK

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

For the 6 months to 4 August 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 84 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 59 (70.24%) Agile
3 36 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 36 (42.86%) Product Backlog
4 32 (38.10%) User Stories
5 29 (34.52%) Scrum
5 29 (34.52%) Finance
5 29 (34.52%) Social Skills
6 26 (30.95%) Product Management
7 25 (29.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 25 (29.76%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 22 (26.19%) Backlog Management
9 21 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
10 18 (21.43%) Product Vision
10 18 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
11 15 (17.86%) Acceptance Criteria
12 14 (16.67%) Product Strategy
13 13 (15.48%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 13 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (14.29%) Business Strategy
15 11 (13.10%) Sprint Planning
15 11 (13.10%) User Experience
15 11 (13.10%) Azure
15 11 (13.10%) Microsoft
16 10 (11.90%) PLM
16 10 (11.90%) JIRA
16 10 (11.90%) Public Sector
17 9 (10.71%) Translating Business Requirements
17 9 (10.71%) Decision-Making
17 9 (10.71%) Degree

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 6 (7.14%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 6 (7.14%) Oracle ERP
1 6 (7.14%) Oracle SCM
2 3 (3.57%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (1.19%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 11 (13.10%) Azure
2 9 (10.71%) AWS
3 7 (8.33%) SaaS
4 6 (7.14%) OCI
5 4 (4.76%) GCP
5 4 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (3.57%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.38%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (1.19%) Amazon S3
8 1 (1.19%) AWS Lambda
8 1 (1.19%) Entra ID
8 1 (1.19%) GitHub
8 1 (1.19%) Pendo
8 1 (1.19%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.19%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (4.76%) Firewall
2 2 (2.38%) BGP
2 2 (2.38%) DHCP
2 2 (2.38%) DNS
2 2 (2.38%) EIGRP
2 2 (2.38%) HTTP
2 2 (2.38%) IPsec
2 2 (2.38%) Network Security
2 2 (2.38%) OSPF
2 2 (2.38%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (2.38%) SSL
2 2 (2.38%) TACACS
2 2 (2.38%) VLAN
2 2 (2.38%) VPN
2 2 (2.38%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.38%) Data Lake
1 2 (2.38%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.19%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (1.19%) DynamoDB
2 1 (1.19%) PostgreSQL
2 1 (1.19%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 10 (11.90%) JIRA
2 1 (1.19%) git-flow
General
1 29 (34.52%) Finance
1 29 (34.52%) Social Skills
2 10 (11.90%) Public Sector
3 9 (10.71%) Banking
4 8 (9.52%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (5.95%) Aerospace
6 4 (4.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (4.76%) Marketing
6 4 (4.76%) Telecoms
7 2 (2.38%) Financial Institution
7 2 (2.38%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (2.38%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Automotive
8 1 (1.19%) Humanities
8 1 (1.19%) Legal
8 1 (1.19%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.19%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (3.57%) FIDO
2 2 (2.38%) Flash
3 1 (1.19%) .NET
3 1 (1.19%) AngularJS
3 1 (1.19%) CSS
3 1 (1.19%) Flutter
3 1 (1.19%) HTML
3 1 (1.19%) LDAP
3 1 (1.19%) RESTful
3 1 (1.19%) SailPoint
Miscellaneous
1 84 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (5.95%) Onboarding
3 3 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (2.38%) Derivative
4 2 (2.38%) Hybrid Cloud
4 2 (2.38%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.38%) OTC Derivatives
4 2 (2.38%) Self-Motivation
5 1 (1.19%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (1.19%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (1.19%) Legacy Systems
5 1 (1.19%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.19%) NHS
5 1 (1.19%) Private Cloud
5 1 (1.19%) Renewable Energy
5 1 (1.19%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 59 (70.24%) Agile
2 36 (42.86%) Product Backlog
2 36 (42.86%) Roadmaps
3 32 (38.10%) User Stories
4 29 (34.52%) Scrum
5 26 (30.95%) Product Management
6 25 (29.76%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 25 (29.76%) Stakeholder Management
7 22 (26.19%) Backlog Management
8 21 (25.00%) Product Roadmap
9 18 (21.43%) Continuous Improvement
9 18 (21.43%) Product Vision
10 15 (17.86%) Acceptance Criteria
11 14 (16.67%) Product Strategy
12 13 (15.48%) Problem-Solving
12 13 (15.48%) Scaled Agile Framework
13 12 (14.29%) Business Strategy
14 11 (13.10%) Sprint Planning
14 11 (13.10%) User Experience
15 10 (11.90%) PLM
Programming Languages
1 1 (1.19%) C#
1 1 (1.19%) Java
1 1 (1.19%) JavaScript
1 1 (1.19%) Korn
1 1 (1.19%) SQL
Qualifications
1 9 (10.71%) Degree
2 7 (8.33%) Security Cleared
3 4 (4.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (1.19%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.57%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 3 (3.57%) NIST
1 3 (3.57%) NIST 800
2 2 (2.38%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.38%) QA
3 1 (1.19%) GDPR
3 1 (1.19%) GRC
3 1 (1.19%) HIPAA
3 1 (1.19%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (2.38%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (5.95%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (2.38%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.38%) Nagios
Vendors
1 11 (13.10%) Microsoft
2 6 (7.14%) Oracle
2 6 (7.14%) Salesforce
3 4 (4.76%) Cisco
4 2 (2.38%) Arista
4 2 (2.38%) Google
4 2 (2.38%) HubSpot
4 2 (2.38%) Juniper
4 2 (2.38%) SolarWinds
5 1 (1.19%) CyberArk
5 1 (1.19%) Okta
5 1 (1.19%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.19%) Spotify