Agile Product Owner Contracts

Agile Product Owner
UK

The median Agile Product Owner daily rate in the UK is £613 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 574 704 830
Rank change year-on-year +130 +126 -161
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Product Owner 4 12 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.009% 0.020% 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.021% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 11 27
10th Percentile £561 £450 £461
25th Percentile £578 £488 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £613 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.36% +4.76% +2.44%
75th Percentile £653 £591 £663
90th Percentile £674 £638 £708
UK excluding London median daily rate - £544 £688
% change year-on-year - -20.91% +37.50%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

Agile Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Agile Product Owner in the UK

Agile Product Owner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Agile Product Owner.

Daily rate trend for Agile Product Owner in the UK

Agile Product Owner
Top 5 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 6 May 2024. 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
England +101 3 £613 +11.36% 2
Work from Home +129 2 £550 -9.28% 2
London +107 2 £613 +11.36% 2
UK excluding London +56 1 - -
South East +21 1 - -

Agile Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, 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 featuring Agile Product Owner in the job title.

1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) User Stories
1 4 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (75.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (50.00%) Product Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 2 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (50.00%) Sprint Review
3 2 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
4 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
4 1 (25.00%) SMS
4 1 (25.00%) Salesforce
4 1 (25.00%) Back Office
4 1 (25.00%) User Experience
4 1 (25.00%) SFIA
4 1 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (25.00%) VisionPLUS
4 1 (25.00%) Data Management
4 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Degree
4 1 (25.00%) JIRA
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) QA
4 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
4 1 (25.00%) Product Management
4 1 (25.00%) Azure
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement

Agile Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) VisionPLUS
Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
1 1 (25.00%) Azure Service Bus
Communications & Networking
1 1 (25.00%) SMS
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Back Office
Miscellaneous
1 4 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
1 4 (100.00%) User Stories
2 3 (75.00%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (50.00%) Product Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) Scrum
3 2 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
3 2 (50.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 2 (50.00%) Sprint Review
4 1 (25.00%) Backlog Management
4 1 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
4 1 (25.00%) Computer Science
4 1 (25.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (25.00%) Data Analysis
4 1 (25.00%) Data Management
4 1 (25.00%) Knowledge Transfer
4 1 (25.00%) Product Management
4 1 (25.00%) Product Vision
4 1 (25.00%) Programme Management
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) CSPO
1 1 (25.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) PCI DSS
1 1 (25.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (25.00%) Salesforce