Senior Product Owner Contracts

Senior Product Owner
UK

The median Senior Product Owner daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 25 April 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
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 558 673 807
Rank change year-on-year +115 +134 -167
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Product Owner 28 49 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.064% 0.082% 0.027%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.069% 0.086% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 38 18
10th Percentile - £525 £446
25th Percentile £481 £553 £519
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -20.69%
75th Percentile £675 £665 £666
90th Percentile £835 £750 £711
UK excluding London median daily rate £825 £544 £571
% change year-on-year +51.72% -4.77% +11.09%

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 40,482 56,783 84,604
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.77% 94.58% 95.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,407 39,621 59,331
10th Percentile £275 £313 £313
25th Percentile £408 £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 £725
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,642 1,607 2,111
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.45 £15.50
Median hourly rate £35.68 £45.00 £23.00
Median % change year-on-year -20.71% +95.65% +1.41%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.75 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.60 £63.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £42.50 £19.50
% change year-on-year -11.76% +117.95% +2.63%

Senior Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Product Owner in the UK

Senior Product Owner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Product Owner in the UK

Senior Product Owner
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Product Owner over the 6 months to 25 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Product Owner in the UK

Senior 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 Senior Product Owner within the UK over the 6 months to 25 April 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 +100 28 £575 -4.17% 7
London +97 26 £563 -6.25% 3
Work from Home +112 9 £488 -15.22% 3
UK excluding London +59 2 £825 +51.72% 5
South East - 2 £825 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 25 April 2024, Senior 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 Senior Product Owner in the job title.

1 28 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 21 (75.00%) Agile
3 14 (50.00%) Scrum
3 14 (50.00%) Social Skills
4 11 (39.29%) Finance
5 10 (35.71%) User Stories
5 10 (35.71%) Azure
5 10 (35.71%) Product Strategy
6 9 (32.14%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 8 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
7 8 (28.57%) Analytics
8 7 (25.00%) Product Management
8 7 (25.00%) Back Office
8 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
8 7 (25.00%) Data Modelling
8 7 (25.00%) Customer Experience
9 6 (21.43%) Kanban
9 6 (21.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 5 (17.86%) Acceptance Criteria
10 5 (17.86%) Product Vision
10 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
10 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
10 5 (17.86%) Roadmaps
10 5 (17.86%) Presentation Skills
11 4 (14.29%) Budget Management
11 4 (14.29%) Objectives and Key Results
11 4 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 4 (14.29%) SaaS
11 4 (14.29%) Cybersecurity

Senior 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 2 (7.14%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.57%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 10 (35.71%) Azure
2 4 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
2 4 (14.29%) SaaS
3 3 (10.71%) AWS
4 2 (7.14%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (7.14%) Snowflake
5 1 (3.57%) BigCommerce
5 1 (3.57%) PaaS
5 1 (3.57%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.57%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (10.71%) Big Data
1 3 (10.71%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (7.14%) GIS
2 2 (7.14%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (10.71%) Team Foundation Server
2 2 (7.14%) Artifactory
2 2 (7.14%) Jenkins
2 2 (7.14%) TeamCity
3 1 (3.57%) Bitbucket
3 1 (3.57%) Git
General
1 14 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 11 (39.29%) Finance
3 7 (25.00%) Back Office
4 5 (17.86%) Presentation Skills
4 5 (17.86%) Public Sector
5 4 (14.29%) Banking
5 4 (14.29%) Retail
6 3 (10.71%) Investment Banking
7 2 (7.14%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (7.14%) Corporate Banking
7 2 (7.14%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (7.14%) Retail Banking
8 1 (3.57%) Marketing
8 1 (3.57%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.57%) OAuth
1 1 (3.57%) OpenID
1 1 (3.57%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 28 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (7.14%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (7.14%) Freedom of Information
2 2 (7.14%) Freedom of Information Act
2 2 (7.14%) Management Information System
3 1 (3.57%) iPad
3 1 (3.57%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.57%) Android
1 1 (3.57%) Apple iOS
1 1 (3.57%) Linux
1 1 (3.57%) Unix
1 1 (3.57%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (75.00%) Agile
2 14 (50.00%) Scrum
3 10 (35.71%) Product Strategy
3 10 (35.71%) User Stories
4 9 (32.14%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 8 (28.57%) Analytics
5 8 (28.57%) Requirements Gathering
6 7 (25.00%) Customer Experience
6 7 (25.00%) Data Modelling
6 7 (25.00%) Product Management
6 7 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (21.43%) Kanban
7 6 (21.43%) Scaled Agile Framework
8 5 (17.86%) Acceptance Criteria
8 5 (17.86%) Continuous Improvement
8 5 (17.86%) Product Vision
8 5 (17.86%) Roadmaps
9 4 (14.29%) Business Case
9 4 (14.29%) Product Backlog
9 4 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
Programming Languages
1 2 (7.14%) Python
2 1 (3.57%) Java
2 1 (3.57%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 3 (10.71%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) CSPO
2 1 (3.57%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (10.71%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.57%) Data Quality
2 1 (3.57%) QA
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (7.14%) Ansible
2 1 (3.57%) Kubernetes
2 1 (3.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (25.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.57%) Adobe
2 1 (3.57%) Dell
2 1 (3.57%) Intel
2 1 (3.57%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.57%) SAP
2 1 (3.57%) Sitecore