Senior Product Owner Contracts

Senior Product Owner
UK

The median Senior Product Owner daily rate in the UK is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 502 569 667
Rank change year-on-year +67 +98 +162
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Product Owner 18 29 45
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.061% 0.067% 0.076%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.066% 0.072% 0.080%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 14 36
10th Percentile £603 £481 £525
25th Percentile £610 £492 £559
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year +13.04% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £698 £675 £655
90th Percentile £704 £821 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £618 £825 £538
% change year-on-year -25.15% +53.49% -14.00%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides 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 27,138 40,367 56,304
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.49% 92.78% 94.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,714 26,265 39,350
10th Percentile £300 £275 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.55% -1.50% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,034 2,668 1,565
10th Percentile £14.06 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.30 £19.40
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.02 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.49% -19.95% +91.49%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.75 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £28.00 £39.50 £42.43
% change year-on-year -29.11% -6.91% +117.60%

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 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Product Owner in the UK

Senior Product Owner
Top 7 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 2 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
England +43 17 £640 +11.30% 13
London +30 15 £640 +11.30% 7
Work from Home +43 6 £670 +37.44% 8
UK excluding London +60 2 £618 -25.15% 8
South East +45 1 £575 -30.30% 1
North West - 1 £660 - 2
North of England - 1 £660 - 4

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2025, 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 18 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 14 (77.78%) Product Backlog
2 14 (77.78%) Agile
3 13 (72.22%) User Stories
4 11 (61.11%) Analytics
5 9 (50.00%) Azure
5 9 (50.00%) Backlog Management
6 8 (44.44%) Roadmaps
7 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
7 7 (38.89%) Acceptance Criteria
7 7 (38.89%) Stakeholder Management
8 6 (33.33%) Scrum
8 6 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
9 5 (27.78%) Organisational Skills
9 5 (27.78%) Sprint Planning
9 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
9 5 (27.78%) DevOps
10 4 (22.22%) Epics
10 4 (22.22%) Data Science
10 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
10 4 (22.22%) Product Strategy
11 3 (16.67%) Product Vision
11 3 (16.67%) Backlog Refinement
11 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
11 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
11 3 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
11 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
12 2 (11.11%) User Experience
12 2 (11.11%) Microservices
12 2 (11.11%) Continuous Improvement

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 1 (5.56%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 9 (50.00%) Azure
2 3 (16.67%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.56%) BigCommerce
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) Big Data
1 1 (5.56%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (5.56%) GIS
General
1 7 (38.89%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Organisational Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Telecoms
4 1 (5.56%) Back Office
4 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Local Government
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) EDI
1 1 (5.56%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 18 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.56%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (77.78%) Agile
1 14 (77.78%) Product Backlog
2 13 (72.22%) User Stories
3 11 (61.11%) Analytics
4 9 (50.00%) Backlog Management
5 8 (44.44%) Roadmaps
6 7 (38.89%) Acceptance Criteria
6 7 (38.89%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (33.33%) Requirements Gathering
7 6 (33.33%) Scrum
8 5 (27.78%) DevOps
8 5 (27.78%) Sprint Planning
9 4 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
9 4 (22.22%) Data Science
9 4 (22.22%) Epics
9 4 (22.22%) Product Strategy
10 3 (16.67%) Backlog Refinement
10 3 (16.67%) CI/CD
10 3 (16.67%) Machine Learning
10 3 (16.67%) Product Vision
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) CSPO
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) Accessibility
1 2 (11.11%) Data Quality
2 1 (5.56%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Adobe
1 1 (5.56%) Databricks
1 1 (5.56%) Salesforce
1 1 (5.56%) SAP
1 1 (5.56%) Sitecore