Technical Product Owner Contracts

Technical Product Owner
UK

The median Technical Product Owner daily rate in the UK is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 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
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 536 635
Rank change year-on-year -10 +99 +162
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Product Owner 7 12 21
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.021% 0.031% 0.040%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.023% 0.033% 0.042%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 12 13
10th Percentile £381 £466 £350
25th Percentile £428 £508 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £594 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.95% -6.38%
75th Percentile £566 £652 £625
90th Percentile £648 £686 -
UK excluding London median daily rate £431 £488 £350
% change year-on-year -11.54% +39.29% -37.78%

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 30,099 36,157 49,488
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.31% 92.88% 94.44%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,017 23,284 34,166
10th Percentile £281 £300 £305
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -1.87% -0.93%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,529 2,029 1,475
10th Percentile £13.59 £14.23 £14.45
25th Percentile £17.25 £20.50 £18.93
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.16
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +2.00% +64.15%
75th Percentile £53.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £77.80
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £36.50
% change year-on-year -44.11% +23.29% +71.36%

Technical Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Product Owner in the UK

Technical Product Owner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Product Owner in the UK

Technical Product Owner
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Technical Product Owner over the 6 months to 14 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Technical Product Owner in the UK

Technical Product Owner
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Technical Product Owner within the UK over the 6 months to 14 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
England +6 6 £475 -20.00% 9
UK excluding London +10 4 £431 -11.54% 4
London +12 3 £625 +4.17% 6
South East +24 2 £431 -11.54% 2
Work from Home +17 2 £481 -11.49% 6
Wales - 1 £475 -
East Midlands - 1 £352 - 1
Midlands - 1 £352 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 14 August 2025, Technical 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 Technical Product Owner in the job title.

1 7 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (57.14%) DevOps
3 3 (42.86%) User Stories
4 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) Product Management
4 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 2 (28.57%) Microservices
4 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
4 2 (28.57%) .NET
4 2 (28.57%) Agile
4 2 (28.57%) C#
4 2 (28.57%) Java
4 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
4 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
4 2 (28.57%) Azure
4 2 (28.57%) AWS
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
5 1 (14.29%) Product Vision
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (14.29%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
5 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
5 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
5 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
5 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
5 1 (14.29%) SaaS
5 1 (14.29%) Confluence
5 1 (14.29%) Continuous Improvement

Technical 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Appian
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
1 2 (28.57%) Azure
1 2 (28.57%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Event Grid
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Functions
2 1 (14.29%) Azure Service Bus
2 1 (14.29%) Dynamics 365
2 1 (14.29%) SaaS
2 1 (14.29%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (14.29%) Amazon Redshift
1 1 (14.29%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Front Office
2 1 (14.29%) Investment Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Legal
2 1 (14.29%) Retail
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
2 1 (14.29%) .NET Framework
2 1 (14.29%) AngularJS
2 1 (14.29%) CSS
2 1 (14.29%) Flutter
2 1 (14.29%) HTML
2 1 (14.29%) RESTful
2 1 (14.29%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 7 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (14.29%) Mobile App
2 1 (14.29%) Onboarding
2 1 (14.29%) Reference Data
2 1 (14.29%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) DevOps
2 3 (42.86%) User Stories
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Microservices
3 2 (28.57%) Product Management
3 2 (28.57%) Roadmaps
3 2 (28.57%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (14.29%) Backlog Management
4 1 (14.29%) Business Analysis
4 1 (14.29%) Business Strategy
4 1 (14.29%) Containerisation
4 1 (14.29%) Document Management
4 1 (14.29%) Event-Driven
4 1 (14.29%) Infrastructure as Code
4 1 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
4 1 (14.29%) Refactoring
4 1 (14.29%) TOGAF
4 1 (14.29%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) C#
1 2 (28.57%) Java
1 2 (28.57%) JavaScript
2 1 (14.29%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (14.29%) Degree
2 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) FATCA
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
1 1 (14.29%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 1 (14.29%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Pega
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce