Product Owner Contracts in the West Midlands

Product Owner
England > West Midlands

The median Product Owner daily rate in the West Midlands is £475, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 27 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
27 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 106 100 117
Rank change year-on-year -6 +17 +55
DemandTrendContract jobs requiring a Product Owner 10 12 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.58% 0.63% 0.56%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.64% 0.68% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 10 11
10th Percentile - £208 £513
25th Percentile £463 £249 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.64% -8.33% +9.09%
75th Percentile £500 £575 -
90th Percentile £508 £688 £606
England median daily rate £500 £600 £600
% change year-on-year -16.67% - +4.35%

All DemandTrendContract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies in the West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,564 1,753 2,040
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.09% 92.12% 94.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,006 1,163 1,400
10th Percentile £235 £250 £250
25th Percentile £375 £375 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £613 £600
90th Percentile £644 £713 £725
England median daily rate £508 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 113 77 61
10th Percentile £12.62 £13.00 £14.36
25th Percentile £14.00 £15.22 £17.50
Median hourly rate £25.00 £19.59 £22.10
Median % change year-on-year +27.62% -11.36% +22.78%
75th Percentile £36.00 £35.00 £31.04
90th Percentile £50.00 £49.25 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.85
% change year-on-year -44.11% +2.63% +68.64%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in the West Midlands

Product Owner
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Product Owner job vacancies in the West Midlands.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Product Owner job vacancies in the West Midlands

Product Owner
DemandTrendContract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 27 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Birmingham +1 4 £475 -29.63% 4
Solihull - 4 - -
Warwickshire -6 2 £500 -9.09% 3
Product Owner
England

Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 27 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 West Midlands region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 10 (100.00%) Agile
1 10 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 9 (90.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 9 (90.00%) Product Vision
3 8 (80.00%) Scrum
4 7 (70.00%) Product Backlog
5 6 (60.00%) Product Strategy
5 6 (60.00%) Roadmaps
5 6 (60.00%) Product Management
5 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
6 5 (50.00%) Finance
7 4 (40.00%) Data Migration
7 4 (40.00%) Migration
7 4 (40.00%) Cisco
7 4 (40.00%) Change Management
7 4 (40.00%) Firewall
7 4 (40.00%) ITIL
7 4 (40.00%) Salesforce
7 4 (40.00%) Azure
7 4 (40.00%) AWS
7 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (40.00%) GCP
7 4 (40.00%) Coaching
7 4 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 4 (40.00%) Product Requirements
7 4 (40.00%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
7 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
8 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
8 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
8 3 (30.00%) Backlog Refinement

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 (10.00%) Primavera
Cloud Services
1 4 (40.00%) AWS
1 4 (40.00%) Azure
1 4 (40.00%) GCP
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft 365
2 2 (20.00%) Dynamics 365
Communications & Networking
1 4 (40.00%) Firewall
2 2 (20.00%) BGP
2 2 (20.00%) DHCP
2 2 (20.00%) DNS
2 2 (20.00%) EIGRP
2 2 (20.00%) HTTP
2 2 (20.00%) IPsec
2 2 (20.00%) Network Security
2 2 (20.00%) OSPF
2 2 (20.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (20.00%) SSL
2 2 (20.00%) TACACS
2 2 (20.00%) VLAN
2 2 (20.00%) VPN
2 2 (20.00%) Wireless
General
1 5 (50.00%) Finance
2 4 (40.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
2 4 (40.00%) Public Sector
3 3 (30.00%) Legal
3 3 (30.00%) Social Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (100.00%) Agile
2 9 (90.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 9 (90.00%) Product Vision
3 8 (80.00%) Scrum
4 7 (70.00%) Product Backlog
5 6 (60.00%) Product Management
5 6 (60.00%) Product Strategy
5 6 (60.00%) Roadmaps
6 4 (40.00%) Change Management
6 4 (40.00%) Coaching
6 4 (40.00%) Data Migration
6 4 (40.00%) ITIL
6 4 (40.00%) Migration
6 4 (40.00%) Product Requirements
6 4 (40.00%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
7 3 (30.00%) Analytics
7 3 (30.00%) Backlog Refinement
7 3 (30.00%) Decision-Making
7 3 (30.00%) IT Strategy
7 3 (30.00%) User Stories
System Software
1 2 (20.00%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (20.00%) Kubernetes
1 2 (20.00%) Nagios
Vendors
1 6 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 4 (40.00%) Cisco
2 4 (40.00%) Salesforce
3 2 (20.00%) Arista
3 2 (20.00%) Google
3 2 (20.00%) Juniper
3 2 (20.00%) SolarWinds