Agile Product Owner Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Agile Product Owner
UK > Work from Home

The median Agile Product Owner daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £594, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 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
1 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 301 343 474
Rank change year-on-year +42 +131 +136
Contract jobs requiring an Agile Product Owner 3 2 3
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.030% 0.013% 0.012%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.032% 0.014% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 2
10th Percentile - - £573
25th Percentile - - £580
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £550 £606
Median % change year-on-year +8.00% -9.28% +15.48%
75th Percentile - - £630
90th Percentile - - £634
UK median daily rate £550 £613 £550
% change year-on-year -10.20% +11.36% +4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with WFH or hybrid options. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 9,288 14,354 24,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.77% 93.54% 95.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,350 9,595 17,415
10th Percentile £337 £325 £360
25th Percentile £414 £425 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.69% +2.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -1.90% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 228 579 565
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.38 £18.50
25th Percentile £18.19 £23.39 £26.00
Median hourly rate £38.00 £44.74 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -15.06% -18.65% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.25
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £36.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.37% -19.07% +91.49%

Agile Product Owner
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options which featured Agile Product Owner in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Agile Product Owner trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Agile Product Owner
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Agile Product Owner.

Agile Product Owner daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Agile Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 1 May 2025, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Agile Product Owner in the job title.

1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (66.67%) Azure
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Straight-Through Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Wealth Management
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) SCCM
3 1 (33.33%) Windows
3 1 (33.33%) Microsoft
3 1 (33.33%) Citrix
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Finance
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
3 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (33.33%) Pendo
3 1 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 1 (33.33%) Epics
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements

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

Cloud Services
1 2 (66.67%) Azure
2 1 (33.33%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (33.33%) Pendo
General
1 1 (33.33%) Finance
1 1 (33.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (33.33%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 1 (33.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) User Stories
2 2 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 2 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (33.33%) Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Management
3 1 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (33.33%) Conflict Management
3 1 (33.33%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (33.33%) Data Analytics
3 1 (33.33%) DevOps
3 1 (33.33%) Epics
3 1 (33.33%) Product Strategy
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Identification and Mitigation
3 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
3 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (33.33%) Straight-Through Processing
3 1 (33.33%) Translating Business Requirements
3 1 (33.33%) Use Case
3 1 (33.33%) Wealth Management
Systems Management
1 1 (33.33%) SCCM
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Citrix
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft