Product Owner Contracts with Work from Home Options

Product Owner
UK > Work from Home

The median Product Owner daily rate in Work from Home is £563 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 2 May 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
2 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 264 301 294
Rank change year-on-year +37 -7 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 80 174 386
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.52% 0.68% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.71% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 55 124 288
10th Percentile £425 £413 £425
25th Percentile £481 £487 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £561 £525
Median % change year-on-year +0.22% +6.90% -4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £600
90th Percentile £788 £657 £688
UK median daily rate £575 £575 £550
% change year-on-year - +4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £25.00 -
UK median hourly rate - £64.25 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 14,262 24,476 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.36% 95.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,547 17,287 30,849
10th Percentile £325 £356 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% +2.38% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 576 563 608
10th Percentile £14.34 £18.50 £13.21
25th Percentile £23.32 £25.98 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +40.00%
75th Percentile £63.00 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.42 £45.00 £23.14
% change year-on-year -19.07% +94.45% +2.04%

Product Owner
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Product Owner in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Product Owner trend for jobs with a WFH option

Product Owner
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Product Owner.

Product Owner daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Product Owner
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Product Owner over the 6 months to 2 May 2024.

Product Owner daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

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

For the 6 months to 2 May 2024, 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 Product Owner in the job title.

1 79 (98.75%) Product Ownership
2 55 (68.75%) Agile
3 28 (35.00%) Finance
4 26 (32.50%) Roadmaps
5 23 (28.75%) User Stories
6 22 (27.50%) Product Management
7 20 (25.00%) Analytics
7 20 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 19 (23.75%) Product Backlog
9 18 (22.50%) Azure
10 17 (21.25%) Social Skills
11 16 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
11 16 (20.00%) Scrum
12 14 (17.50%) Python
12 14 (17.50%) Machine Learning
12 14 (17.50%) DevOps
12 14 (17.50%) Product Vision
13 13 (16.25%) Business Case
13 13 (16.25%) Product Requirements
14 12 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence
14 12 (15.00%) Asset Management
14 12 (15.00%) SQL
14 12 (15.00%) Requirements Gathering
15 11 (13.75%) Product Strategy
15 11 (13.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
15 11 (13.75%) Front Office
15 11 (13.75%) Fixed Income
15 11 (13.75%) Equities
15 11 (13.75%) Derivative
15 11 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement

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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.50%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.25%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (1.25%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 18 (22.50%) Azure
2 11 (13.75%) AWS
3 9 (11.25%) Azure DevOps
4 6 (7.50%) SaaS
5 4 (5.00%) Azure Service Bus
6 3 (3.75%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (2.50%) Asana
7 2 (2.50%) PaaS
8 1 (1.25%) Azure AKS
8 1 (1.25%) Azure Stack
8 1 (1.25%) Commercetools
8 1 (1.25%) GCP
8 1 (1.25%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.25%) Microsoft 365
8 1 (1.25%) Miro
8 1 (1.25%) Power Platform
8 1 (1.25%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.50%) Firewall
2 1 (1.25%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.25%) BigQuery
1 1 (1.25%) Looker
Development Applications
1 4 (5.00%) JIRA
2 2 (2.50%) Artifactory
2 2 (2.50%) Bitbucket
2 2 (2.50%) Git
2 2 (2.50%) Jenkins
2 2 (2.50%) TeamCity
General
1 28 (35.00%) Finance
2 17 (21.25%) Social Skills
3 11 (13.75%) Front Office
4 8 (10.00%) Banking
5 6 (7.50%) Analytical Skills
5 6 (7.50%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.00%) Back Office
6 4 (5.00%) Public Sector
7 3 (3.75%) Billing
7 3 (3.75%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.50%) Marketing
8 2 (2.50%) Retail
8 2 (2.50%) Retail Banking
9 1 (1.25%) Corporate Banking
9 1 (1.25%) Financial Institution
9 1 (1.25%) Investment Banking
9 1 (1.25%) Legal
9 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
9 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
9 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.50%) .NET
2 1 (1.25%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 79 (98.75%) Product Ownership
2 11 (13.75%) Derivative
2 11 (13.75%) Equities
2 11 (13.75%) Fixed Income
2 11 (13.75%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 11 (13.75%) Hedge funds
3 3 (3.75%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.50%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.50%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.25%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.25%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.25%) CMDB
5 1 (1.25%) Cyberattack
5 1 (1.25%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.25%) Industry 4.0
5 1 (1.25%) IoT
5 1 (1.25%) IVR
5 1 (1.25%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.25%) Mobile Banking
Operating Systems
1 3 (3.75%) Android
1 3 (3.75%) Apple iOS
1 3 (3.75%) Windows
2 2 (2.50%) Linux
2 2 (2.50%) Unix
3 1 (1.25%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (68.75%) Agile
2 26 (32.50%) Roadmaps
3 23 (28.75%) User Stories
4 22 (27.50%) Product Management
5 20 (25.00%) Analytics
5 20 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 19 (23.75%) Product Backlog
7 16 (20.00%) Scrum
7 16 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 14 (17.50%) DevOps
8 14 (17.50%) Machine Learning
8 14 (17.50%) Product Vision
9 13 (16.25%) Business Case
9 13 (16.25%) Product Requirements
10 12 (15.00%) Artificial Intelligence
10 12 (15.00%) Asset Management
10 12 (15.00%) Requirements Gathering
11 11 (13.75%) Continuous Improvement
11 11 (13.75%) Investment Management
11 11 (13.75%) User Acceptance Testing
Programming Languages
1 14 (17.50%) Python
2 12 (15.00%) SQL
3 1 (1.25%) C#
3 1 (1.25%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (2.50%) SC Cleared
1 2 (2.50%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.75%) Accessibility
1 3 (3.75%) PCI DSS
1 3 (3.75%) QA
System Software
1 4 (5.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (3.75%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.50%) Ansible
2 2 (2.50%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (11.25%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.50%) Google
2 2 (2.50%) Salesforce
2 2 (2.50%) SAP
3 1 (1.25%) Aprimo
3 1 (1.25%) Ariba
3 1 (1.25%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.25%) Citrix
3 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.25%) TSYS