Product Owner Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Product Owner
UK > Work from Home

The median Product Owner daily rate for remote or hybrid work is £600, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 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
14 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 259 263 303
Rank change year-on-year +4 +40 -2
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 50 86 170
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.51% 0.58% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.55% 0.62% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 32 60 123
10th Percentile £404 £423 £415
25th Percentile £509 £481 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.67% +2.27% +4.76%
75th Percentile £684 £656 £616
90th Percentile £915 £788 £650
UK median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £89.68 - -
Median hourly rate £93.08 - £25.00
75th Percentile £96.49 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £92.54 - £64.25

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 9,173 13,975 24,016
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.85% 93.57% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,242 9,365 16,958
10th Percentile £338 £325 £360
25th Percentile £413 £425 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £774 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
Number of hourly rates quoted 213 569 547
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £17.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £23.34 £25.71
Median hourly rate £35.00 £45.00 £53.35
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% -15.65% +52.43%
75th Percentile £66.00 £63.75 £67.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £79.51
UK median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -24.85% -16.67% +88.21%

Product Owner
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

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

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 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 remote working options citing Product Owner over the 6 months to 14 May 2025.

Product Owner daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Product Owner
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Product Owner hourly rate 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 14 May 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 50 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 30 (60.00%) Agile
3 16 (32.00%) Roadmaps
4 14 (28.00%) Finance
5 13 (26.00%) User Stories
6 11 (22.00%) Backlog Management
7 10 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
8 9 (18.00%) Data Lake
8 9 (18.00%) User Experience
8 9 (18.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
9 8 (16.00%) Investment Management
9 8 (16.00%) Fixed Income
9 8 (16.00%) Equities
9 8 (16.00%) Derivative
9 8 (16.00%) Migration
9 8 (16.00%) Front Office
9 8 (16.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 8 (16.00%) Data Governance
9 8 (16.00%) Azure
9 8 (16.00%) Hedge funds
9 8 (16.00%) Regulatory Compliance
10 7 (14.00%) UX Design
10 7 (14.00%) Analytics
10 7 (14.00%) Product Vision
10 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
11 6 (12.00%) Product Roadmap
11 6 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
12 5 (10.00%) Scrum
12 5 (10.00%) Marketing

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 2 (4.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (2.00%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (2.00%) Salesforce CRM
Cloud Services
1 8 (16.00%) Azure
2 4 (8.00%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (6.00%) SaaS
4 2 (4.00%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (2.00%) AWS
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Event Grid
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Functions
5 1 (2.00%) Azure Service Bus
5 1 (2.00%) Discord
5 1 (2.00%) Figma
5 1 (2.00%) Pendo
5 1 (2.00%) Serverless
5 1 (2.00%) Slack
5 1 (2.00%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 1 (2.00%) MQTT
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (18.00%) Data Lake
2 1 (2.00%) Big Data
2 1 (2.00%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (2.00%) GIS
2 1 (2.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (2.00%) Eclipse
2 1 (2.00%) Storybook
General
1 14 (28.00%) Finance
2 8 (16.00%) Front Office
2 8 (16.00%) Social Skills
3 5 (10.00%) Marketing
4 4 (8.00%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (6.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 2 (4.00%) Banking
6 2 (4.00%) Organisational Skills
6 2 (4.00%) Public Sector
6 2 (4.00%) Retail
7 1 (2.00%) Automotive
7 1 (2.00%) Corporate Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Dutch Language
7 1 (2.00%) Electronics
7 1 (2.00%) French Language
7 1 (2.00%) Humanities
7 1 (2.00%) Investment Banking
7 1 (2.00%) Manufacturing
7 1 (2.00%) Pharmaceutical
7 1 (2.00%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (2.00%) .NET
1 1 (2.00%) .NET Framework
1 1 (2.00%) MapLibre
1 1 (2.00%) REST
1 1 (2.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 50 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 8 (16.00%) Derivative
2 8 (16.00%) Equities
2 8 (16.00%) Fixed Income
2 8 (16.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 8 (16.00%) Hedge funds
3 2 (4.00%) Reinsurance
4 1 (2.00%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (2.00%) Digital Media
4 1 (2.00%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (2.00%) IoT
4 1 (2.00%) Legacy Systems
4 1 (2.00%) NHS
4 1 (2.00%) PMI
4 1 (2.00%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 30 (60.00%) Agile
2 16 (32.00%) Roadmaps
3 13 (26.00%) User Stories
4 11 (22.00%) Backlog Management
5 10 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
6 9 (18.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 9 (18.00%) User Experience
7 8 (16.00%) Data Governance
7 8 (16.00%) Investment Management
7 8 (16.00%) Migration
7 8 (16.00%) Regulatory Compliance
8 7 (14.00%) Analytics
8 7 (14.00%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (14.00%) Product Vision
8 7 (14.00%) UX Design
9 6 (12.00%) Product Roadmap
9 6 (12.00%) Stakeholder Management
10 5 (10.00%) Objectives and Key Results
10 5 (10.00%) Product Backlog
10 5 (10.00%) Scrum
Programming Languages
1 1 (2.00%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (8.00%) Degree
1 4 (8.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (4.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (4.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (2.00%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (2.00%) CSPO
3 1 (2.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (2.00%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (4.00%) QA
2 1 (2.00%) Accessibility
2 1 (2.00%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 1 (2.00%) Netcool
1 1 (2.00%) SCCM
1 1 (2.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (4.00%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.00%) Adobe
2 1 (2.00%) Citrix
2 1 (2.00%) Conga
2 1 (2.00%) ESRI
2 1 (2.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (2.00%) SAP
2 1 (2.00%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.00%) SolarWinds
2 1 (2.00%) Splunk