Hybrid/Remote Technical Product Owner Contract Job Trends

Technical Product Owner
UK > Work from Home

The median Technical Product Owner daily rate for remote/hybrid work is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 August 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 361 312 337
Rank change year-on-year -49 +25 +80
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Product Owner 10 2 4
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.074% 0.020% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.079% 0.021% 0.032%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 4
10th Percentile £415 £464 £474
25th Percentile - £467 £491
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £481 £544
Median % change year-on-year +3.90% -11.49% -5.43%
75th Percentile £550 £492 £633
90th Percentile £625 £493 £703
UK median daily rate £520 £475 £600
% change year-on-year +9.47% -20.83% +9.09%

All Contract IT Job Roles
Work from Home

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with remote/hybrid work 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 12,640 9,462 12,344
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.27% 93.84% 93.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,008 6,321 8,290
10th Percentile £358 £325 £325
25th Percentile £425 £413 £420
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.51% -2.38% -0.94%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £715 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 671 294 384
10th Percentile £16.70 £12.73 £16.64
25th Percentile £30.22 £16.53 £28.15
Median hourly rate £60.00 £34.48 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +74.01% -23.38% -10.00%
75th Percentile £72.24 £65.00 £66.61
90th Percentile £85.00 £70.92 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +1.18%

Technical Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Roles

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Technical Product Owner' in the job title and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Technical Product Owner job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid roles

Technical Product Owner
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Technical Product Owner job vacancies.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for remote/hybrid Technical Product Owner job vacancies

Technical Product Owner
Daily Rate Histogram for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Technical Product Owner over the 6 months to 5 August 2026.

Technical Product Owner daily rate histogram for jobs with remote/hybrid work options

Technical Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs

For the 6 months to 5 August 2026, Technical Product Owner contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract jobs with hybrid/remote work options featuring Technical Product Owner in the job title.

1 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (30.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 3 (30.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
3 3 (30.00%) SQL
4 2 (20.00%) ABAP
4 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (20.00%) AI
4 2 (20.00%) Backlog Management
4 2 (20.00%) Broadband
4 2 (20.00%) Confluence
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (20.00%) Figma
4 2 (20.00%) JIRA
4 2 (20.00%) Miro
4 2 (20.00%) Postman
4 2 (20.00%) Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (20.00%) SAP
4 2 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
4 2 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (20.00%) User Stories
5 1 (10.00%) Analytics

Technical Product Owner Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 2 (20.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 2 (20.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Figma
1 2 (20.00%) Miro
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (20.00%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Data Lake
1 1 (10.00%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
1 2 (20.00%) Postman
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (30.00%) Retail
3 2 (20.00%) Finance
3 2 (20.00%) Legal
4 1 (10.00%) Banking
4 1 (10.00%) Retail Banking
Miscellaneous
1 10 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (20.00%) Social Media
3 1 (10.00%) Credit Risk
3 1 (10.00%) IVR
3 1 (10.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (40.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 3 (30.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 3 (30.00%) E-Commerce
3 3 (30.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (20.00%) AI
4 2 (20.00%) Backlog Management
4 2 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Customer Engagement
4 2 (20.00%) Procure-to-Pay
4 2 (20.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
4 2 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 2 (20.00%) Software Testing
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Analysis
4 2 (20.00%) Technical Leadership
4 2 (20.00%) User Stories
5 1 (10.00%) Cost Reduction
Programming Languages
1 3 (30.00%) SQL
2 2 (20.00%) ABAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) Basel II
Vendors
1 2 (20.00%) SAP
2 1 (10.00%) Avaya
2 1 (10.00%) Genesys
2 1 (10.00%) Salesforce