Product Owner Contracts in Scotland

Product Owner
UK > Scotland

The median Product Owner daily rate in Scotland is £493 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 31 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
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 144 133
Rank change year-on-year +29 -11 -7
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 9 17 43
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 0.42% 0.64% 1.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.67% 1.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 11 40
10th Percentile £388 £456 -
25th Percentile £435 £510 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -6.19% +5.00% -4.76%
75th Percentile £550 £596 £570
90th Percentile £572 £633 £575
UK median daily rate £588 £588 £550
% change year-on-year - +6.82% +4.76%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Scotland

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in Scotland. 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 Scotland with a recognized job title 2,021 2,543 3,247
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 94.53% 95.21% 95.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,241 1,773 2,298
10th Percentile £200 £223 £230
25th Percentile £350 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £470
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% +1.06% +10.59%
75th Percentile £558 £550 £550
90th Percentile £638 £634 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
Number of hourly rates quoted 127 45 52
10th Percentile £12.30 £12.48 £16.56
25th Percentile £16.00 £14.25 £17.86
Median hourly rate £19.50 £18.50 £37.43
Median % change year-on-year +5.41% -50.57% +66.36%
75th Percentile £58.75 £58.75 £48.19
90th Percentile £66.00 £67.88 £55.83
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.15
% change year-on-year -16.67% +86.37% +9.75%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in Scotland

Product Owner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Owner in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Product Owner in Scotland

Product Owner
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Owner in Scotland over the 6 months to 31 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Owner in Scotland

Product Owner
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 31 May 2024. 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
Edinburgh +20 5 £550 +4.76% 1
Glasgow +16 4 £435 -14.62% 5
Product Owner
UK

Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland

For the 6 months to 31 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 job ads across the Scotland region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 9 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (44.44%) Scrum
3 4 (44.44%) Analytics
3 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
3 4 (44.44%) Product Analysis
3 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning
4 3 (33.33%) User Stories
4 3 (33.33%) Finance
5 2 (22.22%) Validation
5 2 (22.22%) ADO
5 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Coaching
5 2 (22.22%) Power BI
5 2 (22.22%) Azure
5 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
5 2 (22.22%) Business Agility
5 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
5 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
5 2 (22.22%) Product Backlog
5 2 (22.22%) Product Strategy
5 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
6 1 (11.11%) Personalization
6 1 (11.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
6 1 (11.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 1 (11.11%) TSYS
6 1 (11.11%) Service Design

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 1 (11.11%) Adobe Experience Manager
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
1 2 (22.22%) Azure DevOps
1 2 (22.22%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (22.22%) Power BI
General
1 3 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (22.22%) ADO
Miscellaneous
1 9 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
1 5 (55.56%) Stakeholder Management
2 4 (44.44%) Analytics
2 4 (44.44%) Machine Learning
2 4 (44.44%) Product Analysis
2 4 (44.44%) Roadmaps
2 4 (44.44%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) User Stories
4 2 (22.22%) Acceptance Criteria
4 2 (22.22%) Business Agility
4 2 (22.22%) Business Intelligence
4 2 (22.22%) CI/CD
4 2 (22.22%) Coaching
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) Product Backlog
4 2 (22.22%) Product Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Validation
5 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) Personalization
5 1 (11.11%) Service Design
Vendors
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe
1 1 (11.11%) TSYS