Senior Product Owner Contracts

Senior Product Owner
UK

The median Senior Product Owner daily rate in the UK is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 16 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
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 543 645 823
Rank change year-on-year +102 +178 -178
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Product Owner 33 39 26
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.078% 0.068% 0.030%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.084% 0.072% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 32 20
10th Percentile £481 £525 £473
25th Percentile £518 £555 £523
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.17% +4.35% -17.86%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £678
90th Percentile £753 £736 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £825 £538 £638
% change year-on-year +53.49% -15.69% +24.03%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 the UK with a recognized job title 39,484 53,902 83,447
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.78% 94.62% 95.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,682 37,660 58,636
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,662 1,503 2,044
10th Percentile £12.82 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.38 £15.76
Median hourly rate £36.58 £45.00 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.72% +87.50% +6.67%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £73.44 £76.20 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

Senior Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Product Owner in the UK

Senior Product Owner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Product Owner in the UK

Senior Product Owner
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Product Owner over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Product Owner in the UK

Senior Product Owner
Top 5 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Product Owner within the UK over the 6 months to 16 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
England +109 33 £575 -4.17% 9
London +105 32 £575 -4.17% 5
Work from Home +118 14 £588 -2.08% 2
UK excluding London +48 1 £825 +53.49% 3
South East - 1 £825 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 16 May 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior Product Owner in the job title.

1 33 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 24 (72.73%) Agile
3 15 (45.45%) Scrum
3 15 (45.45%) Azure
4 13 (39.39%) Back Office
5 12 (36.36%) Finance
5 12 (36.36%) Requirements Gathering
6 11 (33.33%) User Stories
6 11 (33.33%) Product Strategy
6 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
7 10 (30.30%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 9 (27.27%) Analytics
9 8 (24.24%) Acceptance Criteria
9 8 (24.24%) PCI DSS
10 7 (21.21%) Data Analysis
10 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
10 7 (21.21%) Data Modelling
10 7 (21.21%) Product Backlog
10 7 (21.21%) Public Sector
10 7 (21.21%) Azure Service Bus
10 7 (21.21%) Customer Experience
10 7 (21.21%) Roadmaps
11 5 (15.15%) Product Vision
11 5 (15.15%) Presentation Skills
11 5 (15.15%) Backlog Management
11 5 (15.15%) Artifactory
11 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
11 5 (15.15%) Continuous Improvement
11 5 (15.15%) Ansible
11 5 (15.15%) DevOps

Senior Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (6.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (3.03%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 15 (45.45%) Azure
2 7 (21.21%) Azure Service Bus
3 4 (12.12%) PaaS
3 4 (12.12%) SaaS
4 2 (6.06%) Dynamics 365
4 2 (6.06%) Serverless
5 1 (3.03%) Azure Functions
5 1 (3.03%) BigCommerce
5 1 (3.03%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.12%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (12.12%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (9.09%) Big Data
2 3 (9.09%) GIS
Development Applications
1 5 (15.15%) Artifactory
1 5 (15.15%) Jenkins
1 5 (15.15%) TeamCity
2 4 (12.12%) Bitbucket
2 4 (12.12%) Git
3 3 (9.09%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 13 (39.39%) Back Office
2 12 (36.36%) Finance
3 11 (33.33%) Social Skills
4 7 (21.21%) Public Sector
5 5 (15.15%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (12.12%) Banking
6 4 (12.12%) Retail
7 3 (9.09%) Investment Banking
8 2 (6.06%) Corporate Banking
8 2 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (6.06%) Retail Banking
9 1 (3.03%) Marketing
9 1 (3.03%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (3.03%) VML
Miscellaneous
1 33 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 4 (12.12%) Onboarding
3 3 (9.09%) Management Information System
4 2 (6.06%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.06%) Freedom of Information
4 2 (6.06%) Freedom of Information Act
Operating Systems
1 4 (12.12%) Android
1 4 (12.12%) Apple iOS
1 4 (12.12%) Linux
1 4 (12.12%) Unix
1 4 (12.12%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (72.73%) Agile
2 15 (45.45%) Scrum
3 12 (36.36%) Requirements Gathering
4 11 (33.33%) Product Strategy
4 11 (33.33%) User Stories
5 10 (30.30%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 9 (27.27%) Analytics
7 8 (24.24%) Acceptance Criteria
8 7 (21.21%) Customer Experience
8 7 (21.21%) Data Analysis
8 7 (21.21%) Data Modelling
8 7 (21.21%) Product Backlog
8 7 (21.21%) Roadmaps
9 5 (15.15%) CRM
9 5 (15.15%) Data Management
9 5 (15.15%) DevOps
9 5 (15.15%) Kanban
9 5 (15.15%) Product Vision
9 5 (15.15%) Stakeholder Management
9 5 (15.15%) Test Automation
Programming Languages
1 5 (15.15%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (3.03%) CSPO
2 1 (3.03%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (24.24%) PCI DSS
2 1 (3.03%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (12.12%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 5 (15.15%) Ansible
2 4 (12.12%) Kubernetes
2 4 (12.12%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (21.21%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.03%) Adobe
2 1 (3.03%) Dell
2 1 (3.03%) Intel
2 1 (3.03%) Salesforce
2 1 (3.03%) SAP
2 1 (3.03%) Sitecore