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 23 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
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 254 313 289
Rank change year-on-year +59 -24 +33
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 91 158 385
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.62% 0.65% 0.87%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.66% 0.68% 0.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 117 287
10th Percentile £425 £414 £425
25th Percentile £481 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £563 £525
Median % change year-on-year - +7.14% -4.55%
75th Percentile £675 £625 £600
90th Percentile £788 £650 £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 13,707 23,282 42,199
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.52% 95.29% 95.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,257 16,477 30,548
10th Percentile £325 £363 £356
25th Percentile £425 £448 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +8.81%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 561 537 589
10th Percentile £14.25 £17.17 £13.50
25th Percentile £22.61 £25.71 £19.35
Median hourly rate £44.74 £52.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -14.78% +50.00% +48.94%
75th Percentile £64.53 £67.50 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.25 £77.50 £68.17
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%

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 23 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 23 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 91 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 61 (67.03%) Agile
3 33 (36.26%) Finance
4 29 (31.87%) Roadmaps
5 25 (27.47%) Product Management
5 25 (27.47%) User Stories
6 24 (26.37%) Product Backlog
7 23 (25.27%) Analytics
8 21 (23.08%) Azure
8 21 (23.08%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 20 (21.98%) Scrum
10 19 (20.88%) Python
11 18 (19.78%) Stakeholder Management
12 17 (18.68%) DevOps
13 16 (17.58%) Machine Learning
14 15 (16.48%) Asset Management
15 14 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
15 14 (15.38%) SQL
15 14 (15.38%) Product Requirements
15 14 (15.38%) Product Vision
15 14 (15.38%) Social Skills
16 13 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
16 13 (14.29%) Business Case
16 13 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
16 13 (14.29%) Fixed Income
16 13 (14.29%) Equities
16 13 (14.29%) Front Office
16 13 (14.29%) Derivative
16 13 (14.29%) Investment Management
16 13 (14.29%) AWS

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 (8.79%) Confluence
2 1 (1.10%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (3.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.10%) Distributed Ledger
2 1 (1.10%) Shopify
Cloud Services
1 21 (23.08%) Azure
2 13 (14.29%) AWS
3 9 (9.89%) Azure DevOps
4 7 (7.69%) Azure Service Bus
5 6 (6.59%) SaaS
6 5 (5.49%) PaaS
7 3 (3.30%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (2.20%) Asana
8 2 (2.20%) Power Platform
9 1 (1.10%) Azure AKS
9 1 (1.10%) Azure Functions
9 1 (1.10%) Azure Stack
9 1 (1.10%) Commercetools
9 1 (1.10%) GCP
9 1 (1.10%) Google Workspace
9 1 (1.10%) Miro
9 1 (1.10%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
9 1 (1.10%) SAP Commerce Cloud
9 1 (1.10%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 5 (5.49%) Firewall
2 1 (1.10%) Broadband
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (1.10%) BigQuery
1 1 (1.10%) Data Lake
1 1 (1.10%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (1.10%) GIS
1 1 (1.10%) Looker
1 1 (1.10%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 5 (5.49%) Artifactory
1 5 (5.49%) Bitbucket
1 5 (5.49%) Git
1 5 (5.49%) Jenkins
1 5 (5.49%) TeamCity
2 3 (3.30%) JIRA
General
1 33 (36.26%) Finance
2 14 (15.38%) Social Skills
3 13 (14.29%) Front Office
4 11 (12.09%) Banking
5 8 (8.79%) Back Office
6 7 (7.69%) Public Sector
7 6 (6.59%) Analytical Skills
7 6 (6.59%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (4.40%) Influencing Skills
9 3 (3.30%) Billing
9 3 (3.30%) Retail
9 3 (3.30%) Retail Banking
10 2 (2.20%) Corporate Banking
10 2 (2.20%) Investment Banking
10 2 (2.20%) Marketing
10 2 (2.20%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (1.10%) French Language
11 1 (1.10%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.10%) Manufacturing
11 1 (1.10%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.20%) .NET
2 1 (1.10%) ADO
2 1 (1.10%) ASP.NET
Miscellaneous
1 91 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 13 (14.29%) Derivative
2 13 (14.29%) Equities
2 13 (14.29%) Fixed Income
2 13 (14.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 13 (14.29%) Hedge funds
3 3 (3.30%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.20%) Mobile App
4 2 (2.20%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.10%) Algorithms
5 1 (1.10%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.10%) CMDB
5 1 (1.10%) Distributed Applications
5 1 (1.10%) IoT
5 1 (1.10%) IVR
5 1 (1.10%) Mobile Banking
5 1 (1.10%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 6 (6.59%) Windows
2 5 (5.49%) Android
2 5 (5.49%) Apple iOS
2 5 (5.49%) Linux
2 5 (5.49%) Unix
3 1 (1.10%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 61 (67.03%) Agile
2 29 (31.87%) Roadmaps
3 25 (27.47%) Product Management
3 25 (27.47%) User Stories
4 24 (26.37%) Product Backlog
5 23 (25.27%) Analytics
6 21 (23.08%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 20 (21.98%) Scrum
8 18 (19.78%) Stakeholder Management
9 17 (18.68%) DevOps
10 16 (17.58%) Machine Learning
11 15 (16.48%) Asset Management
12 14 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
12 14 (15.38%) Product Requirements
12 14 (15.38%) Product Vision
13 13 (14.29%) Business Case
13 13 (14.29%) Investment Management
13 13 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
14 12 (13.19%) Acceptance Criteria
14 12 (13.19%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 19 (20.88%) Python
2 14 (15.38%) SQL
3 1 (1.10%) C#
3 1 (1.10%) VBA
Qualifications
1 2 (2.20%) SC Cleared
1 2 (2.20%) Security Cleared
2 1 (1.10%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (6.59%) PCI DSS
2 5 (5.49%) QA
3 3 (3.30%) Accessibility
System Software
1 4 (4.40%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 6 (6.59%) Kubernetes
2 5 (5.49%) Ansible
2 5 (5.49%) Terraform
Vendors
1 8 (8.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.20%) Google
2 2 (2.20%) Salesforce
2 2 (2.20%) SAP
3 1 (1.10%) Aprimo
3 1 (1.10%) Ariba
3 1 (1.10%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.10%) Oracle
3 1 (1.10%) Pega
3 1 (1.10%) ServiceNow
3 1 (1.10%) TSYS