Product Owner Contracts

Product Owner
UK

The median Product Owner daily rate in the UK is £585 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 371 391 356
Rank change year-on-year +20 -35 +20
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 236 321 664
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.54% 0.58% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.59% 0.61% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 171 249 506
10th Percentile £405 £450 £434
25th Percentile £491 £513 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +9.09% +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £638
90th Percentile £775 £700 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £538 £525
% change year-on-year +2.33% +2.38% +6.06%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £64.25 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £103.50 -

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 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in the UK

Product Owner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Product Owner in the UK

Product Owner
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Owner over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Owner in the UK

Product Owner
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Owner.

Hourly rate trend for Product Owner in the UK

Product Owner
Top 13 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 9 June 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 +38 212 £600 - 62
London +68 153 £600 - 26
Work from Home +59 92 £563 -2.17% 46
UK excluding London -23 63 £550 +2.33% 37
South East -11 20 £550 +10.00% 9
Midlands +19 16 £563 +1.12% 14
West Midlands +13 13 £556 -7.29% 11
North of England +12 10 £500 -8.05% 6
North West +9 10 £500 -6.98% 3
Scotland +32 9 £493 -6.19% 2
South West -1 4 £600 -7.69% 6
East of England -1 4 £410 -18.00%
East Midlands +7 1 £225 -50.00% 3

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

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 233 (98.73%) Product Ownership
2 149 (63.14%) Agile
3 84 (35.59%) Roadmaps
4 66 (27.97%) Finance
4 66 (27.97%) User Stories
5 60 (25.42%) Scrum
5 60 (25.42%) Product Backlog
6 55 (23.31%) Stakeholder Management
7 52 (22.03%) Social Skills
8 43 (18.22%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 41 (17.37%) Analytics
10 40 (16.95%) Azure
11 38 (16.10%) Product Management
12 36 (15.25%) DevOps
13 34 (14.41%) Backlog Management
14 33 (13.98%) Acceptance Criteria
15 31 (13.14%) Product Roadmap
15 31 (13.14%) Product Strategy
16 30 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
17 29 (12.29%) Python
17 29 (12.29%) Product Vision
17 29 (12.29%) Requirements Gathering
18 27 (11.44%) Machine Learning
19 25 (10.59%) Artificial Intelligence
20 23 (9.75%) Translating Business Requirements
21 22 (9.32%) Product Requirements
22 21 (8.90%) Customer Experience
22 21 (8.90%) Asset Management
22 21 (8.90%) Banking
23 20 (8.47%) Workflow

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:

Application Platforms
1 19 (8.05%) Confluence
2 7 (2.97%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (0.85%) CMS
3 2 (0.85%) OpenStack
3 2 (0.85%) WordPress
4 1 (0.42%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.42%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 4 (1.69%) Dynamics CRM
2 3 (1.27%) Fidessa
3 2 (0.85%) Shopify
3 2 (0.85%) VisionPLUS
4 1 (0.42%) Adobe Campaign
4 1 (0.42%) Distributed Ledger
4 1 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 40 (16.95%) Azure
2 18 (7.63%) AWS
3 17 (7.20%) Azure DevOps
4 12 (5.08%) Azure Service Bus
5 11 (4.66%) Power Platform
6 8 (3.39%) SaaS
7 7 (2.97%) PaaS
8 5 (2.12%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (1.69%) Collibra
10 3 (1.27%) Asana
10 3 (1.27%) Serverless
11 2 (0.85%) GCP
11 2 (0.85%) Google Analytics
11 2 (0.85%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
11 2 (0.85%) SAP Commerce Cloud
11 2 (0.85%) SuccessFactors
12 1 (0.42%) Adobe Analytics
12 1 (0.42%) Datadog
12 1 (0.42%) Google Ads
12 1 (0.42%) Google Tag Manager
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.97%) Firewall
2 3 (1.27%) Broadband
3 2 (0.85%) DHCP
3 2 (0.85%) DNS
3 2 (0.85%) Wi-Fi
4 1 (0.42%) 3G
4 1 (0.42%) 4G
4 1 (0.42%) 5G
4 1 (0.42%) DSL
4 1 (0.42%) SMS
4 1 (0.42%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.24%) Power BI
2 5 (2.12%) Big Data
2 5 (2.12%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.12%) Metadata
3 3 (1.27%) GIS
4 2 (0.85%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.85%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.85%) Looker
4 2 (0.85%) NoSQL
5 1 (0.42%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 16 (6.78%) JIRA
2 6 (2.54%) Artifactory
2 6 (2.54%) Jenkins
2 6 (2.54%) TeamCity
3 5 (2.12%) Bitbucket
3 5 (2.12%) Git
4 4 (1.69%) Eclipse
4 4 (1.69%) PyCharm
4 4 (1.69%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 66 (27.97%) Finance
2 52 (22.03%) Social Skills
3 21 (8.90%) Banking
4 19 (8.05%) Back Office
5 18 (7.63%) Front Office
6 16 (6.78%) Retail
7 15 (6.36%) Public Sector
8 13 (5.51%) Analytical Skills
8 13 (5.51%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 13 (5.51%) Manufacturing
9 11 (4.66%) Marketing
9 11 (4.66%) Retail Banking
10 10 (4.24%) Billing
10 10 (4.24%) Presentation Skills
11 9 (3.81%) Investment Banking
11 9 (3.81%) Pharmaceutical
12 8 (3.39%) Corporate Banking
13 7 (2.97%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (2.12%) Telecoms
15 2 (0.85%) Legal
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.27%) React Native
2 2 (0.85%) .NET
2 2 (0.85%) ADO
2 2 (0.85%) LDAP
2 2 (0.85%) Node.js
3 1 (0.42%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.42%) HTML
3 1 (0.42%) VML
3 1 (0.42%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 233 (98.73%) Product Ownership
2 17 (7.20%) Derivative
2 17 (7.20%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 16 (6.78%) Equities
3 16 (6.78%) Fixed Income
3 16 (6.78%) Hedge funds
4 6 (2.54%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.12%) IoT
5 5 (2.12%) Management Information System
5 5 (2.12%) Mobile App
6 4 (1.69%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.69%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.27%) Algorithms
7 3 (1.27%) FMCG
7 3 (1.27%) Freedom of Information
7 3 (1.27%) Freedom of Information Act
7 3 (1.27%) Reinsurance
8 2 (0.85%) Clustering
8 2 (0.85%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.85%) EPoS
Operating Systems
1 9 (3.81%) Android
1 9 (3.81%) Apple iOS
2 8 (3.39%) Linux
3 7 (2.97%) Windows
4 5 (2.12%) Unix
5 2 (0.85%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 149 (63.14%) Agile
2 84 (35.59%) Roadmaps
3 66 (27.97%) User Stories
4 60 (25.42%) Product Backlog
4 60 (25.42%) Scrum
5 55 (23.31%) Stakeholder Management
6 43 (18.22%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 41 (17.37%) Analytics
8 38 (16.10%) Product Management
9 36 (15.25%) DevOps
10 34 (14.41%) Backlog Management
11 33 (13.98%) Acceptance Criteria
12 31 (13.14%) Product Roadmap
12 31 (13.14%) Product Strategy
13 30 (12.71%) Problem-Solving
14 29 (12.29%) Product Vision
14 29 (12.29%) Requirements Gathering
15 27 (11.44%) Machine Learning
16 25 (10.59%) Artificial Intelligence
17 23 (9.75%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 29 (12.29%) Python
2 20 (8.47%) SQL
3 4 (1.69%) Groovy
3 4 (1.69%) Java
3 4 (1.69%) JavaScript
4 2 (0.85%) C
4 2 (0.85%) Go
5 1 (0.42%) C#
5 1 (0.42%) VBA
Qualifications
1 11 (4.66%) Degree
2 4 (1.69%) CSPO
2 4 (1.69%) Security Cleared
3 2 (0.85%) SC Cleared
4 1 (0.42%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (5.51%) PCI DSS
2 7 (2.97%) QA
3 4 (1.69%) GDPR
3 4 (1.69%) Good Clinical Practice
3 4 (1.69%) GxP
4 1 (0.42%) Accessibility
4 1 (0.42%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.42%) SLA
System Software
1 5 (2.12%) Active Directory
2 2 (0.85%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (3.39%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.97%) Ansible
3 5 (2.12%) Terraform
4 1 (0.42%) Rundeck
Vendors
1 10 (4.24%) Microsoft
2 9 (3.81%) Adobe
3 8 (3.39%) Salesforce
4 5 (2.12%) Google
5 4 (1.69%) SAP
6 3 (1.27%) Informatica
6 3 (1.27%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.85%) Aprimo
7 2 (0.85%) Ariba
7 2 (0.85%) TSYS
8 1 (0.42%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.42%) BigPanda
8 1 (0.42%) Concur
8 1 (0.42%) Conga
8 1 (0.42%) Dell
8 1 (0.42%) Intel
8 1 (0.42%) Oracle
8 1 (0.42%) Pega
8 1 (0.42%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.42%) Sitecore