Product Owner Contracts in London

Product Owner
England > London

The median Product Owner daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 20 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 289 255 303
Rank change year-on-year -34 +48 +8
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 66 144 173
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.53% 0.81% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.56% 0.87% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 37 106 140
10th Percentile £401 £425 £486
25th Percentile £485 £516 £535
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £604 £600
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +0.63% +4.35%
75th Percentile £644 £750 £650
90th Percentile £685 £788 £738
England median daily rate £500 £588 £600
% change year-on-year -14.85% -2.08% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £89.68 - -
Median hourly rate £93.08 - -
75th Percentile £96.49 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £92.54 - £103.50

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,685 16,634 23,791
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.41% 93.68% 94.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,930 11,936 17,360
10th Percentile £338 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £675 £700
90th Percentile £799 £800 £800
England median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 326 275
10th Percentile £19.20 £15.97 £18.00
25th Percentile £24.00 £20.07 £22.69
Median hourly rate £32.89 £27.66 £37.00
Median % change year-on-year +18.93% -25.26% +5.71%
75th Percentile £50.97 £46.05 £63.88
90th Percentile £65.00 £66.75 £82.40
England median hourly rate £29.00 £39.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -26.58% -12.22% +82.89%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in London

Product Owner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

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

Daily rate trend for Product Owner in London

Product Owner
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Owner in London over the 6 months to 20 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Owner in London

Product Owner
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Owner in London

Product Owner
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 20 June 2025. 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
Central London +1 15 £583 +2.42% 53
East London +13 1 £594 +8.25% 14
Product Owner
England

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

For the 6 months to 20 June 2025, 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 London region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 66 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 38 (57.58%) Agile
3 33 (50.00%) Roadmaps
4 26 (39.39%) Product Roadmap
5 24 (36.36%) User Stories
6 23 (34.85%) Social Skills
7 22 (33.33%) Product Backlog
8 21 (31.82%) Backlog Management
9 18 (27.27%) Product Vision
9 18 (27.27%) User Experience
10 16 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
11 15 (22.73%) Finance
12 14 (21.21%) Scrum
13 13 (19.70%) Stakeholder Management
13 13 (19.70%) JIRA
13 13 (19.70%) Azure
13 13 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
14 12 (18.18%) Backlog Prioritisation
15 9 (13.64%) SaaS
16 8 (12.12%) Confluence
16 8 (12.12%) Marketing
16 8 (12.12%) Analytics
16 8 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
16 8 (12.12%) Data Governance
16 8 (12.12%) Banking
16 8 (12.12%) Product Strategy
16 8 (12.12%) Decision-Making
17 7 (10.61%) Acceptance Criteria
17 7 (10.61%) DevOps
17 7 (10.61%) Product Management

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (12.12%) Confluence
2 4 (6.06%) CMS
3 2 (3.03%) Sitecore CMS
3 2 (3.03%) WordPress
4 1 (1.52%) Apache
4 1 (1.52%) Apache Spark
4 1 (1.52%) Appian
Applications
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (1.52%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (1.52%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 13 (19.70%) Azure
2 9 (13.64%) SaaS
3 5 (7.58%) Figma
4 4 (6.06%) AWS
4 4 (6.06%) Azure DevOps
4 4 (6.06%) Miro
5 3 (4.55%) Power Platform
6 2 (3.03%) Amazon EKS
6 2 (3.03%) Azure AKS
6 2 (3.03%) Dynamics 365
6 2 (3.03%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.52%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.52%) Azure Event Grid
7 1 (1.52%) Azure Functions
7 1 (1.52%) Azure Service Bus
7 1 (1.52%) Microsoft 365
7 1 (1.52%) Microsoft Copilot
7 1 (1.52%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.52%) MQTT
1 1 (1.52%) Network Security
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.03%) Elasticsearch
1 2 (3.03%) Power BI
2 1 (1.52%) Data Hub
2 1 (1.52%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.52%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.52%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (1.52%) GIS
2 1 (1.52%) MongoDB
Development Applications
1 13 (19.70%) JIRA
2 3 (4.55%) GitLab
3 2 (3.03%) Storybook
4 1 (1.52%) Eclipse
General
1 23 (34.85%) Social Skills
2 16 (24.24%) Analytical Skills
3 15 (22.73%) Finance
4 8 (12.12%) Banking
4 8 (12.12%) Marketing
5 6 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
5 6 (9.09%) Retail
6 4 (6.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.06%) Public Sector
7 2 (3.03%) Automotive
7 2 (3.03%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.03%) Legal
7 2 (3.03%) Telecoms
8 1 (1.52%) Back Office
8 1 (1.52%) Billing
8 1 (1.52%) Corporate Banking
8 1 (1.52%) Electronics
8 1 (1.52%) Front Office
8 1 (1.52%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (6.06%) EDI
2 1 (1.52%) .NET
2 1 (1.52%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.52%) ADO
2 1 (1.52%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 66 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (3.03%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 1 (1.52%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (1.52%) Digital Media
3 1 (1.52%) Embedded Systems
3 1 (1.52%) IoT
3 1 (1.52%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (1.52%) Mobile App
3 1 (1.52%) Onboarding
3 1 (1.52%) Online Banking
3 1 (1.52%) PMI
3 1 (1.52%) Reference Data
3 1 (1.52%) Reinsurance
3 1 (1.52%) Self-Motivation
3 1 (1.52%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.52%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (57.58%) Agile
2 33 (50.00%) Roadmaps
3 26 (39.39%) Product Roadmap
4 24 (36.36%) User Stories
5 22 (33.33%) Product Backlog
6 21 (31.82%) Backlog Management
7 18 (27.27%) Product Vision
7 18 (27.27%) User Experience
8 14 (21.21%) Scrum
9 13 (19.70%) Problem-Solving
9 13 (19.70%) Stakeholder Management
10 12 (18.18%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 8 (12.12%) Analytics
11 8 (12.12%) Continuous Improvement
11 8 (12.12%) Data Governance
11 8 (12.12%) Decision-Making
11 8 (12.12%) Product Strategy
12 7 (10.61%) Acceptance Criteria
12 7 (10.61%) DevOps
12 7 (10.61%) Product Management
Programming Languages
1 6 (9.09%) SQL
2 2 (3.03%) Python
3 1 (1.52%) C#
3 1 (1.52%) Java
3 1 (1.52%) JavaScript
3 1 (1.52%) R
3 1 (1.52%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 6 (9.09%) Security Cleared
2 4 (6.06%) Degree
2 4 (6.06%) SC Cleared
3 1 (1.52%) (ISC)2 CCSP
3 1 (1.52%) BPSS Clearance
3 1 (1.52%) CCSP
3 1 (1.52%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (1.52%) CISM
3 1 (1.52%) CISMP
3 1 (1.52%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (1.52%) CSPO
3 1 (1.52%) Master's Degree
3 1 (1.52%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (6.06%) QA
2 3 (4.55%) Accessibility
2 3 (4.55%) GDPR
2 3 (4.55%) GRC
3 1 (1.52%) Actionable Recommendations
3 1 (1.52%) COPPA
3 1 (1.52%) Data Quality
3 1 (1.52%) FATCA
3 1 (1.52%) MiFID
3 1 (1.52%) WCAG
Systems Management
1 2 (3.03%) Kubernetes
1 2 (3.03%) Terraform
2 1 (1.52%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (7.58%) Databricks
1 5 (7.58%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.55%) IBM
3 2 (3.03%) Salesforce
3 2 (3.03%) ServiceNow
3 2 (3.03%) Sitecore
4 1 (1.52%) Adobe
4 1 (1.52%) CA Agile Central
4 1 (1.52%) Citrix
4 1 (1.52%) OneTrust
4 1 (1.52%) Pega
4 1 (1.52%) Zscaler
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