Product Owner Contracts in the South East

Product Owner
England > South East

The median Product Owner daily rate in the South East is £550 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 184 173 216
Rank change year-on-year -11 +43 -20
Contract jobs requiring a Product Owner 20 46 46
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.35% 0.81% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.38% 0.86% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 28 33
10th Percentile £403 £339 £458
25th Percentile £459 £406 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £550
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £681 £625 £625
90th Percentile £715 £670 £650
England median daily rate £600 £600 £550
% change year-on-year - +9.09% +7.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 0
Median hourly rate - £103.50 -
England median hourly rate - £103.50 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
South East

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the South East. 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 South East with a recognized job title 5,244 5,347 7,384
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.08% 94.55% 95.83%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,083 3,701 5,046
10th Percentile £234 £213 £210
25th Percentile £400 £385 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +11.11%
75th Percentile £625 £600 £592
90th Percentile £688 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.19% +6.60%
Number of hourly rates quoted 544 237 310
10th Percentile £12.88 £16.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £18.46 £22.50 £16.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £50.00 £20.50
Median % change year-on-year - +143.90% -15.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £66.00 £45.84
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £61.58
England median hourly rate £39.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -12.22% +88.21% +13.59%

Product Owner
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Owner in the South East

Product Owner
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

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

Daily rate trend for Product Owner in the South East

Product Owner
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

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

Daily rate histogram for Product Owner in the South East

Product Owner
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region 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
Thames Valley -18 8 £625 +38.89% 2
Berkshire -20 7 £650 +50.72% 1
Hampshire -9 6 £500 -16.67% 1
Surrey +15 3 £456 - 3
West Sussex - 2 £400 -
Buckinghamshire +23 1 £550 -1.79% 1
Kent - 1 £825 - 2
Product Owner
England

Product Owner Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East

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 across the South East region featuring Product Owner in the job title.

1 20 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 13 (65.00%) Roadmaps
2 13 (65.00%) Agile
3 10 (50.00%) Product Backlog
4 9 (45.00%) Product Roadmap
4 9 (45.00%) Backlog Management
4 9 (45.00%) Scrum
5 8 (40.00%) User Stories
6 7 (35.00%) Finance
7 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
8 5 (25.00%) Billing
8 5 (25.00%) Product Management
8 5 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 5 (25.00%) Product Requirements
8 5 (25.00%) Business Strategy
8 5 (25.00%) Epics
9 4 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
9 4 (20.00%) Contingency Planning
9 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
9 4 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
9 4 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
10 3 (15.00%) Technology Roadmap
10 3 (15.00%) CSPO
10 3 (15.00%) Product Vision
10 3 (15.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
10 3 (15.00%) Marketing
10 3 (15.00%) JIRA
11 2 (10.00%) Google
11 2 (10.00%) Azure
11 2 (10.00%) QA

Product Owner Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 2 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 2 (10.00%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (5.00%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) Azure
2 1 (5.00%) Adobe Analytics
2 1 (5.00%) AppsFlyer
2 1 (5.00%) AWS
2 1 (5.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (5.00%) GCP
2 1 (5.00%) Google Ads
2 1 (5.00%) Google Tag Manager
2 1 (5.00%) Google Workspace
2 1 (5.00%) Miro
2 1 (5.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.00%) SaaS
2 1 (5.00%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (10.00%) Broadband
2 1 (5.00%) 3G
2 1 (5.00%) 4G
2 1 (5.00%) 5G
2 1 (5.00%) DSL
2 1 (5.00%) SMS
2 1 (5.00%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Big Data
1 1 (5.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (5.00%) Looker
1 1 (5.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 3 (15.00%) JIRA
General
1 7 (35.00%) Finance
2 5 (25.00%) Billing
3 4 (20.00%) Social Skills
4 3 (15.00%) Marketing
5 2 (10.00%) Banking
5 2 (10.00%) Telecoms
6 1 (5.00%) French Language
Miscellaneous
1 20 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) EPoS
2 1 (5.00%) FMCG
2 1 (5.00%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
1 1 (5.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 13 (65.00%) Agile
1 13 (65.00%) Roadmaps
2 10 (50.00%) Product Backlog
3 9 (45.00%) Backlog Management
3 9 (45.00%) Product Roadmap
3 9 (45.00%) Scrum
4 8 (40.00%) User Stories
5 6 (30.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 5 (25.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 5 (25.00%) Business Strategy
6 5 (25.00%) Epics
6 5 (25.00%) Product Management
6 5 (25.00%) Product Requirements
7 4 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
7 4 (20.00%) Contingency Planning
7 4 (20.00%) Matrix Organization
7 4 (20.00%) Sprint Planning
8 3 (15.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
8 3 (15.00%) Product Vision
8 3 (15.00%) Technology Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Python
1 1 (5.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.00%) CSPO
2 1 (5.00%) DV Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
2 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (10.00%) QA
System Software
1 1 (5.00%) Active Directory
Vendors
1 2 (10.00%) Google
2 1 (5.00%) Adobe
2 1 (5.00%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.00%) Citrix
2 1 (5.00%) Microsoft