Product Manager Contracts in England

Product Manager
UK > England

The median Product Manager daily rate in England is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 342 283 369
Rank change year-on-year -59 +86 +22
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 210 456 504
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.57% 0.91% 0.71%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.96% 0.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 155 342 367
10th Percentile £409 £421 £425
25th Percentile £456 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £555 £565
Median % change year-on-year +8.17% -1.83% +13.00%
75th Percentile £694 £644 £650
90th Percentile £788 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £585 £550 £560
% change year-on-year +6.36% -1.79% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 - £41.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £39.55 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +70.67% -6.94% -40.97%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £43.75
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year +70.67% -6.94% -40.97%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
England

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in England. 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 England with a recognized job title 34,362 47,263 67,966
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.69% 94.63% 95.50%
Number of daily rates quoted 22,836 33,555 48,392
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £413 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £643 £663 £638
90th Percentile £750 £760 £738
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,442 1,404 1,879
10th Percentile £13.00 £14.36 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £20.00 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £44.32 £22.50
Median % change year-on-year -17.64% +96.98% +2.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.86 £77.00 £63.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%

Product Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Manager in England

Product Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Product Manager in England

Product Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Manager in England over the 6 months to 6 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Manager in England

Product Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Manager in England

Product Manager
Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 6 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
London -13 145 £600 +4.35% 118
North of England -2 18 £568 +3.18% 20
South West +23 15 £450 -30.77% 12
North West +23 14 £450 -25.00% 12
South East -23 14 £505 +1.00% 34
Midlands +30 11 £594 -1.04% 25
West Midlands +19 9 £575 -11.54% 21
Yorkshire -2 4 £600 +9.09% 5
East Midlands +16 2 £601 -7.50% 4
East of England +6 1 £700 +7.69% 14
Product Manager
UK

Product Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Product Manager 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 England region featuring Product Manager in the job title.

1 101 (48.10%) Agile
2 100 (47.62%) Roadmaps
3 90 (42.86%) Product Management
4 63 (30.00%) Product Ownership
5 53 (25.24%) Product Roadmap
6 52 (24.76%) Finance
7 37 (17.62%) Social Skills
8 36 (17.14%) Analytics
9 35 (16.67%) Security Cleared
10 32 (15.24%) Public Sector
11 29 (13.81%) SC Cleared
12 27 (12.86%) User Experience
12 27 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
13 26 (12.38%) Product Strategy
14 25 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
15 24 (11.43%) Product Vision
16 23 (10.95%) Product Backlog
16 23 (10.95%) Artificial Intelligence
17 22 (10.48%) Scrum
18 20 (9.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
19 19 (9.05%) Decision-Making
20 18 (8.57%) SQL
20 18 (8.57%) Retail
20 18 (8.57%) Machine Learning
20 18 (8.57%) AWS
21 17 (8.10%) User Stories
21 17 (8.10%) Derivative
21 17 (8.10%) Project Management
21 17 (8.10%) Problem-Solving
21 17 (8.10%) Product Requirements

Product Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 7 (3.33%) Confluence
2 5 (2.38%) SAS
3 3 (1.43%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.43%) CMS
Applications
1 3 (1.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.95%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.48%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.48%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.48%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (8.57%) AWS
2 12 (5.71%) Azure
2 12 (5.71%) SaaS
3 5 (2.38%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (1.90%) Cloud Computing
5 3 (1.43%) GCP
6 2 (0.95%) Figma
6 2 (0.95%) PaaS
6 2 (0.95%) Power Platform
6 2 (0.95%) Slack
7 1 (0.48%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.48%) GitHub
7 1 (0.48%) Google Analytics
7 1 (0.48%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (0.48%) Miro
7 1 (0.48%) Stripe
7 1 (0.48%) SuccessFactors
7 1 (0.48%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.95%) Firewall
1 2 (0.95%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.48%) ISDN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.38%) Crystal Reports
2 4 (1.90%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.95%) Power BI
3 2 (0.95%) Tableau
4 1 (0.48%) Big Data
4 1 (0.48%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.48%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 12 (5.71%) JIRA
2 2 (0.95%) Artifactory
2 2 (0.95%) Bitbucket
2 2 (0.95%) Git
2 2 (0.95%) Jenkins
2 2 (0.95%) TeamCity
3 1 (0.48%) GitLab
General
1 52 (24.76%) Finance
2 37 (17.62%) Social Skills
3 32 (15.24%) Public Sector
4 27 (12.86%) Analytical Skills
5 18 (8.57%) Retail
6 16 (7.62%) Front Office
6 16 (7.62%) Marketing
7 8 (3.81%) Presentation Skills
8 7 (3.33%) Banking
8 7 (3.33%) Local Government
8 7 (3.33%) Telecoms
9 6 (2.86%) Manufacturing
10 5 (2.38%) Automotive
10 5 (2.38%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.43%) Advertising
11 3 (1.43%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.43%) Influencing Skills
11 3 (1.43%) Legal
11 3 (1.43%) Publishing
12 2 (0.95%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.43%) Web Services
2 2 (0.95%) HTML
3 1 (0.48%) .NET
3 1 (0.48%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.48%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.48%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (0.48%) Entity Framework
3 1 (0.48%) HTML5
3 1 (0.48%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 63 (30.00%) Product Ownership
2 20 (9.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 17 (8.10%) Derivative
4 16 (7.62%) Equities
4 16 (7.62%) Fixed Income
4 16 (7.62%) Hedge funds
5 6 (2.86%) Digital Signage
5 6 (2.86%) Video\Live Streaming
6 5 (2.38%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.90%) Analytical Mindset
7 4 (1.90%) Management Information System
8 3 (1.43%) Blockchain
8 3 (1.43%) Data Protection Act
8 3 (1.43%) Mobile App
8 3 (1.43%) Reference Data
8 3 (1.43%) Self-Motivation
9 2 (0.95%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.95%) Infotainment
9 2 (0.95%) IoT
9 2 (0.95%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.86%) Apple iOS
2 4 (1.90%) Windows
3 3 (1.43%) Linux
4 2 (0.95%) Android
4 2 (0.95%) Unix
5 1 (0.48%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 101 (48.10%) Agile
2 100 (47.62%) Roadmaps
3 90 (42.86%) Product Management
4 53 (25.24%) Product Roadmap
5 36 (17.14%) Analytics
6 27 (12.86%) User Experience
7 26 (12.38%) Product Strategy
8 25 (11.90%) Stakeholder Management
9 24 (11.43%) Product Vision
10 23 (10.95%) Artificial Intelligence
10 23 (10.95%) Product Backlog
11 22 (10.48%) Scrum
12 19 (9.05%) Decision-Making
13 18 (8.57%) Machine Learning
14 17 (8.10%) Problem-Solving
14 17 (8.10%) Product Requirements
14 17 (8.10%) Project Management
14 17 (8.10%) User Stories
15 16 (7.62%) Asset Management
15 16 (7.62%) Investment Management
Programming Languages
1 18 (8.57%) SQL
2 15 (7.14%) Python
3 1 (0.48%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 35 (16.67%) Security Cleared
2 29 (13.81%) SC Cleared
3 14 (6.67%) Degree
4 6 (2.86%) Master's Degree
5 5 (2.38%) DV Cleared
5 5 (2.38%) MBA
6 2 (0.95%) BPSS Clearance
6 2 (0.95%) CSPO
7 1 (0.48%) Azure Certification
7 1 (0.48%) CCIP
7 1 (0.48%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.48%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.90%) QA
2 2 (0.95%) GDPR
2 2 (0.95%) PMO
3 1 (0.48%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.48%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.48%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.48%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (0.48%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.43%) Kubernetes
1 3 (1.43%) Terraform
2 2 (0.95%) Ansible
3 1 (0.48%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.48%) Nessus
3 1 (0.48%) SCCM
Vendors
1 8 (3.81%) Microsoft
2 6 (2.86%) Logitech
3 5 (2.38%) IFS
4 3 (1.43%) Adobe
4 3 (1.43%) Salesforce
4 3 (1.43%) SAP
4 3 (1.43%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.95%) Amplitude
5 2 (0.95%) Citrix
5 2 (0.95%) MuleSoft
6 1 (0.48%) Avaya
6 1 (0.48%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.48%) Cadence
6 1 (0.48%) Cisco
6 1 (0.48%) Databricks
6 1 (0.48%) Google
6 1 (0.48%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.48%) Siemens
6 1 (0.48%) VMware
6 1 (0.48%) Workday