Product Management Contracts in England

Product Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Product Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Management over the 6 months to 4 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 287 280 314
Rank change year-on-year -7 +34 +42
Contract jobs citing Product Management 274 449 631
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.74% 0.90% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.00% 0.98%
Number of daily rates quoted 188 321 448
10th Percentile £400 £364 £411
25th Percentile £450 £461 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +14.89%
75th Percentile £690 £650 £675
90th Percentile £816 £740 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 15
10th Percentile - £39.28 £27.29
25th Percentile £26.66 £43.40 £55.19
Median hourly rate £42.50 £51.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% -8.04% +13.42%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.50 £56.25
90th Percentile - £69.95 £66.68
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £51.50 £56.00
% change year-on-year -17.48% -8.04% +15.02%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Product Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,926 45,112 64,564
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.59% 90.20% 90.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,947 31,664 45,849
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +8.59%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £763 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,243 1,598 1,761
10th Percentile £12.92 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £36.33 £37.15 £24.35
Median % change year-on-year -2.21% +52.57% +3.62%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK median hourly rate £35.95 £36.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -0.14% +44.00% +2.04%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Product Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Product Management in England

Product Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Product Management in England

Product Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Management in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Management in England

Product Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Management in England

Product Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Product Management in England over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Management in England

Product Management
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 Management within the England region over the 6 months to 4 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 +19 185 £550 -8.33% 189
South East -20 23 £575 +15.00% 73
North of England +6 20 £477 -13.27% 43
North West +20 16 £450 -25.00% 25
South West +21 14 £638 -1.92% 11
Midlands +20 14 £600 -7.69% 27
West Midlands +16 11 £550 -15.38% 18
East of England -2 4 - - 32
Yorkshire +2 3 £525 -4.55% 15
East Midlands +18 1 £615 -5.38% 9
North East +17 1 £477 +83.46% 5
Product Management
UK

Product Management
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 9 (3.28%) Confluence
2 6 (2.19%) Apache
2 6 (2.19%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.82%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.46%) CMS
4 4 (1.46%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.73%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.36%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.36%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.19%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (2.19%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.73%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (0.73%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.36%) Sketch
3 1 (0.36%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (3.28%) Oracle Applications
2 4 (1.46%) Loan IQ
3 3 (1.09%) Endur
4 2 (0.73%) Softmar
5 1 (0.36%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.36%) Payment Gateway
5 1 (0.36%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.36%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.36%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.36%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 37 (13.50%) Azure
2 35 (12.77%) AWS
3 15 (5.47%) GCP
4 14 (5.11%) SaaS
5 9 (3.28%) OCI
5 9 (3.28%) Oracle CX
5 9 (3.28%) Power Platform
5 9 (3.28%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 8 (2.92%) dbt
7 6 (2.19%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.82%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.82%) Microsoft 365
8 5 (1.82%) Power Automate
8 5 (1.82%) Serverless
9 4 (1.46%) Figma
9 4 (1.46%) Nutanix
10 3 (1.09%) Miro
11 2 (0.73%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.73%) GitHub
11 2 (0.73%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.46%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (1.46%) VSAN
2 3 (1.09%) HTTP
2 3 (1.09%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (0.73%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.36%) Firewall
4 1 (0.36%) Intranet
4 1 (0.36%) Kerberos
4 1 (0.36%) SD-WAN
4 1 (0.36%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.28%) Oracle Reports
1 9 (3.28%) Power BI
2 7 (2.55%) Couchbase
3 6 (2.19%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (2.19%) Apache Arrow
3 6 (2.19%) Apache Ignite
3 6 (2.19%) Dremio
4 4 (1.46%) Data Lake
4 4 (1.46%) Elasticsearch
5 3 (1.09%) PostgreSQL
5 3 (1.09%) PostHog
6 2 (0.73%) Data Mart
6 2 (0.73%) GIS
6 2 (0.73%) Mixpanel
6 2 (0.73%) MySQL
6 2 (0.73%) SQL Server
6 2 (0.73%) Tableau
7 1 (0.36%) Amazon RDS
7 1 (0.36%) NoSQL
7 1 (0.36%) QlikView
Development Applications
1 19 (6.93%) JIRA
2 3 (1.09%) Git
3 2 (0.73%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.73%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (0.36%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.36%) GitLab
4 1 (0.36%) Storybook
General
1 87 (31.75%) Social Skills
2 74 (27.01%) Finance
3 45 (16.42%) Analytical Skills
4 35 (12.77%) Marketing
5 20 (7.30%) Presentation Skills
6 19 (6.93%) Front Office
6 19 (6.93%) Public Sector
7 17 (6.20%) Banking
8 13 (4.74%) Retail
9 10 (3.65%) Influencing Skills
9 10 (3.65%) Investment Banking
10 9 (3.28%) Legal
11 7 (2.55%) Manufacturing
12 6 (2.19%) Local Government
12 6 (2.19%) Telecoms
13 5 (1.82%) German Language
14 4 (1.46%) Automotive
14 4 (1.46%) Billing
14 4 (1.46%) Financial Institution
14 4 (1.46%) Pharmaceutical
Job Titles
1 89 (32.48%) Product Manager
2 39 (14.23%) Product Owner
3 38 (13.87%) Analyst
4 36 (13.14%) Business Analyst
5 23 (8.39%) Consultant
6 22 (8.03%) Senior
7 18 (6.57%) Architect
8 16 (5.84%) Developer
9 15 (5.47%) Product Analyst
9 15 (5.47%) Product Business Analyst
10 14 (5.11%) Finance Manager
11 13 (4.74%) Business Manager
12 12 (4.38%) Finance Business Analyst
12 12 (4.38%) Financial Analyst
12 12 (4.38%) Lead
12 12 (4.38%) Technical Manager
13 11 (4.01%) Senior Manager
13 11 (4.01%) Software Engineer
14 10 (3.65%) Senior Product Manager
15 8 (2.92%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 14 (5.11%) HTML
2 13 (4.74%) CSS
3 8 (2.92%) React
4 7 (2.55%) Kafka
4 7 (2.55%) Node.js
4 7 (2.55%) REST
5 6 (2.19%) gRPC
5 6 (2.19%) LDAP
5 6 (2.19%) NumPy
5 6 (2.19%) OAuth
5 6 (2.19%) Pandas
5 6 (2.19%) Protocol Buffers
5 6 (2.19%) SciPy
6 4 (1.46%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.46%) Lucene
6 4 (1.46%) OpenID
6 4 (1.46%) SAML
7 3 (1.09%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.09%) OAuth2
7 3 (1.09%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 82 (29.93%) Product Ownership
2 24 (8.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 20 (7.30%) Derivative
4 18 (6.57%) Equities
4 18 (6.57%) Fixed Income
4 18 (6.57%) Hedge funds
5 11 (4.01%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.19%) CMDB
8 5 (1.82%) Distributed Systems
8 5 (1.82%) Onboarding
8 5 (1.82%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (1.82%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.46%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.46%) IoT
9 4 (1.46%) Public Cloud
10 3 (1.09%) Digital Media
10 3 (1.09%) Mobile App
10 3 (1.09%) Reference Data
10 3 (1.09%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.55%) Linux
2 3 (1.09%) Windows
3 2 (0.73%) Android
3 2 (0.73%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.36%) Unix
4 1 (0.36%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.36%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 130 (47.45%) Agile
2 95 (34.67%) Roadmaps
3 50 (18.25%) Analytics
4 47 (17.15%) Stakeholder Management
5 46 (16.79%) Problem-Solving
6 45 (16.42%) Product Roadmap
7 43 (15.69%) Scrum
8 42 (15.33%) Product Strategy
9 36 (13.14%) Decision-Making
10 31 (11.31%) Software Engineering
11 30 (10.95%) Product Vision
11 30 (10.95%) User Experience
12 29 (10.58%) Project Management
13 28 (10.22%) User Stories
14 27 (9.85%) Continuous Improvement
15 26 (9.49%) Strategic Roadmap
16 22 (8.03%) Mentoring
16 22 (8.03%) Product Backlog
17 21 (7.66%) Asset Management
17 21 (7.66%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 33 (12.04%) Python
2 24 (8.76%) SQL
3 21 (7.66%) Java
4 18 (6.57%) JavaScript
5 10 (3.65%) C++
5 10 (3.65%) TypeScript
6 9 (3.28%) Ruby
7 6 (2.19%) Scala
8 4 (1.46%) Bash
8 4 (1.46%) C#
8 4 (1.46%) PHP
9 3 (1.09%) C
9 3 (1.09%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.36%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.36%) VBA
Qualifications
1 56 (20.44%) Degree
2 29 (10.58%) Security Cleared
3 19 (6.93%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.57%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.92%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.92%) DV Cleared
6 7 (2.55%) Cisco Certification
7 6 (2.19%) MBA
8 4 (1.46%) CCNP
8 4 (1.46%) PgMP
8 4 (1.46%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.46%) PMP
9 3 (1.09%) CBAP
9 3 (1.09%) CCNA
10 2 (0.73%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.73%) CSPO
10 2 (0.73%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.73%) PhD
11 1 (0.36%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (5.84%) QA
2 3 (1.09%) Accessibility
2 3 (1.09%) GDPR
3 2 (0.73%) PMO
4 1 (0.36%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.36%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.36%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.36%) GxP
4 1 (0.36%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.36%) NCSC
4 1 (0.36%) NIST
4 1 (0.36%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.36%) PCI DSS
4 1 (0.36%) PSD2
4 1 (0.36%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 11 (4.01%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.55%) Active Directory
3 6 (2.19%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.46%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.46%) KVM
4 4 (1.46%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.46%) vSphere
5 2 (0.73%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.46%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 3 (1.09%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.73%) Microsoft Intune
4 1 (0.36%) Bugsnag
4 1 (0.36%) CASB
4 1 (0.36%) Matomo
4 1 (0.36%) Nessus
4 1 (0.36%) PingFederate
4 1 (0.36%) SCCM
4 1 (0.36%) Single Sign-On
4 1 (0.36%) Terraform
4 1 (0.36%) vRealize
Vendors
1 22 (8.03%) Microsoft
1 22 (8.03%) Oracle
2 12 (4.38%) VMware
3 8 (2.92%) SAP
4 7 (2.55%) Cisco
5 5 (1.82%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.46%) Adobe
6 4 (1.46%) Google
7 3 (1.09%) Meraki
8 2 (0.73%) Amplitude
8 2 (0.73%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.73%) Citrix
8 2 (0.73%) ESRI
8 2 (0.73%) Murex
8 2 (0.73%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.73%) Splunk
8 2 (0.73%) UiPath
8 2 (0.73%) Zoho
9 1 (0.36%) Databricks
9 1 (0.36%) Workday