The first table below looks at the demand for Product Management skills in IT contracts advertised for the Surrey region. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Product Management over the 3 months to 24 May 2013 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years. The second table is for comparison and provides aggregates for all of the Processes & Methodologies category for the Surrey region.

Note that daily contractor rates and hourly contractor rates are treated separately. When calculating average contractor rates, daily rates are not derived from quoted hourly rates or vice versa.

Location
3 months to
24 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Product Management
Rank - 88 100
Contract jobs citing Product Management 0 7 3
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey - 0.435% 0.163%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category - 0.629% 0.227%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 6 0
Average daily rate - £363 -
UK excluding London average daily rate £420 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
+12.00% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 0
Average hourly rate - - -
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £37.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-53.33% +127.27%
All Processes & Methodologies
Surrey
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
823 1113 1320
As % of all contract IT jobs located in Surrey 71.38% 69.09% 71.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 414 631 683
Average daily rate £415 £350 £405
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+18.57% -13.58%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £265 £250 £280
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £525 £515
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 58 37
Average hourly rate £37.50 £31.50 £32.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+19.04% -3.07%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £15.50 £15.50 £14.00
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £55.12 £41.50 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £30.00 £25.00 £29.50
% change year-on-year
+20.00% -15.25%
Product Management
South East

Product Management
Jobs Demand Trend

This chart provides a 3-month moving total of IT contractor jobs citing Product Management across the Surrey region as a proportion of the total demand within the Processes & Methodologies category.

Surrey Product Management Jobs Demand Trend

Product Management
Daily Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for daily rates quoted in IT contract jobs citing Product Management across the Surrey region.

Surrey Product Management Daily Rate Trend

Product Management
Hourly Rate Trend

This chart provides the 3-month moving average for hourly rates quoted in IT contractor jobs citing Product Management across the Surrey region.

Surrey Product Management Hourly Rate Trend

Product Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Product Management also mentioned the following IT skills in order of popularity. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Product Management.

1 4 (80.00%) C#
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
1 4 (80.00%) UML
1 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (80.00%) SOA
1 4 (80.00%) XML
1 4 (80.00%) Scrum
1 4 (80.00%) Telecoms
1 4 (80.00%) Mathematics
1 4 (80.00%) Physics
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
1 4 (80.00%) Silverlight
1 4 (80.00%) Use Case
1 4 (80.00%) User Stories
2 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
2 3 (60.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 3 (60.00%) MVVM
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Management
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Network Management
2 3 (60.00%) Selenium
2 3 (60.00%) Telelogic
2 3 (60.00%) Telelogic TAU
2 3 (60.00%) GIS
2 3 (60.00%) Rational Rose
2 3 (60.00%) 3GPP
2 3 (60.00%) SNMP
2 3 (60.00%) CORBA

Product Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 24 May 2013, IT contractor jobs across the Surrey region citing Product Management also mentioned the following IT skills grouped by category. The figures indicate the number of jobs and their proportion against the total number of contract IT job ads sampled that cited Product Management. Up to 20 skills are shown per category.

Application Development
1 4 (80.00%) .NET
1 4 (80.00%) XML
1 4 (80.00%) Silverlight
2 3 (60.00%) CORBA
2 3 (60.00%) SOAP
3 1 (20.00%) XSLT
3 1 (20.00%) .NET Framework
3 1 (20.00%) WSDL
3 1 (20.00%) XML Schema
3 1 (20.00%) WCF
3 1 (20.00%) WPF
Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) Oracle Coherence
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) 3GPP
1 3 (60.00%) SNMP
2 1 (20.00%) BSS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) GIS
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle Reports
2 1 (20.00%) RDBMS
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle 10g
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle 11g
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) Selenium
1 3 (60.00%) Telelogic TAU
1 3 (60.00%) Rational Rose
2 1 (20.00%) NUnit
2 1 (20.00%) Subversion
2 1 (20.00%) JIRA
2 1 (20.00%) Moq
General
1 4 (80.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 3 (60.00%) Silverlight Developer
1 3 (60.00%) Developer
2 1 (20.00%) Coordinator
2 1 (20.00%) Design Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Programme Coordinator
Miscellaneous
1 4 (80.00%) Mathematics
1 4 (80.00%) Physics
1 4 (80.00%) Computer Science
2 3 (60.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (20.00%) ASIC
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) UML
1 4 (80.00%) Data Modelling
1 4 (80.00%) SOA
1 4 (80.00%) Scrum
1 4 (80.00%) Use Case
1 4 (80.00%) User Stories
2 3 (60.00%) MVVM
2 3 (60.00%) Performance Management
2 3 (60.00%) Test Automation
2 3 (60.00%) Network Management
3 2 (40.00%) Configuration Management
4 1 (20.00%) Project Management
4 1 (20.00%) Change Management
4 1 (20.00%) Regression Testing
4 1 (20.00%) Quality Management
4 1 (20.00%) Agile Software Development
4 1 (20.00%) Software Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Business Development
4 1 (20.00%) Release Management
4 1 (20.00%) Continuous Integration
Programming Languages
1 4 (80.00%) C#
2 1 (20.00%) AWK
2 1 (20.00%) XPath
2 1 (20.00%) Perl
2 1 (20.00%) Python
2 1 (20.00%) sed
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) Degree
2 1 (20.00%) HND
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (80.00%) Oracle
2 3 (60.00%) Nokia Siemens Networks
2 3 (60.00%) Telelogic
3 1 (20.00%) Teradata
3 1 (20.00%) WSO2