Product Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Product Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 13 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 281 248 249
Rank change year-on-year -33 +1 +44
Contract jobs citing Product Management 101 213 295
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.50% 0.91% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.59% 1.01% 1.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 65 172 233
10th Percentile £409 £364 £400
25th Percentile £458 £448 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £530 £528
Median % change year-on-year +3.77% +0.47% +5.50%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £600
90th Percentile £694 £687 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 1 12
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - £64.75 -
Median hourly rate £26.66 £69.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -61.64% +24.11% +17.89%
75th Percentile £35.21 £74.25 £56.13
90th Percentile £40.33 - £67.80
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
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,192 21,035 27,290
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.42% 89.50% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,233 14,534 19,060
10th Percentile £250 £256 £237
25th Percentile £379 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,049 1,280 1,365
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.99 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.43 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.91% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £47.00
90th Percentile £72.90 £73.75 £60.55
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Product Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Product Management in the UK excluding London

Product Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Product Management in the UK excluding London

Product Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Management in the UK excluding London

Product Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Product Management in the UK excluding London

Product Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Product Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Management in the UK excluding London

Product Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 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
Scotland +6 28 £465 -11.00% 10
North of England +3 21 £538 -2.27% 50
South East -27 20 £575 +9.52% 75
North West +28 18 £550 -8.33% 32
Midlands +24 14 £600 -7.69% 33
South West +15 14 £638 -1.92% 10
West Midlands +14 11 £550 -15.38% 25
Yorkshire 0 3 £525 -4.55% 15
East of England -5 3 - - 30
East Midlands +19 1 £615 -5.38% 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £640 - 4
Product Management
UK

Product Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 16 (15.84%) Confluence
2 2 (1.98%) IBM Domino
3 1 (0.99%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.96%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.97%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.98%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.99%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (1.98%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.99%) SAP EHS
2 1 (0.99%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 11 (10.89%) AWS
2 7 (6.93%) Amazon S3
2 7 (6.93%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (6.93%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (6.93%) Serverless
3 6 (5.94%) Azure
4 4 (3.96%) Amazon SageMaker
4 4 (3.96%) OpenShift
4 4 (3.96%) Rekognition
4 4 (3.96%) Textract
5 3 (2.97%) GCP
5 3 (2.97%) Miro
6 2 (1.98%) Nutanix
6 2 (1.98%) Power Platform
6 2 (1.98%) SaaS
7 1 (0.99%) Azure DevOps
7 1 (0.99%) Google Workspace
7 1 (0.99%) Power Automate
7 1 (0.99%) PowerApps
7 1 (0.99%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.97%) VoIP
2 2 (1.98%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (1.98%) VSAN
3 1 (0.99%) Intranet
3 1 (0.99%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.99%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (6.93%) Amazon Aurora
1 7 (6.93%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (5.94%) Data Lake
3 3 (2.97%) Elasticsearch
4 2 (1.98%) Power BI
5 1 (0.99%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 20 (19.80%) JIRA
2 1 (0.99%) GitLab
General
1 35 (34.65%) Social Skills
2 23 (22.77%) Analytical Skills
2 23 (22.77%) Public Sector
3 18 (17.82%) Finance
4 13 (12.87%) Marketing
5 10 (9.90%) Influencing Skills
6 9 (8.91%) Manufacturing
7 7 (6.93%) Electronics
7 7 (6.93%) Telecoms
8 6 (5.94%) Pharmaceutical
8 6 (5.94%) Presentation Skills
9 4 (3.96%) Billing
9 4 (3.96%) Legal
10 3 (2.97%) Banking
10 3 (2.97%) Mandarin Language
11 2 (1.98%) Automotive
11 2 (1.98%) Public Speaking
12 1 (0.99%) Games
12 1 (0.99%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 1 (0.99%) Law
Job Titles
1 36 (35.64%) Product Manager
2 12 (11.88%) Developer
2 12 (11.88%) Product Owner
3 10 (9.90%) Analyst
3 10 (9.90%) Business Analyst
4 6 (5.94%) Data Manager
5 5 (4.95%) Architect
5 5 (4.95%) Designer
5 5 (4.95%) Lead
5 5 (4.95%) Senior
5 5 (4.95%) UX Designer
6 4 (3.96%) Automation Developer
6 4 (3.96%) Consultant
6 4 (3.96%) React Developer
7 3 (2.97%) Digital Product Manager
7 3 (2.97%) Lead Product Manager
7 3 (2.97%) Senior Analyst
7 3 (2.97%) Senior Business Analyst
7 3 (2.97%) Software Developer
7 3 (2.97%) VoIP Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (6.93%) AWS CDK
2 5 (4.95%) CSS
2 5 (4.95%) HTML
3 4 (3.96%) React
4 3 (2.97%) Elastic Stack
4 3 (2.97%) Lucene
5 1 (0.99%) Flask
5 1 (0.99%) Kafka
5 1 (0.99%) RabbitMQ
5 1 (0.99%) REST
5 1 (0.99%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 34 (33.66%) Product Ownership
2 6 (5.94%) Management Information System
3 5 (4.95%) Reference Data
4 4 (3.96%) Distributed Systems
5 3 (2.97%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.97%) Private Cloud
5 3 (2.97%) Renewable Energy
5 3 (2.97%) Self-Motivation
5 3 (2.97%) Solar Power
6 2 (1.98%) Data Centre
6 2 (1.98%) IoT
6 2 (1.98%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.98%) SCADA
6 2 (1.98%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.99%) Analytical Mindset
7 1 (0.99%) Blockchain
7 1 (0.99%) Enterprise Software
7 1 (0.99%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.95%) Linux
2 1 (0.99%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 64 (63.37%) Agile
2 47 (46.53%) Roadmaps
3 25 (24.75%) User Stories
4 24 (23.76%) Product Roadmap
5 20 (19.80%) Project Management
5 20 (19.80%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (18.81%) Scrum
7 18 (17.82%) Product Backlog
7 18 (17.82%) Service Design
8 17 (16.83%) Epics
8 17 (16.83%) User Research
9 16 (15.84%) DevOps
9 16 (15.84%) User Experience
10 15 (14.85%) Business Case
11 14 (13.86%) Backlog Management
12 12 (11.88%) Decision-Making
13 11 (10.89%) Problem-Solving
14 10 (9.90%) ETL
14 10 (9.90%) Matrix Organization
14 10 (9.90%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 10 (9.90%) Python
2 7 (6.93%) Java
2 7 (6.93%) TypeScript
3 5 (4.95%) JavaScript
4 2 (1.98%) Bash
4 2 (1.98%) SQL
Qualifications
1 23 (22.77%) Security Cleared
2 18 (17.82%) Degree
3 16 (15.84%) SC Cleared
4 7 (6.93%) DV Cleared
5 3 (2.97%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.98%) CCNP
6 2 (1.98%) Cisco Certification
6 2 (1.98%) DBS Check
6 2 (1.98%) MBA
7 1 (0.99%) CBAP
7 1 (0.99%) Computer Science Degree
7 1 (0.99%) IIBA
7 1 (0.99%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (10.89%) Accessibility
2 4 (3.96%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (2.97%) QA
3 3 (2.97%) SLA
4 2 (1.98%) GDPR
5 1 (0.99%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.99%) Government Security Classifications
5 1 (0.99%) GxP
5 1 (0.99%) ISO 20022
5 1 (0.99%) ISO 8583
5 1 (0.99%) NCSC
5 1 (0.99%) PCI DSS
5 1 (0.99%) PSD2
5 1 (0.99%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 4 (3.96%) Docker
2 3 (2.97%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.98%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.98%) KVM
3 2 (1.98%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.98%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (6.93%) Grafana
2 4 (3.96%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.99%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (8.91%) SAP
2 7 (6.93%) Microsoft
3 3 (2.97%) Google
3 3 (2.97%) VMware
4 2 (1.98%) Cisco
5 1 (0.99%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.99%) Databricks
5 1 (0.99%) OneTrust
5 1 (0.99%) Oracle
5 1 (0.99%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.99%) Workday