Product Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Product Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Product Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 305 316 359
Rank change year-on-year +11 +43 -23
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 86 141 167
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.59% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.63% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 114 124
10th Percentile £409 £415 £400
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £531 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.24% +1.19% +16.67%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £613
90th Percentile £650 - £675
UK median daily rate £580 £550 £554
% change year-on-year +5.45% -0.68% +10.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £39.55 -
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
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 UK excluding London with a recognized job title 19,029 22,515 29,590
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 94.22% 95.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,619 15,794 20,727
10th Percentile £213 £225 £200
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £598 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,245 1,162 1,474
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.24
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.81 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.26 £19.52
Median % change year-on-year -5.35% +116.50% +2.74%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £42.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Product Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Manager in the UK excluding London

Product Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Product Manager in the UK excluding London

Product Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Manager in the UK excluding London

Product Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Manager in the UK excluding London

Product Manager
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 Manager within the UK excluding London 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
Scotland +32 26 £575 +27.78% 4
North of England -3 18 £568 +3.18% 22
South West +23 15 £450 -30.77% 10
North West +16 14 £450 -25.00% 14
South East -22 14 £505 +1.00% 34
Midlands +28 11 £594 -1.04% 26
West Midlands +24 9 £575 -11.54% 22
Yorkshire -2 4 £600 +9.09% 5
East Midlands +20 2 £601 -7.50% 4
East of England +7 1 £700 +7.69% 14
Northern Ireland +6 1 £640 +34.74% 2
Product Manager
UK

Product Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 4 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 UK excluding London region featuring Product Manager in the job title.

1 53 (61.63%) Agile
2 35 (40.70%) Product Management
2 35 (40.70%) Roadmaps
3 33 (38.37%) Security Cleared
4 32 (37.21%) Public Sector
5 28 (32.56%) SC Cleared
6 25 (29.07%) User Stories
7 24 (27.91%) JIRA
8 23 (26.74%) User Research
9 22 (25.58%) Confluence
10 20 (23.26%) Epics
11 18 (20.93%) Project Management
12 15 (17.44%) Product Ownership
13 13 (15.12%) Product Roadmap
13 13 (15.12%) Product Backlog
14 12 (13.95%) Business Case
14 12 (13.95%) Finance
15 11 (12.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 10 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
17 9 (10.47%) Manufacturing
17 9 (10.47%) Telecoms
17 9 (10.47%) Backlog Management
18 8 (9.30%) Social Skills
18 8 (9.30%) Minimum Viable Product
18 8 (9.30%) Matrix Organization
18 8 (9.30%) DevOps
18 8 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
18 8 (9.30%) Analytics
19 7 (8.14%) SAP
19 7 (8.14%) Scrum

Product Manager Skill Set
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 22 (25.58%) Confluence
2 5 (5.81%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (4.65%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (4.65%) SaaS
2 2 (2.33%) Azure
3 1 (1.16%) AWS
3 1 (1.16%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.16%) GitHub
3 1 (1.16%) Google Analytics
3 1 (1.16%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (1.16%) Miro
3 1 (1.16%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.16%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (1.16%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.81%) Crystal Reports
2 3 (3.49%) Data Lake
3 1 (1.16%) Power BI
3 1 (1.16%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 24 (27.91%) JIRA
2 1 (1.16%) GitLab
General
1 32 (37.21%) Public Sector
2 12 (13.95%) Finance
3 9 (10.47%) Manufacturing
3 9 (10.47%) Telecoms
4 8 (9.30%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (9.30%) Social Skills
5 6 (6.98%) Marketing
6 4 (4.65%) Electronics
7 3 (3.49%) Banking
7 3 (3.49%) Influencing Skills
7 3 (3.49%) Pharmaceutical
8 2 (2.33%) Automotive
8 2 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 2 (2.33%) Retail
9 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.16%) .NET
1 1 (1.16%) .NET Framework
1 1 (1.16%) ASP.NET
1 1 (1.16%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (1.16%) Entity Framework
1 1 (1.16%) HTML
1 1 (1.16%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 15 (17.44%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.65%) Digital Signage
2 4 (4.65%) Video\Live Streaming
3 3 (3.49%) Reference Data
4 2 (2.33%) Data Structures
5 1 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
5 1 (1.16%) Blockchain
5 1 (1.16%) CMDB
5 1 (1.16%) IoT
5 1 (1.16%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.16%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.16%) Linux
1 1 (1.16%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 53 (61.63%) Agile
2 35 (40.70%) Product Management
2 35 (40.70%) Roadmaps
3 25 (29.07%) User Stories
4 23 (26.74%) User Research
5 20 (23.26%) Epics
6 18 (20.93%) Project Management
7 13 (15.12%) Product Backlog
7 13 (15.12%) Product Roadmap
8 12 (13.95%) Business Case
9 11 (12.79%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 10 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
11 9 (10.47%) Backlog Management
12 8 (9.30%) Analytics
12 8 (9.30%) DevOps
12 8 (9.30%) Matrix Organization
12 8 (9.30%) Minimum Viable Product
13 7 (8.14%) Decision-Making
13 7 (8.14%) Scrum
14 6 (6.98%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.81%) SQL
2 1 (1.16%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 33 (38.37%) Security Cleared
2 28 (32.56%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.14%) Degree
4 3 (3.49%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.33%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.33%) MBA
6 1 (1.16%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.16%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.16%) PSD2
1 1 (1.16%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (8.14%) SAP
2 5 (5.81%) IFS
3 4 (4.65%) Logitech
3 4 (4.65%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.33%) MuleSoft
4 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
5 1 (1.16%) Databricks
5 1 (1.16%) Google
5 1 (1.16%) Splunk