Product Management Contracts

Product Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 28 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
28 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 291 292 299
Rank change year-on-year +1 +7 +58
Contract jobs citing Product Management 340 543 818
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.79% 0.91% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 1.01% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 227 398 589
10th Percentile £400 £395 £408
25th Percentile £450 £460 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £800 £722 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £528
% change year-on-year +4.76% -0.47% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 16
10th Percentile - £37.08 £33.62
25th Percentile £26.66 £37.90 £55.59
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% -27.68% +15.02%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.25 £58.16
90th Percentile - £50.55 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.66 - £56.00
% change year-on-year - - +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,383 53,667 80,409
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.31% 89.90% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,097 37,244 56,431
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,426 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.17% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.05 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.13% +80.00% -8.51%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 28 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 28 April 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
England +2 282 £550 -4.35% 413
London +28 190 £550 -8.33% 217
Work from Home +61 135 £550 - 208
UK excluding London -23 115 £550 +4.76% 204
Scotland +3 36 £493 -5.19% 14
South East -23 22 £600 +20.00% 79
North of England +13 21 £477 -13.27% 45
North West +25 17 £450 -25.00% 28
Midlands +19 16 £615 -5.38% 25
South West +14 14 £638 -1.92% 13
West Midlands +23 12 £550 -15.38% 16
East of England -2 5 £475 -10.38% 29
Yorkshire +4 3 £525 -4.55% 14
North East +19 1 £477 +83.46% 5
East Midlands +13 1 £615 -5.38% 9
Northern Ireland - 1 £640 - 4

Product Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (5.00%) Confluence
2 7 (2.06%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.76%) Apache
3 6 (1.76%) Apache Airflow
3 6 (1.76%) CMS
4 4 (1.18%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.59%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.76%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.76%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.88%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.59%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.59%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.59%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (2.65%) Oracle Applications
2 5 (1.47%) Loan IQ
3 3 (0.88%) Endur
4 2 (0.59%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.59%) Softmar
5 1 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.29%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.29%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 51 (15.00%) AWS
2 37 (10.88%) Azure
3 16 (4.71%) GCP
3 16 (4.71%) Serverless
4 13 (3.82%) SaaS
5 12 (3.53%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (3.24%) Amazon S3
6 11 (3.24%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (2.65%) OCI
7 9 (2.65%) Oracle CX
7 9 (2.65%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 8 (2.35%) dbt
9 7 (2.06%) Power Platform
10 6 (1.76%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.76%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.76%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.47%) Figma
11 5 (1.47%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.18%) Amazon SageMaker
12 4 (1.18%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.47%) Kerberos
2 4 (1.18%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (1.18%) Software-Defined Networking
2 4 (1.18%) VSAN
3 3 (0.88%) HTTP
3 3 (0.88%) Internet
3 3 (0.88%) Intranet
3 3 (0.88%) VoIP
4 2 (0.59%) DNS
4 2 (0.59%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.29%) Ethernet
5 1 (0.29%) Firewall
5 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.29%) VPN
5 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.12%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (3.24%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (2.65%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (2.06%) Couchbase
4 7 (2.06%) Power BI
5 6 (1.76%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (1.76%) Apache Arrow
5 6 (1.76%) Apache Ignite
5 6 (1.76%) Dremio
6 5 (1.47%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.18%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.18%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.88%) PostHog
8 3 (0.88%) Relational Database
8 3 (0.88%) Tableau
9 2 (0.59%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.59%) GIS
9 2 (0.59%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.59%) MySQL
10 1 (0.29%) Looker
Development Applications
1 28 (8.24%) JIRA
2 4 (1.18%) Cypress.io
3 3 (0.88%) Git
4 2 (0.59%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.59%) GitLab
4 2 (0.59%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.29%) Storybook
General
1 110 (32.35%) Social Skills
2 84 (24.71%) Finance
3 56 (16.47%) Analytical Skills
4 43 (12.65%) Marketing
5 42 (12.35%) Public Sector
6 29 (8.53%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (5.59%) Banking
8 18 (5.29%) Front Office
9 15 (4.41%) Retail
10 14 (4.12%) Manufacturing
11 13 (3.82%) Telecoms
12 12 (3.53%) Influencing Skills
13 11 (3.24%) Legal
14 10 (2.94%) Investment Banking
15 7 (2.06%) Electronics
16 5 (1.47%) Financial Institution
16 5 (1.47%) Games
16 5 (1.47%) German Language
16 5 (1.47%) Local Government
17 4 (1.18%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 108 (31.76%) Product Manager
2 42 (12.35%) Analyst
3 41 (12.06%) Product Owner
4 37 (10.88%) Business Analyst
5 27 (7.94%) Senior
6 24 (7.06%) Consultant
7 23 (6.76%) Architect
7 23 (6.76%) Developer
8 21 (6.18%) Lead
9 15 (4.41%) Technical Manager
10 13 (3.82%) Finance Manager
10 13 (3.82%) Product Analyst
10 13 (3.82%) Product Business Analyst
11 11 (3.24%) Business Manager
11 11 (3.24%) Finance Business Analyst
11 11 (3.24%) Financial Analyst
11 11 (3.24%) Senior Manager
11 11 (3.24%) Software Engineer
12 10 (2.94%) Senior Product Manager
13 9 (2.65%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.29%) HTML
2 17 (5.00%) CSS
3 12 (3.53%) React
4 11 (3.24%) AWS CDK
5 10 (2.94%) OAuth
6 8 (2.35%) Kafka
6 8 (2.35%) OpenID
6 8 (2.35%) SAML
7 7 (2.06%) Node.js
7 7 (2.06%) REST
8 6 (1.76%) gRPC
8 6 (1.76%) LDAP
8 6 (1.76%) NumPy
8 6 (1.76%) Pandas
8 6 (1.76%) Protocol Buffers
8 6 (1.76%) SciPy
9 4 (1.18%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.18%) Lucene
10 3 (0.88%) AngularJS
10 3 (0.88%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 88 (25.88%) Product Ownership
2 23 (6.76%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 19 (5.59%) Derivative
4 17 (5.00%) Equities
4 17 (5.00%) Fixed Income
4 17 (5.00%) Hedge funds
5 11 (3.24%) Management Information System
6 8 (2.35%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (2.06%) Onboarding
8 6 (1.76%) CMDB
8 6 (1.76%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.76%) Private Cloud
8 6 (1.76%) Team-Oriented Environment
9 5 (1.47%) Legacy Systems
9 5 (1.47%) Renewable Energy
9 5 (1.47%) Social Media
10 4 (1.18%) Data Centre
10 4 (1.18%) IoT
10 4 (1.18%) Public Cloud
10 4 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.06%) Linux
2 3 (0.88%) Windows
3 2 (0.59%) Android
3 2 (0.59%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.29%) Unix
4 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 171 (50.29%) Agile
2 121 (35.59%) Roadmaps
3 55 (16.18%) Product Roadmap
4 54 (15.88%) Analytics
4 54 (15.88%) Scrum
5 51 (15.00%) Stakeholder Management
6 48 (14.12%) Problem-Solving
7 45 (13.24%) User Experience
8 42 (12.35%) Decision-Making
8 42 (12.35%) Product Strategy
9 40 (11.76%) User Stories
10 36 (10.59%) Project Management
11 34 (10.00%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (10.00%) Software Engineering
12 33 (9.71%) Product Backlog
13 32 (9.41%) Product Vision
13 32 (9.41%) Strategic Roadmap
14 31 (9.12%) Mentoring
15 28 (8.24%) Business Case
15 28 (8.24%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 41 (12.06%) Python
2 29 (8.53%) SQL
3 28 (8.24%) Java
4 22 (6.47%) JavaScript
5 21 (6.18%) TypeScript
6 10 (2.94%) C++
7 9 (2.65%) Ruby
8 6 (1.76%) Scala
9 4 (1.18%) Bash
9 4 (1.18%) C#
9 4 (1.18%) PHP
10 3 (0.88%) C
10 3 (0.88%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 59 (17.35%) Degree
2 45 (13.24%) Security Cleared
3 31 (9.12%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.29%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.35%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (2.35%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.35%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.76%) MBA
6 6 (1.76%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.76%) PMP
7 4 (1.18%) CCNA
7 4 (1.18%) CCNP
7 4 (1.18%) PgMP
8 3 (0.88%) CBAP
9 2 (0.59%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.59%) CSPO
9 2 (0.59%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.59%) PhD
9 2 (0.59%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 20 (5.88%) QA
2 18 (5.29%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.76%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (1.18%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.88%) GDPR
5 3 (0.88%) SLA
6 2 (0.59%) PMO
7 1 (0.29%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.29%) NCSC
7 1 (0.29%) NIST
7 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.29%) PSD2
System Software
1 11 (3.24%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.06%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.76%) Docker
3 6 (1.76%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.18%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.18%) KVM
4 4 (1.18%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.18%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (2.94%) Grafana
2 7 (2.06%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.47%) PingFederate
4 4 (1.18%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 2 (0.59%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.59%) Terraform
6 1 (0.29%) Bugsnag
6 1 (0.29%) CASB
6 1 (0.29%) Matomo
6 1 (0.29%) Nessus
6 1 (0.29%) SCCM
6 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 27 (7.94%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.18%) Oracle
3 13 (3.82%) SAP
4 12 (3.53%) VMware
5 8 (2.35%) Cisco
6 6 (1.76%) Google
7 5 (1.47%) Adobe
7 5 (1.47%) Ping Identity
7 5 (1.47%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.18%) Meraki
8 4 (1.18%) Splunk
9 3 (0.88%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.59%) Amplitude
10 2 (0.59%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.59%) Citrix
10 2 (0.59%) ESRI
10 2 (0.59%) Murex
10 2 (0.59%) UiPath
10 2 (0.59%) Zoho
11 1 (0.29%) Workday