The first table below looks at the demand for Product Management skills in IT contracts advertised across the UK. Included is a guide to the average contractor rates offered in IT contracts that have cited Product Management over the 3 months to 22 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.

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
22 May 2013
Same period 2012 Same period 2011
Product Management
Rank 417 374 464
Rank change year-on-year
-43 +90
Contract jobs citing Product Management 117 222 122
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 0.248% 0.374% 0.203%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.350% 0.552% 0.300%
Number of daily rates quoted 69 120 69
Average daily rate £450 £420 £413
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+7.14% +1.81%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £300 £320
10% offered a daily rate of more than £505 £575 £575
UK excluding London average daily rate £403 £375 £350
% change year-on-year
+7.33% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 6 5
Average hourly rate £17.50 £35.75 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
-51.04% +25.43%
UK excluding London average hourly rate £17.50 £37.50 £16.50
% change year-on-year
-53.33% +127.27%
All Processes & Methodologies
UK
Contract IT job ads with a match in the
Processes & Methodologies category
33412 40209 40724
As % of all contract IT jobs located in the UK 70.90% 67.83% 67.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 19968 23081 23144
Average daily rate £413 £401 £440
Average daily rate % change year-on-year
+2.99% -8.97%
90% offered a daily rate of more than £275 £275 £275
10% offered a daily rate of more than £575 £579 £600
UK excluding London average daily rate £365 £365 £375
% change year-on-year
- -2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 990 1304 1455
Average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £28.50
Average hourly rate % change year-on-year
+24.00% -12.28%
90% offered a hourly rate of more than £13.50 £12.78 £13.50
10% offered a hourly rate of more than £50.00 £45.00 £45.00
UK excluding London average hourly rate £31.00 £25.00 £29.00
% change year-on-year
+24.00% -13.79%

Product Management
Jobs Demand Trend

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

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 within the UK.

Product Management Daily Rate Trend

Product Management
Daily Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of daily rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Product Management Daily Rate Histogram

Product Management
Hourly Rate Trend

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

Product Management Hourly Rate Trend

Product Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

This chart provides a histogram of hourly rates quoted in contract IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013.

Product Management Hourly Rate Histogram

Product Management
Top 30 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the average contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the UK over the 3 months to 22 May 2013. The 'Rank Change' column provides an indication of the change in demand within each location based on the same 3 month period last year.

Location
(Click each for more statistics)
Rank Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Matching
Contract
IT Job Ads
Average
Daily Rate
Last 3 Months
Average Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
England -42 110 £450 +11.11%
London -32 77 £450 -
City of London -5 27 £440 -9.46%
South East -5 27 £420 +20.00%
Berkshire +9 17 £389 +21.96%
Reading +14 5 - -
Bracknell -13 5 £438 +94.44%
South West +28 4 £345 -18.82%
Oxfordshire - 4 - -
Brentford - 3 £475 -
Middlesex +6 2 £450 +20.00%
North West +4 2 - -
Edinburgh -1 2 £451 +0.27%
Slough -14 2 £403 +19.25%
Scotland -21 2 £451 +1.40%
Cardiff - 2 £500 -
Wales - 2 £500 -
Somerset - 2 - -
South Wales - 2 £500 -
Surrey +12 1 - -
Bristol +10 1 £390 -9.30%
Cheshire +2 1 - -
Docklands, London 0 1 £450 -32.07%
Hampshire -10 1 - -
Buckinghamshire - 1 - -
Uxbridge - 1 £400 -
Milton Keynes - 1 - -
Manchester - 1 - -
Farnham - 1 - -
Bridgwater - 1 - -

Product Management
Top 30 Related IT Skills

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 55 (22.36%) Agile Software Development
1 55 (22.36%) Marketing
2 40 (16.26%) Telecoms
3 39 (15.85%) Project Management
4 38 (15.45%) Finance
5 35 (14.23%) Scrum
6 29 (11.79%) CSS
7 26 (10.57%) Degree
8 24 (9.756%) Business Analysis
8 24 (9.756%) OO
9 23 (9.350%) Web Services
9 23 (9.350%) SQL
9 23 (9.350%) Stakeholder Management
10 22 (8.943%) JavaScript
11 21 (8.537%) Ajax
12 20 (8.130%) XML
12 20 (8.130%) Java
13 19 (7.724%) Internet
13 19 (7.724%) Retail
14 18 (7.317%) Change Management
14 18 (7.317%) UNIX
14 18 (7.317%) HTML
15 16 (6.504%) .NET
15 16 (6.504%) E-Commerce
15 16 (6.504%) TDD
16 15 (6.098%) Banking
16 15 (6.098%) SOA
17 14 (5.691%) MySQL
17 14 (5.691%) Oracle
17 14 (5.691%) C#

Product Management
Top Related IT Skills by Category

For the 6 months to 22 May 2013, IT contractor jobs within the UK 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 29 (11.79%) CSS
2 23 (9.350%) Web Services
3 21 (8.537%) Ajax
4 20 (8.130%) XML
5 18 (7.317%) HTML
6 16 (6.504%) .NET
7 14 (5.691%) jQuery
8 13 (5.285%) Middleware
9 12 (4.878%) DOM
10 10 (4.065%) HTML5
11 9 (3.659%) CSS3
11 9 (3.659%) XSLT
12 8 (3.252%) JSON
13 7 (2.846%) SOAP
14 6 (2.439%) Spring
14 6 (2.439%) Hibernate
14 6 (2.439%) REST
15 5 (2.033%) .NET Framework
15 5 (2.033%) Silverlight
16 4 (1.626%) ASP.NET
Application Platforms
1 8 (3.252%) CMS
2 6 (2.439%) SharePoint
3 4 (1.626%) WebLogic
3 4 (1.626%) Tomcat
3 4 (1.626%) Amazon S3
3 4 (1.626%) Amazon AWS
3 4 (1.626%) Oracle SOA Suite
4 3 (1.220%) Drupal
4 3 (1.220%) Mule
4 3 (1.220%) SAS
5 2 (0.813%) MS Exchange
5 2 (0.813%) Lync
5 2 (0.813%) Exchange Server 2010
5 2 (0.813%) Exchange Server 2003
6 1 (0.407%) Oracle Coherence
6 1 (0.407%) WebSphere MQ
6 1 (0.407%) ActiveMQ
Applications
1 8 (3.252%) MS Excel
1 8 (3.252%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.813%) MS Project
2 2 (0.813%) MS Office
2 2 (0.813%) MS PowerPoint
3 1 (0.407%) Photoshop
3 1 (0.407%) Adobe Illustrator
Business Applications
1 7 (2.846%) WebTrends
2 1 (0.407%) Loan IQ
2 1 (0.407%) Cognos Business Intelligence
2 1 (0.407%) Hyperion Planning
2 1 (0.407%) VisionPLUS
2 1 (0.407%) Summit
Communications & Networking
1 19 (7.724%) Internet
2 8 (3.252%) Broadband
2 8 (3.252%) HTTP
3 6 (2.439%) 3G
3 6 (2.439%) NAS
4 5 (2.033%) WAN
4 5 (2.033%) TCP/IP
4 5 (2.033%) SAN
4 5 (2.033%) Intranet
4 5 (2.033%) Firewall
5 4 (1.626%) BSS
5 4 (1.626%) LLU
6 3 (1.220%) Radio Access Network
6 3 (1.220%) SNMP
6 3 (1.220%) SSL
6 3 (1.220%) IPv6
6 3 (1.220%) LDAP
6 3 (1.220%) 3GPP
7 2 (0.813%) 2G
7 2 (0.813%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (5.691%) MySQL
2 13 (5.285%) NoSQL
3 7 (2.846%) MongoDB
3 7 (2.846%) Apache Cassandra
3 7 (2.846%) PostgreSQL
4 6 (2.439%) SQL Server
4 6 (2.439%) Oracle 11g
5 5 (2.033%) Hadoop
5 5 (2.033%) RDBMS
6 4 (1.626%) GIS
6 4 (1.626%) Data Warehouse
6 4 (1.626%) Oracle Exadata
6 4 (1.626%) Big Data
6 4 (1.626%) Oracle BI EE
7 2 (0.813%) Essbase
7 2 (0.813%) Oracle Reports
8 1 (0.407%) SQL Server 2005
8 1 (0.407%) SQL Server Integration Services
8 1 (0.407%) SQL Server Analysis Services
8 1 (0.407%) SQL Server 2008
Development Applications
1 10 (4.065%) JIRA
2 9 (3.659%) Axure RP
3 8 (3.252%) Selenium
4 7 (2.846%) Subversion
5 4 (1.626%) Maven
5 4 (1.626%) Eclipse
5 4 (1.626%) Balsamiq Mockups
5 4 (1.626%) Cucumber
5 4 (1.626%) Jenkins
6 3 (1.220%) Rational Rose
6 3 (1.220%) Telelogic TAU
7 2 (0.813%) Team Foundation Server
8 1 (0.407%) SilkTest
8 1 (0.407%) TestNG
8 1 (0.407%) TeamCity
8 1 (0.407%) EasyMock
8 1 (0.407%) DbUnit
8 1 (0.407%) Expression Studio
8 1 (0.407%) JBehave
8 1 (0.407%) WebDriver
General
1 55 (22.36%) Marketing
2 40 (16.26%) Telecoms
3 38 (15.45%) Finance
4 19 (7.724%) Retail
5 15 (6.098%) Banking
6 13 (5.285%) Legal
6 13 (5.285%) Games
7 7 (2.846%) Publishing
8 5 (2.033%) Front Office
8 5 (2.033%) Investment Banking
9 4 (1.626%) Advertising
9 4 (1.626%) Retail Banking
10 3 (1.220%) Corporate Banking
10 3 (1.220%) Billing
11 2 (0.813%) Electronics
11 2 (0.813%) Financial Institution
11 2 (0.813%) Manufacturing
11 2 (0.813%) Automotive
11 2 (0.813%) Pharmaceutical
12 1 (0.407%) Music
Job Titles
1 55 (22.36%) Product Manager
2 44 (17.89%) Analyst
3 41 (16.67%) Developer
4 38 (15.45%) Business Analyst
5 14 (5.691%) Project Manager
5 14 (5.691%) Designer
6 11 (4.472%) Architect
6 11 (4.472%) Senior Manager
7 10 (4.065%) Senior Product Manager
8 9 (3.659%) User Experience Designer
9 8 (3.252%) Consultant
9 8 (3.252%) Online Product Manager
10 6 (2.439%) Web Developer
10 6 (2.439%) Solutions Architect
10 6 (2.439%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
11 5 (2.033%) Technical Architect
11 5 (2.033%) Java Developer
12 4 (1.626%) C++ Developer
12 4 (1.626%) C# Developer
12 4 (1.626%) Programme Director
Miscellaneous
1 12 (4.878%) Open Source
2 10 (4.065%) Video on Demand
3 9 (3.659%) Digital Media
4 8 (3.252%) Management Information System
4 8 (3.252%) Mathematics
5 7 (2.846%) Derivative
5 7 (2.846%) N-Tier
5 7 (2.846%) Clustering
6 6 (2.439%) Computer Science
7 5 (2.033%) Physics
7 5 (2.033%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.033%) iPad
8 4 (1.626%) STB
8 4 (1.626%) Fixed Income
8 4 (1.626%) Client/Server
8 4 (1.626%) Enterprise Software
8 4 (1.626%) iPhone
8 4 (1.626%) Credit Risk
8 4 (1.626%) Equity Derivative
9 3 (1.220%) Smartphone
Operating Systems
1 18 (7.317%) UNIX
2 10 (4.065%) Linux
3 5 (2.033%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
3 5 (2.033%) Windows
4 4 (1.626%) Apple iOS
4 4 (1.626%) Android
4 4 (1.626%) Ubuntu
Processes & Methodologies
1 55 (22.36%) Agile Software Development
2 39 (15.85%) Project Management
3 35 (14.23%) Scrum
4 24 (9.756%) Business Analysis
4 24 (9.756%) OO
5 23 (9.350%) Stakeholder Management
6 18 (7.317%) Change Management
7 16 (6.504%) E-Commerce
7 16 (6.504%) TDD
8 15 (6.098%) SOA
9 13 (5.285%) Use Case
9 13 (5.285%) Web Development
9 13 (5.285%) Data Modelling
10 12 (4.878%) Service Delivery
10 12 (4.878%) Programme Management
10 12 (4.878%) OOP
11 11 (4.472%) Configuration Management
11 11 (4.472%) Migration
12 10 (4.065%) Requirements Engineering
12 10 (4.065%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 23 (9.350%) SQL
2 22 (8.943%) JavaScript
3 20 (8.130%) Java
4 14 (5.691%) C#
5 9 (3.659%) Python
6 8 (3.252%) Perl
7 5 (2.033%) Bash shell
7 5 (2.033%) VB
7 5 (2.033%) C++
8 4 (1.626%) Shell Script
8 4 (1.626%) Scala
8 4 (1.626%) Ruby
8 4 (1.626%) Korn
9 3 (1.220%) T-SQL
10 2 (0.813%) VBScript
10 2 (0.813%) C
10 2 (0.813%) Lua
11 1 (0.407%) XPath
11 1 (0.407%) ActionScript 3.0
11 1 (0.407%) sed
Qualifications
1 26 (10.57%) Degree
2 6 (2.439%) Security Cleared
3 3 (1.220%) ISEB
4 2 (0.813%) PMI Certification
4 2 (0.813%) SC Cleared
5 1 (0.407%) CTC Cleared
5 1 (0.407%) PRINCE2 Certification
5 1 (0.407%) ITIL Certification
5 1 (0.407%) PMP
5 1 (0.407%) HND
5 1 (0.407%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.065%) SLA
2 7 (2.846%) QA
3 1 (0.407%) WAI
System Software
1 6 (2.439%) NFS
2 4 (1.626%) Oracle RMAN
2 4 (1.626%) Oracle RAC
3 2 (0.813%) Active Directory
4 1 (0.407%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (1.626%) Oracle Enterprise Manager
1 4 (1.626%) Puppet
1 4 (1.626%) Data Guard
2 3 (1.220%) HP Quality Center
2 3 (1.220%) Legato
3 1 (0.407%) SCOM
3 1 (0.407%) OpenView
3 1 (0.407%) OVSD
Vendors
1 14 (5.691%) Oracle
2 12 (4.878%) Microsoft
3 8 (3.252%) HP
4 5 (2.033%) Adobe
4 5 (2.033%) Sybase
5 4 (1.626%) Toshiba
5 4 (1.626%) Juniper
5 4 (1.626%) McAfee
5 4 (1.626%) Apple
6 3 (1.220%) Nokia Siemens Networks
6 3 (1.220%) Hyperion
6 3 (1.220%) Veritas
6 3 (1.220%) Telelogic
7 2 (0.813%) Business Objects
7 2 (0.813%) Cisco
7 2 (0.813%) Google
8 1 (0.407%) Endeca
8 1 (0.407%) Atlassian
8 1 (0.407%) Tandberg
8 1 (0.407%) TSYS
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