Senior Product Manager Contracts

Senior Product Manager
UK

The median Senior Product Manager daily rate in the UK is £550 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 5 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
5 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 580 653 788
Rank change year-on-year +73 +135 -103
Contract jobs requiring a Senior Product Manager 20 63 75
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.046% 0.11% 0.085%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.050% 0.11% 0.089%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 53 51
10th Percentile £461 £497 £513
25th Percentile £525 £525 £556
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £625 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.00% +4.17% +14.29%
75th Percentile £650 £650 £663
90th Percentile £705 £725 £688
UK excluding London median daily rate £485 £650 £600
% change year-on-year -25.38% +8.33% +26.32%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,029 55,895 84,701
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.75% 94.62% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,060 39,048 59,505
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,665 1,566 2,078
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.11 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.60
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +90.68% +4.89%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.00 £19.52
% change year-on-year -4.76% +115.16% +2.74%

Senior Product Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Senior Product Manager in the UK

Senior Product Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Senior Product Manager in the UK

Senior Product Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Senior Product Manager over the 6 months to 5 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Senior Product Manager in the UK

Senior Product Manager
Top 7 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Senior Product Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 5 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
England +80 19 £550 -12.00% 64
London +85 16 £550 -12.00% 39
Work from Home +115 8 £625 -3.85% 31
UK excluding London +46 2 £485 -25.38% 26
North of England +28 1 - - 5
North West +25 1 - - 3
South East +15 1 £485 -25.38% 9

Senior Product Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 5 May 2024, Senior 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 featuring Senior Product Manager in the job title.

1 10 (50.00%) Product Management
2 7 (35.00%) Roadmaps
3 6 (30.00%) Local Government
4 5 (25.00%) Agile
4 5 (25.00%) User Experience
5 4 (20.00%) Community of Practice
5 4 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
5 4 (20.00%) Product Vision
6 3 (15.00%) User Research
6 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
6 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
6 3 (15.00%) Scrum
6 3 (15.00%) Finance
7 2 (10.00%) B2C
7 2 (10.00%) JIRA
7 2 (10.00%) SaaS
7 2 (10.00%) Analytics
7 2 (10.00%) Confluence
7 2 (10.00%) Coaching
7 2 (10.00%) Product Strategy
7 2 (10.00%) User Stories
7 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
8 1 (5.00%) Ansible
8 1 (5.00%) DevOps
8 1 (5.00%) Line Management
8 1 (5.00%) Mentoring
8 1 (5.00%) People Management
8 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
8 1 (5.00%) Dashboard Development

Senior Product Manager Skill Set
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 2 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (5.00%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (5.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (10.00%) SaaS
2 1 (5.00%) PaaS
2 1 (5.00%) Slack
2 1 (5.00%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.00%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.00%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 2 (10.00%) JIRA
2 1 (5.00%) Artifactory
2 1 (5.00%) Bitbucket
2 1 (5.00%) Git
2 1 (5.00%) Jenkins
2 1 (5.00%) TeamCity
General
1 6 (30.00%) Local Government
2 3 (15.00%) Finance
2 3 (15.00%) Public Sector
3 2 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.00%) Health Technology
4 1 (5.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.00%) Marketing
4 1 (5.00%) Pharmaceutical
4 1 (5.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 3 (15.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (5.00%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (5.00%) Mobile App
Operating Systems
1 1 (5.00%) Android
1 1 (5.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (5.00%) Linux
1 1 (5.00%) Unix
1 1 (5.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (50.00%) Product Management
2 7 (35.00%) Roadmaps
3 5 (25.00%) Agile
3 5 (25.00%) User Experience
4 4 (20.00%) Community of Practice
4 4 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
4 4 (20.00%) Product Vision
5 3 (15.00%) Scrum
5 3 (15.00%) User Research
6 2 (10.00%) Analytics
6 2 (10.00%) B2C
6 2 (10.00%) Coaching
6 2 (10.00%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (10.00%) Product Strategy
6 2 (10.00%) User Stories
7 1 (5.00%) A/B Testing
7 1 (5.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 1 (5.00%) Epics
7 1 (5.00%) Thought Leadership
7 1 (5.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.00%) Data Quality
1 1 (5.00%) GDPR
1 1 (5.00%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (5.00%) Ansible
1 1 (5.00%) Kubernetes
1 1 (5.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (5.00%) Cadence
1 1 (5.00%) Workday