Technical Product Manager Contracts

Technical Product Manager
UK

The median Technical Product Manager daily rate in the UK is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 6 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
6 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 701 842
Rank change year-on-year +135 +141 -151
Contract jobs requiring a Technical Product Manager 12 15 25
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.028% 0.025% 0.028%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.030% 0.027% 0.030%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 12 17
10th Percentile £440 £387 £525
25th Percentile £500 £444 £588
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £513 £650
Median % change year-on-year +17.07% -21.15% +62.50%
75th Percentile £863 £603 £813
90th Percentile - £650 £900
UK excluding London median daily rate £600 £575 £650
% change year-on-year +4.35% -11.54% +128.07%

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 40,246 55,892 84,695
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.62% 95.45%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,216 39,044 59,517
10th Percentile £279 £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 2,676 1,569 2,074
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.72
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £64.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.11% +115.96% +2.74%

Technical Product Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Technical Product Manager in the UK

Technical Product Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Technical Product Manager in the UK

Technical Product Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Technical Product Manager in the UK

Technical 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 Technical Product Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 6 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 +103 10 £600 +17.07% 16
Work from Home +127 5 £825 +51.72% 8
London +107 5 £663 +29.27% 8
UK excluding London +58 4 £600 +4.35% 8
North of England +29 4 £600 -7.69% 1
Yorkshire +21 2 £600 -7.69%
North West - 2 - - 1

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

For the 6 months to 6 May 2024, Technical 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 Technical Product Manager in the job title.

1 11 (91.67%) Roadmaps
2 8 (66.67%) Agile
3 6 (50.00%) Product Management
4 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
4 5 (41.67%) Azure
4 5 (41.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 4 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
5 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
5 4 (33.33%) ITSM
6 3 (25.00%) Finance
6 3 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
6 3 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
6 3 (25.00%) Product Backlog
7 2 (16.67%) Technical Debt
7 2 (16.67%) Architectural Design
7 2 (16.67%) Observability
7 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
7 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
7 2 (16.67%) Objectives and Key Results
7 2 (16.67%) RBAC
7 2 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
7 2 (16.67%) Service Management
7 2 (16.67%) SAP
7 2 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
7 2 (16.67%) CMDB
7 2 (16.67%) Performance Monitoring
7 2 (16.67%) Coaching
7 2 (16.67%) SaaS
7 2 (16.67%) Splunk

Technical 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 1 (8.33%) CMS
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 2 (16.67%) SaaS
3 1 (8.33%) AWS
3 1 (8.33%) GCP
3 1 (8.33%) Power Platform
3 1 (8.33%) SuccessFactors
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) Power BI
1 1 (8.33%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 1 (8.33%) JIRA
General
1 3 (25.00%) Finance
2 1 (8.33%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (8.33%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 2 (16.67%) CMDB
1 2 (16.67%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
1 2 (16.67%) Onboarding
1 2 (16.67%) Product Ownership
2 1 (8.33%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (8.33%) Public Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (91.67%) Roadmaps
2 8 (66.67%) Agile
3 6 (50.00%) Product Management
4 5 (41.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 4 (33.33%) ITSM
5 4 (33.33%) Technology Roadmap
6 3 (25.00%) Backlog Refinement
6 3 (25.00%) Product Backlog
6 3 (25.00%) Strategic Roadmap
7 2 (16.67%) Application Performance Monitoring
7 2 (16.67%) Architectural Design
7 2 (16.67%) Configuration Management
7 2 (16.67%) Customer-Centricity
7 2 (16.67%) Objectives and Key Results
7 2 (16.67%) Observability
7 2 (16.67%) RBAC
7 2 (16.67%) Re-Platforming
7 2 (16.67%) Service Management
7 2 (16.67%) Technical Debt
7 2 (16.67%) Technology Strategy
Programming Languages
1 1 (8.33%) Python
1 1 (8.33%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (41.67%) Security Cleared
2 1 (8.33%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Degree
2 1 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 1 (8.33%) SC Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (8.33%) Kubernetes
1 1 (8.33%) Nessus
Vendors
1 4 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 2 (16.67%) MuleSoft
2 2 (16.67%) SAP
2 2 (16.67%) Splunk
3 1 (8.33%) VMware