Product Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Product Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 9 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 216 282 277
Rank change year-on-year +66 -5 +40
Contract jobs citing Product Management 129 193 408
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.86% 0.77% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.86% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 98 134 307
10th Percentile £409 £418 £408
25th Percentile £458 £475 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £555 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.90% +0.91% +10.55%
75th Percentile £778 £650 £631
90th Percentile £850 £724 £738
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £551
% change year-on-year - -0.09% +10.10%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.99
Median hourly rate - - £19.46
75th Percentile - - £20.93
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £51.50 £56.00
% change year-on-year -17.48% -8.04% +13.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,268 22,513 39,948
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 88.01% 89.73% 91.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,896 15,904 28,997
10th Percentile £325 £363 £362
25th Percentile £425 £450 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £630
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 573 519 530
10th Percentile £15.03 £18.63 £13.73
25th Percentile £25.50 £30.00 £20.06
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.16%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £55.63
90th Percentile £75.20 £80.25 £67.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.18
% change year-on-year +1.39% +42.97% +2.78%

Product Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Product Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Product Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Product Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Product Management.

Product Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Product Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Product Management over the 6 months to 9 May 2024.

Product Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Product Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option citing Product Management.

Product Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Product Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 10 (7.75%) Confluence
2 6 (4.65%) Apache
2 6 (4.65%) Apache Airflow
2 6 (4.65%) CMS
3 3 (2.33%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.78%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.33%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.55%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.78%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.78%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 3 (2.33%) Endur
1 3 (2.33%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 33 (25.58%) AWS
2 20 (15.50%) Azure
3 12 (9.30%) SaaS
4 11 (8.53%) GCP
5 8 (6.20%) Serverless
6 6 (4.65%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (4.65%) dbt
7 5 (3.88%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.88%) AWS Lambda
8 4 (3.10%) Amazon SageMaker
8 4 (3.10%) OpenShift
8 4 (3.10%) Rekognition
8 4 (3.10%) Textract
9 3 (2.33%) Cloud Computing
9 3 (2.33%) OCI
9 3 (2.33%) Oracle CX
9 3 (2.33%) Power Platform
9 3 (2.33%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 2 (1.55%) Miro
10 2 (1.55%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.88%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.78%) HTTP
2 1 (0.78%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.78%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.20%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.65%) Amazon Athena
2 6 (4.65%) Apache Arrow
2 6 (4.65%) Apache Ignite
2 6 (4.65%) Dremio
3 5 (3.88%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (3.88%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.10%) Couchbase
4 4 (3.10%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.33%) Oracle Reports
5 3 (2.33%) PostHog
5 3 (2.33%) Power BI
6 2 (1.55%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.55%) MySQL
7 1 (0.78%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.78%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.78%) GIS
7 1 (0.78%) Looker
Development Applications
1 12 (9.30%) JIRA
2 1 (0.78%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.78%) Git
2 1 (0.78%) Storybook
General
1 43 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 34 (26.36%) Finance
3 20 (15.50%) Public Sector
4 18 (13.95%) Front Office
5 16 (12.40%) Analytical Skills
6 11 (8.53%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (6.98%) Banking
7 9 (6.98%) Marketing
8 6 (4.65%) Influencing Skills
8 6 (4.65%) Investment Banking
9 5 (3.88%) Pharmaceutical
10 4 (3.10%) Legal
10 4 (3.10%) Manufacturing
11 3 (2.33%) Retail
12 2 (1.55%) Public Speaking
12 2 (1.55%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.78%) Advertising
13 1 (0.78%) Automotive
13 1 (0.78%) Digital Economy
13 1 (0.78%) Law
Job Titles
1 42 (32.56%) Product Manager
2 25 (19.38%) Product Owner
3 20 (15.50%) Analyst
3 20 (15.50%) Business Analyst
4 15 (11.63%) Developer
5 14 (10.85%) Architect
5 14 (10.85%) Senior
6 13 (10.08%) Consultant
6 13 (10.08%) Product Analyst
6 13 (10.08%) Product Business Analyst
7 12 (9.30%) Business Manager
7 12 (9.30%) Finance Business Analyst
7 12 (9.30%) Finance Manager
7 12 (9.30%) Financial Analyst
8 7 (5.43%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.65%) Software Developer
10 5 (3.88%) Lead
11 4 (3.10%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 4 (3.10%) React Developer
11 4 (3.10%) Senior Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.43%) CSS
1 7 (5.43%) HTML
1 7 (5.43%) React
2 6 (4.65%) gRPC
2 6 (4.65%) NumPy
2 6 (4.65%) OAuth
2 6 (4.65%) OpenID
2 6 (4.65%) Pandas
2 6 (4.65%) Protocol Buffers
2 6 (4.65%) SAML
2 6 (4.65%) SciPy
3 5 (3.88%) AWS CDK
4 4 (3.10%) Kafka
4 4 (3.10%) Node.js
5 2 (1.55%) DOM
5 2 (1.55%) Elastic Stack
5 2 (1.55%) Express.js
5 2 (1.55%) Lucene
5 2 (1.55%) REST
6 1 (0.78%) React Native
Miscellaneous
1 43 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 22 (17.05%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 18 (13.95%) Derivative
3 18 (13.95%) Equities
3 18 (13.95%) Fixed Income
3 18 (13.95%) Hedge funds
4 5 (3.88%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (2.33%) Digital Media
5 3 (2.33%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.55%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.55%) IVR
6 2 (1.55%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.55%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.55%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.55%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.78%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.78%) Graphic Design
7 1 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.78%) Industry 4.0
7 1 (0.78%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.55%) Linux
2 1 (0.78%) Android
2 1 (0.78%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.78%) Windows
2 1 (0.78%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 79 (61.24%) Agile
2 39 (30.23%) Analytics
3 38 (29.46%) Roadmaps
4 24 (18.60%) Scrum
5 21 (16.28%) Artificial Intelligence
6 20 (15.50%) Problem-Solving
7 19 (14.73%) Asset Management
7 19 (14.73%) Investment Management
7 19 (14.73%) Machine Learning
8 18 (13.95%) Kanban
9 17 (13.18%) Mentoring
10 16 (12.40%) Scaled Agile Framework
10 16 (12.40%) Stakeholder Management
11 15 (11.63%) Product Roadmap
11 15 (11.63%) Software Engineering
11 15 (11.63%) User Experience
12 11 (8.53%) Business Analysis
12 11 (8.53%) Product Strategy
12 11 (8.53%) Strategic Roadmap
13 10 (7.75%) Data Modelling
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.16%) Python
2 21 (16.28%) SQL
3 15 (11.63%) Java
4 13 (10.08%) JavaScript
5 12 (9.30%) TypeScript
6 7 (5.43%) Ruby
7 6 (4.65%) Scala
8 4 (3.10%) C++
9 3 (2.33%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (1.55%) C#
10 2 (1.55%) PHP
11 1 (0.78%) VBA
Qualifications
1 17 (13.18%) Security Cleared
2 15 (11.63%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.08%) Degree
4 4 (3.10%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (2.33%) Master's Degree
6 2 (1.55%) DV Cleared
6 2 (1.55%) MBA
6 2 (1.55%) PMI Certification
6 2 (1.55%) PMP
6 2 (1.55%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 1 (0.78%) CCIP
7 1 (0.78%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.78%) CISSP
7 1 (0.78%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (6.20%) Accessibility
1 8 (6.20%) QA
2 2 (1.55%) Disclosure Scotland
3 1 (0.78%) Government Security Classifications
3 1 (0.78%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.78%) NCSC
3 1 (0.78%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 6 (4.65%) Docker
2 4 (3.10%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.78%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 6 (4.65%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.88%) Grafana
2 5 (3.88%) PingFederate
3 1 (0.78%) Bugsnag
Vendors
1 14 (10.85%) Oracle
2 12 (9.30%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.88%) Ping Identity
4 3 (2.33%) Google
5 2 (1.55%) Adobe
5 2 (1.55%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.55%) SAP
5 2 (1.55%) UiPath
6 1 (0.78%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.78%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.78%) ESRI
6 1 (0.78%) VMware