Product Manager Contracts with Work from Home Options

Product Manager
UK > Work from Home

The median Product Manager daily rate in Work from Home is £600 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 4 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
4 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 251 292 314
Rank change year-on-year +41 +22 +31
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 86 180 337
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.57% 0.70% 0.76%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.61% 0.74% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 66 120 238
10th Percentile £400 £413 £413
25th Percentile £450 £440 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £540 £550
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -1.82% +10.00%
75th Percentile £725 £641 £638
90th Percentile £800 £713 £700
UK median daily rate £580 £550 £554
% change year-on-year +5.45% -0.68% +10.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £39.55 -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year +70.67% -6.94% -40.97%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Work from Home

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies with a WFH option. 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 Work from Home with a recognized job title 14,162 24,375 42,692
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.48% 95.31% 95.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,491 17,215 30,853
10th Percentile £325 £358 £356
25th Percentile £425 £443 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £625
90th Percentile £750 £750 £713
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 575 559 603
10th Percentile £14.33 £17.97 £13.25
25th Percentile £23.29 £25.75 £18.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £55.00 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -21.82% +57.14% +41.60%
75th Percentile £62.75 £68.75 £55.00
90th Percentile £75.25 £80.25 £66.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.81
% change year-on-year -18.89% +89.04% +5.80%

Product Manager
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option which featured Product Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Product Manager trend for jobs with a WFH option

Product Manager
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 Manager.

Product Manager daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Product Manager
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with a work from home option citing Product Manager over the 6 months to 4 May 2024.

Product Manager daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Product Manager
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 Manager.

Product Manager hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Product Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Job Vacancies with WFH Options

For the 6 months to 4 May 2024, 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 jobs with a WFH option featuring Product Manager in the job title.

1 43 (50.00%) Agile
2 42 (48.84%) Product Management
3 29 (33.72%) Roadmaps
4 24 (27.91%) Analytics
5 21 (24.42%) Product Ownership
5 21 (24.42%) Finance
6 19 (22.09%) Security Cleared
7 17 (19.77%) SC Cleared
8 16 (18.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 14 (16.28%) Public Sector
9 14 (16.28%) SQL
10 13 (15.12%) Python
10 13 (15.12%) AWS
10 13 (15.12%) Artificial Intelligence
10 13 (15.12%) Product Roadmap
11 12 (13.95%) Social Skills
11 12 (13.95%) Derivative
11 12 (13.95%) Asset Management
11 12 (13.95%) Investment Management
11 12 (13.95%) Hedge funds
11 12 (13.95%) Machine Learning
11 12 (13.95%) Front Office
11 12 (13.95%) Fixed Income
11 12 (13.95%) Equities
12 11 (12.79%) Scrum
12 11 (12.79%) Product Backlog
13 10 (11.63%) JIRA
14 9 (10.47%) User Research
14 9 (10.47%) Product Strategy
15 8 (9.30%) User Stories

Product Manager Skill Set
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 8 (9.30%) Confluence
2 4 (4.65%) CMS
3 2 (2.33%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 1 (1.16%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (15.12%) AWS
2 6 (6.98%) SaaS
3 3 (3.49%) Azure
4 2 (2.33%) Slack
5 1 (1.16%) GCP
5 1 (1.16%) PaaS
5 1 (1.16%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.16%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.33%) Crystal Reports
2 1 (1.16%) Big Data
2 1 (1.16%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.16%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 10 (11.63%) JIRA
2 1 (1.16%) Artifactory
2 1 (1.16%) Bitbucket
2 1 (1.16%) Git
2 1 (1.16%) Jenkins
2 1 (1.16%) TeamCity
General
1 21 (24.42%) Finance
2 14 (16.28%) Public Sector
3 12 (13.95%) Front Office
3 12 (13.95%) Social Skills
4 6 (6.98%) Analytical Skills
4 6 (6.98%) Retail
5 5 (5.81%) Marketing
5 5 (5.81%) Telecoms
6 3 (3.49%) Automotive
6 3 (3.49%) Pharmaceutical
7 2 (2.33%) Banking
7 2 (2.33%) Health Technology
7 2 (2.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 2 (2.33%) Legal
7 2 (2.33%) Manufacturing
7 2 (2.33%) Publishing
8 1 (1.16%) Billing
8 1 (1.16%) Electronics
8 1 (1.16%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.16%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.16%) .NET
1 1 (1.16%) .NET Framework
1 1 (1.16%) ASP.NET
1 1 (1.16%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (1.16%) Entity Framework
1 1 (1.16%) HTML
1 1 (1.16%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 21 (24.42%) Product Ownership
2 16 (18.60%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 12 (13.95%) Derivative
3 12 (13.95%) Equities
3 12 (13.95%) Fixed Income
3 12 (13.95%) Hedge funds
4 3 (3.49%) Legacy Systems
5 2 (2.33%) Digital Signage
5 2 (2.33%) IPTV
5 2 (2.33%) Management Information System
5 2 (2.33%) Mobile App
5 2 (2.33%) Onboarding
5 2 (2.33%) Video\Live Streaming
6 1 (1.16%) CMDB
6 1 (1.16%) Data Centre
6 1 (1.16%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.16%) Freedom of Information
6 1 (1.16%) Freedom of Information Act
6 1 (1.16%) Infotainment
6 1 (1.16%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.33%) Linux
1 2 (2.33%) Windows
2 1 (1.16%) Android
2 1 (1.16%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.16%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 43 (50.00%) Agile
2 42 (48.84%) Product Management
3 29 (33.72%) Roadmaps
4 24 (27.91%) Analytics
5 13 (15.12%) Artificial Intelligence
5 13 (15.12%) Product Roadmap
6 12 (13.95%) Asset Management
6 12 (13.95%) Investment Management
6 12 (13.95%) Machine Learning
7 11 (12.79%) Product Backlog
7 11 (12.79%) Scrum
8 9 (10.47%) Product Strategy
8 9 (10.47%) User Research
9 8 (9.30%) User Stories
10 7 (8.14%) Project Management
10 7 (8.14%) User Experience
11 6 (6.98%) Continuous Improvement
11 6 (6.98%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 5 (5.81%) ITSM
12 5 (5.81%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 14 (16.28%) SQL
2 13 (15.12%) Python
3 1 (1.16%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 19 (22.09%) Security Cleared
2 17 (19.77%) SC Cleared
3 7 (8.14%) Degree
4 2 (2.33%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.33%) MBA
4 2 (2.33%) PMI Certification
4 2 (2.33%) PMP
4 2 (2.33%) PRINCE2 Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (3.49%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.16%) Ansible
1 1 (1.16%) Kubernetes
1 1 (1.16%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (2.33%) IFS
1 2 (2.33%) Logitech
1 2 (2.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (1.16%) SAP
2 1 (1.16%) Splunk