Product Management Contract Job Trends in Berkshire

Product Management
South East > Berkshire

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Berkshire requiring Product Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 98 84 113
Rank change year-on-year -14 +29 +1
Contract jobs citing Product Management 9 19 11
As % of all contract jobs in Berkshire 0.62% 1.39% 0.64%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.72% 1.52% 0.70%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 11 3
10th Percentile - £425 £425
25th Percentile - £498 £444
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% +15.00% -
75th Percentile £419 - £525
90th Percentile £460 - -
South East median daily rate £414 £538 £500
% change year-on-year -23.07% +7.50% -18.37%

All Process & Methodology Skills
Berkshire

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in Berkshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,258 1,249 1,570
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 86.64% 91.50% 91.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 855 684 946
10th Percentile £300 £300 £213
25th Percentile £413 £409 £366
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £600 £638 £608
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £510 £517
% change year-on-year -1.96% -1.40% +3.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 55 35 71
10th Percentile £15.10 £26.85 £24.34
25th Percentile £19.41 £41.88 £46.81
Median hourly rate £58.00 £59.00 £61.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.69% -3.28% +10.91%
75th Percentile £84.00 £64.73 £67.38
90th Percentile £99.00 £71.72 £76.10
South East median hourly rate £23.58 £42.50 £55.00
% change year-on-year -44.53% -22.73% +24.29%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Product Management job vacancy trend in Berkshire

Product Management
Daily Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Product Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Product Management

Product Management
Hourly Rate Trend in Berkshire

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Product Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in Berkshire citing Product Management

Product Management
Contract Job Locations in Berkshire

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the Berkshire region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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
Reading +8 4 £350 -29.29% 3
Bracknell -4 2 - -
Wokingham -36 1 £475 -17.39% 1
Windsor - 1 - -
Product Management
South East

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Berkshire by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (22.22%) Azure
2 1 (11.11%) AWS
2 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
Communications & Networking
1 3 (33.33%) SD-WAN
2 2 (22.22%) 5G
2 2 (22.22%) Wireless
Development Applications
1 1 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 3 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Organisational Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Publishing
2 1 (11.11%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (22.22%) Architect
1 2 (22.22%) Product Architect
2 1 (11.11%) Developer
2 1 (11.11%) Product Engineer
2 1 (11.11%) Product Owner
2 1 (11.11%) Programme Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Project Manager
2 1 (11.11%) Senior
2 1 (11.11%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (11.11%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Renewable Energy
2 1 (11.11%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
2 4 (44.44%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (33.33%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 3 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 2 (22.22%) AI
4 2 (22.22%) Architectural Design
4 2 (22.22%) DevOps
4 2 (22.22%) ITIL
4 2 (22.22%) PRINCE2
4 2 (22.22%) Product Strategy
4 2 (22.22%) Product Vision
4 2 (22.22%) Programme Management
4 2 (22.22%) Project Management
5 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis
5 1 (11.11%) Continuous Integration
5 1 (11.11%) PLM
5 1 (11.11%) Problem Management
5 1 (11.11%) Scrum
5 1 (11.11%) Visualisation
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (22.22%) PMI Certification
1 2 (22.22%) PMP
2 1 (11.11%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (11.11%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (33.33%) Fortinet
2 1 (11.11%) Foundry
2 1 (11.11%) Juniper
2 1 (11.11%) Palantir