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 vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 97 111
Rank change year-on-year +7 +14 +15
Contract jobs citing Product Management 4 17 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Berkshire 0.34% 1.00% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 1.15% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 10 4
10th Percentile - £490 £427
25th Percentile £325 £525 £458
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £575 £500
Median % change year-on-year -39.13% +15.00% -16.67%
75th Percentile £375 - £566
90th Percentile - - £639
South East median daily rate £450 £525 £500
% change year-on-year -14.29% +5.00% -4.76%

All Process and 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 1,072 1,484 1,604
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Berkshire 91.47% 86.99% 89.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 664 778 1,017
10th Percentile £343 £325 £300
25th Percentile £413 £450 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -6.82% +4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £600 £638 £638
90th Percentile £664 £694 £700
South East median daily rate £500 £514 £518
% change year-on-year -2.72% -0.85% +2.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 75 59
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.93 £18.30
25th Percentile £16.66 £47.56 £48.40
Median hourly rate £32.18 £61.60 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -47.76% +2.67% +97.08%
75th Percentile £62.62 £72.04 £72.17
90th Percentile £87.28 £87.46 £75.67
South East median hourly rate £22.50 £57.35 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.77% +9.24% +61.54%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Berkshire

Job postings citing Product Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Berkshire.

Job vacancy trend for Product Management 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 8 September 2025. 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
Bracknell - 1 £350 - 2
Windsor - 1 - - 2
Product Management
South East

Product Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Berkshire 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (25.00%) AWS
1 1 (25.00%) Azure
Communications & Networking
1 2 (50.00%) SD-WAN
General
1 1 (25.00%) Automotive
1 1 (25.00%) Marketing
1 1 (25.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Architect
2 1 (25.00%) Developer
2 1 (25.00%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (25.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Renewable Energy
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
1 3 (75.00%) Project Management
2 2 (50.00%) Business Analysis
2 2 (50.00%) Data Protection
2 2 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (25.00%) Analytics
3 1 (25.00%) Artificial Intelligence Engineering
3 1 (25.00%) Budget Management
3 1 (25.00%) Business Case
3 1 (25.00%) CI/CD
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Data Visualisation
3 1 (25.00%) DevOps
3 1 (25.00%) Full-Stack Development
3 1 (25.00%) LLM
3 1 (25.00%) Machine Learning
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile Development
3 1 (25.00%) Visualisation
System Software
1 2 (50.00%) VMware Infrastructure
Vendors
1 2 (50.00%) VMware