Product Management Contracts in Birmingham

Product Management
West Midlands > Birmingham

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Birmingham requiring Product Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Management over the 6 months leading up to 7 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
7 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 45 57 66
Rank change year-on-year +12 +9 +26
Contract jobs citing Product Management 5 4 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Birmingham 0.97% 0.53% 1.36%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.11% 0.64% 1.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 8
10th Percentile £521 - £425
25th Percentile £534 £525 £586
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% -15.38% -3.70%
75th Percentile £584 £575 £659
90th Percentile £594 - £688
West Midlands median daily rate £525 £550 £650
% change year-on-year -4.55% -15.38% +12.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Birmingham

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 Birmingham.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 450 628 779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Birmingham 87.04% 82.85% 88.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 313 413 521
10th Percentile £163 £252 £275
25th Percentile £375 £375 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £475 £515
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -7.77% +8.42%
75th Percentile £600 £575 £638
90th Percentile £700 £685 £700
West Midlands median daily rate £500 £500 £513
% change year-on-year - -2.44% +5.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 43 29
10th Percentile - £13.19 £11.00
25th Percentile £12.62 £17.00 £12.50
Median hourly rate £22.05 £26.00 £16.29
Median % change year-on-year -15.19% +59.66% -5.54%
75th Percentile £26.38 £47.13 £28.75
90th Percentile £30.68 £56.25 £62.50
West Midlands median hourly rate £18.07 £22.50 £18.50
% change year-on-year -19.71% +21.62% +8.82%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Birmingham

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Management in Birmingham

Product Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Birmingham

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Management in Birmingham.

Daily rate trend for Product Management in Birmingham

Product Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Birmingham 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 (20.00%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (20.00%) Azure
1 1 (20.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (20.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (20.00%) GIS
General
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (40.00%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Legal
3 1 (20.00%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Lead
1 2 (40.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce Manager
2 1 (20.00%) E-Commerce Project Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Product Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Lead Product Owner
2 1 (20.00%) Operations Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Product Operations Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (20.00%) Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) Agile
1 4 (80.00%) Scrum
2 3 (60.00%) Agile Project Management
2 3 (60.00%) PLM
2 3 (60.00%) Project Management
2 3 (60.00%) SDLC
3 2 (40.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (40.00%) Knowledge Management
3 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
3 2 (40.00%) Product Operations
3 2 (40.00%) Release Management
3 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (40.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
4 1 (20.00%) CRM
4 1 (20.00%) Digital Engineering
4 1 (20.00%) Kanban
4 1 (20.00%) Product Marketing
4 1 (20.00%) SEO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 1 (20.00%) Optimizely