Product Management Contracts in Cheshire

Product Management
North West > Cheshire

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Cheshire 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 52 48 59
Rank change year-on-year -4 +11 -11
Contract jobs citing Product Management 6 8 2
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Cheshire 1.29% 1.59% 0.38%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.33% 1.90% 0.41%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 2
10th Percentile - - £471
25th Percentile - - £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £585 £575
Median % change year-on-year +2.56% +1.74% +41.28%
75th Percentile - - £639
90th Percentile - - £676
North West median daily rate £450 £550 £600
% change year-on-year -18.18% -8.33% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 0
10th Percentile £47.38 - -
25th Percentile £49.06 - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.66 -
Median % change year-on-year +87.55% - -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £50.00 £26.66 £69.50
% change year-on-year +87.55% -61.64% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Cheshire

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 Cheshire.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 452 422 485
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Cheshire 97.00% 83.73% 91.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 315 277 326
10th Percentile £314 £300 £288
25th Percentile £358 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £447 £500 £486
Median % change year-on-year -10.60% +2.85% +5.68%
75th Percentile £550 £580 £575
90th Percentile £639 £638 £650
North West median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 31 25
10th Percentile £14.41 £14.00 £19.29
25th Percentile £23.90 £16.67 £23.15
Median hourly rate £42.25 £26.66 £30.54
Median % change year-on-year +58.48% -12.70% +35.73%
75th Percentile £85.81 £40.88 £35.03
90th Percentile £86.00 £43.75 £40.00
North West median hourly rate £31.88 £24.15 £36.00
% change year-on-year +32.04% -32.93% +52.90%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Cheshire

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Management in Cheshire

Product Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Cheshire

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

Daily rate trend for Product Management in Cheshire

Product Management
Contract Job Locations in Cheshire

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 Cheshire region over the 6 months to 16 May 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
Chester - 6 £600 - 5
Product Management
North West

Product Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Cheshire 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (16.67%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (16.67%) SAP ERP
Communications & Networking
1 1 (16.67%) BGP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (16.67%) DMZ
1 1 (16.67%) DNS
1 1 (16.67%) DWDM
1 1 (16.67%) Firewall
1 1 (16.67%) Internet
1 1 (16.67%) IPsec
1 1 (16.67%) L2TP
1 1 (16.67%) MPLS
1 1 (16.67%) Multicast
1 1 (16.67%) Network Security
1 1 (16.67%) OSPF
1 1 (16.67%) SSL
1 1 (16.67%) VPN
1 1 (16.67%) WAN
1 1 (16.67%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (16.67%) Wireless
General
1 5 (83.33%) Manufacturing
2 1 (16.67%) Aerospace
2 1 (16.67%) Banking
2 1 (16.67%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (83.33%) Analyst
2 3 (50.00%) Business Analyst
3 2 (33.33%) SAP Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Cisco Network Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Functional Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Implementation Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Network Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Network Implementation Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) SAP Functional Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) 802.1X
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Change Management
2 5 (83.33%) Active Listening
2 5 (83.33%) Manufacturing Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Root Cause Analysis
3 4 (66.67%) Business Change Management
3 4 (66.67%) Customer Requirements
4 2 (33.33%) Business Transformation
4 2 (33.33%) Process Improvement
5 1 (16.67%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Architecture Roadmap
5 1 (16.67%) B2B
5 1 (16.67%) Decision-Making
5 1 (16.67%) ERP
5 1 (16.67%) Infrastructure Engineering
5 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Roadmaps
5 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (16.67%) Validation
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) Perl
1 1 (16.67%) PowerShell
1 1 (16.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) CCIE
1 1 (16.67%) CCNP
1 1 (16.67%) Cisco Certification
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Ansible
Vendors
1 5 (83.33%) SAP
2 1 (16.67%) Arista
2 1 (16.67%) Cisco
2 1 (16.67%) Fortinet
2 1 (16.67%) McAfee
2 1 (16.67%) Splunk