Product Engineer Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Product Engineer
Central London > City of London

The median Product Engineer daily rate in the City of London is £585, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 February 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 - 130
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs requiring a Product Engineer 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.10% - 0.042%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.11% - 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £533 - -
25th Percentile £553 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 - £500
75th Percentile £618 - -
90th Percentile £637 - -
Central London median daily rate £585 - £500

All Contract IT Job Roles
City of London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the City of London. 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 the City of London with a recognized job title 1,796 1,690 2,253
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.98% 92.96% 94.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,234 1,014 1,620
10th Percentile £350 £354 £349
25th Percentile £431 £463 £454
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £575 £563
Median % change year-on-year -7.39% +2.22% -4.26%
75th Percentile £675 £675 £688
90th Percentile £775 £775 £788
Central London median daily rate £543 £575 £550
% change year-on-year -5.65% +4.55% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 19 7 21
10th Percentile £20.10 £22.00 £17.00
25th Percentile £26.14 £26.63 £18.93
Median hourly rate £40.50 £38.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.19% +60.42% -26.15%
75th Percentile £49.83 £80.38 £40.00
90th Percentile £59.72 £112.00 £50.25
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £26.00
% change year-on-year -25.40% +34.62% +1.96%

Product Engineer
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Product Engineer' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Product Engineer job vacancy trend in the City of London

Product Engineer
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Product Engineer job vacancies in the City of London.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Product Engineer job vacancies in the City of London

Product Engineer
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Engineer in the City of London over the 6 months to 11 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Engineer in the City of London

Product Engineer Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London

For the 6 months to 11 February 2026, Product Engineer contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the City of London region featuring Product Engineer in the job title.

1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) Design Patterns
1 1 (50.00%) Dynamic Application Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
1 1 (50.00%) Incident Response
1 1 (50.00%) Interaction Design
1 1 (50.00%) LLM
1 1 (50.00%) Microinteractions
1 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (50.00%) Product Management
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) React
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Retrieval-Augmented Generation
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) SLA
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
1 1 (50.00%) Typography

Product Engineer Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) React
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) AI
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (50.00%) Interaction Design
1 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (50.00%) Product Management
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) Regulatory Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) Risk Management
1 1 (50.00%) Root Cause Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) SDLC
1 1 (50.00%) Security Architecture
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) Static Application Security Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Threat Modelling
1 1 (50.00%) Typography
1 1 (50.00%) User Experience
1 1 (50.00%) UX Design
1 1 (50.00%) UX Research
1 1 (50.00%) Vulnerability Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA