Product Management Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Product Management
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Product Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 102 106 99
Rank change year-on-year +4 -7 +64
Contract jobs citing Product Management 19 19 30
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 1.04% 0.96% 1.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.15% 1.04% 1.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 10 27
10th Percentile £375 £413 £415
25th Percentile £397 £465 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £525 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.29% -8.70% -11.54%
75th Percentile £703 £584 £681
90th Percentile £819 £674 £718
Central London median daily rate £575 £525 £575
% change year-on-year +9.52% -8.70% -11.54%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

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 the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,654 1,823 2,200
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.19% 92.07% 89.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,159 1,108 1,571
10th Percentile £348 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -6.52% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £685 £688
90th Percentile £763 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £573
% change year-on-year -6.09% +0.44% -0.43%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 14 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.35 £17.00
25th Percentile £23.54 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £34.00 £40.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -16.05% +54.29% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.65 £107.13 £44.56
90th Percentile £51.25 £129.85 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.34 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -24.74% +27.27% -21.43%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Product Management job vacancy trend in the City of London

Product Management
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Product Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Product Management

Product Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Management in the City of London over the 6 months to 3 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Management in the City of London

Product Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Product Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Product Management

Product Management
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:

Application Platforms
1 5 (26.32%) Confluence
2 2 (10.53%) CMS
Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Chatbot
1 1 (5.26%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (5.26%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (5.26%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 3 (15.79%) Azure
2 2 (10.53%) Firebase
3 1 (5.26%) AWS
3 1 (5.26%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (5.26%) Dynamics 365
3 1 (5.26%) GCP
3 1 (5.26%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (5.26%) Power Automate
3 1 (5.26%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (10.53%) SQLite
2 1 (5.26%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 8 (42.11%) JIRA
2 2 (10.53%) CocoaPods
2 2 (10.53%) Crashlytics
2 2 (10.53%) fastlane
2 2 (10.53%) Git
2 2 (10.53%) Jenkins
2 2 (10.53%) Xcode
General
1 9 (47.37%) Finance
2 8 (42.11%) Social Skills
3 7 (36.84%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Banking
4 3 (15.79%) Influencing Skills
4 3 (15.79%) Marketing
5 2 (10.53%) Presentation Skills
5 2 (10.53%) Retail
6 1 (5.26%) Billing
6 1 (5.26%) Front Office
6 1 (5.26%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (5.26%) Investment Banking
6 1 (5.26%) Law
6 1 (5.26%) Legal
6 1 (5.26%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 10 (52.63%) Product Manager
2 3 (15.79%) Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Business Analyst
2 3 (15.79%) Senior
3 2 (10.53%) Agile Business Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Developer
3 2 (10.53%) iOS Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Product Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Product Business Analyst
3 2 (10.53%) Senior Developer
3 2 (10.53%) Senior iOS Developer
4 1 (5.26%) Banking Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Data Business Analyst
4 1 (5.26%) Digital Product Owner
4 1 (5.26%) Migration Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Mobile Product Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Planning Manager
4 1 (5.26%) Presales Consultant
4 1 (5.26%) Product Owner
4 1 (5.26%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) AVFoundation
1 2 (10.53%) Core Animation
1 2 (10.53%) Core Data
1 2 (10.53%) RxSwift
1 2 (10.53%) UIKit
2 1 (5.26%) AngularJS
2 1 (5.26%) CSS
2 1 (5.26%) HTML
2 1 (5.26%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (21.05%) Product Ownership
2 2 (10.53%) Animation
2 2 (10.53%) Data Structures
2 2 (10.53%) Mobile App
3 1 (5.26%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (5.26%) Legacy Systems
3 1 (5.26%) Management Information System
3 1 (5.26%) Mobile Banking
3 1 (5.26%) Onboarding
3 1 (5.26%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (10.53%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (78.95%) Agile
2 9 (47.37%) Roadmaps
3 7 (36.84%) Problem-Solving
4 6 (31.58%) Scrum
5 5 (26.32%) Analytics
5 5 (26.32%) Backlog Management
5 5 (26.32%) Product Roadmap
6 4 (21.05%) Epics
6 4 (21.05%) Fintech
6 4 (21.05%) Objectives and Key Results
6 4 (21.05%) Product Strategy
6 4 (21.05%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 4 (21.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 4 (21.05%) User Stories
7 3 (15.79%) CRM
7 3 (15.79%) DevOps
7 3 (15.79%) Mentoring
7 3 (15.79%) Product Vision
7 3 (15.79%) Thought Leadership
7 3 (15.79%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 2 (10.53%) Objective-C
1 2 (10.53%) Swift
2 1 (5.26%) JavaScript
2 1 (5.26%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (15.79%) Security Cleared
2 2 (10.53%) Degree
2 2 (10.53%) SC Cleared
3 1 (5.26%) IIBA
3 1 (5.26%) Master's Degree
3 1 (5.26%) MBA
3 1 (5.26%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (15.79%) Accessibility
2 1 (5.26%) QA
Systems Management
1 2 (10.53%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (15.79%) Google
1 3 (15.79%) Microsoft
2 2 (10.53%) Apple
2 2 (10.53%) Oracle
3 1 (5.26%) CA Agile Central
3 1 (5.26%) Planview