Product Operations Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Product Operations (Product Ops)
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Product Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 30 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 - 133
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Product Operations 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.11% - 0.040%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% - 0.045%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 1
10th Percentile £333 - -
25th Percentile £345 - £711
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £380 - £723
75th Percentile £405 - £734
90th Percentile £411 - -
Central London median daily rate £380 - £723

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Product Operations 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 1,659 1,866 2,217
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.26% 92.10% 89.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,165 1,136 1,582
10th Percentile £341 £367 £363
25th Percentile £421 £464 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £543 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.65% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £759 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £570
% change year-on-year -4.35% +0.88% -0.87%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 14 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.35 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.18 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £31.00 £40.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -23.46% +54.29% -35.19%
75th Percentile £42.47 £107.13 £44.56
90th Percentile £51.88 £129.85 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.50
% change year-on-year -25.40% +27.27% -27.15%

Product Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

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

Product Operations job vacancy trend in the City of London

Product Operations
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Product Operations
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

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

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

Product Operations
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 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) Drupal
1 1 (50.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
1 1 (50.00%) Miro
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (50.00%) Support Assistant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (50.00%) Logistics
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (50.00%) Product Discovery
1 1 (50.00%) Product Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
1 1 (50.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft