Product Management Contract Job Trends in the East Midlands

Product Management
England > East Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the East Midlands requiring Product Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 56 -
Rank change year-on-year -12 - -
Contract jobs citing Product Management 8 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the East Midlands 0.90% 0.17% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.07% 0.19% -
Number of daily rates quoted 8 1 0
10th Percentile £352 - -
25th Percentile £358 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £378 £550 -
Median % change year-on-year -31.36% - -
75th Percentile £422 - -
90th Percentile £488 - -
England median daily rate £510 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +2.00% -9.09% -8.33%

All Process and Methodology Skills
East Midlands

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 East Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 748 517 609
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands 83.86% 86.89% 83.42%
Number of daily rates quoted 462 322 427
10th Percentile £189 £250 £213
25th Percentile £355 £329 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £424 £425 £453
Median % change year-on-year -0.29% -6.18% -2.58%
75th Percentile £525 £545 £572
90th Percentile £625 £636 £679
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 87 23 47
10th Percentile £16.14 £15.48 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.35 £17.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £18.87 £22.50 £21.52
Median % change year-on-year -16.13% +4.58% +27.84%
75th Percentile £25.00 £27.65 £51.50
90th Percentile £25.15 £38.49 £60.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +23.09%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

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

Product Management job vacancy trend in the East Midlands

Product Management
Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Product Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the East Midlands citing Product Management

Product Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the East Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Management in the East Midlands over the 6 months to 26 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Management in the East Midlands

Product Management
Contract Job Locations in the East Midlands

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 East Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 December 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
Northamptonshire - 7 £375 - 12
Lincolnshire - 1 £505 - 15
Product Management
England

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Business Applications
1 2 (25.00%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 1 (12.50%) Azure
1 1 (12.50%) Azure AKS
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Data Factory
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Functions
1 1 (12.50%) Azure Logic Apps
1 1 (12.50%) SaaS
1 1 (12.50%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (12.50%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (12.50%) Big Data
1 1 (12.50%) MongoDB
General
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (37.50%) Social Skills
2 2 (25.00%) Banking
3 1 (12.50%) Agriculture
Job Titles
1 5 (62.50%) Product Manager
2 3 (37.50%) Product Owner
3 1 (12.50%) Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Commercial Manager
3 1 (12.50%) Solutions Architect
3 1 (12.50%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) Flash
2 1 (12.50%) Express.js
2 1 (12.50%) MERN Stack
2 1 (12.50%) Node.js
2 1 (12.50%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (37.50%) Analytical Mindset
1 3 (37.50%) Product Ownership
2 1 (12.50%) Cloud Native
2 1 (12.50%) Distributed Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Hybrid Cloud
2 1 (12.50%) Legacy Systems
2 1 (12.50%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (87.50%) Roadmaps
2 5 (62.50%) Agile
3 4 (50.00%) Business Strategy
3 4 (50.00%) Product Vision
3 4 (50.00%) Regulatory Change
3 4 (50.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
3 4 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (37.50%) Cost Control
4 3 (37.50%) Fintech
4 3 (37.50%) Market Research
4 3 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
4 3 (37.50%) Product Roadmap
4 3 (37.50%) Product Strategy
4 3 (37.50%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (25.00%) B2B
5 2 (25.00%) B2B Sales
5 2 (25.00%) Customer Insight
5 2 (25.00%) Development Roadmap
5 2 (25.00%) Project Delivery
5 2 (25.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (12.50%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (25.00%) Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Azure Certification
2 1 (12.50%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Master's Degree
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft Certification
Vendors
1 4 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (12.50%) Databricks