Product Manager Contracts in the East Midlands

Product Manager
England > East Midlands

The median Product Manager daily rate in the East Midlands is £382, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 11 August 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
11 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 66 63 61
Rank change year-on-year -3 -2 +29
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 6 2 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the East Midlands 0.78% 0.26% 0.80%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.88% 0.28% 0.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 2 5
10th Percentile £339 £573 £555
25th Percentile £353 £580 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £382 £601 £650
Median % change year-on-year -36.42% -7.50% -
75th Percentile £402 £613 -
90th Percentile £439 £614 -
England median daily rate £525 £588 £575
% change year-on-year -10.64% +2.17% -4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East Midlands. 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 East Midlands with a recognized job title 684 717 825
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 89.18% 94.97% 94.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 460 472 613
10th Percentile £200 £205 £213
25th Percentile £317 £355 £350
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 £445 £475
Median % change year-on-year -7.87% -6.32% +5.56%
75th Percentile £500 £550 £600
90th Percentile £625 £622 £700
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.48% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 60 43
10th Percentile £15.12 £12.67 £12.10
25th Percentile £17.87 £14.20 £13.89
Median hourly rate £21.39 £23.25 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.00% +10.71% +5.89%
75th Percentile £25.15 £44.49 £53.88
90th Percentile £30.30 £51.91 £70.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £41.50
% change year-on-year -44.11% +8.43% +61.60%

Product Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the East Midlands

Job postings that featured Product Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the East Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Product Manager in the East Midlands

Product Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the East Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Manager in the East Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Product Manager in the East Midlands

Product Manager
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 Manager within the East Midlands region over the 6 months to 11 August 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 -8 5 £363 -38.30% 4
Nottinghamshire -3 1 £468 -23.98% 4
Product Manager
England

Product Manager Skill Set
Top 24 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands

For the 6 months to 11 August 2025, Product Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the East Midlands region featuring Product Manager in the job title.

1 6 (100.00%) Product Management
2 5 (83.33%) B2B
2 5 (83.33%) Roadmaps
3 4 (66.67%) BCP
3 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (66.67%) Customer Insight
3 4 (66.67%) Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
3 4 (66.67%) B2B Sales
3 4 (66.67%) Accounts Payable
3 4 (66.67%) Product Roadmap
3 4 (66.67%) Development Roadmap
3 4 (66.67%) Product Strategy
3 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
3 4 (66.67%) Business Strategy
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
4 2 (33.33%) Banking
4 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
5 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
5 1 (16.67%) Android
5 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
5 1 (16.67%) Figma
5 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
5 1 (16.67%) Flash

Product Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the East Midlands 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Figma
General
1 4 (66.67%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 2 (33.33%) Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) Flash
Miscellaneous
1 1 (16.67%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (16.67%) Android
1 1 (16.67%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Product Management
2 5 (83.33%) B2B
2 5 (83.33%) Roadmaps
3 4 (66.67%) Accounts Payable
3 4 (66.67%) B2B Sales
3 4 (66.67%) BCP
3 4 (66.67%) Business Strategy
3 4 (66.67%) Customer Insight
3 4 (66.67%) Development Roadmap
3 4 (66.67%) Procure-to-Pay
3 4 (66.67%) Product Roadmap
3 4 (66.67%) Product Strategy
3 4 (66.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (33.33%) Agile
5 1 (16.67%) Project Delivery
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft