Product Manager Contract Job Trends in the East of England

Product Manager
England > East of England

The median Product Manager daily rate in the East of England is £663, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025.

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

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 96 90 109
Rank change year-on-year -6 +19 +10
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 2 4 5
As % of all contract jobs in the East of England 0.15% 0.28% 0.27%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.17% 0.31% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 5
10th Percentile £651 £615 -
25th Percentile £653 £638 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £663 £650 £500
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% +30.00% -23.08%
75th Percentile £678 £663 £525
90th Percentile £684 £685 £615
England median daily rate £525 £563 £575
% change year-on-year -6.67% -2.17% -4.17%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
East of England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the East of England. 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 of England with a recognized job title 1,161 1,281 1,650
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 84.81% 88.96% 89.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 525 543 968
10th Percentile £190 £213 £194
25th Percentile £363 £310 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £450 £488
Median % change year-on-year +11.11% -7.69% -1.52%
75th Percentile £595 £575 £600
90th Percentile £688 £625 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -2.86% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 284 258 277
10th Percentile £13.80 £14.84 £13.41
25th Percentile £16.00 £21.25 £17.72
Median hourly rate £30.00 £43.90 £33.44
Median % change year-on-year -31.66% +31.28% +68.80%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £67.65 £81.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £46.18
% change year-on-year -41.51% -6.89% +67.93%

Product Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the East of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Product Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the East of England.

Product Manager job vacancy trend in the East of England

Product Manager
Daily Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Product Manager job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Product Manager job vacancies in the East of England

Product Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in the East of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Product Manager job vacancies in the East of England.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Product Manager job vacancies in the East of England

Product Manager
Contract Job Locations in the East of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 14 October 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
Hertfordshire +3 2 £663 +1.92% 2
Product Manager
England

Product Manager Skill Set
Top 29 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England

For the 6 months to 14 October 2025, Product Manager 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 East of England region featuring Product Manager in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) JIRA
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
2 1 (50.00%) User Experience
2 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
2 1 (50.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (50.00%) Avature
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Product Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Product Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
2 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Product Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) LLM
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum

Product Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the East of England 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Chatbot
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Data Structures
1 1 (50.00%) Enterprise Software
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
2 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
2 1 (50.00%) AI
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Conversational UI
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Data Science
2 1 (50.00%) Migration
2 1 (50.00%) Product Management
2 1 (50.00%) Product Requirements
2 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 1 (50.00%) Product Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Product Thinking
2 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
2 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 1 (50.00%) Scrum
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (50.00%) Technology Transformation
2 1 (50.00%) User Stories
2 1 (50.00%) Workflow
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Avature