Product Management Contracts in Edinburgh

Product Management
Scotland > Edinburgh

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Edinburgh requiring Product Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Management over the 6 months leading up to 30 July 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Jul 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 55 73 82
Rank change year-on-year +18 +9 -23
Contract jobs citing Product Management 11 7 20
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Edinburgh 1.72% 0.83% 1.73%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.80% 0.97% 1.89%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 5 18
10th Percentile £478 £472 £430
25th Percentile £500 - £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £494 £520
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -2.53%
75th Percentile £625 £538 £549
90th Percentile £710 £605 £574
Scotland median daily rate £510 £485 £525
% change year-on-year +5.26% -7.71% -4.07%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Edinburgh

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 Edinburgh.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 610 719 1,060
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh 95.16% 84.79% 91.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 316 400 723
10th Percentile £255 £210 £213
25th Percentile £408 £355 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £450 £475
Median % change year-on-year +5.56% -5.26% -1.04%
75th Percentile £535 £550 £538
90th Percentile £597 £646 £600
Scotland median daily rate £465 £450 £475
% change year-on-year +3.33% -5.26% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 23 4
10th Percentile £16.93 £13.22 £21.59
25th Percentile £17.30 £14.37 £34.23
Median hourly rate £17.59 £18.00 £47.50
Median % change year-on-year -2.31% -62.11% +111.58%
75th Percentile £32.73 £24.18 £55.94
90th Percentile £62.50 £38.00 £59.88
Scotland median hourly rate £20.00 £19.94 £18.33
% change year-on-year +0.31% +8.80% -49.40%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Edinburgh

Job postings citing Product Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Edinburgh.

Job vacancy trend for Product Management in Edinburgh

Product Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Edinburgh

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Management in Edinburgh.

Daily rate trend for Product Management in Edinburgh

Product Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Edinburgh

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Management in Edinburgh over the 6 months to 30 July 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Management in Edinburgh

Product Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Edinburgh 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (9.09%) Apache
1 1 (9.09%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (9.09%) Confluence
1 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
1 1 (9.09%) TPMS
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Cloud Services
1 4 (36.36%) Amazon S3
1 4 (36.36%) AWS
1 4 (36.36%) AWS Lambda
1 4 (36.36%) Serverless
2 3 (27.27%) AWS CloudFormation
3 2 (18.18%) Azure
3 2 (18.18%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon CloudWatch
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon ECS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon EKS
4 1 (9.09%) Amazon SQS
4 1 (9.09%) Dagster
4 1 (9.09%) GCP
4 1 (9.09%) OpenShift
Communications & Networking
1 1 (9.09%) HTTP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (27.27%) Amazon Aurora
1 3 (27.27%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 3 (27.27%) Cypress.io
2 1 (9.09%) JIRA
General
1 8 (72.73%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Influencing Skills
3 2 (18.18%) Finance
3 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (9.09%) Banking
4 1 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Lead
2 3 (27.27%) Product Manager
2 3 (27.27%) Senior
2 3 (27.27%) Technical Leader
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Manager
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Product Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Agile Delivery Lead
4 1 (9.09%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
4 1 (9.09%) Product Owner
4 1 (9.09%) Senior User Researcher
4 1 (9.09%) User Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (36.36%) AWS CDK
2 3 (27.27%) CSS
2 3 (27.27%) HTML
2 3 (27.27%) React
3 2 (18.18%) Next.js
3 2 (18.18%) REST
4 1 (9.09%) boto
4 1 (9.09%) FastAPI
4 1 (9.09%) Hugging Face
4 1 (9.09%) JWT
4 1 (9.09%) NumPy
4 1 (9.09%) OAuth
4 1 (9.09%) OpenCV
4 1 (9.09%) Pandas
4 1 (9.09%) PyTorch
4 1 (9.09%) Spring
4 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
4 1 (9.09%) SQLAlchemy
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Algorithms
1 1 (9.09%) Cloud Native
1 1 (9.09%) Data Structures
1 1 (9.09%) Legacy Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) Mentoring
2 7 (63.64%) Roadmaps
3 6 (54.55%) Coaching
3 6 (54.55%) Service Design
4 5 (45.45%) Product Roadmap
5 4 (36.36%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (27.27%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 3 (27.27%) Continuous Delivery
6 3 (27.27%) Continuous Improvement
6 3 (27.27%) Infrastructure as Code
6 3 (27.27%) Product Strategy
6 3 (27.27%) Technical Leadership
6 3 (27.27%) User Experience
7 2 (18.18%) Human-Centred Design
7 2 (18.18%) Kanban
7 2 (18.18%) Microservices
7 2 (18.18%) Refactoring
7 2 (18.18%) Scrum
7 2 (18.18%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 4 (36.36%) TypeScript
2 2 (18.18%) JavaScript
3 1 (9.09%) Java
3 1 (9.09%) Python
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Master's Degree
2 1 (9.09%) Postgraduate
2 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (45.45%) Accessibility
2 1 (9.09%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Grafana
2 1 (9.09%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (27.27%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow