Product Management Contracts in England

Product Management
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Product Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Management over the 6 months to 12 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
12 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 298 286 308
Rank change year-on-year -12 +22 +45
Contract jobs citing Product Management 262 446 640
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.71% 0.91% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.82% 1.01% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 185 319 454
10th Percentile £406 £364 £409
25th Percentile £450 £459 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.33% +4.35% +14.89%
75th Percentile £698 £650 £675
90th Percentile £820 £743 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 17
10th Percentile - £39.28 £31.35
25th Percentile £26.66 £43.40 £49.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £51.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% -8.04% +12.70%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.50 -
90th Percentile - £69.95 £65.50
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £51.50 £56.00
% change year-on-year -17.48% -8.04% +13.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Product Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,802 44,352 63,890
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.49% 90.16% 90.81%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,831 31,133 45,414
10th Percentile £300 £325 £331
25th Percentile £413 £446 £428
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £765 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.48%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,249 1,562 1,738
10th Percentile £12.91 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.18 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -0.38% +49.28% +6.38%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +4.82%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Management in England

Product Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Product Management in England

Product Management
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Management in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Management in England

Product Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Management in England.

Hourly rate trend for Product Management in England

Product Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in England

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Product Management in England over the 6 months to 12 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Management in England

Product Management
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 12 May 2024. 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
London +7 176 £550 -8.33% 176
North of England +5 21 £538 -2.27% 51
South East -25 20 £575 +9.52% 74
North West +26 18 £550 -8.33% 32
Midlands +21 14 £600 -7.69% 31
South West +11 14 £638 -1.92% 10
West Midlands +8 11 £550 -15.38% 23
Yorkshire +1 3 £525 -4.55% 16
East of England -5 3 - - 29
East Midlands +17 1 £615 -5.38% 8
Product Management
UK

Product Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 9 (3.44%) Confluence
2 6 (2.29%) Apache
2 6 (2.29%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (1.91%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.53%) IBM Domino
5 3 (1.15%) CMS
6 2 (0.76%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.38%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.29%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (2.29%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.76%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.76%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.76%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.38%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (3.44%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (1.15%) Endur
2 3 (1.15%) Loan IQ
3 2 (0.76%) Softmar
4 1 (0.38%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.38%) Payment Gateway
4 1 (0.38%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.38%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.38%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.38%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 37 (14.12%) Azure
2 36 (13.74%) AWS
3 14 (5.34%) GCP
4 11 (4.20%) SaaS
5 9 (3.44%) OCI
5 9 (3.44%) Oracle CX
5 9 (3.44%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
6 8 (3.05%) dbt
6 8 (3.05%) Power Platform
7 6 (2.29%) Cloud Computing
8 5 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
8 5 (1.91%) Serverless
9 4 (1.53%) Nutanix
10 3 (1.15%) Figma
10 3 (1.15%) Miro
10 3 (1.15%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.76%) Entra ID
11 2 (0.76%) GitHub
11 2 (0.76%) Microsoft 365
11 2 (0.76%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.53%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (1.53%) VSAN
2 2 (0.76%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.38%) Firewall
3 1 (0.38%) HTTP
3 1 (0.38%) Intranet
3 1 (0.38%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.44%) Oracle Reports
2 8 (3.05%) Couchbase
2 8 (3.05%) Power BI
3 7 (2.67%) Data Lake
4 6 (2.29%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (2.29%) Apache Arrow
4 6 (2.29%) Apache Ignite
4 6 (2.29%) Dremio
5 4 (1.53%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.15%) PostgreSQL
6 3 (1.15%) PostHog
7 2 (0.76%) Data Mart
7 2 (0.76%) GIS
7 2 (0.76%) MySQL
7 2 (0.76%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.38%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.38%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.38%) Metadata
8 1 (0.38%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.38%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (7.25%) JIRA
2 3 (1.15%) Git
3 2 (0.76%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.76%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (0.38%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.38%) GitLab
4 1 (0.38%) Storybook
General
1 80 (30.53%) Social Skills
2 71 (27.10%) Finance
3 43 (16.41%) Analytical Skills
4 31 (11.83%) Marketing
5 20 (7.63%) Front Office
6 19 (7.25%) Public Sector
7 18 (6.87%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (6.11%) Banking
9 12 (4.58%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (3.82%) Investment Banking
11 9 (3.44%) Legal
12 8 (3.05%) Retail
13 7 (2.67%) Local Government
13 7 (2.67%) Manufacturing
13 7 (2.67%) Pharmaceutical
14 6 (2.29%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.53%) Automotive
15 4 (1.53%) Billing
16 3 (1.15%) Advertising
16 3 (1.15%) Games
Job Titles
1 90 (34.35%) Product Manager
2 40 (15.27%) Product Owner
3 38 (14.50%) Analyst
4 36 (13.74%) Business Analyst
5 24 (9.16%) Senior
6 20 (7.63%) Consultant
7 17 (6.49%) Architect
8 16 (6.11%) Developer
9 15 (5.73%) Finance Manager
9 15 (5.73%) Product Analyst
9 15 (5.73%) Product Business Analyst
10 14 (5.34%) Business Manager
10 14 (5.34%) Senior Manager
11 13 (4.96%) Finance Business Analyst
11 13 (4.96%) Financial Analyst
11 13 (4.96%) Senior Product Manager
12 12 (4.58%) Software Engineer
13 11 (4.20%) Technical Manager
14 10 (3.82%) Lead
15 9 (3.44%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.20%) CSS
1 11 (4.20%) HTML
2 8 (3.05%) Kafka
2 8 (3.05%) React
3 6 (2.29%) gRPC
3 6 (2.29%) NumPy
3 6 (2.29%) Pandas
3 6 (2.29%) Protocol Buffers
3 6 (2.29%) SciPy
4 5 (1.91%) LDAP
4 5 (1.91%) Node.js
4 5 (1.91%) REST
5 4 (1.53%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.53%) Lucene
5 4 (1.53%) OAuth
6 3 (1.15%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.15%) Middleware
6 3 (1.15%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 2 (0.76%) DOM
7 2 (0.76%) SAML
Miscellaneous
1 81 (30.92%) Product Ownership
2 25 (9.54%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 21 (8.02%) Derivative
4 19 (7.25%) Equities
4 19 (7.25%) Fixed Income
4 19 (7.25%) Hedge funds
5 11 (4.20%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.29%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (1.91%) CMDB
7 5 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (1.91%) Reference Data
7 5 (1.91%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (1.91%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.53%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.53%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.53%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.15%) Digital Media
9 3 (1.15%) IoT
9 3 (1.15%) Social Media
9 3 (1.15%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.67%) Linux
2 2 (0.76%) Android
2 2 (0.76%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.76%) Windows
3 1 (0.38%) Unix
3 1 (0.38%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 132 (50.38%) Agile
2 91 (34.73%) Roadmaps
3 49 (18.70%) Analytics
4 47 (17.94%) Stakeholder Management
5 46 (17.56%) Product Roadmap
6 45 (17.18%) Problem-Solving
7 42 (16.03%) Scrum
8 39 (14.89%) Product Strategy
9 35 (13.36%) Decision-Making
10 30 (11.45%) Product Vision
10 30 (11.45%) Software Engineering
11 28 (10.69%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (10.69%) Project Management
11 28 (10.69%) User Experience
12 27 (10.31%) User Stories
13 22 (8.40%) Asset Management
13 22 (8.40%) Mentoring
13 22 (8.40%) Strategic Roadmap
14 21 (8.02%) Business Case
14 21 (8.02%) Product Backlog
Programming Languages
1 32 (12.21%) Python
2 23 (8.78%) SQL
3 18 (6.87%) Java
4 17 (6.49%) JavaScript
5 11 (4.20%) C++
6 10 (3.82%) TypeScript
7 7 (2.67%) Ruby
8 6 (2.29%) Scala
9 4 (1.53%) Bash
10 3 (1.15%) C
10 3 (1.15%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 2 (0.76%) C#
11 2 (0.76%) PHP
12 1 (0.38%) PowerShell
12 1 (0.38%) VBA
Qualifications
1 57 (21.76%) Degree
2 30 (11.45%) Security Cleared
3 21 (8.02%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.87%) Master's Degree
5 8 (3.05%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (3.05%) DV Cleared
6 6 (2.29%) MBA
7 5 (1.91%) Cisco Certification
8 4 (1.53%) CCNP
8 4 (1.53%) PgMP
8 4 (1.53%) PMI Certification
8 4 (1.53%) PMP
9 3 (1.15%) CBAP
10 2 (0.76%) Azure Certification
10 2 (0.76%) CSPO
10 2 (0.76%) DBS Check
10 2 (0.76%) PhD
11 1 (0.38%) CCIP
11 1 (0.38%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.96%) QA
2 3 (1.15%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.76%) GDPR
3 2 (0.76%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.76%) PMO
4 1 (0.38%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.38%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.38%) GxP
4 1 (0.38%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.38%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.38%) NCSC
4 1 (0.38%) NIST
4 1 (0.38%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.38%) PSD2
4 1 (0.38%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (3.82%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.29%) Active Directory
3 5 (1.91%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.53%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.53%) KVM
4 4 (1.53%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.53%) vSphere
5 2 (0.76%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.53%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 3 (1.15%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.38%) Bugsnag
3 1 (0.38%) CASB
3 1 (0.38%) Matomo
3 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.38%) Nessus
3 1 (0.38%) PingFederate
3 1 (0.38%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.38%) Terraform
3 1 (0.38%) vRealize
Vendors
1 23 (8.78%) Oracle
2 19 (7.25%) Microsoft
3 11 (4.20%) VMware
4 8 (3.05%) SAP
5 5 (1.91%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.53%) Cisco
7 3 (1.15%) Google
8 2 (0.76%) Adobe
8 2 (0.76%) Amplitude
8 2 (0.76%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.76%) Citrix
8 2 (0.76%) ESRI
8 2 (0.76%) Murex
8 2 (0.76%) UiPath
8 2 (0.76%) Zoho
9 1 (0.38%) Databricks
9 1 (0.38%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.38%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.38%) Splunk
9 1 (0.38%) Workday