Product Management Contracts in England

Product Management
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 251 291 282
Rank change year-on-year +40 -9 +20
Contract jobs citing Product Management 233 258 441
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.96% 0.71% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.05% 0.82% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 140 181 317
10th Percentile £356 £400 £363
25th Percentile £414 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £533 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £600 £700 £650
90th Percentile £750 £825 £743
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 9 5 3
10th Percentile £46.25 - £39.28
25th Percentile - £26.66 £43.40
Median hourly rate £50.00 £42.50 £51.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -17.48% -8.04%
75th Percentile £53.75 £68.75 £63.50
90th Percentile £61.50 - £69.95
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £42.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year +17.65% -17.48% -8.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,169 31,438 43,665
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.25% 86.37% 90.08%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,471 20,622 30,640
10th Percentile £306 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £514 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.10% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 963 2,250 1,536
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.92 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.13 £15.96 £16.13
Median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
Median % change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%
75th Percentile £62.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.00 £36.05 £36.00
% change year-on-year -22.32% +0.13% +40.19%

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 20 May 2025.

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 20 May 2025.

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 20 May 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
London +29 150 £563 +2.27% 855
South East +44 21 £495 -13.91% 187
Midlands +22 21 £471 -21.46% 104
North of England +16 21 £450 -14.29% 110
North West +10 12 £450 -13.04% 65
West Midlands +5 12 £500 -9.09% 68
South West +35 9 £425 -33.33% 52
East Midlands +18 9 £450 -26.83% 30
East of England +31 8 £625 - 68
North East - 6 £445 - 11
Yorkshire +17 3 £401 -23.71% 34
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 11 (4.72%) Confluence
2 4 (1.72%) Drupal
3 3 (1.29%) CMS
3 3 (1.29%) nginx
4 2 (0.86%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 2 (0.86%) SharePoint
4 2 (0.86%) Sitecore CMS
4 2 (0.86%) WordPress
5 1 (0.43%) Appian
5 1 (0.43%) IIS
5 1 (0.43%) Jupyter
Applications
1 6 (2.58%) Sketch
2 5 (2.15%) Adobe XD
2 5 (2.15%) MS Visio
2 5 (2.15%) Trello
3 4 (1.72%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Excel
3 4 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.29%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.86%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.43%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.43%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 23 (9.87%) Azure
2 20 (8.58%) SaaS
3 14 (6.01%) AWS
4 8 (3.43%) Azure DevOps
4 8 (3.43%) Microsoft 365
5 7 (3.00%) Figma
6 6 (2.58%) Power Platform
7 5 (2.15%) GCP
8 4 (1.72%) Copilot Studio
9 3 (1.29%) Serverless
10 2 (0.86%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.86%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.86%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.86%) IaaS
10 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Copilot
11 1 (0.43%) Azure Key Vault
11 1 (0.43%) Power Automate
11 1 (0.43%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.43%) Smartsheet
11 1 (0.43%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 7 (3.00%) Firewall
2 6 (2.58%) Network Security
3 5 (2.15%) BGP
3 5 (2.15%) DNS
3 5 (2.15%) IPsec
3 5 (2.15%) OSPF
3 5 (2.15%) SD-WAN
3 5 (2.15%) SSL
3 5 (2.15%) VPN
3 5 (2.15%) Wireless
4 4 (1.72%) Internet
4 4 (1.72%) VLAN
5 3 (1.29%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (1.29%) DMZ
5 3 (1.29%) DWDM
5 3 (1.29%) L2TP
5 3 (1.29%) MPLS
5 3 (1.29%) Multicast
5 3 (1.29%) WAN
5 3 (1.29%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (2.15%) Power BI
2 4 (1.72%) SQL Server
3 2 (0.86%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.86%) Tableau
4 1 (0.43%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.43%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.43%) GIS
4 1 (0.43%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.43%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 21 (9.01%) JIRA
2 6 (2.58%) Selenium
3 4 (1.72%) Appium
3 4 (1.72%) JUnit
4 3 (1.29%) GitLab
5 2 (0.86%) SpecFlow
6 1 (0.43%) Balsamiq
6 1 (0.43%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.43%) Jenkins
General
1 103 (44.21%) Social Skills
2 81 (34.76%) Finance
3 59 (25.32%) Analytical Skills
4 37 (15.88%) Retail
5 34 (14.59%) Public Sector
6 25 (10.73%) Marketing
7 15 (6.44%) Banking
7 15 (6.44%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (5.58%) Front Office
8 13 (5.58%) Legal
9 12 (5.15%) Financial Institution
10 10 (4.29%) Manufacturing
11 9 (3.86%) Telecoms
12 7 (3.00%) Local Government
13 6 (2.58%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (2.58%) Influencing Skills
14 5 (2.15%) Military
15 4 (1.72%) Documentation Skills
16 3 (1.29%) Advertising
16 3 (1.29%) Aerospace
Job Titles
1 91 (39.06%) Product Manager
2 34 (14.59%) Business Analyst
3 32 (13.73%) Analyst
3 32 (13.73%) Senior
4 25 (10.73%) Product Owner
5 24 (10.30%) Senior Manager
6 21 (9.01%) Senior Product Manager
7 18 (7.73%) Lead
8 10 (4.29%) Front Office Business Analyst
9 9 (3.86%) Architect
9 9 (3.86%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
9 9 (3.86%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
10 8 (3.43%) Product Analyst
11 7 (3.00%) Designer
12 6 (2.58%) Product Lead
12 6 (2.58%) Project Manager
13 5 (2.15%) Operations Manager
13 5 (2.15%) Product Business Analyst
13 5 (2.15%) UX Designer
14 4 (1.72%) Digital Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (3.00%) CSS
1 7 (3.00%) HTML
2 4 (1.72%) React
3 3 (1.29%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.86%) .NET
4 2 (0.86%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.86%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.86%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (0.86%) REST
5 1 (0.43%) ATL
5 1 (0.43%) Classic ASP
5 1 (0.43%) EDI
5 1 (0.43%) Elastic Stack
5 1 (0.43%) Kafka
5 1 (0.43%) NumPy
5 1 (0.43%) Pandas
5 1 (0.43%) RESTful
5 1 (0.43%) scikit-learn
5 1 (0.43%) SOAP
5 1 (0.43%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 40 (17.17%) Product Ownership
2 9 (3.86%) Analytical Mindset
2 9 (3.86%) Fixed Income
3 8 (3.43%) Data Protection Act
4 6 (2.58%) Mobile App
5 5 (2.15%) Management Information System
6 4 (1.72%) Onboarding
7 3 (1.29%) Data Centre
7 3 (1.29%) FMCG
7 3 (1.29%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.86%) Digital Media
8 2 (0.86%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.86%) Hybrid Cloud
9 1 (0.43%) Algorithms
9 1 (0.43%) Data Structures
9 1 (0.43%) iPad
9 1 (0.43%) Learning Management System
9 1 (0.43%) Over-the-Top Content
9 1 (0.43%) Private Cloud
9 1 (0.43%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.86%) Android
1 2 (0.86%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.43%) Unix
2 1 (0.43%) Windows
2 1 (0.43%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 127 (54.51%) Agile
2 88 (37.77%) Roadmaps
3 63 (27.04%) Problem-Solving
4 53 (22.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 49 (21.03%) Business Analysis
5 49 (21.03%) Product Roadmap
6 41 (17.60%) Product Strategy
7 37 (15.88%) Continuous Improvement
7 37 (15.88%) Project Management
8 33 (14.16%) Decision-Making
9 28 (12.02%) Product Vision
10 27 (11.59%) Scrum
10 27 (11.59%) User Experience
11 26 (11.16%) Backlog Prioritisation
11 26 (11.16%) Product Backlog
12 24 (10.30%) Change Management
13 23 (9.87%) Analytics
13 23 (9.87%) DevOps
13 23 (9.87%) User Stories
14 20 (8.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 13 (5.58%) SQL
2 10 (4.29%) Python
3 7 (3.00%) JavaScript
4 5 (2.15%) C#
4 5 (2.15%) Java
4 5 (2.15%) PowerShell
5 3 (1.29%) Perl
6 2 (0.86%) PHP
7 1 (0.43%) Apex Code
7 1 (0.43%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 44 (18.88%) Degree
2 25 (10.73%) Security Cleared
3 21 (9.01%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.43%) Master's Degree
5 6 (2.58%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.29%) CCIE
6 3 (1.29%) CCNP
6 3 (1.29%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.29%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.86%) APMP
7 2 (0.86%) CBAP
7 2 (0.86%) ISEB
7 2 (0.86%) MBA
7 2 (0.86%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.43%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.43%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.43%) MCP
8 1 (0.43%) OSCP
8 1 (0.43%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (4.29%) QA
2 9 (3.86%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.29%) MiFID
4 2 (0.86%) Def Stans
4 2 (0.86%) GDPR
5 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.43%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.43%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.43%) JSP 440
System Software
1 6 (2.58%) Docker
1 6 (2.58%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (0.43%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (0.43%) Virtual Machines
2 1 (0.43%) VMware NSX
2 1 (0.43%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (1.72%) Ansible
2 3 (1.29%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.86%) Nagios
3 2 (0.86%) Terraform
4 1 (0.43%) Plesk
4 1 (0.43%) Puppet
4 1 (0.43%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 23 (9.87%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.29%) Salesforce
2 10 (4.29%) SAP
3 9 (3.86%) ION Trading
4 8 (3.43%) Adobe
5 7 (3.00%) Cisco
6 6 (2.58%) VMware
7 5 (2.15%) Arista
7 5 (2.15%) Google
8 3 (1.29%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.29%) McAfee
8 3 (1.29%) Splunk
9 2 (0.86%) Databricks
9 2 (0.86%) Juniper
9 2 (0.86%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.86%) Sitecore
9 2 (0.86%) SolarWinds
9 2 (0.86%) TOWER Software
10 1 (0.43%) Snow
10 1 (0.43%) Workday