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 31 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
31 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 306 291 295
Rank change year-on-year -15 +4 +44
Contract jobs citing Product Management 247 409 657
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.67% 0.86% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.78% 0.96% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 177 307 472
10th Percentile £393 £381 £413
25th Percentile £450 £462 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £650 £688
90th Percentile £818 £743 £800
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £563
% change year-on-year - -2.22% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 15
10th Percentile - £42.02 £26.89
25th Percentile £26.66 £50.25 £45.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £53.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -5.36% +12.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - £72.05 £56.30
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £53.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year -19.81% -5.36% +12.00%

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 31,587 42,714 64,087
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.77% 89.96% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,623 29,972 45,670
10th Percentile £300 £325 £335
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £543
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +1.38% +8.50%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £767 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,317 1,513 1,726
10th Percentile £12.85 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.50 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year - +50.00% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.54 £25.68
% change year-on-year -0.11% +42.29% +9.46%

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 31 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 31 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 31 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 +15 167 £545 -9.17% 206
North of England +12 20 £525 -4.55% 50
South East -31 18 £600 +14.29% 76
North West +27 17 £518 -5.91% 32
Midlands +22 15 £615 -5.38% 46
South West +8 15 £600 -7.69% 22
West Midlands +16 12 £575 -11.54% 28
Yorkshire -3 3 £525 -4.55% 14
East of England -5 3 - - 23
East Midlands +9 1 £615 -5.38% 18
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 7 (2.83%) Confluence
2 6 (2.43%) Apache
2 6 (2.43%) Apache Airflow
3 5 (2.02%) SharePoint
4 4 (1.62%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.81%) ArcGIS
5 2 (0.81%) CMS
6 1 (0.40%) Alfresco
6 1 (0.40%) Camunda
6 1 (0.40%) LiveLink
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.40%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (2.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 4 (1.62%) MS Visio
3 2 (0.81%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.81%) Microsoft Project
4 1 (0.40%) Adobe Creative Suite
4 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.21%) Loan IQ
2 2 (0.81%) Oracle Applications
2 2 (0.81%) Softmar
3 1 (0.40%) Endur
3 1 (0.40%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.40%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.40%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 35 (14.17%) AWS
2 34 (13.77%) Azure
3 13 (5.26%) GCP
4 10 (4.05%) Power Platform
4 10 (4.05%) SaaS
5 8 (3.24%) dbt
6 4 (1.62%) Azure DevOps
6 4 (1.62%) Cloud Computing
6 4 (1.62%) Nutanix
7 3 (1.21%) Figma
7 3 (1.21%) Serverless
8 2 (0.81%) Entra ID
8 2 (0.81%) GitHub
8 2 (0.81%) Miro
8 2 (0.81%) OCI
8 2 (0.81%) Oracle CX
8 2 (0.81%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (0.40%) Datadog
9 1 (0.40%) OneDrive
9 1 (0.40%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.62%) Cisco Nexus
1 4 (1.62%) VSAN
2 2 (0.81%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.40%) Firewall
3 1 (0.40%) Intranet
3 1 (0.40%) Kerberos
3 1 (0.40%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.40%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (4.05%) Power BI
2 8 (3.24%) Couchbase
3 7 (2.83%) Data Lake
4 6 (2.43%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (2.43%) Apache Arrow
4 6 (2.43%) Apache Ignite
4 6 (2.43%) Dremio
5 4 (1.62%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.21%) PostHog
6 3 (1.21%) Tableau
7 2 (0.81%) GIS
7 2 (0.81%) MySQL
7 2 (0.81%) Oracle Reports
7 2 (0.81%) SQL Server
8 1 (0.40%) Amazon RDS
8 1 (0.40%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.40%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.40%) Metadata
8 1 (0.40%) NoSQL
8 1 (0.40%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 18 (7.29%) JIRA
2 3 (1.21%) Git
3 2 (0.81%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.81%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (0.40%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.40%) GitLab
4 1 (0.40%) Storybook
General
1 75 (30.36%) Social Skills
2 74 (29.96%) Finance
3 44 (17.81%) Analytical Skills
4 29 (11.74%) Marketing
5 21 (8.50%) Front Office
6 20 (8.10%) Public Sector
7 18 (7.29%) Presentation Skills
8 16 (6.48%) Banking
9 15 (6.07%) Influencing Skills
10 9 (3.64%) Investment Banking
10 9 (3.64%) Legal
11 8 (3.24%) Manufacturing
11 8 (3.24%) Retail
12 6 (2.43%) Local Government
12 6 (2.43%) Pharmaceutical
12 6 (2.43%) Telecoms
13 4 (1.62%) Automotive
13 4 (1.62%) Billing
14 3 (1.21%) Games
14 3 (1.21%) Mandarin Language
Job Titles
1 90 (36.44%) Product Manager
2 39 (15.79%) Product Owner
3 37 (14.98%) Analyst
4 34 (13.77%) Business Analyst
5 22 (8.91%) Senior
6 18 (7.29%) Consultant
7 16 (6.48%) Architect
7 16 (6.48%) Developer
7 16 (6.48%) Finance Manager
7 16 (6.48%) Product Analyst
7 16 (6.48%) Product Business Analyst
8 15 (6.07%) Business Manager
9 14 (5.67%) Finance Business Analyst
9 14 (5.67%) Financial Analyst
10 13 (5.26%) Senior Manager
11 12 (4.86%) Senior Product Manager
11 12 (4.86%) Software Engineer
12 10 (4.05%) Data Manager
13 8 (3.24%) Technical Manager
14 7 (2.83%) Software Development Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (4.05%) CSS
1 10 (4.05%) HTML
2 8 (3.24%) Kafka
2 8 (3.24%) React
3 6 (2.43%) gRPC
3 6 (2.43%) NumPy
3 6 (2.43%) Pandas
3 6 (2.43%) Protocol Buffers
3 6 (2.43%) SciPy
4 5 (2.02%) LDAP
5 4 (1.62%) Elastic Stack
5 4 (1.62%) Lucene
5 4 (1.62%) Node.js
5 4 (1.62%) REST
6 3 (1.21%) AngularJS
6 3 (1.21%) Middleware
6 3 (1.21%) OAuth
6 3 (1.21%) Twitter Bootstrap
7 2 (0.81%) DOM
7 2 (0.81%) Express.js
Miscellaneous
1 74 (29.96%) Product Ownership
2 25 (10.12%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 21 (8.50%) Derivative
4 20 (8.10%) Equities
4 20 (8.10%) Fixed Income
4 20 (8.10%) Hedge funds
5 11 (4.45%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.43%) Data Protection Act
7 5 (2.02%) Analytical Mindset
7 5 (2.02%) CMDB
7 5 (2.02%) Distributed Systems
7 5 (2.02%) IoT
7 5 (2.02%) Reference Data
7 5 (2.02%) Self-Motivation
8 4 (1.62%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.62%) Renewable Energy
9 3 (1.21%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.21%) Digital Media
9 3 (1.21%) Public Cloud
9 3 (1.21%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.83%) Linux
2 2 (0.81%) Android
2 2 (0.81%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.81%) Windows
3 1 (0.40%) Unix
3 1 (0.40%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 133 (53.85%) Agile
2 91 (36.84%) Roadmaps
3 50 (20.24%) Analytics
4 46 (18.62%) Product Roadmap
5 45 (18.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 42 (17.00%) Problem-Solving
6 42 (17.00%) Product Strategy
7 40 (16.19%) Scrum
8 33 (13.36%) Decision-Making
9 30 (12.15%) User Stories
10 28 (11.34%) Software Engineering
11 27 (10.93%) Continuous Improvement
11 27 (10.93%) Product Vision
12 26 (10.53%) User Experience
13 24 (9.72%) DevOps
14 23 (9.31%) Data Modelling
15 22 (8.91%) Asset Management
15 22 (8.91%) Computer Science
15 22 (8.91%) Project Management
15 22 (8.91%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 34 (13.77%) Python
2 27 (10.93%) SQL
3 17 (6.88%) Java
3 17 (6.88%) JavaScript
4 11 (4.45%) C++
5 10 (4.05%) TypeScript
6 6 (2.43%) Ruby
6 6 (2.43%) Scala
7 4 (1.62%) Bash
8 3 (1.21%) C
8 3 (1.21%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.40%) C#
9 1 (0.40%) PHP
9 1 (0.40%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.40%) VBA
Qualifications
1 56 (22.67%) Degree
2 33 (13.36%) Security Cleared
3 24 (9.72%) SC Cleared
4 18 (7.29%) Master's Degree
5 10 (4.05%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (3.24%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.43%) MBA
8 5 (2.02%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.62%) CCNP
9 4 (1.62%) PgMP
9 4 (1.62%) PMI Certification
9 4 (1.62%) PMP
10 3 (1.21%) CBAP
11 2 (0.81%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.81%) CSPO
11 2 (0.81%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.81%) PhD
12 1 (0.40%) CCIP
12 1 (0.40%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.86%) QA
2 3 (1.21%) Accessibility
3 2 (0.81%) GDPR
3 2 (0.81%) PCI DSS
3 2 (0.81%) PMO
3 2 (0.81%) SLA
4 1 (0.40%) Def Stans
4 1 (0.40%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.40%) GxP
4 1 (0.40%) ISO 22301
4 1 (0.40%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.40%) NCSC
4 1 (0.40%) NIST
4 1 (0.40%) NIST 800
4 1 (0.40%) PSD2
4 1 (0.40%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (4.05%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (2.43%) Active Directory
3 5 (2.02%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.62%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.62%) KVM
4 4 (1.62%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.62%) vSphere
5 2 (0.81%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (1.62%) vRealize Orchestrator
2 2 (0.81%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.40%) Bugsnag
3 1 (0.40%) CASB
3 1 (0.40%) Matomo
3 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.40%) PingFederate
3 1 (0.40%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.40%) Terraform
3 1 (0.40%) vRealize
Vendors
1 18 (7.29%) Microsoft
2 15 (6.07%) Oracle
3 10 (4.05%) VMware
4 8 (3.24%) Salesforce
5 5 (2.02%) SAP
6 4 (1.62%) Cisco
7 3 (1.21%) Google
7 3 (1.21%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.81%) Adobe
8 2 (0.81%) Amplitude
8 2 (0.81%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.81%) Cadence
8 2 (0.81%) Citrix
8 2 (0.81%) ESRI
8 2 (0.81%) UiPath
8 2 (0.81%) Zoho
9 1 (0.40%) Databricks
9 1 (0.40%) OneTrust
9 1 (0.40%) Ping Identity
9 1 (0.40%) Workday