Product Manager Contract Job Trends in England

Product Manager
UK > England

The median Product Manager daily rate in England is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 January 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 323 262 368
Rank change year-on-year -61 +106 -46
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 232 228 201
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.74% 0.86% 0.55%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.92% 0.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 179 151 161
10th Percentile £396 £410 £409
25th Percentile £431 £463 £478
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +2.13%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £700
90th Percentile £715 £775 £800
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -2.13%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £51.75
25th Percentile - - £52.50
Median hourly rate - - £55.00
75th Percentile - - £57.50
90th Percentile - - £58.25
UK median hourly rate - - £55.00
% change year-on-year - - +47.55%

All Contract IT Job Roles
England

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in 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 England with a recognized job title 28,680 24,687 33,875
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.56% 92.87% 93.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,294 15,278 23,057
10th Percentile £300 £300 £275
25th Percentile £406 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,747 749 1,537
10th Percentile £14.41 £15.73 £14.16
25th Percentile £18.50 £21.25 £19.05
Median hourly rate £27.50 £35.00 £43.50
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% -19.54% +24.29%
75th Percentile £61.25 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.83 £74.77 £76.25
UK median hourly rate £26.50 £32.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -18.46% -23.53% +26.87%

Product Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in 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 England.

Product Manager job vacancy trend in England

Product Manager
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Product Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Manager in England over the 6 months to 13 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Manager in England

Product Manager
Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

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

Product Manager
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 Manager within the England region over the 6 months to 13 January 2026. 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 -57 152 £550 -8.33% 33
North of England -30 36 £468 -5.32% 15
North East +8 19 £450 +0.56% 3
South East -19 15 £425 -1.73% 30
Midlands -41 12 £415 -19.07% 7
Yorkshire -35 10 £525 -5.62% 9
North West -22 8 £475 +3.83% 3
East Midlands -14 6 £378 -8.48% 1
South West -16 6 £525 +28.21% 2
West Midlands -36 6 £628 +11.56% 6
East of England -15 3 £650 - 4
Product Manager
UK

Product Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in England

For the 6 months to 13 January 2026, 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 England region featuring Product Manager in the job title.

1 128 (55.17%) Roadmaps
2 119 (51.29%) Agile
3 106 (45.69%) Product Management
4 70 (30.17%) Product Roadmap
5 68 (29.31%) Product Strategy
6 61 (26.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 58 (25.00%) Product Vision
8 41 (17.67%) AI
9 36 (15.52%) Decision-Making
10 32 (13.79%) Product Backlog
11 30 (12.93%) Security Cleared
12 28 (12.07%) Scrum
13 27 (11.64%) User Stories
14 26 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
15 25 (10.78%) Analytics
15 25 (10.78%) Backlog Management
15 25 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
15 25 (10.78%) Strategic Roadmap
16 24 (10.34%) Fintech
16 24 (10.34%) SC Cleared
16 24 (10.34%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
17 21 (9.05%) Backlog Prioritisation
17 21 (9.05%) Machine Learning
17 21 (9.05%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 21 (9.05%) User Experience
18 20 (8.62%) Data Science
19 19 (8.19%) Scaled Agile Framework
20 18 (7.76%) Customer Experience
21 17 (7.33%) Product Requirements
21 17 (7.33%) User Research

Product Manager Skill Set
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in 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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (3.45%) Confluence
2 5 (2.16%) Apache Airflow
3 3 (1.29%) PowerFactory
4 2 (0.86%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (2.16%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.43%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.72%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.86%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.86%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.43%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.43%) Shopify
3 1 (0.43%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 13 (5.60%) SaaS
2 6 (2.59%) AWS
2 6 (2.59%) dbt
2 6 (2.59%) GCP
3 4 (1.72%) Azure
4 3 (1.29%) IaaS
4 3 (1.29%) Microsoft 365
4 3 (1.29%) Microsoft Copilot
4 3 (1.29%) PaaS
4 3 (1.29%) Power Platform
4 3 (1.29%) Vertex AI
5 2 (0.86%) Alation
5 2 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (0.86%) Fivetran
5 2 (0.86%) Microsoft Purview
5 2 (0.86%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.43%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (0.43%) Miro
6 1 (0.43%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.29%) Firewall
2 2 (0.86%) ISDN
2 2 (0.86%) OpenScape
3 1 (0.43%) Internet
3 1 (0.43%) Network Security
3 1 (0.43%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.43%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (3.02%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (2.16%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.29%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.86%) Power BI
4 2 (0.86%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.86%) Tableau
5 1 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.43%) Looker
Development Applications
1 13 (5.60%) JIRA
2 3 (1.29%) MLflow
General
1 89 (38.36%) Social Skills
2 60 (25.86%) Finance
3 45 (19.40%) Public Sector
4 33 (14.22%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (9.48%) Banking
6 19 (8.19%) Marketing
6 19 (8.19%) Retail
7 16 (6.90%) Legal
8 10 (4.31%) Influencing Skills
9 7 (3.02%) Investment Banking
10 5 (2.16%) Advertising
11 4 (1.72%) Digital Health
11 4 (1.72%) Front Office
11 4 (1.72%) Pharmaceutical
11 4 (1.72%) Presentation Skills
12 3 (1.29%) Automotive
12 3 (1.29%) Local Government
13 2 (0.86%) Billing
13 2 (0.86%) Military
13 2 (0.86%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.86%) Flash
1 2 (0.86%) React
2 1 (0.43%) HTML
2 1 (0.43%) HTML5
2 1 (0.43%) Hugging Face
2 1 (0.43%) OAuth
2 1 (0.43%) OAuth2
2 1 (0.43%) OpenID
2 1 (0.43%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 39 (16.81%) Product Ownership
2 10 (4.31%) Analytical Mindset
2 10 (4.31%) Derivative
3 8 (3.45%) Mobile App
4 7 (3.02%) Onboarding
5 5 (2.16%) Digital Media
6 4 (1.72%) Cloud Native
6 4 (1.72%) Data Protection Act
6 4 (1.72%) IoT
6 4 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
6 4 (1.72%) Virtual Team
7 3 (1.29%) AI Agents
7 3 (1.29%) Blockchain
7 3 (1.29%) Data Structures
7 3 (1.29%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
7 3 (1.29%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.29%) NHS
8 2 (0.86%) Handset
8 2 (0.86%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.86%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.43%) Android
1 1 (0.43%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 128 (55.17%) Roadmaps
2 119 (51.29%) Agile
3 106 (45.69%) Product Management
4 70 (30.17%) Product Roadmap
5 68 (29.31%) Product Strategy
6 61 (26.29%) Stakeholder Management
7 58 (25.00%) Product Vision
8 41 (17.67%) AI
9 36 (15.52%) Decision-Making
10 32 (13.79%) Product Backlog
11 28 (12.07%) Scrum
12 27 (11.64%) User Stories
13 26 (11.21%) Continuous Improvement
14 25 (10.78%) Analytics
14 25 (10.78%) Backlog Management
14 25 (10.78%) Problem-Solving
14 25 (10.78%) Strategic Roadmap
15 24 (10.34%) Fintech
15 24 (10.34%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
16 21 (9.05%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 6 (2.59%) SQL
2 1 (0.43%) Java
2 1 (0.43%) JavaScript
2 1 (0.43%) Korn
2 1 (0.43%) MATLAB
2 1 (0.43%) Python
Qualifications
1 30 (12.93%) Security Cleared
2 24 (10.34%) SC Cleared
3 12 (5.17%) Degree
4 4 (1.72%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.29%) CSPO
5 3 (1.29%) DV Cleared
5 3 (1.29%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.29%) MBA
6 1 (0.43%) APMP
6 1 (0.43%) CCNA
6 1 (0.43%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.43%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.43%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (3.88%) QA
2 5 (2.16%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.72%) GDPR
4 3 (1.29%) Data Quality
4 3 (1.29%) NCSC
5 2 (0.86%) GRC
6 1 (0.43%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.43%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.43%) NIST
6 1 (0.43%) SOC 2
System Software
1 1 (0.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 3 (1.29%) Kubeflow
2 1 (0.43%) Kubernetes
2 1 (0.43%) Terraform
Vendors
1 13 (5.60%) Microsoft
2 10 (4.31%) Salesforce
3 4 (1.72%) Palo Alto
4 3 (1.29%) Fortinet
4 3 (1.29%) Google
5 2 (0.86%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.86%) Avature
5 2 (0.86%) DIgSILENT
5 2 (0.86%) Mitel
5 2 (0.86%) OpenAI
5 2 (0.86%) Oracle
5 2 (0.86%) SAP
5 2 (0.86%) ServiceNow
6 1 (0.43%) Bloomberg
6 1 (0.43%) Databricks
6 1 (0.43%) FXall
6 1 (0.43%) OneLogin
6 1 (0.43%) OneTrust
6 1 (0.43%) Spotify
6 1 (0.43%) Zscaler