Product Operations Contract Job Trends in England

Product Operations (Product Ops)
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Product Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 4 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 546 518 565
Rank change year-on-year -28 +47 +174
Contract jobs citing Product Operations 2 1 4
As % of all contract jobs in England 0.006% 0.003% 0.011%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.007% 0.004% 0.012%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 3
10th Percentile £421 - -
25th Percentile £444 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £493 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -39.19%
75th Percentile £544 - £604
90th Percentile £570 - £682
UK median daily rate £493 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -39.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Product Operations 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 27,869 26,864 33,636
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 89.46% 87.86% 88.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,747 16,503 22,915
10th Percentile £300 £313 £313
25th Percentile £405 £417 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £533
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.50% -3.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,797 957 1,425
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.24 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.24 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +18.90%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.35 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.75 £43.63
% change year-on-year -23.21% -24.93% +24.64%

Product Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Product Operations relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in England.

Product Operations job vacancy trend in England

Product Operations
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Product Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Product Operations

Product Operations
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Operations in England over the 6 months to 4 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Operations in England

Product Operations
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Product Operations.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Product Operations

Product Operations
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 Operations within the England region over the 6 months to 4 December 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 -8 1 £410 - 1
Product Operations
UK

Product Operations
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 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) Drupal
1 1 (50.00%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
1 1 (50.00%) Miro
1 1 (50.00%) Smartsheet
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Operations Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Product Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Product Operations Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) e-Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Learning Management System
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
1 1 (50.00%) SCORM
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) B2B
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (50.00%) Business Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) GAP Analysis
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (50.00%) Product Discovery
1 1 (50.00%) Product Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) QA
1 1 (50.00%) WCAG
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Blackboard