Product Manager Contracts in London

Product Manager
England > London

The median Product Manager daily rate in London is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 5 June 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
5 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 236 246 234
Rank change year-on-year +10 -12 +69
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 117 148 274
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.97% 0.85% 1.08%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.03% 0.91% 1.14%
Number of daily rates quoted 83 123 206
10th Percentile £360 £406 £419
25th Percentile £466 £491 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £615 £575
Median % change year-on-year -14.63% +6.96% -2.54%
75th Percentile £600 £747 £638
90th Percentile £686 £800 £688
England median daily rate £513 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -14.58% +9.09% -4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile £47.88 - £52.98
25th Percentile £48.44 £66.25 £55.19
Median hourly rate £50.75 £67.50 £60.25
Median % change year-on-year -24.81% +12.03% +41.76%
75th Percentile £52.94 £68.75 £65.19
90th Percentile £53.43 - £67.33
England median hourly rate £52.50 £67.50 £46.28
% change year-on-year -22.22% +45.87% +8.88%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
London

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in London. 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 London with a recognized job title 11,318 16,336 24,134
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.51% 93.61% 95.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,659 11,779 17,611
10th Percentile £350 £325 £363
25th Percentile £425 £440 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year - -4.35% -
75th Percentile £675 £680 £700
90th Percentile £800 £800 £800
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 325 275
10th Percentile £20.24 £16.00 £17.69
25th Percentile £24.66 £20.22 £22.57
Median hourly rate £32.00 £27.81 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +15.07% -22.75% +2.86%
75th Percentile £50.00 £46.86 £63.75
90th Percentile £63.10 £67.60 £81.35
England median hourly rate £29.17 £37.75 £45.00
% change year-on-year -22.73% -16.11% +88.21%

Product Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Job postings that featured Product Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in London.

Job vacancy trend for Product Manager in London

Product Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Manager in London.

Daily rate trend for Product Manager in London

Product Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Manager in London over the 6 months to 5 June 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Manager in London

Product Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Manager in London.

Hourly rate trend for Product Manager in London

Product Manager
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 5 June 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
Central London -1 14 £600 -2.64% 33
South London +5 1 £585 -
East London - 1 £300 - 4
Product Manager
England

Product Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London

For the 6 months to 5 June 2025, Product Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the London region featuring Product Manager in the job title.

1 56 (47.86%) Product Management
2 55 (47.01%) Roadmaps
3 50 (42.74%) Agile
4 38 (32.48%) Social Skills
5 36 (30.77%) Product Roadmap
6 30 (25.64%) Stakeholder Management
7 27 (23.08%) Product Strategy
8 25 (21.37%) Finance
8 25 (21.37%) Retail
9 22 (18.80%) Marketing
10 20 (17.09%) Analytical Skills
11 18 (15.38%) Product Vision
11 18 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
11 18 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
12 17 (14.53%) User Experience
12 17 (14.53%) Customer Experience
13 15 (12.82%) Decision-Making
13 15 (12.82%) JIRA
13 15 (12.82%) Project Management
14 14 (11.97%) Analytics
15 13 (11.11%) Banking
16 11 (9.40%) User Stories
17 10 (8.55%) Mobile App
17 10 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
17 10 (8.55%) Product Backlog
17 10 (8.55%) E-Commerce
18 9 (7.69%) Product Ownership
19 8 (6.84%) Legal
19 8 (6.84%) Product Marketing
19 8 (6.84%) Strategic Roadmap

Product Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 6 (5.13%) Confluence
2 3 (2.56%) Apache Airflow
2 3 (2.56%) CMS
3 2 (1.71%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 2 (1.71%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.85%) ArcGIS
4 1 (0.85%) Headless CMS
Applications
1 5 (4.27%) Trello
2 1 (0.85%) Adobe XD
2 1 (0.85%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 1 (0.85%) Adobe Campaign
Cloud Services
1 7 (5.98%) Azure
2 5 (4.27%) Power Platform
3 4 (3.42%) SaaS
4 3 (2.56%) AWS
4 3 (2.56%) dbt
4 3 (2.56%) GCP
4 3 (2.56%) Vertex AI
5 2 (1.71%) Figma
6 1 (0.85%) Adobe Creative Cloud
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon ECS
6 1 (0.85%) Amazon EKS
6 1 (0.85%) Azure DevOps
6 1 (0.85%) Azure Monitor
6 1 (0.85%) Contentful
6 1 (0.85%) Entra ID
6 1 (0.85%) Miro
6 1 (0.85%) PaaS
6 1 (0.85%) Power Automate
6 1 (0.85%) PowerApps
6 1 (0.85%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 2 (1.71%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.85%) Internet
2 1 (0.85%) Intranet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (2.56%) BigQuery
1 3 (2.56%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (2.56%) Power BI
2 1 (0.85%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (0.85%) Data Lake
2 1 (0.85%) GIS
2 1 (0.85%) Metadata
2 1 (0.85%) MongoDB
2 1 (0.85%) Semantic Layer
2 1 (0.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 15 (12.82%) JIRA
2 3 (2.56%) MLflow
3 1 (0.85%) Rational DOORS
General
1 38 (32.48%) Social Skills
2 25 (21.37%) Finance
2 25 (21.37%) Retail
3 22 (18.80%) Marketing
4 20 (17.09%) Analytical Skills
5 13 (11.11%) Banking
6 8 (6.84%) Legal
7 5 (4.27%) Influencing Skills
7 5 (4.27%) Retail Banking
8 4 (3.42%) Advertising
8 4 (3.42%) Public Sector
9 3 (2.56%) Local Government
10 2 (1.71%) Automotive
10 2 (1.71%) Presentation Skills
10 2 (1.71%) Publishing
11 1 (0.85%) Back Office
11 1 (0.85%) Financial Institution
11 1 (0.85%) Manufacturing
11 1 (0.85%) Pharmaceutical
11 1 (0.85%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (0.85%) CSS
1 1 (0.85%) HTML
1 1 (0.85%) Kafka
1 1 (0.85%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 10 (8.55%) Mobile App
2 9 (7.69%) Product Ownership
3 5 (4.27%) Digital Media
3 5 (4.27%) Marketing Technology
4 4 (3.42%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (2.56%) Cloud Native
5 3 (2.56%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.71%) Digital Wallet
6 2 (1.71%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.71%) Life Science
6 2 (1.71%) Onboarding
6 2 (1.71%) PMI
6 2 (1.71%) Social Media
7 1 (0.85%) CMDB
7 1 (0.85%) Cyber Threat
7 1 (0.85%) FMCG
7 1 (0.85%) Management Information System
7 1 (0.85%) Mobile Banking
7 1 (0.85%) Online Banking
7 1 (0.85%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.85%) Android
1 1 (0.85%) Apple iOS
1 1 (0.85%) Linux
1 1 (0.85%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (47.86%) Product Management
2 55 (47.01%) Roadmaps
3 50 (42.74%) Agile
4 36 (30.77%) Product Roadmap
5 30 (25.64%) Stakeholder Management
6 27 (23.08%) Product Strategy
7 18 (15.38%) Artificial Intelligence
7 18 (15.38%) Problem-Solving
7 18 (15.38%) Product Vision
8 17 (14.53%) Customer Experience
8 17 (14.53%) User Experience
9 15 (12.82%) Decision-Making
9 15 (12.82%) Project Management
10 14 (11.97%) Analytics
11 11 (9.40%) User Stories
12 10 (8.55%) Continuous Improvement
12 10 (8.55%) E-Commerce
12 10 (8.55%) Product Backlog
13 8 (6.84%) Product Marketing
13 8 (6.84%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 4 (3.42%) SQL
2 1 (0.85%) C++
2 1 (0.85%) Java
2 1 (0.85%) JavaScript
2 1 (0.85%) Kotlin
2 1 (0.85%) Python
2 1 (0.85%) Rust
Qualifications
1 6 (5.13%) Degree
1 6 (5.13%) SC Cleared
1 6 (5.13%) Security Cleared
2 3 (2.56%) PMI Certification
3 2 (1.71%) CSPO
4 1 (0.85%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
4 1 (0.85%) Master's Degree
4 1 (0.85%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (1.71%) PSD2
2 1 (0.85%) Accessibility
2 1 (0.85%) MiFID
2 1 (0.85%) SLA
System Software
1 1 (0.85%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (0.85%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (2.56%) Kubeflow
2 1 (0.85%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (5.98%) Microsoft
2 5 (4.27%) Adobe
3 4 (3.42%) Salesforce
4 3 (2.56%) Cisco
4 3 (2.56%) Logitech
4 3 (2.56%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.71%) OneTrust
5 2 (1.71%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.85%) Alibaba
6 1 (0.85%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.85%) ESRI
6 1 (0.85%) Google
6 1 (0.85%) Hitachi
6 1 (0.85%) Oracle