Product Management Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Product Management
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Product Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 3 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 82 75 96
Rank change year-on-year -7 +21 +29
Contract jobs citing Product Management 4 7 12
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.40% 0.60% 0.72%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.45% 0.68% 0.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 12
10th Percentile £456 £336 £239
25th Percentile £488 £345 £254
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £400 £314
Median % change year-on-year +28.13% +27.49% -48.35%
75th Percentile £539 £475 £522
90th Percentile £576 - £589
North West median daily rate £455 £518 £350
% change year-on-year -12.08% +47.86% -42.39%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Manchester

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 Manchester.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 895 1,022 1,472
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 89.68% 87.13% 87.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 580 589 1,062
10th Percentile £302 £313 £270
25th Percentile £395 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.62% -2.50% -
75th Percentile £588 £588 £594
90th Percentile £678 £675 £675
North West median daily rate £450 £488 £500
% change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 67 35 61
10th Percentile £15.49 £15.95 £15.72
25th Percentile £18.97 £23.68 £16.29
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £19.00
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +84.21% -5.61%
75th Percentile £35.50 £63.75 £43.75
90th Percentile £64.25 £85.60 £70.00
North West median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £35.00
% change year-on-year -40.84% +21.43% +50.21%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Product Management job vacancy trend in Manchester

Product Management
Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Product Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Manchester citing Product Management

Product Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Management in Manchester over the 6 months to 3 October 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Management in Manchester

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Manchester 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 (25.00%) Apache
1 1 (25.00%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (50.00%) AWS
1 2 (50.00%) SaaS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon Bedrock
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EC2
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon ECS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 1 (25.00%) Amazon SageMaker
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Fargate
2 1 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 1 (25.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (25.00%) Serverless
2 1 (25.00%) Snowflake
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (25.00%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (25.00%) DynamoDB
1 1 (25.00%) NoSQL
1 1 (25.00%) Power BI
General
1 2 (50.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (25.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 3 (75.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Integration Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Lead
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Leader
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (25.00%) Node.js
1 1 (25.00%) React
1 1 (25.00%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (100.00%) Agile
2 3 (75.00%) Roadmaps
3 2 (50.00%) B2B
3 2 (50.00%) B2C
3 2 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 2 (50.00%) Customer Journey Map
3 2 (50.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Innovation
3 2 (50.00%) Digital Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Journey Map
3 2 (50.00%) Product Discovery
3 2 (50.00%) Product Strategy
3 2 (50.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 2 (50.00%) Service Design
3 2 (50.00%) Software Engineering
3 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 2 (50.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (50.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 1 (25.00%) Python
1 1 (25.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (25.00%) Accessibility