Product Manager Contracts in Manchester

Product Manager
North West > Manchester

The median Product Manager daily rate in Manchester is £481, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 1 May 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
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 68 83 106
Rank change year-on-year +15 +23 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 11 13 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Manchester 1.19% 0.86% 0.63%
As % of the Job Titles category 1.27% 0.89% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 3 11
10th Percentile £443 £365 £500
25th Percentile £450 £388 £531
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £481 £450 £600
Median % change year-on-year +6.94% -25.00% +14.29%
75th Percentile £531 £463 £713
90th Percentile £610 £470 £800
North West median daily rate £481 £450 £600
% change year-on-year +6.94% -25.00% +11.63%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £67.50 - -
Median hourly rate £70.00 - -
75th Percentile £72.50 - -
90th Percentile - - -
North West median hourly rate £70.00 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Manchester

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in Manchester. 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 Manchester with a recognized job title 867 1,456 1,829
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 93.63% 95.98% 96.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 613 1,007 1,360
10th Percentile £282 £313 £313
25th Percentile £393 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -10.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £586 £588
90th Percentile £674 £694 £663
North West median daily rate £475 £493 £500
% change year-on-year -3.65% -1.40% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 46 84 55
10th Percentile - £12.07 £14.10
25th Percentile £13.00 £13.31 £20.00
Median hourly rate £24.50 £25.10 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -28.30% +100.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £62.50 £48.13
90th Percentile £74.38 £73.75 £68.40
North West median hourly rate £29.23 £26.53 £30.54
% change year-on-year +10.20% -13.15% +50.37%

Product Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Manager in Manchester

Product Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Manchester

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

Daily rate trend for Product Manager in Manchester

Product Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in Manchester

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Manager in Manchester over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Manager in Manchester

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

For the 6 months to 1 May 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 Manchester region featuring Product Manager in the job title.

1 8 (72.73%) Agile
1 8 (72.73%) Product Roadmap
1 8 (72.73%) Roadmaps
2 6 (54.55%) Product Ownership
2 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (27.27%) Service Delivery
3 3 (27.27%) Change Management
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) WFM
3 3 (27.27%) Product Management
3 3 (27.27%) Customer Engagement
3 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
3 3 (27.27%) User Stories
3 3 (27.27%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (27.27%) Business Case
3 3 (27.27%) Product Strategy
3 3 (27.27%) Product Vision
4 2 (18.18%) Marketing
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Debt
4 2 (18.18%) API Design
4 2 (18.18%) User Experience
4 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Digital Marketing
4 2 (18.18%) Finance
5 1 (9.09%) CMS
5 1 (9.09%) SAP
5 1 (9.09%) CRM
5 1 (9.09%) Salesforce

Product Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Manchester 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 1 (9.09%) CMS
1 1 (9.09%) Sitecore CMS
1 1 (9.09%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (9.09%) S-PLUS
General
1 6 (54.55%) Social Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (18.18%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Marketing
3 1 (9.09%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
3 1 (9.09%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 6 (54.55%) Product Ownership
2 1 (9.09%) Analytical Mindset
2 1 (9.09%) Blog
2 1 (9.09%) Marketing Technology
2 1 (9.09%) Mobile App
2 1 (9.09%) Onboarding
2 1 (9.09%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 1 (9.09%) Android
1 1 (9.09%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) Agile
1 8 (72.73%) Product Roadmap
1 8 (72.73%) Roadmaps
2 6 (54.55%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (27.27%) Business Case
3 3 (27.27%) Change Management
3 3 (27.27%) Customer Engagement
3 3 (27.27%) Migration
3 3 (27.27%) Product Management
3 3 (27.27%) Product Strategy
3 3 (27.27%) Product Vision
3 3 (27.27%) Requirements Gathering
3 3 (27.27%) Service Delivery
3 3 (27.27%) User Stories
3 3 (27.27%) Waterfall
3 3 (27.27%) WFM
4 2 (18.18%) API Design
4 2 (18.18%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (18.18%) Technical Debt
4 2 (18.18%) User Experience
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Optimizely
1 1 (9.09%) Salesforce
1 1 (9.09%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
1 1 (9.09%) SAP
1 1 (9.09%) Sitecore
1 1 (9.09%) Verint