Product Thinking Contract Job Trends in Manchester

Product Thinking
North West > Manchester

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Manchester requiring Product Thinking skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 25 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
25 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 122 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Product Thinking 6 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in Manchester 0.31% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.36% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 0
10th Percentile £709 - -
25th Percentile £716 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £744 - -
75th Percentile £766 - -
90th Percentile £769 - -
North West median daily rate £744 - -

All Process & Methodology Skills
Manchester

Product Thinking 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 1,644 867 1,119
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Manchester 83.66% 87.58% 86.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,002 559 727
10th Percentile £304 £306 £325
25th Percentile £400 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £491 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year +3.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £597 £588 £596
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
North West median daily rate £491 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +9.11% -10.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 154 49 60
10th Percentile £22.63 £16.50 £13.48
25th Percentile £30.00 £19.07 £20.38
Median hourly rate £62.25 £22.63 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +175.08% -35.34% +81.82%
75th Percentile £77.00 £60.00 £62.50
90th Percentile £86.75 £77.75 £75.35
North West median hourly rate £56.44 £28.75 £27.75
% change year-on-year +96.31% +3.60% -5.29%

Product Thinking
Job Vacancy Trend in Manchester

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

Product Thinking job vacancy trend in Manchester

Product Thinking
Contract Job Locations in Manchester

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Thinking within the Manchester region over the 6 months to 25 July 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
Bury - 5 £744 - 2
Product Thinking
North West

Product Thinking
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:

Cloud Services
1 5 (83.33%) Anthropic Claude
1 5 (83.33%) AWS
1 5 (83.33%) GitHub
1 5 (83.33%) GitHub Actions
1 5 (83.33%) GitHub Copilot
1 5 (83.33%) Google Gemini
Development Applications
1 5 (83.33%) Claude Code
2 3 (50.00%) Git
General
1 5 (83.33%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Finance
2 1 (16.67%) Military
2 1 (16.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (100.00%) Senior
2 3 (50.00%) Full-Stack Engineer
2 3 (50.00%) Senior Full-Stack Engineer
3 2 (33.33%) Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Full-Stack Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Principal Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Developer
3 2 (33.33%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (16.67%) Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) AWS Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Business Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Principal Engineer
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (16.67%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (83.33%) Next.js
1 5 (83.33%) React
1 5 (83.33%) REST
2 4 (66.67%) Node.js
Miscellaneous
1 5 (83.33%) Cloud Native
2 3 (50.00%) Culture of Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (100.00%) Agile
1 6 (100.00%) AI
2 5 (83.33%) CI/CD
2 5 (83.33%) Code Quality
2 5 (83.33%) Continuous Improvement
2 5 (83.33%) Customer Experience
2 5 (83.33%) DevOps
2 5 (83.33%) Event-Driven
2 5 (83.33%) Event-Driven Architecture
2 5 (83.33%) Full-Stack Development
2 5 (83.33%) Infrastructure as Code
2 5 (83.33%) Mentoring
2 5 (83.33%) Microservices
2 5 (83.33%) Monorepo
2 5 (83.33%) Observability
2 5 (83.33%) Software Engineering
2 5 (83.33%) Technical Debt
2 5 (83.33%) Test Automation
3 3 (50.00%) Architectural Patterns
3 3 (50.00%) Event-Driven Programming
Programming Languages
1 5 (83.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) BPSS Clearance
2 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (50.00%) QA
System Software
1 5 (83.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (83.33%) Kubernetes
1 5 (83.33%) Terraform