Product Management Contracts in the Midlands

Product Management
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands requiring Product Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Management over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 95 117 143
Rank change year-on-year +22 +26 +37
Contract jobs citing Product Management 16 16 24
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.84% 0.58% 0.70%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.71% 0.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 11 13 17
10th Percentile £356 - £489
25th Percentile £379 £525 £613
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £468 £615 £650
Median % change year-on-year -23.98% -5.38% +12.55%
75th Percentile £519 £650 £688
90th Percentile £550 £680 £700
England median daily rate £543 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £42.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +17.65% +4.94% -27.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,676 2,266 3,045
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.57% 82.19% 88.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,099 1,510 2,125
10th Percentile £200 £237 £250
25th Percentile £358 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £495
Median % change year-on-year - -4.04% +4.21%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 93 172 119
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.07 £11.96
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.81 £15.05
Median hourly rate £18.13 £19.00 £17.72
Median % change year-on-year -4.58% +7.22% +1.37%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £26.81
90th Percentile £36.55 £55.00 £55.50
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

Job postings citing Product Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Product Management in the Midlands

Product Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Management in the Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Product Management in the Midlands

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Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

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

Daily rate histogram for Product Management in the Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Management in the Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Product Management in the Midlands

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Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 1 May 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
East Midlands +18 9 £450 -26.83% 15
West Midlands +9 7 £525 -4.55% 41
Product Management
England

Product Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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 (6.25%) CMS
1 1 (6.25%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (31.25%) SaaS
2 2 (12.50%) AWS
3 1 (6.25%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (6.25%) Azure
3 1 (6.25%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (6.25%) Figma
3 1 (6.25%) Serverless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.25%) GIS
1 1 (6.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (6.25%) Jenkins
General
1 4 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (18.75%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (12.50%) Finance
3 2 (12.50%) Marketing
3 2 (12.50%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Aerospace
4 1 (6.25%) Automotive
4 1 (6.25%) Banking
4 1 (6.25%) Documentation Skills
4 1 (6.25%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.25%) Legal
4 1 (6.25%) Manufacturing
4 1 (6.25%) Retail
Job Titles
1 6 (37.50%) Product Manager
2 5 (31.25%) Product Owner
3 3 (18.75%) Digital Product Owner
4 2 (12.50%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Ab Initio Developer
5 1 (6.25%) Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Business Analyst
5 1 (6.25%) Developer
5 1 (6.25%) E-Commerce Manager
5 1 (6.25%) E-Commerce Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Product Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Product Owner
5 1 (6.25%) Operations Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Product Operations Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Project Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Senior
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Senior Product Manager
5 1 (6.25%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) .NET
1 1 (6.25%) .NET Framework
1 1 (6.25%) AngularJS
1 1 (6.25%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 7 (43.75%) Product Ownership
2 2 (12.50%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (6.25%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Android
1 1 (6.25%) Apple iOS
1 1 (6.25%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (87.50%) Agile
2 9 (56.25%) Scrum
3 6 (37.50%) Continuous Improvement
3 6 (37.50%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (37.50%) Roadmaps
3 6 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
4 5 (31.25%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 5 (31.25%) Business Strategy
4 5 (31.25%) User Experience
5 4 (25.00%) Business Analysis
5 4 (25.00%) User Stories
6 3 (18.75%) Acceptance Criteria
6 3 (18.75%) Agile Project Management
6 3 (18.75%) Analytics
6 3 (18.75%) Backlog Management
6 3 (18.75%) Decision-Making
6 3 (18.75%) PLM
6 3 (18.75%) Project Management
6 3 (18.75%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 3 (18.75%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) C#
1 1 (6.25%) SQL
Qualifications
1 3 (18.75%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.25%) GDPR
Systems Management
1 1 (6.25%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft
1 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.25%) Ab Initio
2 1 (6.25%) Optimizely
2 1 (6.25%) SAP