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 28 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 102 129 140
Rank change year-on-year +27 +11 +41
Contract jobs citing Product Management 31 13 13
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 1.41% 0.44% 0.40%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.59% 0.55% 0.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 21 11 10
10th Percentile £356 £525 £502
25th Percentile £358 £550 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £402 £650 £650
Median % change year-on-year -38.15% - +4.00%
75th Percentile £476 £688 -
90th Percentile £500 - £688
England median daily rate £511 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -7.09% -4.35% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £50.00 - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £55.00 £53.00
% change year-on-year -9.09% +3.77% -5.36%

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 1,954 2,368 2,804
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 88.74% 80.16% 87.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,248 1,574 1,988
10th Percentile £207 £243 £258
25th Percentile £356 £358 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £488 £500
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% -2.50% +5.26%
75th Percentile £550 £600 £600
90th Percentile £639 £688 £700
England median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 145 177 95
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.24 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.09 £14.00 £15.57
Median hourly rate £21.25 £18.97 £25.25
Median % change year-on-year +12.02% -24.87% +32.89%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £50.00 £55.00 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £37.42
% change year-on-year -34.02% +1.87% +45.72%

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 28 June 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 28 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
East Midlands +21 17 £401 -34.80% 20
West Midlands +8 14 £475 -24.00% 39
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 (3.23%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (25.81%) AWS
2 7 (22.58%) Azure
3 6 (19.35%) SaaS
4 4 (12.90%) GCP
4 4 (12.90%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (3.23%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (3.23%) Figma
5 1 (3.23%) Serverless
Communications & Networking
1 4 (12.90%) Firewall
2 2 (6.45%) BGP
2 2 (6.45%) DHCP
2 2 (6.45%) DNS
2 2 (6.45%) EIGRP
2 2 (6.45%) HTTP
2 2 (6.45%) IPsec
2 2 (6.45%) Network Security
2 2 (6.45%) OSPF
2 2 (6.45%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (6.45%) SSL
2 2 (6.45%) TACACS
2 2 (6.45%) VLAN
2 2 (6.45%) VPN
2 2 (6.45%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.23%) GIS
1 1 (3.23%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 1 (3.23%) Jenkins
General
1 12 (38.71%) Social Skills
2 9 (29.03%) Analytical Skills
2 9 (29.03%) Finance
3 5 (16.13%) Banking
4 4 (12.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 4 (12.90%) Public Sector
5 2 (6.45%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.23%) Aerospace
6 1 (3.23%) Automotive
6 1 (3.23%) Financial Institution
6 1 (3.23%) Legal
6 1 (3.23%) Manufacturing
6 1 (3.23%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 14 (45.16%) Product Owner
2 11 (35.48%) Product Manager
3 4 (12.90%) Digital Product Owner
4 2 (6.45%) Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Business Analyst
4 2 (6.45%) Lead
5 1 (3.23%) Ab Initio Developer
5 1 (3.23%) Developer
5 1 (3.23%) E-Commerce Manager
5 1 (3.23%) E-Commerce Project Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Engineering Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Lead Product Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Lead Product Owner
5 1 (3.23%) Operations Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Product Operations Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Project Manager
5 1 (3.23%) Senior
5 1 (3.23%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (3.23%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (6.45%) FIDO
1 2 (6.45%) Flash
2 1 (3.23%) .NET
2 1 (3.23%) .NET Framework
2 1 (3.23%) AngularJS
2 1 (3.23%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 17 (54.84%) Product Ownership
2 2 (6.45%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (6.45%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (3.23%) Onboarding
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.45%) Windows
2 1 (3.23%) Android
2 1 (3.23%) Apple iOS
2 1 (3.23%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (67.74%) Agile
2 16 (51.61%) Scrum
3 13 (41.94%) Product Strategy
3 13 (41.94%) Roadmaps
4 12 (38.71%) Stakeholder Management
5 11 (35.48%) Business Strategy
6 10 (32.26%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 9 (29.03%) Product Roadmap
8 7 (22.58%) Continuous Improvement
8 7 (22.58%) Problem-Solving
9 6 (19.35%) B2B
9 6 (19.35%) Business Analysis
9 6 (19.35%) ITIL
9 6 (19.35%) Product Backlog
9 6 (19.35%) Product Requirements
9 6 (19.35%) User Experience
10 5 (16.13%) B2B Sales
10 5 (16.13%) Backlog Management
10 5 (16.13%) Development Roadmap
10 5 (16.13%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (3.23%) C#
1 1 (3.23%) SQL
Qualifications
1 7 (22.58%) Degree
2 2 (6.45%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (3.23%) CBAP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
1 2 (6.45%) NIST
1 2 (6.45%) NIST 800
2 1 (3.23%) GDPR
2 1 (3.23%) PMO
System Software
1 2 (6.45%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.45%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.45%) Microsoft Intune
1 2 (6.45%) Nagios
1 2 (6.45%) Single Sign-On
2 1 (3.23%) Terraform
Vendors
1 10 (32.26%) Microsoft
2 4 (12.90%) Cisco
2 4 (12.90%) Salesforce
3 2 (6.45%) Apple
3 2 (6.45%) Arista
3 2 (6.45%) Google
3 2 (6.45%) Juniper
3 2 (6.45%) ServiceNow
3 2 (6.45%) SolarWinds
4 1 (3.23%) Ab Initio
4 1 (3.23%) Optimizely
4 1 (3.23%) SAP