Product Manager Contracts in the Midlands

Product Manager
England > Midlands

The median Product Manager daily rate in the Midlands is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 2 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
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 122 152
Rank change year-on-year +14 +30 +43
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 9 14 12
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.47% 0.51% 0.35%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.52% 0.55% 0.37%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 13 10
10th Percentile £429 £413 £463
25th Percentile £469 £525 £517
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £600 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.50% - +15.33%
75th Percentile £569 £644 £650
90th Percentile £588 £650 -
England median daily rate £550 £600 £559
% change year-on-year -8.33% +7.27% -0.84%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the Midlands. 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 the Midlands with a recognized job title 1,727 2,541 3,250
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.04% 91.93% 94.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,143 1,714 2,283
10th Percentile £200 £213 £223
25th Percentile £356 £325 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £470 £475
Median % change year-on-year +1.06% -1.05% +3.26%
75th Percentile £554 £588 £588
90th Percentile £638 £688 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 107 214 127
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.85 £12.30
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.27 £15.17
Median hourly rate £18.77 £19.59 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% -2.05% +16.33%
75th Percentile £28.18 £35.00 £28.25
90th Percentile £35.25 £54.40 £60.50
England median hourly rate £30.78 £36.02 £44.77
% change year-on-year -14.55% -19.53% +98.96%

Product Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Manager in the Midlands

Product Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Product Manager in the Midlands

Product Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Manager in the Midlands over the 6 months to 2 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Manager in the Midlands

Product Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Manager in the Midlands

Product Manager
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 Manager within the Midlands region over the 6 months to 2 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
West Midlands +11 7 £525 -8.70% 43
East Midlands +14 2 £509 -15.38% 27
Product Manager
England

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

For the 6 months to 2 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 Midlands region featuring Product Manager in the job title.

1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Product Management
2 6 (66.67%) Roadmaps
3 5 (55.56%) Scrum
4 4 (44.44%) Product Ownership
5 3 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
5 3 (33.33%) Backlog Management
5 3 (33.33%) Product Strategy
6 2 (22.22%) Product Roadmap
6 2 (22.22%) Business Strategy
6 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
6 2 (22.22%) Product Backlog
6 2 (22.22%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 2 (22.22%) Business Case
6 2 (22.22%) Product Requirements
6 2 (22.22%) Epics
6 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 2 (22.22%) Market Research
6 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
6 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (22.22%) Retail
6 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
6 2 (22.22%) DevOps
6 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
6 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
7 1 (11.11%) Ideation Sessions
7 1 (11.11%) Digital Engineering
7 1 (11.11%) Product Operations
7 1 (11.11%) Business Analysis

Product Manager Skill Set
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 (11.11%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Azure
1 1 (11.11%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (11.11%) Figma
1 1 (11.11%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) GIS
General
1 2 (22.22%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (22.22%) Retail
1 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Automotive
2 1 (11.11%) Documentation Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Finance
2 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (11.11%) Marketing
2 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
Miscellaneous
1 4 (44.44%) Product Ownership
2 3 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 1 (11.11%) Android
1 1 (11.11%) Apple iOS
1 1 (11.11%) Mac OS
1 1 (11.11%) Windows
1 1 (11.11%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (88.89%) Agile
2 6 (66.67%) Product Management
2 6 (66.67%) Roadmaps
3 5 (55.56%) Scrum
4 3 (33.33%) Backlog Management
4 3 (33.33%) Product Strategy
4 3 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
5 2 (22.22%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 2 (22.22%) Business Case
5 2 (22.22%) Business Strategy
5 2 (22.22%) Deployment Automation
5 2 (22.22%) DevOps
5 2 (22.22%) Epics
5 2 (22.22%) Market Research
5 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
5 2 (22.22%) Product Backlog
5 2 (22.22%) Product Requirements
5 2 (22.22%) Product Roadmap
5 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
6 1 (11.11%) SDLC
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) SAFe Agilist
Systems Management
1 1 (11.11%) Microsoft Intune
1 1 (11.11%) SCCM
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Microsoft
1 2 (22.22%) ServiceNow
2 1 (11.11%) CrowdStrike
2 1 (11.11%) Symantec