Product Management Contracts in the North East

Product Management
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North East 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 32 - 46
Rank change year-on-year - - +8
Contract jobs citing Product Management 6 0 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North East 1.97% - 0.83%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 2.49% - 0.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 0 3
10th Percentile £418 - -
25th Percentile £423 - £255
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £445 - £260
Median % change year-on-year - - -45.26%
75th Percentile £503 - £380
90th Percentile £554 - £449
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 241 249 323
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 79.28% 80.06% 89.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 164 112 249
10th Percentile £216 £263 £241
25th Percentile £355 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year -7.50% -4.76% +5.00%
75th Percentile £559 £590 £625
90th Percentile £625 £650 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 15 48 2
10th Percentile - £11.44 £32.74
25th Percentile £11.60 £11.97 £34.98
Median hourly rate £17.00 £18.50 £39.34
Median % change year-on-year -8.11% -52.97% +138.42%
75th Percentile £33.40 £48.75 £43.07
90th Percentile £50.70 £50.00 £44.94
England median hourly rate £28.00 £37.18 £37.32
% change year-on-year -24.69% -0.38% +49.28%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Management in the North East

Product Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North East

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

Daily rate trend for Product Management in the North East

Product Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Management in the North East over the 6 months to 29 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Management in the North East

Product Management
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 29 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
Tyne and Wear - 6 £445 - 9
Product Management
England

Product Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North East 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:

Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) SaaS
2 1 (16.67%) AWS
2 1 (16.67%) Smartsheet
General
1 5 (83.33%) Social Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (50.00%) Finance
3 2 (33.33%) Legal
3 2 (33.33%) Marketing
3 2 (33.33%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (33.33%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 3 (50.00%) Product Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Business Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Business Operations Manager
2 2 (33.33%) Operations Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
3 1 (16.67%) Business Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Operations Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Support Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (16.67%) AI Agents
2 1 (16.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Problem-Solving
2 3 (50.00%) Product Requirements
3 2 (33.33%) Acceptance Criteria
3 2 (33.33%) Artificial Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
3 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Commercialisation
3 2 (33.33%) Data Protection
3 2 (33.33%) Deadline-Driven
3 2 (33.33%) Market Research
3 2 (33.33%) Product Vision
3 2 (33.33%) Project Management
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Thinking
3 2 (33.33%) Time Management
3 2 (33.33%) User Stories
3 2 (33.33%) Value Proposition
4 1 (16.67%) Agile
Qualifications
1 2 (33.33%) Computer Science Degree
1 2 (33.33%) Degree
2 1 (16.67%) MCP
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (16.67%) Sage