Product Management Contracts in the North of England

Product Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 145 162 169
Rank change year-on-year +17 +7 +23
Contract jobs citing Product Management 21 21 39
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.64% 0.45% 0.69%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.71% 0.53% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 14 27
10th Percentile £402 £390 £425
25th Percentile £423 £431 £509
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £538 £550
Median % change year-on-year -16.28% -2.27% -2.22%
75th Percentile £591 £585 £629
90th Percentile £600 £631 £650
England median daily rate £541 £550 £588
% change year-on-year -1.59% -6.38% +2.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 4 2 1
10th Percentile £47.38 - -
25th Percentile £49.06 - £64.75
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.66 £69.50
Median % change year-on-year +87.55% -61.64% +434.62%
75th Percentile - - £74.25
90th Percentile - - -
England median hourly rate £50.00 £42.50 £51.50
% change year-on-year +17.65% -17.48% -8.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,951 3,950 5,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.72% 85.44% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,900 2,410 3,555
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £377 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 152 360 204
10th Percentile £13.52 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.50 £16.08
Median hourly rate £26.28 £17.72 £28.85
Median % change year-on-year +48.29% -38.58% +50.87%
75th Percentile £56.34 £45.00 £45.05
90th Percentile £78.63 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -20.55% -2.67% +50.00%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Management in the North of England

Product Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

Daily rate trend for Product Management in the North of England

Product Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Management in the North of England over the 6 months to 15 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Management in the North of England

Product Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Management in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Product Management in the North of England

Product Management
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 of England region over the 6 months to 15 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
North West +3 12 £450 -18.18% 62
North East - 6 £445 - 6
Yorkshire +16 3 £401 -23.71% 31
Product Management
England

Product Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 (4.76%) Appian
Applications
1 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (4.76%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 1 (4.76%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 2 (9.52%) SaaS
2 1 (4.76%) AWS
2 1 (4.76%) Smartsheet
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.76%) BGP
1 1 (4.76%) Cisco IOS
1 1 (4.76%) DMZ
1 1 (4.76%) DNS
1 1 (4.76%) DWDM
1 1 (4.76%) Firewall
1 1 (4.76%) Internet
1 1 (4.76%) IPsec
1 1 (4.76%) L2TP
1 1 (4.76%) MPLS
1 1 (4.76%) Multicast
1 1 (4.76%) Network Security
1 1 (4.76%) OSPF
1 1 (4.76%) SSL
1 1 (4.76%) VPN
1 1 (4.76%) WAN
1 1 (4.76%) Wi-Fi
1 1 (4.76%) Wireless
General
1 10 (47.62%) Social Skills
2 7 (33.33%) Finance
3 5 (23.81%) Manufacturing
4 4 (19.05%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (14.29%) Presentation Skills
6 2 (9.52%) Banking
6 2 (9.52%) Legal
6 2 (9.52%) Marketing
6 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
7 1 (4.76%) Aerospace
7 1 (4.76%) Documentation Skills
7 1 (4.76%) Retail
7 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Analyst
2 6 (28.57%) Product Manager
3 3 (14.29%) Business Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Business Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Business Operations Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Network Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Network Services Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Operations Manager
4 2 (9.52%) SAP Analyst
4 2 (9.52%) Service Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Designer
5 1 (4.76%) Implementation Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Network Implementation Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Network Infrastructure Engineer
5 1 (4.76%) Operations Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) Product Management Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) Product Owner
5 1 (4.76%) SAP Functional Analyst
5 1 (4.76%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (4.76%) 802.1X
Miscellaneous
1 4 (19.05%) Product Ownership
2 2 (9.52%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) AI Agents
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.76%) IVR
3 1 (4.76%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (42.86%) Change Management
1 9 (42.86%) Roadmaps
1 9 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
2 8 (38.10%) Agile
3 5 (23.81%) Active Listening
3 5 (23.81%) Manufacturing Engineering
3 5 (23.81%) Product Vision
3 5 (23.81%) Root Cause Analysis
4 4 (19.05%) Business Change Management
4 4 (19.05%) Business Strategy
4 4 (19.05%) Customer Requirements
4 4 (19.05%) Problem-Solving
4 4 (19.05%) Strategic Roadmap
4 4 (19.05%) Waterfall
5 3 (14.29%) Business Case
5 3 (14.29%) Customer Engagement
5 3 (14.29%) Migration
5 3 (14.29%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (14.29%) Service Delivery
5 3 (14.29%) WFM
Programming Languages
1 1 (4.76%) Perl
1 1 (4.76%) PowerShell
1 1 (4.76%) Python
Qualifications
1 3 (14.29%) Degree
2 2 (9.52%) Computer Science Degree
2 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
2 2 (9.52%) Security Cleared
3 1 (4.76%) CCIE
3 1 (4.76%) CCNP
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (4.76%) MCP
Systems Management
1 1 (4.76%) Ansible
1 1 (4.76%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) SAP
2 2 (9.52%) TOWER Software
3 1 (4.76%) Arista
3 1 (4.76%) Avaya
3 1 (4.76%) Cisco
3 1 (4.76%) Fortinet
3 1 (4.76%) Genesys
3 1 (4.76%) Google
3 1 (4.76%) McAfee
3 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.76%) Sage
3 1 (4.76%) Splunk