Product Management Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Product Management
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Product Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 31 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 138 169
Rank change year-on-year -36 +31 +31
Contract jobs citing Product Management 38 26 19
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.80% 0.74% 0.41%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.90% 0.85% 0.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 31 11 10
10th Percentile £402 £420 £427
25th Percentile £427 £459 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £493 £489
Median % change year-on-year -3.65% +0.92% -10.37%
75th Percentile £513 £594 £550
90th Percentile £575 £653 £630
England median daily rate £516 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +3.25% -9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 1 5
10th Percentile - - £41.91
25th Percentile - - £64.79
Median hourly rate £71.45 £37.00 £78.00
Median % change year-on-year +93.11% -52.56% -
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £78.70
England median hourly rate £56.50 £62.50 £69.58
% change year-on-year -9.60% -10.18% +1.02%

All Process & 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 4,201 3,066 4,083
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.29% 87.05% 88.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,795 1,747 2,706
10th Percentile £220 £263 £292
25th Percentile £363 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £464 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.37% -5.00% -
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £648 £667 £675
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 256 146 197
10th Percentile £15.50 £15.11 £15.09
25th Percentile £19.75 £17.08 £17.72
Median hourly rate £29.80 £27.26 £30.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.34% -9.15% +33.33%
75th Percentile £55.00 £45.76 £46.18
90th Percentile £69.25 £67.84 £61.55
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £45.00
% change year-on-year -28.14% -22.22% +25.00%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the North of England

Product Management
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Product Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Product Management

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 31 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Management in the North of England

Product Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Product Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Product Management

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 31 December 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 -7 22 £455 +30.00% 155
North East -1 11 £463 -7.04% 17
Yorkshire -50 7 £550 +8.59% 142
Product Management
England

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (2.63%) Apache
1 1 (2.63%) Apache Airflow
1 1 (2.63%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (2.63%) Chatbot
2 1 (2.63%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (7.89%) AWS
1 3 (7.89%) Azure
2 2 (5.26%) Azure API Management
2 2 (5.26%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (5.26%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (5.26%) GitHub
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon S3
3 1 (2.63%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (2.63%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (2.63%) GCP
3 1 (2.63%) OneDrive
3 1 (2.63%) Power Platform
3 1 (2.63%) SaaS
3 1 (2.63%) Serverless
3 1 (2.63%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (5.26%) Firewall
1 2 (5.26%) LAN
1 2 (5.26%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (2.63%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (2.63%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (2.63%) DynamoDB
1 1 (2.63%) NoSQL
1 1 (2.63%) Oracle Database
1 1 (2.63%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (5.26%) Git
1 2 (5.26%) git-flow
General
1 16 (42.11%) Public Sector
2 9 (23.68%) Social Skills
3 8 (21.05%) Finance
4 7 (18.42%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (13.16%) Banking
6 4 (10.53%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (10.53%) Legal
7 2 (5.26%) Organisational Skills
7 2 (5.26%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (5.26%) Telecoms
8 1 (2.63%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 17 (44.74%) Product Manager
2 5 (13.16%) Product Owner
2 5 (13.16%) Senior
3 4 (10.53%) Analyst
3 4 (10.53%) Business Analyst
3 4 (10.53%) Lead
4 3 (7.89%) Architect
4 3 (7.89%) Senior Manager
4 3 (7.89%) Senior Product Manager
4 3 (7.89%) Solutions Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Lead Product Manager
5 2 (5.26%) Salesforce Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Salesforce Solution Architect
5 2 (5.26%) Senior Developer
5 2 (5.26%) Service Manager
6 1 (2.63%) Product Lead
6 1 (2.63%) Project Manager
6 1 (2.63%) Technical Manager
6 1 (2.63%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (7.89%) Node.js
2 2 (5.26%) Next.js
3 1 (2.63%) React
3 1 (2.63%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (15.79%) Product Ownership
2 4 (10.53%) Onboarding
3 2 (5.26%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (2.63%) FMCG
4 1 (2.63%) NHS
4 1 (2.63%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 1 (2.63%) Windows
1 1 (2.63%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 29 (76.32%) Agile
2 16 (42.11%) Roadmaps
3 14 (36.84%) Stakeholder Management
4 12 (31.58%) Product Strategy
5 9 (23.68%) Problem-Solving
6 8 (21.05%) Product Roadmap
6 8 (21.05%) Product Vision
7 7 (18.42%) Continuous Improvement
7 7 (18.42%) Strategic Thinking
7 7 (18.42%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
8 6 (15.79%) ITIL
9 5 (13.16%) Business Case
9 5 (13.16%) Decision-Making
9 5 (13.16%) Scrum
9 5 (13.16%) Service Design
10 4 (10.53%) Customer Experience
10 4 (10.53%) Objectives and Key Results
10 4 (10.53%) Service Delivery
10 4 (10.53%) User Research
11 3 (7.89%) Project Management
Programming Languages
1 2 (5.26%) JavaScript
1 2 (5.26%) SQL
1 2 (5.26%) TypeScript
2 1 (2.63%) Python
Qualifications
1 8 (21.05%) Security Cleared
2 7 (18.42%) SC Cleared
3 4 (10.53%) Degree
4 2 (5.26%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 1 (2.63%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (2.63%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 3 (7.89%) QA
2 2 (5.26%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (7.89%) Microsoft
1 3 (7.89%) Salesforce
2 1 (2.63%) Oracle
2 1 (2.63%) SAP
2 1 (2.63%) ServiceNow
2 1 (2.63%) Splunk