Product Management Contract Job Trends in the North West

Product Management
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West requiring Product Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 123 108 119
Rank change year-on-year -15 +11 +32
Contract jobs citing Product Management 22 11 17
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.88% 0.53% 0.63%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.00% 0.61% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 1 8
10th Percentile £388 - £382
25th Percentile £424 - £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £455 £350 £525
Median % change year-on-year +30.00% -33.33% +5.00%
75th Percentile £538 - £569
90th Percentile £614 - £640
England median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% -8.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 1 6
10th Percentile - - £26.66
25th Percentile - - £36.19
Median hourly rate - £37.00 £73.79
Median % change year-on-year - -49.86% -
75th Percentile - - £78.00
90th Percentile - - £78.59
England median hourly rate £52.50 £60.00 £63.54
% change year-on-year -12.50% -5.57% +8.85%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,204 1,808 2,345
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 87.74% 87.89% 87.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,432 1,028 1,593
10th Percentile £213 £274 £306
25th Percentile £358 £390 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £550 £575 £600
90th Percentile £650 £663 £683
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 188 91 155
10th Percentile £16.32 £16.00 £14.01
25th Percentile £21.60 £21.05 £18.70
Median hourly rate £41.77 £30.40 £40.25
Median % change year-on-year +37.39% -24.47% +11.81%
75th Percentile £57.50 £48.59 £47.67
90th Percentile £69.61 £73.56 £65.00
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.10% -18.82% +21.43%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Product Management job vacancy trend in the North West

Product Management
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Product Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Management in the North West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Management in the North West

Product Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Product Management
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Manchester +4 12 £500 +42.86% 10
Cheshire - 5 £330 - 6
Lancashire -16 3 £455 - 3
Cumbria - 1 £475 -
Product Management
England

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 (4.55%) Apache
1 1 (4.55%) Apache Airflow
Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (4.55%) Chatbot
2 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 3 (13.64%) AWS
1 3 (13.64%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) Azure API Management
2 2 (9.09%) Azure Cosmos DB
2 2 (9.09%) Azure Service Bus
2 2 (9.09%) GitHub
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon Bedrock
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon EC2
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon ECS
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon EKS
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon S3
3 1 (4.55%) Amazon SageMaker
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Fargate
3 1 (4.55%) AWS Lambda
3 1 (4.55%) GCP
3 1 (4.55%) Power Platform
3 1 (4.55%) Serverless
3 1 (4.55%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) Firewall
1 2 (9.09%) LAN
1 2 (9.09%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon Aurora
1 1 (4.55%) Amazon RDS
1 1 (4.55%) DynamoDB
1 1 (4.55%) NoSQL
1 1 (4.55%) Oracle Database
1 1 (4.55%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (9.09%) Git
1 2 (9.09%) git-flow
General
1 6 (27.27%) Finance
1 6 (27.27%) Public Sector
2 5 (22.73%) Influencing Skills
3 4 (18.18%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (13.64%) Social Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Banking
5 2 (9.09%) Organisational Skills
5 2 (9.09%) Telecoms
6 1 (4.55%) Legal
6 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Product Manager
2 4 (18.18%) Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Business Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Senior
3 3 (13.64%) Architect
3 3 (13.64%) Solutions Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Product Owner
4 2 (9.09%) Salesforce Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Salesforce Solution Architect
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Senior Product Manager
4 2 (9.09%) Service Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Digital Product Owner
5 1 (4.55%) Project Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Leader
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Product Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (13.64%) Node.js
2 2 (9.09%) Next.js
3 1 (4.55%) React
3 1 (4.55%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 2 (9.09%) Product Ownership
2 1 (4.55%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (4.55%) FMCG
2 1 (4.55%) Online Banking
Operating Systems
1 1 (4.55%) Windows
1 1 (4.55%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 19 (86.36%) Agile
2 7 (31.82%) Roadmaps
2 7 (31.82%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (27.27%) Scrum
4 5 (22.73%) ITIL
4 5 (22.73%) Problem-Solving
5 4 (18.18%) Product Strategy
6 3 (13.64%) Data Management
6 3 (13.64%) Product Roadmap
6 3 (13.64%) Project Management
6 3 (13.64%) Thought Leadership
6 3 (13.64%) TOGAF
7 2 (9.09%) Budgeting and Resource Allocation
7 2 (9.09%) CRM
7 2 (9.09%) Decision-Making
7 2 (9.09%) Design Thinking
7 2 (9.09%) Site Reliability Engineering
7 2 (9.09%) Software Engineering
7 2 (9.09%) Strategic Roadmap
7 2 (9.09%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 2 (9.09%) JavaScript
1 2 (9.09%) SQL
1 2 (9.09%) TypeScript
2 1 (4.55%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (18.18%) Degree
2 2 (9.09%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
3 1 (4.55%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (4.55%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Salesforce
2 2 (9.09%) Microsoft
3 1 (4.55%) Oracle
3 1 (4.55%) SAP
3 1 (4.55%) Splunk