Product Management Contracts in the North West

Product Management
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Product Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Management over the 6 months to 19 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
19 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 122 145 153
Rank change year-on-year +23 +8 -17
Contract jobs citing Product Management 16 16 32
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.58% 0.50% 0.80%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.55% 0.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 18
10th Percentile £370 £500 £393
25th Percentile £425 £530 £439
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £600 £563
Median % change year-on-year -25.00% +6.67% +18.05%
75th Percentile £585 £713 £631
90th Percentile £598 £795 £678
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +15.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 0 0
Median hourly rate £26.66 - -
England median hourly rate £40.63 £46.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year -11.68% -17.86% +13.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Product Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,379 2,929 3,538
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 86.54% 90.85% 88.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,538 2,093 2,614
10th Percentile £306 £313 £230
25th Percentile £406 £407 £375
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £588 £588 £569
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £533
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.29% +9.23%
Number of hourly rates quoted 242 147 166
10th Percentile £10.95 £16.85 £10.64
25th Percentile £13.11 £20.74 £14.25
Median hourly rate £21.00 £35.00 £20.75
Median % change year-on-year -40.00% +68.72% +19.02%
75th Percentile £45.00 £49.46 £43.96
90th Percentile £52.78 £65.30 £60.00
England median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £24.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +56.25% -

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Management in the North West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Product Management in the North West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Management in the North West over the 6 months to 19 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Management in the North West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Management in the North West

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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 19 April 2024. 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 +18 10 £450 -28.00% 21
Cheshire +6 5 £585 +1.74% 9
Lancashire +7 1 £650 +20.37% 5
Product Management
England

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

Applications
1 2 (12.50%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (12.50%) MS Visio
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft Excel
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (18.75%) Data Lake
2 1 (6.25%) Elasticsearch
General
1 6 (37.50%) Analytical Skills
2 5 (31.25%) Social Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Influencing Skills
3 3 (18.75%) Pharmaceutical
4 2 (12.50%) Finance
4 2 (12.50%) Legal
4 2 (12.50%) Public Sector
5 1 (6.25%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 7 (43.75%) Product Manager
2 5 (31.25%) Analyst
2 5 (31.25%) Business Analyst
3 3 (18.75%) Data Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Coordinator
4 2 (12.50%) Project Coordinator
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Manager
4 2 (12.50%) Technical Product Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Consultant
5 1 (6.25%) Lead
5 1 (6.25%) Lead Product Manager
5 1 (6.25%) Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.25%) Elastic Stack
1 1 (6.25%) Lucene
Miscellaneous
1 4 (25.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (18.75%) Reference Data
3 2 (12.50%) Management Information System
3 2 (12.50%) Onboarding
3 2 (12.50%) SCADA
4 1 (6.25%) Data Protection Act
4 1 (6.25%) Distributed Systems
4 1 (6.25%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.25%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 5 (31.25%) Data Analysis
2 5 (31.25%) Product Roadmap
2 5 (31.25%) Requirements Engineering
3 4 (25.00%) Agile
3 4 (25.00%) Data Modelling
3 4 (25.00%) Project Management
3 4 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 3 (18.75%) B2B
4 3 (18.75%) BPR
4 3 (18.75%) Data Engineering
4 3 (18.75%) Data Protection
4 3 (18.75%) ETL
4 3 (18.75%) Matrix Organization
4 3 (18.75%) Project Delivery
4 3 (18.75%) Supply Chain Management
4 3 (18.75%) Waterfall
5 2 (12.50%) Data Science
5 2 (12.50%) Order Management
5 2 (12.50%) RBAC
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.25%) Java
Qualifications
1 5 (31.25%) Security Cleared
2 4 (25.00%) Degree
3 2 (12.50%) DBS Check
3 2 (12.50%) SC Cleared
4 1 (6.25%) CBAP
4 1 (6.25%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (12.50%) GDPR
Vendors
1 2 (12.50%) SAP
1 2 (12.50%) ServiceNow
1 2 (12.50%) Splunk
2 1 (6.25%) Microsoft