Product Management Contracts in Scotland

Product Management
UK > Scotland

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Scotland 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 10 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
10 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 99 97 82
Rank change year-on-year -2 -15 +16
Contract jobs citing Product Management 28 69 99
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Scotland 1.29% 2.52% 2.88%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.46% 2.72% 3.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 19 61 93
10th Percentile £409 £415 £413
25th Percentile £456 £471 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £465 £523 £528
Median % change year-on-year -11.00% -0.95% +11.05%
75th Percentile £588 £574 £573
90th Percentile £590 £650 £590
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +10.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Scotland

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 Scotland with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,916 2,536 3,197
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Scotland 88.38% 92.55% 93.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,164 1,814 2,263
10th Percentile £225 £261 £250
25th Percentile £375 £406 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £473
Median % change year-on-year - +0.48% +11.23%
75th Percentile £575 £559 £550
90th Percentile £656 £650 £625
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
Number of hourly rates quoted 90 56 48
10th Percentile £12.30 £10.63 £15.04
25th Percentile £15.75 £12.04 £19.45
Median hourly rate £19.34 £16.25 £38.71
Median % change year-on-year +18.98% -58.02% -3.23%
75th Percentile £46.24 £49.24 £48.75
90th Percentile £60.93 £65.78 £55.75
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +4.82%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend in Scotland

Job postings citing Product Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Scotland.

Job vacancy trend for Product Management in Scotland

Product Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in Scotland

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Management in Scotland.

Daily rate trend for Product Management in Scotland

Product Management
Daily Rate Histogram in Scotland

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Management in Scotland over the 6 months to 10 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Management in Scotland

Product Management
Contract Job Locations in Scotland

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 Scotland region over the 6 months to 10 May 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
Edinburgh +16 13 £463 -8.96% 4
Glasgow +2 9 £575 +2.68% 5
South Lanarkshire -3 4 £600 -7.69%
Product Management
UK

Product Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Scotland 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 8 (28.57%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (3.57%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 8 (28.57%) AWS
2 7 (25.00%) Amazon S3
2 7 (25.00%) AWS CloudFormation
2 7 (25.00%) AWS Lambda
2 7 (25.00%) Serverless
3 4 (14.29%) Amazon SageMaker
3 4 (14.29%) OpenShift
3 4 (14.29%) Rekognition
3 4 (14.29%) Textract
4 1 (3.57%) Azure
4 1 (3.57%) GCP
Communications & Networking
1 3 (10.71%) VoIP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (25.00%) Amazon Aurora
1 7 (25.00%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 11 (39.29%) JIRA
General
1 15 (53.57%) Public Sector
2 9 (32.14%) Social Skills
3 6 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
4 5 (17.86%) Presentation Skills
5 4 (14.29%) Electronics
5 4 (14.29%) Finance
5 4 (14.29%) Manufacturing
5 4 (14.29%) Marketing
5 4 (14.29%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.57%) Banking
6 1 (3.57%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 8 (28.57%) Product Manager
2 7 (25.00%) Developer
3 5 (17.86%) Designer
3 5 (17.86%) UX Designer
4 4 (14.29%) Automation Developer
5 3 (10.71%) Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Business Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Senior
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) Senior Business Analyst
5 3 (10.71%) VoIP Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Lead
6 2 (7.14%) Software Developer
6 2 (7.14%) Voice Engineer
6 2 (7.14%) Voice Specialist
6 2 (7.14%) VoIP Specialist
7 1 (3.57%) Digital Product Manager
7 1 (3.57%) Lead Architect
7 1 (3.57%) Lead UX Designer
7 1 (3.57%) User Experience Researcher
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (25.00%) AWS CDK
2 1 (3.57%) Kafka
2 1 (3.57%) RabbitMQ
2 1 (3.57%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 5 (17.86%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.71%) Private Cloud
3 1 (3.57%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (3.57%) Distributed Systems
3 1 (3.57%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 24 (85.71%) Agile
2 18 (64.29%) Service Design
3 13 (46.43%) User Research
4 12 (42.86%) Roadmaps
5 11 (39.29%) User Stories
6 10 (35.71%) Backlog Management
6 10 (35.71%) Epics
6 10 (35.71%) User Experience
7 8 (28.57%) Product Backlog
8 7 (25.00%) Infrastructure as Code
8 7 (25.00%) Kanban
8 7 (25.00%) Machine Learning
8 7 (25.00%) Natural Language Processing
8 7 (25.00%) Scrum
8 7 (25.00%) Workshop Facilitation
9 6 (21.43%) Artificial Intelligence
9 6 (21.43%) Business Case
9 6 (21.43%) DevOps
9 6 (21.43%) Project Management
9 6 (21.43%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 7 (25.00%) Python
1 7 (25.00%) TypeScript
2 4 (14.29%) Java
Qualifications
1 8 (28.57%) SC Cleared
1 8 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 1 (3.57%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (3.57%) Degree
2 1 (3.57%) IIBA
2 1 (3.57%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (39.29%) Accessibility
2 4 (14.29%) Disclosure Scotland
3 3 (10.71%) SLA
4 1 (3.57%) ISO 20022
4 1 (3.57%) ISO 8583
System Software
1 4 (14.29%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (25.00%) Grafana
2 4 (14.29%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 4 (14.29%) SAP
2 1 (3.57%) Google
2 1 (3.57%) Microsoft