Product Management Contracts in the South East

Product Management
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 138 182 158
Rank change year-on-year +44 -24 +31
Contract jobs citing Product Management 21 23 64
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.70% 0.41% 1.10%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.76% 0.49% 1.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 9 50
10th Percentile £400 £516 £308
25th Percentile £425 £525 £402
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £600 £513
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +17.07% +13.89%
75th Percentile £544 £698 £650
90th Percentile £581 £737 -
England median daily rate £543 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -1.36% -4.35% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,757 4,716 5,181
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.59% 84.85% 89.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,756 2,743 3,594
10th Percentile £256 £243 £250
25th Percentile £400 £400 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year - -1.53% +1.55%
75th Percentile £600 £621 £619
90th Percentile £675 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 171 434 219
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.00 £18.25
25th Percentile £15.79 £18.23 £23.83
Median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +122.22%
75th Percentile £62.50 £62.49 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £74.83
England median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
% change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Management in the South East

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Management in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Product Management in the South East

Product Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Management in the South East over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Management in the South East

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Management in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Product Management in the South East

Product Management
Contract Job Locations in the South East

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 South East region over the 6 months to 1 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
Thames Valley +41 12 £500 -13.04% 32
Berkshire +28 10 £498 -17.08% 14
Surrey +18 6 - - 7
Hampshire +24 2 £493 - 15
Buckinghamshire - 2 £551 - 5
West Sussex - 1 £438 - 4
Product Management
England

Product Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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 (9.52%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (4.76%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 5 (23.81%) Azure
2 4 (19.05%) Azure DevOps
2 4 (19.05%) SaaS
3 2 (9.52%) Amazon EKS
3 2 (9.52%) AWS
3 2 (9.52%) Serverless
4 1 (4.76%) Cloud Computing
4 1 (4.76%) Microsoft 365
4 1 (4.76%) Power Platform
4 1 (4.76%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (23.81%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (9.52%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 4 (19.05%) Appium
1 4 (19.05%) JUnit
1 4 (19.05%) Selenium
2 2 (9.52%) Balsamiq
2 2 (9.52%) JIRA
General
1 7 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 2 (9.52%) Public Sector
4 1 (4.76%) Finance
4 1 (4.76%) Marketing
4 1 (4.76%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 7 (33.33%) Product Manager
2 5 (23.81%) Architect
2 5 (23.81%) Product Owner
3 4 (19.05%) QA Manager
3 4 (19.05%) QA Test Manager
3 4 (19.05%) Strategy Manager
3 4 (19.05%) Test Strategy Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Engineering Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Product Architect
4 2 (9.52%) Project Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Senior
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Manager
4 2 (9.52%) Senior Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) SC Cleared Project Manager
5 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.52%) .NET
1 2 (9.52%) .NET Framework
1 2 (9.52%) AngularJS
1 2 (9.52%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 6 (28.57%) Product Ownership
2 5 (23.81%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (4.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 1 (4.76%) Greenfield Project
Processes & Methodologies
1 14 (66.67%) Agile
2 11 (52.38%) Roadmaps
3 9 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (38.10%) Product Roadmap
5 6 (28.57%) CI/CD
5 6 (28.57%) Project Management
6 5 (23.81%) Business Analysis
6 5 (23.81%) Data Protection
6 5 (23.81%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 5 (23.81%) DevOps
6 5 (23.81%) Scrum
7 4 (19.05%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 4 (19.05%) Manual Testing
7 4 (19.05%) Product Requirements
7 4 (19.05%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 4 (19.05%) Test Automation
7 4 (19.05%) Test Scripting
7 4 (19.05%) Test Strategy
8 3 (14.29%) Computer Science
8 3 (14.29%) Product Vision
Programming Languages
1 3 (14.29%) SQL
2 2 (9.52%) C#
Qualifications
1 4 (19.05%) Degree
2 3 (14.29%) Security Cleared
3 2 (9.52%) APMP
3 2 (9.52%) ISEB
3 2 (9.52%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
3 2 (9.52%) SC Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) DV Cleared
4 1 (4.76%) Master's Degree
4 1 (4.76%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (28.57%) QA
System Software
1 5 (23.81%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (4.76%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (9.52%) Terraform
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft Intune
Vendors
1 5 (23.81%) VMware
2 1 (4.76%) Adobe
2 1 (4.76%) Genesys
2 1 (4.76%) Microsoft
2 1 (4.76%) ServiceNow
2 1 (4.76%) Snow