Product Management Contracts in the South West

Product Management
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 28 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 143 150
Rank change year-on-year +38 +7 +1
Contract jobs citing Product Management 8 15 16
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.47% 0.46% 0.47%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.56% 0.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 9 16
10th Percentile £363 £409 £513
25th Percentile £375 £409 £629
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £438 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -30.00% -3.85% +43.33%
75th Percentile £473 £775 £681
90th Percentile £488 £790 £739
England median daily rate £525 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -4.55% -4.35% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South 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 South West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,531 2,672 3,076
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.86% 82.49% 89.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 943 1,706 2,243
10th Percentile £220 £236 £313
25th Percentile £388 £406 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% +10.00%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £650
90th Percentile £688 £700 £725
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 153 352 316
10th Percentile £18.13 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £18.51 £29.75 £15.19
Median hourly rate £36.00 £55.00 £58.65
Median % change year-on-year -34.55% -6.22% +21.24%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £81.74
England median hourly rate £28.00 £36.50 £37.42
% change year-on-year -23.29% -2.46% +49.68%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Management in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Product Management in the South West

Product Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Management in the South West over the 6 months to 28 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Management in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Management in the South West

Product Management
Contract Job Locations in the South 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 South West region over the 6 months to 28 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
Bristol +20 5 £456 -24.00% 21
Wiltshire +31 3 £375 -46.43% 6
Product Management
England

Product Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South 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 (25.00%) Adobe XD
1 2 (25.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (25.00%) Figma
General
1 5 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 3 (37.50%) Public Sector
3 2 (25.00%) Military
4 1 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Finance
4 1 (12.50%) Fire and Rescue
4 1 (12.50%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (12.50%) Police
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Product Owner
2 2 (25.00%) Designer
2 2 (25.00%) Digital Designer
2 2 (25.00%) Digital UX Designer
2 2 (25.00%) UI Designer
2 2 (25.00%) UI/UX Designer
2 2 (25.00%) UX Designer
3 1 (12.50%) Agile Product Owner
3 1 (12.50%) Lead
3 1 (12.50%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (25.00%) CSS
1 2 (25.00%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (62.50%) Project Management
1 5 (62.50%) Roadmaps
2 4 (50.00%) Agile
2 4 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 4 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 4 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
2 4 (50.00%) Project Delivery
3 3 (37.50%) Agile Project Management
3 3 (37.50%) Market Research
3 3 (37.50%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (37.50%) User Experience
3 3 (37.50%) UX Design
4 2 (25.00%) E-Commerce
4 2 (25.00%) Human-Centred Design
4 2 (25.00%) Knowledge Discovery
4 2 (25.00%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (25.00%) Usability Testing
4 2 (25.00%) User Research
4 2 (25.00%) Wireframes
5 1 (12.50%) Zero Trust
Programming Languages
1 2 (25.00%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (50.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) DV Cleared
2 2 (25.00%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (12.50%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (12.50%) JSP 440
1 1 (12.50%) QA
Vendors
1 2 (25.00%) Adobe