Product Management Contracts in the Thames Valley

Product Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Thames Valley 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 94 125 110
Rank change year-on-year +31 -15 +34
Contract jobs citing Product Management 11 14 37
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 0.73% 0.52% 1.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.79% 0.60% 1.40%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 8 28
10th Percentile £460 £511 £313
25th Percentile £496 £525 £404
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -13.04% +9.52% +7.69%
75th Percentile £533 £681 £650
90th Percentile £552 £703 -
South East median daily rate £500 £600 £500
% change year-on-year -16.67% +20.00% +11.11%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,390 2,333 2,647
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 92.85% 86.99% 91.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 844 1,308 1,845
10th Percentile £300 £213 £322
25th Percentile £413 £370 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year - - +3.31%
75th Percentile £601 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £688
South East median daily rate £500 £501 £510
% change year-on-year -0.10% -1.86% +2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 58 170 62
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.42 £18.60
25th Percentile £14.54 £19.25 £24.86
Median hourly rate £32.05 £45.00 £51.25
Median % change year-on-year -28.78% -12.20% +192.86%
75th Percentile £62.44 £65.00 £66.21
90th Percentile £78.03 £85.65 £79.19
South East median hourly rate £28.00 £47.50 £50.00
% change year-on-year -41.05% -5.00% +127.43%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Management in the Thames Valley

Product Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Management in the Thames Valley.

Daily rate trend for Product Management in the Thames Valley

Product Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Management in the Thames Valley.

Hourly rate trend for Product Management in the Thames Valley

Product Management
Contract Job Locations in the Thames Valley

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 Thames Valley region over the 6 months to 3 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
Berkshire +24 9 £498 -17.08% 15
Buckinghamshire - 2 £551 - 5
Product Management
South East

Product Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Thames Valley 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 (18.18%) Microsoft Project
Cloud Services
1 2 (18.18%) Amazon EKS
1 2 (18.18%) AWS
1 2 (18.18%) SaaS
1 2 (18.18%) Serverless
2 1 (9.09%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 5 (45.45%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) SQL Server
General
1 1 (9.09%) Finance
1 1 (9.09%) Public Sector
1 1 (9.09%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 5 (45.45%) Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Engineering Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Product Architect
2 2 (18.18%) Project Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Senior
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Manager
2 2 (18.18%) Senior Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Product Manager
3 1 (9.09%) Product Owner
3 1 (9.09%) SC Cleared Project Manager
3 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) .NET
1 2 (18.18%) .NET Framework
1 2 (18.18%) AngularJS
1 2 (18.18%) ASP.NET Web API
Miscellaneous
1 5 (45.45%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (9.09%) Greenfield Project
2 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (90.91%) Agile
2 8 (72.73%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (54.55%) Product Roadmap
3 6 (54.55%) Project Management
3 6 (54.55%) Roadmaps
4 5 (45.45%) Business Analysis
4 5 (45.45%) Data Protection
5 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
5 2 (18.18%) Code Quality
5 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
5 2 (18.18%) Full-Stack Development
5 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2
5 2 (18.18%) Scaled Agile Framework
5 2 (18.18%) Software Engineering
6 1 (9.09%) Business Strategy
6 1 (9.09%) Commercial Awareness
6 1 (9.09%) Contract Management
6 1 (9.09%) Deployment Automation
6 1 (9.09%) Epics
6 1 (9.09%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 2 (18.18%) C#
1 2 (18.18%) SQL
Qualifications
1 2 (18.18%) APMP
1 2 (18.18%) ISEB
1 2 (18.18%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
1 2 (18.18%) SC Cleared
1 2 (18.18%) Security Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
System Software
1 5 (45.45%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 2 (18.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 5 (45.45%) VMware
2 1 (9.09%) Microsoft
2 1 (9.09%) ServiceNow
2 1 (9.09%) Snow