Product Management Contract Job Trends in the Thames Valley

Product Management
South East > Thames Valley

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the Thames Valley requiring Product Management skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 8 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 118 104 132
Rank change year-on-year -14 +28 +30
Contract jobs citing Product Management 10 20 13
As % of all contract jobs in the Thames Valley 0.49% 0.95% 0.51%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 1.08% 0.56%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 12 4
10th Percentile - £401 £431
25th Percentile - £422 £459
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £350 £563 £493
Median % change year-on-year -37.78% +14.21% -5.29%
75th Percentile £419 £575 £525
90th Percentile £460 - -
South East median daily rate £450 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -12.20% +2.50% -16.67%

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 1,788 1,859 2,335
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley 88.38% 88.27% 91.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,153 1,089 1,510
10th Percentile £263 £296 £214
25th Percentile £400 £409 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +5.00% -
75th Percentile £588 £638 £615
90th Percentile £650 £688 £695
South East median daily rate £500 £513 £523
% change year-on-year -2.44% -1.91% +1.95%
Number of hourly rates quoted 140 58 105
10th Percentile £14.75 £19.14 £17.68
25th Percentile £17.15 £32.90 £25.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £57.12 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -55.97% +14.25% +138.10%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.31 £64.50
90th Percentile £87.41 £71.24 £74.08
South East median hourly rate £22.00 £55.00 £52.50
% change year-on-year -60.00% +4.76% +23.01%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the Thames Valley

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Product Management relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the Thames Valley.

Product Management job vacancy trend in the Thames Valley

Product Management
Daily Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Product Management.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Product Management

Product Management
Hourly Rate Trend in the Thames Valley

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Product Management.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the Thames Valley citing Product Management

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 8 December 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 -11 9 £350 -39.13% 29
Oxfordshire -12 1 - - 6
Product Management
South East

Product Management
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the Thames Valley by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (10.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (10.00%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (10.00%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (20.00%) Azure
2 1 (10.00%) AWS
2 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
2 1 (10.00%) Lucidchart
2 1 (10.00%) Power Platform
Communications & Networking
1 3 (30.00%) SD-WAN
2 2 (20.00%) 5G
2 2 (20.00%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 2 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 2 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Aerospace
3 1 (10.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Finance
3 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (10.00%) Manufacturing
3 1 (10.00%) Marketing
3 1 (10.00%) Publishing
3 1 (10.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (20.00%) Architect
1 2 (20.00%) Product Architect
2 1 (10.00%) Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Business Process Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Developer
2 1 (10.00%) Process Analyst
2 1 (10.00%) Product Engineer
2 1 (10.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (10.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Project Manager
2 1 (10.00%) Senior
2 1 (10.00%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) OpenTelemetry
1 1 (10.00%) PySpark
Miscellaneous
1 3 (30.00%) Data Protection Act
2 2 (20.00%) Renewable Energy
3 1 (10.00%) Life Science
3 1 (10.00%) Management Information System
3 1 (10.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Virtual Team
Processes & Methodologies
1 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 3 (30.00%) Collaborative Working
3 3 (30.00%) Data Protection
3 3 (30.00%) Roadmaps
4 2 (20.00%) AI
4 2 (20.00%) Architectural Design
4 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) DevOps
4 2 (20.00%) ITIL
4 2 (20.00%) PRINCE2
4 2 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (20.00%) Process Improvement
4 2 (20.00%) Product Strategy
4 2 (20.00%) Product Vision
4 2 (20.00%) Programme Management
4 2 (20.00%) Project Management
5 1 (10.00%) Customer Experience
5 1 (10.00%) Data Pipeline
5 1 (10.00%) Full-Stack Development
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 2 (20.00%) Degree
1 2 (20.00%) PMI Certification
1 2 (20.00%) PMP
2 1 (10.00%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (10.00%) QA
Vendors
1 3 (30.00%) Fortinet
2 1 (10.00%) Foundry
2 1 (10.00%) Juniper
2 1 (10.00%) Palantir