Product Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Product Management
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 24 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
24 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 279 261 260
Rank change year-on-year -18 -1 +15
Contract jobs citing Product Management 116 201 286
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.56% 0.83% 0.92%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.66% 0.93% 1.03%
Number of daily rates quoted 74 162 219
10th Percentile £409 £363 £400
25th Percentile £458 £449 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £528
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -0.47% +8.76%
75th Percentile £645 £650 £600
90th Percentile £688 £687 £675
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - -0.05% +10.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 13
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £26.66 - £56.00
75th Percentile £35.21 - £56.50
90th Percentile £40.33 - £69.05
UK median hourly rate £40.63 £46.00 £56.00
% change year-on-year -11.68% -17.86% +13.42%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,628 21,692 27,683
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.82% 89.60% 88.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,612 15,031 19,309
10th Percentile £246 £252 £231
25th Percentile £380 £400 £384
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,028 1,339 1,383
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.16 £16.25 £14.00
Median hourly rate £35.65 £37.30 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.42% +86.50% -8.09%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.62 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
% change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Product Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Product Management in the UK excluding London

Product Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Management in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Product Management in the UK excluding London

Product Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Management in the UK excluding London

Product Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Management in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Product Management in the UK excluding London

Product Management
Hourly Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Product Management in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 24 April 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Management in the UK excluding London

Product Management
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 24 April 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
Scotland +1 36 £493 -5.19% 29
South East -29 22 £600 +20.00% 100
North of England +29 21 £477 -15.20% 61
North West +20 17 £450 -25.00% 40
Midlands +30 16 £615 -5.38% 39
South West +19 14 £638 -1.92% 23
West Midlands +24 12 £550 -15.38% 19
East of England +5 6 £475 -10.38% 32
Yorkshire +16 3 £525 -8.70% 17
North East +16 1 £477 +83.46% 6
East Midlands +7 1 £615 -5.38% 20
Northern Ireland - 1 £640 - 7
Product Management
UK

Product Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 15 (12.93%) Confluence
2 2 (1.72%) IBM Domino
3 1 (0.86%) SharePoint
Applications
1 4 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (2.59%) MS Visio
3 2 (1.72%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (1.72%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (1.72%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 2 (1.72%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.86%) SAP EHS
2 1 (0.86%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 17 (14.66%) AWS
2 11 (9.48%) Amazon S3
2 11 (9.48%) AWS CloudFormation
2 11 (9.48%) AWS Lambda
2 11 (9.48%) Serverless
3 6 (5.17%) OpenShift
4 5 (4.31%) Azure
5 4 (3.45%) Amazon SageMaker
5 4 (3.45%) Rekognition
5 4 (3.45%) Textract
6 3 (2.59%) GCP
7 2 (1.72%) Figma
7 2 (1.72%) Google Analytics
7 2 (1.72%) Miro
7 2 (1.72%) Nutanix
8 1 (0.86%) Azure DevOps
8 1 (0.86%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (0.86%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.86%) WhatsApp
8 1 (0.86%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 3 (2.59%) Software-Defined Networking
1 3 (2.59%) VoIP
2 2 (1.72%) Cisco Nexus
2 2 (1.72%) DNS
2 2 (1.72%) Internet
2 2 (1.72%) VSAN
3 1 (0.86%) Intranet
3 1 (0.86%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.86%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (9.48%) Amazon Aurora
1 11 (9.48%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (2.59%) Data Lake
2 3 (2.59%) Elasticsearch
3 2 (1.72%) Relational Database
4 1 (0.86%) Mixpanel
4 1 (0.86%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 18 (15.52%) JIRA
2 3 (2.59%) Cypress.io
3 1 (0.86%) GitLab
General
1 38 (32.76%) Social Skills
2 28 (24.14%) Public Sector
3 23 (19.83%) Analytical Skills
4 19 (16.38%) Finance
5 15 (12.93%) Marketing
6 10 (8.62%) Manufacturing
6 10 (8.62%) Presentation Skills
7 8 (6.90%) Influencing Skills
8 7 (6.03%) Telecoms
9 6 (5.17%) Electronics
10 4 (3.45%) Billing
10 4 (3.45%) Retail
11 3 (2.59%) Automotive
11 3 (2.59%) Legal
11 3 (2.59%) Pharmaceutical
12 2 (1.72%) Banking
12 2 (1.72%) Mandarin Language
12 2 (1.72%) Public Speaking
13 1 (0.86%) Games
13 1 (0.86%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 37 (31.90%) Product Manager
2 13 (11.21%) Analyst
3 12 (10.34%) Developer
3 12 (10.34%) Product Owner
4 11 (9.48%) Lead
5 10 (8.62%) Business Analyst
6 5 (4.31%) Architect
6 5 (4.31%) Designer
6 5 (4.31%) Digital Product Manager
6 5 (4.31%) Senior
6 5 (4.31%) UX Designer
7 4 (3.45%) Automation Developer
7 4 (3.45%) Consultant
7 4 (3.45%) Data Manager
7 4 (3.45%) React Developer
7 4 (3.45%) Technical Leader
7 4 (3.45%) Technical Manager
8 3 (2.59%) Data Analyst
8 3 (2.59%) Senior Analyst
8 3 (2.59%) Senior Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (9.48%) AWS CDK
2 10 (8.62%) HTML
3 9 (7.76%) CSS
4 8 (6.90%) React
5 3 (2.59%) Elastic Stack
5 3 (2.59%) Lucene
6 2 (1.72%) RESTful
7 1 (0.86%) Flask
7 1 (0.86%) Kafka
7 1 (0.86%) RabbitMQ
7 1 (0.86%) REST
7 1 (0.86%) WebRTC
Miscellaneous
1 32 (27.59%) Product Ownership
2 5 (4.31%) Management Information System
2 5 (4.31%) Private Cloud
3 4 (3.45%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (3.45%) Distributed Systems
4 3 (2.59%) Legacy Systems
4 3 (2.59%) Reference Data
5 2 (1.72%) Data Centre
5 2 (1.72%) Graphic Design
5 2 (1.72%) IoT
5 2 (1.72%) Onboarding
5 2 (1.72%) Public Cloud
5 2 (1.72%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (1.72%) SCADA
5 2 (1.72%) Self-Motivation
5 2 (1.72%) Solar Power
5 2 (1.72%) Virtual Team
6 1 (0.86%) Analytical Mindset
6 1 (0.86%) BBC
6 1 (0.86%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 5 (4.31%) Linux
2 1 (0.86%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 69 (59.48%) Agile
2 46 (39.66%) Roadmaps
3 25 (21.55%) User Stories
4 23 (19.83%) Product Roadmap
4 23 (19.83%) Service Design
5 19 (16.38%) Project Management
5 19 (16.38%) Scrum
5 19 (16.38%) User Experience
5 19 (16.38%) User Research
6 17 (14.66%) DevOps
6 17 (14.66%) Epics
6 17 (14.66%) Product Backlog
6 17 (14.66%) Stakeholder Management
7 15 (12.93%) Business Case
7 15 (12.93%) Decision-Making
8 14 (12.07%) Backlog Management
9 11 (9.48%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 11 (9.48%) Infrastructure as Code
9 11 (9.48%) Mentoring
9 11 (9.48%) Product Strategy
Programming Languages
1 12 (10.34%) Python
2 11 (9.48%) TypeScript
3 10 (8.62%) JavaScript
4 9 (7.76%) Java
5 5 (4.31%) SQL
6 2 (1.72%) Bash
Qualifications
1 27 (23.28%) Security Cleared
2 18 (15.52%) SC Cleared
3 15 (12.93%) Degree
4 7 (6.03%) DV Cleared
5 5 (4.31%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (2.59%) CCNA
6 3 (2.59%) Master's Degree
7 2 (1.72%) CCNP
7 2 (1.72%) DBS Check
7 2 (1.72%) MBA
8 1 (0.86%) CBAP
8 1 (0.86%) Computer Science Degree
8 1 (0.86%) IIBA
8 1 (0.86%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (12.93%) Accessibility
2 8 (6.90%) QA
3 6 (5.17%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (3.45%) Data Quality
5 3 (2.59%) SLA
6 2 (1.72%) GDPR
7 1 (0.86%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.86%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.86%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.86%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.86%) NCSC
7 1 (0.86%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.86%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (3.45%) Docker
2 3 (2.59%) VMware Infrastructure
3 2 (1.72%) Hyper-V
3 2 (1.72%) KVM
3 2 (1.72%) VMware NSX
3 2 (1.72%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (8.62%) Grafana
2 4 (3.45%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.86%) Terraform
Vendors
1 9 (7.76%) SAP
2 6 (5.17%) Microsoft
3 5 (4.31%) Cisco
4 4 (3.45%) Google
5 3 (2.59%) Adobe
5 3 (2.59%) Meraki
5 3 (2.59%) VMware
6 2 (1.72%) ServiceNow
6 2 (1.72%) Splunk
7 1 (0.86%) Atlassian
7 1 (0.86%) Databricks
7 1 (0.86%) Workday