Product Management Contracts in the UK excluding London

Product Management
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 259 284 259
Rank change year-on-year +25 -25 -6
Contract jobs citing Product Management 77 116 214
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.60% 0.56% 0.89%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.67% 0.66% 0.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 45 73 173
10th Percentile £327 £409 £366
25th Percentile £400 £458 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -0.47%
75th Percentile £550 £645 £650
90th Percentile £615 £688 £686
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 6 3 0
10th Percentile £48.13 - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate £50.00 £26.66 -
Median % change year-on-year +87.55% - -
75th Percentile - £35.21 -
90th Percentile £55.00 £40.33 -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £42.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +17.65% +4.94% -27.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,543 17,602 21,544
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.42% 84.74% 89.52%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,249 10,520 14,947
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £483 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -3.50% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 825 2,048 1,307
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.28 £16.00
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +3.72% +80.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

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 1 May 2025.

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 1 May 2025.

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 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
South East +44 21 £500 -16.67% 145
North of England +16 18 £450 -5.66% 79
Midlands +22 16 £468 -23.98% 56
North West +12 12 £450 - 44
South West +41 9 £425 -33.33% 37
East Midlands +18 9 £450 -26.83% 15
East of England +32 7 £700 +47.37% 44
West Midlands +9 7 £525 -4.55% 41
Scotland -19 4 £600 +21.70% 19
Wales - 4 £322 - 9
Yorkshire +8 3 £401 -23.71% 26
North East +2 3 £450 -5.66% 10
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 2 (2.60%) Confluence
2 1 (1.30%) Appian
2 1 (1.30%) CMS
2 1 (1.30%) TPMS
Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Adobe XD
1 2 (2.60%) Microsoft Project
1 2 (2.60%) Sketch
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (1.30%) MS Visio
2 1 (1.30%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (2.60%) Teamcenter
2 1 (1.30%) Dynamics CRM
2 1 (1.30%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.30%) SAP ERP
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.39%) SaaS
2 6 (7.79%) Azure
3 5 (6.49%) Azure DevOps
4 3 (3.90%) AWS
4 3 (3.90%) Figma
4 3 (3.90%) Serverless
5 2 (2.60%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.60%) Cloud Computing
5 2 (2.60%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (1.30%) Dynamics 365
6 1 (1.30%) Power Platform
6 1 (1.30%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.49%) SD-WAN
2 1 (1.30%) BGP
2 1 (1.30%) Cisco IOS
2 1 (1.30%) DMZ
2 1 (1.30%) DNS
2 1 (1.30%) DWDM
2 1 (1.30%) Firewall
2 1 (1.30%) Internet
2 1 (1.30%) IPsec
2 1 (1.30%) L2TP
2 1 (1.30%) MPLS
2 1 (1.30%) Multicast
2 1 (1.30%) Network Security
2 1 (1.30%) OSPF
2 1 (1.30%) SSL
2 1 (1.30%) VPN
2 1 (1.30%) WAN
2 1 (1.30%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.30%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.60%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.30%) Geospatial Data
2 1 (1.30%) GIS
Development Applications
1 7 (9.09%) Selenium
2 4 (5.19%) Appium
2 4 (5.19%) JUnit
3 3 (3.90%) JIRA
3 3 (3.90%) SpecFlow
4 2 (2.60%) Balsamiq
5 1 (1.30%) Jenkins
General
1 27 (35.06%) Social Skills
2 19 (24.68%) Analytical Skills
3 12 (15.58%) Finance
4 10 (12.99%) Public Sector
5 6 (7.79%) Manufacturing
6 4 (5.19%) Presentation Skills
6 4 (5.19%) Retail
7 3 (3.90%) Aerospace
7 3 (3.90%) Banking
7 3 (3.90%) Marketing
7 3 (3.90%) Telecoms
8 2 (2.60%) Documentation Skills
8 2 (2.60%) Influencing Skills
8 2 (2.60%) Legal
8 2 (2.60%) Military
8 2 (2.60%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.30%) Automotive
9 1 (1.30%) Fire and Rescue
9 1 (1.30%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.30%) Police
Job Titles
1 23 (29.87%) Product Manager
2 17 (22.08%) Product Owner
3 9 (11.69%) Lead
4 8 (10.39%) Analyst
5 5 (6.49%) Architect
6 4 (5.19%) Business Analyst
6 4 (5.19%) QA Manager
6 4 (5.19%) QA Test Manager
6 4 (5.19%) Strategy Manager
6 4 (5.19%) Test Strategy Manager
7 3 (3.90%) Designer
7 3 (3.90%) Digital Product Owner
7 3 (3.90%) Project Manager
7 3 (3.90%) Senior
7 3 (3.90%) Senior Manager
7 3 (3.90%) Test Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) UX Designer
8 2 (2.60%) Lead Test Engineer
8 2 (2.60%) Network Manager
8 2 (2.60%) Support Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (6.49%) CSS
1 5 (6.49%) HTML
2 2 (2.60%) .NET
2 2 (2.60%) .NET Framework
2 2 (2.60%) AngularJS
2 2 (2.60%) ASP.NET Web API
2 2 (2.60%) Blazor
2 2 (2.60%) GWT
3 1 (1.30%) 802.1X
3 1 (1.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 23 (29.87%) Product Ownership
2 7 (9.09%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (3.90%) NHS
4 2 (2.60%) Analytical Mindset
4 2 (2.60%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (2.60%) Management Information System
5 1 (1.30%) IVR
5 1 (1.30%) Learning Management System
5 1 (1.30%) Onboarding
5 1 (1.30%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.30%) Android
1 1 (1.30%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.30%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 46 (59.74%) Agile
2 38 (49.35%) Roadmaps
3 28 (36.36%) Stakeholder Management
4 23 (29.87%) Product Roadmap
5 17 (22.08%) Problem-Solving
6 15 (19.48%) Continuous Improvement
6 15 (19.48%) Project Management
6 15 (19.48%) Scrum
7 14 (18.18%) Change Management
8 12 (15.58%) Business Analysis
8 12 (15.58%) Product Vision
8 12 (15.58%) User Experience
9 11 (14.29%) Product Requirements
9 11 (14.29%) Product Strategy
10 10 (12.99%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 10 (12.99%) User Stories
11 9 (11.69%) Market Research
11 9 (11.69%) Product Backlog
11 9 (11.69%) Strategic Roadmap
12 8 (10.39%) Project Delivery
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.49%) C#
2 4 (5.19%) SQL
3 2 (2.60%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.30%) Perl
4 1 (1.30%) PowerShell
4 1 (1.30%) Python
Qualifications
1 14 (18.18%) Degree
2 10 (12.99%) Security Cleared
3 7 (9.09%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.19%) Master's Degree
5 3 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (3.90%) DV Cleared
6 2 (2.60%) APMP
6 2 (2.60%) ISEB
6 2 (2.60%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (1.30%) CCIE
7 1 (1.30%) CCNP
7 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (1.30%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.09%) QA
2 2 (2.60%) Def Stans
3 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials
3 1 (1.30%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
3 1 (1.30%) GDPR
3 1 (1.30%) JSP 440
System Software
1 5 (6.49%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
Systems Management
1 2 (2.60%) Terraform
2 1 (1.30%) Ansible
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (1.30%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 8 (10.39%) SAP
2 5 (6.49%) VMware
3 4 (5.19%) Microsoft
4 3 (3.90%) Adobe
4 3 (3.90%) ServiceNow
5 2 (2.60%) Genesys
5 2 (2.60%) TOWER Software
6 1 (1.30%) Ab Initio
6 1 (1.30%) Arista
6 1 (1.30%) Avaya
6 1 (1.30%) Cisco
6 1 (1.30%) Fortinet
6 1 (1.30%) McAfee
6 1 (1.30%) Optimizely
6 1 (1.30%) Sage
6 1 (1.30%) Snow
6 1 (1.30%) Splunk