Product Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Product Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Product Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
13 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 297 312 347
Rank change year-on-year +15 +35 -9
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 85 141 160
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.60% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.64% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 114 118
10th Percentile £409 £415 £409
25th Percentile £450 £450 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £538 £539
Median % change year-on-year +6.98% -0.23% +19.72%
75th Percentile £600 £650 £623
90th Percentile £650 - £675
UK median daily rate £585 £550 £560
% change year-on-year +6.36% -1.79% +12.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £39.55 -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year +70.67% -6.94% -40.97%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK excluding London with a recognized job title 18,841 22,170 29,329
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.51% 94.33% 95.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,467 15,486 20,548
10th Percentile £213 £225 £203
25th Percentile £363 £400 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £595 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £540 £525
% change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,255 1,134 1,466
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.75 £18.08 £14.25
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.08 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.94% +110.39% +3.98%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.00 £44.03
90th Percentile £74.00 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -16.67% +88.21% +6.13%

Product Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Product Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Product Manager in the UK excluding London

Product Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Product Manager in the UK excluding London

Product Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 13 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Manager in the UK excluding London

Product Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Manager in the UK excluding London

Product Manager
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 Manager within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 13 May 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 +39 26 £575 +27.78% 7
North of England -8 18 £585 +6.36% 31
South West +17 15 £450 -30.77% 9
North West +20 14 £518 -13.75% 19
South East -26 14 £505 -1.46% 34
Midlands +31 10 £600 - 28
West Midlands +21 8 £600 -7.69% 23
Yorkshire -3 4 £600 +9.09% 8
East Midlands +21 2 £601 -7.50% 5
Northern Ireland +7 1 £640 +34.74% 2
East of England +5 1 £700 +7.69% 12
Product Manager
UK

Product Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 13 May 2024, Product Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads across the UK excluding London region featuring Product Manager in the job title.

1 52 (61.18%) Agile
2 36 (42.35%) Product Management
3 35 (41.18%) Roadmaps
4 32 (37.65%) Public Sector
5 31 (36.47%) Security Cleared
6 28 (32.94%) SC Cleared
7 25 (29.41%) User Stories
8 24 (28.24%) JIRA
9 23 (27.06%) User Research
10 22 (25.88%) Confluence
11 20 (23.53%) Epics
12 18 (21.18%) Project Management
13 16 (18.82%) Product Ownership
14 14 (16.47%) Product Roadmap
15 13 (15.29%) Product Backlog
16 12 (14.12%) Business Case
16 12 (14.12%) Finance
16 12 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
17 11 (12.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
18 9 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
18 9 (10.59%) Matrix Organization
18 9 (10.59%) Telecoms
18 9 (10.59%) Backlog Management
18 9 (10.59%) Social Skills
19 8 (9.41%) Manufacturing
19 8 (9.41%) Degree
19 8 (9.41%) Minimum Viable Product
19 8 (9.41%) DevOps
19 8 (9.41%) Analytics
20 7 (8.24%) Scrum

Product Manager Skill Set
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 22 (25.88%) Confluence
2 5 (5.88%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (4.71%) SaaS
2 2 (2.35%) Azure
3 1 (1.18%) AWS
3 1 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.18%) GitHub
3 1 (1.18%) Google Analytics
3 1 (1.18%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (1.18%) Miro
3 1 (1.18%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.18%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (1.18%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.88%) Crystal Reports
1 5 (5.88%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.18%) Power BI
2 1 (1.18%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 24 (28.24%) JIRA
2 1 (1.18%) GitLab
General
1 32 (37.65%) Public Sector
2 12 (14.12%) Finance
3 9 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.59%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.59%) Telecoms
4 8 (9.41%) Manufacturing
5 6 (7.06%) Marketing
6 5 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (4.71%) Electronics
7 4 (4.71%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.53%) Banking
9 2 (2.35%) Automotive
9 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.35%) Retail
10 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.18%) .NET
1 1 (1.18%) .NET Framework
1 1 (1.18%) ASP.NET
1 1 (1.18%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (1.18%) Entity Framework
1 1 (1.18%) HTML
1 1 (1.18%) HTML5
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.82%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.71%) Digital Signage
2 4 (4.71%) Reference Data
2 4 (4.71%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (2.35%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.18%) Blockchain
4 1 (1.18%) IoT
4 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.18%) Linux
1 1 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (61.18%) Agile
2 36 (42.35%) Product Management
3 35 (41.18%) Roadmaps
4 25 (29.41%) User Stories
5 23 (27.06%) User Research
6 20 (23.53%) Epics
7 18 (21.18%) Project Management
8 14 (16.47%) Product Roadmap
9 13 (15.29%) Product Backlog
10 12 (14.12%) Business Case
10 12 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
11 11 (12.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 9 (10.59%) Backlog Management
12 9 (10.59%) Matrix Organization
13 8 (9.41%) Analytics
13 8 (9.41%) DevOps
13 8 (9.41%) Minimum Viable Product
14 7 (8.24%) Decision-Making
14 7 (8.24%) Scrum
15 6 (7.06%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.88%) SQL
2 1 (1.18%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 31 (36.47%) Security Cleared
2 28 (32.94%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.41%) Degree
4 3 (3.53%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.35%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.35%) MBA
6 1 (1.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.18%) PSD2
1 1 (1.18%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (8.24%) SAP
2 5 (5.88%) IFS
3 4 (4.71%) Logitech
3 4 (4.71%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.35%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.18%) Databricks
5 1 (1.18%) Google