Product Operations Contracts in the UK excluding London

Product Operations (Product Ops)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Product Operations skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Operations over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Product Operations 2 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
UK median daily rate £463 £575 £745
% change year-on-year -19.57% -22.82% +2.76%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Product Operations 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 11,553 17,505 21,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.71% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,248 10,459 14,852
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +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% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 834 2,060 1,308
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.34 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.19 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.72
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.33% -0.14% +44.00%

Product Operations
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Operations in the UK excluding London

Product Operations
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Product Operations in the UK excluding London

Product Operations
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 Operations within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
Midlands - 2 - - 2
West Midlands - 2 - - 1
Product Operations
UK

Product Operations
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:

General
1 2 (100.00%) Analytical Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Presentation Skills
1 2 (100.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (50.00%) Legal
Job Titles
1 2 (100.00%) Lead
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Product Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Lead Product Owner
2 1 (50.00%) Operations Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Product Operations Manager
2 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) Agile Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Continuous Improvement
1 2 (100.00%) Knowledge Management
1 2 (100.00%) PLM
1 2 (100.00%) Problem-Solving
1 2 (100.00%) Product Management
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Release Management
1 2 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 2 (100.00%) Scrum
1 2 (100.00%) SDLC
1 2 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking