Digital Product Manager Contracts

Digital Product Manager
UK

The median Digital Product Manager daily rate in the UK is £638 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 7 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
7 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 566 666 788
Rank change year-on-year +100 +122 -115
Contract jobs requiring a Digital Product Manager 19 27 61
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.044% 0.046% 0.069%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.048% 0.049% 0.073%
Number of daily rates quoted 13 22 43
10th Percentile £490 £501 £453
25th Percentile £588 £550 £504
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £625 £560
Median % change year-on-year +2.00% +11.61% +20.11%
75th Percentile £673 £650 £622
90th Percentile £715 - £675
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £650 £550
% change year-on-year -15.38% +18.18% +0.92%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 39,719 54,978 83,963
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.74% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,839 38,395 59,001
10th Percentile £280 £313 £313
25th Percentile £410 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,655 1,545 2,052
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.25 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.27%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.75 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.74 £76.40 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £19.52
% change year-on-year -5.88% +117.73% +2.74%

Digital Product Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Digital Product Manager in the UK

Digital Product Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Digital Product Manager.

Daily rate trend for Digital Product Manager in the UK

Digital Product Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Digital Product Manager over the 6 months to 7 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Digital Product Manager in the UK

Digital Product Manager
Top 8 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Digital Product Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 7 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
England +88 12 £638 +2.00% 7
London +91 10 £638 +14.35% 5
UK excluding London +59 9 £550 -15.38% 2
Work from Home +127 8 £644 +4.25% 3
Scotland - 7 £550 -
Midlands +32 1 £650 -
West Midlands +24 1 £650 -
South East +10 1 £485 -25.38% 1

Digital Product Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 7 May 2024, Digital 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 featuring Digital Product Manager in the job title.

1 10 (52.63%) Agile
2 7 (36.84%) Roadmaps
3 6 (31.58%) JIRA
3 6 (31.58%) Confluence
3 6 (31.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (26.32%) Scrum
5 4 (21.05%) Product Management
5 4 (21.05%) Finance
6 3 (15.79%) Project Management
6 3 (15.79%) User Stories
6 3 (15.79%) DevOps
6 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
6 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
6 3 (15.79%) User Research
7 2 (10.53%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (10.53%) Backlog Management
7 2 (10.53%) Product Backlog
7 2 (10.53%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 2 (10.53%) Epics
7 2 (10.53%) Lean Software Development
7 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
7 2 (10.53%) Lead Generation
7 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (10.53%) Programme Management
7 2 (10.53%) Atlassian
7 2 (10.53%) Web Services
7 2 (10.53%) Change Management
7 2 (10.53%) Product Roadmap
7 2 (10.53%) Strategic Roadmap

Digital Product Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 6 (31.58%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (5.26%) Azure
1 1 (5.26%) WhatsApp
Development Applications
1 6 (31.58%) JIRA
General
1 4 (21.05%) Finance
2 3 (15.79%) Public Sector
2 3 (15.79%) Social Skills
3 2 (10.53%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.26%) Automotive
4 1 (5.26%) Marketing
4 1 (5.26%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (10.53%) Web Services
Miscellaneous
1 2 (10.53%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (5.26%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (52.63%) Agile
2 7 (36.84%) Roadmaps
3 6 (31.58%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 5 (26.32%) Scrum
5 4 (21.05%) Product Management
6 3 (15.79%) DevOps
6 3 (15.79%) Project Management
6 3 (15.79%) User Research
6 3 (15.79%) User Stories
7 2 (10.53%) Backlog Management
7 2 (10.53%) Collaborative Culture
7 2 (10.53%) Epics
7 2 (10.53%) Lead Generation
7 2 (10.53%) Lean Software Development
7 2 (10.53%) Problem-Solving
7 2 (10.53%) Product Backlog
7 2 (10.53%) Product Roadmap
7 2 (10.53%) Requirements Gathering
7 2 (10.53%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 2 (10.53%) Strategic Roadmap
Qualifications
1 1 (5.26%) SC Cleared
1 1 (5.26%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (5.26%) PMO
Vendors
1 2 (10.53%) Atlassian
2 1 (5.26%) Microsoft