Product Governance Contract Job Trends

Product Governance
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Product Governance skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 10 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 567 620
Rank change year-on-year +19 +53 +195
Contract jobs citing Product Governance 3 4 12
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.009% 0.011% 0.025%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.010% 0.012% 0.028%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 10
10th Percentile £534 £463 £536
25th Percentile £548 £481 £581
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £594 £513 £624
Median % change year-on-year +15.85% -17.84% -0.20%
75th Percentile £636 £544 £650
90th Percentile £648 £563 £683
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £513 £696
% change year-on-year +7.32% -26.36% +23.73%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product Governance 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,973 32,628 42,779
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.49% 86.03% 88.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,608 19,666 29,053
10th Percentile £294 £308 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,884 1,294 1,571
10th Percentile £14.35 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.03 £18.64
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.16 £43.84
Median % change year-on-year -37.38% -8.38% +39.16%
75th Percentile £43.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £73.93 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.27 £41.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -46.35% -2.35% +70.00%

Product Governance
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Product Governance relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Product Governance job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Governance
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Governance.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Governance

Product Governance
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Governance within the UK over the 6 months to 10 October 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
England +6 2 £638 +41.67% 14
London - 2 £638 - 10
UK excluding London -9 1 £550 +7.32% 10
Work from Home - 1 £638 - 13
Northern Ireland - 1 £550 -

Product Governance
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Cloud Services
1 1 (33.33%) Power Automate
1 1 (33.33%) Power Platform
1 1 (33.33%) PowerApps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (33.33%) Power BI
1 1 (33.33%) Power Query
1 1 (33.33%) Tableau
General
1 2 (66.67%) Banking
1 2 (66.67%) Finance
1 2 (66.67%) Social Skills
2 1 (33.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Analyst
1 2 (66.67%) Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Audit Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Business Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Business Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Governance Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) MiFID Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) MiFID Project Manager
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Risk Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Operational Risk Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Operations Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Product Consultant
2 1 (33.33%) Project Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Business Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Operations Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Senior Risk Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 1 (33.33%) Management Information System
1 1 (33.33%) Onboarding
1 1 (33.33%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (66.67%) Regulatory Change
2 1 (33.33%) Analytics
2 1 (33.33%) Business Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (33.33%) Data Analysis
2 1 (33.33%) Data Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Project Management
2 1 (33.33%) Risk Management
2 1 (33.33%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (33.33%) Visualisation
2 1 (33.33%) Workload Management
Programming Languages
1 1 (33.33%) Python
1 1 (33.33%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) MiFID
Vendors
1 1 (33.33%) Microsoft