Product Management Contracts

Product Management
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 30 April 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 Apr 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 288 295 290
Rank change year-on-year +7 -5 +4
Contract jobs citing Product Management 255 341 543
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.87% 0.78% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.96% 0.91% 1.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 154 227 398
10th Percentile £352 £400 £395
25th Percentile £415 £450 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £539 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.05% - -
75th Percentile £600 £675 £650
90th Percentile £734 £800 £722
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -18.18% +4.76% -0.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 3
10th Percentile £46.25 - £37.08
25th Percentile - £26.66 £37.90
Median hourly rate £50.00 £42.50 £40.50
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% +4.94% -27.68%
75th Percentile £58.44 £68.75 £47.25
90th Percentile £65.25 - £50.55
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £26.66 -
% change year-on-year +87.55% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 26,551 37,621 53,662
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.82% 86.30% 89.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,137 24,254 37,244
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £521 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -0.86% -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £630 £638 £650
90th Percentile £744 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -3.80% - +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,071 2,437 1,746
10th Percentile £14.70 £12.75 £11.00
25th Percentile £18.50 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £35.50 £37.30
Median % change year-on-year -18.31% -4.83% +49.20%
75th Percentile £62.00 £59.95 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.94 £36.50 £36.00
% change year-on-year -23.45% +1.39% +80.00%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Product Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Management.

Hourly rate trend for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 30 April 2025.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 30 April 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 +18 233 £550 - 967
London +13 157 £563 +2.27% 686
UK excluding London +15 77 £450 -18.18% 322
Work from Home -11 72 £575 +4.55% 405
South East +42 22 £500 -16.67% 78
North of England +25 18 £450 -5.66% 78
Midlands +23 15 £466 -24.19% 55
North West +6 12 £450 - 44
South West +40 9 £425 -33.33% 36
East Midlands +17 8 £433 -29.67% 14
East of England +35 7 £700 +47.37% 32
West Midlands +11 7 £525 -4.55% 41
Scotland -23 4 £600 +21.70% 18
Wales - 4 £322 - 10
Yorkshire +15 3 £401 -23.71% 27
North East +2 3 £450 -5.66% 8

Product Management
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 12 (4.71%) Confluence
2 5 (1.96%) Drupal
3 4 (1.57%) nginx
4 3 (1.18%) CMS
5 2 (0.78%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.78%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.78%) WordPress
6 1 (0.39%) Appian
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) Jupyter
6 1 (0.39%) TPMS
Applications
1 9 (3.53%) Microsoft Excel
1 9 (3.53%) Trello
2 7 (2.75%) Sketch
3 6 (2.35%) Adobe XD
3 6 (2.35%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 5 (1.96%) Chatbot
4 5 (1.96%) MS Visio
5 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
6 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.78%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.39%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 23 (9.02%) Azure
2 19 (7.45%) SaaS
3 12 (4.71%) AWS
4 9 (3.53%) Azure DevOps
5 8 (3.14%) Power Platform
6 7 (2.75%) Figma
7 6 (2.35%) Microsoft 365
8 4 (1.57%) Copilot Studio
8 4 (1.57%) Serverless
9 3 (1.18%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.78%) Adobe Analytics
10 2 (0.78%) Amazon EKS
10 2 (0.78%) Apigee
10 2 (0.78%) Azure Data Factory
10 2 (0.78%) Cloud Computing
10 2 (0.78%) IaaS
10 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Copilot
10 2 (0.78%) PowerApps
11 1 (0.39%) Azure Machine Learning
11 1 (0.39%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.96%) SD-WAN
2 4 (1.57%) Internet
2 4 (1.57%) Network Security
3 3 (1.18%) BGP
3 3 (1.18%) Cisco IOS
3 3 (1.18%) DMZ
3 3 (1.18%) DNS
3 3 (1.18%) DWDM
3 3 (1.18%) Firewall
3 3 (1.18%) IPsec
3 3 (1.18%) L2TP
3 3 (1.18%) MPLS
3 3 (1.18%) Multicast
3 3 (1.18%) OSPF
3 3 (1.18%) SSL
3 3 (1.18%) VPN
3 3 (1.18%) WAN
3 3 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
3 3 (1.18%) Wireless
4 2 (0.78%) 4G
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (2.35%) Power BI
2 5 (1.96%) SQL Server
3 3 (1.18%) Data Lake
3 3 (1.18%) Tableau
4 1 (0.39%) Amazon RDS
4 1 (0.39%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.39%) GIS
4 1 (0.39%) MySQL
4 1 (0.39%) Neo4j
4 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
4 1 (0.39%) PostgreSQL
4 1 (0.39%) Relational Database
Development Applications
1 24 (9.41%) JIRA
2 9 (3.53%) Selenium
3 5 (1.96%) SpecFlow
4 4 (1.57%) Appium
4 4 (1.57%) JUnit
5 3 (1.18%) GitLab
6 2 (0.78%) Balsamiq
7 1 (0.39%) Eclipse
7 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
General
1 118 (46.27%) Social Skills
2 77 (30.20%) Finance
3 67 (26.27%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (16.47%) Public Sector
5 37 (14.51%) Retail
6 29 (11.37%) Marketing
7 14 (5.49%) Banking
7 14 (5.49%) Legal
8 13 (5.10%) Front Office
8 13 (5.10%) Presentation Skills
8 13 (5.10%) Telecoms
9 12 (4.71%) Financial Institution
10 10 (3.92%) Manufacturing
11 7 (2.75%) Influencing Skills
11 7 (2.75%) Local Government
12 5 (1.96%) Military
13 4 (1.57%) Documentation Skills
14 3 (1.18%) Aerospace
14 3 (1.18%) Billing
14 3 (1.18%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 105 (41.18%) Product Manager
2 31 (12.16%) Business Analyst
2 31 (12.16%) Senior
3 28 (10.98%) Analyst
3 28 (10.98%) Lead
4 24 (9.41%) Senior Manager
5 23 (9.02%) Product Owner
6 21 (8.24%) Senior Product Manager
7 10 (3.92%) Front Office Business Analyst
8 9 (3.53%) Architect
8 9 (3.53%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
8 9 (3.53%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
9 8 (3.14%) Designer
9 8 (3.14%) Product Analyst
10 6 (2.35%) Product Lead
11 5 (1.96%) Developer
11 5 (1.96%) Presales Engineer
11 5 (1.96%) Product Business Analyst
11 5 (1.96%) UX Designer
12 4 (1.57%) Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 13 (5.10%) CSS
1 13 (5.10%) HTML
2 5 (1.96%) React
3 3 (1.18%) .NET
3 3 (1.18%) 802.1X
4 2 (0.78%) .NET Framework
4 2 (0.78%) AngularJS
4 2 (0.78%) ASP.NET Web API
4 2 (0.78%) Blazor
4 2 (0.78%) GWT
4 2 (0.78%) REST
5 1 (0.39%) Kafka
5 1 (0.39%) Lightning Web Components
5 1 (0.39%) NumPy
5 1 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
5 1 (0.39%) Pandas
5 1 (0.39%) Plotly
5 1 (0.39%) RESTful
5 1 (0.39%) Statsmodels
5 1 (0.39%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 40 (15.69%) Product Ownership
2 10 (3.92%) Analytical Mindset
3 9 (3.53%) Data Protection Act
3 9 (3.53%) Fixed Income
4 6 (2.35%) Mobile App
5 5 (1.96%) Management Information System
5 5 (1.96%) Onboarding
6 4 (1.57%) Data Centre
6 4 (1.57%) FMCG
6 4 (1.57%) NHS
7 3 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
8 2 (0.78%) Digital Media
8 2 (0.78%) Greenfield Project
8 2 (0.78%) Renewable Energy
8 2 (0.78%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.78%) Smartphone
9 1 (0.39%) Blog
9 1 (0.39%) CMDB
9 1 (0.39%) IVR
9 1 (0.39%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 2 (0.78%) Unix
2 1 (0.39%) Android
2 1 (0.39%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.39%) Linux
2 1 (0.39%) VyOS
2 1 (0.39%) Windows
2 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 137 (53.73%) Agile
2 107 (41.96%) Roadmaps
3 65 (25.49%) Problem-Solving
4 57 (22.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 55 (21.57%) Product Roadmap
6 43 (16.86%) Business Analysis
6 43 (16.86%) Product Strategy
7 40 (15.69%) Continuous Improvement
8 36 (14.12%) Decision-Making
8 36 (14.12%) Project Management
9 33 (12.94%) Product Vision
10 32 (12.55%) User Experience
11 29 (11.37%) Analytics
11 29 (11.37%) Product Backlog
12 27 (10.59%) Scrum
12 27 (10.59%) User Stories
13 26 (10.20%) Backlog Prioritisation
14 25 (9.80%) DevOps
15 23 (9.02%) Strategic Roadmap
16 21 (8.24%) Backlog Management
Programming Languages
1 15 (5.88%) SQL
2 10 (3.92%) JavaScript
3 9 (3.53%) Python
4 8 (3.14%) C#
5 5 (1.96%) Java
5 5 (1.96%) PowerShell
6 3 (1.18%) Perl
7 2 (0.78%) PHP
8 1 (0.39%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.39%) Bash
8 1 (0.39%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 45 (17.65%) Degree
2 30 (11.76%) Security Cleared
3 25 (9.80%) SC Cleared
4 10 (3.92%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.96%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (1.18%) CCIE
6 3 (1.18%) CCNP
6 3 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
6 3 (1.18%) DV Cleared
7 2 (0.78%) APMP
7 2 (0.78%) ISEB
7 2 (0.78%) MBA
7 2 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
8 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
8 1 (0.39%) OSCP
8 1 (0.39%) TOGAF Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (5.49%) Accessibility
2 13 (5.10%) QA
3 3 (1.18%) GDPR
3 3 (1.18%) MiFID
4 2 (0.78%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 2 (0.78%) Data Quality
4 2 (0.78%) Def Stans
5 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
5 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
5 1 (0.39%) JSP 440
System Software
1 7 (2.75%) VMware Infrastructure
2 5 (1.96%) Docker
3 2 (0.78%) Virtual Desktop
4 1 (0.39%) Firmware
4 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
4 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
4 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 5 (1.96%) Ansible
2 3 (1.18%) Terraform
3 1 (0.39%) Cloudify
3 1 (0.39%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.39%) Plesk
3 1 (0.39%) Puppet
3 1 (0.39%) RSA Archer
3 1 (0.39%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 24 (9.41%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.71%) SAP
3 11 (4.31%) Adobe
4 9 (3.53%) ION Trading
4 9 (3.53%) Salesforce
5 7 (2.75%) VMware
6 4 (1.57%) Cisco
6 4 (1.57%) Oracle
6 4 (1.57%) ServiceNow
7 3 (1.18%) Arista
7 3 (1.18%) Databricks
7 3 (1.18%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.18%) McAfee
7 3 (1.18%) Splunk
8 2 (0.78%) Genesys
8 2 (0.78%) Google
8 2 (0.78%) Marketo
8 2 (0.78%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.78%) TOWER Software
9 1 (0.39%) Infoblox