Product Management Contracts

Product Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Product Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Management over the 6 months to 25 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
25 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 287 299 297
Rank change year-on-year +12 -2 +54
Contract jobs citing Product Management 344 525 805
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.79% 0.87% 0.91%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.97% 1.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 229 383 578
10th Percentile £406 £382 £408
25th Percentile £456 £455 £470
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -0.05% +10.05%
75th Percentile £663 £650 £650
90th Percentile £800 £720 £752
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £528
% change year-on-year +4.76% -0.47% +8.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 16
10th Percentile - £37.08 £33.62
25th Percentile £26.66 £37.90 £55.59
Median hourly rate £42.50 £40.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.94% -27.68% +13.42%
75th Percentile £68.75 £47.25 £58.16
90th Percentile - £50.55 £69.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.66 - £56.00
% change year-on-year - - +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,653 53,977 80,244
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.28% 89.91% 90.57%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,313 37,392 56,301
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,429 1,779 1,937
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.54 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.00 £37.50 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -6.67% +50.00% -
75th Percentile £59.44 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £35.98 £35.90 £20.00
% change year-on-year +0.21% +79.50% -8.09%

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 2024.

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 25 April 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 +14 286 £550 -4.35% 508
London +34 193 £550 -8.33% 267
Work from Home +72 138 £550 - 237
UK excluding London -10 116 £550 +4.76% 264
Scotland -6 36 £493 -5.19% 22
South East -30 22 £600 +20.00% 95
North of England +22 21 £477 -15.20% 55
North West +17 17 £450 -25.00% 35
Midlands +18 16 £615 -5.38% 33
South West +22 14 £638 -1.92% 21
West Midlands +20 12 £550 -15.38% 18
East of England +1 6 £475 -10.38% 34
Yorkshire +17 3 £525 -8.70% 17
North East +17 1 £477 +83.46% 5
East Midlands +12 1 £615 -5.38% 15
Northern Ireland - 1 £640 - 6

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 17 (4.94%) Confluence
2 7 (2.03%) CMS
2 7 (2.03%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.74%) Apache
3 6 (1.74%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.16%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.58%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.29%) Apache Solr
6 1 (0.29%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.29%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.74%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.74%) MS Visio
2 3 (0.87%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 2 (0.58%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.58%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Project
3 2 (0.58%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 9 (2.62%) Oracle Applications
2 7 (2.03%) Loan IQ
3 3 (0.87%) Endur
4 2 (0.58%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.58%) Softmar
5 1 (0.29%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.29%) Dynamics CRM
5 1 (0.29%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.29%) SAP Hybris
5 1 (0.29%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.29%) SimCorp Dimension
5 1 (0.29%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 54 (15.70%) AWS
2 37 (10.76%) Azure
3 16 (4.65%) GCP
3 16 (4.65%) Serverless
4 13 (3.78%) SaaS
5 12 (3.49%) AWS CloudFormation
6 11 (3.20%) Amazon S3
6 11 (3.20%) AWS Lambda
7 9 (2.62%) OCI
7 9 (2.62%) Oracle CX
7 9 (2.62%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 8 (2.33%) dbt
9 7 (2.03%) Power Platform
10 6 (1.74%) Azure DevOps
10 6 (1.74%) Cloud Computing
10 6 (1.74%) OpenShift
11 5 (1.45%) Figma
11 5 (1.45%) Microsoft 365
12 4 (1.16%) Amazon SageMaker
12 4 (1.16%) Power Automate
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.74%) Internet
2 5 (1.45%) DNS
2 5 (1.45%) Kerberos
3 4 (1.16%) Cisco Nexus
3 4 (1.16%) Software-Defined Networking
3 4 (1.16%) VSAN
4 3 (0.87%) HTTP
4 3 (0.87%) Intranet
4 3 (0.87%) VoIP
5 2 (0.58%) Unified Communications
6 1 (0.29%) Ethernet
6 1 (0.29%) Firewall
6 1 (0.29%) SD-WAN
6 1 (0.29%) VPN
6 1 (0.29%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 14 (4.07%) PostgreSQL
2 11 (3.20%) Amazon Aurora
3 9 (2.62%) Oracle Reports
4 7 (2.03%) Couchbase
4 7 (2.03%) Power BI
4 7 (2.03%) Relational Database
5 6 (1.74%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (1.74%) Apache Arrow
5 6 (1.74%) Apache Ignite
5 6 (1.74%) Dremio
6 5 (1.45%) NoSQL
7 4 (1.16%) Data Lake
7 4 (1.16%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.87%) PostHog
8 3 (0.87%) Tableau
9 2 (0.58%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.58%) GIS
9 2 (0.58%) Mixpanel
9 2 (0.58%) MySQL
10 1 (0.29%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 28 (8.14%) JIRA
2 4 (1.16%) Cypress.io
3 3 (0.87%) Git
4 2 (0.58%) Bitbucket
4 2 (0.58%) GitLab
4 2 (0.58%) Karma Test Runner
5 1 (0.29%) Storybook
General
1 115 (33.43%) Social Skills
2 85 (24.71%) Finance
3 54 (15.70%) Analytical Skills
4 42 (12.21%) Public Sector
5 41 (11.92%) Marketing
6 32 (9.30%) Presentation Skills
7 19 (5.52%) Banking
8 17 (4.94%) Front Office
9 15 (4.36%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (4.36%) Retail
10 14 (4.07%) Manufacturing
11 13 (3.78%) Telecoms
12 11 (3.20%) Legal
13 10 (2.91%) Investment Banking
14 7 (2.03%) Electronics
14 7 (2.03%) Financial Institution
15 5 (1.45%) Games
15 5 (1.45%) German Language
16 4 (1.16%) Automotive
16 4 (1.16%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 104 (30.23%) Product Manager
2 41 (11.92%) Analyst
2 41 (11.92%) Product Owner
3 36 (10.47%) Business Analyst
4 26 (7.56%) Senior
5 25 (7.27%) Architect
6 24 (6.98%) Consultant
7 23 (6.69%) Developer
8 21 (6.10%) Lead
9 15 (4.36%) Technical Manager
10 12 (3.49%) Finance Manager
10 12 (3.49%) Product Analyst
10 12 (3.49%) Product Business Analyst
11 11 (3.20%) Software Engineer
11 11 (3.20%) Solutions Architect
12 10 (2.91%) Business Manager
12 10 (2.91%) Finance Business Analyst
12 10 (2.91%) Financial Analyst
12 10 (2.91%) Senior Manager
13 9 (2.62%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 18 (5.23%) HTML
2 17 (4.94%) CSS
3 12 (3.49%) React
4 11 (3.20%) AWS CDK
5 10 (2.91%) OAuth
6 8 (2.33%) Kafka
6 8 (2.33%) OpenID
6 8 (2.33%) SAML
7 7 (2.03%) Node.js
7 7 (2.03%) REST
7 7 (2.03%) RESTful
8 6 (1.74%) gRPC
8 6 (1.74%) LDAP
8 6 (1.74%) NumPy
8 6 (1.74%) Pandas
8 6 (1.74%) Protocol Buffers
8 6 (1.74%) SciPy
9 4 (1.16%) Elastic Stack
9 4 (1.16%) Lucene
10 3 (0.87%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 88 (25.58%) Product Ownership
2 22 (6.40%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 18 (5.23%) Derivative
4 16 (4.65%) Equities
4 16 (4.65%) Fixed Income
4 16 (4.65%) Hedge funds
5 12 (3.49%) Management Information System
6 10 (2.91%) Private Cloud
7 8 (2.33%) Data Protection Act
8 7 (2.03%) Onboarding
9 6 (1.74%) CMDB
9 6 (1.74%) Distributed Systems
9 6 (1.74%) Team-Oriented Environment
10 5 (1.45%) Legacy Systems
10 5 (1.45%) Renewable Energy
10 5 (1.45%) Social Media
11 4 (1.16%) Data Centre
11 4 (1.16%) IoT
11 4 (1.16%) Public Cloud
12 3 (0.87%) Blockchain
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.03%) Linux
2 3 (0.87%) Windows
3 2 (0.58%) Android
3 2 (0.58%) Apple iOS
4 1 (0.29%) Unix
4 1 (0.29%) Windows 10
4 1 (0.29%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 172 (50.00%) Agile
2 119 (34.59%) Roadmaps
3 54 (15.70%) Scrum
4 53 (15.41%) Product Roadmap
5 51 (14.83%) Analytics
5 51 (14.83%) Stakeholder Management
6 48 (13.95%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (12.50%) User Experience
8 42 (12.21%) Decision-Making
8 42 (12.21%) Product Strategy
9 39 (11.34%) User Stories
10 36 (10.47%) Project Management
11 34 (9.88%) Continuous Improvement
11 34 (9.88%) Software Engineering
12 32 (9.30%) Strategic Roadmap
13 31 (9.01%) Mentoring
13 31 (9.01%) Product Backlog
14 29 (8.43%) DevOps
14 29 (8.43%) Product Vision
15 28 (8.14%) Service Design
Programming Languages
1 45 (13.08%) Python
2 33 (9.59%) Java
3 28 (8.14%) SQL
4 22 (6.40%) JavaScript
5 21 (6.10%) TypeScript
6 10 (2.91%) C++
7 9 (2.62%) Ruby
8 6 (1.74%) Scala
9 4 (1.16%) Bash
9 4 (1.16%) C#
9 4 (1.16%) PHP
10 3 (0.87%) C
10 3 (0.87%) Data Analysis Expressions
11 1 (0.29%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.29%) VBA
Qualifications
1 57 (16.57%) Degree
2 50 (14.53%) Security Cleared
3 36 (10.47%) SC Cleared
4 16 (4.65%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.33%) Cisco Certification
5 8 (2.33%) Computer Science Degree
5 8 (2.33%) DV Cleared
6 6 (1.74%) PMI Certification
6 6 (1.74%) PMP
7 4 (1.16%) CCNA
7 4 (1.16%) CCNP
7 4 (1.16%) MBA
7 4 (1.16%) PgMP
8 3 (0.87%) CBAP
9 2 (0.58%) Azure Certification
9 2 (0.58%) CSPO
9 2 (0.58%) DBS Check
9 2 (0.58%) PhD
9 2 (0.58%) PRINCE2 Certification
10 1 (0.29%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 25 (7.27%) QA
2 18 (5.23%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.74%) Disclosure Scotland
4 4 (1.16%) Data Quality
5 3 (0.87%) GDPR
5 3 (0.87%) SLA
6 2 (0.58%) PMO
7 1 (0.29%) Def Stans
7 1 (0.29%) Government Security Classifications
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 22301
7 1 (0.29%) ISO 8583
7 1 (0.29%) NCSC
7 1 (0.29%) NIST
7 1 (0.29%) NIST 800
7 1 (0.29%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.29%) PSD2
System Software
1 11 (3.20%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.03%) Active Directory
3 6 (1.74%) Docker
3 6 (1.74%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.16%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.16%) KVM
4 4 (1.16%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.16%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (2.91%) Grafana
2 7 (2.03%) Kubernetes
3 5 (1.45%) PingFederate
4 4 (1.16%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 2 (0.58%) Microsoft Intune
5 2 (0.58%) Terraform
6 1 (0.29%) Bugsnag
6 1 (0.29%) CASB
6 1 (0.29%) Matomo
6 1 (0.29%) Nessus
6 1 (0.29%) SCCM
6 1 (0.29%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.29%) vRealize
Vendors
1 27 (7.85%) Microsoft
2 21 (6.10%) Oracle
3 14 (4.07%) SAP
4 12 (3.49%) VMware
5 8 (2.33%) Cisco
6 6 (1.74%) Google
7 5 (1.45%) Adobe
7 5 (1.45%) Ping Identity
7 5 (1.45%) Salesforce
8 4 (1.16%) Meraki
8 4 (1.16%) Splunk
9 3 (0.87%) ServiceNow
10 2 (0.58%) Amplitude
10 2 (0.58%) CA Agile Central
10 2 (0.58%) Citrix
10 2 (0.58%) ESRI
10 2 (0.58%) Murex
10 2 (0.58%) UiPath
10 2 (0.58%) Zoho
11 1 (0.29%) Aprimo