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 12 June 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 292 318 309
Rank change year-on-year +26 -9 -28
Contract jobs citing Product Management 254 300 477
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.86% 0.69% 0.86%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.95% 0.81% 0.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 165 210 365
10th Percentile £327 £398 £400
25th Percentile £405 £450 £461
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% - -2.22%
75th Percentile £600 £672 £650
90th Percentile £709 £789 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -18.18% +3.77% -0.66%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 5 5
10th Percentile £46.25 - £42.02
25th Percentile - £26.66 £50.25
Median hourly rate £50.00 £42.50 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +17.65% -19.81% -5.36%
75th Percentile £58.44 £68.75 £68.75
90th Percentile £67.77 - £72.05
UK excluding London median hourly rate £50.00 £26.66 £69.50
% change year-on-year +87.55% -61.64% +24.11%

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 26,835 37,161 49,793
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 91.01% 85.16% 89.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,008 23,765 34,463
10th Percentile £300 £300 £325
25th Percentile £406 £413 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,190 2,583 1,678
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.75 £10.63
25th Percentile £17.53 £16.00 £15.66
Median hourly rate £27.00 £36.50 £35.02
Median % change year-on-year -26.03% +4.24% +36.35%
75th Percentile £56.00 £61.25 £64.59
90th Percentile £73.75 £72.50 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £33.14
% change year-on-year -34.02% +15.02% +57.82%

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 12 June 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 12 June 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 12 June 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 +33 229 £500 -9.09% 1,581
London +28 138 £563 +5.63% 979
UK excluding London +39 98 £450 -18.18% 835
Work from Home -2 77 £513 -6.82% 761
Midlands +33 30 £402 -34.59% 101
North of England +14 24 £450 -18.92% 132
South East +52 17 £495 -10.00% 378
East Midlands +26 16 £402 -34.63% 53
West Midlands +15 14 £475 -17.39% 45
North West +2 13 £513 -0.97% 86
Scotland -9 9 £540 +11.46% 43
East of England +30 8 £625 - 78
South West +30 8 £438 -22.22% 60
North East - 6 £445 - 4
Yorkshire +16 5 £488 -18.71% 42
Wales +5 4 £322 - 21

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 11 (4.33%) Confluence
2 5 (1.97%) Drupal
3 4 (1.57%) Apache Airflow
4 3 (1.18%) CMS
5 2 (0.79%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 2 (0.79%) SharePoint
5 2 (0.79%) Sitecore CMS
5 2 (0.79%) WordPress
6 1 (0.39%) Appian
6 1 (0.39%) IIS
6 1 (0.39%) TPMS
Applications
1 9 (3.54%) Trello
2 5 (1.97%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.57%) Chatbot
3 4 (1.57%) Microsoft Office
4 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
4 3 (1.18%) Sketch
5 2 (0.79%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.79%) Microsoft PowerPoint
5 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 2 (0.79%) Dynamics CRM
1 2 (0.79%) Teamcenter
2 1 (0.39%) NetSuite
2 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.39%) SAP ERP
2 1 (0.39%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 26 (10.24%) Azure
2 21 (8.27%) SaaS
3 10 (3.94%) AWS
3 10 (3.94%) GCP
3 10 (3.94%) Microsoft 365
4 5 (1.97%) Azure DevOps
5 4 (1.57%) Copilot Studio
5 4 (1.57%) dbt
5 4 (1.57%) Figma
5 4 (1.57%) Vertex AI
6 3 (1.18%) Power Platform
6 3 (1.18%) Serverless
7 2 (0.79%) Amazon EKS
7 2 (0.79%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.79%) GitHub
7 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Copilot
8 1 (0.39%) Cloud Computing
8 1 (0.39%) Google Workspace
8 1 (0.39%) IaaS
8 1 (0.39%) PaaS
Communications & Networking
1 7 (2.76%) Firewall
1 7 (2.76%) Network Security
2 5 (1.97%) BGP
2 5 (1.97%) DNS
2 5 (1.97%) IPsec
2 5 (1.97%) OSPF
2 5 (1.97%) SSL
2 5 (1.97%) VPN
2 5 (1.97%) Wireless
3 4 (1.57%) Internet
3 4 (1.57%) SD-WAN
3 4 (1.57%) VLAN
3 4 (1.57%) WAN
4 3 (1.18%) Cisco IOS
4 3 (1.18%) DMZ
4 3 (1.18%) DWDM
4 3 (1.18%) L2TP
4 3 (1.18%) MPLS
4 3 (1.18%) Multicast
4 3 (1.18%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.57%) BigQuery
1 4 (1.57%) Data Warehouse
1 4 (1.57%) SQL Server
2 3 (1.18%) Power BI
3 1 (0.39%) Azure SQL Database
3 1 (0.39%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.39%) Geospatial Data
3 1 (0.39%) GIS
3 1 (0.39%) Metadata
3 1 (0.39%) NoSQL
3 1 (0.39%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 27 (10.63%) JIRA
2 6 (2.36%) Selenium
3 5 (1.97%) SpecFlow
4 4 (1.57%) MLflow
5 3 (1.18%) GitLab
6 1 (0.39%) Appium
6 1 (0.39%) Eclipse
6 1 (0.39%) Git
6 1 (0.39%) git-flow
6 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
6 1 (0.39%) JUnit
6 1 (0.39%) Visual Studio
General
1 121 (47.64%) Social Skills
2 81 (31.89%) Finance
3 49 (19.29%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (14.96%) Public Sector
5 37 (14.57%) Retail
6 22 (8.66%) Marketing
7 17 (6.69%) Banking
8 15 (5.91%) Presentation Skills
9 13 (5.12%) Front Office
10 12 (4.72%) Financial Institution
11 10 (3.94%) Legal
12 9 (3.54%) Manufacturing
13 8 (3.15%) Influencing Skills
13 8 (3.15%) Telecoms
14 7 (2.76%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 7 (2.76%) Local Government
15 6 (2.36%) Advertising
16 3 (1.18%) Aerospace
16 3 (1.18%) Automotive
16 3 (1.18%) Military
Job Titles
1 99 (38.98%) Product Manager
2 35 (13.78%) Business Analyst
3 33 (12.99%) Product Owner
4 31 (12.20%) Senior
5 30 (11.81%) Analyst
6 23 (9.06%) Lead
6 23 (9.06%) Senior Manager
7 20 (7.87%) Senior Product Manager
8 10 (3.94%) Front Office Business Analyst
9 9 (3.54%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
9 9 (3.54%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
10 8 (3.15%) Architect
11 7 (2.76%) Product Lead
12 6 (2.36%) Designer
12 6 (2.36%) Product Analyst
12 6 (2.36%) Project Manager
13 5 (1.97%) Developer
13 5 (1.97%) Digital Product Owner
13 5 (1.97%) Operations Manager
13 5 (1.97%) Product Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (2.76%) CSS
1 7 (2.76%) HTML
1 7 (2.76%) REST
2 6 (2.36%) .NET
3 5 (1.97%) Node.js
3 5 (1.97%) Web Services
4 4 (1.57%) GraphQL
4 4 (1.57%) Ruby on Rails
5 3 (1.18%) 802.1X
6 2 (0.79%) .NET Framework
6 2 (0.79%) AngularJS
6 2 (0.79%) ASP.NET Web API
6 2 (0.79%) Blazor
6 2 (0.79%) EDI
6 2 (0.79%) Flash
6 2 (0.79%) GWT
6 2 (0.79%) Lightning Web Components
6 2 (0.79%) Visualforce
7 1 (0.39%) Next.js
7 1 (0.39%) Statsmodels
Miscellaneous
1 51 (20.08%) Product Ownership
2 10 (3.94%) Mobile App
3 9 (3.54%) Fixed Income
4 8 (3.15%) Data Protection Act
4 8 (3.15%) Management Information System
5 6 (2.36%) Digital Media
6 5 (1.97%) Analytical Mindset
6 5 (1.97%) Cloud Native
6 5 (1.97%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.57%) FMCG
7 4 (1.57%) Marketing Technology
7 4 (1.57%) NHS
8 3 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
9 2 (0.79%) Data Centre
9 2 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
9 2 (0.79%) Hybrid Cloud
9 2 (0.79%) PMI
9 2 (0.79%) Self-Motivation
10 1 (0.39%) Data Structures
10 1 (0.39%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.18%) Windows
2 2 (0.79%) Android
2 2 (0.79%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.39%) Unix
3 1 (0.39%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 139 (54.72%) Agile
2 113 (44.49%) Roadmaps
3 64 (25.20%) Product Roadmap
4 63 (24.80%) Stakeholder Management
5 60 (23.62%) Problem-Solving
6 52 (20.47%) Product Strategy
7 49 (19.29%) Business Analysis
8 40 (15.75%) Continuous Improvement
9 37 (14.57%) Product Vision
10 36 (14.17%) Project Management
11 32 (12.60%) Decision-Making
11 32 (12.60%) Scrum
12 29 (11.42%) Product Backlog
12 29 (11.42%) User Experience
12 29 (11.42%) User Stories
13 28 (11.02%) Analytics
14 26 (10.24%) Change Management
14 26 (10.24%) Strategic Roadmap
15 25 (9.84%) Artificial Intelligence
15 25 (9.84%) Backlog Prioritisation
Programming Languages
1 14 (5.51%) SQL
2 13 (5.12%) Python
3 10 (3.94%) Java
4 9 (3.54%) JavaScript
5 8 (3.15%) C#
6 6 (2.36%) PHP
7 5 (1.97%) PowerShell
8 4 (1.57%) Ruby
9 3 (1.18%) Perl
10 2 (0.79%) Apex Code
10 2 (0.79%) SOQL
11 1 (0.39%) Bicep
11 1 (0.39%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 58 (22.83%) Degree
2 18 (7.09%) Security Cleared
3 13 (5.12%) Master's Degree
3 13 (5.12%) SC Cleared
4 8 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.18%) CCIE
5 3 (1.18%) CCNP
5 3 (1.18%) Cisco Certification
5 3 (1.18%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.79%) APMP
6 2 (0.79%) CBAP
6 2 (0.79%) ISEB
6 2 (0.79%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (0.79%) MBA
6 2 (0.79%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.79%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
7 1 (0.39%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (0.39%) CTC Cleared
7 1 (0.39%) MCP
7 1 (0.39%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (4.72%) Accessibility
2 6 (2.36%) QA
3 4 (1.57%) GDPR
4 3 (1.18%) MiFID
5 2 (0.79%) Data Quality
5 2 (0.79%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.39%) California Consumer Privacy Act
6 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.39%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.39%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.39%) NIST
6 1 (0.39%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.39%) PMO
6 1 (0.39%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 5 (1.97%) VMware Infrastructure
2 3 (1.18%) Docker
3 1 (0.39%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.39%) Virtual Machines
3 1 (0.39%) VMware NSX
3 1 (0.39%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 4 (1.57%) Ansible
1 4 (1.57%) Kubeflow
2 3 (1.18%) Kubernetes
3 2 (0.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 2 (0.79%) Nagios
3 2 (0.79%) Terraform
4 1 (0.39%) Plesk
4 1 (0.39%) Puppet
4 1 (0.39%) RSA Archer
4 1 (0.39%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (10.24%) Microsoft
2 12 (4.72%) Salesforce
3 11 (4.33%) SAP
4 9 (3.54%) ION Trading
5 7 (2.76%) Cisco
6 5 (1.97%) Adobe
6 5 (1.97%) Arista
6 5 (1.97%) Google
6 5 (1.97%) ServiceNow
6 5 (1.97%) VMware
7 3 (1.18%) Apple
7 3 (1.18%) Databricks
7 3 (1.18%) Fortinet
7 3 (1.18%) McAfee
7 3 (1.18%) Oracle
7 3 (1.18%) Splunk
7 3 (1.18%) YouTube
8 2 (0.79%) Juniper
8 2 (0.79%) Sitecore
8 2 (0.79%) SolarWinds