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 14 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 300 317 310
Rank change year-on-year +17 -7 -37
Contract jobs citing Product Management 272 242 413
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.83% 0.62% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.91% 0.73% 0.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 181 175 325
10th Percentile £325 £359 £400
25th Percentile £402 £446 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £540 £558
Median % change year-on-year -7.41% -3.23% -2.96%
75th Percentile £600 £688 £650
90th Percentile £700 £788 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £456 £539 £525
% change year-on-year -15.32% +2.57% -4.46%
Number of hourly rates quoted 10 2 10
10th Percentile £47.15 £43.75 £50.00
25th Percentile £50.00 £47.50 £58.38
Median hourly rate £53.25 £55.00 £69.54
Median % change year-on-year -3.18% -20.91% +24.18%
75th Percentile £70.16 £62.50 £77.09
90th Percentile £70.29 £66.25 £78.12
UK excluding London median hourly rate £56.50 £42.50 £74.04
% change year-on-year +32.94% -42.59% +32.21%

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 29,828 33,271 46,738
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.49% 85.47% 89.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,585 21,269 32,050
10th Percentile £300 £310 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
75th Percentile £625 £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 1,712 1,831 1,512
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £18.43 £18.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £42.33
Median % change year-on-year -39.40% -1.95% +59.73%
75th Percentile £48.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £74.87 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £37.50
% change year-on-year -46.75% +13.33% +70.45%

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 14 August 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 14 August 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 14 August 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 +44 245 £500 -9.09% 954
London +20 138 £545 -0.91% 700
UK excluding London +51 114 £456 -15.32% 307
Work from Home -14 76 £500 -5.12% 435
Midlands +23 41 £403 -40.37% 49
South East +29 23 £475 -9.52% 92
North of England -13 22 £481 -7.45% 73
West Midlands +6 21 £525 -22.22% 29
East Midlands +17 20 £380 -38.21% 19
North West -10 13 £513 -0.97% 41
Scotland -8 12 £500 +1.21% 20
South West +30 9 £438 -30.00% 12
North East +6 6 £450 +7.14% 3
Wales +11 5 £312 - 18
East of England +10 3 £550 -12.00% 33
Yorkshire -15 3 £443 -25.00% 30

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 15 (5.51%) Confluence
2 10 (3.68%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.74%) CMS
3 2 (0.74%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.37%) Apache
4 1 (0.37%) Drupal
Applications
1 7 (2.57%) Trello
2 6 (2.21%) MS Visio
3 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Office
3 4 (1.47%) Microsoft Project
4 3 (1.10%) Chatbot
4 3 (1.10%) Microsoft Excel
5 2 (0.74%) Adobe XD
5 2 (0.74%) Sketch
6 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.84%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.74%) Loan IQ
2 2 (0.74%) ResourceLink
3 1 (0.37%) Dynamics CRM
3 1 (0.37%) Magento
3 1 (0.37%) NetSuite
3 1 (0.37%) SAP CO
3 1 (0.37%) SAP ERP
3 1 (0.37%) SAP FI
3 1 (0.37%) SAP FI/CO
3 1 (0.37%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.37%) Shopify
3 1 (0.37%) Sonata
3 1 (0.37%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 31 (11.40%) Azure
2 20 (7.35%) SaaS
3 17 (6.25%) AWS
4 13 (4.78%) GCP
5 11 (4.04%) Microsoft 365
6 8 (2.94%) dbt
6 8 (2.94%) Vertex AI
7 4 (1.47%) Amazon S3
7 4 (1.47%) AWS Lambda
7 4 (1.47%) Serverless
8 3 (1.10%) AWS CloudFormation
8 3 (1.10%) Copilot Studio
8 3 (1.10%) Figma
8 3 (1.10%) Power Platform
9 2 (0.74%) Azure DevOps
9 2 (0.74%) IaaS
9 2 (0.74%) PaaS
10 1 (0.37%) Amazon SQS
10 1 (0.37%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
10 1 (0.37%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.94%) Firewall
1 8 (2.94%) Network Security
2 6 (2.21%) DNS
2 6 (2.21%) Internet
2 6 (2.21%) SSL
2 6 (2.21%) VPN
2 6 (2.21%) Wireless
3 5 (1.84%) BGP
3 5 (1.84%) IPsec
3 5 (1.84%) OSPF
4 4 (1.47%) WAN
5 3 (1.10%) Cisco IOS
5 3 (1.10%) DHCP
5 3 (1.10%) DMZ
5 3 (1.10%) DWDM
5 3 (1.10%) HTTP
5 3 (1.10%) L2TP
5 3 (1.10%) MPLS
5 3 (1.10%) VLAN
5 3 (1.10%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (2.94%) BigQuery
1 8 (2.94%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (1.10%) Amazon Aurora
2 3 (1.10%) PostgreSQL
2 3 (1.10%) Power BI
3 2 (0.74%) GIS
3 2 (0.74%) Tableau
4 1 (0.37%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (0.37%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.37%) Metadata
4 1 (0.37%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 29 (10.66%) JIRA
2 8 (2.94%) MLflow
3 6 (2.21%) Selenium
3 6 (2.21%) SpecFlow
4 4 (1.47%) JUnit
5 3 (1.10%) Cypress.io
6 2 (0.74%) GitLab
7 1 (0.37%) Fiddler
7 1 (0.37%) Git
7 1 (0.37%) git-flow
7 1 (0.37%) Postman
7 1 (0.37%) Visual Studio
General
1 131 (48.16%) Social Skills
2 81 (29.78%) Finance
3 60 (22.06%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (13.97%) Public Sector
5 27 (9.93%) Marketing
6 26 (9.56%) Retail
7 21 (7.72%) Banking
8 16 (5.88%) Presentation Skills
9 11 (4.04%) Advertising
10 10 (3.68%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (3.68%) Legal
10 10 (3.68%) Manufacturing
11 9 (3.31%) Front Office
12 8 (2.94%) Financial Institution
13 6 (2.21%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.84%) Telecoms
15 4 (1.47%) Local Government
16 3 (1.10%) Aerospace
16 3 (1.10%) Billing
16 3 (1.10%) Military
Job Titles
1 105 (38.60%) Product Manager
2 40 (14.71%) Product Owner
3 29 (10.66%) Senior
4 25 (9.19%) Analyst
4 25 (9.19%) Business Analyst
4 25 (9.19%) Lead
5 21 (7.72%) Senior Manager
6 18 (6.62%) Senior Product Manager
7 9 (3.31%) Project Manager
8 7 (2.57%) Consultant
8 7 (2.57%) Front Office Business Analyst
9 6 (2.21%) Architect
9 6 (2.21%) Developer
9 6 (2.21%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
9 6 (2.21%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
9 6 (2.21%) Product Lead
10 5 (1.84%) Head of Digital
10 5 (1.84%) Operations Manager
10 5 (1.84%) Technical Manager
10 5 (1.84%) Test Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (4.04%) CSS
1 11 (4.04%) HTML
2 7 (2.57%) REST
3 6 (2.21%) Node.js
3 6 (2.21%) Web Services
4 5 (1.84%) .NET
4 5 (1.84%) GraphQL
4 5 (1.84%) Ruby on Rails
5 4 (1.47%) Android NDK
5 4 (1.47%) Android SDK
5 4 (1.47%) AWS CDK
5 4 (1.47%) Flash
5 4 (1.47%) iOS SDK
5 4 (1.47%) JNI
6 3 (1.10%) 802.1X
6 3 (1.10%) Blazor
6 3 (1.10%) GWT
6 3 (1.10%) Next.js
6 3 (1.10%) React
7 2 (0.74%) Pandas
Miscellaneous
1 58 (21.32%) Product Ownership
2 13 (4.78%) Management Information System
3 12 (4.41%) Analytical Mindset
4 11 (4.04%) Mobile App
5 10 (3.68%) Cloud Native
5 10 (3.68%) Digital Media
5 10 (3.68%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.94%) Fixed Income
6 8 (2.94%) Marketing Technology
7 7 (2.57%) Data Protection Act
8 5 (1.84%) Algorithms
8 5 (1.84%) Legacy Systems
8 5 (1.84%) Virtual Team
9 4 (1.47%) Augmented Reality
9 4 (1.47%) Embedded Systems
9 4 (1.47%) FMCG
9 4 (1.47%) NHS
9 4 (1.47%) PKI
9 4 (1.47%) Virtual Reality
10 2 (0.74%) PMI
Operating Systems
1 8 (2.94%) Apple iOS
2 7 (2.57%) Android
3 5 (1.84%) Linux
3 5 (1.84%) Mac OS
4 3 (1.10%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (56.62%) Agile
2 143 (52.57%) Roadmaps
3 80 (29.41%) Product Roadmap
4 73 (26.84%) Stakeholder Management
5 65 (23.90%) Problem-Solving
6 60 (22.06%) Product Strategy
7 51 (18.75%) Product Vision
8 42 (15.44%) Continuous Improvement
8 42 (15.44%) User Experience
9 37 (13.60%) Project Management
9 37 (13.60%) Scrum
10 34 (12.50%) Analytics
11 33 (12.13%) Decision-Making
12 32 (11.76%) Artificial Intelligence
12 32 (11.76%) Backlog Prioritisation
13 31 (11.40%) Business Analysis
13 31 (11.40%) Change Management
13 31 (11.40%) User Stories
14 27 (9.93%) Product Backlog
15 26 (9.56%) Product Requirements
Programming Languages
1 15 (5.51%) Java
1 15 (5.51%) Python
2 11 (4.04%) JavaScript
3 9 (3.31%) SQL
4 6 (2.21%) C#
4 6 (2.21%) PHP
5 5 (1.84%) Ruby
5 5 (1.84%) TypeScript
6 4 (1.47%) C++
6 4 (1.47%) Kotlin
7 3 (1.10%) Perl
7 3 (1.10%) PowerShell
8 1 (0.37%) Apex Code
8 1 (0.37%) Bicep
8 1 (0.37%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 62 (22.79%) Degree
2 21 (7.72%) Security Cleared
3 14 (5.15%) SC Cleared
4 11 (4.04%) Master's Degree
5 8 (2.94%) Computer Science Degree
6 6 (2.21%) DV Cleared
7 3 (1.10%) BPSS Clearance
7 3 (1.10%) CCIE
7 3 (1.10%) CCNP
7 3 (1.10%) Cisco Certification
7 3 (1.10%) CSPO
7 3 (1.10%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.74%) APMP
8 2 (0.74%) CBAP
8 2 (0.74%) ISEB
8 2 (0.74%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
8 2 (0.74%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
9 1 (0.37%) ITIL Certification
9 1 (0.37%) PMP
9 1 (0.37%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 13 (4.78%) Accessibility
2 9 (3.31%) GDPR
3 4 (1.47%) QA
4 3 (1.10%) California Consumer Privacy Act
4 3 (1.10%) FIPS 140-2
4 3 (1.10%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.74%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 2 (0.74%) MiFID
5 2 (0.74%) NIST
5 2 (0.74%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials
6 1 (0.37%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
6 1 (0.37%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.37%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 20000
6 1 (0.37%) JSP 440
6 1 (0.37%) PMO
6 1 (0.37%) Software Quality Assurance
System Software
1 3 (1.10%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (0.74%) Docker
3 1 (0.37%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.37%) Firmware
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Desktop
3 1 (0.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 8 (2.94%) Kubeflow
2 4 (1.47%) Kubernetes
3 3 (1.10%) Ansible
3 3 (1.10%) Grafana
4 2 (0.74%) Microsoft Intune
4 2 (0.74%) Nagios
4 2 (0.74%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.37%) HP ALM
Vendors
1 30 (11.03%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.04%) Salesforce
3 10 (3.68%) SAP
4 7 (2.57%) Cisco
5 6 (2.21%) ION Trading
6 5 (1.84%) Arista
6 5 (1.84%) ServiceNow
7 4 (1.47%) Adobe
7 4 (1.47%) Splunk
7 4 (1.47%) YouTube
8 3 (1.10%) Apple
8 3 (1.10%) Fortinet
8 3 (1.10%) Google
8 3 (1.10%) McAfee
8 3 (1.10%) VMware
9 2 (0.74%) CA Agile Central
9 2 (0.74%) Databricks
9 2 (0.74%) Juniper
9 2 (0.74%) SolarWinds
10 1 (0.37%) Snow