Product Manager Contract Job Trends

Product Manager
UK

The median Product Manager daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 June 2026.

The table below compares current contractor rates and summary statistics with the previous two years.

6 months to
8 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 283 307 334
Rank change year-on-year +24 +27 -14
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 423 225 271
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.85% 0.77% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.83% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 253 162 204
10th Percentile £363 £361 £406
25th Percentile £463 £452 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £586
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -14.71% +6.59%
75th Percentile £619 £583 £675
90th Percentile £685 £675 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £538 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +7.60% -13.04% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 3 2
10th Percentile £75.70 £48.25 -
25th Percentile £80.75 £49.38 £66.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 £52.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.90% -22.22% +45.87%
75th Percentile £88.00 £63.13 £68.75
90th Percentile - £68.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £88.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +25.71% - -

All Contract IT Job Roles
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 45,699 27,029 40,373
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 92.35% 92.88%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,837 17,405 26,000
10th Percentile £325 £287 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.50% -4.76% -2.78%
75th Percentile £619 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,047 1,117 2,898
10th Percentile £15.11 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.87 £16.30
Median hourly rate £44.50 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.93% -25.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £58.69 £61.60
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.23 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.39% -36.94% -5.88%

Product Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Product Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Product Manager job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Manager
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Product Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Product Manager job vacancies in the UK

Product Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Manager over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Manager in the UK

Product Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Product Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Product Manager job vacancies in the UK

Product Manager
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Product Manager over the 6 months to 8 June 2026.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Manager in the UK

Product Manager
Top 14 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 Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 8 June 2026. 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 +23 392 £550 +7.32% 227
London +5 194 £550 +4.76% 113
UK excluding London +8 181 £538 +7.60% 148
Work from Home -2 114 £550 +10.00% 117
South East -15 61 £565 +18.02% 51
North of England -56 50 £538 +5.13% 53
South West +12 41 £550 +25.00% 10
North West -27 26 £550 +7.32% 32
Midlands -47 21 £491 +9.11% 15
West Midlands -49 19 £483 -1.03% 11
Yorkshire -45 16 £525 +5.00% 16
North East -29 12 £475 -8.21% 7
East of England -17 11 £600 +3.23% 8
East Midlands -28 2 £550 +36.82% 4

Product Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities

For the 6 months to 8 June 2026, Product Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number of co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Product Manager in the job title.

1 229 (54.14%) Roadmaps
2 203 (47.99%) Agile
3 157 (37.12%) Product Management
4 119 (28.13%) Security Cleared
5 108 (25.53%) Stakeholder Management
6 106 (25.06%) Product Roadmap
7 100 (23.64%) Product Vision
8 86 (20.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 86 (20.33%) Product Backlog
9 75 (17.73%) Product Strategy
10 73 (17.26%) Continuous Improvement
11 72 (17.02%) SC Cleared
12 66 (15.60%) AI
13 64 (15.13%) User Stories
14 59 (13.95%) Backlog Management
15 57 (13.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 55 (13.00%) Decision-Making
16 55 (13.00%) Strategic Roadmap
17 51 (12.06%) Azure
18 50 (11.82%) Analytics
19 47 (11.11%) AWS
19 47 (11.11%) Degree
20 44 (10.40%) Scaled Agile Framework
21 43 (10.17%) Scrum
21 43 (10.17%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
22 41 (9.69%) User Experience
23 38 (8.98%) Systems Engineering
24 36 (8.51%) Business Case
25 35 (8.27%) Computer Science
25 35 (8.27%) Problem-Solving

Product Manager Skill Set
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:

Application Platforms
1 14 (3.31%) Confluence
2 2 (0.47%) CMS
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Notion
2 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.24%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.95%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.95%) Sprinklr
2 2 (0.47%) Exchequer
2 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP Retail
3 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 51 (12.06%) Azure
2 47 (11.11%) AWS
3 20 (4.73%) SaaS
4 8 (1.89%) GCP
5 7 (1.65%) GitHub
5 7 (1.65%) IaaS
5 7 (1.65%) PaaS
6 5 (1.18%) n8n
7 4 (0.95%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (0.95%) Power Platform
8 3 (0.71%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (0.71%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (0.71%) Snowflake
9 2 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.47%) Figma
9 2 (0.47%) Miro
9 2 (0.47%) WhatsApp
10 1 (0.24%) Apple Pay
10 1 (0.24%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (0.24%) Google Pay
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.18%) Firewall
1 5 (1.18%) SD-WAN
1 5 (1.18%) WAN
2 4 (0.95%) DNS
2 4 (0.95%) LAN
3 2 (0.47%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.24%) 5G
4 1 (0.24%) Internet
4 1 (0.24%) Intranet
4 1 (0.24%) NFC
4 1 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.24%) SMS
4 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.71%) Data Lake
1 3 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
1 3 (0.71%) Metadata
1 3 (0.71%) Power BI
2 2 (0.47%) Big Data
2 2 (0.47%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.24%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.24%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
3 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.24%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (7.33%) Rational DOORS
2 15 (3.55%) JIRA
3 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 111 (26.24%) Social Skills
2 63 (14.89%) Finance
3 62 (14.66%) Public Sector
4 46 (10.87%) Marketing
5 45 (10.64%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (9.22%) Aerospace
7 34 (8.04%) Retail
8 16 (3.78%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (3.55%) Banking
10 14 (3.31%) Aviation
11 13 (3.07%) Military
12 5 (1.18%) Legal
12 5 (1.18%) Local Government
12 5 (1.18%) Publishing
13 4 (0.95%) Advertising
13 4 (0.95%) Billing
13 4 (0.95%) Corporate Banking
13 4 (0.95%) Documentation Skills
13 4 (0.95%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 4 (0.95%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.42%) Azure Blueprints
2 5 (1.18%) RESTful
3 3 (0.71%) PySpark
4 2 (0.47%) JSON
5 1 (0.24%) Django
5 1 (0.24%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.24%) JSON Schema
5 1 (0.24%) Spring
5 1 (0.24%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 85 (20.09%) Product Ownership
2 30 (7.09%) Legacy Systems
3 25 (5.91%) Data Structures
4 14 (3.31%) Marketing Technology
5 12 (2.84%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (2.60%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.60%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.65%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.42%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.42%) Social Media
9 5 (1.18%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.95%) NHS
10 4 (0.95%) Robotics
11 3 (0.71%) FMCG
11 3 (0.71%) IoT
11 3 (0.71%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.71%) Media Streaming
11 3 (0.71%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.95%) VMS
2 1 (0.24%) Android
2 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 229 (54.14%) Roadmaps
2 203 (47.99%) Agile
3 157 (37.12%) Product Management
4 108 (25.53%) Stakeholder Management
5 106 (25.06%) Product Roadmap
6 100 (23.64%) Product Vision
7 86 (20.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 86 (20.33%) Product Backlog
8 75 (17.73%) Product Strategy
9 73 (17.26%) Continuous Improvement
10 66 (15.60%) AI
11 64 (15.13%) User Stories
12 59 (13.95%) Backlog Management
13 57 (13.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 55 (13.00%) Decision-Making
14 55 (13.00%) Strategic Roadmap
15 50 (11.82%) Analytics
16 44 (10.40%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 43 (10.17%) Scrum
17 43 (10.17%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 12 (2.84%) SQL
2 6 (1.42%) Python
3 4 (0.95%) Java
4 1 (0.24%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.24%) Ruby
4 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 119 (28.13%) Security Cleared
2 72 (17.02%) SC Cleared
3 47 (11.11%) Degree
4 21 (4.96%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (3.78%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.71%) CSPO
7 2 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
7 2 (0.47%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.24%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.78%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.36%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.42%) QA
4 5 (1.18%) SLA
5 4 (0.95%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.95%) NIST
6 2 (0.47%) DO-254
6 2 (0.47%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.47%) ISO 26262
6 2 (0.47%) NCSC
6 2 (0.47%) PSD2
7 1 (0.24%) GDPR
7 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.24%) PCI DSS
7 1 (0.24%) PMO
System Software
1 4 (0.95%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.13%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.71%) Ansible
2 3 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.24%) Grafana
3 1 (0.24%) Kibana
3 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (6.15%) IBM
2 8 (1.89%) Microsoft
2 8 (1.89%) Salesforce
3 6 (1.42%) Google
3 6 (1.42%) Oracle
4 5 (1.18%) Apple
4 5 (1.18%) Databricks
5 4 (0.95%) Pinterest
5 4 (0.95%) SAP
5 4 (0.95%) Snapchat
5 4 (0.95%) TikTok
5 4 (0.95%) Workday
6 2 (0.47%) JDA
6 2 (0.47%) RedPrairie
6 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.47%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.24%) MicroStrategy
7 1 (0.24%) Nokia
7 1 (0.24%) OpenAI
7 1 (0.24%) PayPal