Product Manager Contract Job Trends

Product Manager
UK

The median Product Manager daily rate in the UK is £537, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 8 July 2026.

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

6 months to
8 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 269 316 352
Rank change year-on-year +47 +36 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 477 244 256
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.91% 0.76% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 0.83% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 287 174 189
10th Percentile £371 £360 £380
25th Percentile £461 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £513 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.78% -12.39% +6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £675
90th Percentile £680 £686 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +3.50% -13.04% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 3 2
10th Percentile £72.50 £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 £85.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +21.43% - -

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 48,237 29,379 40,107
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 91.96% 93.00%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,223 18,754 25,817
10th Percentile £325 £287 £285
25th Percentile £417 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,243 1,333 2,768
10th Percentile £15.75 £13.75 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.25 £17.44 £16.62
Median hourly rate £43.00 £26.45 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.57% -29.47% -12.79%
75th Percentile £67.50 £55.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.25 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% +1.07%

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 July 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 July 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 July 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 +56 435 £538 +2.38% 419
UK excluding London +35 214 £518 +3.50% 167
London -12 201 £550 +4.76% 274
Work from Home +18 133 £550 +7.32% 261
South East +2 73 £521 -18.87% 71
North of England -49 57 £525 +2.94% 38
South West +6 43 £550 +25.00% 9
North West -25 33 £550 +14.29% 20
Midlands -53 23 £491 +5.03% 20
West Midlands -48 22 £490 -6.67% 11
East of England -8 21 £494 -15.05% 15
Yorkshire -26 19 £525 +5.00% 18
North East -39 11 £458 -12.86%
East Midlands -17 1 £500 +24.38% 9

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

For the 6 months to 8 July 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.

1 264 (55.35%) Roadmaps
2 246 (51.57%) Agile
3 179 (37.53%) Product Management
4 142 (29.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 133 (27.88%) Security Cleared
6 119 (24.95%) Product Roadmap
7 112 (23.48%) Product Vision
8 111 (23.27%) Product Backlog
9 106 (22.22%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 97 (20.34%) Continuous Improvement
11 91 (19.08%) Product Strategy
12 85 (17.82%) SC Cleared
13 75 (15.72%) User Stories
14 73 (15.30%) AI
15 69 (14.47%) Backlog Management
15 69 (14.47%) Decision-Making
15 69 (14.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 67 (14.05%) Strategic Roadmap
17 62 (13.00%) Analytics
18 57 (11.95%) Scrum
19 53 (11.11%) Azure
20 52 (10.90%) Scaled Agile Framework
21 50 (10.48%) Degree
22 49 (10.27%) AWS
22 49 (10.27%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
23 48 (10.06%) User Experience
24 43 (9.01%) Problem-Solving
25 40 (8.39%) Backlog Refinement
25 40 (8.39%) Business Case
26 38 (7.97%) PRINCE2

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 19 (3.98%) Confluence
2 2 (0.42%) Apache
2 2 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.42%) CMS
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.63%) Notion
2 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.84%) Sprinklr
3 3 (0.63%) Shopify
4 2 (0.42%) Exchequer
4 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
5 1 (0.21%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.21%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 53 (11.11%) Azure
2 49 (10.27%) AWS
3 21 (4.40%) SaaS
4 11 (2.31%) GCP
5 8 (1.68%) Power Platform
6 7 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (1.47%) GitHub
7 5 (1.05%) IaaS
7 5 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (1.05%) Miro
7 5 (1.05%) n8n
7 5 (1.05%) PaaS
7 5 (1.05%) Snowflake
8 3 (0.63%) dbt
8 3 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.42%) Alation
9 2 (0.42%) Amazon EMR
9 2 (0.42%) Amazon S3
9 2 (0.42%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.05%) Firewall
1 5 (1.05%) SD-WAN
1 5 (1.05%) WAN
2 4 (0.84%) DNS
2 4 (0.84%) LAN
3 2 (0.42%) Broadband
3 2 (0.42%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.21%) 5G
4 1 (0.21%) Internet
4 1 (0.21%) Intranet
4 1 (0.21%) NFC
4 1 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.21%) SMS
4 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.47%) Power BI
2 6 (1.26%) Data Lake
3 4 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (0.84%) Metadata
3 4 (0.84%) Semantic Layer
3 4 (0.84%) Tableau
4 2 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.42%) Big Data
4 2 (0.42%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.42%) Looker
5 1 (0.21%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.21%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (6.50%) Rational DOORS
2 22 (4.61%) JIRA
3 2 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.21%) CircleCI
General
1 133 (27.88%) Social Skills
2 78 (16.35%) Finance
3 76 (15.93%) Public Sector
4 54 (11.32%) Analytical Skills
5 53 (11.11%) Marketing
6 40 (8.39%) Retail
7 39 (8.18%) Aerospace
8 19 (3.98%) Banking
8 19 (3.98%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (2.94%) Aviation
10 13 (2.73%) Legal
11 12 (2.52%) Military
12 7 (1.47%) Presentation Skills
13 6 (1.26%) Manufacturing
14 5 (1.05%) Billing
14 5 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 5 (1.05%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.05%) Publishing
15 4 (0.84%) Corporate Banking
15 4 (0.84%) Documentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.26%) Azure Blueprints
1 6 (1.26%) RESTful
2 3 (0.63%) PySpark
3 2 (0.42%) Gherkin
3 2 (0.42%) JSON
4 1 (0.21%) Django
4 1 (0.21%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.21%) Flutter
4 1 (0.21%) JSON Schema
4 1 (0.21%) OAuth
4 1 (0.21%) REST
4 1 (0.21%) Spring
4 1 (0.21%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 116 (24.32%) Product Ownership
2 30 (6.29%) Legacy Systems
3 25 (5.24%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.35%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.94%) Marketing Technology
6 13 (2.73%) Mobile App
7 11 (2.31%) Data Protection Act
8 10 (2.10%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.89%) Cloud Native
10 8 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
10 8 (1.68%) Social Media
11 6 (1.26%) AI Agents
12 5 (1.05%) NHS
12 5 (1.05%) Virtual Team
13 4 (0.84%) FMCG
13 4 (0.84%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.84%) Robotics
13 4 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.84%) Taxonomies
14 3 (0.63%) Educational Technology
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.84%) VMS
2 2 (0.42%) Android
2 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 264 (55.35%) Roadmaps
2 246 (51.57%) Agile
3 179 (37.53%) Product Management
4 142 (29.77%) Stakeholder Management
5 119 (24.95%) Product Roadmap
6 112 (23.48%) Product Vision
7 111 (23.27%) Product Backlog
8 106 (22.22%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 97 (20.34%) Continuous Improvement
10 91 (19.08%) Product Strategy
11 75 (15.72%) User Stories
12 73 (15.30%) AI
13 69 (14.47%) Backlog Management
13 69 (14.47%) Decision-Making
13 69 (14.47%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 67 (14.05%) Strategic Roadmap
15 62 (13.00%) Analytics
16 57 (11.95%) Scrum
17 52 (10.90%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 49 (10.27%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 12 (2.52%) SQL
2 8 (1.68%) Python
3 4 (0.84%) Java
4 2 (0.42%) Korn
5 1 (0.21%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.21%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.21%) Ruby
5 1 (0.21%) SPARQL
5 1 (0.21%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 133 (27.88%) Security Cleared
2 85 (17.82%) SC Cleared
3 50 (10.48%) Degree
4 27 (5.66%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (4.19%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.84%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.63%) CSPO
8 1 (0.21%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.56%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.14%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.52%) QA
4 5 (1.05%) SLA
5 4 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.84%) NIST
6 3 (0.63%) GDPR
6 3 (0.63%) PSD2
6 3 (0.63%) WCAG
7 2 (0.42%) DO-254
7 2 (0.42%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.42%) ISO 26262
7 2 (0.42%) NCSC
7 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (0.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (1.68%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.63%) Ansible
2 3 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.21%) Grafana
3 1 (0.21%) Kibana
3 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (5.45%) IBM
2 13 (2.73%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.31%) Google
4 8 (1.68%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.26%) Apple
6 5 (1.05%) Oracle
6 5 (1.05%) SAP
6 5 (1.05%) Workday
7 4 (0.84%) Databricks
7 4 (0.84%) Pinterest
7 4 (0.84%) Remedy
7 4 (0.84%) Snapchat
7 4 (0.84%) TikTok
8 3 (0.63%) BMC
8 3 (0.63%) JDA
8 3 (0.63%) RedPrairie
8 3 (0.63%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.42%) Klarna
9 2 (0.42%) PayPal
9 2 (0.42%) Virgin Media