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 22 April 2026.

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

6 months to
22 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 295 281 349
Rank change year-on-year -14 +68 -34
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 366 275 247
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.79% 0.93% 0.57%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.86% 1.01% 0.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 231 195 176
10th Percentile £356 £360 £409
25th Percentile £453 £463 £480
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £525 £580
Median % change year-on-year +4.76% -9.48% +1.98%
75th Percentile £620 £665 £663
90th Percentile £725 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +5.00% -13.04% +8.24%
Number of hourly rates quoted 42 3 2
10th Percentile £80.50 £48.25 -
25th Percentile £80.75 £49.38 £66.25
Median hourly rate £88.00 £52.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.62% -22.22% +70.67%
75th Percentile - £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 42,785 27,291 40,291
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.29% 92.62% 92.77%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,469 17,875 26,294
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £406 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £515 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.91% -1.90% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £748
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,747 1,005 2,616
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.41 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.35 £18.87 £16.25
Median hourly rate £42.25 £30.20 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +39.90% -13.71% -22.22%
75th Percentile £65.74 £63.75 £60.00
90th Percentile £78.10 £75.40 £72.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.85 £29.23 £36.50
% change year-on-year +50.00% -19.92% -15.12%

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 22 April 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 22 April 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 22 April 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 -46 336 £550 - 352
London -46 181 £550 -4.35% 179
UK excluding London -9 141 £525 +5.00% 213
Work from Home +9 111 £550 +2.33% 196
South East 0 66 £565 +30.64% 65
North of England -49 45 £525 +5.00% 60
North West -32 20 £550 +22.22% 29
North East -15 15 £456 -10.54% 8
Midlands -59 14 £492 -10.55% 16
West Midlands -52 12 £490 -6.67% 5
Yorkshire -49 11 £525 +5.00% 24
East of England -25 10 £608 +4.52% 35
South West -35 6 £550 +29.41% 24
East Midlands -34 2 £550 - 11

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

For the 6 months to 22 April 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.

1 174 (47.54%) Roadmaps
2 165 (45.08%) Agile
3 127 (34.70%) Product Management
4 110 (30.05%) Security Cleared
5 99 (27.05%) Stakeholder Management
6 86 (23.50%) Product Roadmap
7 72 (19.67%) Product Strategy
8 71 (19.40%) Product Vision
9 67 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
10 64 (17.49%) SC Cleared
11 60 (16.39%) AI
12 58 (15.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 56 (15.30%) User Stories
14 53 (14.48%) Product Backlog
15 50 (13.66%) Backlog Prioritisation
16 46 (12.57%) Backlog Management
17 45 (12.30%) Analytics
18 44 (12.02%) Degree
18 44 (12.02%) Scaled Agile Framework
19 42 (11.48%) Scrum
20 38 (10.38%) Decision-Making
20 38 (10.38%) Systems Engineering
21 36 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
21 36 (9.84%) Strategic Roadmap
22 35 (9.56%) Computer Science
23 33 (9.02%) Change Control
23 33 (9.02%) PRINCE2
24 31 (8.47%) Rational DOORS
25 29 (7.92%) Programme Management
25 29 (7.92%) User Experience

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 (3.83%) Confluence
2 2 (0.55%) CMS
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.27%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 5 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (1.09%) Sprinklr
3 2 (0.55%) Exchequer
3 2 (0.55%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.27%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 22 (6.01%) SaaS
2 19 (5.19%) Azure
3 15 (4.10%) AWS
4 7 (1.91%) IaaS
4 7 (1.91%) PaaS
5 6 (1.64%) GitHub
6 5 (1.37%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.37%) n8n
6 5 (1.37%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.09%) Dynamics 365
7 4 (1.09%) GCP
8 3 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.82%) Figma
8 3 (0.82%) Microsoft Copilot
8 3 (0.82%) Miro
8 3 (0.82%) Snowflake
8 3 (0.82%) WhatsApp
9 2 (0.55%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.55%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.27%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.19%) Firewall
2 6 (1.64%) SD-WAN
2 6 (1.64%) WAN
3 4 (1.09%) DNS
3 4 (1.09%) LAN
4 2 (0.55%) ISDN
4 2 (0.55%) OpenScape
4 2 (0.55%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.27%) 5G
5 1 (0.27%) Internet
5 1 (0.27%) Intranet
5 1 (0.27%) Network Security
5 1 (0.27%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.27%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (1.09%) Power BI
2 2 (0.55%) Big Data
2 2 (0.55%) Metadata
2 2 (0.55%) Semantic Layer
3 1 (0.27%) Amazon Redshift
3 1 (0.27%) BigQuery
3 1 (0.27%) Data Lake
3 1 (0.27%) Data Warehouse
3 1 (0.27%) Delta Lake
3 1 (0.27%) Electronic Patient Records
3 1 (0.27%) SQL Server Reporting Services
3 1 (0.27%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 31 (8.47%) Rational DOORS
2 16 (4.37%) JIRA
General
1 110 (30.05%) Social Skills
2 63 (17.21%) Finance
3 56 (15.30%) Public Sector
4 47 (12.84%) Analytical Skills
5 41 (11.20%) Marketing
6 39 (10.66%) Aerospace
7 18 (4.92%) Retail
8 14 (3.83%) Banking
9 12 (3.28%) Aviation
9 12 (3.28%) Influencing Skills
10 11 (3.01%) Military
11 7 (1.91%) Legal
12 6 (1.64%) Billing
13 5 (1.37%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.37%) Publishing
14 4 (1.09%) Advertising
14 4 (1.09%) Automotive
14 4 (1.09%) Back Office
14 4 (1.09%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.09%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.82%) Azure Blueprints
1 3 (0.82%) PySpark
2 2 (0.55%) RESTful
3 1 (0.27%) React
Miscellaneous
1 86 (23.50%) Product Ownership
2 24 (6.56%) Data Structures
3 14 (3.83%) Marketing Technology
4 11 (3.01%) Legacy Systems
5 10 (2.73%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (2.73%) Mobile App
5 10 (2.73%) Onboarding
6 8 (2.19%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.91%) IoT
8 6 (1.64%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.64%) Virtual Team
9 5 (1.37%) Management Information System
9 5 (1.37%) Social Media
10 4 (1.09%) Distributed Systems
10 4 (1.09%) Educational Technology
10 4 (1.09%) Robotics
11 3 (0.82%) Derivative
11 3 (0.82%) FMCG
11 3 (0.82%) Media Streaming
11 3 (0.82%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.09%) VMS
2 1 (0.27%) Android
2 1 (0.27%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (47.54%) Roadmaps
2 165 (45.08%) Agile
3 127 (34.70%) Product Management
4 99 (27.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 86 (23.50%) Product Roadmap
6 72 (19.67%) Product Strategy
7 71 (19.40%) Product Vision
8 67 (18.31%) Continuous Improvement
9 60 (16.39%) AI
10 58 (15.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 56 (15.30%) User Stories
12 53 (14.48%) Product Backlog
13 50 (13.66%) Backlog Prioritisation
14 46 (12.57%) Backlog Management
15 45 (12.30%) Analytics
16 44 (12.02%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 42 (11.48%) Scrum
18 38 (10.38%) Decision-Making
18 38 (10.38%) Systems Engineering
19 36 (9.84%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 9 (2.46%) SQL
2 4 (1.09%) Java
3 3 (0.82%) Python
Qualifications
1 110 (30.05%) Security Cleared
2 64 (17.49%) SC Cleared
3 44 (12.02%) Degree
4 17 (4.64%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (3.83%) DV Cleared
6 4 (1.09%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.82%) CSPO
8 2 (0.55%) Computer Science Degree
8 2 (0.55%) MBA
9 1 (0.27%) APMG
9 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
9 1 (0.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.28%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.73%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.64%) QA
4 5 (1.37%) NCSC
4 5 (1.37%) SLA
5 4 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.09%) NIST
6 2 (0.55%) DO-254
6 2 (0.55%) GDPR
6 2 (0.55%) GRC
6 2 (0.55%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.55%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.27%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.27%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.27%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.27%) PMO
7 1 (0.27%) PSD2
7 1 (0.27%) SOC 2
System Software
1 3 (0.82%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (2.19%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.82%) Ansible
2 3 (0.82%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (7.10%) IBM
2 12 (3.28%) Microsoft
3 6 (1.64%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.37%) Databricks
4 5 (1.37%) Google
4 5 (1.37%) Oracle
4 5 (1.37%) SAP
5 4 (1.09%) Apple
5 4 (1.09%) Palo Alto
5 4 (1.09%) Pinterest
5 4 (1.09%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.09%) Snapchat
5 4 (1.09%) TikTok
5 4 (1.09%) Workday
6 3 (0.82%) Fortinet
7 2 (0.55%) Mitel
7 2 (0.55%) Virgin Media
8 1 (0.27%) FXall
8 1 (0.27%) OpenAI
8 1 (0.27%) Zscaler