Product Manager Contract Job Trends

Product Manager
UK

The median Product Manager daily rate in the UK is £525, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 April 2026.

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

6 months to
9 Apr 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 307 274 340
Rank change year-on-year -33 +66 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 367 270 263
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.80% 0.92% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.87% 1.00% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 232 192 186
10th Percentile £357 £360 £405
25th Percentile £438 £463 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £538 £575
Median % change year-on-year -2.33% -6.52% +2.22%
75th Percentile £620 £668 £650
90th Percentile £715 £750 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £500 £550
% change year-on-year +5.00% -9.09% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 40 3 3
10th Percentile £80.50 £48.25 £54.25
25th Percentile £80.75 £49.38 £58.75
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 42,236 27,096 40,842
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.26% 92.72% 92.78%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,288 17,831 26,727
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £413 £407 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -2.78%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £744
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £475 £490
% change year-on-year +2.63% -3.06% -2.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,660 965 2,571
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.99 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.00 £20.26 £16.25
Median hourly rate £40.54 £31.76 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year +27.64% -9.26% -21.40%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.50 £60.00
90th Percentile £77.50 £76.25 £71.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.94 £30.45 £35.00
% change year-on-year +37.73% -13.00% -16.97%

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 9 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 9 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 9 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 -50 336 £540 -1.82% 237
London -51 185 £550 -4.35% 120
UK excluding London -13 139 £525 +5.00% 134
Work from Home +3 112 £550 +1.15% 116
South East +1 67 £565 +30.64% 42
North of England -50 46 £500 - 45
North West -20 21 £550 +22.22% 25
North East -11 15 £450 -10.89%
Midlands -56 13 £491 -10.73% 15
Yorkshire -49 11 £525 +5.00% 20
West Midlands -53 11 £483 -3.50% 13
East of England -32 7 £615 +5.81% 13
South West -23 6 £550 +29.41% 13
East Midlands -32 2 £550 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 9 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.

1 176 (47.96%) Roadmaps
2 170 (46.32%) Agile
3 126 (34.33%) Product Management
4 111 (30.25%) Security Cleared
5 98 (26.70%) Stakeholder Management
6 87 (23.71%) Product Roadmap
7 82 (22.34%) Product Strategy
8 70 (19.07%) Product Vision
9 66 (17.98%) SC Cleared
10 63 (17.17%) AI
10 63 (17.17%) Continuous Improvement
11 57 (15.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 52 (14.17%) Product Backlog
13 49 (13.35%) User Stories
14 48 (13.08%) Backlog Management
14 48 (13.08%) Backlog Prioritisation
15 47 (12.81%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 45 (12.26%) Degree
17 44 (11.99%) Analytics
18 41 (11.17%) Scrum
19 39 (10.63%) Decision-Making
20 38 (10.35%) Strategic Roadmap
20 38 (10.35%) Systems Engineering
21 35 (9.54%) Computer Science
21 35 (9.54%) Problem-Solving
22 33 (8.99%) Change Control
22 33 (8.99%) PRINCE2
23 31 (8.45%) Rational DOORS
24 30 (8.17%) User Experience
25 29 (7.90%) Programme Management

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 (3.81%) Confluence
2 3 (0.82%) CMS
3 1 (0.27%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.82%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.54%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.27%) Microsoft PowerPoint
Business Applications
1 4 (1.09%) Sprinklr
2 3 (0.82%) Dynamics CRM
3 2 (0.54%) Exchequer
3 2 (0.54%) SAP GRC
4 1 (0.27%) Remedy ITSM
4 1 (0.27%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 23 (6.27%) SaaS
2 17 (4.63%) Azure
3 13 (3.54%) AWS
4 7 (1.91%) IaaS
4 7 (1.91%) PaaS
5 6 (1.63%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.36%) GitHub
6 5 (1.36%) n8n
6 5 (1.36%) Power Platform
7 4 (1.09%) GCP
8 3 (0.82%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.82%) Dynamics 365
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 (0.54%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.54%) Power Automate
10 1 (0.27%) Contentsquare
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.18%) Firewall
2 6 (1.63%) SD-WAN
2 6 (1.63%) WAN
3 4 (1.09%) DNS
3 4 (1.09%) LAN
4 2 (0.54%) ISDN
4 2 (0.54%) OpenScape
4 2 (0.54%) 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 (0.54%) Big Data
2 2 (0.54%) Metadata
2 2 (0.54%) 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 (8.45%) Rational DOORS
2 16 (4.36%) JIRA
General
1 109 (29.70%) Social Skills
2 69 (18.80%) Finance
3 58 (15.80%) Public Sector
4 49 (13.35%) Analytical Skills
5 39 (10.63%) Marketing
6 38 (10.35%) Aerospace
7 17 (4.63%) Banking
8 16 (4.36%) Retail
9 15 (4.09%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (3.27%) Aviation
11 10 (2.72%) Military
12 9 (2.45%) Legal
13 6 (1.63%) Billing
14 5 (1.36%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.36%) Presentation Skills
14 5 (1.36%) Publishing
15 4 (1.09%) Advertising
16 3 (0.82%) Back Office
16 3 (0.82%) Front Office
16 3 (0.82%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.82%) Azure Blueprints
1 3 (0.82%) PySpark
2 1 (0.27%) React
2 1 (0.27%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 88 (23.98%) Product Ownership
2 23 (6.27%) Data Structures
3 14 (3.81%) Marketing Technology
4 11 (3.00%) Data Protection Act
5 10 (2.72%) Onboarding
6 9 (2.45%) Legacy Systems
6 9 (2.45%) Mobile App
7 8 (2.18%) Analytical Mindset
8 7 (1.91%) IoT
9 6 (1.63%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.36%) Derivative
10 5 (1.36%) Management Information System
10 5 (1.36%) Robotics
10 5 (1.36%) Social Media
10 5 (1.36%) Virtual Team
11 4 (1.09%) Educational Technology
11 4 (1.09%) NHS
12 3 (0.82%) FMCG
12 3 (0.82%) Media Streaming
12 3 (0.82%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.09%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 176 (47.96%) Roadmaps
2 170 (46.32%) Agile
3 126 (34.33%) Product Management
4 98 (26.70%) Stakeholder Management
5 87 (23.71%) Product Roadmap
6 82 (22.34%) Product Strategy
7 70 (19.07%) Product Vision
8 63 (17.17%) AI
8 63 (17.17%) Continuous Improvement
9 57 (15.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 52 (14.17%) Product Backlog
11 49 (13.35%) User Stories
12 48 (13.08%) Backlog Management
12 48 (13.08%) Backlog Prioritisation
13 47 (12.81%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 44 (11.99%) Analytics
15 41 (11.17%) Scrum
16 39 (10.63%) Decision-Making
17 38 (10.35%) Strategic Roadmap
17 38 (10.35%) Systems Engineering
Programming Languages
1 9 (2.45%) SQL
2 4 (1.09%) Java
3 3 (0.82%) Python
Qualifications
1 111 (30.25%) Security Cleared
2 66 (17.98%) SC Cleared
3 45 (12.26%) Degree
4 14 (3.81%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (3.81%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.09%) CSPO
5 4 (1.09%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.54%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.54%) MBA
7 1 (0.27%) APMG
7 1 (0.27%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.27%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.27%) Data Quality
2 9 (2.45%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.63%) QA
4 5 (1.36%) NCSC
4 5 (1.36%) SLA
5 4 (1.09%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.09%) NIST
6 2 (0.54%) DO-254
6 2 (0.54%) GDPR
6 2 (0.54%) GRC
6 2 (0.54%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.54%) 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 (2.18%) Kubernetes
2 2 (0.54%) Ansible
2 2 (0.54%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 26 (7.08%) IBM
2 12 (3.27%) Microsoft
3 7 (1.91%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.36%) Databricks
4 5 (1.36%) Google
4 5 (1.36%) SAP
5 4 (1.09%) Apple
5 4 (1.09%) Oracle
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 (0.54%) Mitel
7 2 (0.54%) Virgin Media
7 2 (0.54%) Zscaler
8 1 (0.27%) Bloomberg
8 1 (0.27%) Cisco