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 30 May 2026.

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

6 months to
30 May 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 318 338
Rank change year-on-year +34 +20 -31
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 425 214 256
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.86% 0.74% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 0.80% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 258 153 193
10th Percentile £361 £370 £406
25th Percentile £463 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £510 £588
Median % change year-on-year +7.84% -13.19% +6.82%
75th Percentile £620 £588 £675
90th Percentile £704 £675 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +10.00% -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 45,367 26,659 39,830
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.31% 92.33% 92.82%
Number of daily rates quoted 27,689 17,296 25,850
10th Percentile £325 £290 £280
25th Percentile £413 £405 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £504 £525
Median % change year-on-year +1.69% -4.00% -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 3,009 1,048 2,796
10th Percentile £15.00 £14.00 £12.81
25th Percentile £20.50 £17.87 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £28.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +51.79% -25.33% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.25 £59.00 £61.30
90th Percentile £78.75 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £43.61 £25.31 £40.00
% change year-on-year +72.28% -36.73% -6.98%

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 30 May 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 30 May 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 30 May 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 +40 394 £550 +4.76% 508
London +9 194 £550 +3.53% 368
UK excluding London +15 182 £550 +10.00% 188
Work from Home -6 116 £563 +11.24% 262
South East -14 63 £613 +27.94% 61
North of England -56 50 £538 +5.39% 55
South West +3 40 £550 +25.00% 19
North West -33 25 £550 +7.32% 31
Midlands -50 21 £491 +3.37% 17
West Midlands -59 19 £483 -1.03% 12
Yorkshire -52 16 £525 +5.00% 19
North East -23 14 £478 -7.73% 5
East of England -24 11 £600 +3.23% 16
East Midlands -22 2 £550 +17.65% 5

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

For the 6 months to 30 May 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.

1 232 (54.59%) Roadmaps
2 203 (47.76%) Agile
3 155 (36.47%) Product Management
4 119 (28.00%) Security Cleared
5 109 (25.65%) Product Roadmap
6 107 (25.18%) Stakeholder Management
7 101 (23.76%) Product Vision
8 86 (20.24%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 84 (19.76%) Product Backlog
10 81 (19.06%) Product Strategy
11 75 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
12 72 (16.94%) SC Cleared
13 65 (15.29%) AI
14 63 (14.82%) User Stories
15 57 (13.41%) Backlog Management
16 56 (13.18%) Decision-Making
16 56 (13.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 55 (12.94%) Strategic Roadmap
18 51 (12.00%) Azure
19 50 (11.76%) Analytics
20 49 (11.53%) Degree
21 47 (11.06%) AWS
22 44 (10.35%) Scaled Agile Framework
23 43 (10.12%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
24 42 (9.88%) User Experience
25 41 (9.65%) Scrum
26 38 (8.94%) Systems Engineering
27 36 (8.47%) Business Case
28 35 (8.24%) Computer Science
28 35 (8.24%) 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 13 (3.06%) 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
Business Applications
1 4 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.94%) Sprinklr
2 2 (0.47%) Exchequer
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.24%) Payment Gateway
3 1 (0.24%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 51 (12.00%) Azure
2 47 (11.06%) AWS
3 22 (5.18%) SaaS
4 8 (1.88%) GCP
5 7 (1.65%) GitHub
5 7 (1.65%) IaaS
5 7 (1.65%) PaaS
6 5 (1.18%) n8n
7 4 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
7 4 (0.94%) Microsoft 365
7 4 (0.94%) Power Platform
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%) AWS CodePipeline
10 1 (0.24%) Contentsquare
10 1 (0.24%) GitHub Actions
Communications & Networking
1 8 (1.88%) Firewall
2 6 (1.41%) SD-WAN
2 6 (1.41%) WAN
3 4 (0.94%) DNS
3 4 (0.94%) LAN
4 2 (0.47%) ISDN
4 2 (0.47%) OpenScape
4 2 (0.47%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.24%) 5G
5 1 (0.24%) Internet
5 1 (0.24%) Intranet
5 1 (0.24%) Network Security
5 1 (0.24%) NFC
5 1 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.24%) SMS
5 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (0.71%) Data Lake
1 3 (0.71%) Metadata
1 3 (0.71%) Power BI
2 2 (0.47%) Big Data
2 2 (0.47%) Data Warehouse
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 (7.29%) Rational DOORS
2 15 (3.53%) JIRA
3 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 114 (26.82%) Social Skills
2 65 (15.29%) Finance
3 61 (14.35%) Public Sector
4 46 (10.82%) Marketing
5 45 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (9.18%) Aerospace
7 33 (7.76%) Retail
8 16 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
9 14 (3.29%) Aviation
10 13 (3.06%) Banking
10 13 (3.06%) Military
11 5 (1.18%) Legal
11 5 (1.18%) Local Government
11 5 (1.18%) Publishing
12 4 (0.94%) Advertising
12 4 (0.94%) Billing
12 4 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
12 4 (0.94%) Electronics
12 4 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 4 (0.94%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.41%) Azure Blueprints
2 5 (1.18%) RESTful
3 3 (0.71%) PySpark
4 1 (0.24%) Django
4 1 (0.24%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.24%) JSON
4 1 (0.24%) Spring
4 1 (0.24%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 86 (20.24%) Product Ownership
2 30 (7.06%) Legacy Systems
3 24 (5.65%) Data Structures
4 14 (3.29%) Marketing Technology
5 12 (2.82%) Mobile App
6 11 (2.59%) Data Protection Act
6 11 (2.59%) Onboarding
7 7 (1.65%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.65%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.41%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.41%) Social Media
9 5 (1.18%) AI Agents
10 4 (0.94%) IoT
10 4 (0.94%) NHS
10 4 (0.94%) Robotics
11 3 (0.71%) FMCG
11 3 (0.71%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.71%) Media Streaming
11 3 (0.71%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.94%) VMS
2 1 (0.24%) Android
2 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 232 (54.59%) Roadmaps
2 203 (47.76%) Agile
3 155 (36.47%) Product Management
4 109 (25.65%) Product Roadmap
5 107 (25.18%) Stakeholder Management
6 101 (23.76%) Product Vision
7 86 (20.24%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 84 (19.76%) Product Backlog
9 81 (19.06%) Product Strategy
10 75 (17.65%) Continuous Improvement
11 65 (15.29%) AI
12 63 (14.82%) User Stories
13 57 (13.41%) Backlog Management
14 56 (13.18%) Decision-Making
14 56 (13.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 55 (12.94%) Strategic Roadmap
16 50 (11.76%) Analytics
17 44 (10.35%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 43 (10.12%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
19 42 (9.88%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (2.59%) SQL
2 6 (1.41%) Python
3 4 (0.94%) 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 (28.00%) Security Cleared
2 72 (16.94%) SC Cleared
3 49 (11.53%) Degree
4 21 (4.94%) BPSS Clearance
5 16 (3.76%) 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 15 (3.53%) Data Quality
2 10 (2.35%) Accessibility
3 6 (1.41%) QA
4 5 (1.18%) SLA
5 4 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.94%) NIST
6 2 (0.47%) DO-254
6 2 (0.47%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.47%) ISO 26262
6 2 (0.47%) NCSC
7 1 (0.24%) GDPR
7 1 (0.24%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.24%) PMO
7 1 (0.24%) PSD2
System Software
1 4 (0.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.12%) 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 (6.12%) IBM
2 9 (2.12%) Microsoft
3 8 (1.88%) Salesforce
4 6 (1.41%) Oracle
5 5 (1.18%) Databricks
5 5 (1.18%) Google
6 4 (0.94%) Apple
6 4 (0.94%) Palo Alto
6 4 (0.94%) Pinterest
6 4 (0.94%) Snapchat
6 4 (0.94%) TikTok
6 4 (0.94%) Workday
7 3 (0.71%) Fortinet
7 3 (0.71%) SAP
8 2 (0.47%) JDA
8 2 (0.47%) Mitel
8 2 (0.47%) RedPrairie
8 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.47%) Virgin Media
9 1 (0.24%) MicroStrategy