Product Manager Contract Job Trends

Product Manager
UK

The median Product Manager daily rate in the UK is £545, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 4 October 2026.

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

6 months to
4 Oct 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 301 311 332
Rank change year-on-year +10 +21 +26
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 471 241 236
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.86% 0.73% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.94% 0.80% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 344 174 166
10th Percentile £400 £387 £360
25th Percentile £462 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £523 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.31% -5.00% -4.35%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £693
90th Percentile £719 £704 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £515 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 12 1 0
10th Percentile £71.25 - -
25th Percentile £72.19 £32.25 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £34.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +117.39% - -
75th Percentile £79.38 £36.75 -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £34.50 -
% change year-on-year +117.39% - -

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 50,330 30,144 35,336
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.12% 90.83% 93.01%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,591 19,030 21,429
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £636 £623 £638
90th Percentile £736 £725 £741
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,999 1,630 1,541
10th Percentile £14.42 £13.75 £14.99
25th Percentile £19.77 £17.30 £20.75
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £42.91
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.39% -3.57%
75th Percentile £67.50 £51.19 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.75 £68.28 £74.87
UK excluding London median hourly rate £41.74 £25.08 £43.00
% change year-on-year +66.44% -41.69% -2.82%

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 4 October 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 4 October 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 4 October 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 +33 422 £538 +2.43% 2,178
UK excluding London +40 218 £515 +3.00% 1,021
London -52 184 £568 +5.09% 1,308
Work from Home -25 123 £515 -0.24% 1,139
North of England -14 74 £514 +2.70% 256
South East -17 50 £575 +47.06% 219
South West +8 45 £534 -17.05% 108
North West -10 39 £575 +12.20% 135
West Midlands -28 30 £463 -19.57% 89
Midlands -36 30 £463 +5.41% 168
Yorkshire -19 29 £513 -2.38% 89
East of England -3 19 £488 -26.42% 107
North East -35 12 £450 -10.00% 34
Scotland -23 4 £525 +9.38% 93

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

For the 6 months to 4 October 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.

1 326 (69.21%) Roadmaps
2 296 (62.85%) Agile
3 214 (45.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 204 (43.31%) Product Management
5 157 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 153 (32.48%) Product Backlog
7 152 (32.27%) Product Roadmap
7 152 (32.27%) Product Vision
8 128 (27.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 127 (26.96%) Product Strategy
10 121 (25.69%) Security Cleared
11 109 (23.14%) Strategic Roadmap
12 99 (21.02%) SC Cleared
13 95 (20.17%) Decision-Making
14 84 (17.83%) User Stories
15 78 (16.56%) Analytics
16 77 (16.35%) Backlog Management
17 75 (15.92%) Scrum
18 73 (15.50%) AI
19 62 (13.16%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
20 61 (12.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
21 59 (12.53%) Azure
22 53 (11.25%) User Research
23 52 (11.04%) Backlog Refinement
24 51 (10.83%) Business Case
24 51 (10.83%) User Experience
25 50 (10.62%) Scaled Agile Framework
26 47 (9.98%) AWS
27 45 (9.55%) Problem-Solving
28 44 (9.34%) Acceptance Criteria

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 41 (8.70%) Confluence
2 5 (1.06%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.42%) Apache
3 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.42%) IBM Transformation Extender
3 2 (0.42%) SharePoint
4 1 (0.21%) Kinematics
Applications
1 5 (1.06%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.06%) Notion
2 3 (0.64%) Chatbot
2 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
2 3 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
3 1 (0.21%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.49%) Shopify
2 6 (1.27%) Dynamics CRM
3 3 (0.64%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.42%) Aladdin
4 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.42%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.21%) Maximo
5 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.21%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.21%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 59 (12.53%) Azure
2 47 (9.98%) AWS
3 18 (3.82%) SaaS
4 14 (2.97%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (2.97%) Power Platform
5 10 (2.12%) GCP
6 9 (1.91%) Snowflake
7 6 (1.27%) dbt
7 6 (1.27%) Miro
8 5 (1.06%) GitHub
9 4 (0.85%) Dynamics 365
9 4 (0.85%) GitHub Actions
9 4 (0.85%) Google Analytics
10 3 (0.64%) Anthropic Claude
10 3 (0.64%) Azure Monitor
10 3 (0.64%) ChatGPT
10 3 (0.64%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
10 3 (0.64%) Power Automate
11 2 (0.42%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.42%) Broadband
1 2 (0.42%) SD-WAN
1 2 (0.42%) SMS
1 2 (0.42%) WAN
2 1 (0.21%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 12 (2.55%) Metadata
1 12 (2.55%) Power BI
2 11 (2.34%) Data Warehouse
3 9 (1.91%) Data Lake
4 4 (0.85%) Big Data
5 3 (0.64%) Delta Lake
5 3 (0.64%) Tableau
6 2 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
6 2 (0.42%) BigQuery
6 2 (0.42%) Looker
6 2 (0.42%) Semantic Layer
7 1 (0.21%) Elasticsearch
7 1 (0.21%) Electronic Patient Records
7 1 (0.21%) Mixpanel
7 1 (0.21%) Oracle Database
7 1 (0.21%) Redis
Development Applications
1 44 (9.34%) JIRA
2 2 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.21%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.21%) Rational DOORS
General
1 132 (28.03%) Social Skills
2 98 (20.81%) Public Sector
3 79 (16.77%) Finance
4 54 (11.46%) Retail
5 48 (10.19%) Analytical Skills
6 46 (9.77%) Marketing
7 39 (8.28%) Influencing Skills
8 25 (5.31%) Aerospace
9 23 (4.88%) Banking
10 17 (3.61%) Legal
11 13 (2.76%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.91%) Aviation
12 9 (1.91%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 6 (1.27%) Local Government
13 6 (1.27%) Military
13 6 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
14 4 (0.85%) Electronics
14 4 (0.85%) Retail Banking
15 3 (0.64%) Games
15 3 (0.64%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (1.06%) RESTful
2 4 (0.85%) Middleware
3 3 (0.64%) Azure Blueprints
3 3 (0.64%) SOAP
3 3 (0.64%) Terraform
3 3 (0.64%) Web Services
4 2 (0.42%) Gherkin
4 2 (0.42%) JSON
4 2 (0.42%) MACH
4 2 (0.42%) OAuth
5 1 (0.21%) Django
5 1 (0.21%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.21%) Flutter
5 1 (0.21%) JSON Schema
5 1 (0.21%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (0.21%) REST
5 1 (0.21%) Spring
5 1 (0.21%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 112 (23.78%) Product Ownership
2 24 (5.10%) Legacy Systems
3 19 (4.03%) Onboarding
4 18 (3.82%) Virtual Team
5 13 (2.76%) Cloud Native
5 13 (2.76%) Mobile App
6 12 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
7 7 (1.49%) Analytical Mindset
7 7 (1.49%) Management Information System
8 6 (1.27%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.27%) NHS
9 5 (1.06%) Credit Risk
10 4 (0.85%) Educational Technology
11 3 (0.64%) AI Agents
11 3 (0.64%) Data Structures
11 3 (0.64%) Security Posture
11 3 (0.64%) Self-Motivation
11 3 (0.64%) Smart Home
11 3 (0.64%) Social Media
12 2 (0.42%) Distributed Architecture
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.64%) Android
1 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 326 (69.21%) Roadmaps
2 296 (62.85%) Agile
3 214 (45.44%) Stakeholder Management
4 204 (43.31%) Product Management
5 157 (33.33%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 153 (32.48%) Product Backlog
7 152 (32.27%) Product Roadmap
7 152 (32.27%) Product Vision
8 128 (27.18%) Continuous Improvement
9 127 (26.96%) Product Strategy
10 109 (23.14%) Strategic Roadmap
11 95 (20.17%) Decision-Making
12 84 (17.83%) User Stories
13 78 (16.56%) Analytics
14 77 (16.35%) Backlog Management
15 75 (15.92%) Scrum
16 73 (15.50%) AI
17 62 (13.16%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 61 (12.95%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 53 (11.25%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 17 (3.61%) SQL
2 10 (2.12%) Python
3 3 (0.64%) Bash
4 2 (0.42%) Korn
5 1 (0.21%) Java
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
1 121 (25.69%) Security Cleared
2 99 (21.02%) SC Cleared
3 42 (8.92%) Degree
4 38 (8.07%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.55%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.49%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 5 (1.06%) CSPO
7 5 (1.06%) PMI Certification
7 5 (1.06%) PMP
8 3 (0.64%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.42%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.21%) APMG
10 1 (0.21%) DBS Check
10 1 (0.21%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 21 (4.46%) Accessibility
2 19 (4.03%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.76%) QA
4 8 (1.70%) WCAG
5 7 (1.49%) GDPR
6 2 (0.42%) GRC
6 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
6 2 (0.42%) PSD2
7 1 (0.21%) ARP4761
7 1 (0.21%) Basel III
7 1 (0.21%) DICOM
7 1 (0.21%) DO-160
7 1 (0.21%) DO-254
7 1 (0.21%) IEC 61508
7 1 (0.21%) IFRS
7 1 (0.21%) IFRS 9
7 1 (0.21%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 1 (0.21%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (0.85%) Tivoli
2 3 (0.64%) MOM
3 2 (0.42%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 1 (0.21%) Ansible
4 1 (0.21%) Grafana
4 1 (0.21%) Kibana
4 1 (0.21%) Kubernetes
4 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
4 1 (0.21%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 22 (4.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.55%) Google
3 7 (1.49%) Salesforce
4 6 (1.27%) IBM
5 5 (1.06%) ServiceNow
6 4 (0.85%) JDA
6 4 (0.85%) Planview
6 4 (0.85%) RedPrairie
6 4 (0.85%) SAP
6 4 (0.85%) Splunk
7 3 (0.64%) BMC
7 3 (0.64%) Databricks
7 3 (0.64%) EMC
7 3 (0.64%) Oracle
7 3 (0.64%) Remedy
7 3 (0.64%) UiPath
8 2 (0.42%) Charles River
8 2 (0.42%) Klarna
8 2 (0.42%) OneLogin
8 2 (0.42%) PayPal