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 10 August 2026.

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

6 months to
10 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 279 328 340
Rank change year-on-year +49 +12 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 469 230 240
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.88% 0.69% 0.62%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.95% 0.76% 0.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 289 163 180
10th Percentile £375 £368 £358
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £520 £575
Median % change year-on-year +0.96% -9.57% +4.55%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £689
90th Percentile £675 £700 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £513 £510 £526
% change year-on-year +0.67% -3.04% +5.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 3 0
10th Percentile £72.50 £35.30 -
25th Percentile £80.75 £39.88 -
Median hourly rate £85.00 £49.00 -
Median % change year-on-year +73.47% - -
75th Percentile £88.00 £61.50 -
90th Percentile - £68.10 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £85.00 £52.25 -
% change year-on-year +62.68% - -

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 49,375 30,298 36,046
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.56% 91.39% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,671 19,217 23,307
10th Percentile £328 £283 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.87%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £727 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,467 1,516 2,023
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.60 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.72 £17.21 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% +1.18%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.63 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.11 £45.00
% change year-on-year +69.26% -44.20% +20.00%

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 10 August 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 10 August 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 10 August 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 +51 431 £525 - 618
UK excluding London +55 216 £513 +0.67% 214
London -28 196 £550 +4.76% 432
Work from Home +14 119 £525 +2.44% 269
South East -2 75 £518 -17.20% 62
North of England -29 56 £500 -2.44% 56
South West -4 42 £550 - 30
North West -22 31 £550 +14.29% 31
East of England +4 23 £494 +6.76% 8
West Midlands -38 22 £432 -21.45% 30
Midlands -42 22 £432 -7.59% 33
Yorkshire -25 20 £506 +1.25% 20
North East -40 11 £454 -13.57% 5
Scotland -13 1 £475 -5.47% 12

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

For the 6 months to 10 August 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.

1 269 (57.36%) Roadmaps
2 255 (54.37%) Agile
3 183 (39.02%) Product Management
4 155 (33.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 141 (30.06%) Security Cleared
6 129 (27.51%) Product Roadmap
7 124 (26.44%) Product Backlog
8 123 (26.23%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 121 (25.80%) Product Vision
10 108 (23.03%) Continuous Improvement
11 97 (20.68%) Product Strategy
12 90 (19.19%) SC Cleared
13 80 (17.06%) User Stories
14 79 (16.84%) AI
15 78 (16.63%) Backlog Management
16 75 (15.99%) Decision-Making
17 74 (15.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 74 (15.78%) Strategic Roadmap
18 71 (15.14%) Analytics
19 58 (12.37%) Scaled Agile Framework
20 57 (12.15%) Azure
21 55 (11.73%) Scrum
22 53 (11.30%) Degree
23 48 (10.23%) AWS
24 46 (9.81%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
25 45 (9.59%) Backlog Refinement
25 45 (9.59%) Problem-Solving
25 45 (9.59%) User Experience
26 42 (8.96%) Business Case
27 40 (8.53%) 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 25 (5.33%) Confluence
2 2 (0.43%) Apache
2 2 (0.43%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.43%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.21%) CMS
3 1 (0.21%) Kinematics
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 5 (1.07%) Microsoft Excel
1 5 (1.07%) Notion
2 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Office
3 2 (0.43%) Chatbot
3 2 (0.43%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.49%) Shopify
2 5 (1.07%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.85%) Sprinklr
4 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.21%) Exchequer
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 57 (12.15%) Azure
2 48 (10.23%) AWS
3 16 (3.41%) SaaS
4 10 (2.13%) Azure DevOps
4 10 (2.13%) GCP
5 9 (1.92%) Power Platform
6 6 (1.28%) GitHub
6 6 (1.28%) Snowflake
7 5 (1.07%) n8n
8 4 (0.85%) Google Analytics
8 4 (0.85%) IaaS
8 4 (0.85%) Miro
8 4 (0.85%) PaaS
9 3 (0.64%) dbt
9 3 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (0.64%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.43%) Alation
10 2 (0.43%) Apple Pay
10 2 (0.43%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 7 (1.49%) SD-WAN
1 7 (1.49%) WAN
2 4 (0.85%) DNS
2 4 (0.85%) Firewall
2 4 (0.85%) LAN
3 2 (0.43%) Broadband
3 2 (0.43%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.21%) 5G
4 1 (0.21%) NFC
4 1 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.21%) SMS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.71%) Power BI
2 6 (1.28%) Big Data
2 6 (1.28%) Data Lake
3 4 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (0.85%) Metadata
3 4 (0.85%) Semantic Layer
3 4 (0.85%) Tableau
4 2 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.43%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.43%) 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 32 (6.82%) Rational DOORS
2 29 (6.18%) JIRA
3 2 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.21%) CircleCI
General
1 123 (26.23%) Social Skills
2 75 (15.99%) Finance
3 70 (14.93%) Public Sector
4 52 (11.09%) Marketing
5 45 (9.59%) Aerospace
5 45 (9.59%) Analytical Skills
5 45 (9.59%) Retail
6 24 (5.12%) Banking
7 17 (3.62%) Influencing Skills
8 15 (3.20%) Legal
9 11 (2.35%) Aviation
10 10 (2.13%) Military
11 8 (1.71%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 8 (1.71%) Manufacturing
12 7 (1.49%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.07%) Billing
13 5 (1.07%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.85%) Corporate Banking
14 4 (0.85%) Local Government
14 4 (0.85%) Retail Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.28%) Azure Blueprints
1 6 (1.28%) RESTful
2 3 (0.64%) PySpark
3 2 (0.43%) Gherkin
3 2 (0.43%) 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%) Model Context Protocol
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
1 120 (25.59%) Product Ownership
2 27 (5.76%) Legacy Systems
3 25 (5.33%) Data Structures
4 14 (2.99%) Onboarding
5 13 (2.77%) Marketing Technology
5 13 (2.77%) Mobile App
6 12 (2.56%) Data Protection Act
7 11 (2.35%) Cloud Native
8 10 (2.13%) Analytical Mindset
9 9 (1.92%) Virtual Team
10 8 (1.71%) Distributed Systems
11 7 (1.49%) AI Agents
11 7 (1.49%) Social Media
12 5 (1.07%) Management Information System
12 5 (1.07%) NHS
12 5 (1.07%) Robotics
13 4 (0.85%) FMCG
13 4 (0.85%) Taxonomies
14 3 (0.64%) Credit Risk
14 3 (0.64%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.85%) VMS
2 3 (0.64%) Android
2 3 (0.64%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 269 (57.36%) Roadmaps
2 255 (54.37%) Agile
3 183 (39.02%) Product Management
4 155 (33.05%) Stakeholder Management
5 129 (27.51%) Product Roadmap
6 124 (26.44%) Product Backlog
7 123 (26.23%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 121 (25.80%) Product Vision
9 108 (23.03%) Continuous Improvement
10 97 (20.68%) Product Strategy
11 80 (17.06%) User Stories
12 79 (16.84%) AI
13 78 (16.63%) Backlog Management
14 75 (15.99%) Decision-Making
15 74 (15.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 74 (15.78%) Strategic Roadmap
16 71 (15.14%) Analytics
17 58 (12.37%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 55 (11.73%) Scrum
19 46 (9.81%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 11 (2.35%) SQL
2 8 (1.71%) Python
3 4 (0.85%) Java
4 2 (0.43%) 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
1 141 (30.06%) Security Cleared
2 90 (19.19%) SC Cleared
3 53 (11.30%) Degree
4 28 (5.97%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (4.48%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.85%) CSPO
7 3 (0.64%) Master's Degree
8 1 (0.21%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.62%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.99%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.35%) QA
4 7 (1.49%) GDPR
5 6 (1.28%) WCAG
6 4 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 4 (0.85%) NIST
7 3 (0.64%) DO-254
7 3 (0.64%) IEC 61508
7 3 (0.64%) ISO 26262
7 3 (0.64%) PSD2
8 2 (0.43%) GRC
8 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
8 2 (0.43%) PMO
8 2 (0.43%) SLA
9 1 (0.21%) ARP4761
9 1 (0.21%) IFRS
9 1 (0.21%) IFRS 9
9 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
9 1 (0.21%) NCSC
System Software
1 3 (0.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (1.71%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.64%) Ansible
2 3 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.21%) Grafana
3 1 (0.21%) Kibana
3 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 27 (5.76%) IBM
2 16 (3.41%) Google
3 15 (3.20%) Microsoft
4 6 (1.28%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.07%) Apple
5 5 (1.07%) Databricks
5 5 (1.07%) Oracle
5 5 (1.07%) SAP
5 5 (1.07%) Workday
6 4 (0.85%) JDA
6 4 (0.85%) Pinterest
6 4 (0.85%) RedPrairie
6 4 (0.85%) Remedy
6 4 (0.85%) Snapchat
6 4 (0.85%) Splunk
6 4 (0.85%) TikTok
7 3 (0.64%) BMC
8 2 (0.43%) Klarna
8 2 (0.43%) PayPal
8 2 (0.43%) ServiceNow