Product Manager Contract Job Trends

Product Manager
UK

The median Product Manager daily rate in the UK is £530, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 12 September 2026.

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

6 months to
12 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 291 352 341
Rank change year-on-year +61 -11 +7
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 463 218 235
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.85% 0.66% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 0.72% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 323 151 168
10th Percentile £400 £370 £361
25th Percentile £458 £461 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £513 £550
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% -6.82% -
75th Percentile £600 £613 £700
90th Percentile £688 £688 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £516 £490 £525
% change year-on-year +5.36% -6.67% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 16 1 0
10th Percentile £71.25 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £32.25 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £34.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +117.39% - -
75th Percentile £85.00 £36.75 -
90th Percentile £85.18 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £78.25 £34.50 -
% change year-on-year +126.81% - -

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 50,382 30,069 35,903
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.35% 91.09% 93.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,936 18,968 22,276
10th Percentile £325 £280 £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 £625 £621 £638
90th Percentile £725 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,746 1,571 1,738
10th Percentile £14.58 £13.75 £14.73
25th Percentile £20.25 £17.04 £20.50
Median hourly rate £42.00 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +67.00% -41.51% -
75th Percentile £67.50 £52.33 £65.00
90th Percentile £78.88 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.59
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.83% +12.32%

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 12 September 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 12 September 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 12 September 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 +42 425 £530 +0.95% 1,082
UK excluding London +51 215 £516 +5.36% 301
London -23 187 £550 +4.76% 833
Work from Home -8 117 £515 +0.49% 399
North of England -16 71 £513 +0.10% 84
South East -14 51 £575 +47.06% 60
South West -3 43 £550 - 44
North West -15 39 £600 +17.07% 37
West Midlands -34 29 £478 -13.18% 33
Midlands -45 29 £478 +11.70% 51
Yorkshire -21 26 £513 +2.50% 34
East of England -1 22 £494 -26.85% 29
North East -37 12 £450 -23.40% 13
Scotland -25 2 £475 -1.04% 21

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

For the 6 months to 12 September 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.

1 302 (65.23%) Roadmaps
2 271 (58.53%) Agile
3 197 (42.55%) Product Management
4 185 (39.96%) Stakeholder Management
5 148 (31.97%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 148 (31.97%) Product Roadmap
6 143 (30.89%) Product Backlog
7 134 (28.94%) Product Vision
8 122 (26.35%) Security Cleared
9 112 (24.19%) Product Strategy
10 111 (23.97%) Continuous Improvement
11 95 (20.52%) SC Cleared
12 92 (19.87%) Strategic Roadmap
13 87 (18.79%) Decision-Making
14 80 (17.28%) AI
15 78 (16.85%) User Stories
16 75 (16.20%) Analytics
16 75 (16.20%) Backlog Management
17 71 (15.33%) Scrum
18 59 (12.74%) Azure
19 56 (12.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
20 55 (11.88%) User Experience
20 55 (11.88%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
21 49 (10.58%) Backlog Refinement
22 48 (10.37%) AWS
22 48 (10.37%) Business Case
23 47 (10.15%) Scaled Agile Framework
24 43 (9.29%) Problem-Solving
24 43 (9.29%) User Research
25 42 (9.07%) JIRA

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 37 (7.99%) Confluence
2 5 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.43%) Apache
3 2 (0.43%) Apache Spark
4 1 (0.22%) IBM Transformation Extender
4 1 (0.22%) Kinematics
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.08%) Notion
2 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.65%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.51%) Shopify
2 5 (1.08%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.22%) Maximo
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.22%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.22%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.22%) Sprinklr
5 1 (0.22%) Teamcenter
5 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 59 (12.74%) Azure
2 48 (10.37%) AWS
3 15 (3.24%) Azure DevOps
3 15 (3.24%) SaaS
4 11 (2.38%) Power Platform
5 9 (1.94%) GCP
5 9 (1.94%) GitHub
5 9 (1.94%) Snowflake
6 6 (1.30%) dbt
6 6 (1.30%) Miro
7 5 (1.08%) n8n
8 4 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (0.86%) Google Analytics
9 3 (0.65%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (0.65%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (0.65%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.43%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (0.43%) Collibra
10 2 (0.43%) Slack
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) Broadband
1 2 (0.43%) SD-WAN
1 2 (0.43%) SMS
1 2 (0.43%) WAN
2 1 (0.22%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.38%) Metadata
2 9 (1.94%) Data Lake
2 9 (1.94%) Power BI
3 7 (1.51%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.30%) Big Data
5 4 (0.86%) Delta Lake
5 4 (0.86%) Tableau
6 3 (0.65%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.43%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.43%) Looker
8 1 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.22%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.22%) Redis
8 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 42 (9.07%) JIRA
2 4 (0.86%) Rational DOORS
3 2 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.22%) CircleCI
General
1 128 (27.65%) Social Skills
2 86 (18.57%) Public Sector
3 80 (17.28%) Finance
4 53 (11.45%) Retail
5 49 (10.58%) Marketing
6 47 (10.15%) Analytical Skills
7 26 (5.62%) Aerospace
7 26 (5.62%) Banking
8 24 (5.18%) Influencing Skills
9 17 (3.67%) Legal
10 12 (2.59%) Manufacturing
11 9 (1.94%) Aviation
11 9 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 8 (1.73%) Military
13 6 (1.30%) Billing
13 6 (1.30%) Local Government
13 6 (1.30%) Retail Banking
14 5 (1.08%) Investment Banking
14 5 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
15 4 (0.86%) Corporate Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.30%) RESTful
2 3 (0.65%) Azure Blueprints
2 3 (0.65%) Terraform
3 2 (0.43%) Gherkin
3 2 (0.43%) JSON
3 2 (0.43%) Middleware
3 2 (0.43%) OAuth
4 1 (0.22%) Django
4 1 (0.22%) FastAPI
4 1 (0.22%) Flutter
4 1 (0.22%) JSON Schema
4 1 (0.22%) MACH
4 1 (0.22%) Model Context Protocol
4 1 (0.22%) REST
4 1 (0.22%) Spring
4 1 (0.22%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 103 (22.25%) Product Ownership
2 27 (5.83%) Legacy Systems
3 16 (3.46%) Virtual Team
4 15 (3.24%) Mobile App
5 14 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (3.02%) Onboarding
6 12 (2.59%) Cloud Native
7 10 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.73%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.73%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.51%) NHS
10 6 (1.30%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.08%) Credit Risk
12 4 (0.86%) Data Structures
12 4 (0.86%) FMCG
12 4 (0.86%) Marketing Technology
12 4 (0.86%) Robotics
12 4 (0.86%) Social Media
13 3 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
13 3 (0.65%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.65%) Android
1 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 302 (65.23%) Roadmaps
2 271 (58.53%) Agile
3 197 (42.55%) Product Management
4 185 (39.96%) Stakeholder Management
5 148 (31.97%) Backlog Prioritisation
5 148 (31.97%) Product Roadmap
6 143 (30.89%) Product Backlog
7 134 (28.94%) Product Vision
8 112 (24.19%) Product Strategy
9 111 (23.97%) Continuous Improvement
10 92 (19.87%) Strategic Roadmap
11 87 (18.79%) Decision-Making
12 80 (17.28%) AI
13 78 (16.85%) User Stories
14 75 (16.20%) Analytics
14 75 (16.20%) Backlog Management
15 71 (15.33%) Scrum
16 56 (12.10%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 55 (11.88%) User Experience
17 55 (11.88%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 13 (2.81%) SQL
2 9 (1.94%) Python
3 3 (0.65%) Bash
4 2 (0.43%) Korn
5 1 (0.22%) Java
5 1 (0.22%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.22%) Ruby
5 1 (0.22%) SPARQL
5 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 122 (26.35%) Security Cleared
2 95 (20.52%) SC Cleared
3 37 (7.99%) Degree
4 32 (6.91%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.59%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.51%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 5 (1.08%) CSPO
8 3 (0.65%) Master's Degree
9 2 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.22%) APMG
10 1 (0.22%) MBA
10 1 (0.22%) PMI Certification
10 1 (0.22%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.10%) Accessibility
2 17 (3.67%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.81%) QA
4 8 (1.73%) WCAG
5 6 (1.30%) GDPR
6 3 (0.65%) PSD2
7 2 (0.43%) GRC
7 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.43%) PMO
8 1 (0.22%) ARP4761
8 1 (0.22%) Basel III
8 1 (0.22%) DICOM
8 1 (0.22%) DO-160
8 1 (0.22%) DO-254
8 1 (0.22%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.22%) IFRS
8 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 26262
8 1 (0.22%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (0.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 7 (1.51%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.65%) Ansible
2 3 (0.65%) MOM
2 3 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.22%) Grafana
3 1 (0.22%) Kibana
3 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
3 1 (0.22%) Tivoli
3 1 (0.22%) Tivoli Monitoring
Vendors
1 17 (3.67%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.59%) Google
3 9 (1.94%) Salesforce
4 7 (1.51%) SAP
5 6 (1.30%) Databricks
6 5 (1.08%) IBM
6 5 (1.08%) Oracle
7 4 (0.86%) JDA
7 4 (0.86%) RedPrairie
7 4 (0.86%) Remedy
7 4 (0.86%) ServiceNow
7 4 (0.86%) Splunk
8 3 (0.65%) BMC
8 3 (0.65%) EMC
9 2 (0.43%) Apple
9 2 (0.43%) Klarna
9 2 (0.43%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (0.43%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.43%) PayPal
9 2 (0.43%) Workday