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 15 July 2026.

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

6 months to
15 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 261 330 341
Rank change year-on-year +69 +11 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 483 239 255
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.92% 0.74% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 0.80% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 293 172 188
10th Percentile £379 £360 £386
25th Percentile £463 £462 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £513 £585
Median % change year-on-year +3.41% -12.39% +6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £675
90th Percentile £675 £687 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £505 £563
% change year-on-year +2.48% -10.22% +7.14%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 4 2
10th Percentile £72.50 £36.83 -
25th Percentile £80.75 £43.69 £66.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 £50.75 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.49% -24.81% +45.87%
75th Percentile £88.00 £58.44 £68.75
90th Percentile - £66.88 -
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 48,692 29,793 39,772
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.54% 91.81% 93.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,483 18,982 25,593
10th Percentile £325 £288 £288
25th Percentile £419 £400 £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £495
% change year-on-year +5.26% -4.04% -1.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,276 1,398 2,720
10th Percentile £15.93 £13.75 £13.00
25th Percentile £21.35 £17.44 £17.00
Median hourly rate £45.00 £26.45 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year +70.13% -33.88% -5.88%
75th Percentile £67.84 £56.19 £63.41
90th Percentile £80.07 £73.75 £73.78
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.56 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +81.13% -37.13% +6.67%

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 15 July 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 15 July 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 15 July 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 +56 440 £538 +2.43% 406
UK excluding London +38 221 £518 +2.48% 244
London -6 200 £550 +4.76% 230
Work from Home -1 131 £537 +6.02% 234
South East +2 73 £518 -19.46% 79
North of England -39 62 £525 +2.94% 52
South West +8 43 £550 +11.11% 13
North West -18 37 £550 +14.29% 22
East of England -1 23 £494 -15.05% 23
Midlands -49 23 £491 +5.03% 37
West Midlands -54 22 £490 -6.67% 19
Yorkshire -38 20 £519 +3.75% 25
North East -41 11 £458 -12.86% 5
East Midlands -16 1 £500 +24.38% 18

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

For the 6 months to 15 July 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.

1 270 (55.90%) Roadmaps
2 259 (53.62%) Agile
3 183 (37.89%) Product Management
4 150 (31.06%) Stakeholder Management
5 136 (28.16%) Security Cleared
6 126 (26.09%) Product Roadmap
7 120 (24.84%) Product Backlog
8 117 (24.22%) Product Vision
9 110 (22.77%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 101 (20.91%) Continuous Improvement
11 95 (19.67%) Product Strategy
12 88 (18.22%) SC Cleared
13 80 (16.56%) AI
14 78 (16.15%) User Stories
15 75 (15.53%) Backlog Management
16 73 (15.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 73 (15.11%) Strategic Roadmap
17 72 (14.91%) Decision-Making
18 64 (13.25%) Analytics
19 60 (12.42%) Scrum
20 56 (11.59%) Azure
21 53 (10.97%) Scaled Agile Framework
22 51 (10.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
23 50 (10.35%) Degree
23 50 (10.35%) User Experience
24 49 (10.14%) AWS
25 47 (9.73%) Problem-Solving
26 42 (8.70%) Backlog Refinement
27 40 (8.28%) Business Case
28 38 (7.87%) PRINCE2

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 20 (4.14%) Confluence
2 2 (0.41%) Apache
2 2 (0.41%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.41%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.41%) CMS
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 4 (0.83%) Microsoft Excel
2 3 (0.62%) Notion
3 2 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
4 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 7 (1.45%) Shopify
2 5 (1.04%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.83%) Remedy ITSM
3 4 (0.83%) Sprinklr
4 2 (0.41%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.41%) 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 56 (11.59%) Azure
2 49 (10.14%) AWS
3 21 (4.35%) SaaS
4 12 (2.48%) GCP
5 9 (1.86%) Power Platform
6 8 (1.66%) Azure DevOps
7 7 (1.45%) GitHub
8 5 (1.04%) IaaS
8 5 (1.04%) Miro
8 5 (1.04%) n8n
8 5 (1.04%) PaaS
8 5 (1.04%) Snowflake
9 4 (0.83%) Microsoft 365
10 3 (0.62%) dbt
10 3 (0.62%) Dynamics 365
10 3 (0.62%) Microsoft Purview
11 2 (0.41%) Apple Pay
11 2 (0.41%) Figma
11 2 (0.41%) Google Pay
11 2 (0.41%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 6 (1.24%) SD-WAN
1 6 (1.24%) WAN
2 5 (1.04%) Firewall
3 4 (0.83%) DNS
3 4 (0.83%) LAN
4 2 (0.41%) Broadband
4 2 (0.41%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.21%) 5G
5 1 (0.21%) Intranet
5 1 (0.21%) NFC
5 1 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.21%) SMS
5 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (1.66%) Power BI
2 6 (1.24%) Data Lake
3 4 (0.83%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (0.83%) Metadata
3 4 (0.83%) Semantic Layer
3 4 (0.83%) Tableau
4 3 (0.62%) Big Data
5 2 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 2 (0.41%) BigQuery
5 2 (0.41%) Looker
6 1 (0.21%) Delta Lake
6 1 (0.21%) Electronic Patient Records
6 1 (0.21%) Oracle Database
6 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (6.42%) Rational DOORS
2 24 (4.97%) JIRA
3 2 (0.41%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.21%) CircleCI
General
1 133 (27.54%) Social Skills
2 79 (16.36%) Finance
3 77 (15.94%) Public Sector
4 55 (11.39%) Analytical Skills
4 55 (11.39%) Marketing
5 45 (9.32%) Retail
6 39 (8.07%) Aerospace
7 20 (4.14%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (3.73%) Banking
9 14 (2.90%) Aviation
9 14 (2.90%) Legal
10 11 (2.28%) Military
11 7 (1.45%) Presentation Skills
12 6 (1.24%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.04%) Billing
13 5 (1.04%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 4 (0.83%) Corporate Banking
14 4 (0.83%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.83%) Investment Banking
14 4 (0.83%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.24%) Azure Blueprints
1 6 (1.24%) RESTful
2 3 (0.62%) PySpark
3 2 (0.41%) Gherkin
3 2 (0.41%) 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%) OAuth
4 1 (0.21%) REST
4 1 (0.21%) Spring
4 1 (0.21%) Spring Boot
4 1 (0.21%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 119 (24.64%) Product Ownership
2 29 (6.00%) Legacy Systems
3 25 (5.18%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.31%) Mobile App
5 15 (3.11%) Onboarding
6 14 (2.90%) Marketing Technology
7 12 (2.48%) Analytical Mindset
7 12 (2.48%) Data Protection Act
8 11 (2.28%) Cloud Native
9 8 (1.66%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.66%) Social Media
10 7 (1.45%) AI Agents
11 6 (1.24%) Virtual Team
12 5 (1.04%) NHS
12 5 (1.04%) Robotics
13 4 (0.83%) FMCG
13 4 (0.83%) Management Information System
13 4 (0.83%) Self-Motivation
13 4 (0.83%) Taxonomies
14 3 (0.62%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.83%) VMS
2 2 (0.41%) Android
2 2 (0.41%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 270 (55.90%) Roadmaps
2 259 (53.62%) Agile
3 183 (37.89%) Product Management
4 150 (31.06%) Stakeholder Management
5 126 (26.09%) Product Roadmap
6 120 (24.84%) Product Backlog
7 117 (24.22%) Product Vision
8 110 (22.77%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 101 (20.91%) Continuous Improvement
10 95 (19.67%) Product Strategy
11 80 (16.56%) AI
12 78 (16.15%) User Stories
13 75 (15.53%) Backlog Management
14 73 (15.11%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 73 (15.11%) Strategic Roadmap
15 72 (14.91%) Decision-Making
16 64 (13.25%) Analytics
17 60 (12.42%) Scrum
18 53 (10.97%) Scaled Agile Framework
19 51 (10.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 11 (2.28%) SQL
2 8 (1.66%) Python
3 4 (0.83%) Java
4 2 (0.41%) 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
1 136 (28.16%) Security Cleared
2 88 (18.22%) SC Cleared
3 50 (10.35%) Degree
4 29 (6.00%) BPSS Clearance
5 21 (4.35%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.83%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.62%) CSPO
8 1 (0.21%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.52%) Data Quality
2 16 (3.31%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.07%) QA
4 5 (1.04%) SLA
5 4 (0.83%) GDPR
5 4 (0.83%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.83%) NIST
5 4 (0.83%) WCAG
6 3 (0.62%) PSD2
7 2 (0.41%) DO-254
7 2 (0.41%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.41%) ISO 26262
7 2 (0.41%) NCSC
7 2 (0.41%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) GRC
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (0.62%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (1.66%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.62%) Ansible
2 3 (0.62%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.21%) Grafana
3 1 (0.21%) Kibana
3 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (5.38%) IBM
2 14 (2.90%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.28%) Google
4 7 (1.45%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.04%) Apple
5 5 (1.04%) Databricks
5 5 (1.04%) Oracle
5 5 (1.04%) SAP
5 5 (1.04%) Workday
6 4 (0.83%) Pinterest
6 4 (0.83%) Remedy
6 4 (0.83%) Snapchat
6 4 (0.83%) TikTok
7 3 (0.62%) BMC
7 3 (0.62%) JDA
7 3 (0.62%) RedPrairie
7 3 (0.62%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.41%) Klarna
8 2 (0.41%) MicroStrategy
8 2 (0.41%) PayPal