Product Manager Contract Job Trends

Product Manager
UK

The median Product Manager daily rate in the UK is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 26 October 2025.

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

6 months to
26 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 340 327 371
Rank change year-on-year -13 +44 +6
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 241 239 278
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.72% 0.65% 0.58%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.79% 0.70% 0.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 175 166 225
10th Percentile £378 £368 £409
25th Percentile £436 £451 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £713 £775 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £510 £500
% change year-on-year -11.76% +2.00% -16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 4
10th Percentile - - £51.33
25th Percentile £32.25 - £51.44
Median hourly rate £34.50 - £55.25
75th Percentile £36.75 - £61.25
90th Percentile - - £65.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 30,564 34,233 44,722
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.85% 92.88% 93.90%
Number of daily rates quoted 19,313 20,627 30,523
10th Percentile £279 £300 £300
25th Percentile £402 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £745
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,698 1,333 1,531
10th Percentile £13.80 £15.07 £14.61
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +60.48%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £69.51 £73.75 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.00 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.50% -10.11% +90.25%

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 26 October 2025.

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
Top 15 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 26 October 2025. 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 +9 215 £520 -5.45% 586
London -8 144 £530 -7.83% 331
Work from Home 0 75 £513 -6.82% 296
UK excluding London -7 67 £450 -11.76% 373
North of England -20 30 £473 +2.72% 70
Midlands -13 21 £415 -12.63% 15
North East +4 13 £450 +7.14% 15
West Midlands -15 11 £628 +11.56% 9
East Midlands +2 10 £378 +37.27% 5
Yorkshire -21 9 £550 -8.33% 16
North West -27 8 £450 +23.29% 39
South East +8 7 £402 -30.84% 217
South West +17 5 £550 +34.47% 24
Scotland 0 3 £480 -12.89% 20
East of England -11 2 £663 +1.92% 19

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

For the 6 months to 26 October 2025, 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.

1 143 (59.34%) Roadmaps
2 121 (50.21%) Agile
3 115 (47.72%) Product Management
4 81 (33.61%) Product Roadmap
5 73 (30.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 67 (27.80%) Product Strategy
7 52 (21.58%) Product Vision
8 39 (16.18%) AI
9 34 (14.11%) Decision-Making
10 30 (12.45%) Analytics
11 29 (12.03%) Strategic Roadmap
12 25 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (10.37%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (9.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 23 (9.54%) Machine Learning
14 23 (9.54%) Product Backlog
14 23 (9.54%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 22 (9.13%) Data Science
15 22 (9.13%) Fintech
15 22 (9.13%) Scrum
15 22 (9.13%) Security Cleared
15 22 (9.13%) User Stories
16 20 (8.30%) User Research
17 19 (7.88%) Backlog Management
17 19 (7.88%) Backlog Prioritisation
17 19 (7.88%) Customer Experience
17 19 (7.88%) SC Cleared
17 19 (7.88%) Use Case
18 18 (7.47%) Scaled Agile Framework
19 17 (7.05%) Product Requirements

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 10 (4.15%) Apache Airflow
2 8 (3.32%) Confluence
3 3 (1.24%) CMS
3 3 (1.24%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 4 (1.66%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.41%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.41%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.66%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.83%) Shopify
3 1 (0.41%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.41%) Magento
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.41%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.41%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 15 (6.22%) AWS
2 13 (5.39%) SaaS
3 11 (4.56%) dbt
3 11 (4.56%) GCP
4 8 (3.32%) Vertex AI
5 3 (1.24%) Azure
6 2 (0.83%) Alation
6 2 (0.83%) AWS Step Functions
6 2 (0.83%) Figma
6 2 (0.83%) Fivetran
6 2 (0.83%) OCI
7 1 (0.41%) Anthropic Claude
7 1 (0.41%) AWS Lambda
7 1 (0.41%) Google Tag Manager
7 1 (0.41%) PaaS
7 1 (0.41%) Power Platform
7 1 (0.41%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 1 (0.41%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (0.41%) Serverless
7 1 (0.41%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.83%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.56%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (4.15%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.24%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.83%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.83%) Tableau
5 1 (0.41%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.41%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.41%) GIS
5 1 (0.41%) Looker
5 1 (0.41%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 14 (5.81%) JIRA
2 8 (3.32%) MLflow
General
1 88 (36.51%) Social Skills
2 63 (26.14%) Finance
3 47 (19.50%) Public Sector
4 33 (13.69%) Analytical Skills
5 28 (11.62%) Marketing
6 25 (10.37%) Banking
7 20 (8.30%) Retail
8 13 (5.39%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (4.98%) Advertising
10 10 (4.15%) Legal
11 9 (3.73%) Front Office
11 9 (3.73%) Investment Banking
12 4 (1.66%) Digital Health
12 4 (1.66%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.24%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.24%) Publishing
14 2 (0.83%) Health Technology
14 2 (0.83%) Presentation Skills
14 2 (0.83%) Telecoms
15 1 (0.41%) Wearables
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.83%) Flash
2 1 (0.41%) HTML
2 1 (0.41%) HTML5
2 1 (0.41%) Hugging Face
2 1 (0.41%) OAuth
2 1 (0.41%) OAuth2
2 1 (0.41%) OpenID
2 1 (0.41%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.41%) React
2 1 (0.41%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 35 (14.52%) Product Ownership
2 13 (5.39%) Derivative
3 10 (4.15%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (4.15%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.15%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.73%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (3.73%) Marketing Technology
5 8 (3.32%) Digital Media
6 6 (2.49%) Mobile App
7 5 (2.07%) AI Agents
7 5 (2.07%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.66%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.24%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.24%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.24%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.24%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.24%) NHS
10 2 (0.83%) Credit Derivative
10 2 (0.83%) PMI
10 2 (0.83%) Robotics
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.24%) Windows
2 2 (0.83%) Android
2 2 (0.83%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 143 (59.34%) Roadmaps
2 121 (50.21%) Agile
3 115 (47.72%) Product Management
4 81 (33.61%) Product Roadmap
5 73 (30.29%) Stakeholder Management
6 67 (27.80%) Product Strategy
7 52 (21.58%) Product Vision
8 39 (16.18%) AI
9 34 (14.11%) Decision-Making
10 30 (12.45%) Analytics
11 29 (12.03%) Strategic Roadmap
12 25 (10.37%) Continuous Improvement
12 25 (10.37%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (9.96%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 23 (9.54%) Machine Learning
14 23 (9.54%) Product Backlog
14 23 (9.54%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 22 (9.13%) Data Science
15 22 (9.13%) Fintech
15 22 (9.13%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 4 (1.66%) SQL
2 2 (0.83%) Korn
3 1 (0.41%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.41%) MATLAB
3 1 (0.41%) Python
Qualifications
1 22 (9.13%) Security Cleared
2 19 (7.88%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.98%) Degree
4 9 (3.73%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.24%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
6 2 (0.83%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.83%) CSPO
6 2 (0.83%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.83%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.41%) APMP
7 1 (0.41%) CCNA
7 1 (0.41%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.41%) MBA
7 1 (0.41%) MCP
7 1 (0.41%) Postgraduate
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.90%) QA
2 4 (1.66%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.24%) GDPR
4 2 (0.83%) PMO
5 1 (0.41%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.41%) NIST
Systems Management
1 8 (3.32%) Kubeflow
2 3 (1.24%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.41%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (5.81%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.56%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.24%) Apple
3 3 (1.24%) Google
3 3 (1.24%) OneLogin
4 2 (0.83%) Avature
4 2 (0.83%) DIgSILENT
4 2 (0.83%) Oracle
4 2 (0.83%) Workday
5 1 (0.41%) Adobe
5 1 (0.41%) Adyen
5 1 (0.41%) Atlassian
5 1 (0.41%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (0.41%) Fiserv
5 1 (0.41%) Murex
5 1 (0.41%) OneTrust
5 1 (0.41%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.41%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.41%) Spotify
5 1 (0.41%) Zscaler