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 16 November 2025.

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

6 months to
16 Nov 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 343 330 359
Rank change year-on-year -13 +29 +16
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 251 245 283
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.71% 0.67% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.72% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 164 223
10th Percentile £400 £376 £409
25th Percentile £438 £456 £483
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% -4.35% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £703 £675
90th Percentile £713 £784 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £520 £496
% change year-on-year -13.46% +4.79% -17.29%
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 32,121 33,965 44,165
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.96% 92.87% 93.67%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,371 20,492 29,993
10th Percentile £278 £300 £294
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,875 1,270 1,571
10th Percentile £14.22 £15.10 £15.12
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £36.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -30.14% -19.10% +58.28%
75th Percentile £53.99 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £73.75 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +85.11%

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 16 November 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 16 November 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 -8 224 £520 -9.57% 449
London -20 150 £550 -8.33% 241
Work from Home +11 77 £516 -2.04% 246
UK excluding London -10 67 £450 -13.46% 182
North of England -20 31 £463 +10.12% 54
Midlands -21 20 £403 -15.26% 16
North East +1 13 £450 +7.14% 13
West Midlands -19 11 £628 +11.56% 10
East Midlands -1 9 £375 +36.36% 6
North West -24 9 £475 +30.14% 25
Yorkshire -33 9 £550 -8.33% 16
South West +12 7 £550 +34.47% 13
South East +1 7 £402 -36.94% 58
East of England -16 2 £663 +1.92% 19
Scotland -8 1 - - 10

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

For the 6 months to 16 November 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.

1 147 (58.57%) Roadmaps
2 129 (51.39%) Agile
3 115 (45.82%) Product Management
4 83 (33.07%) Product Roadmap
5 76 (30.28%) Stakeholder Management
6 67 (26.69%) Product Strategy
7 57 (22.71%) Product Vision
8 41 (16.33%) AI
9 32 (12.75%) Analytics
9 32 (12.75%) Decision-Making
10 29 (11.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (11.16%) Product Backlog
12 27 (10.76%) Security Cleared
13 26 (10.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 26 (10.36%) Strategic Roadmap
13 26 (10.36%) User Stories
14 24 (9.56%) Fintech
14 24 (9.56%) Machine Learning
14 24 (9.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
15 23 (9.16%) Data Science
15 23 (9.16%) Problem-Solving
15 23 (9.16%) SC Cleared
15 23 (9.16%) Scrum
16 22 (8.76%) Backlog Management
17 21 (8.37%) Backlog Prioritisation
17 21 (8.37%) Customer Experience
18 20 (7.97%) User Experience
18 20 (7.97%) User Research
19 19 (7.57%) Product Requirements
20 18 (7.17%) Scaled Agile Framework

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 (3.98%) Apache Airflow
2 9 (3.59%) Confluence
3 3 (1.20%) PowerFactory
4 2 (0.80%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (1.99%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.40%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.40%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.59%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.80%) Shopify
3 1 (0.40%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.40%) Magento
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.40%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.40%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 14 (5.58%) AWS
2 12 (4.78%) SaaS
3 11 (4.38%) dbt
3 11 (4.38%) GCP
4 8 (3.19%) Vertex AI
5 2 (0.80%) Alation
5 2 (0.80%) AWS Step Functions
5 2 (0.80%) Azure
5 2 (0.80%) Fivetran
5 2 (0.80%) OCI
6 1 (0.40%) Amazon S3
6 1 (0.40%) Anthropic Claude
6 1 (0.40%) AWS Lambda
6 1 (0.40%) Google Workspace
6 1 (0.40%) IaaS
6 1 (0.40%) Microsoft 365
6 1 (0.40%) Miro
6 1 (0.40%) PaaS
6 1 (0.40%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
6 1 (0.40%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.80%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.38%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (3.98%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.20%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.80%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.80%) Tableau
5 1 (0.40%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.40%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.40%) GIS
5 1 (0.40%) Looker
5 1 (0.40%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 15 (5.98%) JIRA
2 8 (3.19%) MLflow
General
1 93 (37.05%) Social Skills
2 67 (26.69%) Finance
3 49 (19.52%) Public Sector
4 34 (13.55%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (11.95%) Banking
6 28 (11.16%) Marketing
7 20 (7.97%) Retail
8 11 (4.38%) Advertising
8 11 (4.38%) Influencing Skills
8 11 (4.38%) Legal
9 10 (3.98%) Front Office
9 10 (3.98%) Investment Banking
10 4 (1.59%) Digital Health
10 4 (1.59%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (1.20%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 3 (1.20%) Presentation Skills
12 2 (0.80%) Back Office
12 2 (0.80%) Health Technology
12 2 (0.80%) Publishing
12 2 (0.80%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.80%) Flash
1 2 (0.80%) React
2 1 (0.40%) HTML
2 1 (0.40%) HTML5
2 1 (0.40%) Hugging Face
2 1 (0.40%) OAuth
2 1 (0.40%) OAuth2
2 1 (0.40%) OpenID
2 1 (0.40%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.40%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 37 (14.74%) Product Ownership
2 14 (5.58%) Derivative
3 10 (3.98%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (3.98%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.98%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.59%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (3.59%) Marketing Technology
5 8 (3.19%) Digital Media
6 6 (2.39%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.99%) AI Agents
8 4 (1.59%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.59%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.20%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.20%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.20%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.20%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.20%) NHS
10 2 (0.80%) Educational Technology
10 2 (0.80%) Legacy Systems
10 2 (0.80%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 3 (1.20%) Windows
2 1 (0.40%) Android
2 1 (0.40%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 147 (58.57%) Roadmaps
2 129 (51.39%) Agile
3 115 (45.82%) Product Management
4 83 (33.07%) Product Roadmap
5 76 (30.28%) Stakeholder Management
6 67 (26.69%) Product Strategy
7 57 (22.71%) Product Vision
8 41 (16.33%) AI
9 32 (12.75%) Analytics
9 32 (12.75%) Decision-Making
10 29 (11.55%) Continuous Improvement
11 28 (11.16%) Product Backlog
12 26 (10.36%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 26 (10.36%) Strategic Roadmap
12 26 (10.36%) User Stories
13 24 (9.56%) Fintech
13 24 (9.56%) Machine Learning
13 24 (9.56%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
14 23 (9.16%) Data Science
14 23 (9.16%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 5 (1.99%) SQL
2 2 (0.80%) Korn
3 1 (0.40%) Java
3 1 (0.40%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.40%) MATLAB
3 1 (0.40%) Python
Qualifications
1 27 (10.76%) Security Cleared
2 23 (9.16%) SC Cleared
3 10 (3.98%) Degree
4 8 (3.19%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.20%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (1.20%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.40%) APMP
6 1 (0.40%) CCNA
6 1 (0.40%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.40%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.40%) CSPO
6 1 (0.40%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.40%) Master's Degree
6 1 (0.40%) MBA
6 1 (0.40%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (2.79%) QA
2 5 (1.99%) Accessibility
3 3 (1.20%) GDPR
4 2 (0.80%) PMO
5 1 (0.40%) Data Quality
5 1 (0.40%) NIST
Systems Management
1 8 (3.19%) Kubeflow
2 3 (1.20%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.40%) Terraform
Vendors
1 14 (5.58%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.38%) Salesforce
3 3 (1.20%) Apple
3 3 (1.20%) OneLogin
4 2 (0.80%) Atlassian
4 2 (0.80%) Avature
4 2 (0.80%) DIgSILENT
4 2 (0.80%) Google
4 2 (0.80%) Oracle
4 2 (0.80%) Workday
5 1 (0.40%) Adobe
5 1 (0.40%) Adyen
5 1 (0.40%) CA Agile Central
5 1 (0.40%) Fiserv
5 1 (0.40%) Murex
5 1 (0.40%) OneTrust
5 1 (0.40%) OpenAI
5 1 (0.40%) ServiceNow
5 1 (0.40%) Spotify
5 1 (0.40%) Zscaler