Product Manager Contract Job Trends

Product Manager
UK

The median Product Manager daily rate in the UK is £537, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 7 July 2026.

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

6 months to
7 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 266 308 347
Rank change year-on-year +42 +39 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 475 242 256
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.91% 0.76% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.99% 0.83% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 286 172 189
10th Percentile £365 £360 £380
25th Percentile £461 £462 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £537 £513 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.83% -12.39% +6.36%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £675
90th Percentile £681 £687 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £518 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +3.50% -13.04% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 49 3 2
10th Percentile £72.50 £48.25 -
25th Percentile £80.75 £49.38 £66.25
Median hourly rate £85.00 £52.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.90% -22.22% +45.87%
75th Percentile £88.00 £63.13 £68.75
90th Percentile - £68.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £85.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +21.43% - -

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 48,135 29,273 40,238
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.45% 91.98% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,133 18,680 25,890
10th Percentile £325 £287 £285
25th Percentile £417 £400 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +4.00% -4.76% -2.33%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £493
% change year-on-year +5.26% -3.65% -1.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,254 1,329 2,797
10th Percentile £15.75 £13.75 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.44 £16.65
Median hourly rate £42.59 £26.45 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +61.03% -29.47% -12.79%
75th Percentile £67.50 £55.25 £62.50
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.25 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +76.94% -37.13% +1.14%

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 7 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 7 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 7 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 +59 433 £538 +2.43% 467
UK excluding London +28 212 £518 +3.50% 227
London -25 201 £550 +4.76% 288
Work from Home +6 133 £550 +7.32% 253
South East +1 73 £521 -18.87% 79
North of England -40 56 £525 +2.94% 55
South West +8 43 £550 +25.00% 15
North West -20 32 £550 +14.29% 26
Midlands -49 23 £491 +9.11% 27
West Midlands -48 22 £490 +0.51% 11
East of England -12 20 £500 -13.98% 20
Yorkshire -33 19 £525 +5.00% 23
North East -39 11 £458 -12.86% 6
East Midlands -19 1 £500 +24.38% 16

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

For the 6 months to 7 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.

1 262 (55.16%) Roadmaps
2 243 (51.16%) Agile
3 178 (37.47%) Product Management
4 140 (29.47%) Stakeholder Management
5 132 (27.79%) Security Cleared
6 118 (24.84%) Product Roadmap
7 113 (23.79%) Product Vision
8 110 (23.16%) Product Backlog
9 106 (22.32%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 96 (20.21%) Continuous Improvement
11 90 (18.95%) Product Strategy
12 84 (17.68%) SC Cleared
13 75 (15.79%) User Stories
14 72 (15.16%) AI
15 69 (14.53%) Backlog Management
15 69 (14.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 68 (14.32%) Decision-Making
16 68 (14.32%) Strategic Roadmap
17 61 (12.84%) Analytics
18 57 (12.00%) Scrum
19 52 (10.95%) Azure
19 52 (10.95%) Scaled Agile Framework
20 50 (10.53%) Degree
21 49 (10.32%) AWS
21 49 (10.32%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
22 46 (9.68%) User Experience
23 43 (9.05%) Problem-Solving
24 39 (8.21%) Backlog Refinement
24 39 (8.21%) Business Case
25 38 (8.00%) 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 19 (4.00%) Confluence
2 2 (0.42%) Apache
2 2 (0.42%) Apache Airflow
2 2 (0.42%) Apache Spark
2 2 (0.42%) CMS
3 1 (0.21%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.63%) Notion
2 1 (0.21%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.21%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.21%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 5 (1.05%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.84%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.84%) Sprinklr
3 3 (0.63%) Shopify
4 2 (0.42%) Exchequer
4 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
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 52 (10.95%) Azure
2 49 (10.32%) AWS
3 20 (4.21%) SaaS
4 11 (2.32%) GCP
5 8 (1.68%) Power Platform
6 7 (1.47%) Azure DevOps
6 7 (1.47%) GitHub
7 5 (1.05%) IaaS
7 5 (1.05%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (1.05%) Miro
7 5 (1.05%) n8n
7 5 (1.05%) PaaS
7 5 (1.05%) Snowflake
8 3 (0.63%) dbt
8 3 (0.63%) Dynamics 365
8 3 (0.63%) Microsoft Purview
9 2 (0.42%) Apple Pay
9 2 (0.42%) Figma
9 2 (0.42%) Google Pay
9 2 (0.42%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.05%) Firewall
1 5 (1.05%) SD-WAN
1 5 (1.05%) WAN
2 4 (0.84%) DNS
2 4 (0.84%) LAN
3 2 (0.42%) Broadband
3 2 (0.42%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.21%) 5G
4 1 (0.21%) Internet
4 1 (0.21%) Intranet
4 1 (0.21%) NFC
4 1 (0.21%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.21%) SMS
4 1 (0.21%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (1.47%) Power BI
2 6 (1.26%) Data Lake
3 4 (0.84%) Data Warehouse
3 4 (0.84%) Metadata
3 4 (0.84%) Semantic Layer
3 4 (0.84%) Tableau
4 2 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
4 2 (0.42%) Big Data
4 2 (0.42%) BigQuery
4 2 (0.42%) 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 31 (6.53%) Rational DOORS
2 22 (4.63%) JIRA
3 2 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.21%) CircleCI
General
1 131 (27.58%) Social Skills
2 75 (15.79%) Finance
2 75 (15.79%) Public Sector
3 53 (11.16%) Analytical Skills
4 52 (10.95%) Marketing
5 40 (8.42%) Retail
6 39 (8.21%) Aerospace
7 19 (4.00%) Influencing Skills
8 18 (3.79%) Banking
9 14 (2.95%) Aviation
10 12 (2.53%) Legal
10 12 (2.53%) Military
11 6 (1.26%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.05%) Billing
12 5 (1.05%) Inclusion and Diversity
12 5 (1.05%) Investment Banking
12 5 (1.05%) Manufacturing
12 5 (1.05%) Publishing
13 4 (0.84%) Advertising
13 4 (0.84%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.26%) Azure Blueprints
1 6 (1.26%) RESTful
2 3 (0.63%) PySpark
3 2 (0.42%) Gherkin
3 2 (0.42%) 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
1 115 (24.21%) Product Ownership
2 30 (6.32%) Legacy Systems
3 25 (5.26%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.37%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.95%) Marketing Technology
6 13 (2.74%) Mobile App
7 12 (2.53%) Data Protection Act
8 9 (1.89%) Analytical Mindset
9 8 (1.68%) Cloud Native
9 8 (1.68%) Distributed Systems
9 8 (1.68%) Social Media
10 6 (1.26%) AI Agents
11 5 (1.05%) NHS
11 5 (1.05%) Virtual Team
12 4 (0.84%) FMCG
12 4 (0.84%) Management Information System
12 4 (0.84%) Robotics
12 4 (0.84%) Self-Motivation
12 4 (0.84%) Taxonomies
13 3 (0.63%) Smart Home
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.84%) VMS
2 2 (0.42%) Android
2 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 262 (55.16%) Roadmaps
2 243 (51.16%) Agile
3 178 (37.47%) Product Management
4 140 (29.47%) Stakeholder Management
5 118 (24.84%) Product Roadmap
6 113 (23.79%) Product Vision
7 110 (23.16%) Product Backlog
8 106 (22.32%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 96 (20.21%) Continuous Improvement
10 90 (18.95%) Product Strategy
11 75 (15.79%) User Stories
12 72 (15.16%) AI
13 69 (14.53%) Backlog Management
13 69 (14.53%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 68 (14.32%) Decision-Making
14 68 (14.32%) Strategic Roadmap
15 61 (12.84%) Analytics
16 57 (12.00%) Scrum
17 52 (10.95%) Scaled Agile Framework
18 49 (10.32%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 12 (2.53%) SQL
2 8 (1.68%) Python
3 4 (0.84%) Java
4 2 (0.42%) 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
1 132 (27.79%) Security Cleared
2 84 (17.68%) SC Cleared
3 50 (10.53%) Degree
4 27 (5.68%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (4.21%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.84%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.84%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.63%) CSPO
8 1 (0.21%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.58%) Data Quality
2 15 (3.16%) Accessibility
3 12 (2.53%) QA
4 5 (1.05%) SLA
5 4 (0.84%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.84%) NIST
6 3 (0.63%) GDPR
6 3 (0.63%) PSD2
6 3 (0.63%) WCAG
7 2 (0.42%) DO-254
7 2 (0.42%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.42%) ISO 26262
7 2 (0.42%) NCSC
7 2 (0.42%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (0.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (1.68%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.63%) Ansible
2 3 (0.63%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.21%) Grafana
3 1 (0.21%) Kibana
3 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (5.47%) IBM
2 12 (2.53%) Microsoft
3 11 (2.32%) Google
4 8 (1.68%) Salesforce
5 6 (1.26%) Apple
6 5 (1.05%) Oracle
6 5 (1.05%) SAP
6 5 (1.05%) Workday
7 4 (0.84%) Databricks
7 4 (0.84%) Pinterest
7 4 (0.84%) Remedy
7 4 (0.84%) Snapchat
7 4 (0.84%) TikTok
8 3 (0.63%) BMC
8 3 (0.63%) JDA
8 3 (0.63%) RedPrairie
8 3 (0.63%) ServiceNow
9 2 (0.42%) Klarna
9 2 (0.42%) PayPal
9 2 (0.42%) Virgin Media