Product Manager Contract Job Trends

Product Manager
UK

The median Product Manager daily rate in the UK is £538, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 6 July 2026.

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

6 months to
6 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 265 317 340
Rank change year-on-year +52 +23 -21
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 471 242 256
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.91% 0.76% 0.59%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.98% 0.83% 0.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 283 172 189
10th Percentile £365 £360 £380
25th Percentile £461 £462 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £513 £585
Median % change year-on-year +4.98% -12.39% +6.36%
75th Percentile £606 £600 £675
90th Percentile £685 £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 47,894 29,248 40,280
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.44% 91.99% 93.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,968 18,668 25,910
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 3,250 1,325 2,804
10th Percentile £15.75 £13.75 £12.86
25th Percentile £21.14 £17.44 £16.65
Median hourly rate £43.00 £26.45 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +62.57% -29.47% -14.05%
75th Percentile £67.50 £55.25 £62.96
90th Percentile £80.00 £73.25 £74.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -

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 6 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 6 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 6 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 +48 430 £539 +2.67% 419
UK excluding London +32 210 £518 +3.50% 138
London -16 200 £550 +4.76% 303
Work from Home +11 133 £550 +7.32% 170
South East +15 73 £521 -18.87% 67
North of England -47 55 £525 +2.94% 34
South West +14 43 £550 +25.00% 10
North West -22 31 £575 +19.48% 14
Midlands -53 22 £490 +8.89% 8
West Midlands -46 21 £483 -1.03% 6
East of England -13 20 £500 -13.98% 12
Yorkshire -36 19 £525 +5.00% 19
North East -38 11 £458 -12.86% 1
East Midlands -22 1 £500 +24.38% 2

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

For the 6 months to 6 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.

1 260 (55.20%) Roadmaps
2 239 (50.74%) Agile
3 176 (37.37%) Product Management
4 137 (29.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 131 (27.81%) Security Cleared
6 117 (24.84%) Product Roadmap
7 111 (23.57%) Product Vision
8 107 (22.72%) Product Backlog
9 104 (22.08%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 94 (19.96%) Continuous Improvement
11 88 (18.68%) Product Strategy
12 84 (17.83%) SC Cleared
13 74 (15.71%) User Stories
14 71 (15.07%) AI
15 68 (14.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 67 (14.23%) Strategic Roadmap
17 66 (14.01%) Backlog Management
18 65 (13.80%) Decision-Making
19 59 (12.53%) Analytics
20 55 (11.68%) Scrum
21 51 (10.83%) Azure
21 51 (10.83%) Scaled Agile Framework
22 49 (10.40%) AWS
22 49 (10.40%) Degree
23 47 (9.98%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
24 44 (9.34%) User Experience
25 43 (9.13%) Problem-Solving
26 38 (8.07%) Backlog Refinement
26 38 (8.07%) Business Case
26 38 (8.07%) 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 17 (3.61%) 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 (0.64%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (0.64%) 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 (1.06%) Dynamics CRM
2 4 (0.85%) Remedy ITSM
2 4 (0.85%) Sprinklr
3 2 (0.42%) Exchequer
3 2 (0.42%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.42%) SAP S/4HANA
3 2 (0.42%) Shopify
4 1 (0.21%) Dynamics GP
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle ERP
4 1 (0.21%) Salesforce CRM
4 1 (0.21%) SAP Retail
4 1 (0.21%) Teamcenter
4 1 (0.21%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 51 (10.83%) Azure
2 49 (10.40%) AWS
3 20 (4.25%) SaaS
4 11 (2.34%) GCP
5 7 (1.49%) GitHub
5 7 (1.49%) Power Platform
6 6 (1.27%) Azure DevOps
7 5 (1.06%) IaaS
7 5 (1.06%) Microsoft 365
7 5 (1.06%) n8n
7 5 (1.06%) PaaS
7 5 (1.06%) Snowflake
8 4 (0.85%) Miro
9 3 (0.64%) dbt
9 3 (0.64%) Dynamics 365
9 3 (0.64%) Microsoft Purview
10 2 (0.42%) Apple Pay
10 2 (0.42%) Figma
10 2 (0.42%) Google Pay
10 2 (0.42%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.06%) Firewall
1 5 (1.06%) SD-WAN
1 5 (1.06%) WAN
2 4 (0.85%) DNS
2 4 (0.85%) 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 6 (1.27%) Data Lake
1 6 (1.27%) Power BI
2 4 (0.85%) Data Warehouse
2 4 (0.85%) Metadata
2 4 (0.85%) Semantic Layer
2 4 (0.85%) Tableau
3 2 (0.42%) Amazon Redshift
3 2 (0.42%) Big Data
3 2 (0.42%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.42%) Looker
4 1 (0.21%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.21%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.21%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.21%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (6.58%) Rational DOORS
2 20 (4.25%) JIRA
3 2 (0.42%) Team Foundation Server
4 1 (0.21%) CircleCI
General
1 131 (27.81%) Social Skills
2 75 (15.92%) Finance
3 74 (15.71%) Public Sector
4 53 (11.25%) Analytical Skills
5 52 (11.04%) Marketing
6 39 (8.28%) Aerospace
7 38 (8.07%) Retail
8 19 (4.03%) Influencing Skills
9 18 (3.82%) Banking
10 14 (2.97%) Aviation
11 12 (2.55%) Legal
11 12 (2.55%) Military
12 6 (1.27%) Presentation Skills
13 5 (1.06%) Billing
13 5 (1.06%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 5 (1.06%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.06%) Manufacturing
13 5 (1.06%) Publishing
14 4 (0.85%) Advertising
14 4 (0.85%) Electronics
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.27%) Azure Blueprints
1 6 (1.27%) RESTful
2 3 (0.64%) 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
1 113 (23.99%) Product Ownership
2 30 (6.37%) Legacy Systems
3 25 (5.31%) Data Structures
4 16 (3.40%) Onboarding
5 14 (2.97%) Marketing Technology
6 12 (2.55%) Data Protection Act
6 12 (2.55%) Mobile App
7 9 (1.91%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.70%) Cloud Native
8 8 (1.70%) Distributed Systems
8 8 (1.70%) Social Media
9 6 (1.27%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.06%) NHS
10 5 (1.06%) Virtual Team
11 4 (0.85%) FMCG
11 4 (0.85%) Management Information System
11 4 (0.85%) Robotics
11 4 (0.85%) Self-Motivation
11 4 (0.85%) Taxonomies
12 3 (0.64%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.85%) VMS
2 2 (0.42%) Android
2 2 (0.42%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 260 (55.20%) Roadmaps
2 239 (50.74%) Agile
3 176 (37.37%) Product Management
4 137 (29.09%) Stakeholder Management
5 117 (24.84%) Product Roadmap
6 111 (23.57%) Product Vision
7 107 (22.72%) Product Backlog
8 104 (22.08%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 94 (19.96%) Continuous Improvement
10 88 (18.68%) Product Strategy
11 74 (15.71%) User Stories
12 71 (15.07%) AI
13 68 (14.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 67 (14.23%) Strategic Roadmap
15 66 (14.01%) Backlog Management
16 65 (13.80%) Decision-Making
17 59 (12.53%) Analytics
18 55 (11.68%) Scrum
19 51 (10.83%) Scaled Agile Framework
20 47 (9.98%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 12 (2.55%) SQL
2 8 (1.70%) Python
3 4 (0.85%) 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
1 131 (27.81%) Security Cleared
2 84 (17.83%) SC Cleared
3 49 (10.40%) Degree
4 24 (5.10%) BPSS Clearance
5 20 (4.25%) DV Cleared
6 4 (0.85%) Computer Science Degree
6 4 (0.85%) Master's Degree
7 3 (0.64%) CSPO
8 1 (0.21%) APMG
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.61%) Data Quality
2 14 (2.97%) Accessibility
3 11 (2.34%) QA
4 5 (1.06%) SLA
5 4 (0.85%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.85%) NIST
6 3 (0.64%) GDPR
6 3 (0.64%) PSD2
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
7 2 (0.42%) WCAG
8 1 (0.21%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.21%) PMO
System Software
1 3 (0.64%) Docker
Systems Management
1 8 (1.70%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.64%) Ansible
2 3 (0.64%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.21%) Grafana
3 1 (0.21%) Kibana
3 1 (0.21%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (5.52%) IBM
2 11 (2.34%) Google
2 11 (2.34%) Microsoft
3 8 (1.70%) Salesforce
4 6 (1.27%) Apple
5 5 (1.06%) Oracle
5 5 (1.06%) SAP
5 5 (1.06%) Workday
6 4 (0.85%) Databricks
6 4 (0.85%) Pinterest
6 4 (0.85%) Remedy
6 4 (0.85%) Snapchat
6 4 (0.85%) TikTok
7 3 (0.64%) BMC
7 3 (0.64%) JDA
7 3 (0.64%) RedPrairie
7 3 (0.64%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.42%) Klarna
8 2 (0.42%) PayPal
8 2 (0.42%) Virgin Media