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 16 September 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Sep 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 292 343 347
Rank change year-on-year +51 +4 -5
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 464 220 232
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.85% 0.67% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.93% 0.73% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 328 155 164
10th Percentile £400 £372 £359
25th Percentile £459 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £530 £520 £550
Median % change year-on-year +1.92% -5.45% -
75th Percentile £600 £625 £700
90th Percentile £689 £700 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £516 £500 £525
% change year-on-year +3.25% -4.76% +5.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 1 0
10th Percentile £71.25 - -
25th Percentile £72.50 £32.25 -
Median hourly rate £75.00 £34.50 -
Median % change year-on-year +117.39% - -
75th Percentile £77.50 £36.75 -
90th Percentile £85.00 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £75.00 £34.50 -
% change year-on-year +117.39% - -

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 50,111 30,002 35,564
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.33% 91.08% 92.99%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,702 18,956 21,934
10th Percentile £325 £278 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -0.94%
75th Percentile £625 £621 £638
90th Percentile £727 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,778 1,570 1,684
10th Percentile £14.59 £13.75 £14.73
25th Percentile £20.27 £17.30 £20.30
Median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% -2.01%
75th Percentile £67.84 £52.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £70.00 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £45.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -44.11% +5.88%

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 September 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 16 September 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 16 September 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 +32 425 £530 +0.95% 1,952
UK excluding London +57 217 £516 +3.25% 577
London -44 185 £557 +2.15% 1,447
Work from Home +1 117 £515 +0.49% 713
North of England -16 75 £514 +0.29% 158
South East -28 47 £575 +47.06% 110
South West -7 43 £550 - 65
North West -12 39 £600 +17.07% 88
West Midlands -33 31 £463 -15.91% 65
Midlands -35 31 £463 +8.19% 97
Yorkshire -19 30 £513 +2.60% 53
East of England -2 22 £494 -26.85% 62
North East -31 12 £450 -23.40% 17
Scotland -23 2 £475 -1.04% 46

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

For the 6 months to 16 September 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.

1 308 (66.38%) Roadmaps
2 276 (59.48%) Agile
3 197 (42.46%) Product Management
4 192 (41.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 153 (32.97%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 151 (32.54%) Product Roadmap
7 146 (31.47%) Product Backlog
8 137 (29.53%) Product Vision
9 118 (25.43%) Security Cleared
10 115 (24.78%) Product Strategy
11 113 (24.35%) Continuous Improvement
12 95 (20.47%) Strategic Roadmap
13 93 (20.04%) SC Cleared
14 89 (19.18%) Decision-Making
15 81 (17.46%) User Stories
16 79 (17.03%) Backlog Management
17 78 (16.81%) AI
18 77 (16.59%) Analytics
19 74 (15.95%) Scrum
20 59 (12.72%) Azure
21 57 (12.28%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
22 55 (11.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 55 (11.85%) User Experience
23 49 (10.56%) Backlog Refinement
24 48 (10.34%) AWS
24 48 (10.34%) Business Case
25 46 (9.91%) Scaled Agile Framework
26 43 (9.27%) Acceptance Criteria
26 43 (9.27%) JIRA
26 43 (9.27%) Problem-Solving

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 38 (8.19%) Confluence
2 5 (1.08%) Apache Airflow
3 2 (0.43%) Apache
3 2 (0.43%) Apache Spark
3 2 (0.43%) IBM Transformation Extender
4 1 (0.22%) Kinematics
4 1 (0.22%) Oracle Workflow
4 1 (0.22%) SharePoint
Applications
1 5 (1.08%) Notion
2 4 (0.86%) Microsoft Excel
3 3 (0.65%) Chatbot
3 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Office
4 1 (0.22%) Microsoft PowerPoint
4 1 (0.22%) Spreadsheet
4 1 (0.22%) Trello
Business Applications
1 7 (1.51%) Shopify
2 6 (1.29%) Dynamics CRM
3 4 (0.86%) Remedy ITSM
4 2 (0.43%) Payment Gateway
4 2 (0.43%) Salesforce CRM
4 2 (0.43%) SAP S/4HANA
5 1 (0.22%) Aladdin
5 1 (0.22%) Dynamics GP
5 1 (0.22%) Maximo
5 1 (0.22%) Oracle ERP
5 1 (0.22%) SAP EHS
5 1 (0.22%) SAP Retail
5 1 (0.22%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 59 (12.72%) Azure
2 48 (10.34%) AWS
3 15 (3.23%) Azure DevOps
4 14 (3.02%) SaaS
5 12 (2.59%) Power Platform
6 9 (1.94%) GCP
6 9 (1.94%) GitHub
6 9 (1.94%) Snowflake
7 6 (1.29%) dbt
7 6 (1.29%) Miro
8 4 (0.86%) Dynamics 365
8 4 (0.86%) GitHub Actions
8 4 (0.86%) Google Analytics
9 3 (0.65%) Azure Monitor
9 3 (0.65%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (0.65%) Microsoft Purview
9 3 (0.65%) n8n
10 2 (0.43%) Alation
10 2 (0.43%) Amazon EMR
10 2 (0.43%) Collibra
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.43%) Broadband
1 2 (0.43%) SD-WAN
1 2 (0.43%) SMS
1 2 (0.43%) WAN
2 1 (0.22%) NFC
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (2.37%) Metadata
2 10 (2.16%) Power BI
3 9 (1.94%) Data Lake
3 9 (1.94%) Data Warehouse
4 6 (1.29%) Big Data
5 4 (0.86%) Delta Lake
5 4 (0.86%) Tableau
6 3 (0.65%) Semantic Layer
7 2 (0.43%) Amazon Redshift
7 2 (0.43%) BigQuery
7 2 (0.43%) Looker
8 1 (0.22%) Electronic Patient Records
8 1 (0.22%) Mixpanel
8 1 (0.22%) Oracle Database
8 1 (0.22%) Redis
8 1 (0.22%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 43 (9.27%) JIRA
2 2 (0.43%) Team Foundation Server
3 1 (0.22%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.22%) Rational DOORS
General
1 128 (27.59%) Social Skills
2 86 (18.53%) Public Sector
3 83 (17.89%) Finance
4 52 (11.21%) Retail
5 50 (10.78%) Analytical Skills
6 47 (10.13%) Marketing
7 26 (5.60%) Influencing Skills
8 25 (5.39%) Banking
9 24 (5.17%) Aerospace
10 17 (3.66%) Legal
11 12 (2.59%) Manufacturing
12 9 (1.94%) Aviation
12 9 (1.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 8 (1.72%) Military
14 6 (1.29%) Billing
14 6 (1.29%) Local Government
15 5 (1.08%) Presentation Skills
15 5 (1.08%) Retail Banking
16 4 (0.86%) Documentation Skills
16 4 (0.86%) Investment Banking
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.29%) RESTful
2 4 (0.86%) Middleware
3 3 (0.65%) Azure Blueprints
3 3 (0.65%) Terraform
4 2 (0.43%) Gherkin
4 2 (0.43%) JSON
4 2 (0.43%) OAuth
5 1 (0.22%) Django
5 1 (0.22%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.22%) Flutter
5 1 (0.22%) JSON Schema
5 1 (0.22%) MACH
5 1 (0.22%) Model Context Protocol
5 1 (0.22%) REST
5 1 (0.22%) SOAP
5 1 (0.22%) Spring
5 1 (0.22%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.22%) Web Services
5 1 (0.22%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 102 (21.98%) Product Ownership
2 27 (5.82%) Legacy Systems
3 17 (3.66%) Virtual Team
4 15 (3.23%) Mobile App
5 14 (3.02%) Data Protection Act
5 14 (3.02%) Onboarding
6 13 (2.80%) Cloud Native
7 10 (2.16%) Analytical Mindset
8 8 (1.72%) Distributed Systems
9 7 (1.51%) Management Information System
9 7 (1.51%) NHS
10 5 (1.08%) AI Agents
10 5 (1.08%) Credit Risk
11 4 (0.86%) FMCG
11 4 (0.86%) Robotics
12 3 (0.65%) Data Structures
12 3 (0.65%) Distributed Architecture
12 3 (0.65%) Security Posture
12 3 (0.65%) Smart Home
12 3 (0.65%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 3 (0.65%) Android
1 3 (0.65%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 308 (66.38%) Roadmaps
2 276 (59.48%) Agile
3 197 (42.46%) Product Management
4 192 (41.38%) Stakeholder Management
5 153 (32.97%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 151 (32.54%) Product Roadmap
7 146 (31.47%) Product Backlog
8 137 (29.53%) Product Vision
9 115 (24.78%) Product Strategy
10 113 (24.35%) Continuous Improvement
11 95 (20.47%) Strategic Roadmap
12 89 (19.18%) Decision-Making
13 81 (17.46%) User Stories
14 79 (17.03%) Backlog Management
15 78 (16.81%) AI
16 77 (16.59%) Analytics
17 74 (15.95%) Scrum
18 57 (12.28%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
19 55 (11.85%) Stakeholder Engagement
19 55 (11.85%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 15 (3.23%) SQL
2 10 (2.16%) Python
3 3 (0.65%) Bash
4 2 (0.43%) Korn
5 1 (0.22%) Java
5 1 (0.22%) JavaScript
5 1 (0.22%) PL/SQL
5 1 (0.22%) Ruby
5 1 (0.22%) SPARQL
5 1 (0.22%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 118 (25.43%) Security Cleared
2 93 (20.04%) SC Cleared
3 38 (8.19%) Degree
4 34 (7.33%) BPSS Clearance
5 12 (2.59%) DV Cleared
6 7 (1.51%) PRINCE2 Certification
7 5 (1.08%) CSPO
8 3 (0.65%) Master's Degree
8 3 (0.65%) PMI Certification
8 3 (0.65%) PMP
9 2 (0.43%) Computer Science Degree
10 1 (0.22%) APMG
10 1 (0.22%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 19 (4.09%) Accessibility
2 18 (3.88%) Data Quality
3 13 (2.80%) QA
4 8 (1.72%) WCAG
5 6 (1.29%) GDPR
6 3 (0.65%) PSD2
7 2 (0.43%) GRC
7 2 (0.43%) PCI DSS
7 2 (0.43%) PMO
8 1 (0.22%) ARP4761
8 1 (0.22%) Basel III
8 1 (0.22%) DICOM
8 1 (0.22%) DO-160
8 1 (0.22%) DO-254
8 1 (0.22%) IEC 61508
8 1 (0.22%) IFRS
8 1 (0.22%) IFRS 9
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.22%) ISO 26262
System Software
1 2 (0.43%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.08%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.65%) Ansible
2 3 (0.65%) MOM
2 3 (0.65%) Single Sign-On
2 3 (0.65%) Tivoli
3 2 (0.43%) Tivoli Monitoring
4 1 (0.22%) Grafana
4 1 (0.22%) Kibana
4 1 (0.22%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 18 (3.88%) Microsoft
2 12 (2.59%) Google
3 9 (1.94%) Salesforce
4 7 (1.51%) SAP
5 6 (1.29%) Databricks
6 5 (1.08%) IBM
6 5 (1.08%) Oracle
7 4 (0.86%) JDA
7 4 (0.86%) RedPrairie
7 4 (0.86%) Remedy
7 4 (0.86%) ServiceNow
7 4 (0.86%) Splunk
8 3 (0.65%) BMC
8 3 (0.65%) EMC
9 2 (0.43%) Apple
9 2 (0.43%) Klarna
9 2 (0.43%) MicroStrategy
9 2 (0.43%) OneLogin
9 2 (0.43%) PayPal
9 2 (0.43%) Workday