Product Manager Contract Job Trends

Product Manager
UK

The median Product Manager daily rate in the UK is £545, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 24 March 2026.

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

6 months to
24 Mar 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 290 279 344
Rank change year-on-year -11 +65 -15
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 359 268 266
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.82% 0.92% 0.60%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.89% 0.99% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 234 192 188
10th Percentile £377 £362 £409
25th Percentile £450 £463 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £545 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -0.91% -4.35% -
75th Percentile £638 £675 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £509 £510 £550
% change year-on-year -0.25% -7.27% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 37 3 3
10th Percentile - £48.25 £54.25
25th Percentile £80.75 £49.38 £58.75
Median hourly rate £88.00 £52.50 £67.50
Median % change year-on-year +67.62% -22.22% +70.67%
75th Percentile - £63.13 £68.75
90th Percentile - £68.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £88.00 £70.00 -
% change year-on-year +25.71% - -

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 40,297 27,081 41,111
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.96% 92.96% 92.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,161 17,787 26,923
10th Percentile £313 £300 £275
25th Percentile £411 £406 £406
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £520 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.85% -0.95% -4.37%
75th Percentile £613 £630 £638
90th Percentile £724 £738 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £481 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +1.32% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,500 900 2,514
10th Percentile £15.00 £15.20 £12.88
25th Percentile £19.34 £21.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £36.70 £32.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year +12.92% - -24.42%
75th Percentile £65.00 £64.73 £60.00
90th Percentile £76.58 £76.34 £71.90
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.71 £32.50 £32.50
% change year-on-year +12.94% - -21.53%

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 24 March 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
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 24 March 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 -43 329 £550 -1.12% 230
London -57 182 £550 -5.01% 118
UK excluding London -6 136 £509 -0.25% 129
Work from Home 0 111 £550 - 113
South East +3 68 £565 +15.90% 40
North of England -40 49 £500 -0.99% 44
North East -7 20 £456 -9.65%
North West -25 17 £550 +22.22% 25
Yorkshire -50 13 £525 +2.44% 19
Midlands -62 9 £496 -9.82% 14
West Midlands -57 7 £491 -1.80% 12
South West -26 5 £525 +23.53% 12
East of England -26 5 £615 +5.81% 13
East Midlands -31 2 £550 - 2

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

For the 6 months to 24 March 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.

1 174 (48.47%) Roadmaps
2 169 (47.08%) Agile
3 124 (34.54%) Product Management
4 105 (29.25%) Security Cleared
5 91 (25.35%) Stakeholder Management
6 85 (23.68%) Product Roadmap
7 84 (23.40%) Product Strategy
8 70 (19.50%) Product Vision
9 65 (18.11%) SC Cleared
10 62 (17.27%) Continuous Improvement
11 59 (16.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
12 53 (14.76%) AI
13 50 (13.93%) Product Backlog
14 49 (13.65%) User Stories
15 46 (12.81%) Backlog Management
15 46 (12.81%) Degree
15 46 (12.81%) Scaled Agile Framework
16 44 (12.26%) Backlog Prioritisation
17 41 (11.42%) Analytics
17 41 (11.42%) Decision-Making
18 38 (10.58%) Scrum
18 38 (10.58%) Systems Engineering
19 35 (9.75%) Computer Science
19 35 (9.75%) Problem-Solving
20 34 (9.47%) PRINCE2
20 34 (9.47%) Strategic Roadmap
21 32 (8.91%) Change Control
22 31 (8.64%) Rational DOORS
23 30 (8.36%) User Experience
23 30 (8.36%) User-Centered Design (UCD)

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 12 (3.34%) Confluence
2 3 (0.84%) CMS
3 1 (0.28%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.84%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.28%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 4 (1.11%) Sprinklr
2 2 (0.56%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.56%) Exchequer
2 2 (0.56%) SAP GRC
3 1 (0.28%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.28%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 22 (6.13%) SaaS
2 14 (3.90%) Azure
3 12 (3.34%) AWS
4 8 (2.23%) IaaS
4 8 (2.23%) PaaS
5 6 (1.67%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (1.39%) GCP
7 3 (0.84%) Figma
7 3 (0.84%) Microsoft Copilot
7 3 (0.84%) n8n
7 3 (0.84%) Power Platform
8 2 (0.56%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (0.56%) Dynamics 365
8 2 (0.56%) Microsoft Purview
8 2 (0.56%) Miro
8 2 (0.56%) Power Automate
8 2 (0.56%) Snowflake
9 1 (0.28%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
9 1 (0.28%) Serverless
9 1 (0.28%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 8 (2.23%) Firewall
2 6 (1.67%) SD-WAN
2 6 (1.67%) WAN
3 4 (1.11%) DNS
3 4 (1.11%) LAN
4 2 (0.56%) ISDN
4 2 (0.56%) OpenScape
4 2 (0.56%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.28%) 5G
5 1 (0.28%) Internet
5 1 (0.28%) Intranet
5 1 (0.28%) Network Security
5 1 (0.28%) Radio Access Network
5 1 (0.28%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (0.56%) Power BI
2 1 (0.28%) Amazon Redshift
2 1 (0.28%) BigQuery
2 1 (0.28%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (0.28%) Metadata
2 1 (0.28%) Semantic Layer
Development Applications
1 31 (8.64%) Rational DOORS
2 15 (4.18%) JIRA
General
1 107 (29.81%) Social Skills
2 71 (19.78%) Finance
3 63 (17.55%) Public Sector
4 45 (12.53%) Analytical Skills
5 38 (10.58%) Aerospace
6 37 (10.31%) Marketing
7 18 (5.01%) Retail
8 16 (4.46%) Banking
9 15 (4.18%) Influencing Skills
10 12 (3.34%) Aviation
10 12 (3.34%) Legal
11 9 (2.51%) Military
12 5 (1.39%) Presentation Skills
12 5 (1.39%) Publishing
13 4 (1.11%) Advertising
13 4 (1.11%) Billing
13 4 (1.11%) Investment Banking
14 3 (0.84%) Automotive
14 3 (0.84%) Front Office
14 3 (0.84%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (0.84%) Azure Blueprints
1 3 (0.84%) PySpark
2 1 (0.28%) React
2 1 (0.28%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 86 (23.96%) Product Ownership
2 25 (6.96%) Data Structures
3 13 (3.62%) Marketing Technology
4 12 (3.34%) Onboarding
5 8 (2.23%) Mobile App
6 7 (1.95%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.67%) AI Agents
7 6 (1.67%) Analytical Mindset
7 6 (1.67%) IoT
7 6 (1.67%) Legacy Systems
7 6 (1.67%) Virtual Team
8 5 (1.39%) Derivative
8 5 (1.39%) Management Information System
8 5 (1.39%) Social Media
9 3 (0.84%) Blockchain
9 3 (0.84%) Digital Media
9 3 (0.84%) Educational Technology
9 3 (0.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
9 3 (0.84%) Media Streaming
9 3 (0.84%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (1.11%) VMS
Processes & Methodologies
1 174 (48.47%) Roadmaps
2 169 (47.08%) Agile
3 124 (34.54%) Product Management
4 91 (25.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 85 (23.68%) Product Roadmap
6 84 (23.40%) Product Strategy
7 70 (19.50%) Product Vision
8 62 (17.27%) Continuous Improvement
9 59 (16.43%) Stakeholder Engagement
10 53 (14.76%) AI
11 50 (13.93%) Product Backlog
12 49 (13.65%) User Stories
13 46 (12.81%) Backlog Management
13 46 (12.81%) Scaled Agile Framework
14 44 (12.26%) Backlog Prioritisation
15 41 (11.42%) Analytics
15 41 (11.42%) Decision-Making
16 38 (10.58%) Scrum
16 38 (10.58%) Systems Engineering
17 35 (9.75%) Computer Science
Programming Languages
1 9 (2.51%) SQL
2 4 (1.11%) Java
3 3 (0.84%) Python
4 1 (0.28%) Korn
Qualifications
1 105 (29.25%) Security Cleared
2 65 (18.11%) SC Cleared
3 46 (12.81%) Degree
4 14 (3.90%) BPSS Clearance
4 14 (3.90%) DV Cleared
5 4 (1.11%) CSPO
5 4 (1.11%) Master's Degree
6 2 (0.56%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.56%) MBA
7 1 (0.28%) APMP
7 1 (0.28%) PMI Certification
7 1 (0.28%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 12 (3.34%) QA
2 11 (3.06%) Accessibility
3 10 (2.79%) Data Quality
4 5 (1.39%) NCSC
4 5 (1.39%) SLA
5 4 (1.11%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (1.11%) NIST
6 2 (0.56%) DO-254
6 2 (0.56%) GDPR
6 2 (0.56%) GRC
6 2 (0.56%) IEC 61508
6 2 (0.56%) ISO 26262
7 1 (0.28%) EU AI Act
7 1 (0.28%) HIPAA
7 1 (0.28%) ISO 20022
7 1 (0.28%) PSD2
7 1 (0.28%) SOC 2
System Software
1 2 (0.56%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (1.39%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 26 (7.24%) IBM
2 12 (3.34%) Microsoft
3 8 (2.23%) Salesforce
4 5 (1.39%) Google
5 4 (1.11%) Apple
5 4 (1.11%) Oracle
5 4 (1.11%) Palo Alto
5 4 (1.11%) Pinterest
5 4 (1.11%) ServiceNow
5 4 (1.11%) Snapchat
5 4 (1.11%) TikTok
5 4 (1.11%) Workday
6 3 (0.84%) Fortinet
6 3 (0.84%) SAP
7 2 (0.56%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.56%) Avature
7 2 (0.56%) Databricks
7 2 (0.56%) Mitel
7 2 (0.56%) Virgin Media
7 2 (0.56%) Zscaler