Product Manager Contract Job Trends

Product Manager
UK

The median Product Manager daily rate in the UK is £550, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 June 2026.

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

6 months to
13 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 286 314 329
Rank change year-on-year +28 +15 +5
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 426 224 266
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.85% 0.76% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.92% 0.82% 0.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 252 162 199
10th Percentile £363 £360 £400
25th Percentile £459 £452 £453
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £620 £583 £663
90th Percentile £688 £675 £788
UK excluding London median daily rate £534 £500 £575
% change year-on-year +6.70% -13.04% +9.52%
Number of hourly rates quoted 45 3 2
10th Percentile £75.70 £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 £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 46,221 27,241 40,562
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.39% 92.30% 92.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,120 17,531 26,073
10th Percentile £325 £290 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £514 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +2.80% -4.76% -2.42%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £638
90th Percentile £725 £738 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £488
% change year-on-year +5.26% -2.56% -2.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,085 1,148 2,936
10th Percentile £15.24 £14.00 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.75 £17.79 £16.30
Median hourly rate £42.69 £27.70 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +54.10% -26.13% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £61.81
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £44.50 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +76.94% -37.13% -4.94%

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 13 June 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 13 June 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 13 June 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 +34 392 £550 +7.32% 285
London +6 194 £557 +6.04% 161
UK excluding London +2 179 £534 +6.70% 157
Work from Home -18 113 £550 +10.00% 131
South East -11 60 £569 +8.33% 53
North of England -43 47 £550 +7.58% 56
South West +19 41 £550 +25.00% 13
North West -22 26 £550 +7.32% 30
Midlands -51 21 £483 +7.22% 18
West Midlands -43 20 £475 -2.56% 12
Yorkshire -42 16 £525 +5.00% 20
East of England -18 13 £575 -1.08% 9
North East -38 9 £525 +1.45% 11
East Midlands -23 1 £500 +24.38% 6

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

For the 6 months to 13 June 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.

1 231 (54.23%) Roadmaps
2 205 (48.12%) Agile
3 159 (37.32%) Product Management
4 116 (27.23%) Security Cleared
5 108 (25.35%) Product Roadmap
5 108 (25.35%) Stakeholder Management
6 97 (22.77%) Product Vision
7 89 (20.89%) Product Backlog
8 88 (20.66%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 76 (17.84%) Product Strategy
10 74 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
11 70 (16.43%) SC Cleared
12 65 (15.26%) AI
13 63 (14.79%) User Stories
14 60 (14.08%) Backlog Management
15 57 (13.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 57 (13.38%) Strategic Roadmap
16 55 (12.91%) Decision-Making
17 52 (12.21%) Analytics
18 49 (11.50%) Azure
19 48 (11.27%) AWS
19 48 (11.27%) Degree
20 43 (10.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
21 42 (9.86%) Scrum
22 41 (9.62%) User Experience
23 40 (9.39%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
24 38 (8.92%) Business Case
24 38 (8.92%) Systems Engineering
25 35 (8.22%) Computer Science
25 35 (8.22%) 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 15 (3.52%) Confluence
2 2 (0.47%) CMS
3 1 (0.23%) Apache
3 1 (0.23%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.23%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.70%) Notion
2 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.23%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.23%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 4 (0.94%) Dynamics CRM
1 4 (0.94%) Sprinklr
2 2 (0.47%) Exchequer
2 2 (0.47%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.47%) Remedy ITSM
3 1 (0.23%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.23%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.23%) SAP Retail
3 1 (0.23%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.23%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 49 (11.50%) Azure
2 48 (11.27%) AWS
3 21 (4.93%) SaaS
4 8 (1.88%) GCP
5 7 (1.64%) GitHub
5 7 (1.64%) IaaS
5 7 (1.64%) PaaS
6 5 (1.17%) n8n
6 5 (1.17%) Power Platform
7 4 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
8 3 (0.70%) Microsoft 365
8 3 (0.70%) Miro
8 3 (0.70%) Snowflake
9 2 (0.47%) Apple Pay
9 2 (0.47%) dbt
9 2 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
9 2 (0.47%) Figma
9 2 (0.47%) Google Pay
9 2 (0.47%) WhatsApp
10 1 (0.23%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.17%) Firewall
1 5 (1.17%) SD-WAN
1 5 (1.17%) WAN
2 4 (0.94%) DNS
2 4 (0.94%) LAN
3 2 (0.47%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.23%) 5G
4 1 (0.23%) Internet
4 1 (0.23%) Intranet
4 1 (0.23%) NFC
4 1 (0.23%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.23%) SMS
4 1 (0.23%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 4 (0.94%) Data Lake
1 4 (0.94%) Power BI
2 3 (0.70%) Data Warehouse
2 3 (0.70%) Metadata
2 3 (0.70%) Semantic Layer
3 2 (0.47%) Big Data
3 2 (0.47%) Tableau
4 1 (0.23%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.23%) BigQuery
4 1 (0.23%) Delta Lake
4 1 (0.23%) Electronic Patient Records
4 1 (0.23%) Looker
4 1 (0.23%) Oracle Database
4 1 (0.23%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (7.28%) Rational DOORS
2 16 (3.76%) JIRA
3 1 (0.23%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.23%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 106 (24.88%) Social Skills
2 66 (15.49%) Finance
3 61 (14.32%) Public Sector
4 48 (11.27%) Marketing
5 43 (10.09%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (9.15%) Aerospace
7 35 (8.22%) Retail
8 17 (3.99%) Banking
9 16 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (3.29%) Aviation
11 13 (3.05%) Military
12 6 (1.41%) Legal
13 5 (1.17%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.17%) Local Government
13 5 (1.17%) Publishing
14 4 (0.94%) Advertising
14 4 (0.94%) Billing
14 4 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.94%) Electronics
14 4 (0.94%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.41%) Azure Blueprints
2 5 (1.17%) RESTful
3 3 (0.70%) PySpark
4 2 (0.47%) JSON
5 1 (0.23%) Django
5 1 (0.23%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.23%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.23%) JSON Schema
5 1 (0.23%) Spring
5 1 (0.23%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.23%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 86 (20.19%) Product Ownership
2 30 (7.04%) Legacy Systems
3 25 (5.87%) Data Structures
4 14 (3.29%) Marketing Technology
5 12 (2.82%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (2.82%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.58%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.64%) Distributed Systems
7 7 (1.64%) Virtual Team
8 6 (1.41%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.41%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.41%) Cloud Native
8 6 (1.41%) Social Media
9 4 (0.94%) NHS
9 4 (0.94%) Robotics
10 3 (0.70%) FMCG
10 3 (0.70%) IoT
10 3 (0.70%) Management Information System
10 3 (0.70%) Media Streaming
10 3 (0.70%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.94%) VMS
2 1 (0.23%) Android
2 1 (0.23%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 231 (54.23%) Roadmaps
2 205 (48.12%) Agile
3 159 (37.32%) Product Management
4 108 (25.35%) Product Roadmap
4 108 (25.35%) Stakeholder Management
5 97 (22.77%) Product Vision
6 89 (20.89%) Product Backlog
7 88 (20.66%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 76 (17.84%) Product Strategy
9 74 (17.37%) Continuous Improvement
10 65 (15.26%) AI
11 63 (14.79%) User Stories
12 60 (14.08%) Backlog Management
13 57 (13.38%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 57 (13.38%) Strategic Roadmap
14 55 (12.91%) Decision-Making
15 52 (12.21%) Analytics
16 43 (10.09%) Scaled Agile Framework
17 42 (9.86%) Scrum
18 41 (9.62%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 11 (2.58%) SQL
2 6 (1.41%) Python
3 4 (0.94%) Java
4 1 (0.23%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.23%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.23%) Ruby
4 1 (0.23%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 116 (27.23%) Security Cleared
2 70 (16.43%) SC Cleared
3 48 (11.27%) Degree
4 21 (4.93%) BPSS Clearance
5 14 (3.29%) DV Cleared
6 2 (0.47%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (0.47%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.23%) APMG
7 1 (0.23%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 17 (3.99%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.58%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.64%) QA
4 5 (1.17%) SLA
5 4 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.94%) NIST
6 3 (0.70%) PSD2
7 2 (0.47%) DO-254
7 2 (0.47%) GDPR
7 2 (0.47%) IEC 61508
7 2 (0.47%) ISO 26262
7 2 (0.47%) NCSC
7 2 (0.47%) PCI DSS
8 1 (0.23%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.23%) PMO
8 1 (0.23%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (0.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.11%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.70%) Ansible
2 3 (0.70%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.23%) Grafana
3 1 (0.23%) Kibana
3 1 (0.23%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (6.10%) IBM
2 8 (1.88%) Google
2 8 (1.88%) Microsoft
2 8 (1.88%) Salesforce
3 6 (1.41%) Apple
3 6 (1.41%) Oracle
4 4 (0.94%) Databricks
4 4 (0.94%) Pinterest
4 4 (0.94%) SAP
4 4 (0.94%) Snapchat
4 4 (0.94%) TikTok
4 4 (0.94%) Workday
5 2 (0.47%) JDA
5 2 (0.47%) Klarna
5 2 (0.47%) PayPal
5 2 (0.47%) RedPrairie
5 2 (0.47%) Remedy
5 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.47%) Virgin Media
6 1 (0.23%) MicroStrategy