Product Manager Contract Job Trends

Product Manager
UK

The median Product Manager daily rate in the UK is £520, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 18 September 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
18 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 349 333 349
Rank change year-on-year -16 +16 +12
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 224 234 321
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.61% 0.65%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.75% 0.65% 0.69%
Number of daily rates quoted 157 166 262
10th Percentile £370 £358 £425
25th Percentile £463 £450 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -5.45% - -8.33%
75th Percentile £625 £699 £644
90th Percentile £700 £788 £724
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £513 £500
% change year-on-year -2.44% +2.50% -13.04%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - £52.45
25th Percentile £32.25 - £53.88
Median hourly rate £34.50 - £57.50
75th Percentile £36.75 - £63.75
90th Percentile - - £66.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £34.50 - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
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 30,003 35,798 46,379
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.06% 92.95% 94.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,960 22,064 31,748
10th Percentile £278 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £623 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,577 1,684 1,483
10th Percentile £13.75 £14.73 £15.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +71.15%
75th Percentile £52.50 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £43.00
% change year-on-year -44.11% +4.65% +95.45%

Product Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Product Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Product Manager 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 18 September 2025.

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 15 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 18 September 2025. 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 +6 194 £525 -6.67% 524
London +15 136 £545 -9.17% 323
Work from Home -1 64 £516 -4.13% 247
UK excluding London -16 53 £500 -2.44% 320
Midlands -2 23 £428 -19.53% 25
North of England -24 15 £513 +11.41% 77
West Midlands -4 13 £550 -2.22% 16
East Midlands +6 10 £378 -12.46% 8
South East +16 7 £391 -25.52% 172
North West -29 7 £513 +22.02% 44
South West +24 4 £550 +34.47% 22
North East +1 4 £588 +39.88% 6
Yorkshire -13 4 £500 -7.41% 27
Scotland -3 3 £480 -16.52% 8
East of England +3 2 £675 +3.85% 7

Product Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 18 September 2025, Product Manager contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Product Manager in the job title.

1 129 (57.59%) Roadmaps
2 107 (47.77%) Agile
3 101 (45.09%) Product Management
4 85 (37.95%) Social Skills
5 70 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
6 68 (30.36%) Product Roadmap
7 53 (23.66%) Finance
8 49 (21.88%) Product Vision
9 47 (20.98%) Product Strategy
10 40 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
11 36 (16.07%) Public Sector
12 33 (14.73%) Artificial Intelligence
13 32 (14.29%) Marketing
13 32 (14.29%) Decision-Making
14 29 (12.95%) Strategic Roadmap
14 29 (12.95%) Product Ownership
15 27 (12.05%) Analytics
15 27 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
16 25 (11.16%) User Research
16 25 (11.16%) User Stories
16 25 (11.16%) Retail
17 24 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
18 23 (10.27%) Scrum
18 23 (10.27%) Banking
19 22 (9.82%) User Experience
20 21 (9.38%) JIRA
21 20 (8.93%) Machine Learning
22 19 (8.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 19 (8.48%) Backlog Management
22 19 (8.48%) Data Science

Product Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities by Category

The follow tables expand on the table above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. The same employment type, locality and period is covered with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each of the following categories:

Application Platforms
1 10 (4.46%) Apache Airflow
2 7 (3.13%) Confluence
3 3 (1.34%) CMS
3 3 (1.34%) PowerFactory
4 2 (0.89%) Adobe Experience Manager
5 1 (0.45%) Sitecore CMS
5 1 (0.45%) WordPress
Applications
1 11 (4.91%) Trello
2 2 (0.89%) Chatbot
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.45%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.45%) S-PLUS
Business Applications
1 4 (1.79%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.89%) Shopify
3 1 (0.45%) Adobe Campaign
3 1 (0.45%) Magento
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.45%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.45%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 13 (5.80%) AWS
2 11 (4.91%) Azure
2 11 (4.91%) dbt
3 10 (4.46%) GCP
4 9 (4.02%) SaaS
5 8 (3.57%) Vertex AI
6 5 (2.23%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.89%) Alation
7 2 (0.89%) Figma
7 2 (0.89%) Fivetran
7 2 (0.89%) OCI
8 1 (0.45%) Amazon S3
8 1 (0.45%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (0.45%) AWS Step Functions
8 1 (0.45%) Contentful
8 1 (0.45%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (0.45%) Power Platform
8 1 (0.45%) Salesforce Commerce Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) Salesforce Service Cloud
8 1 (0.45%) SAP Commerce Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.34%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.91%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (4.46%) BigQuery
3 2 (0.89%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.89%) Relational Database
3 2 (0.89%) Tableau
4 1 (0.45%) Amazon Redshift
4 1 (0.45%) Geospatial Data
4 1 (0.45%) GIS
4 1 (0.45%) Looker
4 1 (0.45%) Power BI
4 1 (0.45%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 21 (9.38%) JIRA
2 8 (3.57%) MLflow
3 1 (0.45%) Rational DOORS
General
1 85 (37.95%) Social Skills
2 53 (23.66%) Finance
3 40 (17.86%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (16.07%) Public Sector
5 32 (14.29%) Marketing
6 25 (11.16%) Retail
7 23 (10.27%) Banking
8 13 (5.80%) Influencing Skills
9 12 (5.36%) Advertising
10 9 (4.02%) Front Office
11 8 (3.57%) Investment Banking
12 5 (2.23%) Legal
13 4 (1.79%) Presentation Skills
14 3 (1.34%) Inclusion and Diversity
14 3 (1.34%) Publishing
15 2 (0.89%) Digital Health
15 2 (0.89%) Health Technology
15 2 (0.89%) Local Government
15 2 (0.89%) Pharmaceutical
15 2 (0.89%) Telecoms
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.89%) Flash
2 1 (0.45%) HTML
2 1 (0.45%) HTML5
2 1 (0.45%) Hugging Face
2 1 (0.45%) OAuth
2 1 (0.45%) OAuth2
2 1 (0.45%) OpenID
2 1 (0.45%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.45%) React
Miscellaneous
1 29 (12.95%) Product Ownership
2 11 (4.91%) Derivative
2 11 (4.91%) Marketing Technology
3 10 (4.46%) Cloud Native
3 10 (4.46%) Digital Media
3 10 (4.46%) Mobile App
4 9 (4.02%) Analytical Mindset
4 9 (4.02%) Onboarding
5 8 (3.57%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 5 (2.23%) Greenfield Project
7 3 (1.34%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.34%) Enterprise Software
7 3 (1.34%) Fixed Income
8 2 (0.89%) AI Agents
8 2 (0.89%) CMDB
8 2 (0.89%) Credit Derivative
8 2 (0.89%) IoT
8 2 (0.89%) Management Information System
8 2 (0.89%) PMI
8 2 (0.89%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 5 (2.23%) Windows
2 3 (1.34%) Android
2 3 (1.34%) Apple iOS
3 1 (0.45%) Linux
3 1 (0.45%) Mac OS
3 1 (0.45%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (57.59%) Roadmaps
2 107 (47.77%) Agile
3 101 (45.09%) Product Management
4 70 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
5 68 (30.36%) Product Roadmap
6 49 (21.88%) Product Vision
7 47 (20.98%) Product Strategy
8 33 (14.73%) Artificial Intelligence
9 32 (14.29%) Decision-Making
10 29 (12.95%) Strategic Roadmap
11 27 (12.05%) Analytics
11 27 (12.05%) Problem-Solving
12 25 (11.16%) User Research
12 25 (11.16%) User Stories
13 24 (10.71%) Continuous Improvement
14 23 (10.27%) Scrum
15 22 (9.82%) User Experience
16 20 (8.93%) Machine Learning
17 19 (8.48%) Data Science
17 19 (8.48%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 5 (2.23%) SQL
2 2 (0.89%) Python
3 1 (0.45%) C++
3 1 (0.45%) Java
3 1 (0.45%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.45%) Korn
3 1 (0.45%) Kotlin
3 1 (0.45%) MATLAB
3 1 (0.45%) Rust
Qualifications
1 15 (6.70%) Security Cleared
2 12 (5.36%) Degree
3 11 (4.91%) SC Cleared
4 9 (4.02%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.34%) Computer Science Degree
5 3 (1.34%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (1.34%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.34%) PMI Certification
6 2 (0.89%) MBA
7 1 (0.45%) CCNA
7 1 (0.45%) Cisco Certification
7 1 (0.45%) CISSP
7 1 (0.45%) CSPO
7 1 (0.45%) DV Cleared
7 1 (0.45%) MCP
7 1 (0.45%) PMP
7 1 (0.45%) Postgraduate
7 1 (0.45%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.79%) GDPR
2 3 (1.34%) PMO
3 2 (0.89%) NIST
4 1 (0.45%) Data Quality
4 1 (0.45%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.45%) QA
Systems Management
1 8 (3.57%) Kubeflow
2 4 (1.79%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.45%) SCCM
3 1 (0.45%) Terraform
Vendors
1 12 (5.36%) Microsoft
2 8 (3.57%) Salesforce
3 4 (1.79%) Adobe
4 3 (1.34%) Apple
4 3 (1.34%) Google
4 3 (1.34%) OneLogin
4 3 (1.34%) Oracle
4 3 (1.34%) Virgin Media
5 2 (0.89%) DIgSILENT
5 2 (0.89%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.89%) Workday
6 1 (0.45%) Adyen
6 1 (0.45%) Fiserv
6 1 (0.45%) Murex
6 1 (0.45%) OpenAI
6 1 (0.45%) Optimizely
6 1 (0.45%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (0.45%) Sitecore
6 1 (0.45%) Symantec
6 1 (0.45%) Verint