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 16 June 2026.

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

6 months to
16 Jun 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 284 307 337
Rank change year-on-year +23 +30 -16
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 424 227 264
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.84% 0.77% 0.61%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.91% 0.83% 0.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 250 165 196
10th Percentile £363 £360 £400
25th Percentile £456 £456 £455
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £500 £575
Median % change year-on-year +10.00% -13.04% +4.55%
75th Percentile £618 £585 £663
90th Percentile £689 £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 46,390 27,334 40,477
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.40% 92.27% 92.91%
Number of daily rates quoted 28,221 17,578 25,945
10th Percentile £325 £288 £280
25th Percentile £413 £402 £408
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £515 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +3.00% -4.76% -2.33%
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 3,091 1,160 2,956
10th Percentile £15.25 £13.85 £12.86
25th Percentile £20.79 £17.75 £16.30
Median hourly rate £43.61 £27.45 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year +58.85% -26.80% -16.67%
75th Percentile £67.50 £57.50 £62.01
90th Percentile £80.00 £75.00 £73.75
UK excluding London median hourly rate £45.00 £25.15 £40.00
% change year-on-year +78.93% -37.13% -2.55%

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 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 16 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 16 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 +33 390 £550 +7.32% 532
London -16 192 £550 +4.76% 136
UK excluding London +4 179 £534 +6.70% 548
Work from Home +11 111 £550 +9.89% 512
South East -8 60 £569 +8.33% 122
North of England -54 47 £550 +7.58% 136
South West +12 41 £550 +25.00% 41
North West -26 26 £550 +7.32% 66
Midlands -51 21 £483 +7.22% 58
West Midlands -48 20 £475 -2.56% 28
Yorkshire -43 16 £525 +5.00% 47
East of England -21 13 £575 -1.08% 72
North East -37 9 £475 -8.21% 27
East Midlands -27 1 £500 +24.38% 30

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

For the 6 months to 16 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.

1 228 (53.77%) Roadmaps
2 206 (48.58%) Agile
3 158 (37.26%) Product Management
4 115 (27.12%) Security Cleared
5 107 (25.24%) Stakeholder Management
6 105 (24.76%) Product Roadmap
7 96 (22.64%) Product Vision
8 90 (21.23%) Product Backlog
9 89 (20.99%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 76 (17.92%) Product Strategy
11 74 (17.45%) Continuous Improvement
12 69 (16.27%) SC Cleared
13 65 (15.33%) AI
14 64 (15.09%) User Stories
15 61 (14.39%) Backlog Management
16 57 (13.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
17 55 (12.97%) Strategic Roadmap
18 54 (12.74%) Decision-Making
19 52 (12.26%) Analytics
20 49 (11.56%) Azure
20 49 (11.56%) Degree
21 48 (11.32%) AWS
22 44 (10.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
23 43 (10.14%) Scrum
24 40 (9.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
25 39 (9.20%) User Experience
26 38 (8.96%) Systems Engineering
27 37 (8.73%) Business Case
28 36 (8.49%) Computer Science
29 35 (8.25%) Backlog Refinement

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 (3.54%) Confluence
2 2 (0.47%) CMS
3 1 (0.24%) Apache
3 1 (0.24%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (0.24%) Apache Spark
3 1 (0.24%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 3 (0.71%) Notion
2 2 (0.47%) Microsoft Excel
3 1 (0.24%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.24%) 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 (0.24%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.24%) Salesforce CRM
3 1 (0.24%) SAP Retail
3 1 (0.24%) SAP S/4HANA
3 1 (0.24%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 49 (11.56%) Azure
2 48 (11.32%) AWS
3 19 (4.48%) SaaS
4 9 (2.12%) GCP
5 7 (1.65%) GitHub
6 6 (1.42%) Power Platform
7 5 (1.18%) IaaS
7 5 (1.18%) n8n
7 5 (1.18%) PaaS
8 4 (0.94%) Azure DevOps
8 4 (0.94%) Snowflake
9 3 (0.71%) Microsoft 365
9 3 (0.71%) Miro
10 2 (0.47%) Apple Pay
10 2 (0.47%) dbt
10 2 (0.47%) Dynamics 365
10 2 (0.47%) Figma
10 2 (0.47%) Google Pay
10 2 (0.47%) WhatsApp
11 1 (0.24%) AWS CodePipeline
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.18%) Firewall
1 5 (1.18%) SD-WAN
1 5 (1.18%) WAN
2 4 (0.94%) DNS
2 4 (0.94%) LAN
3 2 (0.47%) Unified Communications
4 1 (0.24%) 5G
4 1 (0.24%) Internet
4 1 (0.24%) Intranet
4 1 (0.24%) NFC
4 1 (0.24%) Radio Access Network
4 1 (0.24%) SMS
4 1 (0.24%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.18%) Data Lake
1 5 (1.18%) Power BI
2 4 (0.94%) Metadata
3 3 (0.71%) Data Warehouse
3 3 (0.71%) Semantic Layer
3 3 (0.71%) Tableau
4 2 (0.47%) Big Data
5 1 (0.24%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.24%) BigQuery
5 1 (0.24%) Delta Lake
5 1 (0.24%) Electronic Patient Records
5 1 (0.24%) Looker
5 1 (0.24%) Oracle Database
5 1 (0.24%) SQL Server Reporting Services
Development Applications
1 31 (7.31%) Rational DOORS
2 16 (3.77%) JIRA
3 1 (0.24%) CircleCI
3 1 (0.24%) Team Foundation Server
General
1 106 (25.00%) Social Skills
2 66 (15.57%) Finance
3 60 (14.15%) Public Sector
4 47 (11.08%) Marketing
5 42 (9.91%) Analytical Skills
6 39 (9.20%) Aerospace
7 35 (8.25%) Retail
8 17 (4.01%) Banking
9 16 (3.77%) Influencing Skills
10 14 (3.30%) Aviation
11 13 (3.07%) Military
12 6 (1.42%) Legal
13 5 (1.18%) Investment Banking
13 5 (1.18%) Publishing
14 4 (0.94%) Advertising
14 4 (0.94%) Billing
14 4 (0.94%) Corporate Banking
14 4 (0.94%) Documentation Skills
14 4 (0.94%) Electronics
14 4 (0.94%) Local Government
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (1.42%) Azure Blueprints
2 5 (1.18%) RESTful
3 3 (0.71%) PySpark
4 2 (0.47%) JSON
5 1 (0.24%) Django
5 1 (0.24%) FastAPI
5 1 (0.24%) Gherkin
5 1 (0.24%) JSON Schema
5 1 (0.24%) Spring
5 1 (0.24%) Spring Boot
5 1 (0.24%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 88 (20.75%) Product Ownership
2 30 (7.08%) Legacy Systems
3 25 (5.90%) Data Structures
4 14 (3.30%) Marketing Technology
5 12 (2.83%) Data Protection Act
5 12 (2.83%) Onboarding
6 11 (2.59%) Mobile App
7 7 (1.65%) Cloud Native
7 7 (1.65%) Distributed Systems
8 6 (1.42%) AI Agents
8 6 (1.42%) Analytical Mindset
8 6 (1.42%) Social Media
9 5 (1.18%) Virtual Team
10 4 (0.94%) NHS
10 4 (0.94%) Robotics
11 3 (0.71%) FMCG
11 3 (0.71%) Management Information System
11 3 (0.71%) Media Streaming
11 3 (0.71%) Smart Home
11 3 (0.71%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 4 (0.94%) VMS
2 1 (0.24%) Android
2 1 (0.24%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 228 (53.77%) Roadmaps
2 206 (48.58%) Agile
3 158 (37.26%) Product Management
4 107 (25.24%) Stakeholder Management
5 105 (24.76%) Product Roadmap
6 96 (22.64%) Product Vision
7 90 (21.23%) Product Backlog
8 89 (20.99%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 76 (17.92%) Product Strategy
10 74 (17.45%) Continuous Improvement
11 65 (15.33%) AI
12 64 (15.09%) User Stories
13 61 (14.39%) Backlog Management
14 57 (13.44%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 55 (12.97%) Strategic Roadmap
16 54 (12.74%) Decision-Making
17 52 (12.26%) Analytics
18 44 (10.38%) Scaled Agile Framework
19 43 (10.14%) Scrum
20 40 (9.43%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Programming Languages
1 12 (2.83%) SQL
2 7 (1.65%) Python
3 4 (0.94%) Java
4 1 (0.24%) JavaScript
4 1 (0.24%) PL/SQL
4 1 (0.24%) Ruby
4 1 (0.24%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 115 (27.12%) Security Cleared
2 69 (16.27%) SC Cleared
3 49 (11.56%) Degree
4 21 (4.95%) BPSS Clearance
5 15 (3.54%) DV Cleared
6 3 (0.71%) Computer Science Degree
6 3 (0.71%) Master's Degree
7 1 (0.24%) APMG
7 1 (0.24%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 16 (3.77%) Data Quality
2 11 (2.59%) Accessibility
3 7 (1.65%) QA
4 5 (1.18%) SLA
5 4 (0.94%) ISO/IEC 27001
5 4 (0.94%) NIST
6 3 (0.71%) 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 (0.24%) ISO 20022
8 1 (0.24%) PMO
8 1 (0.24%) WCAG
System Software
1 4 (0.94%) Docker
Systems Management
1 9 (2.12%) Kubernetes
2 3 (0.71%) Ansible
2 3 (0.71%) Single Sign-On
3 1 (0.24%) Grafana
3 1 (0.24%) Kibana
3 1 (0.24%) Prometheus
Vendors
1 26 (6.13%) IBM
2 9 (2.12%) Google
3 8 (1.89%) Microsoft
3 8 (1.89%) Salesforce
4 6 (1.42%) Apple
4 6 (1.42%) Oracle
5 4 (0.94%) Databricks
5 4 (0.94%) Pinterest
5 4 (0.94%) SAP
5 4 (0.94%) Snapchat
5 4 (0.94%) TikTok
5 4 (0.94%) Workday
6 2 (0.47%) JDA
6 2 (0.47%) Klarna
6 2 (0.47%) PayPal
6 2 (0.47%) RedPrairie
6 2 (0.47%) Remedy
6 2 (0.47%) ServiceNow
6 2 (0.47%) Virgin Media
7 1 (0.24%) FXall