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 3 December 2025.

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

6 months to
3 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 330 301 378
Rank change year-on-year -29 +77 -27
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 266 269 244
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.73% 0.75% 0.54%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.81% 0.81% 0.58%
Number of daily rates quoted 198 178 190
10th Percentile £381 £361 £401
25th Percentile £431 £455 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £563 £575
Median % change year-on-year -7.56% -2.17% -4.17%
75th Percentile £638 £713 £697
90th Percentile £713 £795 £775
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -10.00% +5.26% -20.83%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - £51.75
25th Percentile £32.25 - £52.50
Median hourly rate £34.50 - £55.00
75th Percentile £36.75 - £57.50
90th Percentile - - £58.25
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 32,959 33,240 42,117
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.98% 92.81% 93.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,905 20,226 28,386
10th Percentile £284 £300 £293
25th Percentile £402 £410 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £645
90th Percentile £725 £738 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £495 £500
% change year-on-year -4.04% -1.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,918 1,167 1,500
10th Percentile £14.25 £15.48 £15.24
25th Percentile £17.91 £20.75 £19.11
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
Median % change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +48.33%
75th Percentile £57.50 £64.50 £65.00
90th Percentile £71.47 £73.53 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £32.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -22.62% -26.97% +78.00%

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 3 December 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 3 December 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 -26 240 £520 -13.33% 127
London -29 160 £550 -8.33% 52
Work from Home +17 83 £550 +4.56% 80
UK excluding London -18 72 £450 -10.00% 102
North of England -32 32 £456 +3.69% 29
Midlands -17 17 £402 -21.56% 6
North East +8 16 £450 +7.14% 4
South East +1 13 £414 -28.86% 46
Yorkshire -24 10 £525 -12.50% 11
East Midlands -9 9 £375 -9.09% 2
West Midlands -25 8 £655 +16.44% 4
South West +4 7 £550 +34.47% 7
North West -31 7 £445 +21.92% 14
East of England -16 3 £650 - 10
Scotland -1 1 - - 4

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

For the 6 months to 3 December 2025, 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.

1 154 (57.89%) Roadmaps
2 137 (51.50%) Agile
3 118 (44.36%) Product Management
4 89 (33.46%) Product Roadmap
5 80 (30.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 72 (27.07%) Product Strategy
7 63 (23.68%) Product Vision
8 43 (16.17%) AI
9 35 (13.16%) Decision-Making
10 34 (12.78%) Analytics
10 34 (12.78%) Product Backlog
11 33 (12.41%) User Stories
12 32 (12.03%) Security Cleared
13 29 (10.90%) Backlog Management
13 29 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
14 26 (9.77%) Problem-Solving
14 26 (9.77%) SC Cleared
14 26 (9.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 25 (9.40%) Fintech
15 25 (9.40%) Scrum
15 25 (9.40%) Strategic Roadmap
16 24 (9.02%) Data Science
16 24 (9.02%) Machine Learning
17 23 (8.65%) Backlog Prioritisation
17 23 (8.65%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
18 22 (8.27%) Customer Experience
19 21 (7.89%) User Research
20 20 (7.52%) Product Requirements
20 20 (7.52%) User Experience
21 18 (6.77%) Scaled Agile Framework

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 10 (3.76%) Apache Airflow
1 10 (3.76%) Confluence
2 3 (1.13%) PowerFactory
3 2 (0.75%) CMS
Applications
1 5 (1.88%) Chatbot
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.38%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (0.38%) Trello
Business Applications
1 4 (1.50%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.75%) Dynamics CRM
2 2 (0.75%) SAP GRC
2 2 (0.75%) Shopify
3 1 (0.38%) Distributed Ledger
3 1 (0.38%) Magento
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle EBS
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle Financials
3 1 (0.38%) Oracle SCM
3 1 (0.38%) Sonata
Cloud Services
1 13 (4.89%) AWS
2 12 (4.51%) SaaS
3 11 (4.14%) dbt
3 11 (4.14%) GCP
4 8 (3.01%) Vertex AI
5 4 (1.50%) Azure
6 3 (1.13%) Microsoft 365
6 3 (1.13%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.75%) Alation
7 2 (0.75%) AWS Step Functions
7 2 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.75%) Dynamics 365
7 2 (0.75%) Fivetran
7 2 (0.75%) Microsoft Purview
7 2 (0.75%) OCI
7 2 (0.75%) Power Automate
8 1 (0.38%) Anthropic Claude
8 1 (0.38%) Miro
8 1 (0.38%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
8 1 (0.38%) Salesforce Service Cloud
Communications & Networking
1 3 (1.13%) Firewall
2 2 (0.75%) Internet
2 2 (0.75%) ISDN
2 2 (0.75%) OpenScape
3 1 (0.38%) Network Security
3 1 (0.38%) SD-WAN
3 1 (0.38%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 11 (4.14%) Data Warehouse
2 10 (3.76%) BigQuery
3 3 (1.13%) Data Lake
4 2 (0.75%) Power BI
4 2 (0.75%) Relational Database
4 2 (0.75%) Tableau
5 1 (0.38%) Amazon Redshift
5 1 (0.38%) Geospatial Data
5 1 (0.38%) GIS
5 1 (0.38%) Looker
5 1 (0.38%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 15 (5.64%) JIRA
2 8 (3.01%) MLflow
General
1 100 (37.59%) Social Skills
2 66 (24.81%) Finance
3 52 (19.55%) Public Sector
4 35 (13.16%) Analytical Skills
5 30 (11.28%) Banking
6 27 (10.15%) Marketing
7 19 (7.14%) Retail
8 15 (5.64%) Legal
9 11 (4.14%) Advertising
10 10 (3.76%) Front Office
10 10 (3.76%) Influencing Skills
10 10 (3.76%) Investment Banking
11 5 (1.88%) Presentation Skills
12 4 (1.50%) Digital Health
12 4 (1.50%) Pharmaceutical
13 3 (1.13%) Automotive
13 3 (1.13%) Inclusion and Diversity
13 3 (1.13%) Telecoms
14 2 (0.75%) Back Office
14 2 (0.75%) Health Technology
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (0.75%) Flash
1 2 (0.75%) React
2 1 (0.38%) HTML
2 1 (0.38%) HTML5
2 1 (0.38%) Hugging Face
2 1 (0.38%) OAuth
2 1 (0.38%) OAuth2
2 1 (0.38%) OpenID
2 1 (0.38%) Oracle Fusion
2 1 (0.38%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 40 (15.04%) Product Ownership
2 15 (5.64%) Derivative
3 10 (3.76%) Analytical Mindset
3 10 (3.76%) Cloud Native
3 10 (3.76%) Onboarding
4 9 (3.38%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
4 9 (3.38%) Marketing Technology
5 8 (3.01%) Digital Media
6 6 (2.26%) Mobile App
7 5 (1.88%) AI Agents
7 5 (1.88%) IoT
8 4 (1.50%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.50%) Greenfield Project
9 3 (1.13%) Blockchain
9 3 (1.13%) Data Structures
9 3 (1.13%) Enterprise Software
9 3 (1.13%) Fixed Income
9 3 (1.13%) Management Information System
9 3 (1.13%) NHS
10 2 (0.75%) Reinsurance
Operating Systems
1 1 (0.38%) Android
1 1 (0.38%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 154 (57.89%) Roadmaps
2 137 (51.50%) Agile
3 118 (44.36%) Product Management
4 89 (33.46%) Product Roadmap
5 80 (30.08%) Stakeholder Management
6 72 (27.07%) Product Strategy
7 63 (23.68%) Product Vision
8 43 (16.17%) AI
9 35 (13.16%) Decision-Making
10 34 (12.78%) Analytics
10 34 (12.78%) Product Backlog
11 33 (12.41%) User Stories
12 29 (10.90%) Backlog Management
12 29 (10.90%) Continuous Improvement
13 26 (9.77%) Problem-Solving
13 26 (9.77%) Stakeholder Engagement
14 25 (9.40%) Fintech
14 25 (9.40%) Scrum
14 25 (9.40%) Strategic Roadmap
15 24 (9.02%) Data Science
Programming Languages
1 5 (1.88%) SQL
2 2 (0.75%) Korn
3 1 (0.38%) Java
3 1 (0.38%) JavaScript
3 1 (0.38%) MATLAB
3 1 (0.38%) Python
Qualifications
1 32 (12.03%) Security Cleared
2 26 (9.77%) SC Cleared
3 12 (4.51%) Degree
4 9 (3.38%) BPSS Clearance
5 3 (1.13%) Master's Degree
5 3 (1.13%) MBA
5 3 (1.13%) PMI Certification
6 1 (0.38%) APMP
6 1 (0.38%) CCNA
6 1 (0.38%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.38%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (0.38%) CSPO
6 1 (0.38%) DV Cleared
6 1 (0.38%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (3.01%) QA
2 5 (1.88%) Accessibility
3 4 (1.50%) GDPR
4 3 (1.13%) NCSC
5 2 (0.75%) GRC
6 1 (0.38%) Data Quality
6 1 (0.38%) EU AI Act
6 1 (0.38%) HIPAA
6 1 (0.38%) NIST
6 1 (0.38%) SOC 2
Systems Management
1 8 (3.01%) Kubeflow
2 1 (0.38%) Terraform
Vendors
1 15 (5.64%) Microsoft
2 11 (4.14%) Salesforce
3 4 (1.50%) Palo Alto
4 3 (1.13%) Fortinet
4 3 (1.13%) OneLogin
4 3 (1.13%) ServiceNow
5 2 (0.75%) Atlassian
5 2 (0.75%) Avature
5 2 (0.75%) DIgSILENT
5 2 (0.75%) Google
5 2 (0.75%) Mitel
5 2 (0.75%) Oracle
5 2 (0.75%) SAP
5 2 (0.75%) Workday
5 2 (0.75%) Zscaler
6 1 (0.38%) Adobe
6 1 (0.38%) Adyen
6 1 (0.38%) CA Agile Central
6 1 (0.38%) Fiserv
6 1 (0.38%) Murex