Product Manager Contracts

Product Manager
UK

The median Product Manager daily rate in the UK is £580 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 346 315 384
Rank change year-on-year -31 +69 +24
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 255 493 598
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.59% 0.83% 0.67%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.63% 0.88% 0.71%
Number of daily rates quoted 184 362 435
10th Percentile £409 £413 £425
25th Percentile £475 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £580 £550 £560
Median % change year-on-year +5.45% -1.79% +12.00%
75th Percentile £663 £644 £638
90th Percentile £788 £688 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £531 £525
% change year-on-year +8.24% +1.19% +16.67%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 2 2
10th Percentile - - £44.07
25th Percentile £66.25 - £48.29
Median hourly rate £67.50 £39.55 £55.95
Median % change year-on-year +70.67% -29.31% -22.29%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £62.99
90th Percentile - - £66.84
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £39.55 £69.40
% change year-on-year - -43.01% -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes 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 40,241 56,070 84,738
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.76% 94.64% 95.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 26,194 39,189 59,507
10th Percentile £277 £313 £313
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +10.53%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £490 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.00% +5.26% +11.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,676 1,567 2,091
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.28 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.16 £15.52
Median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.89% +91.49% +4.44%
75th Percentile £61.26 £65.75 £48.76
90th Percentile £72.50 £76.00 £63.25
UK excluding London median hourly rate £39.55 £42.37 £19.52
% change year-on-year -6.64% +117.03% +2.74%

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
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Manager.

Daily rate trend for Product Manager in the UK

Product Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Manager over the 6 months to 3 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Manager in the UK

Product Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Manager.

Hourly rate trend for Product Manager in the UK

Product Manager
Top 15 Contract 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 May 2024. 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 -43 207 £600 +9.09% 229
London -35 142 £600 +4.35% 122
Work from Home +36 86 £600 +11.11% 116
UK excluding London 0 86 £575 +8.24% 120
Scotland +29 26 £575 +27.78% 4
North of England +1 18 £568 +3.18% 22
South West +19 15 £450 -30.77% 9
North West +14 14 £450 -25.00% 13
South East -29 14 £505 -1.46% 32
Midlands +28 11 £594 -1.04% 26
West Midlands +24 9 £575 -11.54% 21
Yorkshire -1 4 £600 +9.09% 6
East Midlands +18 2 £601 -7.50% 5
East of England +13 1 £700 +7.69% 15
Northern Ireland +10 1 £640 +34.74% 3

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

For the 6 months to 3 May 2024, 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 (50.59%) Agile
2 110 (43.14%) Roadmaps
3 107 (41.96%) Product Management
4 61 (23.92%) Product Ownership
5 59 (23.14%) Security Cleared
6 55 (21.57%) Finance
7 54 (21.18%) Public Sector
8 52 (20.39%) Product Roadmap
9 49 (19.22%) SC Cleared
10 39 (15.29%) Social Skills
11 38 (14.90%) Analytics
12 37 (14.51%) User Stories
12 37 (14.51%) User Research
13 34 (13.33%) Product Backlog
14 32 (12.55%) JIRA
15 29 (11.37%) Analytical Skills
15 29 (11.37%) Project Management
15 29 (11.37%) Scrum
16 27 (10.59%) Confluence
16 27 (10.59%) Stakeholder Management
16 27 (10.59%) User Experience
17 26 (10.20%) Product Strategy
18 24 (9.41%) Product Vision
19 23 (9.02%) Artificial Intelligence
20 21 (8.24%) Marketing
20 21 (8.24%) Epics
21 20 (7.84%) Decision-Making
21 20 (7.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
21 20 (7.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
22 19 (7.45%) Retail

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 27 (10.59%) Confluence
2 5 (1.96%) SAS
3 4 (1.57%) CMS
4 3 (1.18%) Adobe Experience Manager
Applications
1 3 (1.18%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 18 (7.06%) AWS
2 14 (5.49%) Azure
3 12 (4.71%) SaaS
4 5 (1.96%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (1.57%) Cloud Computing
6 3 (1.18%) GCP
7 2 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.78%) Figma
7 2 (0.78%) GitHub
7 2 (0.78%) Power Platform
7 2 (0.78%) Slack
8 1 (0.39%) Google Analytics
8 1 (0.39%) Google Tag Manager
8 1 (0.39%) Miro
8 1 (0.39%) PaaS
8 1 (0.39%) Stripe
8 1 (0.39%) SuccessFactors
8 1 (0.39%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (0.78%) Unified Communications
2 1 (0.39%) Firewall
2 1 (0.39%) ISDN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (1.96%) Crystal Reports
2 4 (1.57%) Data Lake
3 2 (0.78%) Power BI
3 2 (0.78%) Tableau
4 1 (0.39%) Big Data
4 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (0.39%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 32 (12.55%) JIRA
2 2 (0.78%) GitLab
3 1 (0.39%) Artifactory
3 1 (0.39%) Bitbucket
3 1 (0.39%) Git
3 1 (0.39%) Jenkins
3 1 (0.39%) TeamCity
General
1 55 (21.57%) Finance
2 54 (21.18%) Public Sector
3 39 (15.29%) Social Skills
4 29 (11.37%) Analytical Skills
5 21 (8.24%) Marketing
6 19 (7.45%) Retail
7 16 (6.27%) Front Office
8 12 (4.71%) Telecoms
9 10 (3.92%) Manufacturing
10 8 (3.14%) Presentation Skills
11 7 (2.75%) Banking
11 7 (2.75%) Local Government
12 6 (2.35%) Automotive
12 6 (2.35%) Pharmaceutical
13 5 (1.96%) Electronics
14 4 (1.57%) Legal
15 3 (1.18%) Advertising
15 3 (1.18%) Inclusion and Diversity
15 3 (1.18%) Influencing Skills
15 3 (1.18%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.18%) Web Services
2 2 (0.78%) HTML
3 1 (0.39%) .NET
3 1 (0.39%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.39%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.39%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (0.39%) Entity Framework
3 1 (0.39%) HTML5
3 1 (0.39%) OAuth
Miscellaneous
1 61 (23.92%) Product Ownership
2 20 (7.84%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 17 (6.67%) Derivative
4 16 (6.27%) Equities
4 16 (6.27%) Fixed Income
4 16 (6.27%) Hedge funds
5 6 (2.35%) Digital Signage
5 6 (2.35%) Onboarding
5 6 (2.35%) Video\Live Streaming
6 4 (1.57%) Analytical Mindset
6 4 (1.57%) Management Information System
7 3 (1.18%) Blockchain
7 3 (1.18%) Data Protection Act
7 3 (1.18%) Legacy Systems
7 3 (1.18%) Mobile App
7 3 (1.18%) Reference Data
7 3 (1.18%) Self-Motivation
8 2 (0.78%) Data Structures
8 2 (0.78%) IoT
8 2 (0.78%) IPTV
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.96%) Apple iOS
2 3 (1.18%) Windows
3 2 (0.78%) Linux
4 1 (0.39%) Android
4 1 (0.39%) Unix
4 1 (0.39%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (50.59%) Agile
2 110 (43.14%) Roadmaps
3 107 (41.96%) Product Management
4 52 (20.39%) Product Roadmap
5 38 (14.90%) Analytics
6 37 (14.51%) User Research
6 37 (14.51%) User Stories
7 34 (13.33%) Product Backlog
8 29 (11.37%) Project Management
8 29 (11.37%) Scrum
9 27 (10.59%) Stakeholder Management
9 27 (10.59%) User Experience
10 26 (10.20%) Product Strategy
11 24 (9.41%) Product Vision
12 23 (9.02%) Artificial Intelligence
13 21 (8.24%) Epics
14 20 (7.84%) Decision-Making
14 20 (7.84%) Stakeholder Engagement
15 19 (7.45%) Backlog Management
16 18 (7.06%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 18 (7.06%) SQL
2 14 (5.49%) Python
3 1 (0.39%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 59 (23.14%) Security Cleared
2 49 (19.22%) SC Cleared
3 16 (6.27%) Degree
4 6 (2.35%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.96%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.96%) MBA
6 3 (1.18%) PMP
7 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.78%) CSPO
7 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (1.96%) QA
2 2 (0.78%) GDPR
2 2 (0.78%) PMO
3 1 (0.39%) Data Quality
3 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.39%) PSD2
System Software
1 1 (0.39%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 3 (1.18%) Terraform
2 2 (0.78%) Kubernetes
3 1 (0.39%) Ansible
3 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Intune
3 1 (0.39%) Nessus
3 1 (0.39%) SCCM
Vendors
1 10 (3.92%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.75%) SAP
3 6 (2.35%) Logitech
4 5 (1.96%) IFS
4 5 (1.96%) ServiceNow
5 3 (1.18%) Adobe
5 3 (1.18%) Salesforce
6 2 (0.78%) Amplitude
6 2 (0.78%) Atlassian
6 2 (0.78%) Citrix
6 2 (0.78%) MuleSoft
6 2 (0.78%) Splunk
7 1 (0.39%) CA Agile Central
7 1 (0.39%) Cadence
7 1 (0.39%) Databricks
7 1 (0.39%) Google
7 1 (0.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (0.39%) VMware
7 1 (0.39%) Workday
7 1 (0.39%) Zoho