Production Manager Contract Job Trends

Production Manager
UK

The median Production Manager daily rate in the UK is £500, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2026.

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

6 months to
21 Aug 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 659 555 -
Rank change year-on-year -104 - -
Contract jobs requiring a Production Manager 5 3 0
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.009% 0.009% -
As % of the Job Titles category 0.010% 0.010% -
Number of daily rates quoted 5 1 0
10th Percentile £366 - -
25th Percentile £371 £583 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £615 -
Median % change year-on-year -18.70% - -
75th Percentile £550 £648 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £375 - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £44.75 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

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 49,522 29,914 36,178
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.46% 91.26% 92.96%
Number of daily rates quoted 29,686 18,901 23,122
10th Percentile £325 £280 £300
25th Percentile £425 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £500 £525
Median % change year-on-year +5.00% -4.76% -1.69%
75th Percentile £625 £620 £638
90th Percentile £730 £725 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £475 £500
% change year-on-year +5.26% -5.00% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 3,509 1,556 1,977
10th Percentile £15.00 £13.60 £14.16
25th Percentile £20.53 £17.30 £19.59
Median hourly rate £41.74 £25.15 £43.00
Median % change year-on-year +65.94% -41.51% +2.38%
75th Percentile £67.84 £53.99 £65.00
90th Percentile £80.00 £72.25 £75.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £42.50 £25.15 £43.00
% change year-on-year +68.99% -41.51% +14.67%

Production Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings featuring 'Production Manager' in the job title relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Production Manager job vacancy trend in the UK

Production Manager
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Production Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Production Manager job vacancies in the UK

Production Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Production Manager over the 6 months to 21 August 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Production Manager in the UK

Production Manager
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Production Manager job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Production Manager job vacancies in the UK

Production Manager
Top 5 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Production Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 21 August 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 -116 5 £500 -18.70% 8
London -81 4 £500 -18.70%
Yorkshire - 1 £375 -
UK excluding London - 1 £375 - 11
North of England - 1 £375 - 3

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

For the 6 months to 21 August 2026, Production 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 Production Manager in the job title.

1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) CA Single Sign-On
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) Db2
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) Greenplum
1 3 (60.00%) IaaS
1 3 (60.00%) Impact Analysis
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) Kerberos
1 3 (60.00%) LDAP
1 3 (60.00%) Middleware
1 3 (60.00%) NAS
1 3 (60.00%) NFS
1 3 (60.00%) Operational Stability
1 3 (60.00%) PaaS
1 3 (60.00%) Problem Management
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Assessment
1 3 (60.00%) SaaS
1 3 (60.00%) SAN
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 3 (60.00%) Sybase
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
1 3 (60.00%) Windows

Production 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:

Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) AWS
1 3 (60.00%) Azure
1 3 (60.00%) IaaS
1 3 (60.00%) PaaS
1 3 (60.00%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 3 (60.00%) DHCP
1 3 (60.00%) DNS
1 3 (60.00%) Firewall
1 3 (60.00%) Kerberos
1 3 (60.00%) NAS
1 3 (60.00%) SAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (60.00%) Db2
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
1 3 (60.00%) Influencing Skills
1 3 (60.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Advertising
2 1 (20.00%) Legal
2 1 (20.00%) Marketing
2 1 (20.00%) Organisational Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (60.00%) LDAP
1 3 (60.00%) Middleware
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Data Centre
1 3 (60.00%) Distributed Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Mainframe
1 3 (60.00%) PKI
2 1 (20.00%) Onboarding
2 1 (20.00%) Podcast
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Self-Motivation
2 1 (20.00%) Social Media
2 1 (20.00%) Video on Demand
Operating Systems
1 3 (60.00%) Unix
1 3 (60.00%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Cybersecurity
1 3 (60.00%) Impact Analysis
1 3 (60.00%) Incident Response
1 3 (60.00%) ITIL
1 3 (60.00%) Operational Stability
1 3 (60.00%) Problem Management
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
1 3 (60.00%) Risk Assessment
1 3 (60.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 1 (20.00%) Campaign Management
2 1 (20.00%) Creative Thinking
2 1 (20.00%) Product Management
2 1 (20.00%) Product Operations
2 1 (20.00%) Time Management
System Software
1 3 (60.00%) Active Directory
1 3 (60.00%) NFS
Systems Management
1 3 (60.00%) CA Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Greenplum
1 3 (60.00%) Sybase