Product Management Contracts in the West Midlands

Product Management
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the West Midlands requiring Product Management skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Management over the 6 months leading up to 20 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
20 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 90 95 111
Rank change year-on-year +5 +16 +39
Contract jobs citing Product Management 12 11 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.86% 0.58% 0.84%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.97% 0.70% 0.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 8 14
10th Percentile £419 £465 £476
25th Percentile £447 £525 £547
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £550 £650
Median % change year-on-year -9.09% -15.38% +12.55%
75th Percentile £553 £631 £697
90th Percentile £581 £650 £700
England median daily rate £533 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -3.18% -4.35% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
West Midlands

Product Management falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,238 1,579 2,002
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 88.68% 83.68% 88.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 804 1,054 1,364
10th Percentile £195 £272 £263
25th Percentile £375 £363 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £513
Median % change year-on-year - -2.44% +4.59%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £600
90th Percentile £662 £750 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 61 114 51
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.08 £12.50
25th Percentile £13.78 £14.03 £13.51
Median hourly rate £18.00 £22.50 £20.97
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% +7.30% +24.64%
75th Percentile £24.22 £40.38 £28.75
90th Percentile £50.00 £58.00 £47.50
England median hourly rate £28.60 £36.50 £37.15
% change year-on-year -21.64% -1.75% +48.60%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings citing Product Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Product Management in the West Midlands

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Management in the West Midlands.

Daily rate trend for Product Management in the West Midlands

Product Management
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Management in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 20 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Management in the West Midlands

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Management in the West Midlands.

Hourly rate trend for Product Management in the West Midlands

Product Management
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Management within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 20 May 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
Birmingham +12 6 £525 -4.55% 24
Solihull - 4 - -
Warwickshire -6 2 £400 +14.29% 6
Product Management
England

Product Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands 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 1 (8.33%) CMS
Business Applications
1 1 (8.33%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 5 (41.67%) Azure
2 4 (33.33%) AWS
2 4 (33.33%) GCP
2 4 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
3 1 (8.33%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 4 (33.33%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) BGP
2 2 (16.67%) DHCP
2 2 (16.67%) DNS
2 2 (16.67%) EIGRP
2 2 (16.67%) HTTP
2 2 (16.67%) IPsec
2 2 (16.67%) Network Security
2 2 (16.67%) OSPF
2 2 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (16.67%) SSL
2 2 (16.67%) TACACS
2 2 (16.67%) VLAN
2 2 (16.67%) VPN
2 2 (16.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) GIS
General
1 4 (33.33%) Finance
1 4 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
1 4 (33.33%) Public Sector
2 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (8.33%) Legal
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Product Owner
2 4 (33.33%) Product Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Lead
4 1 (8.33%) Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) E-Commerce Manager
4 1 (8.33%) E-Commerce Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Product Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Lead Product Owner
4 1 (8.33%) Operations Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Product Operations Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Project Manager
4 1 (8.33%) Senior
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (8.33%) ServiceNow Manager
Miscellaneous
1 7 (58.33%) Product Ownership
2 2 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 2 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (83.33%) Agile
1 10 (83.33%) Scrum
2 7 (58.33%) Product Strategy
3 6 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 6 (50.00%) Product Backlog
3 6 (50.00%) Product Requirements
4 5 (41.67%) Change Management
5 4 (33.33%) Coaching
5 4 (33.33%) ITIL
5 4 (33.33%) Product Vision
5 4 (33.33%) Roadmaps
5 4 (33.33%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
6 3 (25.00%) Agile Project Management
6 3 (25.00%) Backlog Management
6 3 (25.00%) DevOps
6 3 (25.00%) PLM
6 3 (25.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (25.00%) Project Management
6 3 (25.00%) SDLC
7 2 (16.67%) Network Monitoring
Qualifications
1 1 (8.33%) CBAP
1 1 (8.33%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 2 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (16.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 5 (41.67%) Microsoft
2 4 (33.33%) Cisco
2 4 (33.33%) Salesforce
3 2 (16.67%) Arista
3 2 (16.67%) Google
3 2 (16.67%) Juniper
3 2 (16.67%) ServiceNow
3 2 (16.67%) SolarWinds
4 1 (8.33%) Optimizely