Product Manager Contracts in the West Midlands

Product Manager
England > West Midlands

The median Product Manager daily rate in the West Midlands is £488, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 31 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
31 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 92 110 119
Rank change year-on-year +18 +9 +46
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 10 5 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the West Midlands 0.71% 0.26% 0.40%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.78% 0.28% 0.43%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 4 8
10th Percentile £413 £579 £495
25th Percentile £438 £584 £539
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £625 £650
Median % change year-on-year -22.00% -3.85% +20.37%
75th Percentile £556 £650 -
90th Percentile £588 - -
England median daily rate £525 £600 £550
% change year-on-year -12.50% +9.09% -4.35%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
West Midlands

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies in the West Midlands. 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 West Midlands with a recognized job title 1,278 1,775 2,101
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 90.57% 91.45% 94.47%
Number of daily rates quoted 831 1,210 1,434
10th Percentile £200 £255 £257
25th Percentile £363 £363 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £485 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.06% -3.00% +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £640 £700 £700
England median daily rate £518 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.43% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 84 142 59
10th Percentile £12.62 £12.14 £12.50
25th Percentile £14.00 £14.88 £14.43
Median hourly rate £19.50 £19.77 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -1.37% -1.15% +17.65%
75th Percentile £33.89 £40.38 £27.32
90th Percentile £50.00 £56.13 £59.00
England median hourly rate £30.00 £37.50 £45.00
% change year-on-year -20.00% -16.67% +89.04%

Product Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

Job postings that featured Product Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands.

Job vacancy trend for Product Manager in the West Midlands

Product Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Product Manager in the West Midlands

Product Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the West Midlands

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Manager in the West Midlands over the 6 months to 31 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Manager in the West Midlands

Product Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Manager in the West Midlands

Product Manager
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 Manager within the West Midlands region over the 6 months to 31 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
Warwickshire - 6 £450 - 2
Birmingham - 2 £600 - 9
Coventry 0 1 £500 -20.00%
Solihull - 1 £550 -
Product Manager
England

Product Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the West Midlands

For the 6 months to 31 May 2025, 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 across the West Midlands region featuring Product Manager in the job title.

1 8 (80.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) Product Management
3 5 (50.00%) Scrum
3 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
3 5 (50.00%) Product Strategy
4 4 (40.00%) Product Roadmap
4 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
4 4 (40.00%) Windows
4 4 (40.00%) Project Management
4 4 (40.00%) Finance
4 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
4 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
5 3 (30.00%) Degree
5 3 (30.00%) ITIL
5 3 (30.00%) Apple
5 3 (30.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
5 3 (30.00%) Greenfield Project
5 3 (30.00%) Strategic Roadmap
5 3 (30.00%) Backlog Management
6 2 (20.00%) Product Backlog
6 2 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 2 (20.00%) Architecture Roadmap
6 2 (20.00%) Product Requirements
6 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (20.00%) Epics
6 2 (20.00%) Business Case
6 2 (20.00%) PMO
6 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery Management

Product Manager Skill Set
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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) Azure
1 1 (10.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (10.00%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (10.00%) GIS
General
1 4 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
1 4 (40.00%) Finance
1 4 (40.00%) Social Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Automotive
2 1 (10.00%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (10.00%) Retail
Miscellaneous
1 6 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 3 (30.00%) Greenfield Project
Operating Systems
1 4 (40.00%) Windows
2 1 (10.00%) Mac OS
2 1 (10.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (80.00%) Roadmaps
2 6 (60.00%) Agile
2 6 (60.00%) Product Management
3 5 (50.00%) Product Strategy
3 5 (50.00%) Scrum
4 4 (40.00%) Product Roadmap
4 4 (40.00%) Project Management
5 3 (30.00%) Backlog Management
5 3 (30.00%) ITIL
5 3 (30.00%) Strategic Roadmap
6 2 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 2 (20.00%) Business Case
6 2 (20.00%) Business Strategy
6 2 (20.00%) Customer Service
6 2 (20.00%) Deployment Automation
6 2 (20.00%) Epics
6 2 (20.00%) Product Backlog
6 2 (20.00%) Product Requirements
6 2 (20.00%) Service Delivery
6 2 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
Qualifications
1 3 (30.00%) Degree
1 3 (30.00%) ITIL Foundation Certificate
2 1 (10.00%) SAFe Agilist
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (20.00%) PMO
Systems Management
1 4 (40.00%) Microsoft Intune
2 1 (10.00%) SCCM
Vendors
1 5 (50.00%) Microsoft
2 3 (30.00%) Apple
3 2 (20.00%) ServiceNow
4 1 (10.00%) CrowdStrike
4 1 (10.00%) Symantec