Product Management Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Product Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 231 211 280
Rank change year-on-year -20 +69 +13
Contract jobs citing Product Management 73 136 203
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.74% 0.89% 0.79%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.81% 1.01% 0.87%
Number of daily rates quoted 51 102 141
10th Percentile £350 £409 £413
25th Percentile £466 £458 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +4.55% - -
75th Percentile £689 £708 £650
90th Percentile £875 £850 £720
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -4.55% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £65.00 - -
UK median hourly rate £50.00 £42.50 £40.50
% change year-on-year +17.65% +4.94% -27.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Product Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Product Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Product Management trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Product Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Product Management.

Product Management daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Product Management
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Product Management over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Product Management daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Product Management
Hourly Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average hourly rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Product Management.

Product Management hourly rate for jobs with a WFH option

Product Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 4 (5.48%) Confluence
2 1 (1.37%) Drupal
2 1 (1.37%) TPMS
Applications
1 4 (5.48%) Trello
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Project
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Dynamics CRM
1 1 (1.37%) SAP MM
Cloud Services
1 7 (9.59%) Azure
2 6 (8.22%) SaaS
3 3 (4.11%) AWS
3 3 (4.11%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (4.11%) Power Platform
4 2 (2.74%) Microsoft 365
5 1 (1.37%) Amazon EKS
5 1 (1.37%) Azure Cosmos DB
5 1 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
5 1 (1.37%) Azure Machine Learning
5 1 (1.37%) Azure Monitor
5 1 (1.37%) Cloud Computing
5 1 (1.37%) Dynamics 365
5 1 (1.37%) IaaS
5 1 (1.37%) OCI
5 1 (1.37%) PaaS
5 1 (1.37%) Power Automate
5 1 (1.37%) PowerApps
5 1 (1.37%) Serverless
5 1 (1.37%) Snowflake
Communications & Networking
1 5 (6.85%) SD-WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.74%) Power BI
1 2 (2.74%) SQL Server
2 1 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.37%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.37%) GIS
2 1 (1.37%) MySQL
2 1 (1.37%) Neo4j
2 1 (1.37%) PostgreSQL
Development Applications
1 9 (12.33%) JIRA
2 2 (2.74%) Selenium
2 2 (2.74%) SpecFlow
General
1 34 (46.58%) Social Skills
2 23 (31.51%) Finance
2 23 (31.51%) Public Sector
3 14 (19.18%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (15.07%) Financial Institution
5 10 (13.70%) Front Office
6 5 (6.85%) Legal
6 5 (6.85%) Marketing
7 4 (5.48%) Banking
7 4 (5.48%) Presentation Skills
8 3 (4.11%) Manufacturing
8 3 (4.11%) Retail
9 2 (2.74%) Electronics
9 2 (2.74%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.74%) Military
9 2 (2.74%) Telecoms
10 1 (1.37%) Automotive
10 1 (1.37%) Fire and Rescue
10 1 (1.37%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.37%) Police
Job Titles
1 33 (45.21%) Product Manager
2 12 (16.44%) Business Analyst
3 9 (12.33%) Electronic Trading Business Analyst
3 9 (12.33%) Front Office Business Analyst
3 9 (12.33%) Investment Banking Business Analyst
4 6 (8.22%) Architect
4 6 (8.22%) Lead
4 6 (8.22%) Senior
5 4 (5.48%) Senior Manager
6 3 (4.11%) Analyst
6 3 (4.11%) Senior Product Manager
7 2 (2.74%) Digital Product Owner
7 2 (2.74%) Fixed Income Business Analyst
7 2 (2.74%) Product Architect
7 2 (2.74%) Product Lead
7 2 (2.74%) Product Owner
7 2 (2.74%) Project Manager
7 2 (2.74%) Test Engineer
8 1 (1.37%) Lead Data Engineer
8 1 (1.37%) Sustainability Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.74%) .NET
1 2 (2.74%) CSS
1 2 (2.74%) HTML
2 1 (1.37%) .NET Core
2 1 (1.37%) .NET Framework
2 1 (1.37%) AngularJS
2 1 (1.37%) ASP.NET Web API
2 1 (1.37%) ATL
2 1 (1.37%) Blazor
2 1 (1.37%) GWT
2 1 (1.37%) Lightning Web Components
2 1 (1.37%) Plotly
2 1 (1.37%) React
2 1 (1.37%) REST
2 1 (1.37%) SOAP
2 1 (1.37%) Visualforce
2 1 (1.37%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 9 (12.33%) Fixed Income
2 6 (8.22%) Data Protection Act
2 6 (8.22%) Product Ownership
3 2 (2.74%) NHS
3 2 (2.74%) Renewable Energy
4 1 (1.37%) CMDB
4 1 (1.37%) Data Centre
4 1 (1.37%) Embedded Systems
4 1 (1.37%) FMCG
4 1 (1.37%) Industry 4.0
4 1 (1.37%) Learning Management System
4 1 (1.37%) Life Science
4 1 (1.37%) Low-Code
4 1 (1.37%) Management Information System
4 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
4 1 (1.37%) Onboarding
4 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
4 1 (1.37%) Taxonomies
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.37%) Linux
1 1 (1.37%) Unix
1 1 (1.37%) VyOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 42 (57.53%) Agile
2 26 (35.62%) Roadmaps
3 24 (32.88%) Problem-Solving
4 19 (26.03%) Business Analysis
5 18 (24.66%) Stakeholder Management
6 16 (21.92%) Continuous Improvement
7 13 (17.81%) Product Roadmap
8 11 (15.07%) Test Automation
9 9 (12.33%) Decision-Making
9 9 (12.33%) Economics
9 9 (12.33%) Electronic Trading
9 9 (12.33%) Manual Testing
9 9 (12.33%) Performance Metrics
9 9 (12.33%) Product Strategy
9 9 (12.33%) Project Management
9 9 (12.33%) Quantitative Research
9 9 (12.33%) Regression Testing
9 9 (12.33%) Stakeholder Engagement
9 9 (12.33%) User Acceptance Testing
9 9 (12.33%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 6 (8.22%) SQL
2 3 (4.11%) C#
3 2 (2.74%) JavaScript
4 1 (1.37%) Apex Code
4 1 (1.37%) Bash
4 1 (1.37%) SOQL
Qualifications
1 17 (23.29%) Degree
2 15 (20.55%) Security Cleared
3 13 (17.81%) SC Cleared
4 4 (5.48%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.74%) DV Cleared
6 1 (1.37%) APMP
6 1 (1.37%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.37%) CTC Cleared
6 1 (1.37%) ISEB
6 1 (1.37%) PRINCE2 Practitioner
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (5.48%) Accessibility
2 2 (2.74%) MiFID
3 1 (1.37%) QA
System Software
1 6 (8.22%) VMware Infrastructure
2 1 (1.37%) Firmware
2 1 (1.37%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.37%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 2 (2.74%) Terraform
2 1 (1.37%) Ansible
2 1 (1.37%) Cloudify
2 1 (1.37%) vCenter Server
Vendors
1 9 (12.33%) ION Trading
2 6 (8.22%) VMware
3 4 (5.48%) Microsoft
4 3 (4.11%) SAP
5 2 (2.74%) Databricks
5 2 (2.74%) Oracle
5 2 (2.74%) Salesforce
5 2 (2.74%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.37%) Ariba
6 1 (1.37%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.37%) Cisco
6 1 (1.37%) Concur
6 1 (1.37%) Hitachi
6 1 (1.37%) Infoblox
6 1 (1.37%) Juniper
6 1 (1.37%) Pardot
6 1 (1.37%) Snow