Hybrid/Remote Product Operations Contract Job Trends

Product Operations (Product Ops)
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Product Operations skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 306 - 370
Rank change year-on-year - - +189
Contract jobs citing Product Operations 2 0 3
As % of all contract jobs with remote/hybrid work options 0.020% - 0.017%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.022% - 0.020%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 3
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £405 - £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £410 - £450
Median % change year-on-year - - -27.71%
75th Percentile £415 - £604
90th Percentile - - £682
UK median daily rate £410 - £450
% change year-on-year - - -39.19%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Product Operations 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 9,254 10,475 15,370
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.04% 88.94% 88.79%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,117 6,583 10,495
10th Percentile £330 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% - -4.55%
75th Percentile £619 £638 £638
90th Percentile £720 £750 £738
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £531
% change year-on-year -4.76% -1.13% -3.45%
Number of hourly rates quoted 331 216 369
10th Percentile £15.18 £17.50 £19.25
25th Percentile £20.43 £22.00 £26.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £37.14 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year +14.43% -29.92% -3.64%
75th Percentile £65.00 £65.00 £70.07
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £86.70
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £33.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -23.79% -22.35% +21.43%

Product Operations
Job Vacancy Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Product Operations and offering remote or hybrid work options relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Product Operations job vacancy trend for remote/hybrid jobs

Product Operations
Daily Rate Trend for Remote/Hybrid Jobs

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Product Operations.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs with remote/hybrid work options citing Product Operations

Product Operations
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Remote/Hybrid Jobs 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Confluence
1 1 (50.00%) Drupal
1 1 (50.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Figma
1 1 (50.00%) Miro
Development Applications
1 2 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Product Owner
1 1 (50.00%) Support Assistant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile App
1 1 (50.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (50.00%) Mobile Application Development
1 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (50.00%) Product Discovery
1 1 (50.00%) Product Requirements
1 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (50.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (50.00%) Prototyping
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (50.00%) Time Management
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) PMO
1 1 (50.00%) QA