Product Manager Contracts in the UK excluding London

Product Manager
UK > UK excluding London

The median Product Manager daily rate in the UK excluding London is £575 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

The first table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics including a comparison to same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 293 294 349
Rank change year-on-year +1 +55 -12
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 85 142 158
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.42% 0.62% 0.52%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.45% 0.66% 0.54%
Number of daily rates quoted 53 114 116
10th Percentile £409 £415 £411
25th Percentile £450 £450 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year +9.52% -2.78% +15.51%
75th Percentile £600 £634 £625
90th Percentile £650 £650 £675
UK median daily rate £585 £550 £563
% change year-on-year +6.36% -2.22% +12.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 0
Median hourly rate - £39.55 -
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £39.55 £42.50
% change year-on-year +70.67% -6.94% -40.97%

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK excluding London

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London. 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 excluding London with a recognized job title 18,835 21,601 29,071
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.47% 94.28% 95.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 11,498 15,031 20,385
10th Percentile £213 £225 £205
25th Percentile £363 £394 £363
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £488 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £543 £525
% change year-on-year -3.31% +3.43% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,316 1,097 1,445
10th Percentile £12.50 £13.41 £12.40
25th Percentile £15.75 £17.72 £14.50
Median hourly rate £40.00 £42.16 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year -5.11% +110.78% +5.26%
75th Percentile £61.64 £65.00 £45.00
90th Percentile £73.75 £75.00 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £45.00 £23.91
% change year-on-year -18.89% +88.21% +6.44%

Product Manager
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings that featured Product Manager in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Product Manager in the UK excluding London

Product Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Manager in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Product Manager in the UK excluding London

Product Manager
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Manager in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Manager in the UK excluding London

Product Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Manager in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Product Manager in the UK excluding London

Product Manager
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 23 May 2024. 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
Scotland +21 26 £575 +27.78% 8
North of England +4 19 £568 +3.18% 43
North West +25 15 £475 -20.83% 30
South West +17 15 £450 -30.77% 11
South East -22 14 £505 -3.81% 38
Midlands +31 9 £600 - 17
West Midlands +14 7 £600 -7.69% 12
Yorkshire -5 4 £600 +9.09% 10
East Midlands +13 2 £601 -7.50% 5
East of England +9 1 £700 +7.69% 8
Northern Ireland +1 1 £640 +34.74% 2
Product Manager
UK

Product Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London

For the 6 months to 23 May 2024, 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 UK excluding London region featuring Product Manager in the job title.

1 52 (61.18%) Agile
2 36 (42.35%) Product Management
3 34 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 31 (36.47%) Public Sector
4 31 (36.47%) Security Cleared
5 28 (32.94%) SC Cleared
6 25 (29.41%) User Stories
7 24 (28.24%) JIRA
8 23 (27.06%) User Research
9 22 (25.88%) Confluence
10 20 (23.53%) Epics
11 18 (21.18%) Project Management
12 16 (18.82%) Product Ownership
13 13 (15.29%) Product Roadmap
13 13 (15.29%) Product Backlog
14 12 (14.12%) Business Case
14 12 (14.12%) Finance
14 12 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
15 11 (12.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
16 9 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
16 9 (10.59%) Matrix Organization
16 9 (10.59%) Telecoms
16 9 (10.59%) Backlog Management
16 9 (10.59%) Social Skills
17 8 (9.41%) Manufacturing
17 8 (9.41%) Degree
17 8 (9.41%) Minimum Viable Product
17 8 (9.41%) DevOps
17 8 (9.41%) Analytics
18 7 (8.24%) User Experience

Product Manager Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 22 (25.88%) Confluence
2 5 (5.88%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.18%) Payment Gateway
1 1 (1.18%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 4 (4.71%) Microsoft 365
1 4 (4.71%) SaaS
2 2 (2.35%) Azure
3 1 (1.18%) AWS
3 1 (1.18%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (1.18%) GitHub
3 1 (1.18%) Google Analytics
3 1 (1.18%) Google Tag Manager
3 1 (1.18%) Miro
3 1 (1.18%) Power Platform
3 1 (1.18%) SuccessFactors
3 1 (1.18%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 5 (5.88%) Crystal Reports
1 5 (5.88%) Data Lake
2 1 (1.18%) Power BI
2 1 (1.18%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 24 (28.24%) JIRA
2 1 (1.18%) GitLab
General
1 31 (36.47%) Public Sector
2 12 (14.12%) Finance
3 9 (10.59%) Analytical Skills
3 9 (10.59%) Social Skills
3 9 (10.59%) Telecoms
4 8 (9.41%) Manufacturing
5 6 (7.06%) Marketing
6 5 (5.88%) Pharmaceutical
7 4 (4.71%) Electronics
7 4 (4.71%) Influencing Skills
8 3 (3.53%) Banking
9 2 (2.35%) Automotive
9 2 (2.35%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 2 (2.35%) Retail
10 1 (1.18%) Presentation Skills
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (1.18%) .NET
1 1 (1.18%) .NET Framework
1 1 (1.18%) ASP.NET
1 1 (1.18%) ASP.NET MVC
1 1 (1.18%) Entity Framework
1 1 (1.18%) HTML
1 1 (1.18%) HTML5
1 1 (1.18%) Hugging Face
Miscellaneous
1 16 (18.82%) Product Ownership
2 4 (4.71%) Digital Signage
2 4 (4.71%) Reference Data
2 4 (4.71%) Video\Live Streaming
3 2 (2.35%) Blockchain
3 2 (2.35%) Data Structures
4 1 (1.18%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (1.18%) IoT
4 1 (1.18%) Management Information System
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.18%) Linux
1 1 (1.18%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 52 (61.18%) Agile
2 36 (42.35%) Product Management
3 34 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 25 (29.41%) User Stories
5 23 (27.06%) User Research
6 20 (23.53%) Epics
7 18 (21.18%) Project Management
8 13 (15.29%) Product Backlog
8 13 (15.29%) Product Roadmap
9 12 (14.12%) Business Case
9 12 (14.12%) Stakeholder Management
10 11 (12.94%) Stakeholder Engagement
11 9 (10.59%) Backlog Management
11 9 (10.59%) Matrix Organization
12 8 (9.41%) Analytics
12 8 (9.41%) DevOps
12 8 (9.41%) Minimum Viable Product
13 7 (8.24%) Decision-Making
13 7 (8.24%) Scrum
13 7 (8.24%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (5.88%) SQL
2 1 (1.18%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 31 (36.47%) Security Cleared
2 28 (32.94%) SC Cleared
3 8 (9.41%) Degree
4 3 (3.53%) DV Cleared
5 2 (2.35%) BPSS Clearance
5 2 (2.35%) Master's Degree
5 2 (2.35%) MBA
6 1 (1.18%) PMP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.18%) PCI DSS
1 1 (1.18%) PSD2
1 1 (1.18%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (1.18%) Terraform
Vendors
1 7 (8.24%) SAP
2 5 (5.88%) IFS
3 4 (4.71%) Logitech
3 4 (4.71%) Microsoft
4 2 (2.35%) MuleSoft
5 1 (1.18%) Databricks
5 1 (1.18%) Google