Product Management Contracts

Product Management
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with a requirement for Product Management skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Management over the 6 months to 11 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
11 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 288 289
Rank change year-on-year -16 +1 +69
Contract jobs citing Product Management 314 530 825
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.73% 0.92% 0.94%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.02% 1.04%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 388 600
10th Percentile £406 £386 £408
25th Percentile £450 £455 £471
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +10.00%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £800 £737 £751
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £530 £528
% change year-on-year +3.77% +0.47% +5.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 3 16
10th Percentile - £39.28 £29.62
25th Percentile £26.66 £43.40 £53.09
Median hourly rate £42.50 £51.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% -8.04% +13.42%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.50 £56.13
90th Percentile - £69.95 £66.09
UK excluding London median hourly rate £26.66 £69.50 £56.00
% change year-on-year -61.64% +24.11% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product Management is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,094 51,920 79,222
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.26% 89.82% 90.60%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,889 35,981 55,625
10th Percentile £300 £325 £343
25th Percentile £413 £438 £426
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.72%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,438 1,716 1,886
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.24 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.06 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.74% +75.00% -6.98%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Product Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Hourly Rate Histogram

Hourly rate distribution of jobs citing Product Management over the 6 months to 11 May 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
Top 15 Contract Locations

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 UK over the 6 months to 11 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
England -10 262 £550 -6.38% 360
London +17 176 £550 -8.33% 173
Work from Home +53 127 £550 -1.79% 184
UK excluding London -47 101 £550 +3.77% 198
Scotland 0 28 £465 -11.00% 11
North of England +15 21 £538 -2.27% 50
South East -26 20 £575 +9.52% 69
North West +21 18 £550 -8.33% 32
Midlands +20 14 £600 -7.69% 31
South West +10 14 £638 -1.92% 9
West Midlands +7 11 £550 -15.38% 23
East of England 0 3 - - 29
Yorkshire -3 3 £525 -4.55% 15
East Midlands +15 1 £615 -5.38% 8
Northern Ireland - 1 £640 - 4

Product Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 17 (5.41%) Confluence
2 7 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.91%) Apache
3 6 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.59%) CMS
5 4 (1.27%) IBM Domino
6 2 (0.64%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.91%) MS Visio
2 2 (0.64%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.64%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 2 (0.64%) Microsoft Project
3 1 (0.32%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.32%) Trello
Business Applications
1 9 (2.87%) Oracle Applications
2 3 (0.96%) Endur
2 3 (0.96%) Loan IQ
3 2 (0.64%) Payment Gateway
3 2 (0.64%) Softmar
4 1 (0.32%) Aladdin
4 1 (0.32%) SAP EHS
4 1 (0.32%) SAP S/4HANA
4 1 (0.32%) SimCorp Dimension
4 1 (0.32%) Teamcenter
Cloud Services
1 45 (14.33%) AWS
2 39 (12.42%) Azure
3 15 (4.78%) GCP
4 14 (4.46%) SaaS
5 12 (3.82%) Serverless
6 9 (2.87%) OCI
6 9 (2.87%) Oracle CX
6 9 (2.87%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
7 8 (2.55%) AWS CloudFormation
7 8 (2.55%) dbt
7 8 (2.55%) Power Platform
8 7 (2.23%) Amazon S3
8 7 (2.23%) AWS Lambda
9 6 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
10 4 (1.27%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (1.27%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.27%) OpenShift
10 4 (1.27%) Rekognition
10 4 (1.27%) Textract
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.59%) Kerberos
2 4 (1.27%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (1.27%) VSAN
3 3 (0.96%) Intranet
3 3 (0.96%) VoIP
4 2 (0.64%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.32%) Firewall
5 1 (0.32%) HTTP
5 1 (0.32%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.18%) PostgreSQL
2 9 (2.87%) Oracle Reports
3 8 (2.55%) Couchbase
3 8 (2.55%) Power BI
4 7 (2.23%) Amazon Aurora
4 7 (2.23%) Data Lake
5 6 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (1.91%) Apache Arrow
5 6 (1.91%) Apache Ignite
5 6 (1.91%) Dremio
6 5 (1.59%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.59%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.96%) PostHog
9 2 (0.64%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.64%) GIS
9 2 (0.64%) MySQL
10 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.32%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (9.55%) JIRA
2 3 (0.96%) Git
3 2 (0.64%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.64%) GitLab
3 2 (0.64%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (0.32%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.32%) Storybook
General
1 98 (31.21%) Social Skills
2 77 (24.52%) Finance
3 52 (16.56%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (12.10%) Marketing
5 36 (11.46%) Public Sector
6 23 (7.32%) Presentation Skills
7 20 (6.37%) Front Office
8 18 (5.73%) Banking
9 15 (4.78%) Influencing Skills
10 13 (4.14%) Legal
11 12 (3.82%) Manufacturing
12 11 (3.50%) Telecoms
13 10 (3.18%) Investment Banking
13 10 (3.18%) Pharmaceutical
14 8 (2.55%) Retail
15 7 (2.23%) Electronics
15 7 (2.23%) Local Government
16 5 (1.59%) Games
17 4 (1.27%) Automotive
17 4 (1.27%) Billing
Job Titles
1 108 (34.39%) Product Manager
2 41 (13.06%) Analyst
2 41 (13.06%) Product Owner
3 39 (12.42%) Business Analyst
4 28 (8.92%) Senior
5 23 (7.32%) Consultant
5 23 (7.32%) Developer
6 21 (6.69%) Architect
7 15 (4.78%) Finance Manager
7 15 (4.78%) Product Analyst
7 15 (4.78%) Product Business Analyst
7 15 (4.78%) Senior Manager
8 14 (4.46%) Business Manager
8 14 (4.46%) Lead
9 13 (4.14%) Finance Business Analyst
9 13 (4.14%) Financial Analyst
9 13 (4.14%) Senior Product Manager
10 12 (3.82%) Software Engineer
10 12 (3.82%) Technical Manager
11 9 (2.87%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (3.50%) CSS
1 11 (3.50%) HTML
2 9 (2.87%) Kafka
3 8 (2.55%) OAuth
3 8 (2.55%) React
4 7 (2.23%) AWS CDK
5 6 (1.91%) gRPC
5 6 (1.91%) NumPy
5 6 (1.91%) OpenID
5 6 (1.91%) Pandas
5 6 (1.91%) Protocol Buffers
5 6 (1.91%) SAML
5 6 (1.91%) SciPy
6 5 (1.59%) LDAP
6 5 (1.59%) Node.js
6 5 (1.59%) REST
7 4 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.27%) Lucene
8 3 (0.96%) Middleware
8 3 (0.96%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 87 (27.71%) Product Ownership
2 25 (7.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 21 (6.69%) Derivative
4 19 (6.05%) Equities
4 19 (6.05%) Fixed Income
4 19 (6.05%) Hedge funds
5 12 (3.82%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.23%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (1.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 5 (1.59%) CMDB
8 5 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.59%) Reference Data
8 5 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
8 5 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
8 5 (1.59%) Social Media
9 4 (1.27%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.27%) Onboarding
9 4 (1.27%) Public Cloud
10 3 (0.96%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.23%) Linux
2 2 (0.64%) Android
2 2 (0.64%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.64%) Windows
3 1 (0.32%) Unix
3 1 (0.32%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 167 (53.18%) Agile
2 115 (36.62%) Roadmaps
3 57 (18.15%) Analytics
4 55 (17.52%) Scrum
5 53 (16.88%) Product Roadmap
6 49 (15.61%) Problem-Solving
7 47 (14.97%) Stakeholder Management
8 43 (13.69%) User Experience
9 41 (13.06%) Product Strategy
10 38 (12.10%) Decision-Making
10 38 (12.10%) User Stories
11 37 (11.78%) Project Management
12 34 (10.83%) Product Backlog
13 32 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
14 31 (9.87%) Product Vision
15 30 (9.55%) Software Engineering
16 29 (9.24%) Strategic Roadmap
17 28 (8.92%) Business Case
17 28 (8.92%) DevOps
17 28 (8.92%) Mentoring
Programming Languages
1 39 (12.42%) Python
2 30 (9.55%) SQL
3 22 (7.01%) Java
4 17 (5.41%) JavaScript
4 17 (5.41%) TypeScript
5 11 (3.50%) C++
6 7 (2.23%) Ruby
7 6 (1.91%) Scala
8 4 (1.27%) Bash
9 3 (0.96%) C
9 3 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 2 (0.64%) C#
10 2 (0.64%) PHP
11 1 (0.32%) PowerShell
11 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 61 (19.43%) Degree
2 42 (13.38%) Security Cleared
3 31 (9.87%) SC Cleared
4 19 (6.05%) Master's Degree
5 9 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.55%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.91%) MBA
7 6 (1.91%) PMI Certification
7 6 (1.91%) PMP
8 5 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.27%) CCNP
9 4 (1.27%) PgMP
10 3 (0.96%) CBAP
11 2 (0.64%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.64%) CSPO
11 2 (0.64%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.64%) PhD
11 2 (0.64%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.32%) CCIP
12 1 (0.32%) CISSP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 14 (4.46%) Accessibility
2 13 (4.14%) QA
3 4 (1.27%) Disclosure Scotland
4 3 (0.96%) SLA
5 2 (0.64%) GDPR
5 2 (0.64%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.64%) PMO
6 1 (0.32%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.32%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.32%) GxP
6 1 (0.32%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.32%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.32%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.32%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.32%) NCSC
6 1 (0.32%) NIST
6 1 (0.32%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.32%) PSD2
6 1 (0.32%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 10 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 6 (1.91%) Active Directory
2 6 (1.91%) Docker
3 5 (1.59%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.27%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.27%) KVM
4 4 (1.27%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (2.23%) Grafana
1 7 (2.23%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.59%) PingFederate
3 4 (1.27%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 2 (0.64%) Terraform
5 1 (0.32%) Bugsnag
5 1 (0.32%) CASB
5 1 (0.32%) Matomo
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.32%) Nessus
5 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.32%) vRealize
Vendors
1 27 (8.60%) Microsoft
2 26 (8.28%) Oracle
3 12 (3.82%) SAP
4 11 (3.50%) VMware
5 5 (1.59%) Google
5 5 (1.59%) Ping Identity
5 5 (1.59%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.27%) Cisco
7 2 (0.64%) Adobe
7 2 (0.64%) Amplitude
7 2 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (0.64%) Citrix
7 2 (0.64%) ESRI
7 2 (0.64%) Murex
7 2 (0.64%) UiPath
7 2 (0.64%) Zoho
8 1 (0.32%) Databricks
8 1 (0.32%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.32%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.32%) Workday