Product Management Contracts with Work from Home Options

Product Management
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 20 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
20 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 215 267 275
Rank change year-on-year +52 +8 +49
Contract jobs citing Product Management 127 195 413
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.86% 0.79% 0.93%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.98% 0.88% 1.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 99 133 312
10th Percentile £409 £425 £413
25th Percentile £459 £479 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +9.89%
75th Percentile £769 £650 £630
90th Percentile £850 £720 £749
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £17.99
Median hourly rate - - £19.46
75th Percentile - - £20.93
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £42.50 £51.50 £56.00
% change year-on-year -17.48% -8.04% +12.00%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,942 22,217 40,480
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.90% 89.66% 91.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,728 15,724 29,400
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £433
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £544 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.49% +3.62% +7.14%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £633
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 567 510 538
10th Percentile £14.70 £18.63 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.13 £26.46 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £39.50
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +32.91% +64.58%
75th Percentile £60.00 £68.75 £57.50
90th Percentile £75.00 £80.00 £72.50
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%

Product Management
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Product Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Product Management trend for jobs with a WFH option

Product Management
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Product Management over the 6 months to 20 May 2024.

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 a work from home option 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 10 (7.87%) Confluence
2 6 (4.72%) Apache
2 6 (4.72%) Apache Airflow
3 4 (3.15%) CMS
4 3 (2.36%) SharePoint
5 1 (0.79%) ArcGIS
Applications
1 3 (2.36%) Microsoft Excel
1 3 (2.36%) MS Visio
2 2 (1.57%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 3 (2.36%) Endur
2 1 (0.79%) Oracle Applications
Cloud Services
1 34 (26.77%) AWS
2 18 (14.17%) Azure
3 11 (8.66%) GCP
4 9 (7.09%) SaaS
5 8 (6.30%) Serverless
6 6 (4.72%) AWS CloudFormation
6 6 (4.72%) dbt
7 5 (3.94%) Amazon S3
7 5 (3.94%) AWS Lambda
7 5 (3.94%) OpenShift
7 5 (3.94%) Textract
8 3 (2.36%) Amazon SageMaker
8 3 (2.36%) Cloud Computing
8 3 (2.36%) Power Platform
8 3 (2.36%) Rekognition
9 2 (1.57%) Miro
9 2 (1.57%) WhatsApp
10 1 (0.79%) Azure Service Bus
10 1 (0.79%) Figma
10 1 (0.79%) Sentry
Communications & Networking
1 5 (3.94%) Kerberos
2 1 (0.79%) SD-WAN
2 1 (0.79%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 8 (6.30%) PostgreSQL
2 6 (4.72%) Amazon Athena
2 6 (4.72%) Apache Arrow
2 6 (4.72%) Apache Ignite
2 6 (4.72%) Dremio
3 5 (3.94%) Amazon Aurora
3 5 (3.94%) NoSQL
4 4 (3.15%) Couchbase
4 4 (3.15%) SQL Server
5 3 (2.36%) PostHog
5 3 (2.36%) Power BI
6 2 (1.57%) Elasticsearch
6 2 (1.57%) MySQL
7 1 (0.79%) BigQuery
7 1 (0.79%) Data Lake
7 1 (0.79%) GIS
7 1 (0.79%) Looker
7 1 (0.79%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 11 (8.66%) JIRA
2 1 (0.79%) Cypress.io
2 1 (0.79%) Git
2 1 (0.79%) Storybook
General
1 43 (33.86%) Social Skills
2 37 (29.13%) Finance
3 22 (17.32%) Public Sector
4 19 (14.96%) Front Office
5 14 (11.02%) Analytical Skills
6 10 (7.87%) Presentation Skills
7 9 (7.09%) Banking
8 7 (5.51%) Marketing
9 6 (4.72%) Influencing Skills
9 6 (4.72%) Investment Banking
9 6 (4.72%) Legal
10 4 (3.15%) Pharmaceutical
11 3 (2.36%) Manufacturing
11 3 (2.36%) Retail
12 2 (1.57%) Public Speaking
12 2 (1.57%) Telecoms
13 1 (0.79%) Advertising
13 1 (0.79%) Automotive
13 1 (0.79%) Back Office
13 1 (0.79%) Digital Economy
Job Titles
1 47 (37.01%) Product Manager
2 25 (19.69%) Product Owner
3 21 (16.54%) Analyst
3 21 (16.54%) Business Analyst
4 15 (11.81%) Developer
4 15 (11.81%) Senior
5 14 (11.02%) Architect
5 14 (11.02%) Product Analyst
5 14 (11.02%) Product Business Analyst
6 13 (10.24%) Business Manager
6 13 (10.24%) Finance Business Analyst
6 13 (10.24%) Finance Manager
6 13 (10.24%) Financial Analyst
7 11 (8.66%) Consultant
8 7 (5.51%) Software Engineer
9 6 (4.72%) Senior Manager
9 6 (4.72%) Senior Product Manager
10 5 (3.94%) Software Developer
11 4 (3.15%) Developer/Software Engineer
11 4 (3.15%) Senior Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 7 (5.51%) React
2 6 (4.72%) CSS
2 6 (4.72%) gRPC
2 6 (4.72%) HTML
2 6 (4.72%) NumPy
2 6 (4.72%) Pandas
2 6 (4.72%) Protocol Buffers
2 6 (4.72%) SciPy
3 5 (3.94%) AWS CDK
3 5 (3.94%) OAuth
3 5 (3.94%) OpenID
3 5 (3.94%) SAML
4 4 (3.15%) Kafka
5 3 (2.36%) Node.js
6 2 (1.57%) DOM
6 2 (1.57%) Elastic Stack
6 2 (1.57%) Express.js
6 2 (1.57%) Lucene
6 2 (1.57%) PyTorch
6 2 (1.57%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 42 (33.07%) Product Ownership
2 23 (18.11%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 19 (14.96%) Derivative
3 19 (14.96%) Equities
3 19 (14.96%) Fixed Income
3 19 (14.96%) Hedge funds
4 5 (3.94%) Team-Oriented Environment
5 3 (2.36%) Digital Media
5 3 (2.36%) Enterprise Software
6 2 (1.57%) Data Protection Act
6 2 (1.57%) Distributed Systems
6 2 (1.57%) IVR
6 2 (1.57%) Legacy Systems
6 2 (1.57%) Management Information System
6 2 (1.57%) Public Cloud
6 2 (1.57%) Virtual Team
7 1 (0.79%) Cloud Native
7 1 (0.79%) Credit Risk
7 1 (0.79%) Greenfield Project
7 1 (0.79%) Reference Data
Operating Systems
1 2 (1.57%) Linux
2 1 (0.79%) Android
2 1 (0.79%) Apple iOS
2 1 (0.79%) Windows
2 1 (0.79%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 83 (65.35%) Agile
2 40 (31.50%) Analytics
3 37 (29.13%) Roadmaps
4 23 (18.11%) Artificial Intelligence
4 23 (18.11%) Scrum
5 20 (15.75%) Asset Management
5 20 (15.75%) Investment Management
5 20 (15.75%) Machine Learning
6 18 (14.17%) Kanban
6 18 (14.17%) Mentoring
6 18 (14.17%) Problem-Solving
6 18 (14.17%) Stakeholder Management
7 16 (12.60%) Scaled Agile Framework
7 16 (12.60%) User Experience
8 15 (11.81%) Product Roadmap
9 13 (10.24%) Software Engineering
9 13 (10.24%) User Stories
10 12 (9.45%) Business Case
10 12 (9.45%) Data Modelling
11 11 (8.66%) Change Management
Programming Languages
1 26 (20.47%) Python
2 23 (18.11%) SQL
3 13 (10.24%) Java
3 13 (10.24%) JavaScript
4 12 (9.45%) TypeScript
5 6 (4.72%) Ruby
5 6 (4.72%) Scala
6 4 (3.15%) C++
7 3 (2.36%) Data Analysis Expressions
8 1 (0.79%) C#
8 1 (0.79%) PHP
8 1 (0.79%) VBA
Qualifications
1 20 (15.75%) Security Cleared
2 17 (13.39%) SC Cleared
3 13 (10.24%) Degree
4 4 (3.15%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (1.57%) DV Cleared
5 2 (1.57%) Master's Degree
5 2 (1.57%) MBA
5 2 (1.57%) PMI Certification
5 2 (1.57%) PMP
5 2 (1.57%) PRINCE2 Certification
6 1 (0.79%) CCIP
6 1 (0.79%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (0.79%) CISSP
6 1 (0.79%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 9 (7.09%) Accessibility
2 5 (3.94%) QA
3 2 (1.57%) SLA
4 1 (0.79%) Disclosure Scotland
4 1 (0.79%) Government Security Classifications
4 1 (0.79%) ISO/IEC 27001
4 1 (0.79%) NCSC
4 1 (0.79%) PCI DSS
System Software
1 7 (5.51%) Docker
2 4 (3.15%) Active Directory
3 1 (0.79%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 7 (5.51%) Kubernetes
2 5 (3.94%) Grafana
2 5 (3.94%) PingFederate
3 1 (0.79%) Bugsnag
Vendors
1 12 (9.45%) Oracle
2 11 (8.66%) Microsoft
3 5 (3.94%) Ping Identity
4 3 (2.36%) Google
5 2 (1.57%) Cadence
5 2 (1.57%) Salesforce
5 2 (1.57%) ServiceNow
5 2 (1.57%) UiPath
6 1 (0.79%) Adobe
6 1 (0.79%) Atlassian
6 1 (0.79%) Cognizant
6 1 (0.79%) ESRI
6 1 (0.79%) SAP
6 1 (0.79%) VMware