Product Manager Contracts

Product Manager
UK

The median Product Manager daily rate in the UK is £586 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 9 June 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
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 343 328 382
Rank change year-on-year -15 +54 +21
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 268 433 607
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.62% 0.78% 0.69%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.67% 0.82% 0.73%
Number of daily rates quoted 202 325 439
10th Percentile £405 £413 £425
25th Percentile £466 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £586 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +6.59% -2.31% +12.60%
75th Percentile £672 £638 £650
90th Percentile £788 £675 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £525 £539
% change year-on-year +9.52% -2.55% +21.75%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £66.25 £39.55 £41.25
Median hourly rate £67.50 £46.28 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year +45.87% +8.88% -40.97%
75th Percentile £68.75 £58.06 £43.75
90th Percentile - £64.48 -
UK excluding London median hourly rate - £39.55 -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

The following table is for comparison with the above and includes summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. 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 with a recognized job title 40,232 52,519 83,570
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.87% 94.52% 95.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,887 36,654 58,907
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £408 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +6.60%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £488 £500 £475
% change year-on-year -2.50% +5.26% +8.68%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,899 1,488 1,954
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.60
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.39 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +80.00% +16.28%
75th Percentile £61.88 £65.75 £49.75
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.33 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +7.17%

Product Manager
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Manager in the UK

Product Manager
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Product Manager in the UK

Product Manager
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Manager over the 6 months to 9 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Manager in the UK

Product Manager
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Manager in the UK

Product Manager
Top 16 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 9 June 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 -24 217 £600 +9.09% 232
London -5 156 £600 +4.35% 112
Work from Home +74 113 £600 +14.29% 129
UK excluding London -9 84 £575 +9.52% 120
Scotland +16 27 £575 +18.86% 6
North of England +10 18 £585 +6.36% 42
North West +18 15 £500 -9.09% 24
South West +13 14 £430 -33.92% 4
South East -21 13 £525 +11.70% 29
Midlands +17 7 £608 +5.65% 24
West Midlands +9 5 £625 -3.85% 22
East of England 0 3 £650 - 14
Yorkshire -5 3 £638 +15.91% 13
East Midlands +8 2 £601 -1.84% 2
Northern Ireland +2 1 £640 +34.74% 1
Wales - 1 - - 2

Product Manager Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 9 June 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 featuring Product Manager in the job title.

1 134 (50.00%) Agile
2 112 (41.79%) Product Management
3 108 (40.30%) Roadmaps
4 71 (26.49%) Finance
5 68 (25.37%) Product Ownership
6 62 (23.13%) Security Cleared
7 55 (20.52%) Product Roadmap
8 54 (20.15%) SC Cleared
9 51 (19.03%) Public Sector
10 50 (18.66%) Social Skills
11 44 (16.42%) Analytics
12 39 (14.55%) User Stories
13 38 (14.18%) User Research
14 34 (12.69%) Product Backlog
15 32 (11.94%) JIRA
16 29 (10.82%) User Experience
16 29 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
17 28 (10.45%) Scrum
17 28 (10.45%) Product Strategy
18 27 (10.07%) SQL
18 27 (10.07%) Project Management
19 25 (9.33%) AWS
19 25 (9.33%) Confluence
19 25 (9.33%) Product Vision
20 24 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
20 24 (8.96%) Marketing
20 24 (8.96%) Artificial Intelligence
20 24 (8.96%) Stakeholder Management
20 24 (8.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
20 24 (8.96%) Python

Product Manager Skill Set
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 25 (9.33%) Confluence
2 5 (1.87%) CMS
2 5 (1.87%) SAS
3 4 (1.49%) Apache
4 3 (1.12%) Adobe Experience Manager
4 3 (1.12%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft Office
1 1 (0.37%) Microsoft PowerPoint
1 1 (0.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.12%) SAP S/4HANA
2 2 (0.75%) Workfront
3 1 (0.37%) Payment Gateway
Cloud Services
1 25 (9.33%) AWS
2 14 (5.22%) SaaS
3 11 (4.10%) Azure
4 7 (2.61%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.49%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (1.49%) dbt
5 4 (1.49%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (1.49%) PaaS
6 2 (0.75%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (0.75%) Figma
6 2 (0.75%) GitHub
6 2 (0.75%) Slack
7 1 (0.37%) GCP
7 1 (0.37%) Miro
7 1 (0.37%) Stripe
7 1 (0.37%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.49%) Firewall
2 2 (0.75%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.37%) ISDN
3 1 (0.37%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.36%) Data Lake
2 6 (2.24%) Power BI
3 5 (1.87%) Big Data
3 5 (1.87%) Crystal Reports
3 5 (1.87%) Tableau
4 4 (1.49%) Apache Arrow
4 4 (1.49%) Dremio
5 2 (0.75%) Data Warehouse
6 1 (0.37%) SAP HANA
6 1 (0.37%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (11.94%) JIRA
2 4 (1.49%) Artifactory
2 4 (1.49%) Bitbucket
2 4 (1.49%) Git
2 4 (1.49%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.49%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.75%) GitLab
4 1 (0.37%) Rational DOORS
General
1 71 (26.49%) Finance
2 51 (19.03%) Public Sector
3 50 (18.66%) Social Skills
4 29 (10.82%) Analytical Skills
5 24 (8.96%) Marketing
6 20 (7.46%) Front Office
7 17 (6.34%) Retail
8 12 (4.48%) Banking
8 12 (4.48%) Telecoms
9 10 (3.73%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (3.36%) Manufacturing
10 9 (3.36%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (2.99%) Influencing Skills
11 8 (2.99%) Legal
12 6 (2.24%) Investment Banking
12 6 (2.24%) Local Government
13 5 (1.87%) Electronics
14 4 (1.49%) Automotive
15 3 (1.12%) Advertising
15 3 (1.12%) Inclusion and Diversity
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.12%) Web Services
2 2 (0.75%) HTML
2 2 (0.75%) Hugging Face
3 1 (0.37%) .NET
3 1 (0.37%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.37%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.37%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (0.37%) Entity Framework
3 1 (0.37%) HTML5
3 1 (0.37%) OAuth
3 1 (0.37%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 68 (25.37%) Product Ownership
2 24 (8.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 21 (7.84%) Derivative
4 20 (7.46%) Equities
4 20 (7.46%) Fixed Income
4 20 (7.46%) Hedge funds
5 7 (2.61%) Management Information System
6 6 (2.24%) Digital Signage
6 6 (2.24%) Video\Live Streaming
7 5 (1.87%) Blockchain
7 5 (1.87%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.49%) Data Protection Act
8 4 (1.49%) Reference Data
8 4 (1.49%) Self-Motivation
9 3 (1.12%) Analytical Mindset
9 3 (1.12%) Legacy Applications
9 3 (1.12%) Legacy Systems
9 3 (1.12%) Mobile App
10 2 (0.75%) IoT
10 2 (0.75%) Renewable Energy
Operating Systems
1 5 (1.87%) Apple iOS
1 5 (1.87%) Linux
1 5 (1.87%) Windows
2 4 (1.49%) Android
2 4 (1.49%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 134 (50.00%) Agile
2 112 (41.79%) Product Management
3 108 (40.30%) Roadmaps
4 55 (20.52%) Product Roadmap
5 44 (16.42%) Analytics
6 39 (14.55%) User Stories
7 38 (14.18%) User Research
8 34 (12.69%) Product Backlog
9 29 (10.82%) User Experience
10 28 (10.45%) Product Strategy
10 28 (10.45%) Scrum
11 27 (10.07%) Project Management
12 25 (9.33%) Product Vision
13 24 (8.96%) Artificial Intelligence
13 24 (8.96%) Problem-Solving
13 24 (8.96%) Stakeholder Management
14 23 (8.58%) Asset Management
14 23 (8.58%) Backlog Management
15 21 (7.84%) Investment Management
16 20 (7.46%) Decision-Making
Programming Languages
1 27 (10.07%) SQL
2 24 (8.96%) Python
3 1 (0.37%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 62 (23.13%) Security Cleared
2 54 (20.15%) SC Cleared
3 23 (8.58%) Degree
4 7 (2.61%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.87%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.87%) MBA
6 4 (1.49%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (1.12%) PMP
8 2 (0.75%) BPSS Clearance
8 2 (0.75%) CSPO
8 2 (0.75%) PMI Certification
8 2 (0.75%) PRINCE2 Certification
9 1 (0.37%) Azure Certification
9 1 (0.37%) CCIP
9 1 (0.37%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.49%) QA
2 2 (0.75%) PMO
3 1 (0.37%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.37%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.37%) PSD2
Systems Management
1 6 (2.24%) Terraform
2 4 (1.49%) Ansible
2 4 (1.49%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (3.36%) SAP
2 8 (2.99%) Microsoft
3 6 (2.24%) Logitech
4 5 (1.87%) IFS
5 4 (1.49%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.12%) Adobe
6 3 (1.12%) Oracle
7 2 (0.75%) Amplitude
7 2 (0.75%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.75%) Citrix
7 2 (0.75%) MuleSoft
8 1 (0.37%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.37%) Cadence
8 1 (0.37%) Capita
8 1 (0.37%) Cisco
8 1 (0.37%) Databricks
8 1 (0.37%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.37%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.37%) Workday
8 1 (0.37%) Zoho