Product Manager Contracts

Product Manager
UK

The median Product Manager daily rate in the UK is £585 according to job vacancies posted during the 6 months to 1 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
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 332 309 380
Rank change year-on-year -23 +71 +32
Contract jobs requiring a Product Manager 258 458 600
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.60% 0.82% 0.68%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.65% 0.86% 0.72%
Number of daily rates quoted 195 345 431
10th Percentile £407 £413 £425
25th Percentile £463 £450 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year +6.36% -2.22% +12.50%
75th Percentile £675 £638 £644
90th Percentile £788 £670 £713
UK excluding London median daily rate £575 £525 £538
% change year-on-year +9.52% -2.33% +16.22%
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 39,969 53,015 83,520
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.83% 94.58% 95.35%
Number of daily rates quoted 25,870 37,031 58,844
10th Percentile £280 £313 £315
25th Percentile £409 £425 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £540 £525
Median % change year-on-year -2.78% +2.86% +7.69%
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% +10.21%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,841 1,476 1,963
10th Percentile £12.86 £14.25 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.30 £19.06 £15.90
Median hourly rate £37.50 £45.00 £24.50
Median % change year-on-year -16.67% +83.67% +12.28%
75th Percentile £61.60 £65.75 £49.33
90th Percentile £73.75 £76.13 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.00 £42.50 £20.00
% change year-on-year -5.88% +112.50% +5.26%

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 1 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 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 Manager within the UK over the 6 months to 1 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 -56 207 £600 +9.09% 258
London -8 148 £608 +5.65% 125
Work from Home +59 106 £600 +14.29% 129
UK excluding London -18 81 £575 +9.52% 134
Scotland +13 27 £575 +27.78% 7
North of England +3 18 £585 +6.36% 31
North West +26 15 £475 -13.64% 23
South West +8 14 £430 -33.92% 5
South East -26 13 £525 +8.25% 48
Midlands +18 7 £608 +5.65% 23
West Midlands +10 5 £625 -3.85% 21
Yorkshire -4 3 £638 +15.91% 6
East Midlands +8 2 £601 -1.84% 2
Northern Ireland +2 1 £640 +34.74% 3
East of England +1 1 £700 +7.69% 13

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

For the 6 months to 1 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.

1 129 (50.00%) Agile
2 112 (43.41%) Product Management
3 107 (41.47%) Roadmaps
4 63 (24.42%) Product Ownership
4 63 (24.42%) Finance
5 62 (24.03%) Security Cleared
6 54 (20.93%) SC Cleared
7 53 (20.54%) Product Roadmap
8 52 (20.16%) Public Sector
9 43 (16.67%) Social Skills
10 40 (15.50%) Analytics
11 38 (14.73%) User Stories
11 38 (14.73%) User Research
12 34 (13.18%) Product Backlog
13 32 (12.40%) JIRA
14 29 (11.24%) Scrum
15 27 (10.47%) User Experience
15 27 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
16 25 (9.69%) Product Strategy
16 25 (9.69%) Project Management
16 25 (9.69%) SQL
16 25 (9.69%) Confluence
17 24 (9.30%) AWS
18 23 (8.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
18 23 (8.91%) Artificial Intelligence
18 23 (8.91%) Stakeholder Management
18 23 (8.91%) Product Vision
18 23 (8.91%) Backlog Management
19 22 (8.53%) Asset Management
19 22 (8.53%) 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 (9.69%) Confluence
2 5 (1.94%) CMS
2 5 (1.94%) SAS
3 3 (1.16%) Adobe Experience Manager
3 3 (1.16%) Apache
4 2 (0.78%) SharePoint
Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (0.39%) Microsoft Office
2 1 (0.39%) Trello
Business Applications
1 2 (0.78%) Workfront
2 1 (0.39%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (0.39%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 24 (9.30%) AWS
2 14 (5.43%) SaaS
3 12 (4.65%) Azure
4 5 (1.94%) Power Platform
5 4 (1.55%) Cloud Computing
5 4 (1.55%) Microsoft 365
5 4 (1.55%) PaaS
6 3 (1.16%) dbt
7 2 (0.78%) Azure DevOps
7 2 (0.78%) Figma
7 2 (0.78%) GCP
7 2 (0.78%) GitHub
7 2 (0.78%) Slack
8 1 (0.39%) Miro
8 1 (0.39%) Stripe
8 1 (0.39%) SuccessFactors
Communications & Networking
1 4 (1.55%) Firewall
2 2 (0.78%) Unified Communications
3 1 (0.39%) ISDN
3 1 (0.39%) Wi-Fi
Database & Business Intelligence
1 9 (3.49%) Data Lake
2 5 (1.94%) Crystal Reports
2 5 (1.94%) Power BI
3 4 (1.55%) Big Data
3 4 (1.55%) Tableau
4 3 (1.16%) Apache Arrow
4 3 (1.16%) Dremio
5 1 (0.39%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (0.39%) SAP HANA
5 1 (0.39%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 32 (12.40%) JIRA
2 4 (1.55%) Artifactory
2 4 (1.55%) Bitbucket
2 4 (1.55%) Git
2 4 (1.55%) Jenkins
2 4 (1.55%) TeamCity
3 2 (0.78%) GitLab
General
1 63 (24.42%) Finance
2 52 (20.16%) Public Sector
3 43 (16.67%) Social Skills
4 27 (10.47%) Analytical Skills
5 22 (8.53%) Marketing
6 19 (7.36%) Front Office
7 17 (6.59%) Retail
8 12 (4.65%) Telecoms
9 10 (3.88%) Banking
10 9 (3.49%) Manufacturing
10 9 (3.49%) Pharmaceutical
10 9 (3.49%) Presentation Skills
11 8 (3.10%) Legal
12 6 (2.33%) Local Government
13 5 (1.94%) Electronics
13 5 (1.94%) Influencing Skills
13 5 (1.94%) Investment Banking
14 4 (1.55%) Automotive
15 3 (1.16%) Advertising
15 3 (1.16%) Publishing
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (1.16%) Web Services
2 2 (0.78%) HTML
3 1 (0.39%) .NET
3 1 (0.39%) .NET Framework
3 1 (0.39%) ASP.NET
3 1 (0.39%) ASP.NET MVC
3 1 (0.39%) Entity Framework
3 1 (0.39%) HTML5
3 1 (0.39%) Hugging Face
3 1 (0.39%) OAuth
3 1 (0.39%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 63 (24.42%) Product Ownership
2 23 (8.91%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 20 (7.75%) Derivative
4 19 (7.36%) Equities
4 19 (7.36%) Fixed Income
4 19 (7.36%) Hedge funds
5 6 (2.33%) Digital Signage
5 6 (2.33%) Video\Live Streaming
6 5 (1.94%) Management Information System
7 4 (1.55%) Blockchain
7 4 (1.55%) Data Protection Act
7 4 (1.55%) Onboarding
7 4 (1.55%) Reference Data
7 4 (1.55%) Self-Motivation
8 3 (1.16%) Analytical Mindset
8 3 (1.16%) Legacy Applications
8 3 (1.16%) Legacy Systems
8 3 (1.16%) Mobile App
9 2 (0.78%) Data Structures
9 2 (0.78%) IoT
Operating Systems
1 6 (2.33%) Apple iOS
2 5 (1.94%) Linux
2 5 (1.94%) Windows
3 4 (1.55%) Android
3 4 (1.55%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 129 (50.00%) Agile
2 112 (43.41%) Product Management
3 107 (41.47%) Roadmaps
4 53 (20.54%) Product Roadmap
5 40 (15.50%) Analytics
6 38 (14.73%) User Research
6 38 (14.73%) User Stories
7 34 (13.18%) Product Backlog
8 29 (11.24%) Scrum
9 27 (10.47%) User Experience
10 25 (9.69%) Product Strategy
10 25 (9.69%) Project Management
11 23 (8.91%) Artificial Intelligence
11 23 (8.91%) Backlog Management
11 23 (8.91%) Product Vision
11 23 (8.91%) Stakeholder Management
12 22 (8.53%) Asset Management
13 20 (7.75%) Epics
13 20 (7.75%) Investment Management
13 20 (7.75%) Problem-Solving
Programming Languages
1 25 (9.69%) SQL
2 22 (8.53%) Python
3 1 (0.39%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 62 (24.03%) Security Cleared
2 54 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 19 (7.36%) Degree
4 6 (2.33%) Master's Degree
5 5 (1.94%) DV Cleared
5 5 (1.94%) MBA
6 3 (1.16%) PMP
7 2 (0.78%) BPSS Clearance
7 2 (0.78%) CSPO
7 2 (0.78%) PMI Certification
7 2 (0.78%) PRINCE2 Certification
8 1 (0.39%) Azure Certification
8 1 (0.39%) CCIP
8 1 (0.39%) Cisco Certification
8 1 (0.39%) Computer Science Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (1.55%) QA
2 2 (0.78%) PMO
3 1 (0.39%) ISO/IEC 27001
3 1 (0.39%) PCI DSS
3 1 (0.39%) PSD2
Systems Management
1 6 (2.33%) Terraform
2 4 (1.55%) Ansible
2 4 (1.55%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 9 (3.49%) Microsoft
2 7 (2.71%) SAP
3 6 (2.33%) Logitech
4 5 (1.94%) IFS
5 4 (1.55%) Salesforce
6 3 (1.16%) Adobe
7 2 (0.78%) Amplitude
7 2 (0.78%) Atlassian
7 2 (0.78%) Citrix
7 2 (0.78%) MuleSoft
7 2 (0.78%) Oracle
8 1 (0.39%) Avaya
8 1 (0.39%) CA Agile Central
8 1 (0.39%) Cisco
8 1 (0.39%) Databricks
8 1 (0.39%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (0.39%) ServiceNow
8 1 (0.39%) Siemens
8 1 (0.39%) Workday
8 1 (0.39%) Zoho