Product Management Contracts in the South West

Product Management
England > South West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West 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 3 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
3 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 138 145 147
Rank change year-on-year +7 +2 -13
Contract jobs citing Product Management 15 17 18
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.46% 0.50% 0.49%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.56% 0.56% 0.55%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 17 14
10th Percentile £409 £533 £158
25th Percentile £409 £625 £336
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £600 £650 £454
Median % change year-on-year -7.69% +43.33% -9.30%
75th Percentile £675 £679 £584
90th Percentile £790 £729 £626
England median daily rate £550 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -4.35% - +9.52%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

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 advertised in the South West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,669 3,041 3,269
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 82.20% 89.41% 88.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,686 2,207 2,346
10th Percentile £225 £313 £300
25th Percentile £401 £425 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £549 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.37% +9.80% +5.37%
75th Percentile £625 £650 £600
90th Percentile £700 £725 £675
England median daily rate £525 £550 £545
% change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 361 314 205
10th Percentile £13.86 £9.80 £15.90
25th Percentile £29.75 £15.29 £21.25
Median hourly rate £55.00 £59.90 £48.48
Median % change year-on-year -8.18% +23.56% +7.73%
75th Percentile £70.00 £70.30 £63.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £83.07 £68.81
England median hourly rate £37.50 £37.15 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.94% +48.60% +11.11%

Product Management
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Product Management as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Product Management in the South West

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

Daily rate trend for Product Management in the South West

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Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Management in the South West over the 6 months to 3 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Management in the South West

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Management in the South West

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Contract Job Locations in the South West

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 South West region over the 6 months to 3 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
Wiltshire +7 5 £650 -16.13% 2
Bristol +11 4 £563 -13.46% 6
Devon -2 4 £409 -3.75% 4
Gloucestershire - 1 £750 - 10
Product Management
England

Product Management
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) Azure
1 2 (13.33%) GCP
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (13.33%) Elasticsearch
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 7 (46.67%) Public Sector
2 3 (20.00%) Finance
2 3 (20.00%) Social Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (6.67%) Public Speaking
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Product Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Architect
2 2 (13.33%) Contracts Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Delivery Manager
2 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Technical Architect
3 1 (6.67%) Consultant
3 1 (6.67%) Developer
3 1 (6.67%) DV Cleared Software Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) IT Manager
3 1 (6.67%) IT Services Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.67%) IT Services Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Product Owner
3 1 (6.67%) Service Delivery Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Service Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Software Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) Elastic Stack
1 2 (13.33%) Lucene
2 1 (6.67%) CSS
2 1 (6.67%) Flask
2 1 (6.67%) HTML
2 1 (6.67%) REST
Miscellaneous
1 6 (40.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (13.33%) Distributed Systems
2 2 (13.33%) Public Cloud
3 1 (6.67%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 2 (13.33%) Linux
2 1 (6.67%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (66.67%) Agile
2 6 (40.00%) User Stories
3 5 (33.33%) Business Case
4 4 (26.67%) Data Modelling
4 4 (26.67%) DevOps
4 4 (26.67%) Programme Management
4 4 (26.67%) Service Management
4 4 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 4 (26.67%) User Research
5 3 (20.00%) Analytics
5 3 (20.00%) Minimum Viable Product
5 3 (20.00%) Problem Management
5 3 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
5 3 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
6 2 (13.33%) Capacity Planning
6 2 (13.33%) Mentoring
6 2 (13.33%) Open Source
6 2 (13.33%) Roadmaps
6 2 (13.33%) Software Engineering
6 2 (13.33%) Technical Leadership
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) Java
2 1 (6.67%) JavaScript
2 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 12 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) DV Cleared
2 6 (40.00%) SC Cleared
3 1 (6.67%) Degree
3 1 (6.67%) PhD
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
1 2 (13.33%) SLA
2 1 (6.67%) Government Security Classifications
2 1 (6.67%) NCSC
Vendors
1 2 (13.33%) Cadence
1 2 (13.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft