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 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 294 281 286
Rank change year-on-year -13 +5 +49
Contract jobs citing Product Management 313 529 849
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 0.92% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.85% 1.03% 1.06%
Number of daily rates quoted 217 388 622
10th Percentile £403 £386 £413
25th Percentile £450 £461 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +4.76%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £800 £741 £763
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 17
10th Percentile - £39.28 £31.35
25th Percentile £26.66 £43.40 £49.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £51.50 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -17.48% -8.04% +12.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £63.50 -
90th Percentile - £69.95 £65.50
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 36,622 51,397 80,021
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.09% 89.76% 90.61%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,613 35,611 56,174
10th Percentile £300 £325 £344
25th Percentile £413 £439 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +7.07%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £480
% change year-on-year - +4.17% +9.09%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,439 1,690 1,913
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.77 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.39% +40.19% +7.00%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.50
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.54%

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 20 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 20 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 20 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 -3 257 £550 -4.35% 448
London +13 172 £550 -8.33% 218
Work from Home +52 127 £550 -2.22% 243
UK excluding London -48 102 £550 +3.77% 268
Scotland +1 28 £494 -5.45% 18
North of England +10 20 £525 -4.55% 63
South East -22 20 £575 +9.52% 95
North West +20 17 £518 -10.00% 41
South West +8 16 £638 -1.92% 20
Midlands +10 14 £600 -9.43% 40
West Midlands +13 11 £550 -15.38% 29
East of England -2 3 - - 28
Yorkshire -2 3 £525 -4.55% 18
East Midlands +12 1 £615 -5.38% 11
Northern Ireland - 1 £640 - 3

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 (5.43%) Confluence
2 7 (2.24%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.92%) Apache
3 6 (1.92%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.28%) CMS
4 4 (1.28%) IBM Domino
5 2 (0.64%) ArcGIS
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
6 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.92%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.92%) 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 5 (1.60%) 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 46 (14.70%) AWS
2 39 (12.46%) Azure
3 15 (4.79%) GCP
4 12 (3.83%) SaaS
4 12 (3.83%) Serverless
5 10 (3.19%) Power Platform
6 8 (2.56%) AWS CloudFormation
6 8 (2.56%) dbt
7 7 (2.24%) Amazon S3
7 7 (2.24%) AWS Lambda
8 6 (1.92%) Cloud Computing
8 6 (1.92%) OpenShift
8 6 (1.92%) Textract
9 5 (1.60%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.60%) OCI
9 5 (1.60%) Oracle CX
9 5 (1.60%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 4 (1.28%) Nutanix
11 3 (0.96%) Miro
11 3 (0.96%) Rekognition
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.60%) Kerberos
2 4 (1.28%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (1.28%) 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%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.32%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.19%) PostgreSQL
1 10 (3.19%) Power BI
2 8 (2.56%) Couchbase
3 7 (2.24%) Amazon Aurora
3 7 (2.24%) Data Lake
4 6 (1.92%) Amazon Athena
4 6 (1.92%) Apache Arrow
4 6 (1.92%) Apache Ignite
4 6 (1.92%) Dremio
5 5 (1.60%) NoSQL
5 5 (1.60%) Oracle Reports
5 5 (1.60%) SQL Server
6 4 (1.28%) Elasticsearch
7 3 (0.96%) PostHog
7 3 (0.96%) Tableau
8 2 (0.64%) Data Mart
8 2 (0.64%) GIS
8 2 (0.64%) MySQL
9 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
9 1 (0.32%) BigQuery
Development Applications
1 31 (9.90%) 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
1 100 (31.95%) Social Skills
2 81 (25.88%) Finance
3 52 (16.61%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (12.14%) Public Sector
5 37 (11.82%) Marketing
6 23 (7.35%) Presentation Skills
7 20 (6.39%) Front Office
8 18 (5.75%) Banking
9 15 (4.79%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (4.79%) Legal
10 11 (3.51%) Manufacturing
10 11 (3.51%) Telecoms
11 10 (3.19%) Investment Banking
12 9 (2.88%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (2.56%) Retail
14 7 (2.24%) Electronics
14 7 (2.24%) Local Government
15 5 (1.60%) Games
16 4 (1.28%) Automotive
16 4 (1.28%) Billing
Job Titles
1 114 (36.42%) Product Manager
2 42 (13.42%) Analyst
3 39 (12.46%) Business Analyst
4 38 (12.14%) Product Owner
5 30 (9.58%) Senior
6 23 (7.35%) Developer
7 21 (6.71%) Architect
7 21 (6.71%) Consultant
8 18 (5.75%) Senior Manager
9 16 (5.11%) Senior Product Manager
10 15 (4.79%) Finance Manager
10 15 (4.79%) Product Analyst
10 15 (4.79%) Product Business Analyst
11 14 (4.47%) Business Manager
12 13 (4.15%) Finance Business Analyst
12 13 (4.15%) Financial Analyst
12 13 (4.15%) Lead
13 12 (3.83%) Software Engineer
13 12 (3.83%) Technical Manager
14 9 (2.88%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.19%) CSS
1 10 (3.19%) HTML
2 9 (2.88%) Kafka
3 8 (2.56%) React
4 7 (2.24%) AWS CDK
4 7 (2.24%) OAuth
5 6 (1.92%) gRPC
5 6 (1.92%) NumPy
5 6 (1.92%) Pandas
5 6 (1.92%) Protocol Buffers
5 6 (1.92%) SciPy
6 5 (1.60%) LDAP
6 5 (1.60%) OpenID
6 5 (1.60%) SAML
7 4 (1.28%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.28%) Lucene
7 4 (1.28%) Node.js
7 4 (1.28%) REST
8 3 (0.96%) PyTorch
8 3 (0.96%) SpaCy
Miscellaneous
1 84 (26.84%) Product Ownership
2 25 (7.99%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 21 (6.71%) Derivative
4 19 (6.07%) Equities
4 19 (6.07%) Fixed Income
4 19 (6.07%) Hedge funds
5 12 (3.83%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.92%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.92%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.92%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 5 (1.60%) CMDB
7 5 (1.60%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.60%) Reference Data
7 5 (1.60%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (1.60%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.60%) Social Media
8 4 (1.28%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.28%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.28%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.96%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.24%) 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
1 174 (55.59%) Agile
2 118 (37.70%) Roadmaps
3 59 (18.85%) Analytics
4 55 (17.57%) Scrum
5 54 (17.25%) Product Roadmap
6 50 (15.97%) Stakeholder Management
7 49 (15.65%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (14.70%) User Experience
9 43 (13.74%) Product Strategy
10 41 (13.10%) User Stories
11 38 (12.14%) Decision-Making
12 37 (11.82%) Project Management
13 34 (10.86%) Product Backlog
14 32 (10.22%) Continuous Improvement
14 32 (10.22%) Product Vision
15 30 (9.58%) Business Case
15 30 (9.58%) Mentoring
15 30 (9.58%) Software Engineering
16 29 (9.27%) DevOps
16 29 (9.27%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 40 (12.78%) Python
2 33 (10.54%) SQL
3 20 (6.39%) Java
4 17 (5.43%) JavaScript
4 17 (5.43%) TypeScript
5 11 (3.51%) C++
6 6 (1.92%) Ruby
6 6 (1.92%) Scala
7 4 (1.28%) Bash
8 3 (0.96%) C
8 3 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.32%) C#
9 1 (0.32%) PHP
9 1 (0.32%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 61 (19.49%) Degree
2 47 (15.02%) Security Cleared
3 34 (10.86%) SC Cleared
4 18 (5.75%) Master's Degree
5 11 (3.51%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.56%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.92%) MBA
7 6 (1.92%) PMI Certification
7 6 (1.92%) PMP
8 5 (1.60%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.28%) CCNP
9 4 (1.28%) 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 16 (5.11%) Accessibility
2 12 (3.83%) QA
3 5 (1.60%) SLA
4 3 (0.96%) Disclosure Scotland
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 (3.19%) VMware Infrastructure
2 8 (2.56%) Docker
3 6 (1.92%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.60%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (1.28%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.28%) KVM
5 4 (1.28%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.28%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 9 (2.88%) Kubernetes
2 7 (2.24%) Grafana
3 5 (1.60%) PingFederate
4 4 (1.28%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 2 (0.64%) Terraform
6 1 (0.32%) Bugsnag
6 1 (0.32%) CASB
6 1 (0.32%) Matomo
6 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.32%) Nessus
6 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.32%) vRealize
Vendors
1 26 (8.31%) Microsoft
2 22 (7.03%) Oracle
3 11 (3.51%) SAP
3 11 (3.51%) VMware
4 5 (1.60%) Google
4 5 (1.60%) Ping Identity
4 5 (1.60%) Salesforce
5 4 (1.28%) Cisco
6 3 (0.96%) ServiceNow
7 2 (0.64%) Adobe
7 2 (0.64%) Amplitude
7 2 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
7 2 (0.64%) Cadence
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%) OneTrust
8 1 (0.32%) Workday