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 9 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
9 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 326 308 283
Rank change year-on-year -18 -25 +44
Contract jobs citing Product Management 296 476 853
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.68% 0.86% 0.97%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.80% 0.96% 1.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 209 365 636
10th Percentile £400 £400 £413
25th Percentile £450 £461 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year - -2.22% +7.14%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £790 £738 £763
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £530 £532
% change year-on-year +3.77% -0.38% +6.40%
Number of hourly rates quoted 5 5 16
10th Percentile - £42.02 £29.12
25th Percentile £26.66 £50.25 £47.25
Median hourly rate £42.50 £53.00 £56.00
Median % change year-on-year -19.81% -5.36% +12.00%
75th Percentile £68.75 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - £72.05 £59.81
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 36,914 49,809 79,437
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.21% 89.64% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,592 34,469 55,846
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £649
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,564 1,687 1,868
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.75
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £20.51
% change year-on-year +8.91% +70.69% -2.36%

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 9 June 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 9 June 2024.

Hourly rate histogram for Product Management in the UK

Product Management
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 Management 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 -11 240 £550 -4.35% 369
London +7 165 £540 -10.00% 163
Work from Home +63 127 £550 -2.44% 174
UK excluding London -41 96 £550 +3.77% 203
Scotland +3 27 £485 -7.71% 13
North of England +15 18 £585 +6.36% 42
South East -27 17 £550 +10.00% 64
North West +21 16 £585 +6.36% 28
Midlands +22 15 £615 -5.38% 44
South West +8 13 £563 -13.46% 17
West Midlands +13 12 £575 -11.54% 27
East of England -11 3 - - 20
Yorkshire -3 2 £600 +9.09% 10
Northern Ireland - 2 £640 - 2
Wales +19 1 - - 5
East Midlands +7 1 £615 -5.38% 17

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 15 (5.07%) Confluence
2 7 (2.36%) SharePoint
3 6 (2.03%) Apache
3 6 (2.03%) Apache Airflow
4 4 (1.35%) IBM Domino
5 3 (1.01%) CMS
6 2 (0.68%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.34%) Alfresco
7 1 (0.34%) Camunda
7 1 (0.34%) LiveLink
7 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.34%) SAS
Applications
1 5 (1.69%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (0.68%) Chatbot
2 2 (0.68%) Microsoft Project
2 2 (0.68%) MS Visio
3 1 (0.34%) Adobe Creative Suite
3 1 (0.34%) Microsoft PowerPoint
3 1 (0.34%) Trello
Business Applications
1 3 (1.01%) Loan IQ
2 2 (0.68%) Payment Gateway
2 2 (0.68%) Softmar
3 1 (0.34%) Oracle Applications
3 1 (0.34%) SAP EHS
3 1 (0.34%) Teamcenter
3 1 (0.34%) Workday HCM
Cloud Services
1 41 (13.85%) AWS
2 34 (11.49%) Azure
3 14 (4.73%) SaaS
4 13 (4.39%) GCP
5 10 (3.38%) Power Platform
6 8 (2.70%) dbt
7 7 (2.36%) AWS CloudFormation
7 7 (2.36%) Serverless
8 6 (2.03%) Amazon S3
8 6 (2.03%) AWS Lambda
9 5 (1.69%) Azure DevOps
9 5 (1.69%) OpenShift
9 5 (1.69%) Textract
10 4 (1.35%) Nutanix
11 3 (1.01%) Cloud Computing
11 3 (1.01%) Figma
11 3 (1.01%) GitHub
12 2 (0.68%) Amazon SageMaker
12 2 (0.68%) Google Analytics
12 2 (0.68%) Yammer
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.69%) Kerberos
2 4 (1.35%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (1.35%) VSAN
3 3 (1.01%) Intranet
3 3 (1.01%) VoIP
4 2 (0.68%) Unified Communications
5 1 (0.34%) Firewall
5 1 (0.34%) SD-WAN
5 1 (0.34%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 10 (3.38%) Power BI
2 8 (2.70%) Couchbase
3 6 (2.03%) Amazon Athena
3 6 (2.03%) Amazon Aurora
3 6 (2.03%) Apache Arrow
3 6 (2.03%) Apache Ignite
3 6 (2.03%) Data Lake
3 6 (2.03%) Dremio
3 6 (2.03%) PostgreSQL
4 5 (1.69%) NoSQL
4 5 (1.69%) SQL Server
5 4 (1.35%) Elasticsearch
6 3 (1.01%) PostHog
6 3 (1.01%) Tableau
7 2 (0.68%) GIS
7 2 (0.68%) MySQL
8 1 (0.34%) BigQuery
8 1 (0.34%) Data Mart
8 1 (0.34%) Looker
8 1 (0.34%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 29 (9.80%) JIRA
2 3 (1.01%) Git
3 2 (0.68%) Bitbucket
3 2 (0.68%) GitLab
3 2 (0.68%) Karma Test Runner
4 1 (0.34%) Cypress.io
4 1 (0.34%) Storybook
General
1 96 (32.43%) Social Skills
2 83 (28.04%) Finance
3 54 (18.24%) Analytical Skills
4 36 (12.16%) Public Sector
5 35 (11.82%) Marketing
6 23 (7.77%) Presentation Skills
7 22 (7.43%) Front Office
8 18 (6.08%) Banking
8 18 (6.08%) Influencing Skills
9 15 (5.07%) Legal
10 13 (4.39%) Manufacturing
11 12 (4.05%) Telecoms
12 9 (3.04%) Investment Banking
12 9 (3.04%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (2.70%) Retail
14 7 (2.36%) Electronics
15 6 (2.03%) Local Government
16 5 (1.69%) Automotive
16 5 (1.69%) Games
17 4 (1.35%) Billing
Job Titles
1 112 (37.84%) Product Manager
2 40 (13.51%) Analyst
3 38 (12.84%) Product Owner
4 37 (12.50%) Business Analyst
5 28 (9.46%) Senior
6 22 (7.43%) Consultant
6 22 (7.43%) Developer
7 19 (6.42%) Architect
8 17 (5.74%) Finance Manager
8 17 (5.74%) Product Analyst
8 17 (5.74%) Product Business Analyst
9 16 (5.41%) Business Manager
9 16 (5.41%) Senior Manager
10 15 (5.07%) Finance Business Analyst
10 15 (5.07%) Financial Analyst
11 13 (4.39%) Senior Product Manager
12 12 (4.05%) Software Engineer
13 10 (3.38%) Lead
14 9 (3.04%) Data Manager
15 8 (2.70%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 9 (3.04%) CSS
1 9 (3.04%) HTML
1 9 (3.04%) Kafka
2 8 (2.70%) React
3 7 (2.36%) OAuth
4 6 (2.03%) AWS CDK
4 6 (2.03%) gRPC
4 6 (2.03%) NumPy
4 6 (2.03%) Pandas
4 6 (2.03%) Protocol Buffers
4 6 (2.03%) SciPy
5 5 (1.69%) OpenID
5 5 (1.69%) SAML
6 4 (1.35%) Elastic Stack
6 4 (1.35%) LDAP
6 4 (1.35%) Lucene
6 4 (1.35%) Node.js
7 3 (1.01%) AngularJS
7 3 (1.01%) REST
7 3 (1.01%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 78 (26.35%) Product Ownership
2 26 (8.78%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 22 (7.43%) Derivative
4 21 (7.09%) Equities
4 21 (7.09%) Fixed Income
4 21 (7.09%) Hedge funds
5 12 (4.05%) Management Information System
6 7 (2.36%) Data Protection Act
7 6 (2.03%) Distributed Systems
7 6 (2.03%) Team-Oriented Environment
8 5 (1.69%) Analytical Mindset
8 5 (1.69%) Enterprise Software
8 5 (1.69%) IoT
8 5 (1.69%) Reference Data
8 5 (1.69%) Self-Motivation
9 4 (1.35%) CMDB
9 4 (1.35%) Data Centre
9 4 (1.35%) Renewable Energy
9 4 (1.35%) Social Media
9 4 (1.35%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.36%) Linux
2 2 (0.68%) Android
2 2 (0.68%) Apple iOS
2 2 (0.68%) Windows
3 1 (0.34%) Unix
3 1 (0.34%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 168 (56.76%) Agile
2 114 (38.51%) Roadmaps
3 58 (19.59%) Analytics
4 52 (17.57%) Scrum
5 51 (17.23%) Product Roadmap
6 48 (16.22%) Problem-Solving
7 43 (14.53%) Product Strategy
7 43 (14.53%) Stakeholder Management
8 42 (14.19%) User Experience
8 42 (14.19%) User Stories
9 35 (11.82%) Decision-Making
10 31 (10.47%) DevOps
11 30 (10.14%) Continuous Improvement
11 30 (10.14%) Project Management
11 30 (10.14%) Strategic Roadmap
12 29 (9.80%) Artificial Intelligence
12 29 (9.80%) Mentoring
12 29 (9.80%) Product Backlog
13 28 (9.46%) Product Vision
14 27 (9.12%) User Research
Programming Languages
1 40 (13.51%) Python
2 33 (11.15%) SQL
3 18 (6.08%) Java
4 16 (5.41%) JavaScript
4 16 (5.41%) TypeScript
5 11 (3.72%) C++
6 6 (2.03%) Ruby
6 6 (2.03%) Scala
7 4 (1.35%) Bash
8 3 (1.01%) C
8 3 (1.01%) Data Analysis Expressions
9 1 (0.34%) C#
9 1 (0.34%) PHP
9 1 (0.34%) PowerShell
9 1 (0.34%) VBA
Qualifications
1 58 (19.59%) Degree
2 46 (15.54%) Security Cleared
3 34 (11.49%) SC Cleared
4 18 (6.08%) Master's Degree
5 11 (3.72%) Computer Science Degree
6 7 (2.36%) DV Cleared
7 6 (2.03%) MBA
7 6 (2.03%) PMI Certification
7 6 (2.03%) PMP
8 5 (1.69%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.35%) CCNP
9 4 (1.35%) PgMP
10 3 (1.01%) CBAP
11 2 (0.68%) Azure Certification
11 2 (0.68%) CSPO
11 2 (0.68%) DBS Check
11 2 (0.68%) PhD
11 2 (0.68%) PRINCE2 Certification
12 1 (0.34%) CCIP
12 1 (0.34%) ITIL Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 15 (5.07%) Accessibility
2 13 (4.39%) QA
3 5 (1.69%) SLA
4 3 (1.01%) Disclosure Scotland
5 2 (0.68%) GDPR
5 2 (0.68%) PCI DSS
5 2 (0.68%) PMO
6 1 (0.34%) Def Stans
6 1 (0.34%) Government Security Classifications
6 1 (0.34%) GxP
6 1 (0.34%) ISO 20022
6 1 (0.34%) ISO 22301
6 1 (0.34%) ISO 8583
6 1 (0.34%) ISO/IEC 27001
6 1 (0.34%) NCSC
6 1 (0.34%) NIST
6 1 (0.34%) NIST 800
6 1 (0.34%) PSD2
6 1 (0.34%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 9 (3.04%) VMware Infrastructure
2 7 (2.36%) Docker
3 6 (2.03%) Active Directory
4 4 (1.35%) Hyper-V
4 4 (1.35%) KVM
4 4 (1.35%) Virtual Servers
4 4 (1.35%) VMware NSX
4 4 (1.35%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 7 (2.36%) Kubernetes
2 6 (2.03%) Grafana
3 5 (1.69%) PingFederate
4 4 (1.35%) vRealize Orchestrator
5 2 (0.68%) Terraform
6 1 (0.34%) Bugsnag
6 1 (0.34%) CASB
6 1 (0.34%) Matomo
6 1 (0.34%) Microsoft Intune
6 1 (0.34%) Single Sign-On
6 1 (0.34%) vRealize
Vendors
1 25 (8.45%) Microsoft
2 16 (5.41%) Oracle
3 9 (3.04%) SAP
3 9 (3.04%) VMware
4 8 (2.70%) Salesforce
5 5 (1.69%) Google
5 5 (1.69%) Ping Identity
6 4 (1.35%) Cisco
7 3 (1.01%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.68%) Adobe
8 2 (0.68%) Amplitude
8 2 (0.68%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.68%) Cadence
8 2 (0.68%) Citrix
8 2 (0.68%) ESRI
8 2 (0.68%) UiPath
8 2 (0.68%) Workday
8 2 (0.68%) Zoho
9 1 (0.34%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.34%) NCR