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 16 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
16 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 304 286 285
Rank change year-on-year -18 -1 +52
Contract jobs citing Product Management 314 523 836
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.74% 0.92% 0.96%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.86% 1.02% 1.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 218 386 609
10th Percentile £404 £393 £413
25th Percentile £450 £456 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £557
Median % change year-on-year - -1.26% +11.40%
75th Percentile £675 £650 £650
90th Percentile £800 £736 £758
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% +12.70%
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% +17.89%

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 36,679 51,168 79,259
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.19% 89.82% 90.63%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,608 35,479 55,636
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £429
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £479
% change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,436 1,692 1,900
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.64 £12.50
25th Percentile £15.94 £16.10 £15.50
Median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%

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 16 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 16 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 16 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 -12 258 £550 -4.35% 364
London +17 172 £550 -8.33% 161
Work from Home +66 129 £550 -0.90% 217
UK excluding London -35 105 £550 +3.77% 215
Scotland -5 31 £478 -8.61% 16
North of England +8 20 £525 -4.55% 59
South East -31 20 £575 +9.52% 64
North West +24 17 £518 -13.75% 40
South West +10 16 £638 -1.92% 12
Midlands +19 14 £600 -9.43% 35
West Midlands +18 11 £550 -15.38% 27
East of England -3 3 - - 27
Yorkshire -6 3 £525 -4.55% 16
East Midlands +8 1 £615 -5.38% 8
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 (5.41%) Confluence
2 7 (2.23%) SharePoint
3 6 (1.91%) Apache
3 6 (1.91%) Apache Airflow
4 5 (1.59%) CMS
5 4 (1.27%) IBM Domino
6 2 (0.64%) ArcGIS
7 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Exchange
7 1 (0.32%) SAS
Applications
1 6 (1.91%) Microsoft Excel
1 6 (1.91%) 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 6 (1.91%) 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 49 (15.61%) AWS
2 38 (12.10%) Azure
3 15 (4.78%) GCP
3 15 (4.78%) Serverless
4 13 (4.14%) SaaS
5 11 (3.50%) AWS CloudFormation
6 10 (3.18%) Amazon S3
6 10 (3.18%) AWS Lambda
7 8 (2.55%) dbt
7 8 (2.55%) Power Platform
8 7 (2.23%) OpenShift
8 7 (2.23%) Textract
9 6 (1.91%) Azure DevOps
9 6 (1.91%) Cloud Computing
9 6 (1.91%) OCI
9 6 (1.91%) Oracle CX
9 6 (1.91%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
10 4 (1.27%) Amazon SageMaker
10 4 (1.27%) Nutanix
10 4 (1.27%) Rekognition
Communications & Networking
1 5 (1.59%) Kerberos
2 4 (1.27%) Cisco Nexus
2 4 (1.27%) 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 13 (4.14%) PostgreSQL
2 10 (3.18%) Amazon Aurora
3 8 (2.55%) Couchbase
3 8 (2.55%) Power BI
4 7 (2.23%) Data Lake
5 6 (1.91%) Amazon Athena
5 6 (1.91%) Apache Arrow
5 6 (1.91%) Apache Ignite
5 6 (1.91%) Dremio
5 6 (1.91%) Oracle Reports
6 5 (1.59%) NoSQL
6 5 (1.59%) SQL Server
7 4 (1.27%) Elasticsearch
8 3 (0.96%) PostHog
9 2 (0.64%) Data Mart
9 2 (0.64%) GIS
9 2 (0.64%) MySQL
10 1 (0.32%) Amazon RDS
10 1 (0.32%) BigQuery
10 1 (0.32%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 30 (9.55%) 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 98 (31.21%) Social Skills
2 77 (24.52%) Finance
3 51 (16.24%) Analytical Skills
4 38 (12.10%) Marketing
4 38 (12.10%) Public Sector
5 23 (7.32%) Presentation Skills
6 20 (6.37%) Front Office
7 18 (5.73%) Banking
8 15 (4.78%) Influencing Skills
9 13 (4.14%) Legal
10 12 (3.82%) Manufacturing
11 11 (3.50%) Telecoms
12 10 (3.18%) Investment Banking
12 10 (3.18%) Pharmaceutical
13 8 (2.55%) Retail
14 7 (2.23%) Electronics
14 7 (2.23%) Local Government
15 5 (1.59%) Games
16 4 (1.27%) Automotive
16 4 (1.27%) Billing
Job Titles
1 111 (35.35%) Product Manager
2 40 (12.74%) Analyst
3 39 (12.42%) Product Owner
4 38 (12.10%) Business Analyst
5 29 (9.24%) Senior
6 26 (8.28%) Developer
7 22 (7.01%) Consultant
8 21 (6.69%) Architect
9 16 (5.10%) Senior Manager
10 15 (4.78%) Finance Manager
10 15 (4.78%) Product Analyst
10 15 (4.78%) Product Business Analyst
11 14 (4.46%) Business Manager
11 14 (4.46%) Lead
11 14 (4.46%) Senior Product Manager
12 13 (4.14%) Finance Business Analyst
12 13 (4.14%) Financial Analyst
13 12 (3.82%) Software Engineer
13 12 (3.82%) Technical Manager
14 9 (2.87%) Data Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (3.18%) AWS CDK
1 10 (3.18%) CSS
1 10 (3.18%) HTML
2 9 (2.87%) Kafka
3 8 (2.55%) React
4 7 (2.23%) OAuth
5 6 (1.91%) gRPC
5 6 (1.91%) NumPy
5 6 (1.91%) Pandas
5 6 (1.91%) Protocol Buffers
5 6 (1.91%) SciPy
6 5 (1.59%) LDAP
6 5 (1.59%) OpenID
6 5 (1.59%) SAML
7 4 (1.27%) Elastic Stack
7 4 (1.27%) Lucene
7 4 (1.27%) Node.js
7 4 (1.27%) REST
8 3 (0.96%) AngularJS
8 3 (0.96%) Twitter Bootstrap
Miscellaneous
1 85 (27.07%) Product Ownership
2 25 (7.96%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 21 (6.69%) Derivative
4 19 (6.05%) Equities
4 19 (6.05%) Fixed Income
4 19 (6.05%) Hedge funds
5 12 (3.82%) Management Information System
6 6 (1.91%) Data Protection Act
6 6 (1.91%) Distributed Systems
6 6 (1.91%) Team-Oriented Environment
7 5 (1.59%) CMDB
7 5 (1.59%) Enterprise Software
7 5 (1.59%) Reference Data
7 5 (1.59%) Renewable Energy
7 5 (1.59%) Self-Motivation
7 5 (1.59%) Social Media
8 4 (1.27%) Data Centre
8 4 (1.27%) Onboarding
8 4 (1.27%) Public Cloud
9 3 (0.96%) Solar Power
Operating Systems
1 7 (2.23%) 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 (55.41%) Agile
2 115 (36.62%) Roadmaps
3 59 (18.79%) Scrum
4 57 (18.15%) Analytics
5 54 (17.20%) Product Roadmap
6 50 (15.92%) Stakeholder Management
7 47 (14.97%) Problem-Solving
8 46 (14.65%) User Experience
9 41 (13.06%) Product Strategy
10 38 (12.10%) Decision-Making
10 38 (12.10%) User Stories
11 37 (11.78%) Project Management
12 35 (11.15%) Product Backlog
13 32 (10.19%) Continuous Improvement
14 31 (9.87%) Mentoring
14 31 (9.87%) Product Vision
14 31 (9.87%) Software Engineering
15 29 (9.24%) Artificial Intelligence
15 29 (9.24%) Kanban
16 28 (8.92%) DevOps
Programming Languages
1 41 (13.06%) Python
2 31 (9.87%) SQL
3 21 (6.69%) Java
4 20 (6.37%) TypeScript
5 17 (5.41%) JavaScript
6 11 (3.50%) C++
7 6 (1.91%) Ruby
7 6 (1.91%) Scala
8 4 (1.27%) Bash
9 3 (0.96%) C
9 3 (0.96%) Data Analysis Expressions
10 1 (0.32%) C#
10 1 (0.32%) PHP
10 1 (0.32%) PowerShell
10 1 (0.32%) VBA
Qualifications
1 60 (19.11%) Degree
2 44 (14.01%) Security Cleared
3 32 (10.19%) SC Cleared
4 17 (5.41%) Master's Degree
5 9 (2.87%) Computer Science Degree
6 8 (2.55%) DV Cleared
7 6 (1.91%) MBA
7 6 (1.91%) PMI Certification
7 6 (1.91%) PMP
8 5 (1.59%) Cisco Certification
9 4 (1.27%) CCNP
9 4 (1.27%) 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 17 (5.41%) Accessibility
2 13 (4.14%) QA
3 5 (1.59%) SLA
4 4 (1.27%) 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 (3.18%) VMware Infrastructure
2 9 (2.87%) Docker
3 6 (1.91%) Active Directory
4 5 (1.59%) Virtual Servers
5 4 (1.27%) Hyper-V
5 4 (1.27%) KVM
5 4 (1.27%) VMware NSX
5 4 (1.27%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 10 (3.18%) Grafana
1 10 (3.18%) Kubernetes
2 5 (1.59%) PingFederate
3 4 (1.27%) vRealize Orchestrator
4 2 (0.64%) Terraform
5 1 (0.32%) Bugsnag
5 1 (0.32%) CASB
5 1 (0.32%) Matomo
5 1 (0.32%) Microsoft Intune
5 1 (0.32%) Nessus
5 1 (0.32%) Single Sign-On
5 1 (0.32%) vRealize
Vendors
1 26 (8.28%) Microsoft
2 23 (7.32%) Oracle
3 12 (3.82%) SAP
4 11 (3.50%) VMware
5 5 (1.59%) Google
5 5 (1.59%) Ping Identity
5 5 (1.59%) Salesforce
6 4 (1.27%) Cisco
7 3 (0.96%) ServiceNow
8 2 (0.64%) Adobe
8 2 (0.64%) Amplitude
8 2 (0.64%) CA Agile Central
8 2 (0.64%) Cadence
8 2 (0.64%) Citrix
8 2 (0.64%) ESRI
8 2 (0.64%) Murex
8 2 (0.64%) UiPath
8 2 (0.64%) Zoho
9 1 (0.32%) Cognizant
9 1 (0.32%) NCR