Product Requirements Contracts in the City of London

Product Requirements
Central London > City of London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London with a requirement for Product Requirements skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Requirements over the 6 months to 29 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
29 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 115 170 173
Rank change year-on-year +55 +3 -30
Contract jobs citing Product Requirements 11 8 19
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.50% 0.22% 0.45%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.55% 0.24% 0.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 7 17
10th Percentile £600 - £422
25th Percentile £656 £556 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £750 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% +4.35% +39.39%
75th Percentile £838 £663 £750
90th Percentile £890 £675 £813
Central London median daily rate £663 £600 £610
% change year-on-year +10.42% -1.64% +47.88%

All Process and Methodology Skills
City of London

Product Requirements 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 City of London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,001 3,346 3,882
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.50% 91.82% 91.75%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,413 2,259 2,942
10th Percentile £363 £355 £388
25th Percentile £454 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £565 £600 £575
Median % change year-on-year -5.83% +4.35% +9.52%
75th Percentile £688 £730 £675
90th Percentile £800 £825 £775
Central London median daily rate £550 £600 £570
% change year-on-year -8.33% +5.26% +8.57%
Number of hourly rates quoted 13 24 42
10th Percentile £19.13 £15.33 £18.50
25th Percentile £20.22 £18.03 £24.25
Median hourly rate £25.00 £35.00 £41.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.57% -14.63% +128.09%
75th Percentile £40.00 £58.75 £52.50
90th Percentile £48.57 £88.30 £65.43
Central London median hourly rate £27.81 £35.00 £41.00
% change year-on-year -20.54% -14.63% +105.00%

Product Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Job postings citing Product Requirements as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Job vacancy trend for Product Requirements in the City of London

Product Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Requirements in the City of London.

Daily rate trend for Product Requirements in the City of London

Product Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in the City of London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Requirements in the City of London over the 6 months to 29 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Requirements in the City of London

Product Requirements
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the City of London 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 6 (54.55%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 8 (72.73%) Azure
1 8 (72.73%) Azure DevOps
2 2 (18.18%) AWS
2 2 (18.18%) GitHub
3 1 (9.09%) GCP
3 1 (9.09%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (18.18%) NoSQL
General
1 4 (36.36%) Finance
2 2 (18.18%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Banking
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Health
3 1 (9.09%) Digital Healthcare
3 1 (9.09%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Product Owner
2 4 (36.36%) Digital Product Owner
3 2 (18.18%) Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Quantitative Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Developer
3 2 (18.18%) Senior Quantitative Developer
4 1 (9.09%) Associate Director
4 1 (9.09%) Product Management Director
4 1 (9.09%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (18.18%) NumPy
1 2 (18.18%) Pandas
1 2 (18.18%) SciPy
2 1 (9.09%) Spring
2 1 (9.09%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 7 (63.64%) Product Ownership
2 2 (18.18%) Derivative
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (72.73%) DevOps
2 7 (63.64%) Acceptance Criteria
2 7 (63.64%) Agile
2 7 (63.64%) Problem-Solving
2 7 (63.64%) Product Backlog
2 7 (63.64%) Translating Business Requirements
2 7 (63.64%) User Stories
3 6 (54.55%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 6 (54.55%) Backlog Refinement
3 6 (54.55%) Business Case
3 6 (54.55%) Creative Problem-Solving
3 6 (54.55%) Sprint Planning
3 6 (54.55%) User Acceptance Testing
3 6 (54.55%) Workflow
3 6 (54.55%) Workshop Facilitation
4 2 (18.18%) CI/CD
4 2 (18.18%) Data Pipeline
4 2 (18.18%) Probabilistic Modelling
4 2 (18.18%) Product Strategy
4 2 (18.18%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 3 (27.27%) C++
1 3 (27.27%) Java
1 3 (27.27%) Python
2 2 (18.18%) Rust
2 2 (18.18%) SQL
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Google