Product Requirements Contracts in the UK excluding London

Product Requirements
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding 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 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 370 417 456
Rank change year-on-year +47 +39 -54
Contract jobs citing Product Requirements 24 32 53
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.14% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.14% 0.16% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 20 28 35
10th Percentile £402 £231 £402
25th Percentile £488 £463 £421
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £475
Median % change year-on-year +0.05% +15.74% +2.70%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £544
90th Percentile £625 - £575
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £45.12
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £50.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year +33.88% +12.04% -37.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding 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 UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,127 20,595 27,099
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.40% 89.52% 89.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,209 14,220 18,919
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £380 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £479
Median % change year-on-year - +4.38% +9.49%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,061 1,259 1,357
10th Percentile £12.34 £10.63 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.23 £15.25 £14.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +7.14% +75.00% -6.21%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £47.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.72 £61.50
UK median hourly rate £36.27 £35.65 £25.68
% change year-on-year +1.75% +38.82% +5.35%

Product Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Requirements in the UK excluding London

Product Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Product Requirements in the UK excluding London

Product Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Requirements in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 16 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Requirements in the UK excluding London

Product Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Requirements in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Product Requirements in the UK excluding London

Product Requirements
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Requirements within the UK excluding London region 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
South East +19 9 £513 -2.38% 28
North of England +18 9 £563 -6.25% 7
Yorkshire +7 7 £588 -2.08% 4
West Midlands +27 4 £563 +3.45% 6
Midlands +22 4 £563 +136.84% 9
Scotland +34 2 £426 -22.43% 1
North West +18 2 £355 -40.83% 3
Product Requirements
UK

Product Requirements
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding 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 4 (16.67%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (4.17%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (4.17%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 2 (8.33%) AWS
1 2 (8.33%) Miro
2 1 (4.17%) Azure
2 1 (4.17%) GCP
2 1 (4.17%) Google Workspace
2 1 (4.17%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (4.17%) 3G
1 1 (4.17%) 4G
1 1 (4.17%) 5G
1 1 (4.17%) Broadband
1 1 (4.17%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (8.33%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 8 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 5 (20.83%) Public Sector
3 4 (16.67%) Finance
3 4 (16.67%) Marketing
3 4 (16.67%) Telecoms
4 3 (12.50%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (8.33%) Banking
5 2 (8.33%) Manufacturing
6 1 (4.17%) Automotive
6 1 (4.17%) French Language
6 1 (4.17%) German Language
6 1 (4.17%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (4.17%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 9 (37.50%) Product Owner
2 6 (25.00%) Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Analyst
3 4 (16.67%) Java Developer
3 4 (16.67%) Lead
3 4 (16.67%) Lead Product Owner
3 4 (16.67%) Product Manager
4 3 (12.50%) Business Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Angular Developer
5 2 (8.33%) Product Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Senior
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (8.33%) Telecoms Manager
5 2 (8.33%) Telecoms Product Manager
6 1 (4.17%) Banking Business Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Front-End Developer (Client-Side Developer)
6 1 (4.17%) Java Engineer
6 1 (4.17%) Payments Business Analyst
6 1 (4.17%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (25.00%) Spring Boot
2 5 (20.83%) Spring
3 2 (8.33%) .NET
3 2 (8.33%) AngularJS
3 2 (8.33%) HTML
3 2 (8.33%) J2EE
3 2 (8.33%) JSP
3 2 (8.33%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 10 (41.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (12.50%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (8.33%) Management Information System
4 1 (4.17%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (4.17%) Blockchain
4 1 (4.17%) EPoS
4 1 (4.17%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 2 (8.33%) Unix
1 2 (8.33%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 21 (87.50%) Agile
2 14 (58.33%) Roadmaps
3 7 (29.17%) Data Modelling
3 7 (29.17%) Product Management
3 7 (29.17%) Product Roadmap
3 7 (29.17%) Product Vision
3 7 (29.17%) Waterfall
4 6 (25.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (25.00%) User Experience
5 5 (20.83%) Backlog Management
5 5 (20.83%) Continuous Improvement
5 5 (20.83%) Data-Driven Decision Making
5 5 (20.83%) Project Management
5 5 (20.83%) TDD
6 4 (16.67%) Analytics
6 4 (16.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 4 (16.67%) Community of Practice
6 4 (16.67%) Decision-Making
6 4 (16.67%) Epics
6 4 (16.67%) Market Research
Programming Languages
1 7 (29.17%) Java
2 4 (16.67%) JavaScript
2 4 (16.67%) SQL
3 3 (12.50%) C
3 3 (12.50%) C++
Qualifications
1 3 (12.50%) Degree
2 2 (8.33%) Master's Degree
2 2 (8.33%) MBA
3 1 (4.17%) CSPO
3 1 (4.17%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (8.33%) QA
2 1 (4.17%) SLA
Vendors
1 3 (12.50%) Microsoft
2 2 (8.33%) Google
3 1 (4.17%) Atlassian