Product Requirements Contracts

Product Requirements
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 529 625 646
Rank change year-on-year +96 +21 -70
Contract jobs citing Product Requirements 71 88 213
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.16% 0.15% 0.24%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.19% 0.16% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 43 65 165
10th Percentile £382 £244 £414
25th Percentile £481 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £700
90th Percentile £675 £650 £865
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £525 £481
% change year-on-year +4.76% +9.09% +4.05%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile - - £42.72
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £50.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.88% +12.04% -36.17%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £45.10
90th Percentile - - £48.62
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - -24.37%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,621 53,662 80,392
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 86.30% 89.91% 90.59%
Number of daily rates quoted 24,254 37,244 56,449
10th Percentile £300 £325 £340
25th Percentile £413 £438 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £525
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +7.69%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £475
% change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,437 1,746 1,925
10th Percentile £12.75 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.25 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.50 £37.30 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.83% +49.20% -
75th Percentile £59.95 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £64.32
UK excluding London median hourly rate £36.50 £36.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +1.39% +80.00% -7.24%

Product Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Product Requirements as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Product Requirements in the UK

Product Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Requirements.

Daily rate trend for Product Requirements in the UK

Product Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram

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

Daily rate histogram for Product Requirements in the UK

Product Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Requirements.

Hourly rate trend for Product Requirements in the UK

Product Requirements
Top 11 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 29 April 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 +92 66 £563 +2.27% 123
London +115 46 £563 - 43
Work from Home +106 31 £563 +2.27% 49
UK excluding London +52 21 £550 +4.76% 78
South East +25 10 £525 - 30
North of England +19 7 £600 - 15
Yorkshire +15 6 £600 - 8
Scotland +35 2 £426 -16.83% 3
West Midlands +26 2 £563 +3.45% 6
Midlands +17 2 £563 +136.84% 8
North East - 1 £454 - 1

Product Requirements
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 9 (12.68%) Confluence
2 2 (2.82%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (4.23%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (2.82%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (2.82%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (2.82%) Sketch
3 1 (1.41%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 22 (30.99%) Azure
2 19 (26.76%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (15.49%) GitHub
4 9 (12.68%) AWS
5 4 (5.63%) SaaS
6 3 (4.23%) Figma
7 2 (2.82%) Miro
7 2 (2.82%) PaaS
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.41%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.41%) Collibra
8 1 (1.41%) GCP
8 1 (1.41%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.41%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.82%) DHCP
1 2 (2.82%) DNS
1 2 (2.82%) Firewall
1 2 (2.82%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.41%) 3G
2 1 (1.41%) 4G
2 1 (1.41%) 5G
2 1 (1.41%) Broadband
2 1 (1.41%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (18.31%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.63%) SQL Server
3 2 (2.82%) Big Data
3 2 (2.82%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.41%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.41%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.41%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.41%) HDInsight
4 1 (1.41%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 8 (11.27%) JIRA
General
1 25 (35.21%) Social Skills
2 19 (26.76%) Finance
3 17 (23.94%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (14.08%) Marketing
5 9 (12.68%) Front Office
6 7 (9.86%) Telecoms
7 6 (8.45%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (5.63%) Banking
9 3 (4.23%) Advertising
9 3 (4.23%) Legal
9 3 (4.23%) Public Sector
10 2 (2.82%) Automotive
10 2 (2.82%) Electronics
10 2 (2.82%) German Language
10 2 (2.82%) Inclusion and Diversity
10 2 (2.82%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.82%) Spanish Language
11 1 (1.41%) Digital Health
11 1 (1.41%) Digital Healthcare
11 1 (1.41%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 20 (28.17%) Product Owner
2 19 (26.76%) Developer
3 16 (22.54%) Product Manager
4 12 (16.90%) Senior
5 10 (14.08%) Quantitative Developer
6 7 (9.86%) Senior Developer
7 6 (8.45%) Analyst
7 6 (8.45%) Business Analyst
7 6 (8.45%) Senior Quantitative Developer
8 5 (7.04%) Digital Product Owner
9 4 (5.63%) Angular Developer
9 4 (5.63%) Java Developer
9 4 (5.63%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (5.63%) Senior Business Analyst
10 3 (4.23%) Lead
10 3 (4.23%) Python Developer
10 3 (4.23%) Technical Product Owner
11 2 (2.82%) Head of User Experience
11 2 (2.82%) Security Engineer
11 2 (2.82%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.49%) NumPy
1 11 (15.49%) Pandas
1 11 (15.49%) SciPy
2 7 (9.86%) Spring
2 7 (9.86%) Spring Boot
3 4 (5.63%) AngularJS
4 2 (2.82%) LDAP
4 2 (2.82%) Node.js
4 2 (2.82%) OpenAPI
4 2 (2.82%) Swagger
5 1 (1.41%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 26 (36.62%) Product Ownership
2 11 (15.49%) Derivative
3 4 (5.63%) Algorithms
3 4 (5.63%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.23%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.82%) Blockchain
5 2 (2.82%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.82%) Clustering
5 2 (2.82%) Cyber Threat
5 2 (2.82%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.82%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.82%) Graphic Design
5 2 (2.82%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.82%) Solar Panel
6 1 (1.41%) BBC
6 1 (1.41%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.41%) EPoS
6 1 (1.41%) FMCG
6 1 (1.41%) IVR
6 1 (1.41%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.82%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (53.52%) Agile
2 31 (43.66%) Roadmaps
3 25 (35.21%) Product Roadmap
4 22 (30.99%) DevOps
4 22 (30.99%) User Stories
5 20 (28.17%) Product Management
6 18 (25.35%) Product Backlog
6 18 (25.35%) Product Strategy
7 17 (23.94%) Analytics
7 17 (23.94%) Backlog Prioritisation
8 16 (22.54%) Computer Science
9 15 (21.13%) Problem-Solving
9 15 (21.13%) Test Automation
10 14 (19.72%) Mathematics
11 13 (18.31%) Acceptance Criteria
11 13 (18.31%) CI/CD
11 13 (18.31%) Product Vision
11 13 (18.31%) Software Engineering
12 12 (16.90%) Backlog Management
12 12 (16.90%) Business Case
Programming Languages
1 22 (30.99%) SQL
2 19 (26.76%) Java
3 16 (22.54%) Python
4 12 (16.90%) C++
5 11 (15.49%) Rust
6 2 (2.82%) C
6 2 (2.82%) Go
6 2 (2.82%) JavaScript
6 2 (2.82%) TypeScript
7 1 (1.41%) C#
Qualifications
1 19 (26.76%) Degree
2 6 (8.45%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.63%) MBA
4 2 (2.82%) CBAP
5 1 (1.41%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.41%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.41%) CSPO
5 1 (1.41%) IIBA
5 1 (1.41%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.41%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (9.86%) QA
2 2 (2.82%) Automotive SPICE
2 2 (2.82%) AUTOSAR
2 2 (2.82%) California Consumer Privacy Act
2 2 (2.82%) Data Quality
2 2 (2.82%) GDPR
System Software
1 4 (5.63%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.63%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (9.86%) Microsoft
2 3 (4.23%) Google
3 2 (2.82%) Adobe
4 1 (1.41%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.41%) Databricks
4 1 (1.41%) Virgin Media