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

6 months to
24 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 496 604 615
Rank change year-on-year +108 +11 -13
Contract jobs citing Product Requirements 73 91 219
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.17% 0.16% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.18% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 71 168
10th Percentile £329 £450 £413
25th Percentile £500 £486 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year - - +15.79%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £735
90th Percentile £675 £650 £858
UK excluding London median daily rate £550 £550 £463
% change year-on-year - +18.92% +2.78%
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% -37.50%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £45.10
90th Percentile - - £48.62
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - £45.00
% change year-on-year - - -34.78%

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 36,577 50,687 79,377
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.85% 89.72% 90.62%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,572 35,094 55,727
10th Percentile £300 £325 £345
25th Percentile £413 £438 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +8.08%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £738
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £485
% change year-on-year - +3.09% +9.98%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,481 1,678 1,891
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.73 £15.63
Median hourly rate £36.05 £36.13 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year -0.22% +40.67% +8.70%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.75
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
% change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -4.99%

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 24 May 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 24 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 +96 69 £556 -1.11% 138
London +102 45 £569 +1.11% 56
Work from Home +103 29 £563 +2.32% 71
UK excluding London +32 25 £550 - 97
North of England +22 10 £550 -8.33% 8
South East +20 9 £513 -2.38% 44
Yorkshire +2 7 £588 -2.08% 3
Midlands +29 4 £563 +136.84% 11
West Midlands +17 4 £563 +3.45% 6
North West +31 3 £525 -12.50% 5
Scotland +24 2 £426 -14.11% 6

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 10 (13.70%) Confluence
2 2 (2.74%) OpenStack
3 1 (1.37%) Cloud Foundry
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.37%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.37%) Trello
Business Applications
1 1 (1.37%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 26 (35.62%) Azure
2 19 (26.03%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (15.07%) AWS
3 11 (15.07%) GitHub
4 3 (4.11%) Power Platform
4 3 (4.11%) SaaS
5 2 (2.74%) Miro
5 2 (2.74%) PaaS
6 1 (1.37%) Azure Data Factory
6 1 (1.37%) Azure Synapse Analytics
6 1 (1.37%) Collibra
6 1 (1.37%) Figma
6 1 (1.37%) GCP
6 1 (1.37%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.37%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.74%) DHCP
1 2 (2.74%) DNS
1 2 (2.74%) Firewall
1 2 (2.74%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.37%) 3G
2 1 (1.37%) 4G
2 1 (1.37%) 5G
2 1 (1.37%) Broadband
2 1 (1.37%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.81%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.48%) Tableau
3 3 (4.11%) Power BI
4 2 (2.74%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.74%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.37%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.37%) Big Data
5 1 (1.37%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.37%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.37%) HDInsight
5 1 (1.37%) Oracle Reports
Development Applications
1 11 (15.07%) JIRA
2 1 (1.37%) Appium
2 1 (1.37%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (1.37%) XCUITest
General
1 24 (32.88%) Social Skills
2 23 (31.51%) Finance
3 14 (19.18%) Analytical Skills
4 10 (13.70%) Marketing
5 9 (12.33%) Front Office
6 7 (9.59%) Telecoms
7 6 (8.22%) Presentation Skills
8 5 (6.85%) Public Sector
9 4 (5.48%) Banking
9 4 (5.48%) German Language
10 3 (4.11%) Advertising
10 3 (4.11%) Legal
11 2 (2.74%) Automotive
11 2 (2.74%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 2 (2.74%) Manufacturing
11 2 (2.74%) Spanish Language
12 1 (1.37%) Digital Health
12 1 (1.37%) Digital Healthcare
12 1 (1.37%) French Language
12 1 (1.37%) Health Technology
Job Titles
1 23 (31.51%) Product Owner
2 20 (27.40%) Developer
3 13 (17.81%) Product Manager
4 11 (15.07%) Senior
5 10 (13.70%) Analyst
5 10 (13.70%) Quantitative Developer
6 7 (9.59%) Business Analyst
7 6 (8.22%) Senior Developer
7 6 (8.22%) Senior Quantitative Developer
8 5 (6.85%) Digital Product Owner
9 4 (5.48%) Angular Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Data Analyst
9 4 (5.48%) Java Developer
9 4 (5.48%) Lead
9 4 (5.48%) Lead Product Owner
9 4 (5.48%) Senior Analyst
9 4 (5.48%) Senior Business Analyst
10 3 (4.11%) Product Analyst
10 3 (4.11%) Python Developer
10 3 (4.11%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (15.07%) NumPy
1 11 (15.07%) Pandas
1 11 (15.07%) SciPy
2 6 (8.22%) Spring Boot
3 5 (6.85%) Spring
4 4 (5.48%) AngularJS
5 3 (4.11%) .NET
5 3 (4.11%) Node.js
6 2 (2.74%) HTML
6 2 (2.74%) J2EE
6 2 (2.74%) JSP
6 2 (2.74%) LDAP
6 2 (2.74%) OpenAPI
6 2 (2.74%) Swagger
6 2 (2.74%) XML
7 1 (1.37%) Jest
7 1 (1.37%) Oracle Fusion
Miscellaneous
1 27 (36.99%) Product Ownership
2 11 (15.07%) Derivative
3 5 (6.85%) Management Information System
4 4 (5.48%) Data Protection Act
5 3 (4.11%) Algorithms
6 2 (2.74%) Analytical Mindset
6 2 (2.74%) Blockchain
6 2 (2.74%) Client/Server
6 2 (2.74%) Clustering
6 2 (2.74%) Data Centre
6 2 (2.74%) Data Structures
6 2 (2.74%) Renewable Energy
6 2 (2.74%) Solar Panel
7 1 (1.37%) EPoS
7 1 (1.37%) FMCG
7 1 (1.37%) IVR
7 1 (1.37%) Legacy Systems
7 1 (1.37%) Mobile App
7 1 (1.37%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.74%) Linux
1 2 (2.74%) Unix
1 2 (2.74%) Windows
2 1 (1.37%) Android
2 1 (1.37%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 41 (56.16%) Agile
2 35 (47.95%) Roadmaps
3 25 (34.25%) DevOps
4 23 (31.51%) Product Roadmap
5 21 (28.77%) User Stories
6 20 (27.40%) Computer Science
6 20 (27.40%) Product Management
7 18 (24.66%) Product Backlog
7 18 (24.66%) Product Strategy
8 17 (23.29%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 16 (21.92%) Product Vision
9 16 (21.92%) Test Automation
10 15 (20.55%) Analytics
10 15 (20.55%) Data Modelling
11 14 (19.18%) Mathematics
11 14 (19.18%) Problem-Solving
11 14 (19.18%) Software Engineering
12 13 (17.81%) Acceptance Criteria
12 13 (17.81%) Backlog Management
12 13 (17.81%) CI/CD
Programming Languages
1 24 (32.88%) SQL
2 20 (27.40%) Java
3 18 (24.66%) Python
4 15 (20.55%) C++
5 11 (15.07%) Rust
6 6 (8.22%) C
7 4 (5.48%) JavaScript
8 2 (2.74%) Go
8 2 (2.74%) TypeScript
9 1 (1.37%) C#
9 1 (1.37%) Kotlin
9 1 (1.37%) Swift
Qualifications
1 23 (31.51%) Degree
2 9 (12.33%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.48%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.48%) MBA
4 2 (2.74%) CBAP
5 1 (1.37%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.37%) CSPO
5 1 (1.37%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.85%) QA
2 1 (1.37%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.37%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (5.48%) Docker
Systems Management
1 5 (6.85%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.37%) Kibana
Vendors
1 4 (5.48%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.74%) Google
3 1 (1.37%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.37%) Databricks
3 1 (1.37%) Dynatrace
3 1 (1.37%) Oracle
3 1 (1.37%) SAP
3 1 (1.37%) Virgin Media