Product Requirements Contract Job Trends in the City of London

Product Requirements
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the City of London requiring Product Requirements skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 6 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 120 110 126
Rank change year-on-year -10 +16 +54
Contract jobs citing Product Requirements 5 9 4
As % of all contract jobs in the City of London 0.27% 0.46% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.30% 0.50% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 2 1
10th Percentile £463 - -
25th Percentile £550 £675 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £675 £700 £575
Median % change year-on-year -3.57% +21.74% +2.68%
75th Percentile £838 £725 £588
90th Percentile - - -
Central London median daily rate £675 £588 £575
% change year-on-year +14.89% +2.17% +2.68%

All Process & Methodology Skills
City of London

Product Requirements falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies requiring process or methodology skills in the City of London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,655 1,794 2,175
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 90.14% 91.95% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,162 1,090 1,553
10th Percentile £350 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £529 £575 £575
Median % change year-on-year -8.04% - -2.13%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £688
90th Percentile £762 £788 £800
Central London median daily rate £540 £575 £575
% change year-on-year -6.09% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 13 10
10th Percentile £20.18 £15.60 £17.00
25th Percentile £22.18 £22.00 £17.48
Median hourly rate £31.00 £42.50 £26.25
Median % change year-on-year -27.06% +61.90% -30.46%
75th Percentile £42.47 £112.00 £44.56
90th Percentile £46.05 £132.40 £74.13
Central London median hourly rate £26.11 £35.00 £27.66
% change year-on-year -25.40% +26.56% -20.99%

Product Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the City of London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Product Requirements relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London.

Product Requirements job vacancy trend in the City of London

Product Requirements
Daily Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Product Requirements.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Product Requirements

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 6 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Requirements in the City of London

Product Requirements
Hourly Rate Trend in the City of London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Product Requirements.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the City of London citing Product Requirements

Product Requirements
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the City of London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (20.00%) CMS
1 1 (20.00%) Drupal
1 1 (20.00%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe XD
1 1 (20.00%) InVision
1 1 (20.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Dynamics 365
1 2 (40.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (20.00%) Figma
2 1 (20.00%) Miro
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (40.00%) Power BI
2 1 (20.00%) Data Mart
Development Applications
1 1 (20.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (40.00%) Banking
1 2 (40.00%) Finance
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (20.00%) Front Office
2 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Programme Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Migration Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Murex Specialist
2 1 (20.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Manager
2 1 (20.00%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (20.00%) Murex MxML
1 1 (20.00%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (40.00%) Management Information System
2 1 (20.00%) Educational Technology
2 1 (20.00%) e-Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
2 1 (20.00%) Product Ownership
Operating Systems
1 1 (20.00%) Unix
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Problem-Solving
2 2 (40.00%) Business Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) ERP
2 2 (40.00%) Product Roadmap
2 2 (40.00%) Programme Management
2 2 (40.00%) Risk Management
2 2 (40.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (40.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) Backlog Management
3 1 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
3 1 (20.00%) Content Management
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Improvement
3 1 (20.00%) Data Transformation
3 1 (20.00%) Knowledge Transfer
3 1 (20.00%) Migration
3 1 (20.00%) Product Backlog
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) User Acceptance Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Validation
3 1 (20.00%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 1 (20.00%) Java
1 1 (20.00%) Python
1 1 (20.00%) SQL
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (40.00%) Databricks
1 2 (40.00%) Microsoft
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe
2 1 (20.00%) Murex
2 1 (20.00%) Oracle