Product Requirements Contracts in the City of London

Product Requirements
Central London > City of London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the City of London requiring Product Requirements skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Requirements over the 6 months leading up to 21 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 121 116 153
Rank change year-on-year -5 +37 +31
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Product Requirements 5 7 9
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the City of London 0.27% 0.34% 0.28%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.37% 0.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 4 5
10th Percentile £348 - -
25th Percentile £381 £675 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £405 £700 £600
Median % change year-on-year -42.14% +16.67% +1.27%
75th Percentile £415 £731 £650
90th Percentile - £743 -
Central London median daily rate £405 £700 £600
% change year-on-year -42.14% +16.67% -2.83%

All Process and 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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,728 1,901 2,902
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the City of London 94.27% 91.92% 90.86%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,130 1,263 1,998
10th Percentile £325 £375 £363
25th Percentile £425 £475 £475
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
75th Percentile £675 £688 £713
90th Percentile £775 £790 £820
Central London median daily rate £550 £575 £600
% change year-on-year -4.35% -4.17% +4.35%
Number of hourly rates quoted 23 16 14
10th Percentile £17.62 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £24.21 £19.79 £14.50
Median hourly rate £28.15 £26.63 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +5.73% +6.50% -42.18%
75th Percentile £50.25 £82.19 £41.24
90th Percentile £63.75 £137.50 £52.85
Central London median hourly rate £29.07 £26.78 £31.25
% change year-on-year +8.55% -14.30% -26.47%

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
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
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 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 2 (40.00%) CMS
1 2 (40.00%) Drupal
1 2 (40.00%) WordPress
2 1 (20.00%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (40.00%) Chatbot
2 1 (20.00%) Adobe XD
2 1 (20.00%) InVision
2 1 (20.00%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 3 (60.00%) Figma
1 3 (60.00%) Miro
2 1 (20.00%) AWS
2 1 (20.00%) Microsoft Purview
Development Applications
1 3 (60.00%) JIRA
General
1 3 (60.00%) Finance
2 2 (40.00%) Banking
3 1 (20.00%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (20.00%) Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Digital Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) Product Analyst
2 1 (20.00%) QA Engineer
2 1 (20.00%) Scrum Master
2 1 (20.00%) Voice Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 3 (60.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Educational Technology
2 1 (20.00%) e-Learning
2 1 (20.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (60.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (40.00%) Agile
2 2 (40.00%) Artificial Intelligence
2 2 (40.00%) Backlog Management
2 2 (40.00%) Conversational UI
2 2 (40.00%) Product Backlog
2 2 (40.00%) Prototyping
2 2 (40.00%) Scrum
2 2 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
2 2 (40.00%) User Stories
3 1 (20.00%) Backlog Refinement
3 1 (20.00%) Continuous Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Fintech
3 1 (20.00%) Infrastructure Engineering
3 1 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development
3 1 (20.00%) Problem-Solving
3 1 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Software Testing
3 1 (20.00%) Sprint Retrospective
3 1 (20.00%) Story Points
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) QA
Vendors
1 1 (20.00%) Adobe
1 1 (20.00%) Microsoft