Minimum Viable Product Contracts in England

Minimum Viable Product
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England requiring Minimum Viable Product skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Minimum Viable Product over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 471 509 553
Rank change year-on-year +38 +44 +117
Contract jobs citing Minimum Viable Product 14 33 100
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.057% 0.089% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.063% 0.10% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 7 17 78
10th Percentile £325 £380 -
25th Percentile £351 £538 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £575 £450
Median % change year-on-year -21.74% +27.78% -20.00%
75th Percentile £531 £625 £650
90th Percentile £603 £643 -
UK median daily rate £450 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -21.74% +27.78% -15.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Minimum Viable Product 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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,202 32,193 45,529
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.16% 86.56% 90.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,534 21,105 31,969
10th Percentile £310 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £445
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £675
90th Percentile £750 £750 £765
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 921 2,246 1,592
10th Percentile £14.42 £12.92 £10.87
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.01 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.07 £36.00 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -19.25% -4.00% +53.06%
75th Percentile £63.75 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Minimum Viable Product
Job Vacancy Trend in England

Job postings citing Minimum Viable Product as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in England.

Job vacancy trend for Minimum Viable Product in England

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Minimum Viable Product in England.

Daily rate trend for Minimum Viable Product in England

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Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Minimum Viable Product in England over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Minimum Viable Product in England

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Contract Job Locations in England

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Minimum Viable Product within the England region over the 6 months to 1 May 2025. 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
London +24 7 £370 -37.11% 10
South West +47 5 £638 +6.25% 1
East of England - 1 £475 - 1
Minimum Viable Product
UK

Minimum Viable Product
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 (14.29%) SharePoint
2 1 (7.14%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 2 (14.29%) Azure
2 1 (7.14%) Amazon EKS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure AKS
2 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (7.14%) DTS
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 5 (35.71%) Social Skills
2 3 (21.43%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (14.29%) Military
3 2 (14.29%) Public Sector
4 1 (7.14%) Finance
4 1 (7.14%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (7.14%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (50.00%) Analyst
1 7 (50.00%) Business Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Digital Analyst
2 4 (28.57%) Digital Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
3 2 (14.29%) Product Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Agile Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Data Modeller
4 1 (7.14%) Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Digital Product Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Python Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Implementation Manager
4 1 (7.14%) Lead
4 1 (7.14%) Product Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Product Business Analyst
4 1 (7.14%) Product Owner
4 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
4 1 (7.14%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (7.14%) .NET
1 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
1 1 (7.14%) CSS
1 1 (7.14%) HTML
1 1 (7.14%) Node.js
1 1 (7.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 1 (7.14%) Product Ownership
1 1 (7.14%) Reference Data
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (57.14%) Roadmaps
2 5 (35.71%) ITIL
3 3 (21.43%) Agile
3 3 (21.43%) Product Management
3 3 (21.43%) Requirements Management
4 2 (14.29%) Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) Business Analysis
4 2 (14.29%) Data Analytics
4 2 (14.29%) Data Management
4 2 (14.29%) DevOps
4 2 (14.29%) ITSM
4 2 (14.29%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (14.29%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (14.29%) Project Management
4 2 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
4 2 (14.29%) Strategic Thinking
4 2 (14.29%) Use Case
4 2 (14.29%) User Experience
4 2 (14.29%) Workshop Facilitation
5 1 (7.14%) Epics
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 5 (35.71%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
3 2 (14.29%) SC Cleared
4 1 (7.14%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Accessibility
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (7.14%) Data Quality
1 1 (7.14%) JSP 440
Systems Management
1 1 (7.14%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (21.43%) Microsoft
2 1 (7.14%) Informatica