Minimum Viable Product Contract Job Trends in England

Minimum Viable Product
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Minimum Viable Product skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 487 499 534
Rank change year-on-year +12 +35 +142
Contract jobs citing Minimum Viable Product 22 20 67
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.080% 0.061% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.088% 0.071% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 9 12 54
10th Percentile £331 £366 £440
25th Percentile £375 £384 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £513 £544
Median % change year-on-year -9.76% -5.75% -1.14%
75th Percentile £494 £688 £650
90th Percentile £609 £744 -
UK median daily rate £463 £550 £500
% change year-on-year -15.91% +10.00% -7.41%

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 25,047 28,227 38,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.89% 86.02% 89.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 15,909 17,699 26,512
10th Percentile £300 £313 £319
25th Percentile £404 £425 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £508 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.33% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £648 £656
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,483 1,330 1,437
10th Percentile £14.25 £14.84 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.65 £20.00 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.33
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -0.76% +48.85%
75th Percentile £48.73 £66.58 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +46.55%

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

Minimum Viable Product
Daily Rate Trend in England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Minimum Viable Product.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Minimum Viable Product

Minimum Viable Product
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Minimum Viable Product in England over the 6 months to 14 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Minimum Viable Product in England

Minimum Viable Product
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 14 September 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 +18 11 £380 -43.70% 2
South West +26 6 £638 +24.39%
North of England -14 4 £525 +36.01% 2
North West -14 3 £600 +55.44%
Yorkshire -13 1 £450 - 2
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 3 (13.64%) Confluence
2 1 (4.55%) SharePoint
Applications
1 1 (4.55%) Microsoft Office
Cloud Services
1 4 (18.18%) Azure
2 2 (9.09%) AWS
3 1 (4.55%) Azure DevOps
3 1 (4.55%) Cloud Computing
Communications & Networking
1 2 (9.09%) VSAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (4.55%) DTS
Development Applications
1 3 (13.64%) JIRA
2 2 (9.09%) JUnit
2 2 (9.09%) Mockito
General
1 5 (22.73%) Social Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Analytical Skills
2 3 (13.64%) Banking
2 3 (13.64%) Finance
3 2 (9.09%) Military
3 2 (9.09%) Retail
4 1 (4.55%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Legal
4 1 (4.55%) Presentation Skills
4 1 (4.55%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 6 (27.27%) Analyst
1 6 (27.27%) Business Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Consultant
2 4 (18.18%) Digital Analyst
2 4 (18.18%) Digital Business Analyst
3 3 (13.64%) Developer
3 3 (13.64%) Product Manager
3 3 (13.64%) VMware Consultant
4 2 (9.09%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
4 2 (9.09%) Java Developer
4 2 (9.09%) Lead
4 2 (9.09%) Product Owner
5 1 (4.55%) Agile Business Analyst
5 1 (4.55%) Artificial Intelligence Engineer
5 1 (4.55%) Digital Product Owner
5 1 (4.55%) Digital Project Manager
5 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Full-Stack Python Developer
5 1 (4.55%) Senior
5 1 (4.55%) Service Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (9.09%) PySpark
1 2 (9.09%) REST
1 2 (9.09%) Spring
1 2 (9.09%) Spring Boot
1 2 (9.09%) WireMock
2 1 (4.55%) .NET
2 1 (4.55%) AngularJS
2 1 (4.55%) CSS
2 1 (4.55%) HTML
2 1 (4.55%) Node.js
2 1 (4.55%) React
Miscellaneous
1 4 (18.18%) Product Ownership
2 3 (13.64%) Data Centre
2 3 (13.64%) Hybrid Cloud
3 2 (9.09%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (45.45%) Agile
1 10 (45.45%) Roadmaps
2 5 (22.73%) Business Case
2 5 (22.73%) ITIL
2 5 (22.73%) Product Management
3 4 (18.18%) DevOps
3 4 (18.18%) Product Roadmap
3 4 (18.18%) Product Vision
3 4 (18.18%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (18.18%) User Experience
3 4 (18.18%) Validation
3 4 (18.18%) Zero Trust
4 3 (13.64%) Artificial Intelligence
4 3 (13.64%) Business Analysis
4 3 (13.64%) Edge Computing
4 3 (13.64%) Infrastructure as Code
4 3 (13.64%) Microservices
4 3 (13.64%) Security Hardening
4 3 (13.64%) Strategic Roadmap
4 3 (13.64%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 3 (13.64%) Python
2 2 (9.09%) Java
2 2 (9.09%) Scala
3 1 (4.55%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (31.82%) Security Cleared
2 4 (18.18%) SC Cleared
3 3 (13.64%) DV Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (4.55%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (4.55%) JSP 440
System Software
1 3 (13.64%) VMware Infrastructure
2 2 (9.09%) VMware NSX
2 2 (9.09%) vSphere
Systems Management
1 3 (13.64%) Single Sign-On
2 2 (9.09%) Ansible
2 2 (9.09%) PowerCLI
2 2 (9.09%) Terraform
Vendors
1 3 (13.64%) Microsoft
1 3 (13.64%) VMware
2 2 (9.09%) CA Agile Central
2 2 (9.09%) Databricks