Product Discovery Contract Job Trends in England

Product Discovery
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in England requiring Product Discovery skills. It covers vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 September 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 496 513 590
Rank change year-on-year +17 +77 +129
Contract jobs citing Product Discovery 18 14 6
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.064% 0.043% 0.014%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.071% 0.050% 0.016%
Number of daily rates quoted 15 5 6
10th Percentile £484 £376 £474
25th Percentile £500 £405 £511
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £460 £525
Median % change year-on-year +11.41% -12.38% +19.32%
75th Percentile £519 £575 £542
90th Percentile £545 £733 £584
UK median daily rate £513 £460 £525
% change year-on-year +11.41% -12.38% +16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Product Discovery 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 25,388 28,245 37,428
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.87% 86.25% 89.07%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,124 17,350 25,875
10th Percentile £300 £313 £315
25th Percentile £405 £423 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £645 £650
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 1,543 1,244 1,444
10th Percentile £14.41 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £20.00 £19.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.85
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% -1.94% +51.21%
75th Percentile £47.50 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £67.50 £75.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +47.06%

Product Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Discovery in England

Product Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Product Discovery

Product Discovery
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Discovery in England over the 6 months to 26 September 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Discovery in England

Product Discovery
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 Product Discovery within the England region over the 6 months to 26 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 +30 15 £500 +8.70% 37
North of England -15 3 £513 - 5
North West - 3 £513 - 4
Product Discovery
UK

Product Discovery
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 (11.11%) CMS
2 1 (5.56%) Drupal
2 1 (5.56%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (5.56%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (11.11%) AWS
1 2 (11.11%) Miro
1 2 (11.11%) SaaS
2 1 (5.56%) Azure
2 1 (5.56%) Dialogflow
2 1 (5.56%) Figma
2 1 (5.56%) GCP
2 1 (5.56%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (5.56%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (5.56%) Power Platform
2 1 (5.56%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (5.56%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (5.56%) BigQuery
1 1 (5.56%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (5.56%) GIS
1 1 (5.56%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 2 (11.11%) JIRA
General
1 8 (44.44%) Social Skills
2 5 (27.78%) Finance
2 5 (27.78%) Public Sector
3 2 (11.11%) Retail
4 1 (5.56%) Analytical Skills
4 1 (5.56%) Inclusion and Diversity
4 1 (5.56%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (55.56%) Product Manager
2 5 (27.78%) Product Owner
3 3 (16.67%) Senior
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Manager
3 3 (16.67%) Senior Product Manager
4 2 (11.11%) User Researcher
5 1 (5.56%) Architect
5 1 (5.56%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (5.56%) GCP Architect
5 1 (5.56%) GIS Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Integration Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Manager
5 1 (5.56%) Technical Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (5.56%) ADO
1 1 (5.56%) EDI
1 1 (5.56%) Faiss
1 1 (5.56%) Google JAX
1 1 (5.56%) Hugging Face
1 1 (5.56%) JAX
1 1 (5.56%) LangChain
1 1 (5.56%) PyTorch
1 1 (5.56%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 7 (38.89%) Product Ownership
2 3 (16.67%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (16.67%) Mobile App
2 3 (16.67%) Reinsurance
3 2 (11.11%) Digital Media
4 1 (5.56%) AI Agents
4 1 (5.56%) Algorithms
4 1 (5.56%) Cloud Native
4 1 (5.56%) IoT
4 1 (5.56%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 15 (83.33%) Agile
2 14 (77.78%) Roadmaps
3 9 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 8 (44.44%) Product Management
4 8 (44.44%) Product Vision
5 6 (33.33%) Product Strategy
5 6 (33.33%) User Stories
6 5 (27.78%) Backlog Management
6 5 (27.78%) Problem-Solving
6 5 (27.78%) Product Roadmap
6 5 (27.78%) Stakeholder Engagement
6 5 (27.78%) User Experience
7 4 (22.22%) API Development
7 4 (22.22%) B2B
7 4 (22.22%) Product Backlog
8 3 (16.67%) Artificial Intelligence
8 3 (16.67%) Mobile Application Development
8 3 (16.67%) PLM
8 3 (16.67%) Project Management
8 3 (16.67%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 1 (5.56%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (5.56%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Degree
1 1 (5.56%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (11.11%) QA
2 1 (5.56%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (5.56%) Google
1 1 (5.56%) OneTrust
1 1 (5.56%) Sitecore