Product Requirements Contracts in England

Product Requirements
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Product Requirements skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Requirements over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 480 581 588
Rank change year-on-year +101 +7 -66
Contract jobs citing Product Requirements 65 78 179
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.17% 0.15% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.20% 0.17% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 39 61 139
10th Percentile £415 £231 £413
25th Percentile £504 £463 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - +15.79%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £750
90th Percentile £690 £650 £900
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +15.79%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile - - £42.72
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £50.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.88% +12.04% -36.17%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £45.10
90th Percentile - - £48.62
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £50.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year +33.88% +12.04% -36.17%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Product Requirements is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 32,171 45,739 64,432
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 86.55% 90.26% 90.74%
Number of daily rates quoted 21,096 32,069 45,706
10th Percentile £300 £325 £330
25th Percentile £413 £444 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £535
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.80% +9.18%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £769 £744
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,236 1,617 1,773
10th Percentile £12.89 £11.00 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £16.38 £15.25
Median hourly rate £35.65 £37.50 £24.00
Median % change year-on-year -4.93% +56.25% -
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £49.25
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £63.23
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

Product Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Requirements in England

Product Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Product Requirements in England

Product Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Requirements in England over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Requirements in England

Product Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Requirements in England.

Hourly rate trend for Product Requirements in England

Product Requirements
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 Requirements within the England region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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 +119 46 £563 - 39
South East +31 9 £525 - 30
North of England +19 7 £600 - 13
Yorkshire +14 6 £600 - 7
West Midlands +29 2 £563 +3.45% 6
Midlands +16 2 £563 +136.84% 7
North East - 1 £454 - 1
Product Requirements
UK

Product Requirements
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 9 (13.85%) Confluence
2 2 (3.08%) OpenStack
Applications
1 3 (4.62%) Microsoft Excel
2 2 (3.08%) Adobe Creative Suite
2 2 (3.08%) Microsoft Office
2 2 (3.08%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 22 (33.85%) Azure
2 19 (29.23%) Azure DevOps
3 11 (16.92%) GitHub
4 9 (13.85%) AWS
5 4 (6.15%) SaaS
6 3 (4.62%) Figma
7 2 (3.08%) PaaS
8 1 (1.54%) Azure Data Factory
8 1 (1.54%) Azure Synapse Analytics
8 1 (1.54%) Collibra
8 1 (1.54%) GCP
8 1 (1.54%) Google Workspace
8 1 (1.54%) Miro
8 1 (1.54%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (3.08%) DHCP
1 2 (3.08%) DNS
1 2 (3.08%) Firewall
1 2 (3.08%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.54%) 3G
2 1 (1.54%) 4G
2 1 (1.54%) 5G
2 1 (1.54%) Broadband
2 1 (1.54%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (20.00%) NoSQL
2 3 (4.62%) SQL Server
3 2 (3.08%) Big Data
3 2 (3.08%) MongoDB
4 1 (1.54%) Azure SQL Database
4 1 (1.54%) Data Lake
4 1 (1.54%) Data Warehouse
4 1 (1.54%) HDInsight
4 1 (1.54%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 7 (10.77%) JIRA
General
1 22 (33.85%) Social Skills
2 17 (26.15%) Analytical Skills
2 17 (26.15%) Finance
3 10 (15.38%) Marketing
4 9 (13.85%) Front Office
5 7 (10.77%) Telecoms
6 6 (9.23%) Presentation Skills
7 3 (4.62%) Advertising
7 3 (4.62%) Banking
7 3 (4.62%) Legal
8 2 (3.08%) German Language
8 2 (3.08%) Manufacturing
8 2 (3.08%) Public Sector
8 2 (3.08%) Spanish Language
9 1 (1.54%) Digital Health
9 1 (1.54%) Digital Healthcare
9 1 (1.54%) Health Technology
9 1 (1.54%) Inclusion and Diversity
9 1 (1.54%) Organisational Skills
9 1 (1.54%) Publishing
Job Titles
1 19 (29.23%) Developer
1 19 (29.23%) Product Owner
2 15 (23.08%) Product Manager
3 10 (15.38%) Quantitative Developer
3 10 (15.38%) Senior
4 7 (10.77%) Senior Developer
5 6 (9.23%) Senior Quantitative Developer
6 5 (7.69%) Digital Product Owner
7 4 (6.15%) Analyst
7 4 (6.15%) Angular Developer
7 4 (6.15%) Business Analyst
7 4 (6.15%) Java Developer
8 3 (4.62%) Lead
8 3 (4.62%) Python Developer
8 3 (4.62%) Technical Product Owner
9 2 (3.08%) E-Commerce Product Manager
9 2 (3.08%) Energy Trading Developer
9 2 (3.08%) Senior Python Developer
9 2 (3.08%) Telecoms Manager
9 2 (3.08%) Telecoms Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (16.92%) NumPy
1 11 (16.92%) Pandas
1 11 (16.92%) SciPy
2 7 (10.77%) Spring Boot
3 6 (9.23%) Spring
4 4 (6.15%) AngularJS
5 2 (3.08%) .NET
5 2 (3.08%) LDAP
5 2 (3.08%) Node.js
5 2 (3.08%) OpenAPI
5 2 (3.08%) Swagger
6 1 (1.54%) HTML
6 1 (1.54%) J2EE
6 1 (1.54%) JSP
6 1 (1.54%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 24 (36.92%) Product Ownership
2 11 (16.92%) Derivative
3 4 (6.15%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.62%) Analytical Mindset
4 3 (4.62%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.08%) Blockchain
5 2 (3.08%) Client/Server
5 2 (3.08%) Clustering
5 2 (3.08%) Data Centre
5 2 (3.08%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.08%) Data Structures
5 2 (3.08%) Graphic Design
5 2 (3.08%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (3.08%) Solar Panel
6 1 (1.54%) BBC
6 1 (1.54%) EPoS
6 1 (1.54%) FMCG
6 1 (1.54%) IVR
6 1 (1.54%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (3.08%) Linux
2 1 (1.54%) Unix
2 1 (1.54%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 33 (50.77%) Agile
2 28 (43.08%) Roadmaps
3 23 (35.38%) Product Roadmap
4 22 (33.85%) DevOps
5 19 (29.23%) User Stories
6 17 (26.15%) Product Backlog
6 17 (26.15%) Product Management
7 16 (24.62%) Product Strategy
8 15 (23.08%) Analytics
8 15 (23.08%) Problem-Solving
8 15 (23.08%) Test Automation
9 14 (21.54%) Backlog Prioritisation
9 14 (21.54%) Computer Science
9 14 (21.54%) Mathematics
9 14 (21.54%) Software Engineering
10 13 (20.00%) CI/CD
10 13 (20.00%) Product Vision
11 12 (18.46%) Acceptance Criteria
11 12 (18.46%) Data Modelling
11 12 (18.46%) Market Research
Programming Languages
1 22 (33.85%) SQL
2 19 (29.23%) Java
3 16 (24.62%) Python
4 13 (20.00%) C++
5 11 (16.92%) Rust
6 3 (4.62%) C
6 3 (4.62%) JavaScript
7 2 (3.08%) Go
7 2 (3.08%) TypeScript
8 1 (1.54%) C#
Qualifications
1 19 (29.23%) Degree
2 6 (9.23%) Master's Degree
3 4 (6.15%) MBA
4 2 (3.08%) CBAP
5 1 (1.54%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.54%) Computer Science Degree
5 1 (1.54%) CSPO
5 1 (1.54%) SC Cleared
5 1 (1.54%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 7 (10.77%) QA
2 2 (3.08%) Data Quality
System Software
1 4 (6.15%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (6.15%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 7 (10.77%) Microsoft
2 2 (3.08%) Adobe
2 2 (3.08%) Google
3 1 (1.54%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.54%) Databricks
3 1 (1.54%) Virgin Media