Product Requirements Contracts in England

Product Requirements
UK > England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England 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 15 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
15 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 409 465 574
Rank change year-on-year +56 +109 +3
Contract jobs citing Product Requirements 58 68 73
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.24% 0.19% 0.15%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.22% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 36 44 57
10th Percentile £365 £351 £288
25th Percentile £402 £511 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +2.27% -
75th Percentile £581 £625 £625
90th Percentile £698 £675 £650
UK median daily rate £469 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -14.77% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 2 4
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £51.25 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £52.50 £67.50 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year -22.22% +33.88% +12.04%
75th Percentile £53.75 £68.75 -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £52.50 £67.50 £50.42
% change year-on-year -22.22% +33.88% +12.04%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

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 England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 22,085 31,523 43,947
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 91.23% 86.44% 90.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 14,441 20,648 30,851
10th Percentile £308 £300 £325
25th Percentile £413 £413 £448
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £673
90th Percentile £750 £750 £764
UK median daily rate £515 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -1.90% -4.55% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 936 2,245 1,554
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.89 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.00 £16.25
Median hourly rate £29.00 £36.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -20.55% -2.67% +50.00%
75th Percentile £62.63 £60.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £75.00
UK median hourly rate £28.30 £36.50 £36.40
% change year-on-year -22.48% +0.29% +41.73%

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 15 May 2025.

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 15 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 +33 30 £475 -16.48% 216
South East +48 10 £660 +28.78% 53
Midlands +23 8 £413 -26.67% 24
West Midlands +19 8 £413 -26.67% 18
North of England +13 6 £488 -15.22% 37
East of England - 4 £463 - 14
North East - 3 £440 - 3
North West +9 2 £538 +51.41% 28
Yorkshire +9 1 - - 6
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 4 (6.90%) Confluence
2 2 (3.45%) CMS
2 2 (3.45%) WordPress
3 1 (1.72%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (8.62%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Office
Business Applications
1 4 (6.90%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 4 (6.90%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 13 (22.41%) AWS
2 12 (20.69%) Azure
3 5 (8.62%) Microsoft 365
4 4 (6.90%) GCP
5 3 (5.17%) SaaS
6 2 (3.45%) Azure DevOps
6 2 (3.45%) Figma
6 2 (3.45%) GitHub
6 2 (3.45%) GitHub Actions
6 2 (3.45%) Miro
6 2 (3.45%) Power Platform
7 1 (1.72%) Azure Monitor
7 1 (1.72%) IaaS
7 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Purview
7 1 (1.72%) PaaS
7 1 (1.72%) Power Automate
7 1 (1.72%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 5 (8.62%) Firewall
2 2 (3.45%) BGP
2 2 (3.45%) DHCP
2 2 (3.45%) DNS
2 2 (3.45%) EIGRP
2 2 (3.45%) HTTP
2 2 (3.45%) IPsec
2 2 (3.45%) Network Security
2 2 (3.45%) OSPF
2 2 (3.45%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (3.45%) SSL
2 2 (3.45%) TACACS
2 2 (3.45%) VLAN
2 2 (3.45%) VPN
2 2 (3.45%) Wireless
3 1 (1.72%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (1.72%) Ethernet
3 1 (1.72%) MPLS
3 1 (1.72%) SD-WAN
3 1 (1.72%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (3.45%) NoSQL
1 2 (3.45%) Power BI
2 1 (1.72%) Azure SQL Database
2 1 (1.72%) Data Warehouse
2 1 (1.72%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 11 (18.97%) JIRA
2 3 (5.17%) Git
2 3 (5.17%) Selenium
3 2 (3.45%) Bitbucket
3 2 (3.45%) Cypress.io
3 2 (3.45%) MSTest
3 2 (3.45%) NSubstitute
3 2 (3.45%) NUnit
3 2 (3.45%) Visual Studio Coded UI
4 1 (1.72%) Balsamiq
4 1 (1.72%) Gerrit
4 1 (1.72%) SpecFlow
General
1 32 (55.17%) Social Skills
2 17 (29.31%) Finance
3 12 (20.69%) Analytical Skills
4 8 (13.79%) Public Sector
5 5 (8.62%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.90%) Manufacturing
6 4 (6.90%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (6.90%) Presentation Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Back Office
7 2 (3.45%) Influencing Skills
7 2 (3.45%) Legal
7 2 (3.45%) Marketing
8 1 (1.72%) Aviation
8 1 (1.72%) Banking
8 1 (1.72%) Financial Institution
8 1 (1.72%) Retail
8 1 (1.72%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 16 (27.59%) Product Manager
2 9 (15.52%) Product Owner
3 5 (8.62%) Analyst
3 5 (8.62%) Developer
3 5 (8.62%) Scrum Master
4 4 (6.90%) Project Manager
4 4 (6.90%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
4 4 (6.90%) QA Engineer
4 4 (6.90%) SAP Manager
4 4 (6.90%) SAP Project Manager
5 3 (5.17%) Test Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Architect
6 2 (3.45%) Configuration Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) Energy Trading Developer
6 2 (3.45%) Python Developer
6 2 (3.45%) Quantitative Developer
6 2 (3.45%) Senior QA Engineer
6 2 (3.45%) Technical Analyst
6 2 (3.45%) Technical Manager
6 2 (3.45%) Technical Project Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (5.17%) .NET
2 2 (3.45%) GraphQL
2 2 (3.45%) Jest
2 2 (3.45%) Kafka
2 2 (3.45%) NumPy
2 2 (3.45%) Pandas
2 2 (3.45%) PySpark
2 2 (3.45%) React
2 2 (3.45%) SciPy
3 1 (1.72%) AVFoundation
3 1 (1.72%) CSS
3 1 (1.72%) HTML
3 1 (1.72%) iOS SDK
3 1 (1.72%) Middleware
3 1 (1.72%) OpenCV
3 1 (1.72%) POSIX
3 1 (1.72%) UIKit
3 1 (1.72%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 18 (31.03%) Product Ownership
2 6 (10.34%) Renewable Energy
3 4 (6.90%) Life Science
4 3 (5.17%) Data Protection Act
5 2 (3.45%) Derivative
5 2 (3.45%) Educational Technology
5 2 (3.45%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
5 2 (3.45%) Greenfield Project
5 2 (3.45%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (3.45%) Solar Panel
5 2 (3.45%) Virtual Team
6 1 (1.72%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.72%) Algorithms
6 1 (1.72%) Device Driver
6 1 (1.72%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.72%) Marketing Technology
6 1 (1.72%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.72%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) Public Cloud
6 1 (1.72%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (1.72%) Apple iOS
1 1 (1.72%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (1.72%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 34 (58.62%) Agile
2 21 (36.21%) Roadmaps
3 19 (32.76%) Product Management
4 17 (29.31%) Problem-Solving
4 17 (29.31%) Scrum
5 12 (20.69%) Product Backlog
5 12 (20.69%) Product Strategy
5 12 (20.69%) Product Vision
6 11 (18.97%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 11 (18.97%) Product Roadmap
7 10 (17.24%) Stakeholder Management
8 9 (15.52%) Backlog Management
8 9 (15.52%) CI/CD
8 9 (15.52%) Test Automation
9 8 (13.79%) Artificial Intelligence
9 8 (13.79%) DevOps
9 8 (13.79%) Migration
9 8 (13.79%) Sprint Planning
9 8 (13.79%) Sprint Retrospective
9 8 (13.79%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 9 (15.52%) Python
2 4 (6.90%) Java
2 4 (6.90%) SQL
2 4 (6.90%) TypeScript
3 3 (5.17%) C++
4 2 (3.45%) Rust
5 1 (1.72%) C
5 1 (1.72%) C#
5 1 (1.72%) Shell Script
5 1 (1.72%) Swift
Qualifications
1 8 (13.79%) Degree
2 6 (10.34%) Security Cleared
3 5 (8.62%) SC Cleared
4 4 (6.90%) Master's Degree
5 3 (5.17%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.72%) CCNP
6 1 (1.72%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.72%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 8 (13.79%) QA
2 4 (6.90%) PMBOK
3 3 (5.17%) GDPR
4 1 (1.72%) Accessibility
4 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
4 1 (1.72%) NIST
System Software
1 4 (6.90%) Docker
2 1 (1.72%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.72%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 3 (5.17%) Terraform
2 2 (3.45%) Kubernetes
2 2 (3.45%) Nagios
Vendors
1 8 (13.79%) Microsoft
2 6 (10.34%) Salesforce
3 5 (8.62%) Cisco
4 4 (6.90%) Google
4 4 (6.90%) SAP
5 3 (5.17%) Adobe
5 3 (5.17%) ServiceNow
6 2 (3.45%) Arista
6 2 (3.45%) Juniper
6 2 (3.45%) Murex
6 2 (3.45%) SolarWinds
7 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
7 1 (1.72%) Rapid7
7 1 (1.72%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
7 1 (1.72%) Sitecore