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 24 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 443 462 529
Rank change year-on-year +19 +67 +78
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Product Requirements 77 73 86
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.28% 0.22% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.26% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 38 45 68
10th Percentile £390 £331 £459
25th Percentile £413 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £538 £600
Median % change year-on-year -11.63% -10.42% -1.64%
75th Percentile £561 £600 £625
90th Percentile £600 £725 £650
UK median daily rate £475 £527 £600
% change year-on-year -9.87% -12.17% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 1
10th Percentile £39.65 - -
25th Percentile £42.50 - -
Median hourly rate £48.50 - £50.42
75th Percentile £51.13 - -
90th Percentile £51.95 - -
UK median hourly rate £48.50 - £50.42
% change year-on-year - - +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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 25,203 28,495 38,933
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 90.82% 85.75% 89.31%
Number of daily rates quoted 16,050 18,347 27,166
10th Percentile £300 £313 £325
25th Percentile £404 £424 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £510 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £627 £650 £663
90th Percentile £738 £751 £760
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,478 1,523 1,388
10th Percentile £14.20 £14.05 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.87 £18.06 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +56.36%
75th Percentile £50.00 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.00 £75.00 £78.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.94 £42.50
% change year-on-year -38.57% -3.67% +57.41%

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
Daily Rate Trend in England

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

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

Product Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Requirements in England over the 6 months to 24 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Requirements in England

Product Requirements
Hourly Rate Trend in England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Product Requirements.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in England citing Product Requirements

Product Requirements
DemandTrendContract 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 24 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
London +34 44 £475 -11.83% 164
South East +18 12 £625 +47.06% 66
West Midlands -6 7 £513 -8.89% 3
Midlands -9 7 £513 -8.89% 6
North of England -29 5 £525 -6.67% 12
East of England - 3 £506 - 15
Yorkshire -15 2 - - 1
North East - 2 - -
North West -9 1 £525 +0.48% 11
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 6 (7.79%) Apache Airflow
2 5 (6.49%) CMS
2 5 (6.49%) Confluence
2 5 (6.49%) WordPress
3 2 (2.60%) Drupal
4 1 (1.30%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 4 (5.19%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.30%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.30%) InVision
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.30%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.30%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (7.79%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 6 (7.79%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 14 (18.18%) Azure
2 12 (15.58%) AWS
3 10 (12.99%) GCP
4 8 (10.39%) GitHub
5 6 (7.79%) dbt
5 6 (7.79%) Vertex AI
6 5 (6.49%) Figma
6 5 (6.49%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (6.49%) Miro
7 3 (3.90%) SaaS
8 2 (2.60%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.60%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.60%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.60%) Sentry
9 1 (1.30%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.30%) IaaS
9 1 (1.30%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.30%) PaaS
9 1 (1.30%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.30%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (7.79%) Firewall
2 4 (5.19%) HTTP
3 3 (3.90%) WAN
4 2 (2.60%) BGP
4 2 (2.60%) DHCP
4 2 (2.60%) DNS
4 2 (2.60%) EIGRP
4 2 (2.60%) Ethernet
4 2 (2.60%) IPsec
4 2 (2.60%) Network Security
4 2 (2.60%) OSPF
4 2 (2.60%) SD-WAN
4 2 (2.60%) Software-Defined Networking
4 2 (2.60%) SSL
4 2 (2.60%) TACACS
4 2 (2.60%) VLAN
4 2 (2.60%) VPN
4 2 (2.60%) Wireless
5 1 (1.30%) LAN
5 1 (1.30%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 6 (7.79%) BigQuery
1 6 (7.79%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (6.49%) Big Data
2 5 (6.49%) HPCC
3 3 (3.90%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.60%) Power BI
5 1 (1.30%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.30%) PostgreSQL
5 1 (1.30%) Relational Database
5 1 (1.30%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.30%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 16 (20.78%) JIRA
2 6 (7.79%) Git
2 6 (7.79%) MLflow
3 5 (6.49%) GitLab
4 4 (5.19%) Appium
4 4 (5.19%) Selenium
5 3 (3.90%) Gradle
5 3 (3.90%) Maven
5 3 (3.90%) NUnit
5 3 (3.90%) SpecFlow
6 2 (2.60%) Charles Proxy
6 2 (2.60%) Cypress.io
6 2 (2.60%) IntelliJ
6 2 (2.60%) Katalon Studio
6 2 (2.60%) Postman
6 2 (2.60%) WebDriver
6 2 (2.60%) XCUITest
7 1 (1.30%) Bitbucket
7 1 (1.30%) MSTest
7 1 (1.30%) Visual Studio Coded UI
General
1 41 (53.25%) Social Skills
2 21 (27.27%) Finance
3 11 (14.29%) Marketing
4 8 (10.39%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (9.09%) Manufacturing
6 6 (7.79%) Advertising
6 6 (7.79%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (6.49%) Inclusion and Diversity
7 5 (6.49%) Public Sector
8 3 (3.90%) Banking
9 2 (2.60%) Back Office
9 2 (2.60%) Legal
10 1 (1.30%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.30%) Influencing Skills
10 1 (1.30%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.30%) Retail
Job Titles
1 17 (22.08%) Product Manager
2 16 (20.78%) Product Owner
3 9 (11.69%) Analyst
4 6 (7.79%) Java Engineer
4 6 (7.79%) Project Manager
4 6 (7.79%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
5 5 (6.49%) Azure Engineer
5 5 (6.49%) Business Analyst
5 5 (6.49%) Java Software Engineer
5 5 (6.49%) Scrum Master
5 5 (6.49%) Senior
5 5 (6.49%) Software Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) Azure Software Engineer
6 4 (5.19%) SAP Manager
6 4 (5.19%) SAP Project Manager
7 3 (3.90%) Digital Analyst
7 3 (3.90%) QA Engineer
7 3 (3.90%) Technical Manager
8 2 (2.60%) Configuration Analyst
8 2 (2.60%) Network Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (7.79%) HTML
2 5 (6.49%) JSON
2 5 (6.49%) XML
3 4 (5.19%) Spring
4 3 (3.90%) REST
5 2 (2.60%) .NET
5 2 (2.60%) LDAP
5 2 (2.60%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (2.60%) SailPoint
5 2 (2.60%) SOAP
5 2 (2.60%) Visualforce
5 2 (2.60%) Web Services
6 1 (1.30%) CSS
6 1 (1.30%) J2EE
6 1 (1.30%) JPA
6 1 (1.30%) OAuth
6 1 (1.30%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.30%) OpenID
6 1 (1.30%) React
6 1 (1.30%) RESTful
Miscellaneous
1 21 (27.27%) Product Ownership
2 7 (9.09%) Cloud Native
2 7 (9.09%) Marketing Technology
2 7 (9.09%) Mobile App
3 6 (7.79%) Data Protection Act
3 6 (7.79%) Digital Media
3 6 (7.79%) Life Science
3 6 (7.79%) Renewable Energy
4 3 (3.90%) Educational Technology
5 2 (2.60%) Hybrid Cloud
5 2 (2.60%) Self-Motivation
6 1 (1.30%) AI Agents
6 1 (1.30%) e-Learning
6 1 (1.30%) Greenfield Project
6 1 (1.30%) Low-Code
6 1 (1.30%) Private Cloud
6 1 (1.30%) Social Media
6 1 (1.30%) SWIFT Messaging Network
6 1 (1.30%) Virtual Team
Operating Systems
1 5 (6.49%) Unix
1 5 (6.49%) Windows
2 4 (5.19%) Android
2 4 (5.19%) Apple iOS
3 1 (1.30%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 56 (72.73%) Agile
2 31 (40.26%) Roadmaps
3 22 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
4 21 (27.27%) Problem-Solving
4 21 (27.27%) Product Management
5 20 (25.97%) Product Vision
5 20 (25.97%) Stakeholder Management
6 19 (24.68%) Scrum
6 19 (24.68%) User Stories
7 17 (22.08%) Product Strategy
8 16 (20.78%) Product Backlog
9 14 (18.18%) Analytics
10 13 (16.88%) CI/CD
10 13 (16.88%) Sprint Planning
11 12 (15.58%) Artificial Intelligence
12 11 (14.29%) Stakeholder Engagement
13 10 (12.99%) Backlog Prioritisation
13 10 (12.99%) Migration
14 9 (11.69%) Machine Learning
14 9 (11.69%) Sprint Retrospective
Programming Languages
1 11 (14.29%) SQL
2 10 (12.99%) Python
3 7 (9.09%) Java
4 5 (6.49%) C
5 4 (5.19%) C++
5 4 (5.19%) TypeScript
6 3 (3.90%) C#
7 2 (2.60%) Apex Code
7 2 (2.60%) Kotlin
7 2 (2.60%) Swift
8 1 (1.30%) JavaScript
8 1 (1.30%) Korn
Qualifications
1 6 (7.79%) Degree
2 5 (6.49%) SC Cleared
2 5 (6.49%) Security Cleared
3 3 (3.90%) Computer Science Degree
3 3 (3.90%) Master's Degree
4 2 (2.60%) ISTQB
5 1 (1.30%) BPSS Clearance
5 1 (1.30%) CCNP
5 1 (1.30%) Cisco Certification
5 1 (1.30%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 11 (14.29%) QA
2 6 (7.79%) PMBOK
3 5 (6.49%) Accessibility
4 4 (5.19%) GDPR
5 2 (2.60%) HIPAA
5 2 (2.60%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (2.60%) Docker
2 1 (1.30%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.30%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 6 (7.79%) Kubeflow
2 2 (2.60%) Kubernetes
2 2 (2.60%) Nagios
2 2 (2.60%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 15 (19.48%) Microsoft
2 8 (10.39%) Salesforce
3 6 (7.79%) Cisco
3 6 (7.79%) SAP
4 5 (6.49%) Google
5 2 (2.60%) Adobe
5 2 (2.60%) Arista
5 2 (2.60%) CyberArk
5 2 (2.60%) Juniper
5 2 (2.60%) Okta
5 2 (2.60%) SolarWinds
5 2 (2.60%) Splunk
6 1 (1.30%) Atlassian
6 1 (1.30%) Databricks
6 1 (1.30%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (1.30%) ServiceNow
6 1 (1.30%) Sitecore