Minimum Viable Product Contract Job Trends in London

Minimum Viable Product
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London requiring Minimum Viable Product skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 373 365 346
Rank change year-on-year -8 -19 +161
Contract jobs citing Minimum Viable Product 7 7 42
As % of all contract jobs in London 0.049% 0.047% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.053% 0.052% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 5 30
10th Percentile £450 £363 £450
25th Percentile £563 £364 £563
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £650 £625
Median % change year-on-year -11.54% +4.00% +12.36%
75th Percentile £688 £688 £650
90th Percentile £695 - £715
England median daily rate £492 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -6.29% -12.50% +9.09%

All Process & Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,097 13,344 16,454
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 91.33% 90.12% 89.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,632 8,554 11,793
10th Percentile £350 £350 £350
25th Percentile £425 £450 £456
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £563
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% -2.22% -4.66%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £680
90th Percentile £756 £800 £788
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 229 165 243
10th Percentile £18.25 £18.16 £17.80
25th Percentile £24.77 £23.80 £20.01
Median hourly rate £31.49 £36.50 £32.50
Median % change year-on-year -13.73% +12.31% -16.13%
75th Percentile £53.13 £55.25 £58.75
90th Percentile £67.91 £80.75 £73.75
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%

Minimum Viable Product
Job Vacancy Trend in London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Minimum Viable Product relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in London.

Minimum Viable Product job vacancy trend in London

Minimum Viable Product
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Minimum Viable Product
Daily Rate Histogram in London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Minimum Viable Product in London over the 6 months to 28 December 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Minimum Viable Product in London

Minimum Viable Product
Contract Job Locations in London

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 London region over the 6 months to 28 December 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
Central London - 2 £380 - 5
Minimum Viable Product
England

Minimum Viable Product
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in London by Category

The following tables expand on the one above by listing co-occurrences grouped by category. They cover the same employment type, locality and period, with up to 20 co-occurrences shown in each category:

Application Platforms
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 2 (28.57%) Akamai
1 2 (28.57%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 2 (28.57%) DHCP
1 2 (28.57%) DNS
1 2 (28.57%) Firewall
1 2 (28.57%) LAN
1 2 (28.57%) NetScaler
1 2 (28.57%) SD-WAN
1 2 (28.57%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Banking
2 1 (14.29%) Finance
2 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (14.29%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (28.57%) Consultant
1 2 (28.57%) Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Python Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Python Developer
1 2 (28.57%) Senior
1 2 (28.57%) Technical Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Cisco Technical Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Product Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Product Owner
2 1 (14.29%) Digital Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Network Consultant
2 1 (14.29%) Product Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Full-Stack Developer
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Project Manager
2 1 (14.29%) Senior Python Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) AngularJS
1 2 (28.57%) CSS
1 2 (28.57%) HTML
1 2 (28.57%) React
Miscellaneous
1 3 (42.86%) Product Ownership
2 2 (28.57%) Data Centre
2 2 (28.57%) Hybrid Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (71.43%) Agile
1 5 (71.43%) Roadmaps
2 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
3 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (28.57%) AI
4 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
4 2 (28.57%) Containerisation
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Delivery
4 2 (28.57%) Continuous Improvement
4 2 (28.57%) Creative Thinking
4 2 (28.57%) Design Patterns
4 2 (28.57%) Full-Stack Development
4 2 (28.57%) High Availability
4 2 (28.57%) Objectives and Key Results
4 2 (28.57%) Product Management
4 2 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (28.57%) SDLC
4 2 (28.57%) Technical Debt
4 2 (28.57%) Zero Trust
5 1 (14.29%) Customer-Centricity
Programming Languages
1 4 (57.14%) Python
2 2 (28.57%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) SC Cleared
1 1 (14.29%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 2 (28.57%) Ansible
1 2 (28.57%) Terraform
Vendors
1 2 (28.57%) Cisco
1 2 (28.57%) Citrix
1 2 (28.57%) Infoblox
1 2 (28.57%) Meraki
1 2 (28.57%) Nokia
1 2 (28.57%) Zscaler
2 1 (14.29%) CA Agile Central
2 1 (14.29%) Microsoft