Product Discovery Contract Job Trends in London

Product Discovery
England > London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in London 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 354 384 454
Rank change year-on-year +30 +70 +88
Contract jobs citing Product Discovery 15 13 5
As % of all contract jobs advertised in London 0.11% 0.080% 0.023%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.089% 0.026%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 5 5
10th Percentile £482 £376 £468
25th Percentile £497 £405 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £460 £525
Median % change year-on-year +8.70% -12.38% +19.32%
75th Percentile £523 £575 £544
90th Percentile £549 £733 £593
England median daily rate £513 £460 £525
% change year-on-year +11.41% -12.38% +19.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
London

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 London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,471 14,541 19,586
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in London 92.50% 89.20% 90.32%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,234 9,567 14,180
10th Percentile £331 £350 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £540 £550 £575
Median % change year-on-year -1.82% -4.35% -0.86%
75th Percentile £671 £675 £690
90th Percentile £775 £800 £800
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 247 185 232
10th Percentile £17.62 £17.35 £18.18
25th Percentile £25.02 £24.15 £21.19
Median hourly rate £30.50 £35.50 £37.50
Median % change year-on-year -14.08% -5.33% +5.63%
75th Percentile £47.25 £56.00 £59.06
90th Percentile £63.75 £75.00 £75.90
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £43.85
% change year-on-year -41.51% -1.94% +51.21%

Product Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in London

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Discovery in London

Product Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in London

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

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

Product Discovery
Daily Rate Histogram in London

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

Daily rate histogram for Product Discovery in London

Product Discovery
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 Product Discovery within the London 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
Central London +6 1 £410 -33.60% 5
Product Discovery
England

Product Discovery
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in London 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 (13.33%) CMS
2 1 (6.67%) Drupal
2 1 (6.67%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (6.67%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 2 (13.33%) AWS
1 2 (13.33%) Miro
2 1 (6.67%) Azure
2 1 (6.67%) Dialogflow
2 1 (6.67%) Figma
2 1 (6.67%) GCP
2 1 (6.67%) Google Kubernetes Engine
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (6.67%) Microsoft Copilot
2 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
2 1 (6.67%) Vertex AI
Communications & Networking
1 1 (6.67%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) BigQuery
1 1 (6.67%) Geospatial Data
1 1 (6.67%) GIS
1 1 (6.67%) Spatial Data
Development Applications
1 2 (13.33%) JIRA
General
1 5 (33.33%) Public Sector
1 5 (33.33%) Social Skills
2 4 (26.67%) Finance
3 1 (6.67%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (6.67%) Retail
Job Titles
1 7 (46.67%) Product Manager
2 5 (33.33%) Product Owner
3 3 (20.00%) Senior
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Manager
3 3 (20.00%) Senior Product Manager
4 2 (13.33%) User Researcher
5 1 (6.67%) Architect
5 1 (6.67%) Cloud Architect
5 1 (6.67%) GCP Architect
5 1 (6.67%) GIS Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (6.67%) ADO
1 1 (6.67%) EDI
1 1 (6.67%) Faiss
1 1 (6.67%) Google JAX
1 1 (6.67%) Hugging Face
1 1 (6.67%) JAX
1 1 (6.67%) LangChain
1 1 (6.67%) PyTorch
1 1 (6.67%) TensorFlow
Miscellaneous
1 5 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 3 (20.00%) Greenfield Project
2 3 (20.00%) Mobile App
2 3 (20.00%) Reinsurance
3 2 (13.33%) Digital Media
4 1 (6.67%) AI Agents
4 1 (6.67%) Algorithms
4 1 (6.67%) Cloud Native
4 1 (6.67%) IoT
4 1 (6.67%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 12 (80.00%) Agile
2 11 (73.33%) Roadmaps
3 8 (53.33%) Product Vision
3 8 (53.33%) Stakeholder Management
4 6 (40.00%) Product Management
4 6 (40.00%) User Stories
5 5 (33.33%) Backlog Management
6 4 (26.67%) Problem-Solving
6 4 (26.67%) Product Backlog
6 4 (26.67%) Product Roadmap
6 4 (26.67%) Product Strategy
7 3 (20.00%) Analytics
7 3 (20.00%) API Development
7 3 (20.00%) API Integration
7 3 (20.00%) Machine Learning
7 3 (20.00%) Mentoring
7 3 (20.00%) Mobile Application Development
7 3 (20.00%) Objectives and Key Results
7 3 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
7 3 (20.00%) Translating Business Requirements
Programming Languages
1 1 (6.67%) Python
Qualifications
1 1 (6.67%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Degree
1 1 (6.67%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (13.33%) QA
2 1 (6.67%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Google
1 1 (6.67%) OneTrust
1 1 (6.67%) Sitecore