Product Requirements Contracts in the Midlands

Product Requirements
England > Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the Midlands 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 6 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
6 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 108 130 152
Rank change year-on-year +22 +22 +32
Contract jobs citing Product Requirements 6 4 11
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the Midlands 0.31% 0.15% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.35% 0.18% 0.36%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 4 8
10th Percentile £401 - -
25th Percentile £403 £556 £231
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £563 £238
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +136.84% -46.33%
75th Percentile £428 £569 £337
90th Percentile £434 - £547
England median daily rate £475 £556 £550
% change year-on-year -14.61% +1.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Midlands

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 the Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,696 2,250 3,028
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the Midlands 87.60% 82.30% 88.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,112 1,505 2,116
10th Percentile £200 £250 £250
25th Percentile £360 £356 £370
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £475 £498
Median % change year-on-year - -4.52% +4.74%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £588
90th Percentile £650 £700 £680
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 97 170 122
10th Percentile £12.62 £11.06 £12.05
25th Percentile £13.81 £13.60 £15.13
Median hourly rate £18.20 £19.00 £18.43
Median % change year-on-year -4.21% +3.08% +5.33%
75th Percentile £24.22 £35.00 £28.69
90th Percentile £35.15 £55.00 £53.53
England median hourly rate £29.80 £36.33 £36.40
% change year-on-year -17.97% -0.18% +49.47%

Product Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the Midlands

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Requirements in the Midlands

Product Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Daily rate trend for Product Requirements in the Midlands

Product Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the Midlands

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Requirements in the Midlands

Product Requirements
Contract Job Locations in the Midlands

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 Midlands region over the 6 months to 6 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
West Midlands +18 6 £413 -26.67% 10
Product Requirements
England

Product Requirements
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the Midlands 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:

Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Chatbot
Cloud Services
1 2 (33.33%) AWS
1 2 (33.33%) Azure
1 2 (33.33%) GCP
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 2 (33.33%) Firewall
2 1 (16.67%) BGP
2 1 (16.67%) DHCP
2 1 (16.67%) DNS
2 1 (16.67%) EIGRP
2 1 (16.67%) HTTP
2 1 (16.67%) IPsec
2 1 (16.67%) Network Security
2 1 (16.67%) OSPF
2 1 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (16.67%) SSL
2 1 (16.67%) TACACS
2 1 (16.67%) VLAN
2 1 (16.67%) VPN
2 1 (16.67%) Wireless
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (16.67%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 1 (16.67%) Cypress.io
General
1 3 (50.00%) Public Sector
2 2 (33.33%) Finance
2 2 (33.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
3 1 (16.67%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
3 1 (16.67%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 2 (33.33%) Product Manager
1 2 (33.33%) Product Owner
2 1 (16.67%) Developer
2 1 (16.67%) Product Developer
2 1 (16.67%) QA Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) Senior
2 1 (16.67%) Senior QA Engineer
2 1 (16.67%) ServiceNow Manager
Miscellaneous
1 3 (50.00%) Product Ownership
2 2 (33.33%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (16.67%) Educational Technology
3 1 (16.67%) Hybrid Cloud
3 1 (16.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (83.33%) Agile
2 4 (66.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 4 (66.67%) Product Backlog
2 4 (66.67%) Product Management
2 4 (66.67%) Product Strategy
2 4 (66.67%) Scrum
3 2 (33.33%) Backlog Management
3 2 (33.33%) Business Case
3 2 (33.33%) Business Strategy
3 2 (33.33%) Change Management
3 2 (33.33%) Coaching
3 2 (33.33%) Deployment Automation
3 2 (33.33%) Epics
3 2 (33.33%) ITIL
3 2 (33.33%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (33.33%) Product Vision
3 2 (33.33%) Roadmaps
3 2 (33.33%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
3 2 (33.33%) Strategic Roadmap
4 1 (16.67%) ETL
Programming Languages
1 2 (33.33%) Python
2 1 (16.67%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (16.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (16.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 1 (16.67%) Kubernetes
1 1 (16.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 2 (33.33%) Cisco
1 2 (33.33%) Microsoft
1 2 (33.33%) Salesforce
1 2 (33.33%) ServiceNow
2 1 (16.67%) Arista
2 1 (16.67%) Google
2 1 (16.67%) Juniper
2 1 (16.67%) SolarWinds