Product Requirements Contract Job Trends in the North East

Product Requirements
England > North East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North East requiring Product Requirements skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 February 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Feb 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 51 41 35
Rank change year-on-year -10 -6 -
Contract jobs citing Product Requirements 5 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in the North East 1.02% 0.29% 0.32%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 1.21% 0.33% 0.38%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 1 1
10th Percentile £428 - -
25th Percentile £450 £415 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £430 £454
Median % change year-on-year +19.19% -5.29% -
75th Percentile £550 £445 -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £505 £550 £575
% change year-on-year -8.18% -4.35% +4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.26 - -
England median hourly rate £67.13 £52.50 £67.50
% change year-on-year +27.87% -22.22% +7.75%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North East

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 North East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 413 305 260
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East 84.29% 89.44% 82.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 282 169 137
10th Percentile £171 £305 £187
25th Percentile £363 £358 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £460 £475
Median % change year-on-year -2.17% -3.16% -13.64%
75th Percentile £525 £588 £580
90th Percentile £588 £655 £650
England median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 22 20 44
10th Percentile £17.88 £14.60 £11.50
25th Percentile £44.50 £15.19 £12.13
Median hourly rate £55.00 £16.50 £15.73
Median % change year-on-year +233.33% +4.90% -56.00%
75th Percentile £68.96 £46.18 £48.75
90th Percentile £72.50 - £50.00
England median hourly rate £25.77 £35.00 £35.00
% change year-on-year -26.37% - -

Product Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the North East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Product Requirements relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the North East.

Product Requirements job vacancy trend in the North East

Product Requirements
Daily Rate Trend in the North East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Product Requirements.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North East citing Product Requirements

Product Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in the North East

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Requirements in the North East over the 6 months to 12 February 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Requirements in the North East

Product Requirements
Contract Job Locations in the North East

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 North East region over the 6 months to 12 February 2026. 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
Northumberland - 3 £550 -
Tyne and Wear -16 2 £450 +4.65% 3
Product Requirements
England

Product Requirements
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North East 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 2 (40.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 2 (40.00%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 2 (40.00%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 2 (40.00%) WebEx
2 1 (20.00%) BGP
2 1 (20.00%) Firewall
2 1 (20.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 1 (20.00%) VLAN
General
1 3 (60.00%) Legal
2 2 (40.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (20.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineer
1 2 (40.00%) Product Owner
2 1 (20.00%) Network Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (40.00%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 5 (100.00%) Product Ownership
2 1 (20.00%) Data Centre
Operating Systems
1 2 (40.00%) Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 2 (40.00%) Windows
1 2 (40.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 5 (100.00%) User Stories
2 4 (80.00%) Performance Monitoring
3 3 (60.00%) ITSM
3 3 (60.00%) Knowledge Management
3 3 (60.00%) Service Management
4 2 (40.00%) Analytics
4 2 (40.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 2 (40.00%) Change Control
4 2 (40.00%) Decision-Making
4 2 (40.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
4 2 (40.00%) Identity Access Management
4 2 (40.00%) Mobile Device Management
4 2 (40.00%) Platform Engineering
4 2 (40.00%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (40.00%) Product Backlog
4 2 (40.00%) Product Roadmap
4 2 (40.00%) Product Vision
4 2 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
4 2 (40.00%) Use Case
Programming Languages
1 3 (60.00%) Bash
1 3 (60.00%) Perl
1 3 (60.00%) PowerShell
1 3 (60.00%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (80.00%) SC Cleared
1 4 (80.00%) Security Cleared
2 2 (40.00%) BPSS Clearance
2 2 (40.00%) CCDP
2 2 (40.00%) CCNA
2 2 (40.00%) CCNP
2 2 (40.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (40.00%) Data Quality
System Software
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory
Systems Management
1 2 (40.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 1 (20.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 3 (60.00%) Cisco
1 3 (60.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (40.00%) Citrix
2 2 (40.00%) Red Hat
2 2 (40.00%) VMware
3 1 (20.00%) Palo Alto