Product Discovery Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Product Discovery
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Product Discovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 9 July 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 Jul 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 249 171 186
Rank change year-on-year -78 +15 -
Contract jobs citing Product Discovery 4 3 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.056% 0.079% 0.063%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.066% 0.089% 0.074%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 3 3
10th Percentile £470 - -
25th Percentile £481 £506 £516
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £513 £533
Median % change year-on-year -2.44% -3.76% -
75th Percentile £585 £519 £618
90th Percentile £636 - £660
England median daily rate £588 £513 £554
% change year-on-year +14.63% -7.45% -2.64%

All Process & Methodology Skills
North of England

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 the North of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 6,030 3,365 4,035
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 84.35% 88.88% 84.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 3,630 2,171 2,413
10th Percentile £313 £268 £300
25th Percentile £403 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £490 £466 £495
Median % change year-on-year +5.16% -5.96% -1.49%
75th Percentile £588 £556 £580
90th Percentile £675 £650 £665
England median daily rate £525 £515 £525
% change year-on-year +1.94% -1.90% -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 435 190 376
10th Percentile £16.62 £12.82 £11.11
25th Percentile £22.63 £17.53 £12.55
Median hourly rate £45.00 £25.04 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +79.73% +19.23% -16.00%
75th Percentile £71.50 £48.34 £45.88
90th Percentile £80.60 £76.38 £65.18
England median hourly rate £47.00 £25.15 £38.12
% change year-on-year +86.88% -34.02% -6.07%

Product Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Product Discovery job vacancy trend in the North of England

Product Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Product Discovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Product Discovery

Product Discovery
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Discovery in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 July 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Discovery in the North of England

Product Discovery
Contract Job Locations in the North of England

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 North of England region over the 6 months to 9 July 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
North West -40 4 £500 -2.44% 1
Product Discovery
England

Product Discovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North of England 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 (25.00%) Confluence
Business Applications
1 1 (25.00%) Shopify
Development Applications
1 1 (25.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (25.00%) Public Sector
1 1 (25.00%) Retail
1 1 (25.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 2 (50.00%) Lead
1 2 (50.00%) Product Manager
2 1 (25.00%) Product Lead
Miscellaneous
1 2 (50.00%) Educational Technology
2 1 (25.00%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (75.00%) Agile
2 2 (50.00%) AI
2 2 (50.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
2 2 (50.00%) Continuous Improvement
2 2 (50.00%) Personalization
2 2 (50.00%) Product Backlog
2 2 (50.00%) Product Strategy
2 2 (50.00%) Product Vision
2 2 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 2 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
2 2 (50.00%) User Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Customer Experience
3 1 (25.00%) Customer-Centricity
3 1 (25.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
3 1 (25.00%) Decision-Making
3 1 (25.00%) Mobile First
3 1 (25.00%) Pedagogy
3 1 (25.00%) Prototyping
3 1 (25.00%) Service Design
3 1 (25.00%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 1 (25.00%) BPSS Clearance