Product Planning Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Product Planning
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Product Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 187 158 -
Rank change year-on-year -29 - -
Contract jobs citing Product Planning 1 4 0
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.025% 0.098% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.028% 0.12% -
Number of daily rates quoted 0 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - - -
England median daily rate £425 £425 £500
% change year-on-year - -15.00% -16.67%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

Product Planning 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 3,575 3,456 4,505
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.86% 84.27% 88.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,348 1,924 3,005
10th Percentile £263 £300 £278
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £579 £600
90th Percentile £675 £675 £675
England median daily rate £512 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.57% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 203 179 205
10th Percentile £14.13 £13.75 £15.73
25th Percentile £17.41 £16.68 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £35.00 £27.20
Median % change year-on-year -35.34% +28.68% +29.52%
75th Percentile £36.38 £51.91 £46.18
90th Percentile £64.75 £70.00 £64.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -41.51% -3.37% +41.67%

Product Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Product Planning job vacancy trend in the North of England

Product Planning
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Product Planning
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 Planning within the North of England region over the 6 months to 1 October 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
Yorkshire -20 1 - -
Product Planning
England

Product Planning
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:

Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum Master
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Management
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Computer Science
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Retrospective
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Review
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Degree
1 1 (100.00%) Master's Degree
1 1 (100.00%) MBA