Product Requirements Contracts in the North of England

Product Requirements
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North of England 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 9 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
9 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 159 175 195
Rank change year-on-year +16 +20 +44
Contract jobs citing Product Requirements 7 8 17
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North of England 0.21% 0.17% 0.30%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.20% 0.33%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 8 15
10th Percentile £419 £416 £463
25th Percentile £425 £525 £499
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year -8.70% -4.17% +23.08%
75th Percentile £575 £625 £625
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £475 £556 £550
% change year-on-year -14.61% +1.14% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North of England

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 of England.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,966 4,003 5,154
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 89.99% 85.61% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,903 2,440 3,571
10th Percentile £263 £300 £300
25th Percentile £376 £400 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £563 £588 £600
90th Percentile £650 £675 £688
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 157 362 201
10th Percentile £13.62 £11.07 £10.63
25th Percentile £18.51 £12.50 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £17.72 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year +55.19% -38.90% +55.98%
75th Percentile £58.27 £45.00 £47.00
90th Percentile £83.85 £57.50 £65.00
England median hourly rate £29.02 £36.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -20.49% -2.14% +52.24%

Product Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Requirements in the North of England

Product Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Requirements in the North of England.

Daily rate trend for Product Requirements in the North of England

Product Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in the North of England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Requirements in the North of England over the 6 months to 9 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Requirements in the North of England

Product Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Requirements in the North of England.

Hourly rate trend for Product Requirements in the North of England

Product Requirements
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 Requirements within the North of England region over the 6 months to 9 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
North West +14 3 £550 +54.93% 28
North East - 3 £440 - 2
Yorkshire +6 1 - - 9
Product Requirements
England

Product Requirements
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North of England 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 1 (14.29%) CMS
1 1 (14.29%) Confluence
1 1 (14.29%) Sitecore CMS
1 1 (14.29%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 1 (14.29%) AWS
Development Applications
1 1 (14.29%) JIRA
General
1 4 (57.14%) Social Skills
2 3 (42.86%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (28.57%) Public Sector
4 1 (14.29%) Finance
4 1 (14.29%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (14.29%) Marketing
Job Titles
1 4 (57.14%) Product Manager
2 2 (28.57%) Developer
2 2 (28.57%) iOS Developer
3 1 (14.29%) Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Business Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (14.29%) Technical Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (28.57%) .NET
1 2 (28.57%) AVFoundation
1 2 (28.57%) iOS SDK
1 2 (28.57%) OpenCV
1 2 (28.57%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 2 (28.57%) Algorithms
2 1 (14.29%) AI Agents
2 1 (14.29%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (14.29%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 2 (28.57%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (57.14%) Problem-Solving
1 4 (57.14%) Roadmaps
1 4 (57.14%) User Stories
2 3 (42.86%) Acceptance Criteria
2 3 (42.86%) Artificial Intelligence
2 3 (42.86%) Product Management
2 3 (42.86%) Product Vision
2 3 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 2 (28.57%) Agile
3 2 (28.57%) CI/CD
3 2 (28.57%) Image Processing
3 2 (28.57%) iOS Development
3 2 (28.57%) Market Research
3 2 (28.57%) Product Roadmap
3 2 (28.57%) Software Engineering
3 2 (28.57%) SOLID
3 2 (28.57%) Strategic Roadmap
3 2 (28.57%) TDD
4 1 (14.29%) Decision-Making
4 1 (14.29%) Prompt Engineering
Programming Languages
1 2 (28.57%) Swift
Qualifications
1 1 (14.29%) Computer Science Degree
1 1 (14.29%) Degree
1 1 (14.29%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (14.29%) Accessibility
1 1 (14.29%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (14.29%) Google
1 1 (14.29%) Microsoft
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce
1 1 (14.29%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
1 1 (14.29%) Sitecore