Product Requirements Contract Job Trends in the North of England

Product Requirements
England > North of England

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North of England requiring Product Requirements skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 24 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
24 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 186 154 159
Rank change year-on-year -32 +5 +88
Contract jobs citing Product Requirements 12 11 34
As % of all contract jobs in the North of England 0.28% 0.27% 0.67%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.32% 0.76%
Number of daily rates quoted 6 10 31
10th Percentile £538 £448 £463
25th Percentile - £488 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £550 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -8.33% +23.08%
75th Percentile - £608 £625
90th Percentile - £635 £650
England median daily rate £543 £540 £600
% change year-on-year +0.56% -10.00% +0.42%
Number of hourly rates quoted 3 0 0
Median hourly rate £74.26 - -
England median hourly rate £60.00 - -

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 3,821 3,386 4,453
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North of England 88.94% 84.46% 88.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,516 1,829 2,996
10th Percentile £250 £294 £285
25th Percentile £369 £400 £405
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £469 £480 £500
Median % change year-on-year -2.29% -4.00% -
75th Percentile £559 £575 £600
90th Percentile £671 £651 £683
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 236 178 209
10th Percentile £14.75 £14.28 £15.75
25th Percentile £17.88 £18.13 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £29.00
Median % change year-on-year -28.16% +20.69% +36.47%
75th Percentile £44.26 £51.66 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.08 £70.00 £62.20
England median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.63% -9.38% +27.14%

Product Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the North of England

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

Product Requirements job vacancy trend in the North of England

Product Requirements
Daily Rate Trend in the North of England

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

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

Product Requirements
Hourly Rate Trend in the North of England

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Product Requirements.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the North of England citing Product Requirements

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 24 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
North West -17 8 £550 +5.26% 6
North East - 5 £550 - 1
Yorkshire -28 1 - - 5
Product Requirements
England

Product Requirements
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 6 (50.00%) Microsoft Exchange
1 6 (50.00%) SharePoint
2 1 (8.33%) CMS
2 1 (8.33%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (8.33%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (8.33%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 6 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (8.33%) AWS
2 1 (8.33%) GitHub
2 1 (8.33%) Microsoft 365
2 1 (8.33%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 6 (50.00%) WebEx
2 2 (16.67%) BGP
2 2 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (16.67%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (16.67%) VLAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (8.33%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (8.33%) Relational Database
General
1 8 (66.67%) Legal
2 5 (41.67%) Analytical Skills
3 3 (25.00%) Social Skills
4 2 (16.67%) Finance
4 2 (16.67%) Marketing
5 1 (8.33%) Presentation Skills
Job Titles
1 5 (41.67%) Platform Engineer
2 3 (25.00%) Product Manager
3 2 (16.67%) Network Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Administrator
4 1 (8.33%) Java Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Java Software Engineer
4 1 (8.33%) Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 6 (50.00%) XMPP
2 1 (8.33%) .NET
2 1 (8.33%) J2EE
2 1 (8.33%) JPA
2 1 (8.33%) RESTful
2 1 (8.33%) Spring
2 1 (8.33%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 8 (66.67%) Product Ownership
2 3 (25.00%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (16.67%) Data Centre
4 1 (8.33%) AI Agents
4 1 (8.33%) Marketing Technology
4 1 (8.33%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 6 (50.00%) Linux
1 6 (50.00%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 6 (50.00%) Windows
1 6 (50.00%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (75.00%) User Stories
2 8 (66.67%) Acceptance Criteria
2 8 (66.67%) Service Management
3 7 (58.33%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 7 (58.33%) ITSM
3 7 (58.33%) Knowledge Management
4 6 (50.00%) Identity Access Management
4 6 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
5 5 (41.67%) Change Control
5 5 (41.67%) Mobile Device Management
5 5 (41.67%) Performance Monitoring
5 5 (41.67%) Platform Engineering
6 4 (33.33%) Data Protection
7 3 (25.00%) Cybersecurity
8 2 (16.67%) Containerisation
8 2 (16.67%) High Availability
8 2 (16.67%) Product Management
8 2 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
8 2 (16.67%) Roadmaps
8 2 (16.67%) Virtual Infrastructure
Programming Languages
1 8 (66.67%) Bash
1 8 (66.67%) Perl
1 8 (66.67%) PowerShell
1 8 (66.67%) Python
2 1 (8.33%) C++
2 1 (8.33%) Java
2 1 (8.33%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 7 (58.33%) SC Cleared
1 7 (58.33%) Security Cleared
2 5 (41.67%) CCDP
2 5 (41.67%) CCNA
2 5 (41.67%) CCNP
2 5 (41.67%) Cisco Certification
3 2 (16.67%) Computer Science Degree
3 2 (16.67%) Degree
4 1 (8.33%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (8.33%) GDPR
System Software
1 6 (50.00%) Active Directory
2 1 (8.33%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 5 (41.67%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (16.67%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 9 (75.00%) Microsoft
2 8 (66.67%) Cisco
3 6 (50.00%) Citrix
3 6 (50.00%) Red Hat
3 6 (50.00%) VMware
4 2 (16.67%) Palo Alto
5 1 (8.33%) Google
5 1 (8.33%) Salesforce
5 1 (8.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (8.33%) Sitecore