Product Requirements Contracts in the North West

Product Requirements
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West 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 16 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
16 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 125 133 151
Rank change year-on-year +8 +18 +21
Contract jobs citing Product Requirements 2 2 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.10% 0.075% 0.098%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.11% 0.088% 0.11%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 2 3
10th Percentile - £199 -
25th Percentile £525 £258 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £355 £600
Median % change year-on-year +51.41% -40.83% +20.00%
75th Percentile £563 £453 £638
90th Percentile £570 £511 £645
England median daily rate £475 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -15.56% +2.27% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,762 2,284 2,778
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 90.08% 85.96% 90.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,148 1,452 1,952
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £388 £406 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £575 £596 £588
90th Percentile £663 £689 £675
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 104 252 138
10th Percentile £15.23 £10.96 £16.78
25th Percentile £22.74 £13.50 £23.15
Median hourly rate £31.88 £24.15 £36.00
Median % change year-on-year +32.04% -32.93% +52.90%
75th Percentile £63.10 £45.96 £49.49
90th Percentile £85.03 £62.50 £66.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £37.30
% change year-on-year -21.23% -2.14% +49.20%

Product Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the North West

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Requirements in the North West

Product Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

Daily rate trend for Product Requirements in the North West

Product Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Requirements in the North West

Product Requirements
Contract Job Locations in the North West

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 West region over the 6 months to 16 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
Lancashire -2 1 £550 +243.75% 10
Manchester - 1 £525 - 18
Product Requirements
England

Product Requirements
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the North West 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 (50.00%) CMS
1 1 (50.00%) Sitecore CMS
1 1 (50.00%) WordPress
General
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Developer
1 1 (50.00%) iOS Developer
1 1 (50.00%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) .NET
1 1 (50.00%) AVFoundation
1 1 (50.00%) iOS SDK
1 1 (50.00%) OpenCV
1 1 (50.00%) UIKit
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Algorithms
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing Technology
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) API Integration
1 1 (50.00%) Artificial Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (50.00%) CRM
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
1 1 (50.00%) Image Processing
1 1 (50.00%) iOS Development
1 1 (50.00%) Lead Generation
1 1 (50.00%) Performance Metrics
1 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Software Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) SOLID
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) TDD
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Swift
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) GDPR
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce
1 1 (50.00%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
1 1 (50.00%) Sitecore