Product Requirements Contracts in the North West

Product Requirements
England > North West

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for Product Requirements skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Requirements over the 6 months to 17 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
17 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 136 152 178
Rank change year-on-year +16 +26 -41
Contract jobs citing Product Requirements 2 3 7
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the North West 0.075% 0.098% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.087% 0.11% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 3 7
10th Percentile £199 - £433
25th Percentile £258 £575 £481
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £355 £600 £500
Median % change year-on-year -40.83% +20.00% -
75th Percentile £453 £638 -
90th Percentile £511 £645 £515
England median daily rate £563 £550 £550
% change year-on-year +2.27% - +15.79%

All Process and Methodology Skills
North West

Product Requirements is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the North West with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,300 2,778 3,571
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 85.98% 90.31% 88.46%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,459 1,950 2,599
10th Percentile £311 £313 £250
25th Percentile £406 £413 £383
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +11.76%
75th Percentile £594 £588 £575
90th Percentile £689 £675 £650
England median daily rate £525 £550 £540
% change year-on-year -4.55% +1.85% +8.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 253 138 168
10th Percentile £10.96 £16.25 £10.63
25th Percentile £13.50 £22.60 £14.25
Median hourly rate £24.19 £35.52 £23.03
Median % change year-on-year -31.89% +54.23% +27.12%
75th Percentile £46.18 £49.24 £50.01
90th Percentile £62.50 £66.00 £75.00
England median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.00
% change year-on-year +0.69% +45.00% +7.94%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the North West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Requirements in the North West over the 6 months to 17 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 17 May 2024. 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
Cheshire - 1 £550 - 2
Lancashire - 1 £160 -
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:

General
1 1 (50.00%) Automotive
1 1 (50.00%) Finance
1 1 (50.00%) German Language
1 1 (50.00%) Presentation Skills
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity Engineer
1 1 (50.00%) Product Analyst
1 1 (50.00%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Cybersecurity
1 1 (50.00%) Project Management
1 1 (50.00%) Requirements Engineering
1 1 (50.00%) Smoke Testing
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) C
1 1 (50.00%) C++
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (50.00%) SLA