Product Requirements Contract Job Trends in the North West

Product Requirements
England > North West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the North West 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 126 109 144
Rank change year-on-year -17 +35 +39
Contract jobs citing Product Requirements 8 6 3
As % of all contract jobs in the North West 0.34% 0.26% 0.11%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.39% 0.31% 0.12%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 6 3
10th Percentile £535 £320 -
25th Percentile - £480 £575
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £523 £600
Median % change year-on-year +5.26% -12.92% +23.08%
75th Percentile - £560 £638
90th Percentile - £588 £645
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 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 2,069 1,957 2,521
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the North West 88.84% 83.49% 88.27%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,371 1,051 1,732
10th Percentile £250 £294 £275
25th Percentile £363 £391 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £450 £475 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.26% -5.00% +1.01%
75th Percentile £575 £575 £595
90th Percentile £678 £650 £675
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 110 170
10th Percentile £14.19 £18.95 £15.98
25th Percentile £18.87 £26.81 £18.00
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.33 £35.02
Median % change year-on-year -37.63% +15.16% +40.06%
75th Percentile £50.95 £62.50 £46.18
90th Percentile £70.29 £71.71 £65.00
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 West

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

Product Requirements job vacancy trend in the North West

Product Requirements
Daily Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

Product Requirements
Hourly Rate Trend in the North West

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

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

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 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
Lancashire +3 7 £550 +243.75% 4
Manchester - 1 £525 - 2
Product Requirements
England

Product Requirements
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the North West 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 5 (62.50%) Microsoft Exchange
1 5 (62.50%) SharePoint
2 1 (12.50%) CMS
2 1 (12.50%) SharePoint Server
2 1 (12.50%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (12.50%) WordPress
Cloud Services
1 5 (62.50%) Entra ID
2 1 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (62.50%) WebEx
2 2 (25.00%) BGP
2 2 (25.00%) Firewall
2 2 (25.00%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (25.00%) VLAN
General
1 7 (87.50%) Legal
2 4 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing
3 1 (12.50%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (50.00%) Platform Engineer
2 2 (25.00%) Network Engineer
3 1 (12.50%) Administrator
3 1 (12.50%) Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (62.50%) XMPP
Miscellaneous
1 7 (87.50%) Product Ownership
2 2 (25.00%) Data Centre
3 1 (12.50%) Marketing Technology
3 1 (12.50%) Private Cloud
Operating Systems
1 5 (62.50%) Linux
1 5 (62.50%) Red Hat Enterprise Linux
1 5 (62.50%) Windows
1 5 (62.50%) Windows Server
Processes & Methodologies
1 8 (100.00%) User Stories
2 7 (87.50%) Acceptance Criteria
2 7 (87.50%) Service Management
3 6 (75.00%) Digital Transformation Programme
3 6 (75.00%) ITSM
3 6 (75.00%) Knowledge Management
4 5 (62.50%) Identity Access Management
5 4 (50.00%) Change Control
5 4 (50.00%) Mobile Device Management
5 4 (50.00%) Performance Monitoring
5 4 (50.00%) Platform Engineering
5 4 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
6 3 (37.50%) Cybersecurity
7 2 (25.00%) Containerisation
7 2 (25.00%) High Availability
7 2 (25.00%) Network Design
7 2 (25.00%) Virtual Infrastructure
8 1 (12.50%) Infrastructure Engineering
8 1 (12.50%) Product Roadmap
8 1 (12.50%) Roadmaps
Programming Languages
1 7 (87.50%) Bash
1 7 (87.50%) Perl
1 7 (87.50%) PowerShell
1 7 (87.50%) Python
Qualifications
1 6 (75.00%) SC Cleared
1 6 (75.00%) Security Cleared
2 4 (50.00%) CCDP
2 4 (50.00%) CCNA
2 4 (50.00%) CCNP
2 4 (50.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (12.50%) GDPR
System Software
1 5 (62.50%) Active Directory
2 1 (12.50%) VMware Infrastructure
Systems Management
1 4 (50.00%) Active Directory Federation Services
2 2 (25.00%) FortiGate
Vendors
1 7 (87.50%) Cisco
1 7 (87.50%) Microsoft
2 5 (62.50%) Citrix
2 5 (62.50%) Red Hat
2 5 (62.50%) VMware
3 2 (25.00%) Palo Alto
4 1 (12.50%) Salesforce
4 1 (12.50%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
4 1 (12.50%) Sitecore