Product Requirements Contracts in Northern Ireland

Product Requirements
UK > Northern Ireland

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in Northern Ireland 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 29 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
29 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 33 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Product Requirements 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 0.56% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.61% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £613 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £625 - -
75th Percentile £638 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median daily rate £450 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -18.18% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 163 115 143
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland 92.09% 75.66% 74.48%
Number of daily rates quoted 102 56 74
10th Percentile £162 £241 £167
25th Percentile £308 £403 £284
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £550 £419
Median % change year-on-year -22.73% +31.34% -5.90%
75th Percentile £575 £630 £532
90th Percentile £625 £675 £638
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 14 22 10
10th Percentile £13.29 - £13.70
25th Percentile £14.78 £12.25 £13.91
Median hourly rate £23.00 £15.51 £15.50
Median % change year-on-year +48.34% +0.03% +24.00%
75th Percentile £25.15 £23.54 £17.17
90th Percentile £66.03 £31.88 £18.71
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £36.13
% change year-on-year -24.66% +1.04% +40.67%

Product Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in Northern Ireland

Job postings citing Product Requirements as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in Northern Ireland.

Job vacancy trend for Product Requirements in Northern Ireland

Product Requirements
Contract Job Locations in Northern Ireland

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 Northern Ireland region over the 6 months to 29 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
County Antrim - 1 £625 - 2
Product Requirements
UK

Product Requirements
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in Northern Ireland 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:

Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) JIRA
General
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Project Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Technical Project Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
1 1 (100.00%) Capacity Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Coaching
1 1 (100.00%) Data-Driven Decision Making
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Kanban
1 1 (100.00%) Product Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Project Delivery
1 1 (100.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Sprint Planning
1 1 (100.00%) Strategic Thinking
1 1 (100.00%) Technology Roadmap