Product Discovery Contract Job Trends in the South East

Product Discovery
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South East requiring Product Discovery skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 21 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
21 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 174 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Product Discovery 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South East 0.027% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.031% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 - -
England median daily rate £513 £460 £538
% change year-on-year +11.41% -14.42% +16.22%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

Product Discovery 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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 3,228 3,568 4,928
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 88.66% 84.17% 89.53%
Number of daily rates quoted 2,026 2,157 3,285
10th Percentile £218 £262 £231
25th Percentile £387 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £510 £525
Median % change year-on-year -1.96% -2.86% +2.44%
75th Percentile £588 £625 £623
90th Percentile £650 £688 £700
England median daily rate £510 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.86% -4.55% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 336 181 256
10th Percentile £13.50 £16.25 £15.50
25th Percentile £16.17 £30.00 £23.12
Median hourly rate £20.71 £58.30 £53.00
Median % change year-on-year -64.48% +10.00% +49.63%
75th Percentile £38.57 £70.00 £66.25
90th Percentile £69.65 £75.00 £76.53
England median hourly rate £25.15 £41.50 £44.50
% change year-on-year -39.40% -6.74% +27.14%

Product Discovery
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Product Discovery relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East.

Product Discovery job vacancy trend in the South East

Product Discovery
Daily Rate Trend in the South East

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Product Discovery.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South East citing Product Discovery

Product Discovery
Contract Job Locations in the South East

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Discovery within the South East region over the 6 months to 21 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
Surrey - 1 £650 -
Product Discovery
England

Product Discovery
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South East 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Product Owner
1 1 (100.00%) Product Owner
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) B2C
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Customer-Centricity
1 1 (100.00%) Epics
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (100.00%) Scrum
1 1 (100.00%) Use Case
1 1 (100.00%) User Experience
1 1 (100.00%) User Research
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
1 1 (100.00%) UX Design