Product Requirements Contracts in the South East

Product Requirements
England > South East

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South East 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 22 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
22 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 141 189 214
Rank change year-on-year +48 +25 +40
Contract jobs citing Product Requirements 10 9 3
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South East 0.34% 0.16% 0.054%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.37% 0.20% 0.060%
Number of daily rates quoted 3 6 3
10th Percentile £621 £395 -
25th Percentile £634 £463 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £660 £513 £525
Median % change year-on-year +28.78% -2.38% -4.55%
75th Percentile £665 £525 £556
90th Percentile - £538 £568
England median daily rate £469 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -16.67% +2.27% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
South East

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 South East.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,683 4,602 4,979
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South East 91.54% 84.21% 89.10%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,719 2,674 3,447
10th Percentile £250 £250 £248
25th Percentile £387 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £508
Median % change year-on-year -0.05% -1.43% +1.50%
75th Percentile £600 £625 £615
90th Percentile £663 £700 £700
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +1.85%
Number of hourly rates quoted 170 441 218
10th Percentile £13.48 £13.00 £16.25
25th Percentile £15.03 £18.20 £22.16
Median hourly rate £27.05 £47.50 £50.00
Median % change year-on-year -43.06% -5.00% +132.56%
75th Percentile £62.06 £62.50 £64.63
90th Percentile £75.00 £76.86 £75.00
England median hourly rate £28.75 £36.50 £36.77
% change year-on-year -21.23% -0.73% +47.08%

Product Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the South East

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Requirements in the South East

Product Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Requirements in the South East.

Daily rate trend for Product Requirements in the South East

Product Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the South East

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Requirements in the South East.

Hourly rate trend for Product Requirements in the South East

Product Requirements
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 Requirements within the South East region over the 6 months to 22 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
Thames Valley +40 7 - - 12
Oxfordshire - 4 - - 5
Berkshire +31 3 - - 5
Hampshire +28 3 £660 +67.09% 4
Product Requirements
England

Product Requirements
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South East 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:

Business Applications
1 4 (40.00%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 4 (40.00%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 1 (10.00%) AWS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (10.00%) Ethernet
1 1 (10.00%) Firewall
1 1 (10.00%) MPLS
1 1 (10.00%) SD-WAN
1 1 (10.00%) WAN
Development Applications
1 1 (10.00%) JIRA
General
1 6 (60.00%) Finance
2 5 (50.00%) Social Skills
3 4 (40.00%) Manufacturing
3 4 (40.00%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (40.00%) Product Manager
1 4 (40.00%) Project Manager
1 4 (40.00%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
1 4 (40.00%) SAP Manager
1 4 (40.00%) SAP Project Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Manager
2 2 (20.00%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (10.00%) Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Developer
3 1 (10.00%) Network Architect
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce Developer
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (10.00%) Lightning Web Components
1 1 (10.00%) REST
1 1 (10.00%) SOAP
1 1 (10.00%) Visualforce
Miscellaneous
1 4 (40.00%) Life Science
1 4 (40.00%) Renewable Energy
2 3 (30.00%) Product Ownership
3 1 (10.00%) Data Protection Act
3 1 (10.00%) Greenfield Project
3 1 (10.00%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (90.00%) Agile
2 5 (50.00%) Problem-Solving
2 5 (50.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 4 (40.00%) Asset Management
3 4 (40.00%) Critical Thinking
3 4 (40.00%) Migration
3 4 (40.00%) PRINCE2
3 4 (40.00%) Project Planning
3 4 (40.00%) Roadmaps
3 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 4 (40.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 4 (40.00%) Time Management
4 2 (20.00%) Analytics
4 2 (20.00%) ERP
4 2 (20.00%) Product Management
4 2 (20.00%) Scrum
4 2 (20.00%) User Research
5 1 (10.00%) Business Strategy
5 1 (10.00%) Customer-Centricity
5 1 (10.00%) Network Architecture
Programming Languages
1 1 (10.00%) Apex Code
Qualifications
1 1 (10.00%) CCNP
1 1 (10.00%) Cisco Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (40.00%) PMBOK
Vendors
1 4 (40.00%) SAP
2 3 (30.00%) Adobe
3 1 (10.00%) Cisco
3 1 (10.00%) Google
3 1 (10.00%) Microsoft
3 1 (10.00%) Salesforce
3 1 (10.00%) ServiceNow