Product Planning Contract Job Trends in South Wales

Product Planning
Wales > South Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in South Wales requiring Product Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 35 41 48
Rank change year-on-year +6 +7 +14
Contract jobs citing Product Planning 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in South Wales 0.35% 0.29% 0.25%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.41% 0.35% 0.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -6.80%
Wales median daily rate - £575 £600
% change year-on-year - -4.17% -6.80%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South Wales

Product Planning 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 South Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 244 283 354
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in South Wales 85.92% 81.09% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 168 142 274
10th Percentile £195 £160 £183
25th Percentile £281 £211 £276
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -5.56% -14.29%
75th Percentile £494 £550 £584
90th Percentile £638 £649 £642
Wales median daily rate £413 £425 £450
% change year-on-year -2.94% -5.56% -10.00%
Number of hourly rates quoted 26 39 20
10th Percentile £13.08 £15.42 £16.63
25th Percentile £14.23 £19.50 £21.86
Median hourly rate £17.65 £25.00 £29.83
Median % change year-on-year -29.41% -16.20% +49.16%
75th Percentile £20.75 £40.00 £53.19
90th Percentile £29.11 £50.75 £55.38
Wales median hourly rate £20.50 £25.18 £27.17
% change year-on-year -18.59% -7.31% +50.92%

Product Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in South Wales

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

Product Planning job vacancy trend in South Wales

Product Planning
Daily Rate Trend in South Wales

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Product Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in South Wales citing Product Planning

Product Planning
Contract Job Locations in South Wales

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Planning within the South Wales region over the 6 months to 14 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
Newport - 1 - -
Product Planning
Wales

Product Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in South Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform