Minimum Viable Product Contracts in the South West

Minimum Viable Product
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the South West requiring Minimum Viable Product skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Minimum Viable Product over the 6 months leading up to 2 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
2 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 105 149 169
Rank change year-on-year +44 +20 +8
Contract jobs citing Minimum Viable Product 5 4 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the South West 0.30% 0.13% 0.028%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.33% 0.15% 0.031%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 2 1
10th Percentile - £545 -
25th Percentile £631 £556 £538
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £638 £600 £550
Median % change year-on-year +6.25% +9.09% +15.79%
75th Percentile £644 £631 £563
90th Percentile - £635 -
England median daily rate £463 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -19.57% +27.78% -18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
South West

Minimum Viable Product 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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 1,522 2,648 3,251
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 90.33% 82.98% 89.66%
Number of daily rates quoted 966 1,690 2,398
10th Percentile £235 £220 £313
25th Percentile £400 £405 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £520 £525 £549
Median % change year-on-year -0.95% -4.37% +9.80%
75th Percentile £623 £625 £644
90th Percentile £688 £700 £719
England median daily rate £525 £525 £550
% change year-on-year - -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 146 335 334
10th Percentile £18.36 £13.86 £9.80
25th Percentile £20.61 £27.50 £17.00
Median hourly rate £63.50 £50.00 £61.50
Median % change year-on-year +27.00% -18.70% +26.16%
75th Percentile £68.00 £70.00 £70.30
90th Percentile £70.00 £77.50 £83.37
England median hourly rate £29.15 £35.96 £37.50
% change year-on-year -18.93% -4.12% +53.06%

Minimum Viable Product
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

Job postings citing Minimum Viable Product as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the South West.

Job vacancy trend for Minimum Viable Product in the South West

Minimum Viable Product
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the South West

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Minimum Viable Product in the South West.

Daily rate trend for Minimum Viable Product in the South West

Minimum Viable Product
Contract Job Locations in the South West

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Minimum Viable Product within the South West region over the 6 months to 2 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
Wiltshire +37 4 - -
Bristol +25 1 £638 +10.87% 1
Minimum Viable Product
England

Minimum Viable Product
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the South West 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:

General
1 2 (40.00%) Military
2 1 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (80.00%) Analyst
1 4 (80.00%) Business Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Digital Analyst
2 3 (60.00%) Digital Business Analyst
3 2 (40.00%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Agile Business Analyst
4 1 (20.00%) Lead
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (80.00%) ITIL
1 4 (80.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (60.00%) Requirements Management
3 1 (20.00%) Agile
3 1 (20.00%) Analytical Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Business Analysis
3 1 (20.00%) Dependency Management
3 1 (20.00%) Epics
3 1 (20.00%) Product Management
3 1 (20.00%) Project Delivery
3 1 (20.00%) Project Planning
3 1 (20.00%) Requirements Gathering
3 1 (20.00%) Risk Management
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
3 1 (20.00%) Stakeholder Management
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Roadmap
3 1 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
3 1 (20.00%) Use Case
3 1 (20.00%) Workshop Facilitation
3 1 (20.00%) Zero Trust
Qualifications
1 3 (60.00%) DV Cleared
1 3 (60.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (20.00%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (20.00%) JSP 440