Minimum Viable Product Contract Job Trends in the South West

Minimum Viable Product
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Minimum Viable Product skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 28 December 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Dec 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 126 126 -
Rank change year-on-year 0 - -
Contract jobs citing Minimum Viable Product 3 1 0
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.13% 0.049% -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.055% -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 1 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £493 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £400 -
Median % change year-on-year +25.00% - -
75th Percentile £508 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £492 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -6.29% -12.50% +9.09%

All Process & 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 1,981 1,802 2,532
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 83.03% 87.52% 85.95%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,158 1,106 1,660
10th Percentile £263 £265 £294
25th Percentile £413 £414 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £734 £720
England median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 306 116 274
10th Percentile £15.60 £18.36 £20.33
25th Percentile £20.40 £44.69 £45.00
Median hourly rate £33.50 £65.00 £60.00
Median % change year-on-year -48.46% +8.33% -7.69%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.75 £70.00
90th Percentile £67.25 £74.22 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £35.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -28.14% -21.35% +25.64%

Minimum Viable Product
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Minimum Viable Product job vacancy trend in the South West

Minimum Viable Product
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Minimum Viable Product.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Minimum Viable Product

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 28 December 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
Devon +10 2 - -
Bristol - 1 £500 -
Minimum Viable Product
England

Minimum Viable Product
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the South West 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 2 (66.67%) AWS
1 2 (66.67%) Serverless
Development Applications
1 3 (100.00%) Cypress.io
1 3 (100.00%) Postman
2 1 (33.33%) REST Assured
2 1 (33.33%) Selenium
General
1 2 (66.67%) Military
1 2 (66.67%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 2 (66.67%) Senior
1 2 (66.67%) Senior Test Engineer
1 2 (66.67%) Test Engineer
2 1 (33.33%) Analyst
2 1 (33.33%) Test Analyst
Miscellaneous
1 2 (66.67%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 3 (100.00%) Agile
1 3 (100.00%) Test Automation
2 2 (66.67%) API Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Defect Management
2 2 (66.67%) End-to-End Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Load Testing
2 2 (66.67%) Test Planning
3 1 (33.33%) AI
3 1 (33.33%) CI/CD
3 1 (33.33%) Mentoring
3 1 (33.33%) Software Testing
3 1 (33.33%) Test Scripting
3 1 (33.33%) Test Strategy
Qualifications
1 3 (100.00%) SC Cleared
1 3 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (33.33%) QA