Product Requirements Contract Job Trends in the South West

Product Requirements
England > South West

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the South West requiring Product Requirements skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 135 - 141
Rank change year-on-year - - +39
Contract jobs citing Product Requirements 2 0 4
As % of all contract jobs in the South West 0.082% - 0.14%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.100% - 0.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 0 4
10th Percentile £235 - £404
25th Percentile £288 - £410
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £375 - £438
Median % change year-on-year - - -16.67%
75th Percentile £463 - £569
90th Percentile £515 - £738
England median daily rate £529 £577 £563
% change year-on-year -8.32% +2.58% +1.35%

All Process & Methodology Skills
South West

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 West.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,006 1,719 2,457
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the South West 81.98% 88.06% 84.93%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,162 1,045 1,615
10th Percentile £263 £248 £275
25th Percentile £413 £413 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year - -4.55% +4.76%
75th Percentile £629 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £714 £725
England median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.33% -2.27%
Number of hourly rates quoted 318 106 262
10th Percentile £15.62 £18.51 £17.46
25th Percentile £20.82 £46.56 £44.44
Median hourly rate £38.94 £65.00 £59.84
Median % change year-on-year -40.09% +8.62% -2.70%
75th Percentile £65.00 £68.00 £70.00
90th Percentile £65.30 £74.22 £83.40
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -27.10% -18.82% +21.43%

Product Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the South West

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

Product Requirements job vacancy trend in the South West

Product Requirements
Daily Rate Trend in the South West

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

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

Product Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in the South West

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Requirements in the South West over the 6 months to 14 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Requirements in the South West

Product Requirements
Hourly Rate Trend in the South West

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Product Requirements.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the South West citing Product Requirements

Product Requirements
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 Product Requirements within the South West region over the 6 months to 14 January 2026. 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
Bristol - 1 £550 - 2
Somerset - 1 £200 - 3
Product Requirements
England

Product Requirements
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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Office
General
1 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
1 1 (50.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) IT Support
1 1 (50.00%) Product Manager
Operating Systems
1 1 (50.00%) Android
1 1 (50.00%) Apple iOS
1 1 (50.00%) Windows
1 1 (50.00%) Windows 10
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Acceptance Criteria
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Customer Service
1 1 (50.00%) Kanban
1 1 (50.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (50.00%) Product Roadmap
1 1 (50.00%) Product Vision
1 1 (50.00%) Roadmaps
1 1 (50.00%) Scrum
1 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (50.00%) User Stories
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) DV Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft