Minimum Viable Product Contracts in the UK excluding London

Minimum Viable Product
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Minimum Viable Product skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Minimum Viable Product over the 6 months to 26 April 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
26 Apr 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 373 412 463
Rank change year-on-year +39 +51 -84
Contract jobs citing Minimum Viable Product 17 47 52
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.082% 0.19% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.097% 0.22% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 35 39
10th Percentile £343 £403 £407
25th Percentile £372 £412 £460
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £440 £485
Median % change year-on-year +22.16% -9.28% +2.11%
75th Percentile £600 £450 £523
90th Percentile £615 £523 £555
UK median daily rate £575 £450 £534
% change year-on-year +27.78% -15.69% +2.89%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Minimum Viable Product is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,611 21,615 27,513
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.77% 89.54% 88.92%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,550 14,981 19,185
10th Percentile £248 £252 £231
25th Percentile £378 £400 £385
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +9.20%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £650
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £525
% change year-on-year -4.55% +4.76% +8.25%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,036 1,327 1,379
10th Percentile £12.30 £11.00 £12.00
25th Percentile £15.22 £16.00 £14.00
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +4.29% +75.00% -8.34%
75th Percentile £60.00 £65.00 £45.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £73.23 £60.00
UK median hourly rate £35.00 £37.00 £25.00
% change year-on-year -5.41% +48.00% -

Minimum Viable Product
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Minimum Viable Product as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Minimum Viable Product in the UK excluding London

Minimum Viable Product
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Minimum Viable Product in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Minimum Viable Product in the UK excluding London

Minimum Viable Product
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Minimum Viable Product in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 26 April 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Minimum Viable Product in the UK excluding London

Minimum Viable Product
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 26 April 2024. 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
Scotland +6 6 £550 +25.71%
South West - 4 £600 - 1
West Midlands +33 3 £375 -21.05%
Midlands +30 3 £375 -21.05%
North of England +24 3 - - 1
North West +17 2 - - 1
South East +3 1 £300 -33.33% 1
Yorkshire - 1 - -
Minimum Viable Product
UK

Minimum Viable Product
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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:

Application Platforms
1 1 (5.88%) Confluence
Development Applications
1 1 (5.88%) JIRA
General
1 8 (47.06%) Public Sector
2 3 (17.65%) Finance
Job Titles
1 8 (47.06%) Product Manager
2 4 (23.53%) Senior
3 3 (17.65%) Analyst
3 3 (17.65%) Business Analyst
4 2 (11.76%) Designer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Designer
4 2 (11.76%) Senior Service Designer
4 2 (11.76%) Service Designer
5 1 (5.88%) Product Owner
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Business Analyst
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Manager
5 1 (5.88%) Senior Product Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (11.76%) CSS
1 2 (11.76%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 4 (23.53%) Product Ownership
2 3 (17.65%) Data Protection Act
2 3 (17.65%) Security Posture
Processes & Methodologies
1 10 (58.82%) Agile
2 7 (41.18%) User Stories
3 6 (35.29%) User Research
4 4 (23.53%) Product Management
5 3 (17.65%) Business Case
5 3 (17.65%) Data Protection
5 3 (17.65%) DevOps
5 3 (17.65%) DevSecOps
5 3 (17.65%) Ethical Hacking
5 3 (17.65%) Problem Management
5 3 (17.65%) Product Vision
5 3 (17.65%) Security Testing
6 2 (11.76%) Prototyping
6 2 (11.76%) Scrum
6 2 (11.76%) Service Design
7 1 (5.88%) Acceptance Criteria
7 1 (5.88%) Collaborative Working
7 1 (5.88%) Decision-Making
7 1 (5.88%) Strategic Thinking
7 1 (5.88%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 5 (29.41%) Security Cleared
2 3 (17.65%) DV Cleared
3 2 (11.76%) SC Cleared
4 1 (5.88%) BPSS Clearance
4 1 (5.88%) ISEB
4 1 (5.88%) PMP