Minimum Viable Product Contracts in the UK excluding London

Minimum Viable Product
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 3 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
3 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 320 376 407
Rank change year-on-year +56 +31 +62
Contract jobs citing Minimum Viable Product 14 18 48
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.11% 0.087% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.10% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 11 36
10th Percentile £410 £350 £404
25th Percentile £426 £381 £413
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £463 £550 £440
Median % change year-on-year -15.82% +25.00% -9.28%
75th Percentile £563 £606 £450
90th Percentile £627 £638 £544
UK median daily rate £457 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -20.61% +27.78% -18.18%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 11,544 17,537 21,420
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.36% 84.72% 89.49%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,245 10,476 14,867
10th Percentile £235 £250 £255
25th Percentile £375 £378 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £480 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -4.00% - +5.26%
75th Percentile £588 £600 £600
90th Percentile £662 £688 £688
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.17%
Number of hourly rates quoted 827 2,058 1,303
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.33 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.31 £15.24 £15.75
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.34 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.35% +6.69% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £72.98
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.58 £36.00
% change year-on-year -18.48% -1.18% +44.00%

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 3 May 2025.

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 3 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
Scotland +12 7 £431 -21.64% 1
South West +30 5 £638 +2.00% 1
Wales - 1 £575 -
East of England - 1 £475 - 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 (7.14%) Confluence
1 1 (7.14%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (7.14%) Azure
1 1 (7.14%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (7.14%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (7.14%) Power Platform
1 1 (7.14%) PowerApps
Development Applications
1 1 (7.14%) JIRA
General
1 6 (42.86%) Public Sector
2 2 (14.29%) Analytical Skills
2 2 (14.29%) Military
2 2 (14.29%) Social Skills
3 1 (7.14%) Finance
3 1 (7.14%) Organisational Skills
Job Titles
1 10 (71.43%) Analyst
1 10 (71.43%) Business Analyst
2 5 (35.71%) Senior
3 4 (28.57%) Senior Analyst
3 4 (28.57%) Senior Business Analyst
4 3 (21.43%) Digital Analyst
4 3 (21.43%) Digital Business Analyst
5 2 (14.29%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Agile Business Analyst
6 1 (7.14%) Consultant
6 1 (7.14%) Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Full-Stack Python Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Lead
6 1 (7.14%) Power Platform Consultant
6 1 (7.14%) Product Owner
6 1 (7.14%) Python Developer
6 1 (7.14%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (14.29%) .NET
2 1 (7.14%) AngularJS
2 1 (7.14%) CSS
2 1 (7.14%) HTML
2 1 (7.14%) Node.js
2 1 (7.14%) React
Miscellaneous
1 2 (14.29%) Product Ownership
2 1 (7.14%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 9 (64.29%) Roadmaps
2 7 (50.00%) Agile
3 6 (42.86%) Business Analysis
3 6 (42.86%) GAP Analysis
3 6 (42.86%) Stakeholder Management
3 6 (42.86%) Target Operating Model
3 6 (42.86%) User Stories
4 5 (35.71%) Requirements Analysis
4 5 (35.71%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
4 5 (35.71%) User Experience
4 5 (35.71%) User Research
5 4 (28.57%) ITIL
5 4 (28.57%) Lean UX
5 4 (28.57%) Six Sigma
5 4 (28.57%) Systems Thinking
6 3 (21.43%) Requirements Management
6 3 (21.43%) Value Proposition
6 3 (21.43%) Wardley Maps
6 3 (21.43%) Wireframes
7 2 (14.29%) Strategic Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 1 (7.14%) JavaScript
1 1 (7.14%) Python
Qualifications
1 4 (28.57%) IIBA
1 4 (28.57%) Security Cleared
2 3 (21.43%) DV Cleared
3 1 (7.14%) Degree
3 1 (7.14%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials
1 1 (7.14%) Cyber Essentials PLUS
1 1 (7.14%) JSP 440
Vendors
1 2 (14.29%) Microsoft