Product Breakdown Structure Contracts in the UK excluding London

Product Breakdown Structure (PBS)
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Product Breakdown Structure skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Breakdown Structure over the 6 months leading up to 4 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
4 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 332 399 448
Rank change year-on-year +67 +49 +71
Contract jobs citing Product Breakdown Structure 2 4 8
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.016% 0.019% 0.033%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.017% 0.023% 0.037%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 4 6
10th Percentile - £441 £394
25th Percentile £560 £483 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £585 £548 £400
Median % change year-on-year +6.85% +36.88% -11.11%
75th Percentile £610 £619 £402
90th Percentile - £683 £545
UK median daily rate £585 £553 £400
% change year-on-year +5.80% +38.24% -11.11%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 2
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £56.25 - -
Median hourly rate £57.50 - £39.55
75th Percentile £58.75 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £57.50 - £39.55
% change year-on-year - - -1.10%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Product Breakdown Structure 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 11,553 17,505 21,400
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.38% 84.71% 89.51%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,248 10,459 14,852
10th Percentile £235 £250 £256
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% +3.77%
Number of hourly rates quoted 834 2,060 1,308
10th Percentile £14.20 £12.34 £11.00
25th Percentile £17.30 £15.19 £15.50
Median hourly rate £27.50 £37.50 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -26.67% +7.14% +75.00%
75th Percentile £64.50 £60.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £73.72
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.95 £36.00
% change year-on-year -19.33% -0.14% +44.00%

Product Breakdown Structure
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Breakdown Structure in the UK excluding London

Product Breakdown Structure
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Product Breakdown Structure in the UK excluding London

Product Breakdown Structure
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Breakdown Structure in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Product Breakdown Structure in the UK excluding London

Product Breakdown Structure
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 Product Breakdown Structure within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 4 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
South West +40 1 - -
South East - 1 £585 - 1
Product Breakdown Structure
UK

Product Breakdown Structure
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:

Business Applications
1 2 (100.00%) Primavera
General
1 1 (50.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Project Planner
1 1 (50.00%) Senior
Miscellaneous
1 2 (100.00%) Management Information System
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Critical Path Analysis
1 2 (100.00%) Customer Requirements
1 2 (100.00%) Earned Value Management
1 2 (100.00%) Project Management
1 2 (100.00%) Work Breakdown Structure
Qualifications
1 2 (100.00%) Security Cleared
2 1 (50.00%) Degree
2 1 (50.00%) HNC
2 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared