Product Breakdown Structure Contracts in the UK excluding London

Product Breakdown Structure (PBS)
UK > UK excluding London

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London with a requirement for Product Breakdown Structure skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Breakdown Structure over the 6 months to 14 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
14 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 387 448 502
Rank change year-on-year +61 +54 -60
Contract jobs citing Product Breakdown Structure 2 6 4
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.010% 0.026% 0.013%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.012% 0.029% 0.015%
Number of daily rates quoted 2 4 3
10th Percentile £513 £391 -
25th Percentile £523 £397 -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £581 £400 £450
Median % change year-on-year +45.31% -11.11% -
75th Percentile £673 £474 £459
90th Percentile £704 £602 £465
UK median daily rate £523 £500 £450
% change year-on-year +4.68% +11.11% +15.38%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 2 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - £37.50
Median hourly rate - £39.55 £39.99
Median % change year-on-year - -1.10% -
75th Percentile - - £42.49
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate - £39.55 £39.99
% change year-on-year - -1.10% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Product Breakdown Structure 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 17,155 20,842 27,286
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 84.38% 89.51% 89.05%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,227 14,395 19,059
10th Percentile £250 £256 £238
25th Percentile £378 £400 £388
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £475
Median % change year-on-year - +5.26% +8.29%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £575
90th Percentile £688 £688 £653
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £530
% change year-on-year -4.55% +3.77% +8.16%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,053 1,276 1,366
10th Percentile £12.31 £10.93 £12.25
25th Percentile £15.25 £15.40 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.00 £35.00 £20.00
Median % change year-on-year +8.57% +75.00% -6.98%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £47.16
90th Percentile £72.82 £73.75 £60.46
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.40 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.29% +41.73% +4.82%

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
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Breakdown Structure in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 14 May 2024.

Daily rate histogram 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 14 May 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
North West +28 1 £650 +64.56% 1
North of England +23 1 £650 +62.50% 1
South West +6 1 £513 +28.13% 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:

Communications & Networking
1 1 (50.00%) InfiniBand
Development Applications
1 1 (50.00%) JIRA
General
1 2 (100.00%) Public Sector
2 1 (50.00%) Electronics
2 1 (50.00%) Finance
2 1 (50.00%) Manufacturing
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 1 (50.00%) Consultant
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Onboarding
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (50.00%) Agile
1 1 (50.00%) Business Case
1 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) Deep Learning
1 1 (50.00%) Digital Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Programme Management
1 1 (50.00%) Stress Testing
1 1 (50.00%) Work Breakdown Structure
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) MATLAB
Qualifications
1 1 (50.00%) SC Cleared
1 1 (50.00%) Security Cleared
System Software
1 1 (50.00%) Active Directory
1 1 (50.00%) Firmware
Systems Management
1 1 (50.00%) Dell DRAC
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) BMC
1 1 (50.00%) Dell
1 1 (50.00%) Isilon
1 1 (50.00%) Red Hat
1 1 (50.00%) SAP