Product Planning Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Product Planning
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Product Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 370 367 418
Rank change year-on-year -3 +51 +65
Contract jobs citing Product Planning 6 6 13
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.038% 0.034% 0.061%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.043% 0.041% 0.069%
Number of daily rates quoted 4 2 12
10th Percentile - £416 £340
25th Percentile £413 £441 £392
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £488 £418
Median % change year-on-year -12.82% +16.70% +0.66%
75th Percentile £453 £541 £525
90th Percentile £481 £569 £634
UK median daily rate £425 £425 £463
% change year-on-year - -8.11% +6.32%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Product Planning 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 13,973 14,558 18,817
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.39% 83.35% 88.16%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,416 8,227 12,421
10th Percentile £230 £238 £260
25th Percentile £367 £381 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £671 £688 £700
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £540
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,504 1,105 1,274
10th Percentile £14.13 £14.99 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.23 £18.19 £17.70
Median hourly rate £22.32 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -48.10% +1.18% +70.00%
75th Percentile £40.65 £66.61 £65.00
90th Percentile £66.85 £74.00 £77.50
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -40.82% - +43.00%

Product Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Product Planning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Product Planning job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Product Planning
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Product Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Product Planning

Product Planning
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Product Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK excluding London citing Product Planning

Product Planning
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 Planning within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 1 October 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 - 4 £425 - 2
Yorkshire -20 1 - -
North of England -29 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 - - 1
Product Planning
UK

Product Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 (16.67%) Adobe XD
1 1 (16.67%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (16.67%) Figma
1 1 (16.67%) Google Analytics
General
1 3 (50.00%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (50.00%) Telecoms
2 1 (16.67%) Influencing Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Presentation Skills
2 1 (16.67%) Retail
2 1 (16.67%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 4 (66.67%) Project Manager
2 3 (50.00%) Mobile Project Manager
2 3 (50.00%) Telecoms Manager
2 3 (50.00%) Telecoms Project Manager
3 1 (16.67%) Designer
3 1 (16.67%) Scrum Master
3 1 (16.67%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (16.67%) CSS
1 1 (16.67%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (16.67%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 4 (66.67%) Project Management
2 3 (50.00%) Requirements Analysis
2 3 (50.00%) Roadmaps
2 3 (50.00%) Work Breakdown Structure
3 2 (33.33%) Agile
3 2 (33.33%) Scrum
4 1 (16.67%) Analytics
4 1 (16.67%) Coaching
4 1 (16.67%) Computer Science
4 1 (16.67%) Continuous Improvement
4 1 (16.67%) Copywriting
4 1 (16.67%) Information Architecture
4 1 (16.67%) Mentoring
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
4 1 (16.67%) Stakeholder Management
4 1 (16.67%) Usability Testing
4 1 (16.67%) User Experience
4 1 (16.67%) User Research
4 1 (16.67%) User Stories
4 1 (16.67%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (16.67%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 1 (16.67%) Degree
1 1 (16.67%) Master's Degree
1 1 (16.67%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (16.67%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (16.67%) Adobe
1 1 (16.67%) Google
1 1 (16.67%) Hotjar