Product Requirements Contracts in the UK excluding London

Product Requirements
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Product Requirements skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Product Requirements over the 6 months leading up to 30 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
30 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 310 368 403
Rank change year-on-year +58 +35 +51
Contract jobs citing Product Requirements 30 24 41
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.23% 0.12% 0.18%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.26% 0.14% 0.20%
Number of daily rates quoted 16 20 38
10th Percentile £319 £402 £443
25th Percentile £383 £488 £473
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £440 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year -20.00% - +12.82%
75th Percentile £609 £570 £625
90th Percentile £651 £625 -
UK median daily rate £456 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -17.05% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Product Requirements 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 11,716 17,285 20,358
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 90.66% 83.51% 89.29%
Number of daily rates quoted 7,290 10,280 13,964
10th Percentile £235 £250 £260
25th Percentile £375 £375 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - +2.87%
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £690
UK median daily rate £513 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -2.38% -4.55% +2.33%
Number of hourly rates quoted 847 2,123 1,246
10th Percentile £13.83 £12.40 £10.63
25th Percentile £16.95 £15.39 £15.25
Median hourly rate £25.15 £38.12 £35.00
Median % change year-on-year -34.02% +8.91% +75.00%
75th Percentile £60.06 £61.30 £65.00
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.50 £74.25
UK median hourly rate £27.50 £36.50 £37.00
% change year-on-year -24.66% -1.35% +44.08%

Product Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Requirements in the UK excluding London

Product Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Daily rate trend for Product Requirements in the UK excluding London

Product Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Requirements in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 30 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Requirements in the UK excluding London

Product Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Requirements in the UK excluding London

Product Requirements
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 Requirements within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 30 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 East +59 10 £660 +28.78% 146
Midlands +21 8 £413 -26.67% 87
West Midlands +20 8 £413 -26.67% 47
North of England +8 5 £450 -20.00% 98
East of England - 4 £463 - 70
North East - 3 £440 - 11
Wales - 3 £312 - 14
Yorkshire +14 1 - - 37
North West +8 1 £525 - 50
Northern Ireland - 1 £625 - 5
Product Requirements
UK

Product Requirements
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 3 (10.00%) Confluence
2 1 (3.33%) CMS
2 1 (3.33%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (3.33%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (3.33%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 4 (13.33%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 4 (13.33%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (20.00%) AWS
2 4 (13.33%) Azure
2 4 (13.33%) GCP
2 4 (13.33%) Microsoft 365
Communications & Networking
1 5 (16.67%) Firewall
2 2 (6.67%) BGP
2 2 (6.67%) DHCP
2 2 (6.67%) DNS
2 2 (6.67%) EIGRP
2 2 (6.67%) HTTP
2 2 (6.67%) IPsec
2 2 (6.67%) Network Security
2 2 (6.67%) OSPF
2 2 (6.67%) Software-Defined Networking
2 2 (6.67%) SSL
2 2 (6.67%) TACACS
2 2 (6.67%) VLAN
2 2 (6.67%) VPN
2 2 (6.67%) Wireless
3 1 (3.33%) Cisco IPT
3 1 (3.33%) Ethernet
3 1 (3.33%) MPLS
3 1 (3.33%) SD-WAN
3 1 (3.33%) WAN
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.33%) Data Warehouse
Development Applications
1 5 (16.67%) JIRA
2 3 (10.00%) Selenium
2 3 (10.00%) SpecFlow
3 1 (3.33%) Cypress.io
3 1 (3.33%) Gerrit
3 1 (3.33%) Git
General
1 16 (53.33%) Social Skills
2 11 (36.67%) Finance
3 8 (26.67%) Public Sector
4 6 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
5 5 (16.67%) Organisational Skills
6 4 (13.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (13.33%) Manufacturing
7 1 (3.33%) Influencing Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Legal
7 1 (3.33%) Marketing
7 1 (3.33%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.33%) Retail
7 1 (3.33%) Telecoms
7 1 (3.33%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 11 (36.67%) Product Manager
2 5 (16.67%) Project Manager
3 4 (13.33%) Product Owner
3 4 (13.33%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
3 4 (13.33%) SAP Manager
3 4 (13.33%) SAP Project Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Developer
4 3 (10.00%) Technical Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Technical Project Manager
4 3 (10.00%) Test Engineer
5 2 (6.67%) Lead
5 2 (6.67%) Lead Test Engineer
6 1 (3.33%) Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Business Analyst
6 1 (3.33%) Digital Product Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Product Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Developer
6 1 (3.33%) Senior
6 1 (3.33%) ServiceNow Manager
6 1 (3.33%) Technical Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 3 (10.00%) CSS
1 3 (10.00%) HTML
2 2 (6.67%) Blazor
2 2 (6.67%) GWT
3 1 (3.33%) Lightning Web Components
3 1 (3.33%) Middleware
3 1 (3.33%) POSIX
3 1 (3.33%) REST
3 1 (3.33%) SOAP
3 1 (3.33%) Visualforce
3 1 (3.33%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 10 (33.33%) Product Ownership
2 4 (13.33%) Life Science
2 4 (13.33%) Renewable Energy
3 3 (10.00%) NHS
4 2 (6.67%) Data Protection Act
4 2 (6.67%) Greenfield Project
4 2 (6.67%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) AI Agents
5 1 (3.33%) Device Driver
5 1 (3.33%) Educational Technology
5 1 (3.33%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (3.33%) Private Cloud
5 1 (3.33%) STB
5 1 (3.33%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (3.33%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (3.33%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 23 (76.67%) Agile
2 15 (50.00%) Product Management
3 12 (40.00%) Roadmaps
4 11 (36.67%) Problem-Solving
5 9 (30.00%) Scrum
6 8 (26.67%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 8 (26.67%) Coaching
6 8 (26.67%) Product Strategy
6 8 (26.67%) Product Vision
6 8 (26.67%) Stakeholder Management
7 6 (20.00%) Change Management
7 6 (20.00%) Migration
7 6 (20.00%) Product Backlog
7 6 (20.00%) Strategic Thinking
8 5 (16.67%) Product Roadmap
8 5 (16.67%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 5 (16.67%) Strategic Roadmap
8 5 (16.67%) User Stories
9 4 (13.33%) Critical Thinking
9 4 (13.33%) Service Asset and Configuration Management
Programming Languages
1 3 (10.00%) C#
2 2 (6.67%) Python
3 1 (3.33%) Apex Code
3 1 (3.33%) C
3 1 (3.33%) C++
3 1 (3.33%) Shell Script
3 1 (3.33%) TypeScript
Qualifications
1 5 (16.67%) Degree
2 3 (10.00%) Master's Degree
3 1 (3.33%) CCNP
3 1 (3.33%) Cisco Certification
3 1 (3.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 1 (3.33%) MCP
3 1 (3.33%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (13.33%) PMBOK
2 2 (6.67%) GDPR
3 1 (3.33%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.33%) Data Quality
3 1 (3.33%) QA
System Software
1 2 (6.67%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.67%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.67%) Nagios
Vendors
1 6 (20.00%) Microsoft
1 6 (20.00%) Salesforce
2 5 (16.67%) Cisco
3 4 (13.33%) Google
3 4 (13.33%) SAP
4 3 (10.00%) Adobe
5 2 (6.67%) Arista
5 2 (6.67%) Juniper
5 2 (6.67%) ServiceNow
5 2 (6.67%) SolarWinds
6 1 (3.33%) Atlassian
6 1 (3.33%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
6 1 (3.33%) Sitecore