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 28 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
28 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 337 346 380
Rank change year-on-year +9 +34 +118
DemandTrendContract jobs citing Product Requirements 32 34 47
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.21% 0.19% 0.22%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.23% 0.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 10 25 43
10th Percentile £305 £344 £463
25th Percentile £317 £463 £484
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £494 £525 £600
Median % change year-on-year -5.95% -12.50% +20.00%
75th Percentile £600 £588 £625
90th Percentile £631 £625 -
UK median daily rate £475 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -9.52% -12.50% +2.56%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £37.75 - -
Median hourly rate £40.50 - -
75th Percentile £43.25 - -
90th Percentile - - -
UK median hourly rate £49.25 - £50.42
% change year-on-year - - +12.04%

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.

DemandTrendContract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 13,687 15,011 19,161
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 89.11% 82.65% 88.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,185 8,893 12,773
10th Percentile £238 £245 £260
25th Percentile £367 £387 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £650 £688 £694
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £545
% change year-on-year -4.76% -3.67% -0.91%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,395 1,400 1,211
10th Percentile £13.85 £13.60 £14.25
25th Percentile £16.95 £16.30 £17.72
Median hourly rate £22.63 £42.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -46.75% +6.25% +77.78%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.30 £75.00 £77.00
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.50 £42.50
% change year-on-year -37.90% -4.71% +54.55%

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
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

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 28 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Requirements in the UK excluding London

Product Requirements
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Product Requirements
DemandTrendContract 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 28 August 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
DemandTrendContract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
South East +8 11 - - 51
West Midlands -5 6 £600 +6.67% 3
Midlands -9 6 £600 +6.67% 6
North of England -34 5 £525 -6.67% 4
Wales - 4 £309 - 2
East of England - 4 £550 - 9
Scotland +1 2 £600 +13.85%
Yorkshire -15 2 - - 1
North East - 2 - -
North West -16 1 £525 +0.48% 3
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 (9.38%) Confluence
2 1 (3.13%) CMS
2 1 (3.13%) Sitecore CMS
2 1 (3.13%) WordPress
Applications
1 1 (3.13%) Chatbot
Business Applications
1 6 (18.75%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 6 (18.75%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 6 (18.75%) AWS
2 4 (12.50%) Azure
2 4 (12.50%) GCP
2 4 (12.50%) Microsoft 365
3 2 (6.25%) GitHub
3 2 (6.25%) SaaS
4 1 (3.13%) Entra ID
Communications & Networking
1 6 (18.75%) Firewall
2 3 (9.38%) WAN
3 2 (6.25%) BGP
3 2 (6.25%) DHCP
3 2 (6.25%) DNS
3 2 (6.25%) EIGRP
3 2 (6.25%) Ethernet
3 2 (6.25%) HTTP
3 2 (6.25%) IPsec
3 2 (6.25%) Network Security
3 2 (6.25%) OSPF
3 2 (6.25%) SD-WAN
3 2 (6.25%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (6.25%) SSL
3 2 (6.25%) TACACS
3 2 (6.25%) VLAN
3 2 (6.25%) VPN
3 2 (6.25%) Wireless
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (3.13%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (3.13%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (3.13%) Relational Database
1 1 (3.13%) SAP HANA
Development Applications
1 4 (12.50%) Selenium
1 4 (12.50%) SpecFlow
2 3 (9.38%) JIRA
General
1 20 (62.50%) Social Skills
2 13 (40.63%) Finance
3 7 (21.88%) Manufacturing
3 7 (21.88%) Organisational Skills
3 7 (21.88%) Public Sector
4 4 (12.50%) Inclusion and Diversity
5 3 (9.38%) Analytical Skills
5 3 (9.38%) Marketing
6 2 (6.25%) Influencing Skills
6 2 (6.25%) Presentation Skills
7 1 (3.13%) Legal
7 1 (3.13%) Retail
7 1 (3.13%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 7 (21.88%) Product Manager
2 6 (18.75%) Project Manager
2 6 (18.75%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
3 5 (15.63%) Product Owner
4 4 (12.50%) SAP Manager
4 4 (12.50%) SAP Project Manager
4 4 (12.50%) Test Engineer
5 3 (9.38%) Lead
5 3 (9.38%) Lead Test Engineer
6 2 (6.25%) Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Digital Product Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Network Architect
6 2 (6.25%) Salesforce Developer
6 2 (6.25%) Technical Manager
6 2 (6.25%) Technical Project Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Business Analyst
7 1 (3.13%) Programme Manager
7 1 (3.13%) Test Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (12.50%) CSS
1 4 (12.50%) HTML
2 3 (9.38%) Blazor
2 3 (9.38%) GWT
3 2 (6.25%) Lightning Web Components
3 2 (6.25%) REST
3 2 (6.25%) SOAP
3 2 (6.25%) Visualforce
4 1 (3.13%) .NET
4 1 (3.13%) J2EE
4 1 (3.13%) JPA
4 1 (3.13%) LDAP
4 1 (3.13%) RESTful
4 1 (3.13%) SailPoint
4 1 (3.13%) Spring
4 1 (3.13%) Spring Boot
Miscellaneous
1 6 (18.75%) Life Science
1 6 (18.75%) Product Ownership
1 6 (18.75%) Renewable Energy
2 5 (15.63%) Data Protection Act
3 3 (9.38%) NHS
4 2 (6.25%) Hybrid Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) AI Agents
5 1 (3.13%) Enterprise Software
5 1 (3.13%) Greenfield Project
5 1 (3.13%) Marketing Technology
5 1 (3.13%) Private Cloud
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (78.13%) Agile
2 13 (40.63%) Product Management
3 11 (34.38%) Problem-Solving
4 10 (31.25%) Roadmaps
4 10 (31.25%) Stakeholder Management
5 9 (28.13%) Coaching
6 8 (25.00%) Migration
6 8 (25.00%) Product Vision
6 8 (25.00%) Scrum
7 7 (21.88%) Product Strategy
7 7 (21.88%) Stakeholder Engagement
8 6 (18.75%) Change Management
8 6 (18.75%) Critical Thinking
8 6 (18.75%) Data Protection
8 6 (18.75%) PRINCE2
8 6 (18.75%) Project Planning
8 6 (18.75%) Strategic Thinking
8 6 (18.75%) Time Management
9 5 (15.63%) Asset Management
9 5 (15.63%) Open Source
Programming Languages
1 4 (12.50%) C#
2 2 (6.25%) Apex Code
3 1 (3.13%) C++
3 1 (3.13%) Java
3 1 (3.13%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 6 (18.75%) Degree
2 4 (12.50%) Master's Degree
3 2 (6.25%) Computer Science Degree
4 1 (3.13%) CCNP
4 1 (3.13%) Cisco Certification
4 1 (3.13%) MCP
4 1 (3.13%) SC Cleared
4 1 (3.13%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (18.75%) PMBOK
2 3 (9.38%) GDPR
3 1 (3.13%) Accessibility
3 1 (3.13%) HIPAA
3 1 (3.13%) Sarbanes-Oxley
System Software
1 2 (6.25%) Docker
Systems Management
1 2 (6.25%) Kubernetes
1 2 (6.25%) Nagios
2 1 (3.13%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 7 (21.88%) Salesforce
2 6 (18.75%) Cisco
2 6 (18.75%) Microsoft
2 6 (18.75%) SAP
3 4 (12.50%) Google
4 2 (6.25%) Arista
4 2 (6.25%) Juniper
4 2 (6.25%) SolarWinds
5 1 (3.13%) Atlassian
5 1 (3.13%) CyberArk
5 1 (3.13%) Okta
5 1 (3.13%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
5 1 (3.13%) Sitecore