Product Vision Contract Job Trends in the UK excluding London

Product Vision
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the UK excluding London requiring Product Vision skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 12 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 311 307 371
Rank change year-on-year -4 +64 +47
Contract jobs citing Product Vision 80 39 32
As % of all contract jobs in the UK excluding London 0.45% 0.28% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.52% 0.32% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 63 29 25
10th Percentile £376 £415 £409
25th Percentile £424 £420 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £485 £575 £525
Median % change year-on-year -15.65% +9.52% -
75th Percentile £574 £609 £688
90th Percentile £650 £667 £700
UK median daily rate £510 £539 £550
% change year-on-year -5.29% -2.09% -
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £50.00
UK median hourly rate £54.25 - £50.00
% change year-on-year - - -42.20%

All Process & Methodology Skills
UK excluding London

Product Vision 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 15,291 12,110 17,016
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 85.17% 87.95% 87.15%
Number of daily rates quoted 9,354 7,075 10,854
10th Percentile £222 £239 £250
25th Percentile £375 £380 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £500 £500
Median % change year-on-year -5.00% - -
75th Percentile £575 £600 £600
90th Percentile £675 £685 £688
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £525
% change year-on-year -4.76% - -4.55%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,670 680 1,286
10th Percentile £14.38 £15.50 £14.16
25th Percentile £17.26 £20.00 £17.02
Median hourly rate £23.83 £30.11 £43.90
Median % change year-on-year -20.86% -31.42% +59.64%
75th Percentile £55.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.16 £73.75 £76.77
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £32.25 £40.50
% change year-on-year -22.00% -20.38% +16.41%

Product Vision
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

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

Product Vision job vacancy trend in the UK excluding London

Product Vision
Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Product Vision
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Vision in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 January 2026.

Daily rate histogram for Product Vision in the UK excluding London

Product Vision
Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

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

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

Product Vision
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 Vision within the UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 January 2026. 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 -8 24 £493 +11.61% 57
Midlands -29 24 £478 -23.35% 23
North of England -28 23 £475 +1.88% 29
Yorkshire -25 16 £489 -4.68% 15
East Midlands -13 13 £425 -31.01% 15
West Midlands -26 11 £490 -47.03% 7
South West -17 5 £531 -11.46% 25
North East -4 4 £450 +7.14% 4
East of England -17 3 £675 +8.00% 28
North West - 3 £600 - 10
Scotland +3 2 - - 5
Product Vision
UK

Product Vision
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:

Application Platforms
1 8 (10.00%) Confluence
2 2 (2.50%) Apache
2 2 (2.50%) Apache Airflow
3 1 (1.25%) CMS
3 1 (1.25%) PowerFactory
Applications
1 3 (3.75%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (1.25%) MS Visio
Business Applications
1 7 (8.75%) Payment Gateway
2 1 (1.25%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 8 (10.00%) Azure
2 6 (7.50%) AWS
3 4 (5.00%) GCP
3 4 (5.00%) OpenShift
4 3 (3.75%) Azure DevOps
5 2 (2.50%) Amazon Bedrock
5 2 (2.50%) Amazon EC2
5 2 (2.50%) Amazon ECS
5 2 (2.50%) Amazon EKS
5 2 (2.50%) Amazon S3
5 2 (2.50%) Amazon SageMaker
5 2 (2.50%) AWS Fargate
5 2 (2.50%) AWS Lambda
5 2 (2.50%) Dynamics 365
5 2 (2.50%) Power Platform
5 2 (2.50%) SaaS
5 2 (2.50%) Serverless
5 2 (2.50%) Snowflake
6 1 (1.25%) Google Workspace
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Purview
Communications & Networking
1 3 (3.75%) Firewall
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (2.50%) Amazon Aurora
1 2 (2.50%) Amazon RDS
1 2 (2.50%) DynamoDB
1 2 (2.50%) NoSQL
1 2 (2.50%) Power BI
2 1 (1.25%) Data Mart
2 1 (1.25%) Delta Lake
2 1 (1.25%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 11 (13.75%) JIRA
General
1 31 (38.75%) Social Skills
2 24 (30.00%) Analytical Skills
3 19 (23.75%) Finance
4 11 (13.75%) Public Sector
5 7 (8.75%) Legal
6 6 (7.50%) Banking
7 4 (5.00%) Influencing Skills
7 4 (5.00%) Marketing
8 3 (3.75%) Automotive
8 3 (3.75%) Digital Health
9 2 (2.50%) Billing
9 2 (2.50%) Retail
10 1 (1.25%) Advertising
10 1 (1.25%) Health Technology
10 1 (1.25%) Law
10 1 (1.25%) Manufacturing
10 1 (1.25%) Organisational Skills
10 1 (1.25%) Pharmaceutical
10 1 (1.25%) Publishing
10 1 (1.25%) Telecoms
Job Titles
1 38 (47.50%) Product Owner
2 27 (33.75%) Product Manager
3 6 (7.50%) Lead
4 3 (3.75%) Cybersecurity Manager
4 3 (3.75%) Lead Product Manager
4 3 (3.75%) Security Manager
4 3 (3.75%) Security Product Manager
5 2 (2.50%) Analyst
5 2 (2.50%) Business Analyst
5 2 (2.50%) Digital Product Manager
5 2 (2.50%) Project Manager
5 2 (2.50%) Scrum Master
5 2 (2.50%) Senior
5 2 (2.50%) Technical Leader
5 2 (2.50%) Technical Product Owner
6 1 (1.25%) Administrator
6 1 (1.25%) Consultant
6 1 (1.25%) Security Consultant
6 1 (1.25%) Senior Manager
6 1 (1.25%) Solutions Architect
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (2.50%) Node.js
1 2 (2.50%) React
2 1 (1.25%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 49 (61.25%) Product Ownership
2 9 (11.25%) Data Protection Act
3 8 (10.00%) Onboarding
4 7 (8.75%) Analytical Mindset
4 7 (8.75%) Mobile App
5 4 (5.00%) Hybrid Cloud
6 3 (3.75%) Algorithms
6 3 (3.75%) IoT
6 3 (3.75%) PKI
7 2 (2.50%) Management Information System
8 1 (1.25%) Educational Technology
8 1 (1.25%) Enterprise Software
8 1 (1.25%) Greenfield Project
8 1 (1.25%) Legacy Systems
8 1 (1.25%) NHS
8 1 (1.25%) PMI
8 1 (1.25%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.25%) Self-Motivation
8 1 (1.25%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.50%) Android
1 2 (2.50%) Apple iOS
2 1 (1.25%) Linux
2 1 (1.25%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 63 (78.75%) Agile
2 59 (73.75%) Roadmaps
3 36 (45.00%) Product Backlog
3 36 (45.00%) User Stories
4 31 (38.75%) Stakeholder Management
5 28 (35.00%) Backlog Management
5 28 (35.00%) Product Roadmap
6 26 (32.50%) Product Management
6 26 (32.50%) Scrum
7 24 (30.00%) Product Strategy
8 23 (28.75%) Acceptance Criteria
9 18 (22.50%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 17 (21.25%) Problem-Solving
11 16 (20.00%) Scaled Agile Framework
12 15 (18.75%) Continuous Improvement
13 13 (16.25%) Analytics
13 13 (16.25%) Sprint Planning
14 12 (15.00%) Decision-Making
14 12 (15.00%) Sprint Retrospective
14 12 (15.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 5 (6.25%) SQL
2 3 (3.75%) Python
3 1 (1.25%) C#
3 1 (1.25%) PowerShell
3 1 (1.25%) Tcl
Qualifications
1 12 (15.00%) Security Cleared
2 6 (7.50%) SC Cleared
3 4 (5.00%) DV Cleared
4 3 (3.75%) CSPO
5 2 (2.50%) Degree
6 1 (1.25%) Computer Science Degree
6 1 (1.25%) Microsoft Certification
6 1 (1.25%) PMI Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 6 (7.50%) PCI DSS
1 6 (7.50%) QA
2 5 (6.25%) Accessibility
3 4 (5.00%) FIPS 140-2
3 4 (5.00%) GDPR
4 2 (2.50%) Data Quality
4 2 (2.50%) PSD2
5 1 (1.25%) GAMP
5 1 (1.25%) GxP
Systems Management
1 4 (5.00%) Kubernetes
2 1 (1.25%) Single Sign-On
Vendors
1 11 (13.75%) Microsoft
2 3 (3.75%) Fortinet
2 3 (3.75%) Palo Alto
3 1 (1.25%) Databricks
3 1 (1.25%) DIgSILENT
3 1 (1.25%) Google
3 1 (1.25%) SAP
3 1 (1.25%) ServiceNow