Product Analyst Contracts

Product Analyst
UK

The median Product Analyst daily rate in the UK is £650, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 13 May 2025.

The table below provides contractor rate benchmarking and summary statistics, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

 6 months to
13 May 2025		 Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 459 517 624
Rank change year-on-year +58 +107 +109
Contract jobs requiring a Product Analyst 54 69 74
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.19% 0.16% 0.13%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.20% 0.17% 0.13%
Number of daily rates quoted 35 52 63
10th Percentile £431 £405 £414
25th Percentile £475 £478 £513
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £650 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +18.18% - -
75th Percentile £731 £700 £650
90th Percentile £938 £788 £730
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £528 £565
% change year-on-year -5.21% -6.55% +76.41%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 2
10th Percentile - - £24.40
25th Percentile - - £29.50
Median hourly rate - - £38.00
75th Percentile - - £46.50
90th Percentile - - £51.60
UK excluding London median hourly rate - - -

All Contract IT Job Vacancies
UK

For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract IT job vacancies. Most job vacancies include a discernible job title that can be normalized. As such, the figures in the second row provide an indication of the number of contract jobs in our overall sample.

Contract vacancies in the UK with a recognized job title 26,853 39,898 55,060
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 92.43% 92.77% 94.65%
Number of daily rates quoted 17,486 25,961 38,445
10th Percentile £300 £280 £313
25th Percentile £406 £410 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £513 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -2.38% -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £738 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £490 £500
% change year-on-year -3.06% -2.00% +5.26%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,043 2,673 1,534
10th Percentile £14.00 £12.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £18.20 £16.30 £19.06
Median hourly rate £28.18 £37.50 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year -24.85% -16.67% +88.21%
75th Percentile £62.50 £61.30 £65.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £72.90 £76.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £27.13 £40.00 £42.08
% change year-on-year -32.19% -4.94% +110.39%

Product Analyst
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings that featured Product Analyst in the job title as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Product Analyst in the UK

Product Analyst
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Analyst.

Daily rate trend for Product Analyst in the UK

Product Analyst
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Analyst over the 6 months to 13 May 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Analyst in the UK

Product Analyst
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Analyst.

Hourly rate trend for Product Analyst in the UK

Product Analyst
Top 11 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Analyst within the UK over the 6 months to 13 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
England +57 49 £663 +20.45% 72
London +44 38 £675 -2.60% 52
Work from Home +29 16 £540 -8.16% 36
UK excluding London +30 14 £500 -5.21% 28
South East +35 8 £463 -14.98% 17
Scotland +11 3 £530 +8.72% 1
North of England +20 1 £600 +275.00% 3
Yorkshire +15 1 £600 -
West Midlands - 1 £500 - 4
Midlands - 1 £500 - 4
South West - 1 - - 2

Product Analyst Skill Set
Top 30 Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities

For the 6 months to 13 May 2025, Product Analyst contract job roles required the following skills and capabilities in order of popularity. The figures indicate the absolute number co-occurrences and as a proportion of all contract job ads featuring Product Analyst in the job title.

1 31 (57.41%) Agile
2 26 (48.15%) Finance
3 20 (37.04%) Analytics
4 19 (35.19%) Product Ownership
5 13 (24.07%) Roadmaps
5 13 (24.07%) Derivative
5 13 (24.07%) Front Office
5 13 (24.07%) Fixed Income
6 12 (22.22%) Degree
6 12 (22.22%) User Stories
6 12 (22.22%) Machine Learning
7 11 (20.37%) Investment Management
7 11 (20.37%) Business Analysis
7 11 (20.37%) Social Skills
7 11 (20.37%) Analytical Skills
8 10 (18.52%) Front End Development
8 10 (18.52%) Order Management
8 10 (18.52%) Asset Management
8 10 (18.52%) Artificial Intelligence
8 10 (18.52%) Equities
8 10 (18.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
8 10 (18.52%) Quantitative Analysis
8 10 (18.52%) Hedge funds
8 10 (18.52%) Apple iOS
8 10 (18.52%) Portfolio Management
8 10 (18.52%) Risk Analytics
9 9 (16.67%) Banking
10 8 (14.81%) SQL
10 8 (14.81%) Product Management
11 7 (12.96%) Scrum

Product Analyst Skill Set
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 2 (3.70%) Apache
1 2 (3.70%) Apache Airflow
2 1 (1.85%) Appian
2 1 (1.85%) Confluence
Applications
1 2 (3.70%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 3 (5.56%) ION Anvil
2 2 (3.70%) Primavera
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle EBS R12
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle ERP
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle iProcurement
3 1 (1.85%) Remedy ITSM
Cloud Services
1 4 (7.41%) dbt
2 3 (5.56%) Azure
2 3 (5.56%) Power Platform
3 2 (3.70%) AWS
3 2 (3.70%) Cloud Functions
3 2 (3.70%) GCP
3 2 (3.70%) Snowflake
4 1 (1.85%) Azure DevOps
4 1 (1.85%) Cloud Composer
4 1 (1.85%) Figma
4 1 (1.85%) GitHub
4 1 (1.85%) Miro
4 1 (1.85%) OCI
4 1 (1.85%) PaaS
4 1 (1.85%) Pendo
4 1 (1.85%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.56%) MS Access
1 3 (5.56%) Power BI
2 2 (3.70%) Apache Iceberg
2 2 (3.70%) BigQuery
2 2 (3.70%) Data Warehouse
2 2 (3.70%) DynamoDB
2 2 (3.70%) Flink
2 2 (3.70%) Metadata
2 2 (3.70%) Oracle Exadata
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle BI Publisher
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle Discoverer
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle Reports
3 1 (1.85%) Parquet
3 1 (1.85%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 3 (5.56%) Git
2 2 (3.70%) JIRA
2 2 (3.70%) SonarQube
3 1 (1.85%) Oracle Forms
General
1 26 (48.15%) Finance
2 13 (24.07%) Front Office
3 11 (20.37%) Analytical Skills
3 11 (20.37%) Social Skills
4 9 (16.67%) Banking
5 6 (11.11%) Retail
6 3 (5.56%) Investment Banking
7 2 (3.70%) Financial Institution
7 2 (3.70%) Legal
7 2 (3.70%) Marketing
7 2 (3.70%) Publishing
8 1 (1.85%) Advertising
8 1 (1.85%) Games
8 1 (1.85%) Local Government
8 1 (1.85%) Organisational Skills
8 1 (1.85%) Presentation Skills
8 1 (1.85%) Public Sector
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 4 (7.41%) Kafka
2 1 (1.85%) Apache Avro
2 1 (1.85%) XML
Miscellaneous
1 19 (35.19%) Product Ownership
2 13 (24.07%) Derivative
2 13 (24.07%) Fixed Income
3 10 (18.52%) Equities
3 10 (18.52%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
3 10 (18.52%) Hedge funds
4 3 (5.56%) Market Risk
5 2 (3.70%) Digital Media
5 2 (3.70%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.85%) Cloud Native
6 1 (1.85%) Cyberattack
6 1 (1.85%) Data Protection Act
6 1 (1.85%) Legacy Systems
6 1 (1.85%) Management Information System
6 1 (1.85%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 10 (18.52%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 31 (57.41%) Agile
2 20 (37.04%) Analytics
3 13 (24.07%) Roadmaps
4 12 (22.22%) Machine Learning
4 12 (22.22%) User Stories
5 11 (20.37%) Business Analysis
5 11 (20.37%) Investment Management
6 10 (18.52%) Artificial Intelligence
6 10 (18.52%) Asset Management
6 10 (18.52%) Front End Development
6 10 (18.52%) Order Management
6 10 (18.52%) Portfolio Management
6 10 (18.52%) Quantitative Analysis
6 10 (18.52%) Risk Analytics
7 8 (14.81%) Product Management
8 7 (12.96%) Problem-Solving
8 7 (12.96%) Scrum
9 6 (11.11%) Data Modelling
9 6 (11.11%) Data Transformation
9 6 (11.11%) SDLC
Programming Languages
1 8 (14.81%) SQL
2 3 (5.56%) Python
3 1 (1.85%) Data Analysis Expressions
3 1 (1.85%) PL/SQL
Qualifications
1 12 (22.22%) Degree
2 1 (1.85%) Computer Science Degree
2 1 (1.85%) Master's Degree
2 1 (1.85%) Oracle Certification
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 4 (7.41%) QA
2 3 (5.56%) COREP
2 3 (5.56%) GDPR
3 1 (1.85%) MiFID
Systems Management
1 3 (5.56%) Terraform
2 1 (1.85%) RSA Archer
Vendors
1 6 (11.11%) Oracle
2 3 (5.56%) ION Trading
3 2 (3.70%) Confluent
3 2 (3.70%) Google
3 2 (3.70%) IBM
3 2 (3.70%) Microsoft
4 1 (1.85%) Databricks
4 1 (1.85%) Remedy
4 1 (1.85%) Salesforce
76 Product Analyst jobs Nationwide