Product Developer Contract Job Trends

Product Developer
UK

The median Product Developer daily rate in the UK is £425, according to job vacancies posted in the 6 months leading up to 9 September 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
9 Sep 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 551 - 645
Rank change year-on-year - - +168
Contract jobs requiring a Product Developer 2 0 1
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.006% - 0.002%
As % of the Job Titles category 0.007% - 0.002%
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 1
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £413 - £180
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 - £190
Median % change year-on-year - - -73.79%
75th Percentile £438 - £200
90th Percentile - - -
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 - £190

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 29,807 35,446 47,661
% of contract IT jobs with a recognized job title 91.04% 93.03% 94.28%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,776 22,034 32,764
10th Percentile £280 £300 £300
25th Percentile £400 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £530
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -0.94% -3.64%
75th Percentile £621 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - +1.01%
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,551 1,735 1,478
10th Percentile £13.65 £14.73 £14.56
25th Percentile £17.00 £20.50 £19.06
Median hourly rate £25.15 £43.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -41.51% +1.18% +63.46%
75th Percentile £53.13 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £70.16 £75.00 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £25.15 £45.00 £40.41
% change year-on-year -44.11% +11.35% +83.69%

Product Developer
Job Vacancy Trend

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Developer in the UK

Product Developer
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Product Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for Product Developer job vacancies in the UK

Product Developer
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Product Developer job vacancies in the UK.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for Product Developer job vacancies in the UK

Product Developer
Top 4 Contract Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Product Developer within the UK over the 6 months to 9 September 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
UK excluding London - 1 £425 - 5
London - 1 - - 3
England - 1 - - 7
Scotland - 1 £425 - 1

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

For the 6 months to 9 September 2025, Product Developer 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 Developer in the job title.

1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
2 1 (50.00%) Cloud Functions
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
2 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
2 1 (50.00%) GCP
2 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Parquet
2 1 (50.00%) Power BI
2 1 (50.00%) Retail
2 1 (50.00%) Google
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Azure
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) GitHub
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Apache Avro
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
2 1 (50.00%) TypeScript

Product Developer 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:

Applications
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft Excel
Cloud Services
1 1 (50.00%) Azure
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Functions
1 1 (50.00%) Entra ID
1 1 (50.00%) GCP
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub
1 1 (50.00%) GitHub Actions
1 1 (50.00%) Power Platform
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (50.00%) BigQuery
1 1 (50.00%) Parquet
1 1 (50.00%) PostgreSQL
1 1 (50.00%) Power BI
General
1 1 (50.00%) Marketing
1 1 (50.00%) Retail
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (50.00%) Apache Avro
Miscellaneous
1 1 (50.00%) Cloud Native
Processes & Methodologies
1 2 (100.00%) Agile
1 2 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 2 (100.00%) DevOps
2 1 (50.00%) Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Business Intelligence
2 1 (50.00%) Business Strategy
2 1 (50.00%) Dashboard Development
2 1 (50.00%) Data Engineering
2 1 (50.00%) Data Modelling
2 1 (50.00%) Infrastructure as Code
2 1 (50.00%) Marketing Analytics
2 1 (50.00%) Release Management
2 1 (50.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
2 1 (50.00%) Technical Debt
Programming Languages
1 1 (50.00%) Data Analysis Expressions
1 1 (50.00%) JavaScript
1 1 (50.00%) Python
1 1 (50.00%) SQL
1 1 (50.00%) TypeScript
Systems Management
1 2 (100.00%) Terraform
Vendors
1 1 (50.00%) Google
1 1 (50.00%) Microsoft