Product Planning Contract Job Trends

Product Planning
UK

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs requiring Product Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 1 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 548 550 625
Rank change year-on-year +2 +75 +168
Contract jobs citing Product Planning 9 12 19
As % of all contract jobs in the UK 0.027% 0.032% 0.039%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.030% 0.037% 0.044%
Number of daily rates quoted 5 4 16
10th Percentile - £404 £340
25th Percentile £413 £409 £409
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £425 £425 £463
Median % change year-on-year - -8.11% +6.32%
75th Percentile £500 £475 £609
90th Percentile £512 £543 £656
UK excluding London median daily rate £425 £488 £418
% change year-on-year -12.82% +16.70% +0.66%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

Product Planning 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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,969 32,480 43,341
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.65% 85.86% 88.94%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,621 19,629 29,448
10th Percentile £300 £308 £313
25th Percentile £404 £413 £425
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -2.78% -1.82%
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £725 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,858 1,349 1,562
10th Percentile £14.32 £15.00 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £18.50
Median hourly rate £25.15 £42.50 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -40.82% - +43.00%
75th Percentile £43.75 £65.00 £65.00
90th Percentile £65.00 £74.44 £77.50
UK excluding London median hourly rate £22.32 £43.00 £42.50
% change year-on-year -48.10% +1.18% +70.00%

Product Planning
Job Vacancy Trend

Historical trend showing the proportion of contract IT job postings citing Product Planning relative to all contract IT jobs advertised.

Product Planning job vacancy trend in the UK

Product Planning
Daily Rate Trend

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Planning.

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Planning

Product Planning
Hourly Rate Trend

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Planning.

Contractor hourly rate distribution trend for jobs in the UK citing Product Planning

Product Planning
Top 8 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 Planning within the UK over the 6 months to 1 October 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 -2 9 £425 - 11
UK excluding London -3 6 £425 -12.82% 4
South West - 4 £425 - 2
London +23 3 £520 +22.35% 7
Work from Home +15 1 - - 10
Yorkshire -20 1 - -
North of England -29 1 - - 1
East of England - 1 - - 1

Product Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities 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 1 (11.11%) SAS
Applications
1 1 (11.11%) Adobe XD
1 1 (11.11%) Sketch
Cloud Services
1 1 (11.11%) Figma
1 1 (11.11%) GCP
1 1 (11.11%) Google Analytics
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (11.11%) Big Data
1 1 (11.11%) Hadoop
General
1 3 (33.33%) Analytical Skills
1 3 (33.33%) Telecoms
2 2 (22.22%) Finance
2 2 (22.22%) Social Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Banking
3 1 (11.11%) Financial Institution
3 1 (11.11%) Influencing Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Presentation Skills
3 1 (11.11%) Public Sector
3 1 (11.11%) Retail
Job Titles
1 4 (44.44%) Project Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Mobile Project Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Telecoms Manager
2 3 (33.33%) Telecoms Project Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Data Analyst
3 1 (11.11%) Designer
3 1 (11.11%) Product Manager
3 1 (11.11%) Scrum Master
3 1 (11.11%) UX Designer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (11.11%) CSS
1 1 (11.11%) HTML
Miscellaneous
1 2 (22.22%) Product Ownership
2 1 (11.11%) Data Protection Act
2 1 (11.11%) Derivative
2 1 (11.11%) Digital Media
2 1 (11.11%) Mobile App
Processes & Methodologies
1 5 (55.56%) Agile
1 5 (55.56%) Roadmaps
2 4 (44.44%) Project Management
3 3 (33.33%) Requirements Analysis
3 3 (33.33%) Scrum
3 3 (33.33%) Work Breakdown Structure
4 2 (22.22%) Analytics
4 2 (22.22%) Problem-Solving
4 2 (22.22%) Stakeholder Management
5 1 (11.11%) Computer Science
5 1 (11.11%) Copywriting
5 1 (11.11%) Data Analytics
5 1 (11.11%) Data Modelling
5 1 (11.11%) Data Protection
5 1 (11.11%) Kanban
5 1 (11.11%) Risk Management
5 1 (11.11%) Time Management
5 1 (11.11%) Usability Testing
5 1 (11.11%) User Stories
5 1 (11.11%) UX Design
Programming Languages
1 1 (11.11%) JavaScript
1 1 (11.11%) Python
1 1 (11.11%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (11.11%) Degree
1 1 (11.11%) Master's Degree
1 1 (11.11%) MBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (11.11%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 2 (22.22%) Google
2 1 (11.11%) Adobe
2 1 (11.11%) Hotjar