Product Requirements Contracts

Product Requirements
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 1 August 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 Aug 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 469 485 575
Rank change year-on-year +16 +90 +87
Contract jobs citing Product Requirements 86 82 110
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.26% 0.21% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.29% 0.24% 0.23%
Number of daily rates quoted 48 49 85
10th Percentile £329 £348 £463
25th Percentile £400 £463 £488
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £540 £600
Median % change year-on-year -12.04% -10.00% +9.09%
75th Percentile £579 £600 £625
90th Percentile £638 £725 £650
UK excluding London median daily rate £450 £525 £600
% change year-on-year -14.29% -12.50% +16.28%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 1 4
10th Percentile £38.73 - -
25th Percentile £40.19 £66.25 -
Median hourly rate £45.25 £67.50 £50.42
Median % change year-on-year -32.96% +33.88% +12.04%
75th Percentile £50.19 £68.75 -
90th Percentile £51.58 - -
UK excluding London median hourly rate £40.50 - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 29,789 33,708 47,839
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 90.42% 85.44% 89.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 18,658 21,660 32,826
10th Percentile £300 £308 £320
25th Percentile £404 £413 £430
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £550
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% -4.55% -
75th Percentile £625 £638 £650
90th Percentile £734 £750 £750
UK excluding London median daily rate £475 £500 £500
% change year-on-year -5.00% - -
Number of hourly rates quoted 1,643 1,940 1,572
10th Percentile £14.14 £13.86 £14.25
25th Percentile £17.30 £17.80 £18.61
Median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £42.50
Median % change year-on-year -37.13% -5.88% +60.38%
75th Percentile £50.00 £63.75 £65.00
90th Percentile £68.70 £74.04 £77.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £23.00 £40.94 £40.00
% change year-on-year -43.82% +2.35% +86.05%

Product Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Product Requirements as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Product Requirements in the UK

Product Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend

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

Daily rate trend for Product Requirements in the UK

Product Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Requirements over the 6 months to 1 August 2025.

Daily rate histogram for Product Requirements in the UK

Product Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Requirements in the UK

Product Requirements
Top 14 Contract Locations

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 over the 6 months to 1 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
Contract
IT Job Ads
Median
Daily Rate
Past 6 Months
Median Daily Rate
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +31 78 £475 -13.64% 226
London +15 41 £475 -13.64% 154
UK excluding London +13 37 £450 -14.29% 88
Work from Home +17 26 £475 -13.64% 76
South East +20 15 £660 +42.70% 24
West Midlands +4 8 £413 -26.67% 6
Midlands -8 8 £413 -26.67% 13
North of England -14 6 £450 -18.18% 13
North East - 4 £440 - 1
Wales - 4 £309 - 3
East of England - 3 £506 - 15
Scotland -2 2 £600 +27.05% 6
North West -4 1 £525 +0.48% 8
Yorkshire -16 1 - - 4

Product Requirements
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 7 (8.14%) Apache Airflow
1 7 (8.14%) Confluence
2 5 (5.81%) CMS
2 5 (5.81%) WordPress
3 2 (2.33%) Drupal
4 1 (1.16%) Sitecore CMS
Applications
1 5 (5.81%) Chatbot
2 1 (1.16%) Adobe XD
2 1 (1.16%) InVision
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (1.16%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (1.16%) Sketch
Business Applications
1 6 (6.98%) SAP Oil and Gas
1 6 (6.98%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 16 (18.60%) Azure
2 14 (16.28%) AWS
3 11 (12.79%) GCP
4 9 (10.47%) GitHub
5 7 (8.14%) dbt
5 7 (8.14%) Vertex AI
6 5 (5.81%) Figma
6 5 (5.81%) Microsoft 365
6 5 (5.81%) Miro
7 4 (4.65%) Entra ID
8 2 (2.33%) Azure DevOps
8 2 (2.33%) Power Platform
8 2 (2.33%) SaaS
9 1 (1.16%) Azure Monitor
9 1 (1.16%) Google Workspace
9 1 (1.16%) IaaS
9 1 (1.16%) Microsoft Purview
9 1 (1.16%) PaaS
9 1 (1.16%) Power Automate
9 1 (1.16%) PowerApps
Communications & Networking
1 6 (6.98%) Firewall
2 3 (3.49%) WAN
3 2 (2.33%) BGP
3 2 (2.33%) DHCP
3 2 (2.33%) DNS
3 2 (2.33%) EIGRP
3 2 (2.33%) Ethernet
3 2 (2.33%) HTTP
3 2 (2.33%) IPsec
3 2 (2.33%) Network Security
3 2 (2.33%) OSPF
3 2 (2.33%) SD-WAN
3 2 (2.33%) Software-Defined Networking
3 2 (2.33%) SSL
3 2 (2.33%) TACACS
3 2 (2.33%) VLAN
3 2 (2.33%) VPN
3 2 (2.33%) Wireless
4 1 (1.16%) Cisco IPT
4 1 (1.16%) MPLS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 7 (8.14%) BigQuery
1 7 (8.14%) Data Warehouse
2 5 (5.81%) Big Data
2 5 (5.81%) HPCC
3 3 (3.49%) Data Lake
4 2 (2.33%) Power BI
5 1 (1.16%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.16%) SAP HANA
5 1 (1.16%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 19 (22.09%) JIRA
2 9 (10.47%) Selenium
3 7 (8.14%) Git
3 7 (8.14%) MLflow
3 7 (8.14%) SpecFlow
4 5 (5.81%) GitLab
5 4 (4.65%) NUnit
6 3 (3.49%) Gradle
6 3 (3.49%) Maven
7 2 (2.33%) Appium
7 2 (2.33%) Bitbucket
7 2 (2.33%) Cypress.io
7 2 (2.33%) MSTest
7 2 (2.33%) NSubstitute
7 2 (2.33%) Visual Studio Coded UI
7 2 (2.33%) WebDriver
General
1 47 (54.65%) Social Skills
2 18 (20.93%) Finance
3 12 (13.95%) Marketing
4 10 (11.63%) Analytical Skills
5 9 (10.47%) Public Sector
6 7 (8.14%) Advertising
6 7 (8.14%) Manufacturing
6 7 (8.14%) Organisational Skills
7 5 (5.81%) Inclusion and Diversity
8 3 (3.49%) Banking
9 2 (2.33%) Influencing Skills
9 2 (2.33%) Presentation Skills
10 1 (1.16%) Financial Institution
10 1 (1.16%) Legal
10 1 (1.16%) Retail
10 1 (1.16%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 23 (26.74%) Product Manager
2 16 (18.60%) Product Owner
3 8 (9.30%) Analyst
4 7 (8.14%) Test Engineer
5 6 (6.98%) Project Manager
5 6 (6.98%) Project Manager - SAP S/4HANA
6 5 (5.81%) Azure Engineer
6 5 (5.81%) Java Engineer
6 5 (5.81%) Scrum Master
7 4 (4.65%) Azure Software Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Business Analyst
7 4 (4.65%) Java Software Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) Lead
7 4 (4.65%) Lead Test Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) QA Engineer
7 4 (4.65%) SAP Manager
7 4 (4.65%) SAP Project Manager
7 4 (4.65%) Software Engineer
8 3 (3.49%) Architect
8 3 (3.49%) Technical Manager
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 10 (11.63%) HTML
2 5 (5.81%) CSS
2 5 (5.81%) JSON
2 5 (5.81%) XML
3 4 (4.65%) LDAP
3 4 (4.65%) SailPoint
4 3 (3.49%) Blazor
4 3 (3.49%) GWT
4 3 (3.49%) Spring
5 2 (2.33%) .NET
5 2 (2.33%) GraphQL
5 2 (2.33%) Jest
5 2 (2.33%) Lightning Web Components
5 2 (2.33%) React
5 2 (2.33%) REST
5 2 (2.33%) SOAP
5 2 (2.33%) Visualforce
6 1 (1.16%) OAuth
6 1 (1.16%) OAuth2
6 1 (1.16%) OpenID
Miscellaneous
1 24 (27.91%) Product Ownership
2 8 (9.30%) Cloud Native
2 8 (9.30%) Marketing Technology
3 7 (8.14%) Digital Media
4 6 (6.98%) Life Science
4 6 (6.98%) Renewable Energy
5 5 (5.81%) Data Protection Act
5 5 (5.81%) Mobile App
6 3 (3.49%) Educational Technology
6 3 (3.49%) NHS
7 2 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
7 2 (2.33%) Hybrid Cloud
7 2 (2.33%) Self-Motivation
7 2 (2.33%) Virtual Team
8 1 (1.16%) AI Agents
8 1 (1.16%) e-Learning
8 1 (1.16%) Low-Code
8 1 (1.16%) Private Cloud
8 1 (1.16%) Public Cloud
8 1 (1.16%) Social Media
Operating Systems
1 5 (5.81%) Unix
1 5 (5.81%) Windows
2 2 (2.33%) Android
2 2 (2.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 62 (72.09%) Agile
2 36 (41.86%) Roadmaps
3 28 (32.56%) Product Management
4 23 (26.74%) Problem-Solving
4 23 (26.74%) Stakeholder Management
5 22 (25.58%) Product Roadmap
6 21 (24.42%) Product Vision
6 21 (24.42%) User Stories
7 20 (23.26%) Scrum
8 16 (18.60%) Analytics
8 16 (18.60%) Product Backlog
8 16 (18.60%) Product Strategy
9 15 (17.44%) CI/CD
10 14 (16.28%) Artificial Intelligence
11 13 (15.12%) Test Automation
11 13 (15.12%) Test Strategy
12 12 (13.95%) Backlog Prioritisation
12 12 (13.95%) Sprint Planning
13 11 (12.79%) Machine Learning
14 10 (11.63%) Stakeholder Engagement
Programming Languages
1 11 (12.79%) Python
2 10 (11.63%) SQL
3 7 (8.14%) C#
3 7 (8.14%) Java
4 5 (5.81%) C
4 5 (5.81%) TypeScript
5 3 (3.49%) C++
6 2 (2.33%) Apex Code
7 1 (1.16%) Korn
Qualifications
1 8 (9.30%) Degree
2 6 (6.98%) Master's Degree
3 5 (5.81%) SC Cleared
3 5 (5.81%) Security Cleared
4 3 (3.49%) Computer Science Degree
5 2 (2.33%) ISTQB
6 1 (1.16%) BPSS Clearance
6 1 (1.16%) CCNP
6 1 (1.16%) Cisco Certification
6 1 (1.16%) MCP
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 10 (11.63%) QA
2 7 (8.14%) GDPR
3 6 (6.98%) PMBOK
4 4 (4.65%) HIPAA
4 4 (4.65%) Sarbanes-Oxley
5 3 (3.49%) Accessibility
6 1 (1.16%) NIST
System Software
1 2 (2.33%) Docker
2 1 (1.16%) Virtual Desktop
2 1 (1.16%) Virtual Machines
Systems Management
1 7 (8.14%) Kubeflow
2 4 (4.65%) Single Sign-On
3 2 (2.33%) Kubernetes
3 2 (2.33%) Nagios
Vendors
1 15 (17.44%) Microsoft
2 8 (9.30%) Salesforce
3 6 (6.98%) Cisco
3 6 (6.98%) SAP
4 5 (5.81%) Google
5 4 (4.65%) Adobe
5 4 (4.65%) CyberArk
5 4 (4.65%) Okta
6 3 (3.49%) ServiceNow
7 2 (2.33%) Arista
7 2 (2.33%) Juniper
7 2 (2.33%) SolarWinds
8 1 (1.16%) Atlassian
8 1 (1.16%) Databricks
8 1 (1.16%) Rapid7
8 1 (1.16%) Salesforce Marketing Cloud
8 1 (1.16%) Sitecore