Product Planning Contract Job Trends in Wales

Product Planning
UK > Wales

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in Wales requiring Product Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 14 October 2025, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
14 Oct 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 44 45 53
Rank change year-on-year +1 +8 +11
Contract jobs citing Product Planning 1 1 1
As % of all contract jobs in Wales 0.26% 0.23% 0.21%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.31% 0.30% 0.24%
Number of daily rates quoted 0 1 1
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) - £575 £600
Median % change year-on-year - -4.17% -6.80%
UK median daily rate £463 £425 £500
% change year-on-year +8.82% -15.00% +14.68%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Wales

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 in Wales.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 318 333 414
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in Wales 83.46% 77.80% 87.34%
Number of daily rates quoted 186 175 318
10th Percentile £190 £140 £180
25th Percentile £268 £213 £263
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £413 £425 £450
Median % change year-on-year -2.94% -5.56% -10.00%
75th Percentile £499 £550 £573
90th Percentile £647 £648 £638
UK median daily rate £500 £525 £538
% change year-on-year -4.76% -2.42% -2.18%
Number of hourly rates quoted 63 46 21
10th Percentile £14.23 £15.48 £14.86
25th Percentile £17.30 £20.12 £21.25
Median hourly rate £20.50 £25.18 £27.17
Median % change year-on-year -18.59% -7.31% +50.92%
75th Percentile £25.15 £40.00 £52.50
90th Percentile - £51.75 £55.25
UK median hourly rate £25.15 £40.00 £44.50
% change year-on-year -37.13% -10.11% +36.92%

Product Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in Wales

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

Product Planning job vacancy trend in Wales

Product Planning
Daily Rate Trend in Wales

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

Contractor daily rate distribution trend for jobs in Wales citing Product Planning

Product Planning
Contract Job Locations in Wales

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 Wales region over the 6 months to 14 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
South Wales +6 1 - -
Product Planning
UK

Product Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in Wales 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:

Cloud Services
1 1 (100.00%) Azure
1 1 (100.00%) Azure App Service
1 1 (100.00%) Azure DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (100.00%) Dynamics 365
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (100.00%) Azure SQL Database
Development Applications
1 1 (100.00%) Git
General
1 1 (100.00%) Military
1 1 (100.00%) Public Sector
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps Engineer
1 1 (100.00%) Senior
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Senior DevOps Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (100.00%) .NET
1 1 (100.00%) Node.js
1 1 (100.00%) React
1 1 (100.00%) YAML
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Legacy Systems
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) CI/CD
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Deployment
1 1 (100.00%) Continuous Integration
1 1 (100.00%) DevOps
1 1 (100.00%) Infrastructure as Code
1 1 (100.00%) Log Analytics
1 1 (100.00%) Mentoring
1 1 (100.00%) Refactoring
1 1 (100.00%) Test Automation
1 1 (100.00%) User Stories
Programming Languages
1 1 (100.00%) Bash
1 1 (100.00%) PowerShell
1 1 (100.00%) Python
1 1 (100.00%) SQL
Qualifications
1 1 (100.00%) Security Cleared
Systems Management
1 1 (100.00%) Terraform