Product Planning Contract Job Trends in the West Midlands

Product Planning
England > West Midlands

The table below provides summary statistics and contractor rates for jobs advertised in the West Midlands requiring Product Planning skills. It covers contract job vacancies from the 6 months leading up to 26 January 2026, with comparisons to the same periods in the previous two years.

6 months to
26 Jan 2026
Same period 2025 Same period 2024
Rank 141 - -
Rank change year-on-year - - -
Contract jobs citing Product Planning 1 0 0
As % of all contract jobs in the West Midlands 0.042% - -
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.050% - -
Number of daily rates quoted 1 0 0
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile £408 - -
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £415 - -
75th Percentile £423 - -
90th Percentile - - -
England median daily rate £520 £675 £513
% change year-on-year -22.96% +31.71% -16.80%

All Process & Methodology Skills
West Midlands

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 the West Midlands.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 2,018 1,377 1,541
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the West Midlands 85.47% 87.93% 84.25%
Number of daily rates quoted 1,299 851 1,012
10th Percentile £270 £213 £275
25th Percentile £405 £400 £398
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £525 £489
Median % change year-on-year -4.76% +7.42% -2.25%
75th Percentile £588 £611 £600
90th Percentile £675 £700 £688
England median daily rate £503 £525 £530
% change year-on-year -4.29% -0.94% -3.64%
Number of hourly rates quoted 80 49 96
10th Percentile £14.00 £14.70 £13.22
25th Percentile £16.21 £16.26 £17.44
Median hourly rate £20.98 £21.59 £24.63
Median % change year-on-year -2.83% -12.32% +39.05%
75th Percentile £25.67 £33.54 £47.81
90th Percentile £35.60 £52.50 £67.50
England median hourly rate £25.15 £34.06 £36.50
% change year-on-year -26.15% -6.70% +7.35%

Product Planning
Job Vacancy Trend in the West Midlands

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

Product Planning job vacancy trend in the West Midlands

Product Planning
Daily Rate Trend in the West Midlands

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

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

Product Planning
Contract Job Locations in the West Midlands

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 West Midlands region over the 6 months to 26 January 2026. 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
Warwickshire - 1 £415 -
Product Planning
England

Product Planning
Co-Occurring Skills & Capabilities in the West Midlands 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:

General
1 1 (100.00%) Finance
1 1 (100.00%) Influencing Skills
1 1 (100.00%) Social Skills
Job Titles
1 1 (100.00%) Digital Product Manager
1 1 (100.00%) Product Manager
Miscellaneous
1 1 (100.00%) Self-Motivation
Processes & Methodologies
1 1 (100.00%) Agile
1 1 (100.00%) Budgeting
1 1 (100.00%) Business Strategy
1 1 (100.00%) Change Management
1 1 (100.00%) Decision-Making
1 1 (100.00%) Matrix Organization
1 1 (100.00%) Product Backlog
1 1 (100.00%) Product Management
1 1 (100.00%) Product Requirements
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Engagement
1 1 (100.00%) Stakeholder Management
1 1 (100.00%) User Research