Minimum Viable Product Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Minimum Viable Product
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work requiring Minimum Viable Product skills. It includes a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that cited Minimum Viable Product over the 6 months leading up to 1 May 2025, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
1 May 2025
Same period 2024 Same period 2023
Rank 293 330 426
Rank change year-on-year +37 +96 +122
Contract jobs citing Minimum Viable Product 11 15 51
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.11% 0.098% 0.20%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.11% 0.22%
Number of daily rates quoted 8 5 41
10th Percentile £420 £576 £413
25th Percentile £429 £600 £440
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £457 £625 £450
Median % change year-on-year -26.96% +38.89% -12.62%
75th Percentile £491 - £625
90th Percentile £579 £633 £650
UK median daily rate £450 £575 £450
% change year-on-year -21.74% +27.78% -15.69%

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

Minimum Viable Product falls under the Processes and Methodologies category. For comparison with the information above, the following table provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies with remote or hybrid options requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 9,021 13,483 23,229
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 91.08% 87.87% 89.84%
Number of daily rates quoted 6,191 8,996 16,418
10th Percentile £340 £325 £363
25th Percentile £419 £425 £450
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £525 £540
Median % change year-on-year - -2.78% +2.86%
75th Percentile £638 £638 £650
90th Percentile £763 £750 £750
UK median daily rate £520 £525 £550
% change year-on-year -0.95% -4.55% +4.76%
Number of hourly rates quoted 224 579 532
10th Percentile £14.20 £15.17 £19.00
25th Percentile £19.56 £25.25 £30.54
Median hourly rate £39.52 £43.00 £55.00
Median % change year-on-year -8.09% -21.82% +57.14%
75th Percentile £66.13 £60.00 £68.75
90th Percentile £75.00 £75.25 £80.23
UK median hourly rate £29.00 £35.65 £37.30
% change year-on-year -18.65% -4.42% +49.20%

Minimum Viable Product
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with remote working options citing Minimum Viable Product as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Minimum Viable Product trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Minimum Viable Product
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with remote working options citing Minimum Viable Product.

Minimum Viable Product daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Minimum Viable Product
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

Daily rate distribution for jobs with remote working options citing Minimum Viable Product over the 6 months to 1 May 2025.

Minimum Viable Product daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Minimum Viable Product
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities with WFH Options 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 1 (9.09%) SharePoint
Cloud Services
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (9.09%) Power Platform
1 1 (9.09%) PowerApps
General
1 6 (54.55%) Public Sector
2 3 (27.27%) Social Skills
3 1 (9.09%) Finance
3 1 (9.09%) Legal
Job Titles
1 7 (63.64%) Analyst
1 7 (63.64%) Business Analyst
2 4 (36.36%) Senior
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Analyst
3 3 (27.27%) Senior Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Digital Product Manager
4 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Implementation Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Power Platform Consultant
4 1 (9.09%) Product Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Product Business Analyst
4 1 (9.09%) Product Manager
4 1 (9.09%) Senior Consultant
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 1 (9.09%) .NET
Miscellaneous
1 1 (9.09%) Management Information System
1 1 (9.09%) Product Ownership
Processes & Methodologies
1 7 (63.64%) Roadmaps
2 6 (54.55%) Agile
3 5 (45.45%) GAP Analysis
3 5 (45.45%) Stakeholder Management
3 5 (45.45%) Target Operating Model
4 4 (36.36%) Business Analysis
4 4 (36.36%) Lean UX
4 4 (36.36%) Requirements Analysis
4 4 (36.36%) Six Sigma
4 4 (36.36%) Stakeholder and Relationship Management
4 4 (36.36%) Systems Thinking
4 4 (36.36%) User Experience
4 4 (36.36%) User Research
4 4 (36.36%) User Stories
5 3 (27.27%) Value Proposition
5 3 (27.27%) Wardley Maps
5 3 (27.27%) Wireframes
6 2 (18.18%) Continuous Improvement
6 2 (18.18%) Product Management
6 2 (18.18%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
Qualifications
1 4 (36.36%) IIBA
2 1 (9.09%) Degree
2 1 (9.09%) DV Cleared
2 1 (9.09%) Security Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (9.09%) Accessibility
Vendors
1 1 (9.09%) Microsoft