Product Requirements Contracts with Hybrid/Remote/WFH Options

Product Requirements
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for remote or hybrid contract work 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 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 289 314 434
Rank change year-on-year +25 +120 +97
Contract jobs citing Product Requirements 15 31 43
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.15% 0.20% 0.17%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.17% 0.23% 0.19%
Number of daily rates quoted 12 17 29
10th Percentile £326 £446 £449
25th Percentile £384 £525 £500
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £475 £563 £550
Median % change year-on-year -15.56% +2.27% -
75th Percentile - £625 £625
90th Percentile £498 - £650
UK median daily rate £475 £550 £550
% change year-on-year -13.64% - -

All Process and Methodology Skills
Work from Home

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 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%

Product Requirements
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Product Requirements trend for jobs with Hybrid/Remote/WFH options

Product Requirements
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Product Requirements daily rate for jobs with a WFH option

Product Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram for Jobs with a WFH Option

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

Product Requirements daily rate histogram for jobs with a WFH option

Product Requirements
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 2 (13.33%) Confluence
Cloud Services
1 1 (6.67%) Azure
1 1 (6.67%) Azure Monitor
1 1 (6.67%) IaaS
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft 365
1 1 (6.67%) PaaS
1 1 (6.67%) Power Automate
1 1 (6.67%) Power Platform
1 1 (6.67%) PowerApps
1 1 (6.67%) SaaS
Database & Business Intelligence
1 1 (6.67%) Azure SQL Database
1 1 (6.67%) Data Warehouse
1 1 (6.67%) Power BI
Development Applications
1 7 (46.67%) JIRA
2 2 (13.33%) Selenium
2 2 (13.33%) SpecFlow
3 1 (6.67%) Gerrit
3 1 (6.67%) Git
General
1 12 (80.00%) Social Skills
2 3 (20.00%) Analytical Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Presentation Skills
3 2 (13.33%) Public Sector
4 1 (6.67%) Finance
4 1 (6.67%) Financial Institution
4 1 (6.67%) Influencing Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Legal
4 1 (6.67%) Marketing
4 1 (6.67%) Organisational Skills
4 1 (6.67%) Retail
4 1 (6.67%) Telecoms
4 1 (6.67%) Welsh Language
Job Titles
1 4 (26.67%) Scrum Master
2 2 (13.33%) Analyst
2 2 (13.33%) Developer
2 2 (13.33%) Product Manager
2 2 (13.33%) Test Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Configuration Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Contracts Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Lead
3 1 (6.67%) Lead Test Engineer
3 1 (6.67%) Product Developer
3 1 (6.67%) Product Owner
3 1 (6.67%) Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Business Analyst
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Manager
3 1 (6.67%) Technical Project Manager
3 1 (6.67%) UX Specialist
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 2 (13.33%) CSS
1 2 (13.33%) HTML
2 1 (6.67%) Blazor
2 1 (6.67%) GWT
2 1 (6.67%) Middleware
2 1 (6.67%) POSIX
2 1 (6.67%) Yocto
Miscellaneous
1 2 (13.33%) NHS
1 2 (13.33%) Product Ownership
2 1 (6.67%) Device Driver
2 1 (6.67%) Low-Code
2 1 (6.67%) STB
2 1 (6.67%) Team-Oriented Environment
Operating Systems
1 1 (6.67%) Embedded Linux
1 1 (6.67%) Linux
Processes & Methodologies
1 11 (73.33%) Agile
2 7 (46.67%) Problem-Solving
3 6 (40.00%) Scrum
3 6 (40.00%) Sprint Planning
4 5 (33.33%) Backlog Refinement
4 5 (33.33%) Product Management
4 5 (33.33%) Roadmaps
4 5 (33.33%) Sprint Retrospective
5 4 (26.67%) Conflict Resolution
5 4 (26.67%) Product Strategy
5 4 (26.67%) SFIA
6 3 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
6 3 (20.00%) Coaching
6 3 (20.00%) Decision-Making
6 3 (20.00%) Product Roadmap
6 3 (20.00%) User Experience
7 2 (13.33%) Data Science
7 2 (13.33%) Data-Driven Decision Making
7 2 (13.33%) User-Centered Design (UCD)
7 2 (13.33%) Workshop Facilitation
Programming Languages
1 2 (13.33%) C#
2 1 (6.67%) C
2 1 (6.67%) C++
2 1 (6.67%) Python
2 1 (6.67%) Shell Script
2 1 (6.67%) SQL
Qualifications
1 5 (33.33%) Security Cleared
2 4 (26.67%) SC Cleared
3 3 (20.00%) Degree
4 2 (13.33%) Master's Degree
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (6.67%) Accessibility
1 1 (6.67%) Data Quality
1 1 (6.67%) QA
System Software
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Desktop
1 1 (6.67%) Virtual Machines
Vendors
1 1 (6.67%) Microsoft
1 1 (6.67%) Salesforce
1 1 (6.67%) ServiceNow