Product Requirements Contracts in England

Product Requirements
UK > England

The following table provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for Product Requirements skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the contractor rates offered in vacancies that have cited Product Requirements over the 6 months to 1 June 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
1 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 476 561 587
Rank change year-on-year +85 +26 -31
Contract jobs citing Product Requirements 75 76 193
As % of all contract jobs advertised in England 0.20% 0.16% 0.27%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.24% 0.18% 0.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 47 62 149
10th Percentile £361 £451 £413
25th Percentile £500 £513 £463
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £550 £569 £550
Median % change year-on-year -3.30% +3.41% +15.79%
75th Percentile £625 £625 £750
90th Percentile £675 £650 £900
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +12.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2 4 7
10th Percentile - - £42.72
25th Percentile £66.25 - -
Median hourly rate £67.50 £50.42 £45.00
Median % change year-on-year +33.88% +12.04% -37.50%
75th Percentile £68.75 - £45.10
90th Percentile - - £48.62
UK median hourly rate £67.50 £50.42 £45.00
% change year-on-year +33.88% +12.04% -37.50%

All Process and Methodology Skills
England

Product Requirements is in the Processes and Methodologies category. The following table is for comparison with the above and provides summary statistics for all contract job vacancies advertised in England with a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 31,623 42,710 64,053
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in England 85.71% 89.97% 90.85%
Number of daily rates quoted 20,632 29,989 45,672
10th Percentile £300 £325 £338
25th Percentile £413 £445 £431
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £545
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +0.92% +9.00%
75th Percentile £650 £675 £650
90th Percentile £750 £768 £750
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,323 1,520 1,714
10th Percentile £12.86 £10.63 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.74 £15.25
Median hourly rate £37.50 £37.32 £25.00
Median % change year-on-year +0.48% +49.28% +11.11%
75th Percentile £61.30 £65.00 £49.48
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.05 £65.00
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Product Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in England

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

Job vacancy trend for Product Requirements in England

Product Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in England

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

Daily rate trend for Product Requirements in England

Product Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in England

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Requirements in England over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Requirements in England

Product Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in England

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

Hourly rate trend for Product Requirements in England

Product Requirements
Contract Job Locations in England

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 England region over the 6 months to 1 June 2024. 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
London +110 50 £556 -1.11% 44
North of England +9 11 £550 -8.33% 12
South East +18 9 £513 -2.38% 31
Yorkshire +2 6 £600 - 4
North West +23 5 £520 -13.33% 7
Midlands +22 4 £563 +47.54% 11
West Midlands +15 4 £563 +3.45% 5
Product Requirements
UK

Product Requirements
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in England 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 10 (13.33%) Confluence
2 2 (2.67%) OpenStack
2 2 (2.67%) Oracle Workflow
Applications
1 1 (1.33%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (1.33%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 26 (34.67%) Azure
2 19 (25.33%) Azure DevOps
3 12 (16.00%) GitHub
4 11 (14.67%) AWS
5 3 (4.00%) Power Platform
5 3 (4.00%) SaaS
6 2 (2.67%) Miro
6 2 (2.67%) PaaS
6 2 (2.67%) Salesforce Service Cloud
7 1 (1.33%) Azure Data Factory
7 1 (1.33%) Azure Synapse Analytics
7 1 (1.33%) Collibra
7 1 (1.33%) Figma
7 1 (1.33%) GCP
7 1 (1.33%) Google Workspace
7 1 (1.33%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 2 (2.67%) DHCP
1 2 (2.67%) DNS
1 2 (2.67%) Firewall
1 2 (2.67%) Wi-Fi
2 1 (1.33%) 3G
2 1 (1.33%) 4G
2 1 (1.33%) 5G
2 1 (1.33%) Broadband
2 1 (1.33%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 13 (17.33%) NoSQL
2 4 (5.33%) Tableau
3 3 (4.00%) Power BI
4 2 (2.67%) MongoDB
4 2 (2.67%) Oracle Reports
4 2 (2.67%) SQL Server
5 1 (1.33%) Azure SQL Database
5 1 (1.33%) Big Data
5 1 (1.33%) Data Lake
5 1 (1.33%) Data Warehouse
5 1 (1.33%) HDInsight
Development Applications
1 11 (14.67%) JIRA
2 1 (1.33%) Appium
2 1 (1.33%) Git
2 1 (1.33%) Katalon Studio
2 1 (1.33%) XCUITest
General
1 27 (36.00%) Social Skills
2 22 (29.33%) Finance
3 14 (18.67%) Analytical Skills
4 11 (14.67%) Marketing
5 9 (12.00%) Front Office
6 7 (9.33%) Telecoms
7 6 (8.00%) German Language
7 6 (8.00%) Presentation Skills
8 4 (5.33%) Automotive
8 4 (5.33%) Banking
8 4 (5.33%) Public Sector
9 3 (4.00%) Advertising
9 3 (4.00%) Legal
10 2 (2.67%) Manufacturing
10 2 (2.67%) Spanish Language
11 1 (1.33%) Digital Health
11 1 (1.33%) French Language
11 1 (1.33%) Health Technology
11 1 (1.33%) Inclusion and Diversity
11 1 (1.33%) Investment Banking
Job Titles
1 22 (29.33%) Product Owner
2 19 (25.33%) Developer
3 13 (17.33%) Product Manager
4 11 (14.67%) Analyst
5 10 (13.33%) Quantitative Developer
6 9 (12.00%) Senior
7 7 (9.33%) Business Analyst
8 6 (8.00%) Senior Developer
8 6 (8.00%) Senior Quantitative Developer
9 5 (6.67%) Digital Product Owner
10 4 (5.33%) Cybersecurity Engineer
10 4 (5.33%) Data Analyst
10 4 (5.33%) Java Developer
10 4 (5.33%) Lead
10 4 (5.33%) Lead Product Owner
10 4 (5.33%) Security Engineer
11 3 (4.00%) Angular Developer
11 3 (4.00%) Product Analyst
11 3 (4.00%) Python Developer
11 3 (4.00%) Technical Product Owner
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 11 (14.67%) NumPy
1 11 (14.67%) Pandas
1 11 (14.67%) SciPy
2 5 (6.67%) Spring Boot
3 4 (5.33%) Spring
4 3 (4.00%) .NET
4 3 (4.00%) AngularJS
5 2 (2.67%) HTML
5 2 (2.67%) J2EE
5 2 (2.67%) JSP
5 2 (2.67%) LDAP
5 2 (2.67%) Node.js
5 2 (2.67%) OpenAPI
5 2 (2.67%) Oracle Fusion
5 2 (2.67%) Swagger
5 2 (2.67%) XML
6 1 (1.33%) GraphQL
6 1 (1.33%) React
Miscellaneous
1 29 (38.67%) Product Ownership
2 11 (14.67%) Derivative
3 4 (5.33%) Data Protection Act
3 4 (5.33%) Management Information System
4 3 (4.00%) Algorithms
4 3 (4.00%) FMCG
5 2 (2.67%) Analytical Mindset
5 2 (2.67%) Blockchain
5 2 (2.67%) Client/Server
5 2 (2.67%) Clustering
5 2 (2.67%) Data Centre
5 2 (2.67%) Data Structures
5 2 (2.67%) Renewable Energy
5 2 (2.67%) Solar Panel
6 1 (1.33%) EPoS
6 1 (1.33%) IVR
6 1 (1.33%) Mobile App
6 1 (1.33%) Self-Motivation
Operating Systems
1 2 (2.67%) Linux
1 2 (2.67%) Unix
1 2 (2.67%) Windows
2 1 (1.33%) Android
2 1 (1.33%) Apple iOS
Processes & Methodologies
1 38 (50.67%) Agile
2 33 (44.00%) Roadmaps
3 25 (33.33%) DevOps
4 21 (28.00%) Product Roadmap
4 21 (28.00%) User Stories
5 20 (26.67%) Computer Science
6 18 (24.00%) Product Management
7 17 (22.67%) Product Backlog
7 17 (22.67%) Test Automation
8 16 (21.33%) Product Strategy
8 16 (21.33%) Product Vision
9 15 (20.00%) Backlog Prioritisation
10 14 (18.67%) Analytics
10 14 (18.67%) Mathematics
10 14 (18.67%) Problem-Solving
10 14 (18.67%) Software Engineering
11 13 (17.33%) CI/CD
11 13 (17.33%) Data Modelling
12 12 (16.00%) Acceptance Criteria
12 12 (16.00%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 24 (32.00%) SQL
2 19 (25.33%) Java
3 18 (24.00%) Python
4 17 (22.67%) C++
5 11 (14.67%) Rust
6 8 (10.67%) C
7 4 (5.33%) JavaScript
8 3 (4.00%) TypeScript
9 2 (2.67%) Go
10 1 (1.33%) C#
10 1 (1.33%) Kotlin
10 1 (1.33%) Swift
Qualifications
1 25 (33.33%) Degree
2 9 (12.00%) Master's Degree
3 4 (5.33%) Computer Science Degree
3 4 (5.33%) MBA
4 2 (2.67%) CBAP
5 1 (1.33%) Azure Certification
5 1 (1.33%) CSPO
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 5 (6.67%) QA
2 1 (1.33%) Data Quality
2 1 (1.33%) SLA
System Software
1 4 (5.33%) Docker
Systems Management
1 4 (5.33%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 3 (4.00%) Microsoft
2 2 (2.67%) OneTrust
2 2 (2.67%) Oracle
2 2 (2.67%) Salesforce
2 2 (2.67%) SAP
3 1 (1.33%) Atlassian
3 1 (1.33%) Databricks
3 1 (1.33%) Google
3 1 (1.33%) Virgin Media