Product Requirements Contracts in the UK excluding London

Product Requirements
UK > UK excluding London

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies advertised in the UK excluding London 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 12 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
12 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 375 386 455
Rank change year-on-year +11 +69 -43
Contract jobs citing Product Requirements 26 44 49
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 0.12% 0.19% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.15% 0.22% 0.18%
Number of daily rates quoted 22 41 32
10th Percentile £411 £463 £413
25th Percentile £480 £484 £423
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £538 £600 £488
Median % change year-on-year -10.42% +23.08% +22.64%
75th Percentile £569 £625 £541
90th Percentile £621 - £575
UK median daily rate £550 £563 £550
% change year-on-year -2.22% +2.27% +12.47%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 5
10th Percentile - - -
25th Percentile - - -
Median hourly rate - - £45.00
75th Percentile - - -
90th Percentile - - £45.12
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
UK excluding London

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 requiring process or methodology skills in the UK excluding London.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 17,630 20,207 27,140
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London 82.67% 89.05% 89.30%
Number of daily rates quoted 10,358 13,864 18,970
10th Percentile £250 £260 £246
25th Percentile £375 £400 £400
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £500 £500 £490
Median % change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
75th Percentile £600 £600 £586
90th Percentile £688 £694 £663
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,185 1,244 1,334
10th Percentile £12.50 £10.90 £12.49
25th Percentile £15.48 £15.21 £14.25
Median hourly rate £38.12 £34.90 £21.00
Median % change year-on-year +9.23% +66.18% -
75th Percentile £61.30 £63.75 £47.96
90th Percentile £72.90 £75.00 £63.60
UK median hourly rate £37.00 £35.65 £26.00
% change year-on-year +3.79% +37.12% +13.04%

Product Requirements
Job Vacancy Trend in the UK excluding London

Job postings citing Product Requirements as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised in the UK excluding London.

Job vacancy trend for Product Requirements in the UK excluding London

Product Requirements
Contractor Daily Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Product Requirements in the UK excluding London.

Daily rate trend for Product Requirements in the UK excluding London

Product Requirements
Daily Rate Histogram in the UK excluding London

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Product Requirements in the UK excluding London over the 6 months to 12 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Product Requirements in the UK excluding London

Product Requirements
Contractor Hourly Rate Trend in the UK excluding London

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Product Requirements in the UK excluding London.

Hourly rate trend for Product Requirements in the UK excluding London

Product Requirements
Contract Job Locations in the UK excluding London

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 UK excluding London region over the 6 months to 12 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
North of England -1 11 £550 -8.33% 16
South East +22 9 £513 -2.38% 26
Yorkshire -5 6 £600 - 7
North West +16 5 £520 -13.33% 9
West Midlands +19 4 £563 +3.45% 5
Midlands +17 4 £563 +7.14% 15
Scotland +43 2 £426 -14.11% 5
Product Requirements
UK

Product Requirements
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities in the UK excluding London 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 4 (15.38%) Confluence
Applications
1 1 (3.85%) Microsoft Excel
1 1 (3.85%) Trello
Cloud Services
1 2 (7.69%) AWS
1 2 (7.69%) Miro
2 1 (3.85%) Azure
2 1 (3.85%) GCP
2 1 (3.85%) Google Workspace
2 1 (3.85%) SaaS
Communications & Networking
1 1 (3.85%) 3G
1 1 (3.85%) 4G
1 1 (3.85%) 5G
1 1 (3.85%) Broadband
1 1 (3.85%) DSL
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (7.69%) SQL Server
Development Applications
1 6 (23.08%) JIRA
General
1 11 (42.31%) Social Skills
2 5 (19.23%) Public Sector
3 4 (15.38%) Automotive
3 4 (15.38%) Finance
3 4 (15.38%) German Language
3 4 (15.38%) Marketing
3 4 (15.38%) Telecoms
4 3 (11.54%) Analytical Skills
5 2 (7.69%) Banking
5 2 (7.69%) Manufacturing
5 2 (7.69%) Presentation Skills
6 1 (3.85%) French Language
6 1 (3.85%) Inclusion and Diversity
Job Titles
1 9 (34.62%) Product Owner
2 5 (19.23%) Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Analyst
3 4 (15.38%) Cybersecurity Engineer
3 4 (15.38%) Java Developer
3 4 (15.38%) Lead
3 4 (15.38%) Lead Product Owner
3 4 (15.38%) Product Manager
3 4 (15.38%) Security Engineer
4 3 (11.54%) Business Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Product Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Senior
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Senior Business Analyst
5 2 (7.69%) Telecoms Manager
5 2 (7.69%) Telecoms Product Manager
6 1 (3.85%) Banking Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Banking Business Analyst
6 1 (3.85%) Java Engineer
6 1 (3.85%) Payments Business Analyst
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (19.23%) Spring Boot
2 4 (15.38%) Spring
3 2 (7.69%) .NET
3 2 (7.69%) HTML
3 2 (7.69%) J2EE
3 2 (7.69%) JSP
3 2 (7.69%) XML
4 1 (3.85%) AngularJS
Miscellaneous
1 10 (38.46%) Product Ownership
2 3 (11.54%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (7.69%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.85%) Analytical Mindset
4 1 (3.85%) Blockchain
4 1 (3.85%) EPoS
4 1 (3.85%) FMCG
Operating Systems
1 2 (7.69%) Unix
1 2 (7.69%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 20 (76.92%) Agile
2 14 (53.85%) Roadmaps
3 8 (30.77%) Project Management
4 7 (26.92%) Product Management
4 7 (26.92%) Product Roadmap
4 7 (26.92%) Product Vision
5 6 (23.08%) Data Modelling
5 6 (23.08%) Stakeholder Management
5 6 (23.08%) User Experience
5 6 (23.08%) Waterfall
6 5 (19.23%) Backlog Management
6 5 (19.23%) Continuous Improvement
6 5 (19.23%) Data-Driven Decision Making
6 5 (19.23%) TDD
7 4 (15.38%) Backlog Prioritisation
7 4 (15.38%) Community of Practice
7 4 (15.38%) Decision-Making
7 4 (15.38%) Epics
7 4 (15.38%) Market Research
7 4 (15.38%) Requirements Engineering
Programming Languages
1 6 (23.08%) C
1 6 (23.08%) C++
1 6 (23.08%) Java
2 4 (15.38%) SQL
3 3 (11.54%) JavaScript
Qualifications
1 4 (15.38%) Degree
2 2 (7.69%) Master's Degree
2 2 (7.69%) MBA
3 1 (3.85%) CSPO
3 1 (3.85%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (7.69%) QA
2 1 (3.85%) SLA
Vendors
1 2 (7.69%) Google
1 2 (7.69%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.85%) Atlassian