Product Requirements Contracts with Work from Home Options

Product Requirements
UK > Work from Home

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies with an option to work from home (WFH) and 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 319 413 525
Rank change year-on-year +94 +112 -69
Contract jobs citing Product Requirements 29 48 103
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 0.20% 0.20% 0.23%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.23% 0.22% 0.26%
Number of daily rates quoted 18 37 88
10th Percentile £407 £458 £413
25th Percentile £525 £484 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £563 £550 £550
Median % change year-on-year +2.27% - +7.84%
75th Percentile £606 £625 £750
90th Percentile £625 £650 £900
UK median daily rate £550 £550 £550
% change year-on-year - - +12.07%
Number of hourly rates quoted 0 0 1
Median hourly rate - - £45.20
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
Work from Home

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 with a WFH option and a requirement for process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 12,820 21,608 40,174
As % of all contract jobs with a WFH option 87.57% 89.66% 91.02%
Number of daily rates quoted 8,645 15,332 29,227
10th Percentile £325 £363 £363
25th Percentile £425 £450 £438
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £543 £525
Median % change year-on-year -3.23% +3.33% +6.06%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £638
90th Percentile £750 £750 £725
UK median daily rate £525 £550 £538
% change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
Number of hourly rates quoted 572 503 516
10th Percentile £14.89 £18.49 £14.50
25th Percentile £24.19 £25.85 £20.75
Median hourly rate £43.00 £52.50 £40.00
Median % change year-on-year -18.10% +31.25% +66.67%
75th Percentile £60.00 £67.50 £57.72
90th Percentile £75.00 £78.60 £71.25
UK median hourly rate £36.50 £36.25 £25.68
% change year-on-year +0.69% +41.16% +9.74%

Product Requirements
Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

Job vacancies with a work from home option citing Product Requirements as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Product Requirements trend for jobs with a WFH option

Product Requirements
Daily Rate Trend for Jobs with a WFH Option

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in job vacancies with a work from home option 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 a work from home option citing Product Requirements over the 6 months to 1 June 2024.

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 10 (34.48%) Confluence
2 1 (3.45%) Cloud Foundry
Applications
1 1 (3.45%) Microsoft Excel
Business Applications
1 1 (3.45%) SAP MDG
Cloud Services
1 8 (27.59%) Azure
2 7 (24.14%) Azure DevOps
3 3 (10.34%) AWS
4 1 (3.45%) GCP
4 1 (3.45%) GitHub
4 1 (3.45%) Google Workspace
4 1 (3.45%) Miro
4 1 (3.45%) SaaS
4 1 (3.45%) WhatsApp
Database & Business Intelligence
1 2 (6.90%) SQL Server
2 1 (3.45%) NoSQL
Development Applications
1 4 (13.79%) JIRA
General
1 7 (24.14%) Social Skills
2 5 (17.24%) Public Sector
3 4 (13.79%) Finance
4 3 (10.34%) Analytical Skills
4 3 (10.34%) Marketing
5 2 (6.90%) Manufacturing
5 2 (6.90%) Telecoms
6 1 (3.45%) Advertising
6 1 (3.45%) Banking
6 1 (3.45%) French Language
6 1 (3.45%) Front Office
6 1 (3.45%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 1 (3.45%) Legal
Job Titles
1 14 (48.28%) Product Owner
2 7 (24.14%) Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Digital Product Owner
3 4 (13.79%) Java Developer
3 4 (13.79%) Lead
3 4 (13.79%) Lead Product Owner
4 3 (10.34%) Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Business Analyst
4 3 (10.34%) Product Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Senior
5 2 (6.90%) Telecoms Manager
5 2 (6.90%) Telecoms Product Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Associate Director
6 1 (3.45%) Marketing Manager
6 1 (3.45%) Payments Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Product Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Product Management Director
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Business Analyst
6 1 (3.45%) Senior Developer
6 1 (3.45%) Software Developer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 5 (17.24%) Spring Boot
2 4 (13.79%) Spring
3 2 (6.90%) .NET
3 2 (6.90%) HTML
3 2 (6.90%) J2EE
3 2 (6.90%) JSP
3 2 (6.90%) XML
4 1 (3.45%) AngularJS
4 1 (3.45%) Jest
4 1 (3.45%) Node.js
4 1 (3.45%) NumPy
4 1 (3.45%) Pandas
4 1 (3.45%) SciPy
Miscellaneous
1 15 (51.72%) Product Ownership
2 3 (10.34%) Data Protection Act
3 2 (6.90%) Management Information System
4 1 (3.45%) Algorithms
4 1 (3.45%) Derivative
4 1 (3.45%) FMCG
4 1 (3.45%) IVR
4 1 (3.45%) Legacy Systems
Operating Systems
1 2 (6.90%) Unix
1 2 (6.90%) Windows
Processes & Methodologies
1 22 (75.86%) Agile
2 13 (44.83%) Roadmaps
3 11 (37.93%) User Stories
4 8 (27.59%) Acceptance Criteria
4 8 (27.59%) Backlog Prioritisation
4 8 (27.59%) DevOps
4 8 (27.59%) Problem-Solving
4 8 (27.59%) Product Backlog
4 8 (27.59%) Workshop Facilitation
5 7 (24.14%) Backlog Refinement
5 7 (24.14%) Data Modelling
5 7 (24.14%) Product Management
5 7 (24.14%) Sprint Planning
5 7 (24.14%) TDD
5 7 (24.14%) Translating Business Requirements
5 7 (24.14%) User Acceptance Testing
6 6 (20.69%) Stakeholder Management
6 6 (20.69%) User Experience
6 6 (20.69%) Waterfall
6 6 (20.69%) Workflow
Programming Languages
1 7 (24.14%) Java
2 5 (17.24%) SQL
3 3 (10.34%) C++
3 3 (10.34%) JavaScript
4 2 (6.90%) C
5 1 (3.45%) Python
5 1 (3.45%) Rust
Qualifications
1 3 (10.34%) Degree
2 2 (6.90%) Master's Degree
2 2 (6.90%) MBA
3 1 (3.45%) IIBA
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 2 (6.90%) QA
Systems Management
1 1 (3.45%) Kibana
1 1 (3.45%) Kubernetes
Vendors
1 2 (6.90%) Google
1 2 (6.90%) Microsoft
2 1 (3.45%) Atlassian
2 1 (3.45%) Dynatrace
2 1 (3.45%) SAP