Minimum Viable Product Contracts

Minimum Viable Product
UK

The table below provides summary statistics for contract job vacancies 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 10 June 2024, comparing them to the same period in the previous two years.

6 months to
10 Jun 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 547 573 712
Rank change year-on-year +26 +139 -81
Contract jobs citing Minimum Viable Product 43 113 136
As % of all contract jobs advertised in the UK 0.099% 0.20% 0.16%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.12% 0.23% 0.17%
Number of daily rates quoted 25 91 100
10th Percentile £371 £413 £450
25th Percentile £488 £440 £485
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £575 £450 £534
Median % change year-on-year +27.78% -15.69% +1.67%
75th Percentile £638 £613 £626
90th Percentile £678 £650 £700
UK excluding London median daily rate £525 £450 £500
% change year-on-year +16.67% -10.00% -

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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 requiring process or methodology skills.

Contract vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 37,177 49,806 79,051
As % of all contract IT jobs advertised in the UK 85.20% 89.64% 90.64%
Number of daily rates quoted 23,769 34,463 55,610
10th Percentile £300 £325 £350
25th Percentile £413 £438 £435
Median daily rate (50th Percentile) £525 £550 £538
Median % change year-on-year -4.55% +2.33% +7.50%
75th Percentile £638 £650 £650
90th Percentile £750 £750 £743
UK excluding London median daily rate £500 £500 £490
% change year-on-year - +2.04% +8.89%
Number of hourly rates quoted 2,585 1,687 1,847
10th Percentile £12.75 £10.70 £12.50
25th Percentile £16.00 £15.75 £15.90
Median hourly rate £36.50 £35.80 £25.68
Median % change year-on-year +1.96% +39.41% +11.65%
75th Percentile £61.25 £65.00 £50.00
90th Percentile £72.50 £75.00 £65.00
UK excluding London median hourly rate £38.12 £35.00 £21.00
% change year-on-year +8.91% +66.67% +0.65%

Minimum Viable Product
Job Vacancy Trend

Job postings citing Minimum Viable Product as a proportion of all IT jobs advertised.

Job vacancy trend for Minimum Viable Product in the UK

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Contractor Daily Rate Trend

3-month moving average daily rate quoted in jobs citing Minimum Viable Product.

Daily rate trend for Minimum Viable Product in the UK

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Daily Rate Histogram

Daily rate distribution for jobs citing Minimum Viable Product over the 6 months to 10 June 2024.

Daily rate histogram for Minimum Viable Product in the UK

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Contractor Hourly Rate Trend

3-month moving average hourly rates quoted in jobs citing Minimum Viable Product.

Hourly rate trend for Minimum Viable Product in the UK

Minimum Viable Product
Top 12 Contract Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median contractor rates quoted in IT jobs citing Minimum Viable Product within the UK over the 6 months to 10 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
England +33 32 £600 +33.33% 11
UK excluding London +14 20 £525 +16.67% 2
London +37 17 £625 +38.89% 9
Work from Home +81 16 £625 +38.89% 7
North of England +31 7 £386 -29.50% 1
Scotland +19 6 £550 +25.00%
North West +15 6 £386 -35.67% 1
South West +6 5 £625 +14.94%
West Midlands +17 1 - -
Midlands +17 1 - -
South East -3 1 £300 -33.33%
Yorkshire - 1 - -

Minimum Viable Product
Co-occurring Skills and Capabilities 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 (4.65%) Confluence
Applications
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Office
1 3 (6.98%) Microsoft Project
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft Excel
2 1 (2.33%) Microsoft PowerPoint
2 1 (2.33%) MS Visio
Cloud Services
1 2 (4.65%) SAP Fieldglass
1 2 (4.65%) WhatsApp
Communications & Networking
1 3 (6.98%) LAN
2 2 (4.65%) Cisco IOS
3 1 (2.33%) Firewall
Development Applications
1 2 (4.65%) JIRA
General
1 10 (23.26%) Finance
1 10 (23.26%) Public Sector
2 2 (4.65%) Legal
2 2 (4.65%) Social Skills
3 1 (2.33%) Banking
3 1 (2.33%) Law
3 1 (2.33%) Local Government
Job Titles
1 11 (25.58%) Product Manager
2 9 (20.93%) Analyst
3 8 (18.60%) Business Analyst
4 6 (13.95%) Project Manager
5 5 (11.63%) Senior
6 3 (6.98%) Lead
6 3 (6.98%) SC Cleared Business Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Scrum Master
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Analyst
6 3 (6.98%) Senior Business Analyst
7 2 (4.65%) Lead Software Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Network Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Programme Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Project Engineer
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Senior Product Manager
7 2 (4.65%) Software Engineer
8 1 (2.33%) Business Process Consultant
8 1 (2.33%) Data Manager
8 1 (2.33%) Security Engineer
Miscellaneous
1 5 (11.63%) Security Posture
2 4 (9.30%) Data Protection Act
2 4 (9.30%) Product Ownership
3 2 (4.65%) Onboarding
4 1 (2.33%) Greenfield Project
4 1 (2.33%) Reinsurance
Processes & Methodologies
1 25 (58.14%) Agile
2 16 (37.21%) User Stories
3 9 (20.93%) Business Case
3 9 (20.93%) Roadmaps
4 8 (18.60%) Project Management
4 8 (18.60%) User Research
5 7 (16.28%) Business Analysis
5 7 (16.28%) Mentoring
5 7 (16.28%) Product Management
6 6 (13.95%) Test Automation
7 5 (11.63%) Acceptance Criteria
7 5 (11.63%) DevOps
7 5 (11.63%) DevSecOps
7 5 (11.63%) Ethical Hacking
7 5 (11.63%) GAP Analysis
7 5 (11.63%) Scrum
7 5 (11.63%) Security Testing
7 5 (11.63%) Stakeholder Management
8 4 (9.30%) ITSM
8 4 (9.30%) Product Roadmap
Programming Languages
1 2 (4.65%) Python
Qualifications
1 13 (30.23%) Security Cleared
2 9 (20.93%) SC Cleared
3 5 (11.63%) Degree
4 4 (9.30%) PMP
5 3 (6.98%) DV Cleared
5 3 (6.98%) PMI Certification
6 2 (4.65%) Computer Science Degree
6 2 (4.65%) Master's Degree
7 1 (2.33%) BPSS Clearance
7 1 (2.33%) ISEB
7 1 (2.33%) Six Sigma Black Belt
7 1 (2.33%) Six Sigma Green Belt
Systems Management
1 3 (6.98%) SolarWinds Orion
2 1 (2.33%) Ansible
Vendors
1 6 (13.95%) ServiceNow
2 3 (6.98%) Cisco
3 1 (2.33%) F5
3 1 (2.33%) Imperva