Minimum Viable Product
UK

The following table provides summary statistics for permanent job vacancies with a requirement for Minimum Viable Product skills. Included is a benchmarking guide to the salaries offered in vacancies that have cited Minimum Viable Product over the 6 months to 23 May 2024 with a comparison to the same period in the previous 2 years.

6 months to
23 May 2024
Same period 2023 Same period 2022
Rank 837 915 1026
Rank change year-on-year +78 +111 -137
Permanent jobs citing Minimum Viable Product 58 37 214
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 0.057% 0.038% 0.13%
As % of the Processes & Methodologies category 0.068% 0.039% 0.14%
Number of salaries quoted 20 17 71
10th Percentile £43,750 £47,672 £39,750
25th Percentile £52,500 £66,250 £46,250
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £70,000 £62,500
Median % change year-on-year -21.43% +12.00% +19.05%
75th Percentile £61,875 £88,750 £90,000
90th Percentile £75,500 £105,500 -
UK excluding London median annual salary £55,000 £72,500 £65,689
% change year-on-year -24.14% +10.37% +25.12%

All Process and Methodology Skills
UK

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

Permanent vacancies with a requirement for process or methodology skills 85,549 94,155 156,986
As % of all permanent jobs advertised in the UK 84.76% 95.59% 95.83%
Number of salaries quoted 60,063 55,401 82,663
10th Percentile £29,250 £34,000 £33,500
25th Percentile £40,000 £45,000 £43,750
Median annual salary (50th Percentile) £55,000 £61,000 £60,000
Median % change year-on-year -9.84% +1.67% +9.09%
75th Percentile £72,500 £81,250 £80,000
90th Percentile £92,500 £100,000 £96,250
UK excluding London median annual salary £50,000 £55,000 £52,500
% change year-on-year -9.09% +4.76% +10.53%

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

Minimum Viable Product
Salary Trend

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

Salary trend for Minimum Viable Product in the UK

Minimum Viable Product
Salary Histogram

Salary distribution for jobs citing Minimum Viable Product over the 6 months to 23 May 2024.

Salary histogram for Minimum Viable Product in the UK

Minimum Viable Product
Top 12 Job Locations

The table below looks at the demand and provides a guide to the median salaries quoted in IT jobs citing Minimum Viable Product within the UK over the 6 months to 23 May 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
Permanent
IT Job Ads
Median Salary
Past 6 Months
Median Salary
% Change
on Same Period
Last Year
Live
Jobs
England +126 57 £55,000 -21.43% 13
UK excluding London +26 42 £55,000 -24.14% 9
Work from Home +74 25 £53,000 -9.15% 5
South West - 19 - - 1
London +125 15 £53,000 -29.33% 8
North of England +35 9 £55,000 -21.43% 2
South East - 9 - - 4
North West -4 7 £47,500 -32.14% 2
West Midlands +6 4 £62,500 - 1
Midlands -11 4 £62,500 - 1
Yorkshire - 2 £55,000 -
Scotland -58 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 5 (8.62%) Confluence
2 1 (1.72%) Drupal
2 1 (1.72%) SharePoint
Applications
1 8 (13.79%) Spreadsheet
Business Applications
1 1 (1.72%) SAP S/4HANA
Cloud Services
1 11 (18.97%) SaaS
2 7 (12.07%) Azure
3 4 (6.90%) AWS
4 3 (5.17%) Power Platform
4 3 (5.17%) Snowflake
5 1 (1.72%) Azure DevOps
5 1 (1.72%) IaaS
5 1 (1.72%) Matillion
5 1 (1.72%) PaaS
5 1 (1.72%) Salesforce Sales Cloud
5 1 (1.72%) SAP Fieldglass
Communications & Networking
1 1 (1.72%) Internet
Database & Business Intelligence
1 3 (5.17%) Power BI
2 2 (3.45%) Data Lake
2 2 (3.45%) Data Mining
2 2 (3.45%) SQL Server
2 2 (3.45%) Tableau
Development Applications
1 5 (8.62%) JIRA
General
1 15 (25.86%) Finance
1 15 (25.86%) Social Skills
2 12 (20.69%) Legal
3 11 (18.97%) Presentation Skills
4 9 (15.52%) Analytical Skills
5 7 (12.07%) Influencing Skills
6 4 (6.90%) Inclusion and Diversity
6 4 (6.90%) Law
6 4 (6.90%) Local Government
6 4 (6.90%) Marketing
6 4 (6.90%) Retail
7 3 (5.17%) Banking
7 3 (5.17%) Manufacturing
8 1 (1.72%) Automotive
Job Titles
1 16 (27.59%) Data Scientist
2 15 (25.86%) Product Manager
3 9 (15.52%) Lead
4 7 (12.07%) Business Analyst
5 6 (10.34%) Analyst
6 5 (8.62%) Product Owner
6 5 (8.62%) Software Engineer
7 4 (6.90%) Business IT Analyst
7 4 (6.90%) IT Analyst
7 4 (6.90%) IT Business Analyst
8 3 (5.17%) Lead Product Manager
8 3 (5.17%) Lead Software Engineer
8 3 (5.17%) Services Director
8 3 (5.17%) Software Engineering Director
8 3 (5.17%) Technology Director
9 2 (3.45%) Applications Manager
9 2 (3.45%) Delivery Manager
9 2 (3.45%) Digital Product Manager
9 2 (3.45%) Embedded Engineer
9 2 (3.45%) Embedded Software Engineer
Libraries, Frameworks & Software Standards
1 16 (27.59%) Keras
1 16 (27.59%) NumPy
1 16 (27.59%) TensorFlow
2 13 (22.41%) Web Services
3 3 (5.17%) RESTful
3 3 (5.17%) Spring
3 3 (5.17%) Spring Boot
4 2 (3.45%) CSS
4 2 (3.45%) HTML
5 1 (1.72%) .NET
5 1 (1.72%) JSON
Miscellaneous
1 29 (50.00%) Algorithms
2 11 (18.97%) Data Structures
3 7 (12.07%) Product Ownership
4 4 (6.90%) Freedom of Information
5 2 (3.45%) 3D Printing
5 2 (3.45%) Management Information System
5 2 (3.45%) Mobile App
5 2 (3.45%) Robotics
6 1 (1.72%) Foreign Exchange (FX)
6 1 (1.72%) IoT
Processes & Methodologies
1 44 (75.86%) Agile
2 29 (50.00%) Visualisation
3 28 (48.28%) Business Analysis
4 27 (46.55%) Data Science
5 26 (44.83%) Data Modelling
6 22 (37.93%) Analytics
6 22 (37.93%) Business Intelligence
7 21 (36.21%) Roadmaps
8 20 (34.48%) Machine Learning
8 20 (34.48%) Product Management
8 20 (34.48%) Prototyping
9 17 (29.31%) Data Engineering
9 17 (29.31%) Problem-Solving
10 16 (27.59%) Statistics
11 15 (25.86%) Product Roadmap
12 13 (22.41%) Business Strategy
12 13 (22.41%) Data Visualisation
12 13 (22.41%) Product Vision
13 12 (20.69%) Customer Experience
13 12 (20.69%) User Experience
Programming Languages
1 23 (39.66%) Python
2 16 (27.59%) MATLAB
3 11 (18.97%) SQL
4 3 (5.17%) Java
4 3 (5.17%) JavaScript
5 1 (1.72%) PowerShell
Qualifications
1 19 (32.76%) Security Cleared
2 16 (27.59%) DV Cleared
3 14 (24.14%) Degree
4 12 (20.69%) Master's Degree
5 9 (15.52%) MBA
6 5 (8.62%) Computer Science Degree
7 3 (5.17%) AWS Certification
7 3 (5.17%) AWS Certified Developer
8 1 (1.72%) MCSA
8 1 (1.72%) Microsoft Certification
8 1 (1.72%) SC Cleared
Quality Assurance & Compliance
1 1 (1.72%) Data Quality
1 1 (1.72%) QA
Vendors
1 4 (6.90%) Microsoft
2 3 (5.17%) Freshdesk
3 2 (3.45%) SAP
4 1 (1.72%) Ariba
4 1 (1.72%) Atlassian
4 1 (1.72%) Salesforce